End of Term Blog Hop at House of Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

It's the 1st of December (yikes!) so that means it's time for the end of term blog hop at House of Cards, and here's the inspiration image...

Here's my first card using the wonderful Heck the Halls digi stamp set from sponsor MHKDesigns

I colored the image with Spectrum Noir markers, and added the bling and burlap from the inspiration image.

Challenges...
AG at TTCRD
AG at Pixie's Snippets Playground (burlap)
AG at Polkadoodles

And my second card using Christmas Tree (1) from sponsor Digistamps4Joy

I subbed the wood paneling from the image for brick, and inadvertently rotated it, imitated the colors, then added a burlap thread before adding the image.

Our other sponsors are... Imagine That Digistamp and Beccy's Place

Now, please do hop along with us

House of Cards Challenge Blog

Mynn | Judy |  Chanya13 | Cohenna 
Donna | Em (you are here) | Heather | Jane

Karen | Katarina | Merethe

Michele | Rocky | Rosi 

Shawna | Shirley | Sue N. | Susan 

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Lots of Layers and or Colors with HOC Team 3

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

House of Cards Design Team 3 are sharing our creations with you today for our current challenge. This month it's lots of layers and or colors with this inspiration...

Here's a reminder of my card...

Full details can be found in my original post here.

I'd love you to take a look at what my teamies have got for you...

Michele

Heather

Ruza

Steph

Susan

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Lots of Layers and/or Colors for House of Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

It's the 1st of the month and that means it's time for a new challenge at House of Cards. Use lots of layers and/ or colors from the inspiration image...

Here's my card...

As you can see, I've used the colors and the brick wall from the image as my inspiration.  Can you guess how many layers there are in the card?  Let's see...
Card base, dimensionals (3), brick wall, tree blossom (2 ~ 1 behind the trunk), tree trunk, pearls, doves.  SO... there are 10 layers!  7 if you don't count the dimensionals.  Yep, I think I hit the brief!  Grin.

Card: Early Espresso, Smoky Slate, Blushing Bride, Crumb Cake and scraps of Shimmery White
Ink: Tip Top Taupe Stampin' Write marker (cement and eyes), Flirty Flamingo and Early Espresso
Stamp sets: Thoughtful Branches
Tools and embellishments: Thoughtful Branches Thinlits and Brick Wall TIEF
Adhesives: Stampin' Dimensionals and Tombow

Challenges...
#253 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground
#159 Fight Like a Girl at CAS-ual Fridays
#336 AAG at Craft your passion

I'll be back on Friday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

HOC Team 2

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Team 2 are sharing their creations with you today for our current challenge!

Use Embossing and/or Colors.

Here's a reminder of my card...

I'd love you to take a peek at what my Team 2 teamies have got for you...

Rocky

Ruza

Katy

Merethe

Tina

Shirley

I'll be back later this week, so hope to see you then

Embossing and/or Colors for House of Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know! Happy New Year!

I'm incredibly honored to have been asked to continue on the design team at House of Cards for another 6 month term! Our theme this month would normally be appropriate for the winter, but this one has been unusually warm with not a snowflake in sight!

There are two choices this month, to use embossing and/ or the color palette below...

However, immediately I saw the image it screamed at me to use my as yet never before used (NBUS) window die from Stampin' Up! SOOO I'm not only using embossing and the colors, but I've also pretty much CASE'd the image too...

Card: Whisper White, Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow and Vellum
Ink: Soft Sky (curtain detail)
Stamp set: Happy Scenes (I used the snow stamp for the curtain detail)
Tools: Brick Wall TIEF, Hearth and Home Thinlits, Deco Labels Framelits, Bird Builder Punch
Adhesive: Tombow and Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...
January Linky at DL.ART
#156 AG at 613 Avenue Create
#208/209 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground

Please take a look at what my other amazing teamies have created. We're welcoming some wonderful new members to the team and they are indicated with an *, so please do leave them some love!

Cohenna | Donna | Dotty Jo | Em | Emily | Heather

Jane | Judy | Karen | Katarzyna Ewa * | Katy | Leslie* | Linda

Merethe | Merlina* | Michele | Paula* | Rocky | Rosi | Ruza

Shawna | Shirley* | Steph | Sue N. | Sue T. | Susan* | Tina* | Toni

I'll be back soon with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

"Graffiti" Butterfly with Me = Grateful

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

It's been quite a while since I created a square card and I thought it was time to put that right! My base card is cut to 5" and the new Brick Wall TIEF from Stampin' Up! is perfect for the job because it's 6" x 6" and stamping over the embossed surface gives a graffiti look to the sentiment from Me = Grateful...

Card: Whisper White and So Saffron
Ink: Delightful Dijon
Stamp set: Me = Grateful
Tools and embellishments: Brick Wall TIEF, Butterfly Framelits and Basic Pearls
Adhesives: Tombow and Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...

#142 Pretty Patterns at CAS-ual Fridays (I hope the brick EF qualifies)
#197 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#190 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground (large snippet for the butterfly)

I'll be back on Friday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Thank You For Seeing Me Through...

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The card I'm sharing with you today is another that has been created with the Me = Grateful stamp set from Stampin' Up! This time I've teamed it with the all new, amazing Brick Wall TIEF and the extremely versatile stamp set, Sprinkles of Life.

The card is dedicated to each and every one of my Stampin' Sisters for all their support over the last 12 months. Each of them and indeed each of you, my readers and friends, have seen me through some dark days and have definitely brightened the rest...

Card: Whisper White and Crumb Cake
Ink: Crumb Cake, Watermelon Wonder, Cucumber Crush
Markers: Tip Top Taupe, Watermelon Wonder and Cucumber Crush Stampin' Write (from 2015-2017 In Color pack
Stamp sets: Me = Grateful and Sprinkles of Life
Tools: Brick Wall TIEF, Stamping Sponges and Craft Knife
Adhesive: Stampin' Dimensionals

I started by embossing the Whisper White card with the Brick Wall TIEF, then using the writing nib of the Tip Top Taupe Stampin' Write marker doodled in the mortar between the bricks, before sponging with Crumb Cake ink.

Using a craft knife, carefully cut away enough bricks for the first part of the sentiment, and stamp the second onto the wall using Watermelon Wonder ink.

Stamp the stems in Cucumber Crush ink and color in the leaves with the matching Stampin' Write marker. Add the flowers in the same way with Watermelon Wonder ink and marker.

Lay the wall panel over the folded Crumb Cake card base and carefully stamp the sentiment in Watermelon Wonder ink through the aperture. Attach the panel to the base with Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...
#194 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#30 AG at Crafty Gals Corner
#88 AAG at Creative Fingers
AG at TTCRD

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a GREAT one! I'll be back tomorrow with my latest DT creation for House of Cards, so I hope you'll join me then.

Hugs,
Em