SIP Challenge #73 - Grateful

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  I just returned from a 7 day cruise and am super rested and ready to make this a great week!  We went to St Thomas, San Juan, Half Moon Cay, and Grand Turk!  Being grateful for the opportunity to go on a vacation to so many beautiful places made this week's Stamp, Ink, Paper theme absolutely perfect for me! 

I decided since my card fit the challenge that I'd also link it up in The Paper Player's Challenge Thankful Challenge!  It's always a good thing to Count your Blessings, right??

My first thought was to use the new Posies and Paisleys stamp set but then I decided to pull out a retired set from Last Year's Holiday Catalog called "Lighthearted Leaves". 

I started with a 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" piece of Wild Wasabi Cardstock, scored at 4 1/4" to make an A2 Cardbase.  My top layer was Watercolor Cardstock that measured 5" x 3 3/4".  I heat embossed the leaves from the Lighthearted Leaves stamp set with gold embossing powder.  I then used Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, and Daffodil Delight Inks and my Aqua Painters to watercolor the leaves.  Once dried, it was backed with a 5 1/8" 3 7/8" piece of Real Read Cardstock.  and then mounted on the Card Base.  The sentiment (also from the Lighthearted Leaves set) was heat embossed in Gold on another small piece of watercolor paper.  I used my Layering Circle Framelits to cut it out and then backed it with a Real Red scallop circle cut from the same framelits.  I had some Gold Metallic trim that I looped and applied to the card front with Dimensionals and then added the sentiment over that.  

Here's a close up picture since it is hard to see the Gold embossing in the first photo...

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Product List

• Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705]
• Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]
• Versamark Pad [102283]
• Heat Tool [129053]
• Aqua Painters [103954]
• Watercolor Paper [122959]
• Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102482]
• Wild Wasabi 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [108641]
• Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [126949]
• Wild Wasabi Classic Stampin' Pad [126959]
• Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [126945]
• Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [126944]
• Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]
• Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]

Stamp Ink Paper Challenge #70 - Tic Tac Toe

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  I hope you are having a fabulous week!  I'm counting down to my vacation that is just 2 weeks away and getting more and more excited every day!  Today over at Stamp, Ink, Paper we have a fun Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge! 

I totally had another card in mind but once I started working on my planned card I decided it against it.  Instead this is what I came up with!  This fit in right across the bottom row for Orange, Ribbon/Twine and Punch/Die Cut!

 I started looking around my craft area and found some left over watercolor paper that already had a three color wash on it and had Gina Marie Oak Leaves die cut out of it.  I decided to cut the oak leaves out of Pumpkin Pie Cardstock and inlay them into the negative space.   I cut the watercolor paper panel 3 3/4" x 5" and stamped the sentiment from the retired Lighthearted Leaves set in the lower left in Chocolate Chip Ink. The Pumpkin Pie Die Cut Oak Leaves were glued into the negative space with Tombow Multipurpose Glue.  I ran Tangerine Tango baker's twine along the left side three times and tied it in a bow toward the bottom.  I adhered this panel onto Old Olive A2 Card Base.  I was super happy with how it turned out!  I'm usually not a clean & simple girl but this is pretty close!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Product List

• Watercolor Paper [122959]
• Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100702]
• Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105117]
• Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [126945]
• Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [126944]
• Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [126953]
• Aqua Painters [103954]

WWYS #30 Lighthearted Leaves

Good Evening!  I have a super quick post to enter a card into a fun Challenge Blog called What Will You Stamp?  Here's the flag for this challenge

Lighthearted Leaves has been one of my new favorites from the 2015 Holiday Catalog.  If you've followed my blog I'm sure you realize that as I've posted quite a few card with this awesome stamp set already!  

Here's my card for this Challenge

On this card I started with an A2 Mossy Meadow Cardbase.  I used watercolor paper for my next layer and did a base of Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive for the background.  I heat embossed my leaves onto Shimmery White cardstock with White embossing powder.  I then used daubers to sponge on Old Olive, Hello Honey, Pumpkin Pie, and Cajun Craze Inks.  I used a paper towel to rub off any ink that was on the white embossing and then cut the leaves out using the Leaflet Framelits.  I looped some Linen thread onto my background and then adhered the leaves with Stampin' Dimensionals.  I tied the leaves together at the bottom with some more Linen Thread.  The sentiment was a watercolor wash background that was stamped with Cajun Craze Ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings,  Tina