Birthday Floral

Hi, everyone! This week's Inspiration Challenge over at Splitcoast is to find inspiration from Annie Selke.....I chose this gorgeous photo....the combination of pink and orchid tones in the bouquet got me!  I needed a fairly quick card for my niece, so I stamped the flowers and leaves from the Altenew set, Nostalgic Florals, with pink, then colored the stamen with a yellow marker and sealed them with a clear glaze pen. The coordinating stencils were used to color the images with sponges and Blending Brushes (from Divinity Designs LLC).  A Blending Brush was also used for the edges of the card base. The sentiment is from the XOXO & More Die set from Altenew. Coordinating enamel dots were used for the finishing touch.

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Blessings,

Be Still and Know

Hi, everyone!  Today I would like to share a card which was created about a year and a half ago but did not get posted anywhere.  (I have about a hundred cards with the same status....life gets in the way of blogging, ya know?)  Today's Friday Free 4 All Challenge is about 'Peace' and the Mixability Challenge is about 'Contentment'....I thought this card fit both of those challenges...my faith brings both peace and contentment.  The background panel (and top cross panel) were created with the Wrinkle Free Distress Technique (some call it the Smoosh Technique), by dabbing ink pads onto a craft mat, spritzing with water, then laying the cardstock in the puddle.  Once dry, the background panel was stenciled with both the Flourishes and Arrows Mixed Media Stencils. The scripture verse from 'Be Still' was heat embossed with pewter onto the 'yellow' Wrinkle Free Distress panel, then cut out with the largest of the Cross Layering Combo Dies set.  Other dies used: Bitty Blossoms, Pierced Rectangles, Matting Rectangle, A2 Portrait Card Base with Layer.  Pewter brads were added to the corners to coordinate with the embossing powder.

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Blessings,

Spring Hummingbirds

Hi, everyone!  This week's Friday Free4All Challenge theme over at Splitcoast is 'Green'.  For my card today, I used mint green pearlized paper (yummy!), a lavender and green stenciled background, plus green hummingbirds.  Here are the items from Divinity Designs LLC used in my card:  'Already There' Stamp/Die Duos, Square Card Base with Layer Dies, Flourished Square Background Dies, Double Stitched Squares Dies, Sentiment Strips 2 Dies, Half Circles Stencil, Blending Brushes, Rhinestones, Foam Mounting Tape. The hummers were stamped with Stazon, water-colored, then popped up with foam tape.

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Blessings,

Blessings Come Down

Hi, everyone!  This week's Featured Stamper over at Splitcoast is Joyce Whitman aka Cookielady01....congrats, Joyce!  Wow, there were so many awesome cards in her gallery to choose from, but I finally decided on this beautiful card to case. Instead of embossing the card base, I embossed the strip instead, but kept the layout the same.  When the new 'Arrows' Mixed Media Stencil was released by Divinity Designs, I knew that I would have to use the 'Blessings' stamp set at some point because of the arrows.....today is the day!  The die cut cross and embossed panel were created with the 'Cross' Embossing Folder/Die Duos set.  Also used were the Double Stitched Rectangles and Double Stitched Squares Dies from DD.  After stenciling the cross and coloring in the arrows on the sentiment panel, a clear glaze pen was used on them.  I chose the glaze pen instead of adding embellishments so that the card will be easy to mail.

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Blessings,

Divinity Designs LLC February New Releases

Hi, everyone!  Welcome to the February New Release party for Divinity Designs LLC (formerly known as Our Daily Bread designs)!  To see the whole enchilada (all of the new stamps, stencils, designer paper and embossing folder!) and to find out how to win goodies, check out this post.

Here are the items featured in my three samples today:

For my first card, I have used the 'Miracle of Easter' stamp set, 'Flourishes' Mixed Media Stencil, Scalloped Ovals Dies, Ovals Dies, Lever Card Dies, Lever Card Layers Dies, Fence Die, Grass Lawn Die, and Bitty Butterflies Dies. The mixed media background on each panel was created with two techniques; the first is the 'Wrinkle Free Distress' Technique (swipe ink pads on a craft mat, spritz with water, mop up ink with cardstock); the 2nd is 'Stencil Stamping' (the 'Flourishes' stencil was inked with a plum inkpad, spritzed with water, then pressed onto the Wrinkle Free Distress panel).  The lily was stamped right over the inked panel, then colored with markers (leaves) and water-colored (blooms).  Two sentiments were stamped onto the oval panel which was sponged in light blue, then matted with the Scalloped Ovals Dies.  The fence, grass, butterflies, and baby blue pearls were added as finishing touches.

My second card features the 'Cross' Embossing Folder/Die Duos set, along with the Inspiration Words Dies, Deco Border Die, and Pierced Rectangles Dies.  I've always wanted to try the 'Faux Patina' Technique and this awesome embossing folder gave me the push to do it.  The flat side of the embossing folder was inked with kraft ink, then embossed with white cardstock. The raised crosses were inked with a sponge dauber with medium aqua ink, then green ink, then dark brown ink.  Instead of using gold embossing powder to create the metallic patina, I sponged 'Oldsilver' Inka-Gold on the raised images and buffed off the excess.  I'm excited about the outcome and will definitely try this again!  To finish the card, I used the Inka-Gold on the die cut crosses, border, and layered sentiment.

My third card was super quick and easy.  It features the 'Miracle of Easter' set, gorgeous 'Spring Flowers 2019' Paper Collection, Scalloped Ovals Dies, Ovals Dies, Scalloped Rectangles Dies, Pierced Rectangles Dies, and Bitty Borders Dies.  The lily was stamped in Stazon Jet Black onto the oval panel which was sponged in yellow, then both water-colored and colored with markers.  The sentiment was stamped onto a panel which was cut with the Pierced Rectangles Dies, matted with the Scalloped Rectangles Dies.  Please note that both of the small rectangles were cut using the Die Re-sizing Technique to customize the length to fit the sentiment perfectly.

Thanks for hanging out with us today!

Blessings,