Hello Sunshine!

Hello there Journey Friends!

I'm thrilled to pop in today and share a card I created for the Can You Case It? challenge this week. It's a color challenge and I just LOVED the color combo so I had to head to my stamping room and play!

I started out by creating the stamped panel. I used FSJ's new Polkadot Wall stencil. It's a large stencil that works perfectly covering larger areas. I used my finger to apply Pineapple Smoothie ink to the dots. After they were applied, I stamped the Deco Dots ATS all over the image using Butter Cream ink. Next, I applied Butter Cream ink to the solid floral in the Poppy Days set and overstamped that with the lined images using River Stone ink.  

To finish the panel off, I applied a few splatters of Silver Silk, cut the panel in half (so I could make two cards), mounted the panel onto River Stone cardstock, wrapped some Black Journey Twine around it and attached the yellow acrylic bloom (Bloom Benefit with $50.00 purchase!). I also added a circle tag from the Tag This cartridge that I punched using my punch system and then stamped it with the "hello" sentiment from the Tag Elements ATS set.  

After the stamped panels were assembled, I set them aside and started working on my background layer. I used my sewing machine to stitch some meandering lines then attached it to the Summer Days card base. I placed a slightly larger piece of silver polka-dot vellum from Vellum Designer Prints over that to tone down the stitching lines. Mounting the stamped panel was next. I elected to add some foam squares to this panel to add extra dimension.

I hope you enjoyed reading about and seeing my creation. I loved this color combo and can't wait to see what YOU create. Can YOU case it??? Give it a try! See you again soon!

Shine On...

Hello Journey friends,

Here's another version of the card from yesterday.  LOVE the American Sun stamp and it goes soooo well with the star from the January Kit of the Month!  

I added a little bit of black velvet ribbon and some black eyelash yarn from my much-neglected stash. 

This card will be out the door soon...Some Sunshine coming to a mailbox soon!!!

Shine...

Hello Journey friends,

Today I'm sharing a card that I was thinking about all the while I was making my President's Day card.  I wanted to use the beautiful flag image as sun rays- or a spotlight and was planning the design in my head the whole time I was making the other card.  

It's funny how my mind works- I can't do two things at once (chew gum and walk, drive and talk, type and listen) but somehow I can be planning a new card design while I'm making another card. I'm not really sure what that means about my creative connections in my brain I just know that I'm constantly making connections and thinking, thinking, thinking...

I used the Direct-To-Stamp inking method to ink just the stripes on the AMERICAN SUN stamp with Lemon Drop ink. I stamped it smack dab in the middle of some Whip Cream cardstock.  After that, I stamped the sentiment from the January Kit of the Month (not available in the catalog for a few more months) over those rays.    

After finishing the stamped panel, I trimmed it up and mounted it on Black Licorice cardstock.  Then mounted that panel onto Lemon Drop cardstock.  

Stamping the Star from the January Kit of the Month was next.  I used Whip Cream cardstock and Black Licorice ink again.  I cut out the star image (I would have used the star dies but I don't have them yet!) and added some Journey Glaze onto the black sripes.  While that dried, I added some black Journey Twine onto the card panel before mounting it to the Black Licorice card base.  

To finish off the card I added some Journey Sparkle Dust to the sun rays, opalescent sequins (from the Journey Sequins Blue Skies set) with some Orange Stickles.

I hope you enjoyed this project.  Tomorrow I'll be back to share another card i created using this same theme.