Monochromatic Petals

It seems like I have needed more sympathy cards lately than ever before!  I tied in a couple of challenges on this one.

Simon Says Stamp - Monochromatic

And Addicted to CAS - Petals

The flowers and leaves from Altenew's Beautiful Day were masked to create this one layer card.  I used shades of gray and added some white ink to the larger flower and used a Picket Fence Distress marker on the smaller ones.  The sentiment is from Gina K and Stamped with Versafine Onyx.

Altenew 4th Anniversary

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Delicate Flowers

Playing with some of my new stamps from Concord & 9th which seemed perfect for the challenge at Addicted to CAS - Delicate.

Stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with Prismacolor markers.  It needed a little something, so I used a cream colored marker to shade the background giving it a soft, watercolor look.  A yellow gel pen was used for the flower centers.

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Thank You Sketch

Playing along this week with CAS(E) this Sketch!

And The Male Room - Thanksgiving or Thanks

And Addicted to CAS - Dimension

Stamps are from the  Gina K set - Stamp It Big! designed by Caroline King.  I used Memento Inks in Bahama Blue, Dandelion, Love Letter and I can't remember which green, going with bold, primary colors for a more masculine feel.  Stamped the big Thanks then positioned the square patterned stamps below it using my MISTI to line everything up. Die cut the little bows and small strips of matching cardstock and glued to the "presents".  This was going to be a one layer card, but I got a smudge on it,  

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A Feather for a Friend

  

I combined three challenges for this card:

Stamplorations Blog - Stamps and Feathers





Addicted to CAS - Die Cuts

And the new Mod Squad Challenge - A few of Cat's Favorite Things - you have to choose at least 3 items from her list.

The feather was stamped and die cut, then colored with alcohol markers.  Die cut the kraft tag and stamped a sentiment on it, added a strip of washi tape and adhered the feather.  Folded a word window punch in half and attached to the top of the tag and tied with baker's twine.  Stamped some flourishes on the aqua card base then attached the tag.

For the Mod Squad Challenge I used:  die cuts, kraft cardstock, twine and Copic markers

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12 Tags of Christmas Day 9

The beautiful parade of tags continues at Ellen Hutson's The Classroom!  Today the talented Teri Anderson is featured.

I am very limited on shape dies, so I did a search for a clip art skate and found this one.  Cut it out by hand, sponged on some Antique Linen Distress ink, colored the blade with a silver Sharpee marker and pink gel pen on the laces.  I had some snowflake printed vellum on hand.  I did the frame of the tag with Barn Door Distress ink and spritzed with water. I don't sew, so pierced around the opening and drew the stitches with white gel pen.  Die cut individual letters from dp and added the punched vellum snowflake and bling.  This pales in comparision to Teri's lovely tag, but I did what I could with my resources.

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Simple Fall

 

Playing with the fall colors from the challenge at JUGS

and also the challenge at Addicted to CAS

 It is also a fit for CAS-ual Fridays challenge

 

Stamps:  Gina K Lovely Labels and Petite Borders

Ink:  Color Box Parchment, Memento Luxe Love Letter and Tim Holtz Distress Ink Walnut Stain

Cardstock:  Gina K Ivory and Kraft, AC Moore Brown.

 

Stamped the Lovely Labels on Kraft with Memento Luxe Love Letter and heat embossed with Warm Red ep.   Die cut with a coordinating Spellbinders die, punched out the center and inked the edged with Walnut Stain ink.  Die cut and inked the leaves and layered onto a second die cut label.  Stamped and embossed the border, but it didn't show up very well, so sponged the inks over it and wiped off the embossed area.  Added a strip of washi tape.

 

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