Happy Jewish New Year and STAMPlorations CAS Card Design Team

I am not sure if I have any followers left since I haven't blogged in the last 6 months. My attention has been diverted from stamping and making cards for many reasons that I won't go into here. I am excited to get back into the stamping/blogging world though and I have Shery Russ to thank for that - I have been accepted to the STAMPlorations CAS Card Design Team starting this month so watch this space for the October challenge starting on October 5th.

I did create some Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) cards to raffle off at my temple's Labor Day BBQ fundraiser in August so I will leave you with photos of them:

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Color Throwdown #400!

I am delighted to be the guest stamper over at the Color Throwdown blog. It is their 400th challenge too! Check out the challenge HERE.

My card is a case of a card created by Lin at Heart Hugs and Flowers blog.  The flowers and leaves die cuts are from Essentials by Ellen Big Blossoms set. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp (SSS) and the patterned paper and colored card stock are from PaperTrey. The enamel dots are from My Minds Eye. The top panel was cut with SSS Stitched Rectangle die.

Thanks to the CTD design team for the guest stamper opportunity!

Share the Love

I am participating in the Share the Love Challenge Week with Winnie & Walter and Essentials by Ellen. This card is for Day 1 - Florals:

I stamped the Essentials by Ellen Mondo Hydrangea with Versafine Onyx Black onto watercolor paper and water colored the flowers with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and an aquabrush. I used the companion dies for the flowers and leaves. I also stamped some of the small parts of the flower and die cut those out a well. I adhered the little flowers with glue dots and curled up the petals for extra dimension. I also added some rhinestones to the middle of each flower. The sentiment is from Winnie & Walter - the "happy" is a die cut and the "anniversary" is stamped. I cut out the white panel with SSS Stitched Rectangle die and the purple mat with a die from WPlus9.

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Oh Happy Day!

The color challenge at SCS today was gold and vanilla with a dessert option of butterflies. The patterned paper is from PaperTrey, the sentiment is from Essentials by Ellen and the gold embossed butterflies are Hero Arts - they are embossed onto vellum and fussy cut.

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It's Your Day

I wanted to play along with the Mix It Up Challenge on Ellen Hutson's The Classroom blog.  The challenge is to use products from Essentials by Ellen and from Avery Elle.  The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Avery Elle and the rest of the stamped images are from Essentials by Ellen.  I used the colors from the SCS color challenge for this week.

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ATCAS #62 Oh Happy Day!

It's time for a new challenge at Addicted To CAS.  Our hostess is Barb and she chose the Code Word(s) Black, White and Gold.  This color combination is so on trend!

Our sponsor for this challenge is:

Our guest designer again is Pia.

Please go to the ATCAS challenge blog to check out the sponsor prize and to get more inspiration from Pia's creation as well as the creations by the rest of the DT.  You won't be disappointed!

I really love the gold trend and I had some patterned papers by PaperTrey that were gold and white and I have some washi paper by Life Style Crafts in black and white.  I used the Essentials by Ellen Bold Blooms dies to cut the flower and leaves out of gold glitter paper and then black card stock to give some dimension.  The sentiment was stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and sequins were added for a little embellishment.  The tilted panels were cut with PaperTrey's TippedTops dies.

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Oh Happy Day!

I finally found some time to play with the second Essentials by Ellen challenge called Pin Sights Challenge:

I really love the gold trend and I had some patterned papers by PaperTrey that were gold and white and I have some washi paper by Life Style Crafts in black and white.  I used the Essentials by Ellen Bold Blooms dies to cut the flower and leaves out of gold glitter paper and then black card stock to give some dimension.  The sentiment was stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and sequins were added for a little embellishment.  The tilted panels were cut with PaperTrey's TippedTops dies.

I am submitting this to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

I am also submitting this to Darnell's NBUS challenge - The flower and leaf dies have never been used (they're kind of new) and the PaperTrey patterned papers are new.

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Stretch Your Dies - Day 1 Homework 1

I started another Online Card Class yesterday and I wasn't able to get to the homework until today.  Here is my card based on Julie Ebersole's fold and tuck lesson.

The top of this trifold card is held down by the partially die cut word HUGS from PaperTrey.
The flowers and leaves are from Essentials by Ellen (designed by Julie) and the sentiment is from PaperTrey Swoosh stamp set.  I used Hero Arts Shadow Inks.

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One Layer Celebrate!

The Less Is More challenge is to create a one layer card and to include an animal.  The SCS technique challenge was to create a mirrored image.  The bunny on the right is the Avery Elle image as designed and the one on the left is the mirrored image.  I inked up the bunny image and stamped it onto the back of a larger acrylic stamp, then stamped that image onto the card stock. I did use a fine tip black marker to darken some of the lines of the mirrored image.  The image was colored with Copic markers.  The sentiment is from Essentials by Ellen.  I colored the balloon with my clear Wink of Stella glitter brush pen.
I am also submitting this to the AAA card challenge:

and to Simply Create Too:  Easter or Bunnies

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Oh Happy Day - Take 2

I wasn't thrilled with the first card I created (see this blog post) so I created this card for all of the same challenges.  I started by trying to recreate the first card since I wasn't happy with the embossing. But this time I couldn't really see where some of the stamping with Versamark was and the sentiment ran into the flowers.  What to do?  Cut out the flowers - I like this design better than the first!  I wanted the dry embossing on the card so I ended up stamping the sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black and cutting it out.  I added Pretty Pink Posh sequins to embellish.

This will be submitted to:
Essentials By Ellen Mix It Up Challenge: I used Hero Arts Shadow ink and white detailed embossing powder

Virginia's View Challenge - All Things Embossed

Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge - Sponging:

Colour Me Card Challenge - Monochromatic Orange:

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Essentials By Ellen Meets Hero Arts and a few other challenges!

There is a new challenge in blogland! Laurel Beard, a designer for Essentials by Ellen wrote the following on The Classroom blog:
It’s a challenge where we invite one manufacturer to contribute a design that combines Essentials by Ellen stamps/dies with their product to inspire our readers!
For the first challenge Jennifer McGuire was invited to play and to represent Hero Arts.

This is the first card I made for the challenge.  I used Hero Arts Shadow Inks and white detailed embossing powder.  The flowers and sentiment are from Essentials by Ellen's Bold Blooms set.  I think I need a new Versamark pad - my embossing didn't come out very well.
I am submitting this to the Colour Me Card Challenge - Monochromatic using orange:

to Virginia's View - All Things Embossed:

to Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge - Sponging:

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