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Friday, December 15, 2017

New Challenge with Dies R US!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to our new mid-month challenge at Dies R US! Our challenge today is "white on white". So anything you want to create, any theme, any style... just use a monochromatic/tone on tone color scheme, using of course, White.

So here is the project that I created for today's challenge.

I created a nice little holiday card to wish the recipient a "Happy Christmas" and paired it along with a cute little pillow box for something small, like cash, a gift card, jewelry or some chocolates.
I used all Georgia Pacific cardstock. For the card, I created an A2 side folding card base and scored a few lines on the front for interest. I wanted to keep this a simple one layer card. I used the Sue Wilson Designs-Finishing Touches- Maidenhair Fern Dies and cut them out six times. I covered them up using my Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen to give them a bit of a wintry sparkle. I arranged them on the front of the card to create a winter wreath. Then I cut out a cute banner from a MCT die and stamped the "Happy Christmas" sentiment inside. I popped this banner up and added to the middle of the wreath and to finish off the card and give it a little extra something, I added in a little bit of stickles for "Berries". Love how beautiful the wreath turned out, just from using ferns!!! Just another way to look at your dies and think of ways to use them outside of their intended purpose!

For the gift- I cut out this adorable pillow box using the pillow box die from Lawn Fawn. I ran the box through an Anna Griffin "poinsettia & holly" embossing folder before assembling the box. I then took my clear sparkle pen again and highlighted over the "raised" areas to give the box that same wintry sparkle. Next, I cut out the word "JOY" from using the Lawn Fawn- Scripty Joy Die. I ran the word through my "swiss dots" embossing folder to give the letters a bit of interest and added a bit of clear sparkle to it as well. I knew I wanted this word to stand out and not blend completely into the box, so I took the Sue Wilson Designs-California Collection-Tag Die and cut out the beautiful tag. I added the word "joy" to the center of this tag and popped it up onto the box. I used that same stickles from the card to just add a dot in each corner for that little extra something. I really love how this all turned out. It all came together beautifully and I will be putting some jewelry inside the box and giving it to my beautiful daughter, along with the card. I want to take this opportunity to wish each of you, a very Happy Holiday and a Happy & Healthy new year ahead!

And that completes my card and pillow box! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.

Well that is all I have for you today my friends. I appreciate you for taking time out of your day to visit me and see what I am up to. Please don't forget to stop by the Dies R US challenge blog to see what the rest of my design team sisters have created for you today. And make sure to link up your own project too! And for more inspiration, check out the Dies R US Inspiration blog . You will find yourself browsing for awhile. There are so many gorgeous projects that will surely inspire you! Thanks again for stopping by!

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~
Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Challenge #84 with Dies R Us!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to our newest challenge at Dies R US! Our challenge today is to create anything Fall themed. You could use fall colors, fall activities or fall favorites! So anything you want to create, any style... just show us your fall projects!

So here is the card that I created for today's challenge.

Sorry for the poor lighting.
It was very hard to get a good shot.

So is this not the cutest little snow globe???!!!! I absolutely love how this card turned out! I used the Sue Wilson Designs- Festive Collection- Snow Globe Dies for my card base. I just cut the base out twice and scored one of them to create the closure. I took my distress oxide inks in peeled paint, fossilized amber & spiced marmalade and covered the top layer of the globe to bring in those rich fall colors. On a piece of white cardstock, I stamped the leaves, pumpkin, scarecrow, cornstalks and crow in black momento ink. I got these images by pulling the Lawn Fawn- Happy Harvest Stamps out. I colored in my images using my zig clean color real markers in fall tones, except for the leaves and then cut them out using the Lawn Fawn- Happy Harvest Die s. For the leaves, I inked up the same three color distress inks and added in fired brick and then I cut them out last.

Next, I took a piece of white cardstock and inked up some walnut stain and vintage photo distress oxide inks and blended them together well. Then I took the Precious Marieke-Milk Churn & Barrel Dies and cut them out of it. I knew I wanted the pumpkin from the stamp set to sit on top of that barrel. I then took some more of the fossilized amber and spiced marmalade inks and blended them well on some white cardstock and then took the Sue Wilson Designes-Configurations-Trellis Edger Die and cut that out. Once all my images and pieces were colored and cut out, I spritzed some water on them and then blotted them to dry. Now it was time to assemble! I wanted the leaves to look like they were falling and being swept up by the wind... and I knew that I wanted the Sue Wilson Designes-Configurations-Trellis Edger Die to go behind the scarecrow. So I placed that down first and then started to build up the leaves and my little scene. The crow and the barrel are popped up on foam tape. I added in some white gel pen hightlights and added some little lined patches & stripes on the hat and overalls. I also added sparkle with the Spectrum Noir Clear sparkle pen to the scarecrow's hat and to the pumpkin. To finish off the card, I added the "warmest wishes" sentiment that I cut out using the Sue Wilson Designs-Festive Collection- Warmest Wishes Die. For some reason the leaves all look the same color and they aren't. They are in beautiful fall colors and I'm upset that for some reason, my camera wouldn't capture the colors and that the lighting was off. I tried for nearly 20 minutes to get lighting. Trust me, this is such a beautiful card in all of the fall colors.

And that completes my card! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Sunday, October 15, 2017

Challenge 83 With Dies R Us!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to our new mid-month challenge at Dies R US! Our challenge today is to use LEAVES. So anything you want to create, any theme, any style... just use some leaves on your project.

So here is the card that I created for today's challenge.

For my card today, I cut out this really cute "Summer Flowers" background die from Die-Versions onto some bristol paper that I had blended a bit of tea dye and vintage photo distress inks on. I adhered this panel to a white piece of cardstock. I took an entire piece of bristol paper and in different sections, used various distress and oxide inks to blend the colors I needed for my project.

I cut out some Memory Box- Citrus Leaves Dies and some Lawn Fawn- Stitched Leaves Dies that were blended with mowed lawn and peeled paint. I also cut out the pretty tall flourish out of the same blended paper. That flourish is also from Die-Versions. Now I knew that I wanted to have sunflowers on this card but I don't own any sunflower dies. So I got my thinking cap on and looked through my dies and found some dies I knew would work! My sunflower was created by using the second largest die in the "Delightful Circle Dies" from Spellbinders and the inside of my sunflower was created by cutting out the smallest circle from the Lawn Fawn- Small Stitched Circle Stackables Dies. The sunflowers were blended using mustard seed and fossilized amber distress inks and the centers were blended with gathered twigs and walnut stain inks. To each distressed portion, I spritzed some water and dried it for a little texture. And I must say that these made some beautiful sunflowers, especially paired up with the flourish as its stem!!

I knew I wanted to add some pumpkins to this card to really give it a fall look. So I used a stamp set from Sunny Studio Stamps called "Pretty Pumpkins" and its coordinating dies. This is a cute layering stamp set and I was able to use a few of the pumpkins to complete the look I was going for. I stamped one of the sentiments from the set, "Hello Fall" on one large pumpkin and on a smaller one, I used one of the smiley faces from the Lawn Fawn- Make Me Smile Dies. I love how it looks!!! Now the fun part begins! I put everything where I wanted it to go on top of that pretty "Summer Flowers" background panel and started adhering it all down to create my cute little Fall scene. The sunflower on the right is popped up on two layers of foam tape and the other sunflower and the pumpkins are popped up on regular foam adhesive. To finish off my card, I added some sparkle using my Spectrum Noir clear sparkle pen to the pumpkins and sunflower centers, added in some white highlights and black dots for "seeds" to the sunflower centers and added the entire panel to a "Peekaboo Peach" card base. Hope you like it! And in case your wondering what that brown thing is above my card, it's a clamp that is holding the card and it's attached to my Ott-Lite. Here is a picture of the light (Which is the BEST light that I own!!!) and a final photo of my card for today. :)

And that completes my card! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Sunday, October 1, 2017

Dies R Us Challenge 82 " Life Events"

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to our new October challenge at Dies R US! Our challenge today is Life events. So what do you celebrate in life? A Birthday? A new Job? Retirement? Anniversary? New baby or Christening? So let's see your life events projects!!

So here is the card that I created for today's challenge.

I decided to go with "birthday" as my life event. I have several fall birthdays coming up and one specifically for a younger special lady in my life. My card today is a shaker, how fun! I used the Sue Wilson Designs-Shadow Boxes- Birthday dies to create the window opening panel for my shaker. I first took some of my distress oxide inks to create the panel, splattered with a little bit of water and then cut it out with the large die. I went ahead and added in my sequins, added my foam adhesive and then added a white backing panel that was cut out using the Lawn Fawn- Stitched Rectangle Frame Dies.
I added that panel to a larger black panel, also cut out using the Lawn Fawn- Stitched Rectangle Frame Dies.

I used distress oxides on another panel to create a very light, almost muted color for a soft look. I then took the heart and star balloons and strings from Lawn Fawn's Lawn Fawn-Party Balloon Dies and popped them up on foam tape. I thought they made a perfect accent to the front of this card panel.

The sentiment and the little lavender gift were also cut out from the Sue Wilson Designs-Shadow Boxes- Birthday dies. To finish off this card, I added the entire panel to a white card base, added some sparkle to the balloons and present using wink of stella and added in a little gold banner to compliment the gold sequins. You can never have too much gold ever! :)

And that completes my card! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Friday, September 15, 2017

New Mid- Month Challenge with Dies R Us!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to our new mid-month challenge at Dies R US! Our challenge today is "Fancy Corners". So anything you want to create, any theme, any style... just show us those fancy corner styles.

So here are the cards that I created for today's challenge.

I made two cards because I am getting in the habit of creating 2 each time I sit down to create. That way I build up my stash and I get more done in the limited amount of time I have to create. :)

My cards were made with all Stampin' Up paper and cardstock. I wanted to keep the cards fairly simple so these came together very quickly. I used the Sue Wilson Designs- Heraldic Square Dies to use as my main focal image and for the fancy corners. This die set comes with 3 dies and you can use them altogether or separately. For the portrait style card, I cut the largest die out of white and cut out the smallest die out of the floral background paper. That smallest die doesn't have any cut lines, it cuts into the paper but doesn't cut it out. So I used the middle die with it so that I could get it to cut out. I cut the middle die piece off so have just the smallest die inlay piece left. I hand cut a frame from the middle die piece so that I could have a nice Navy frame around that center piece. I took my white gel pen and colored in some of the shapes, took my black copic multi-liner and did some inside doodling too. For this card, I also cut out the Lawn Fawn- Thinking About You Border Die and cut it apart to fit under my main focal point. Again, I did a little bit of doodling along the sides and hand drew a heart for the "dot" above the "I". To finish off the first card, I added some liquid pearls in "Buttercup" and added my clear spectrum noir sparkle pen to the sentiment and the outside frame. :)

For my second card, I wanted to make a landscape card similar to the first one that I made. This time, I cut out the largest & middle dies from the Sue Wilson Designs- Heraldic Square Dies in Night Of Navy cardstock and the smallest inlay piece in the same floral background paper. On this card, I used the three dies together the way they come packaged up. Love the look! Again, I used my white gel pen to color in some of the shape pieces and did a little doodling on the outside frame. I love the beautiful fancy corners the largest die creates! I took the clear spectrum noir sparkle pen and brushed it all over the entire top of the main focal image for super shine! Then I cut out the Lawn Fawn- Happy Birthday Border Die in white to go across the center. Love the white sentiment because it pops against that navy! I took my copic multi-liner and again, added in a few doodles over the sentiment letters this time. Love that doodled look! Added in some perfect pearls and it's done! Both card centers are popped up with foam tape, two thicknesses high.

And that completes my cards! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Friday, September 1, 2017

Dies R Us Challenge #80- Die Cut Handmade Flowers

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to a brand new challenge at Dies R US! Our challenge today is " Die cut handmade flowers". So anything you want to create, any theme, any style... just use some handmade die cut flowers on your project.

So here is the card that I created for today's challenge.

My card is an A2 and I used GP cardstock and the papers are from Lemoncraft's "House of Roses" collection. My first panel was cut with the largest rectangle from the Lawn Fawn- Stitched Rectangle Frame Dies. On top of that, I die cut out that beautiful soft green music note paper from the "scalloped stitched rectangular dies" from My Creative Time. And from there it was all layers!

I cut out the pretty floral paper with a tag die, also from MCT and I wanted it adhered on a slant. To this tag, I adhered the Lawn Fawn- Thinking About You Border Die that I cut out of some cucumber crush cardstock (Stampin' Up) and added star dust stickles to it. I really like how it looks on the slant to be aligned with the tag. It's different but nice. Since we had to use die cut handmade flowers on our projects, I decided I wanted to match the paper collection and have roses on this card. So I cut out the two roses out of watermelon wonder (Stampin' Up) cardstock and used the Memory Box- Plush Classic Rose Die. I am not the best at rolling roses but I think they came out okay. I added some cotton candy stickles to the inside centers and randomly around the petals.

Now that the roses were cut and ready, I set them aside and cut out those beautiful scrolls from Spellbinders. I thought they would make such a beautiful accent and I wanted to bring in a little more white to compliment that first stitched rectangle frame layer. I added star dust stickles to them as well and I just love the shine! I adhered the scrolls where I wanted them and then I adhered the roses and leaves in place. The leaves were already cut from a previous project so I just used them, it worked out! And after looking at everything together, I still had a large open space on that tag so I cut out a small tag from MCT and stamped the sentiment "Sweet friend" from the MCT "Teeny tag greetings" stamp set. Added in some green/white twine, tied a bow and adhered it with foam tape. It gives a little dimension and is exactly perfect to fill in that space. Really love how this turned out and I even finished the inside with the "Just a note" sentiment from the "Just a note" stamp set from MCT....

And that completes my card! All of the dies that I used that you can purchase in the Dies R Us store are highlighted in the links above and can be found HERE.

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Dies R Us Mid-Month Challenge 79!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to our new mid-month challenge at Dies R US! Our challenge today is anything goes using dies. So anything you want to create, any theme, any style... just use some dies on your project.

So here is the card that I created for today's challenge.

I wanted to make a birthday card for my mom as her birthday is a week after my daughter's. My sweet daughter's birthday is on the 19th (This Saturday, turning 14!!!) and then my mom's follows next week on the 27th. So being that I already have my daughter's made, I figured with this challenge being anything goes, I would take the opportunity to make my mom's birthday card! So I started off by using the largest die in the Floral Ovals dies by Spellbinders to create my card base. I used GP cardstock for the base and I cut out another layer from beautiful shabby paper pad from the Paper Studio. I then cut out the Impression Obsession- Paper Cone Die from wood paper in the same paper pad. To the middle of the cone, I added some beautiful washi tape with gold edges. I cut some ferns, also from Spellbinders to put inside the cone. Once that was finished, I added in some beautiful flowers that I had cut using Impression Obsession- Bunch of Blossoms Dies. I added in some glitter to my flowers using my Spectrum clear sparkle pen. The sentiment was cut also from a Spellbinder's set called "Sentiment one" and I cut it twice in pink and black as I wanted it to have that black shadow effect. And to finish off my card, I added in one simple gold heart to bring out the gold in the washi tape. I hope my mama likes her birthday card this year!

And that completes my card! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.

Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

New Challenge with Dies R US! #78 Summertime Fun!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to a new challenge at Dies R US! Can you believe it is the first day of August?? I sure can't! So our challenge to kick off the month is challenge #78, Summertime fun! Whatever it is that you enjoy doing during your summer months, let's see it!

So here is the card that I created for today's challenge.

Summer time for me is my favorite time to be out and about... it also means for me, a ton of photos being taken. So this card displays a photo frame for all those photos and of course, it says "love" and I added in the "summer". The flowers and the beautiful creatures of nature are out and about more in the summer then they are the spring anymore so I focused in around that. So I started it all with the Die-Versions- Sweet Frames- Love die.... that is the photo frame of course. I adhered it to a summertime background die that I have which was cut out of that bamboo looking paper. Really cool texture! That layer was adhered to a nice chevron pattern ... full of colors of summer... the blues, the greens, the hints of yellow.. very pretty! Once I adhered the frame down, I started to build up an array of gorgeous florals and greenery. I cut out several leaves using the Memory Box- Citrus Leaves dies and placed them in and around the little yellow flowers that I adhered down. The flowers I've had for forever. Then I decided to add in a few of the pretty leafy flourishes.... they were cut using the Die-Versions- Whispers Flourish die. I had an area that I needed to fill in to the left of the frame once I had everything down where I wanted it. So I decided to cut out that gorgeous blue scalloped flower! So pretty right? That was created by cutting out the Yvonne Creations- Scallop dies and just layering them all on top of one another. To get them to look so full, I just curled up each petal to give it that dimension. It all came together beautifully... and then I wanted something else to kind of ground the frame... so I thought to keep with the scalloped theme from the beautiful flowers and cut out a little scallop border to tuck under the frame. I used the Lawn Fawn- Stitched Scalloped Border dies to achieve that. And then to finish off the card, I added in a few butterflies that I had sitting on my desk from a prior project and added black centers to the yellow flowers. I used some spectrum clear sparkle pen on all the greenery, the word "love" and on the blue scallop flower. I added in a few doodles but that pretty much sums it up!

And that completes my card! All of the dies that I used are highlighted in the links above and can be found in the Dies R Us store HERE.

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Until next time, Enjoy life's blessings~

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Dies R Us challenge #77! Use your sentiment as the main Focus!

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to a new challenge at Dies R US! Our last challenge, we focused on layers and building up our projects. Well now for this new mid-month challenge, we want our focus to be on the actual sentiment. There are so many awesome sentiment dies on the market that are trending right now and today, my DT sisters and I will show you some amazing dies that will help you to create some really beautiful cards in just a few minutes!

So here are the cards that I created for today's challenge. Yep, I made two cards!

I decided to create two cards in the same style but just switched out the sentiment and accent color. I knew I wanted to go with a black and white look. All of my cardstock is from Stampin Up. So for this first card, I created an A2 sized card base from some Flirty Flamingo and using that same color, I die cut the sentiment using the Sue Wilson Design-Expressions Collections- Best Wishes Die. I took my clear spectrum sparkle brush pen and went around the entire sentiment except the actual letters to give some sparkle. I wanted the actual sentiment letters to stand alone and just have that classy look to them. The white layer was ran through my Pirouette embossing folder by Anna Griffin, along the one edge. Then I used the Lawn Fawn- Stitched Rectangle Frames Dies and used the 2nd largest to cut it out. The black layer was also ran through the Pirouette embossing folder. I took the clear spectrum sparkle pen and went all around the edges to give it a lot of sparkle. I knew the white piece would hide the rest, so the edges were the only parts that I added sparkle to. I then added the white layer to the black and adhered it to the card base. Sequins in the same shade of color were added to finish it off.

For the second card, I switched the accent color to this beautiful old Bermuda Bay. Such a beautiful color! I also switched out the sentiment which was die cut using the Tutti Designs- Swirly Thanks Die. This card was completely done the exact same way as the first, using the same Pirouette embossing folder, clear sparkle pen for sparkle and sequins in a shade of the same color to complete it. I wish you could really see just how sparkly these cards are in real life, so sparkly! It is just had to get it on camera. Here are a few more photos.