I seem to decide to play along with Colour Hues when it's a colour combination that I hardly ever put together! Maybe it's my subconscious telling me I need to get out of my comfort zone! LOL. I do love how these colours came together - thank you Karen for the challenge.
Used some Distress Oxide inks on the stencil and then a hot foiled sentiment. The enamel dots are navy (even though they look black in the picture).
Hey crafty friends and happy official summer to those in the northern hemisphere! Just a quick hello to go along with this yellow and black card for Color Hues #135. Went clean, simple and bold for this one. I always want to be bold when I put black and yellow together - lol. I really like tone on tone but it's not always easy to see in photos.
I'm not usually a pink person (which most people know) but I have a new to me die set that suits pink really well. So using it for the latest Colour Hues challenge was no brainer. I found some scraps of pink paper that all went together so pretty happy with how this turned out.
Thanks to Carol for getting me out of my comfort zone by using pink.
Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by,
Glenda
Happy Friday friends! Hope you've had a good week.
I've decided to use my new dies again today (see yesterday's post) and play along with Color Hues. In the background is some sparkly texture paste run through a stencil.
Thanks for stopping by,
Glenda
Happy Monday crafty friends! Over at Colour Hues, they are doing red & white! Couldn't resist as red is my favourite colour (and it's in honour of Canada Day). Thanks Tracey!
Welcome to June crafty friends! Hope all is well in your world.
Barbara has challenged us to make a fancy fold card this week at Seize the Birthday. Full confession - this is the third card I made for this challenge (I photographed both of the others and decided that they were just meh). I ended up being happy with this vertical easel card. This is a great 'bang for your buck' card and the tutorial for it is here.
Happy February! I just got back from a crafty retreat with my friends - so nice to just chill and craft for a few days. Decided to play along with Color Hues again... I struggle with pink but thought I would give it a shot. Thanks to Tracey for challenging me! In love with these dies so decided to use them again.
Edited to add (thanks Carol!) - also joining in for the Inkspirational Challenge (also red & pink).
Color Hues is starting off the year with one of my favourite colour combos - red & kraft! I haven't used this fun die set very much but thought it would suit this combo well. Sending this card off to a friend who is having a tough time right now. The red hearts are the same shade as the rest of the red paper but they look different in the photo - not sure why. Thanks to Sheri at Color Hues for this combo!
Hey crafty friends. I couldn't resist playing along with one of my favourite colour combos - red & black - over at Colour Hues Challenge. I recently took a fall leaves watercolour painting class and couldn't resist putting some of those techniques into this card. I used Distress Ink for this card... since I made it, I've picked up some watercolour paints (always more crafty supplies to buy - right?). I've also accumulated many leaves in my jacket pockets - lol.
It's a been a minute since I played along with the Color Hues Challenge but fall is definitely in the air and I'm feeling the rust and green colour combo. I got these Tim Holtz leaf dies recently and hadn't used them yet so thought it was a good opportunity. I smooshed a couple of Distress Oxides for the green (Mowed Lawn & Pine Needles) and swiped a regular Distress (Rusty Hinge) for the rust.
Happy weekend friends! A friend of mine recently had surgery so thought I would use the latest combo from Color Hues to make a card for her. I used the very 'high tech' tool of toilet paper rolls to make the hearts. LOL! I have yet to figure out why I so often do colour challenges with pink when I don't even really like pink.
For some reason, I seem to gravitate towards colour challenges that will REALLY challenge me. This time it's lilac and mint from Colour Hues. I don't have any trouble with the darker purples and greens but this pastel combo is challenging! Used some Distress Oxides to make a smooshed watercolour background, and then stayed CAS with the rest ... hope you like it.
Hey crafty friends,
Today, I'm honoured to be joining a very special challenge with the team at Color Hues!
In conjunction with their normal colour challenge, The Color Hues Design Team and a few guests (like me), from their sister challenge Seize the Birthday, are participating in a Blog Hop!
Collectively as a team, we are hopping in memory of our dear friend, fellow card maker, and Design Team member, Lindsey Martin-Penny, who sadly passed away last year from a rare and aggressive form of ovarian cancer.
The purpose of this hop will be to honor Lindsey, celebrate her life and all that she loved, as well as spread the word to raise funds for Clear Cell Ovarian Cancer Research.
How can you Help? You can find all the fabulous details and the start of the hop HERE!
In honor of Lindsey, the team has created a variety of cards using her favourite colour combo of Purple and Red. (I love these colours too!) Lindsey was a team mate but also a friend - was so fortunate to be able to meet her & her husband a few times in person. Miss her a lot.... I made a card in her honour that I know she'd appreciate.
Thanks so much for joining us!
Take care,
Glenda
p.s. This is one of two posts that I've done today in honour of Lindsey. Here's the other one.
I am joining Seize the Birthday's sister challenge, Color Hues Color Challenge, in honouring Ukraine today with a yellow & blue challenge (for the Ukrainian flag). My words are few about what is going on in the world. I'm trying to find a balance between staying informed and keeping my mental health intact. That said, I am so glad to be joining them today... just to put some some crafty love out into the world.
After some false starts, I finally made a card that I'm happy with. I made a 'stencil' by running my sunflower (the national flower of Ukraine) die through my die cutter with some masking paper. Used some Distress Ink to blend this sunflower background. Fortunately, a random scrap of blue paper I found just happen to match with a couple of enamel dots I had lying around.
Playing along with another Color Hues challenge - orange & blue. I have to admit that I struggled with this one... took more than one try to come up with a card that I was happy with. As a note - there is Wink of Stella on the flowers but it's challenging to see.
Playing along with another Color Hues challenge! The colours this time are navy and turquoise... this is definitely a challenge for me because I don't use blues exclusively very often. I was inspired by this card on Instagram to make some plaid....
