yellow house studio: Crafty Catz

Sunday, September 20, 2026

In the Pink

Today I was delighted to find several challenges that support each other nicely. An inspiration photo gave me the nudge to dig out my less used floral stamps and another challenge to consider my stash of designer papers.

I found a pretty paper in my stash as well as a floral stamp set I have used only once if at all by the looks of it. Not pictured is the label die (Spellbinders) which I added in the last minute. The sentiment set is an oldie but a goodie.

I cut the background paper to size. Then I stamped a blooming branch of what I suspect are apple flowers and colored it with my markers. I then fussy cut it and attached it with foam tape to give the card some dimension. Lastly I stamped the sentiment "Sending lots of love" onto the die cut tag.

Entering this in these lovely challenges:

Double D Challenge: DD9/26 Pretty in Pink

Creative Crafting Uncles: #81 Males go feminine

Everybody Art Challenge: #606 Rosa / pink

Crafty Catz: #719 AG

Love those Pretty Papers: ATG / fall florals optional. I am playing with AG

Monday, July 6, 2026

Eclipse friendship card

There is a technique I have wanted to try for a while now, but didn't quite know how to. One challenge listed YouTube videos for it which was so helpful. So today I aspired to make an eclipse card with a certain color palette, keep it clean and simple and make it a friendship card.

The supplies were gathered: an XXL stamp, oldie but goodie, a geometric die and three colors. Later I noticed that the yellow and orange were really close in value, so I added some lemon yellow which lightened the value.

I stamped and heat embossed the flower, then colored it in and cut a hexagon into the image. I had also cut another hexagon which I then placed into the hole. I put the stamped hexagon on foam strips and placed it to cover the hole. I am so glad I tried this technique - it was so much easier than I thought it would be!