Color Hues - #36 - Cards for Ukraine

 My friend Nancy Leppek runs the Color Hues challenge and added this yellow and blue color combination to celebrate and support the people of Ukraine from the unprovoked war that they are facing from Putin (I'm not going to say from Russia because I don't think the Russian people want this war, at least I hope not).  She pulled this together quickly and I applaud her for doing so.

I made this for the challenge.  I used a Pink Fresh stamp/stencil/die set.  It's simple but fitting.  I added the sentiment "strong" to emulate the Ukrainian people.  I couldn't fit the secondary sentiment on the outside, so I stamped it on the inside.

"Today and Always" for certain.  

This card I made before the one above just to celebrate Ukraine.  It doesn't fit the color hues challenge, but I'm posting it here anyway.  This design reminded me of something you'd see from Eastern Europe.

I just realized that my banner header is in the Ukrainian colors of blue and yellow and has sunflowers, which is the flower of Ukraine.  What a happy coincidence.

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Recipe Card #1

Stamps:  Joyful Peonies and Known & Loved (Pink Fresh)

Paper:  White

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, lemon whip, sweet mustard, summer shower, seaside

Accessories:  Joyful Peonies die (PF), stitched rectangle die (MFT), linen impression plate (PTI), crystals

Recipe Card #2

Stamps:  Folk Floral Print and Perfect Sentiments (PF)

Paper:  White

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, sweet mustard, summer shower, fresh pear, olive

Accessories:  Perfect Sentiments die (PF), stitched rectangle (MFT), clear embossing powder, crystals

Color Hues #34 - Red & Black

 Hi friends!  I'm slowly getting back into joining challenges again.  I used to participate in them quite frequently, and I don't know why I stopped.  Anyway, I made this for the current Color Hues challenge.  The colors are red and black.

I pulled out this triple-step stamp set from Concord & 9th and stamped two of the stamps to create this heart in red and one in black.  I then stamped the flowers separately in red and die cut them so I could add dimension to the heart.  The sentiment is an old one from Verve.  I stamped it on the die cut flagged sentiment strip and added red pearls.  I wanted something other than a plain white mat to adhere the heart to.  I pulled out a thin frame die and die cut the white panel and a black and white piece of pattern paper.  I love the impact these thin frames create.  You really can't see it in the photo, but I spritzed the card with shimmer.  I love the subtlety of it.

Here's the link to the Color Hues challenge blog.  Lots of inspiration there!

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Recipe

Stamps:  Triple-step Blooming Heart (C&9th), Hearts on Fire (Verve)

Paper:  White, black, Yours Truly (Echo Park)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, candy apple

Accessories:  Triple-Step Blooming Hearts dies (C&9th), stitched rectangle die (MFT), thin frame die (SSS), pearls, dimensionals, shimmer spray

Color Hues #32 - Red & Purple

 Hello friends!  I saw the recent Color Hues challenge of red and purple and thought it was a great color combination, so I thought I'd play along.

This was my second try at these colors.  I'll share the first one below.  I created the floral swag using a Pink Fresh stencil/stamp/die set.  I used two inks for the flowers and only one ink for the leaves.  After stenciling, I stamped the outline in black ink, then die cut it.  The white panel was impressed with a piercing plate (hard to see).  I added the purple panel die cut with a stitched rectangle and a silver foiled sentiment (it looks black, but it's silver).  I added silver crystals to finish it off.  

This was my first attempt that I was not very crazy about.  I sponged red and purple inks on a white panel then impressed it with a heart pierced die.  I die cut the coordinating panel from white and added it over it.  The globe was die cut from silver cardstock and again from red so that I could add the heart.  I adhered that to a stitched rectangle and embossed the sentiment with silver embossing powder.  I added silver pearls to that panel.  This card was ok, but not my favorite!

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Recipe Card #1

Stamps:  Choose Hope (Pink Fresh)

Paper:  White, purple

Ink:  Versafine onyx black, berrylicious, candy apple, candy violet

Accessories:  Choose Hope stencils & die (PFS), Detail Ringlet Plate (SSS), stitched rectangle (MFT), foiled sentiment (PFS), silver crystals

Recipe Card #2

Stamps:  Floral Garden (SSS)

Paper:  White, red, silver

Ink:  Candy apple, candy violet, Versamark

Accessories:  Fluttering Hearts die & pierced die (Honey Bee), globe die (Reverse Confetti), stitched rectangle (MFT), silver pearls, silver embossing powder

Color Hues #25

 Hi friends!  I'm getting this card in under the wire for the Color Hues challenge.  It's their first birthday celebration, and I just had to enter!

The colors are perfect for going into this next season of autumn, yellow and orange.  I've been trying to use some of the many new stamps, dies and stencils that I've purchased recently.  This one is a triple-step turnabout set from Concord & 9th.  I used yellow and two shades of orange to create this image.  I stamped it then die cut it.  I also cut it from a coral colored cardstock and layered it behind the stamped image.  The main panel was created with a T. Holtz 3-D embossing folder.  I blended some of the lighter orange ink around the edges, lightening up in the center.  I stamped and embossed the sentiment in white and added it to the panel as well as crystals.  I sprayed it with shimmer for extra sparkle.

Happy 1st birthday Color Hues!

Recipe

Stamps:  Triple-step Autumn Leaf (C&9th)

Paper:  Recollections white, coral

Ink:  Versamark, tiara, tiki torch, tutti fruitti

Accessories:  Autumn leaf die (C&9th), Intertwine 3-D folder (T. Holtz), crystals, white embossing powder, shimmer

Color Hues #14 - Black & White

 Hi friends!  I saw that the current Color Hues challenge was a black and white challenge this time around and I had to play along!

I made a version of this same card in 2008!  I kept this stamp because I knew I'd be using it again.  I stamped the main image with Versafine onyx black ink, die cut it and mounted it on a black mat.  The vertical piece behind it was also stamped.  I used a long border wood mounted stamp and stamped it in the same ink.  It's also mounted on black cardstock.  The main panel was added with craft foam and I added pearls and shimmer spray.  This has always been my favorite Christmas card and I love the black and white.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Ornate Christmas (Inkadinkadoo); Stampers Anonymous wood mount stamp

Paper:  White, black

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Rectangle dies (Spellbinders), pearls, shimmer spray, craft foam

Color Hues Challenge #11

 Hi friends!  I'm participating in the Color Hues challenge with my card.  The colors are appropriately red and pink!

My mom is in a nursing home, and I like to make cards for the residents around the holidays.  I had just gotten The Greetery's Love Is stamp set and was playing around with it.  I liked the pink and red boxwood wreath and it was so simple to create with a MISTI.  I decided that this would be a good one to mass produce (I made 84 of them!).  It's also a one-layer card, something I'm not used to making!  I used Catherine Pooler inks and the sentiment inside the heart is from an older Verve stamp set.

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Recipe

Stamps:  Love Is (The Greetery)

Paper:  Recollections white

Ink:  rose petals, rouge (C. Pooler), Versa Claire black

Accessories:  MISTI

Just Us Girls #552 - Word Week

Hello everyone!  It's Word Week over at Just Us Girls and Sue chose LEAVES.

 

I was so happy to see this as our word for this week's challenge because I had a good reason to use this great die from Honey Bee Stamps.  I did a technique with distress oxide inks and watercolor paper that I haven't done in a while.  The only thing I did "wrong" was I did this technique on my glass media mat instead of on my non-stick mat.  When you add water to the ink on the glass mat it doesn't give you the same look (it becomes too fluid).  But it came out ok anyway.  I smooshed some green and yellow oxide inks on the mat and spritzed it with water then dragged the watercolor paper through it.  I heat set it then dabbed the paper in the ink again to get more layers.  I did this two or three more times to get the look I wanted.  I die cut the detailed layer from the watercolor paper and the base layer from green cardstock and adhered them together.  The main panel was stencil with a tiny dots stencil and yellow ink.  I really wanted this to be a birthday card (because I need them!), but I couldn't find a sentiment to fit in that space and settled on this one.  It works for me!  I finished the card by spritzing the leaves with shimmer and adding the crystals.

 

I'm entering this into the new challenge blog called Color Hues.  It's a color challenge that was created by none other than our own Just Us Girls design team member Nancy!  Check it out...it looks like it's going to be a fun challenge!

 

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our new guest for September, Lindsey, on the JUGs blog.  Welcome to JUGs for this month Lindsey!  We are so happy to have you joining us this month!

 

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Recipe

Stamps:  Strictly Sentiments (WP9)

Paper:  Recollections white, green, watercolor paper

Ink:  Versafine Claire, mustard seed and mowed lawn distress oxide

Accessories:  Monstera Leaf die (Honey Bee), stitched rectangle die (MFT), tiny dots stencil (SSS), crystals, shimmer spritz, craft foam