Sentimentally Sue: 2024

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Altenew Year-in-Review Inspiration

One final card for this fabulous challenge. I chose Michelle Short's beautiful pinks and green floral inspiration for my card.

I used the Sulfur Cosmos stencil for a no-line floral, using a light and medium pink ink for the flower. Then after stenciling the green leaves and stems, I added a bit of green colored pencil. The gold thread, Nuvo drops and heat embossing gave my card a bit of sparkle and dimension.

Thanks for stopping by Sue.

Sunday, December 8, 2024

AAA Cards Challenge #280

Let's go out with a bang. We are going into our last AAA Card Challenge of the year. I made a simple one-layer card in shades of blue.

Stamps: CASual Fridays Snowflake set

Stencil: Simon Says Stamp Simple Pattern Trio

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Altenew: A Year in Review

Hey there. I just couldn't quit playing with the new sets from my Black Friday order and all the inspiration from the Year in Review challenge.

The Zero-Waste Chocolate Flowers die and stencil has so much to work with. My card started with a white panel that I embossed with the Dotted Geo Cover die. Then using a greeting from the Sulfur Cosmos stamp set I heat embossed the greetings. April Leithner's color palette was my inspiration.

Altenew Inspiration

Hello again. I just had so many new sets from this last order that I needed to play with. LOL. The Altenew Year in Review challenge helped with the inspiration.

Tenia's inspirational photo drew me in with the pink, orange and yellow. I used the Sulfur Cosmos stamp and stencil to create my card. This is one of my favorite color combos!

Altenew Happy-Mail Postcard

Hey there. When Altenew sends out your order they include a fun postcard to color from one of their beautiful stamp sets. My latest card came with the Tulips & Friends set images. I hate to waste the coloring so I try to make it into a card and figured I would use one of the color palettes from the Year in Review Challenge. I used my new Cottage Garden alcohol markers to color the image and Emily Midgett's color inspiration.

The sentiment is from the Scripted Sentiments die set.

I did a soft tone-on-tone stencil pattern from the Sulfur Cosmos stencil set on the card base.

Altenew Year in Review Challenge

Hello. This is always a fun challenge because you can go back and pick-out your favorite Altenew color palettes from the year to make new cards. I am working with Emily Midgett's pallette.

I started with an orchid panel that I ink blended with two shades of orchid ink. Then I ran it though my die cutting machine with the Dotted Geo Cover die. I then used a creamy, pale-yellow cardstock to die cut the Prickly Pear flowers and added a bit of ink to the edges, cut leaves and using the fabulous key-hole system glued the focal point together.

The greeting came from the Sulfur Cosmos set that I stamped and embossed using the same two orchid ink colors. I die cut several greetings from orchid cardstock and layered them behind the stamped image to give it dimension. Finally, I added a few clear Nuvo drops for accent.

Sunday, December 1, 2024

It's DieCember at Simon Says Stamp!

Hey there! Simon Says Stamp has a super new release of dies for their special "DieCember" release and they kindly asked me to help with the party. I got to play with the Whirl Bay Leaf die.

One trick I found helpful with this intricate die was to pop out the stem first from the release hole on the die. Then pushing my poke tool along the stem and leaf veins to separate the die cut from the die. Lifting the leaves as I went.

As you can see, I had a great time working with this very, versatile die.

One final project is a bit of wall art.

Sunday, November 24, 2024

AAA Cards Challenge #279

Here we are at the end of the year. I have a simple Christmas card for you today that fits the new AAA Cards Challenge. I wanted to play with some untraditional colors for Christmas.