Rosh Hashana Card

I was invited to spend Monday evening with friends and celebrate Rosh Hashana with them.  My friend is an excellent cook and we had quite the feast!  We have done this for several years and I always make her a card.  It can be quite the adventure trying to find stamps for Jewish holidays, so I get creative with the images.  Since apples and honey are traditional for Rosh Hashana I often use those images.

This card was inspired by one I saw on Facebook by Karen Ann Rees Freiberg in the Stamps of Life Fan page.  It uses the Apple Fold-It and circle dies to create the apple slices.

I drew in the seeds and then colored the honey with a Copic marker.  To give them shine I covered the honey in Crystal Effects (Glossy Accents).  I had a sentiment set from CAS-ual Fridays that I used for the banner and inside.  It says "Wishing you peace, happiness and prosperity."

Products used:

• Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays Shalom
• Dies: The Stamps of Life Apple Fold-It
• Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Real Read, Early Espresso, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Very Vanilla
  
• Markers: Copic Y26
  

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Clean and Simple Color Challenge

This week's color challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches give us a new hostess for the month (Jenny) and new colors!  They are Soft Succulent, Evening Evergreen and Polished Pink.  Two lovely soft blue/greens and a bright pop of pink.

I made two of these card because I messed up the first one!  The second I made first but when I went to cut out the panel for the inset I realized that it looked off center and the vase was just too high.  It looked fine on the plain card though.

This card was super fast to create; there is very little shading in the coloring so making another that was how I has envisioned it wasn't a problem.  I used three panels of the Soft Succulent under the scalloped panel to raise it and give just a hint of color.

 

Products used:

• Stamps: The Stamps of Life Flowers2share
• Dies: The Stamps of Life Scallpoed Rectangles
• Cardstock: Basic White, Soft Succulent
• Markers: Stampin' Blends - Polished Pink, Soft Succulent, Evening Evergreen; Copics - N0, N1

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Color Challenge Sunflower

It's my pleasure to be the hostess this week at the Splitcoaststampers Color Challenge.  Even though I'm never completely ready for summer to end, I decided to go with fall colors this week.  I think it may be that I have a new stamp and die set (the Hello Sunflowers Class from the Stamps of Life) and some patterned paper that seemed made for it.  I guess I really wanted to use them.

The colors I picked are: Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Balmy Blue and Early Espresso with the theme of Fall as an option.   

I had planned on coloring the flowers but when I began playing with the dies I realized that they are beautiful alone and I could give them dimension with some ink blending.  I used the same color ink to shade the edge and also the center of the flowers before adhering the brown center portion.

I had also planned on stenciling a sky and using the paper as just a small accent.  What was in my mind is NOTHING like what you see here.  Oh well, maybe one day I will make THAT card.  For now I have this one and I'm happy with how it turned out.

I hope you'll join us at the challenge this week.

Products used:

• Dies: The Stamps of Life Hello Sunflower Class, Floral Swish Card Die Set
• Paper/cardstock: Early Espresso Balmy Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Pink & Main Pumpkin Spice
• Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry
• Accessories: Crushed Curry Ribbon, Enamel Dot
  

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Bugs and Kisses

Happy Labor Day!  I have a full week of posts for you this week.  I had several occasions for cards this week and have been quite busy that last two days making them!  To start I have this thinking of you card featuring one of the new stamp sets from Lil' Bluebird Designs.

That little frog is just too cute!  I suppose he is the kisses in the "Bugs and Kisses".  I made this card using the September 1 sketch at Splitcoaststampers.  I was a Guest Designer for this challenge earlier in the year and one thing I discovered - having a sketch makes designing a card go much faster!

I picked my paper first so I would know what colors to use.  I just needed to include a green for my frog.  I colored the images with Prismacolors (listed below).  These images are fairly small so I thought the pencils would be easier than markers and they were.  The pencils allowed me to give shading in the tiny spaces.

That's my card for now.  I'll have another one for you this evening!

Products used:

• Stamps and Dies: Lil' Bluebird Designs Love Bugs
• Dies: Cottage Cutz Stitched Circles, Stitched Scalloped Squares
• Paper: Queen & Co Fruit Stand, Daffodil Delight, Garden Green
• Prismacolor Pencils: PC915, PC916, PC921, PC1005, PC911, PC989, PC903, PC919

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Big Hugs Candy Corn Card

I'm having fun with Fold-its dies and the Tic Tac Toe Challenge.  The last few weeks it seems that there is an element just made for one of these shaped cards.

 Here is the board:

I chose the middle row across - Candy Corn, Orange, Plaid.

I love being able to pick my challenge and I often use more than the three elements in my chosen line.  This is one of the few time that I think I stuck to just my chosen elements!

I hope you'll play along with us this week.  It's a great way to start on your fall cards!

Products used:

• Dies: The Stamps of Life Candy Corn Fold-it, TSOL Big Hugs
• Cardstock / Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Mango Melody, Basic White, TSOL Sunshine, So Cool paper
• Accessories: TSOL enamel dots and ribbon

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