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Wawa Art Wednesday a little late!

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 Somehow I forgot my Word Art Wednesday post!!  Here is my card made from Karen Murray's beautiful W ord Art! I hope you are all having a wonderful day!! Ginny M

A sweet birthday Release and paper piecing, using digitals.

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I have several sweet cards to share with you today!  As many of you know I very rarely do cute or sweet cards and when my DT assignment for Graciellie Designs came up for this card I kinda was stumped. But you know, after looking at it and thinking about the image of the sweet little girl I really started to love it! This stamp set is the first hand-lettered stamp set, and it is a sneak peek of Gracie's  birthday celebration blog hop with a  completely new release coming on May 1st. I love the hand lettered Sentiment.   One of my favorite looks and something I can not do - so convenient to have a digital form I can use on many types of art! I fussy cut and paper pieced this image.  you know all those yummy packs of designer paper you have, already color coordinated and just waiting to be used? printing and fussy cutting allow these types of card to work up fast.  This paper is from a G45 stack in my stash  Using Best Glue Ever  holds it all together, ev

Vibrant Birthday Card and coloring tips

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I needed a birthday card this week and I wanted to practice using my reds in alcohol marker.  Reds can be tricky to use and don't work well with removing color with blender pen. Here is the card and read on for coloring details!    My first thought was to use a poppy so I picked this pretty  Graciellie Design  set for the poppies: and this set for the sentiment: I printed on my standby: Heavenly white #80 and used #120 for the base I swatched out my colors for the blossoms using several brands - I liked the Spectrum the best, but they all worked fine together- Honestly I just don't see that much difference between brands: with this picture, you can see what happens when you work with blending pen and reds - yuk. To get around this, I used a base layer of a light red/peachy color, worked in lots of red shades and then went back in with the light color, this did give me some of the  highlights  I was looking for - but not 100% sa

Robins Quilt Block and a fun freebie!

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My sister Robin is a master quilter, what she can do with needle and thread and with the speed she does it, is simply amazing!  Robin posted a picture of one of her quilt blocks on Facebook and of course, it went into my feed, and I thought wow,  I'd love to make her a card with the photo of the block!  So I grabbed a copy and "digitized" it. Isn't this pretty? working the scale on my Publisher program  For my printing paper I used 80# White Diamond by Paper Temptress .  I choose this paper because it has a pearly luster similar to polished cotton and I know it will grab the ink and hold it with a perfect crispness - no ink bleeding! Right now space in my craft room is at an all time premium and I have only one sewing machine available, thankfully is such a wonderful sewer and looks great too!  My vintage Singe 301A long bed, it is in almost mint condition and it  sews perfectly, a great quilting machine too! I did a few test sti

Reverse Coloring and Blog Hop!

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Welcome to the Mid Month blog and inspiration hop for Graciellie Designs and special Sponsor Wescott products!  For the inspiration blog hop there will be a special prize:    Westcott is going to be sponsoring a prize for this inspiration blog hop!. Two pairs of precision scissors to one lucky winner !   Just leave a comment on every stop of the hop! Graciellie Design Barbara  Arjita Gayatri  Ginny ( you are here) Maria  Agnieszka  Shyla Shree Larissa April Guest Designer: Pamela Duncan   Reverse coloring sounds a little catchy, I may have invented the term which is good if you all like doing it and if you don't I'll just deny authorship!!   For this card, I needed to make a wedding card for a couple I don't really know, we all send those, the child of a friend of a friends' cousin.  So I wanted it to be pretty and a blessing without pretending to be their best friend!  I know the Bride likes to garden so I thought this set from Graci

Word Art Wednesday and two freebies!

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Happy Wednesday everyone!  It is time for a fresh Word Art Wednesday challenge! Today's verse is perfect for your last minute Easter Cards!  Click over to the blog for lots of lovely inspiration from Karen L's devotion and Karen M's beautiful bible verse! Here is the verse: My card today: For the process, and the extra freebie, keep reading! This is actually much simpler than it looks!  Freebie frame image: My color selections for coloring the frame Using Spectrum Noir pens on Heavenly White # 80 for printing and #120 for base  Paper selections  I color then fussy cut The added dimension on foam tape adds a little more "pop".  I also added Diamond Stickles to the frame A tip on coloring.  When you color first and then fussy cut, you don't have to worry about being so perfectly precise, if you go over the line, you will only cut it off, and it makes "touch ups" less frequent! if you look closely, yo

Happy Monday - Sketch Challenge

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My Sketch challenge for this Monday on my Facebook group  Christian Card Makers is a clean and simple design.  Really I need to make myself make a CAS cards, Here is the card: I love the way they look but it seems I have a tendency to have a lot of color and patterns in my cards. Here is the sketch,  It is very simple: I made this card to send to a sweet couple in our church that got engaged yesterday! I used  the Fuschia from this Graciellie Design set:  Printing on watercolor paper 130# and the Love verse from this set: I printed two images, I wanted to do this with a little dimension and I also wanted to have a backup in case I didn't like how the distress pens came out! As it turned out I did like how the TH pens worked on the water color paper.  I colored the base layer first and added a little glitter to the stamen of the flowers. Here is the finished card I finished the flowers with a little 'Golden&