Happiest of Birthdays To You

Good Morning. Today I am posting another Birthday card to add to my Birthday Card box. I chose to use CAS Colours & Sketches colour challenge for the week. I have been pushing myself out of the box with colour challenges. I tend to get anxious trying to come up with a design using different colours, but I have found it helpful to use a Colour Wheel when I'm not doing a challenge.

I chose to use the flowers from the MFT Fun Flower set, coloring them in with SU Calypso Coral and Terracotta Tile. I just stamped the leaves from SU Granny Apple Green paper since I did not have that ink. The stitched square that highlights the flowers was done using my Gel Press. I stamped my Calypso Coral straight to the pad then ran my brayer about five X's over it then pressed the paper onto it. I am happy with the color and smoothness it produced. I haven't used this technique much but will be experimenting more. Using a SU embossing folder after assembling the flowers I put it on my card base. 

That is it for today. We have another beautiful sunny day, but only in the high 40's. 

I'm so ready for Spring weather to show up!

Stay Safe and Well

Blessings, Bernadette

CC&S Color Challenge #386 Hello

Happy September! Today I am sharing a card for the new color challenge for September 1st. at Case Colour and Sketches #386. It was love at first sight with the team's selection of colors. I'm definitely a Green Girl, especially Mossy Meadow.

Supplies used:

SU Old Olive, Gray Granite, and Mossy Meadow
MFT Mistletoe Cover Up Die-namic
MFT  Well, Hello
MFT Sweet Hello Die-namics
MFT Skinny Strips Die-namics
SU  White Mini Dimensionals
SU Embellishments (ret.)

I encourage you to stop by Case Colours and Sketches Blog and the wonderful cards that the other Team Members created for this challenge!

Blessings, Bernie Bee

You are my sunshine

I'm finishing up my day today with a card I will be posting over on  CAS(E) this Sketch blog.

This was another clean and simple card to put together. They always are when I can choose my die cuts and sentiments beforehand. I used two Die-namics by MFT, Sunny Skies, and Stitched Clouds, plus Stitched Rectangle Die-namics. I used SU's Seaside Spray and  So Saffron as my main colors and completed them with a sentiment from Gina K. All About You.

That's about it for today. Making dinner should be my next priority, although I rather keep creating!

Have a blessed and safe evening. 

Blessings, Bernie B

Tropical Chic Birthday

I'm posting a birthday card today to link to Julee Tillman's MOJO Mondays Sketch #507. I  love her sketches and am so happy she is back posting and challenging us to play along.

I am using SU's  Tropical Chic stamp set with the Tropical Thinlet Dies. Although I love this set, I've used it very little. I blowed off  the dust and used it today. Since I have it out, I think I'll make several more cards with it.

 All the papers are by SU including the patterned paper, Tropical Escape, which coordinates with the stamp set. The accent colors are Berry Burst and Granny Apple Green. The stitched layer is by MFT and the stitched circle is by SU. The Happy Birthday is an older Taylored Expressions set, Whimsical Wishes. This card has lots of layers and lots of dimension, so I plan on hand delivering it since postage is going up in a few weeks.

*When I looked at this picuter after I posted it, the closest panel looks a little off, but it's not. I guess the wonky lines on the panel behind is causing it to look like that.* Now it's driving me a little crazy!

Have a wonderful evening and I hope you can do something you LOVE!

Blessings,
Bernadette

JOY to the World

Well I'm almost there. I think this is the first Christmas that I will have my handmade cards ready to mail by December 10th.! I'm not sure why I always put this off every year OR maybe I do. I tend to be a bit of a procrastinator and get bored making mass produced cards, but this time I just plugged along and did it. Of course, I still have to assemble them and signed, but I plan on doing this today and tomorrow. Then addressed and brought to the USPO Monday morning.

Here is my needed to be assembled pile. I'll post a picture of the design I used when I have them completed. I hope you are further along then I am, but if not, I encourage you to just keep plugging along. It's been well worth it...

 Have a wonderful weekend and go do something you LOVE especially if it's your Christmas cards!

LIVE SIMPLY

BERNADETTE

Sending You Lots of...

Tonight I had all good intentions of cleaning up my craft area. I started putting things away and my eyes fell upon a small pile of cut up birds.  My thought was I'll just put those away and use them for another day, but then remembered the challenge over at MFT's blog, Clean and Simple.

I don't have many"light bulb"moments when I'm creating a card, but certainly had this time. Also, clean and simple are down right hard for me to achieve. I had a card base sitting on my desk, the Birds of a Feather birds, the ink and the MFT "Filled With Joy" stamps. The little X and O die was in my cart, so off I went into creating mode and this is what I created. I'm really pleased with it and probably will add 3 more to my stash with the same layout and possibly colors.

I really need a better light source when I take evening photos.

I'll be headed over to the challenge over at MFT as soon as I get this posted. Have a great evening and thanks for stopping by.

Live Simply,

Bernadette