Cheers!

Welcome!  I finished work yesterday for the holiday break and couldn't wait to get into my craft room last night to stamp!  I got the December Hero Arts Monthly Kit earlier in the week and wanted to have a play, so I came up with this card which meets the requirements at a few challenges:  CAS(E) This Sketch, CASology, and both Simon Says Stamp's Monday (Party Time) and Wednesday (Make it Sparkle) Challenges.

I actually used the kit packaging for the background for this card!  Their kits are mounted on the most gorgeous double-sided backing cardboard and I don't throw them away.  I cut this using a stitched rectangle die and adhered it to a white card base.  The bottle was stamped, colored and die-cut and the "cheers" was die-cut from one of the shimmery navy cardstocks in the kit.  I went over the gold on the bottle as well as the die-cut word with a clear sparkle pen which makes this card really shimmery in real life.  I finished with some rhinestones that came in my parcel to depict bubbles from the bubbly.  I was inspired by Jen's gorgeous bokeh card for the CTS challenge.

Thanks for visiting!

Products used:

Stamps:  Hero Arts My Monthly Kit (Dec 2016)
Ink:  Black Licorice Hybrid
Cardstock:  White, Kit products and packaging
Dies:  My Monthly Kit, Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangle Mats
Accessories:  Copics, rhinestones, Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen

Cheers
Karren

Smooth Birthday

Hi and welcome to our last Freshly Made Sketch Challenge of the year!  Our hostess is the fabulous Jen Mitchell and she has come up with a square card sketch for us.  As an added bonus, we also have extended the challenge out to 2 January so you have plenty of time to make a card or two 😉

I love square cards and it's been a while since I made one, so this was a fun card to make.  Now, I have to confess that I had the tag with the images on made and waiting to put on another card, so I feel like I cheated a little bit here, but time was against me and I think you can still see the sketch.

Now that I'm done making Christmas cards to send for this year, I'm back to my NBUS mission.  It doesn't seem to be working too well though, because when I started my NBUS mission, I had 39 sets to use.  I've used several but now have 41 NBUS sets!  I blame the Black Friday sales that were going on because I've rarely met a sale I can resist 😃

The images were stamped, colored, die-cut and I added Glossy Accents to the bowl of the blender.  They were popped up onto a sponged tag with foam tape and the sentiment is white-embossed onto black.  The plaid paper was chosen to match the Copic colors and the whole card is 4.25" square.

Thanks so much for visiting this year.  Please check out the fabulous creations made by the rest of the design team and I hope all our FMS players have a wonderful holiday season.

Products used:

Stamps:  So Smooth (Lawn Fawn)
Ink:  Black Licorice Hybrid, Versamark, Broken China
Cardstock:  White, Black, Perfectly Plaid (Lawn Fawn)
Dies: So Smooth, Tag Me (Reverse Confetti)
Accessories:  Copic Markers, Glossy Accents, Twine, White EP

Cheers
Karren

Bunny Selfies

Hi and welcome!  It is so nice to have time to make a card for a couple of challenges!  The last few weeks have been hectic and once I get my DT commitments out of the way, actually sitting down to make a card for fun has seemed too much like hard work!  But this weekend I got a few hours to just play and I put together this card using the latest sketch at MFT Stamps as well as the colors from Color Throwdown.

When I saw the sketch, I immediately thought of a window, but discovered I don't have any window dies!  Shock, horror!  So I then thought of polaroids and fortunately I do have the Precious Polaroids set so I put it to work, along with my NBUS set Somebunny.  I colored the little rabbits in the challenge colors and white-embossed part of the sentiment onto black and the rest was stamped onto the polaroid frame.

To keep the polaroids from looking too messy with them being angled, I backed them with some Soft Stone cardstock cut slightly larger that the cut-out.

The three frames with the bunnies in are adhered directly to the grey panel and the sentiment frame is popped up on foam tape.

The card was finished with a few clear sequins.

Thanks for visiting!

Products used:

Stamps:  Somebunny (MFT)

Ink:  Black Licorice Hybrid, Versafine Onyx Black, Versamark

Cardstock:  White, Black, Soft Stone (PTI)

Dies:  Somebunny, Precious Polaroids, Wonky Stitched Rectangles (MFT)

Accessories:  Copics, White, EP, Sequins

Cheers

Karren

Geometric Birthday

Hi and welcome!  Today's card is for the new challenge at Just Add Ink which is a color challenge:

For my card, I decided to use some NBUS I've just received from MFT Stamps latest release.

There is no stamping on this card, just dies so it was quick and easy.  The gray panel was die-cut and adhered to an Old Olive card base.  I then cut the white panel and popped it up on foam tape.  The sentiment was die cut from gray and double-embossed with clear EP.

Thanks for visiting!  The rest of the design team have created some fabulous cards with these colors so check them out!

Products used:

Ink:  Versamark
Cardstock:  White, Basic Gray, Old Olive
Dies:  Stitched Tri Peek a Boo Window, Star Grid Cover Plate (MFT), Celebrate (Neat & Tangled)
Accessories:  Clear EP

Warm Moose

Hi!  Today's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches comes to us by the talented Jennifer Timko and she has created a fabulous one to inspire us to create.

Even though I don't need any more Christmas cards, I couldn't help bringing out this adorable moose one last time for the season.

I masked him and the rug and sponged some yellow and orange distress inks onto the panel.  Then I colored him using Copics.  I actually stamped the sentiment directly onto the white panel, but the stamp must have had some fluff on it and the image came out all jagged so I had to cover it up with the white-embossed panel, which I matched to his sweater.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  The DT have created some gorgeous card to inspire you, so please check them out.

Products Used:

Stamps:  Merry Christmoose (MFT)

Ink:  Black Licorice Hybrid, Versamark, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade Distress Inks

Cardstock:  Desert Storm, White, Green Room (MFT)

Accessories:  Falling Snow Stencil (SSS), White Embossing Paste, White EP, Copics

Cheers

Karren

Mouse Wreath

Hi!  I made this card on the weekend for the Wreath challenge at HLS Christmas Challenge, the sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch and the Holiday Challenge at Addicted to Stamps & More

This is a NBUS stamp from Your Next Stamp and I stamped and colored it using Copics.  Stupidly, I then got a black glaze pen to highlight the eyes and it splodged!  To fix it, I re-stamped the image, colored the mice heads and fussy-cut them out and adhered them over the splodgy ones.  Problem solved!  

The sentiment was stamped in black and clear embossed and I went around the image with blue Copics to make it stand out.  The poinsettias, berries and bow were all colored with clear Wink of Stella and the center of the poinsettias were colored with Stickles.

Thanks for visiting.

Products used:

Stamps:  Sending Joy (Your Next Stamp), Layered Wreath (Clearly Besotted)

Ink:  Black Licorice Hybrid, Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  White

Dies:  Blueprints 15 (MFT)

Accessories:  Copics, Clear EP, Stickles, Wink of Stella

Cheers

Karren

Happy New Year

Hi!  I'm thrilled to be Guest Designer over at CAS On Sunday where the theme for this challenge is Happy New Year!  I don't have any stamps specific to New Year (I know, right!) so I had to mix and match what I did have to come up with this card:

I have a new, replacement Mini Minc machine after my last one died in a smoky mess, so I foiled the die-cut word "happy" with silver foil and set it to one side.  I white embossed the words "new" and "year onto a strip of Audrey Blue cardstock and die-cut one end with the same scallop die I used for the white layer.  Onto that scalloped white layer, I spritzed some gold Color Shine.

I assembled the card, hooking the blue strip through the loop on the "y" and then placed some sequins and Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Thanks for visiting.  And thanks to Janneke and the team at CAS on Sunday for choosing my card in their "Pets" challenge that lead to this GD spot.

Products used:

Stamps:  The Big, the Bold & the Happy (Winnie & Walter)

Ink:  Versamark

Cardstock:  White, Audrey Blue (SSS), Silver Foil, Toner Paper

Dies:  Happy Script (Mama Elephant), Scalloped Rectangles (Couture Creations)

Accessories:  Heidi Swapp Gold Color Shine, sequins, Stickles

Cheers

Karren