Challenge #35: Red/White/Blue

Happy Monday everyone. Melanie, here with a brand new challenge for you, Red/White/Blue. Thank you for all the wonderful entries for our Vibrant colors challenge.

I have to say I really enjoyed creating this card, Balloon Gilli was so much fun to color with Copics.

For her dress I used R20/R00/R0000, my favorite colors to use. I know it looks more pink than red, I just didn't want to take away the red from the balloons. For my mat I glued them together, then embossed the sides with Sizzix Tim Holtz Americana Background and Border embossing set. I also used some cherry blossoms and Sizzix Branches Leaves and Flower die. The background paper is by We R Memory Keepers.

Please post your creation below the posts, using Inlinkz.

Summer Colors

Hi, Everyone !

I'm Yone and here's my card for the Summer/Vibrant Colors

Challenge here at House of GILLI,

 hope you enjoy and have fun participating

on this challenge !

The sunflower DP and Prima Flowers

gave the final touch for this Sunny card 

with my Shopping GILLI ! :))

You can have more details about my card

at my BLOG !

Hugs,Yone

Vibrant Colors

Happy Thursday everyone. I am so lovin' all the wonderful entries we have for this challenge, hope to see more :)

I have to say, this is my first time coloring Painter Gilli and isn't she pretty in yellow. LOL, I used all the colors of the rainbow and then some, but hopefully it looks OK.

I used a couple of Spellbinders dies but also a new favorite, Poppy dies (Gentle Leaf). I love Cherry Blossoms and how well the colors go with this challenge.

Hope you will join in, you still have a few more days to join in.

Bright Gilli

Hello Everyone,
Jo here, sorry I am bit behind this morning putting this up. I sure hope you will join us for our challenge this time around. The theme is Vibrant Colors/Summer. Those two go hand in hand.
I have used Gilli Florist for my card today. She is out picking those summer flowers to make a special arrangement.
I have colored her with my Copics and added stickles to her shirt for texture.


As always we love to see Gilli stamps but you are welcome to use others. Please make sure you link your work in the Inlinkz (at the very bottom of the page) to be eligible for the prize.

Let's Go Swimming

     Who doesn't love summer, and what fun to design a card around the wonderful colors of summer!

    To celebrate the season  I've inked up Bloomer Gilli and colored her with Copics.  I'd wear her cute outfit to the beach or anywhere.  Maybe later I'll list the Copics I used to color Gilli; right now it's really late, and I used a lot so it'd take a while to do this.   Kind of embarrassing I use so many.  :-S

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     *Do what you Love & Do it often* ~ that's what my card says and a good rule to follow for summer or any time of year.  This is a super easy and fun challenge; looking forward to seeing lots of cards!  Thanks for stopping by, Ann

Vibrant Colors/Summer Challenge

Hello Friends,

Vivi here and I bring new challenge over here at House of Gilli Challenge Blog today and I’m hosting this one!!!! Wooho!!

but before that I want to thank you all that joined us on the die cut/punch challenge with you beautiful entries!!!

So,  Are you ready to know this fortnight theme!??!?!

Ok, here goes:  Vibrant Colors/Summer

And here is my card for this challenge:

I picked the gorgeous Lady Gilli  for my card.  Please, stop my over my blog to see the others materials that I used on this card if you like.

I hope you like my card, specially like the theme and come on over to play with us!

Have a lovely day!!

xoxo

Vivi 

Die Cut and Punches !!

Hi, Everyone !

I'm Yone and I'm sorry to be a bit late to post my Punches and Dies Challenge ! 

Here's my card and hope you like it !

I've chosen Girly 2 GILLI Stamp and Love Sentiment Stamp and colored 

with Copic Markers.

Added some Nestabilities Dies cut on the Grand Calibur as frame

and a small heart, flowers and punched leaves as embellishments.

The fence was cut on the Silhouette Cameo Machine.

See more details on my BLOG !

Hugs, Yone

Die Cut/Punches Challenge

Happy Thursday everyone. Now, my card today is something completely different for me, so I hope you like it. The papers I used are a bit busy, but they go so well with the Gilli I chose.

What ya think? Busy right lol. I wanted to use Chef Gilli along with the Best Creations/Candy Shop papers, because she is the candy chef hehe. How yummy is this paper.

I used a Memory Box die - Grand Heart for my love of candy lol and Martha Stewart punch - Optic Dot. I left off embellishments because I felt that the DP's had it all.

You still have a couple of days to join in on our challenge. Please make sure to stop by every few days to check out the wonderful inspiration from the DT.

Florist Gilli!

Hello Friends,

Vivi here and I bring my card for the punch and dies challenge!!

This is one of my fave themes for a challenge!!  love to use punches and dies so I combined both on my card!

Here goes:

On my card I used florist Gilli from Gilli Stamps  and colored her with copic markers R35, R32, R30, R20 E37, E35, E33, E53, E01, E00, B14, B12, B00, C3, C1.

Others materials used on my card:

Spellbinders: classic oval and beaded oval.
Punches: flower = EK Sucess  = doily petals
                    leaves:  woodware leaf embosser and punch
stash: rhinestones and ribbon
cardstock: Prima Flowers -  romantique

I hope you like it and come on over to play with you!

Have a great day!!

xoxo

Vivi

Die Cut/Punches Challenge

Happy Saturday everyone. Please welcome our Guest Designer for this month Darlene Lyons.

Hi!  My name is Darlene Lyons and I live in Ayr, Ontario.  I am a SAHM blessed with two beautiful girls Abigail and Hailey and a wonderful supportive husband Todd, who gets the addict I've become since being introduced to scrapbooking five years ago.  After having my girls, I needed some "me time" so I dabbled in all types of papercrafting, and loved spending time with others who share the same passion for it.  After spending more time at the table than my girls colouring, I needed to find an adult excuse to colour, which I found in Copics!!  The only thing I like more than creating is buying the things "I need" to create!  lol  With the encouragement of some close friends, I started a blog at the end of this past year and haven't looked back once.

I am thrilled to be a Guest Designer for House of Gilli and look forward to inspiring you, and being inspired by you, to create wonderful pieces of work!

She used Shopper Gilli and isn't she colored beautifully and such wonderful colors.

You still have time to enter our Die Cut/Punches challenge, please post your creation below with inlinkz.

Also please leave Darlene some love on her gorgeous creation.

Party with Lollipop Gilli

Keep those gorgeous cards coming!  Lollipop Gilli makes me feel like going to a candy shop...or a party....or filling some jars in my house with lots of colorful candy.

I used a Martha Stewart punch on my card and my die cuts are circles.  Gilli was colored with copics, and the card and myself got coated with lots of Diamond Dust.  Pull out those punches and die cuts and join in the challenge.  :)  Thanks so much for stopping by,  Ann    :)

Framed Dancer

Hello Everyone,

Jo here today as your hostess for our new challenge this time around at The House of Gilli.

The theme this time is die cuts/punches.

I love my die cuts. While I don’t own as many as some I do have a few.

On my card of have used Lifestyles square dies and Spellbinder oval as well as Cherry Lynn for the butterflies.

I have used Girly Gilli II.  I changed her up a bit. I have added leggings and long sleeves. I wanted to give her more the look of a dancer.

anAry makes her stamps so that you can do things like that.

She is colored with Copics. A little stickles to her dress to give it a shiny sheer overlay look.

My papers of from my scrap stash so I am unsure of the names of them. Sorry about that.

We would love to see your take on the Die cuts/Punches challenge. As always you can use any image but if you have a Gilli we would love to see it.

I hope you will join us for the challenge this round. So dust off those dies and punches and join in.

Please remember you need to link your card in the Inlinks at the bottom of the page in order to be eligible for a prize.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Embossing Card

Hi, Everyone !

I'm Yone and today is my turn to show an Embossing Card

for the Challenge here at the House of GILLI !

 I've chosen the Rockability GILLI Stamp for a Birthday card

that I sent to a friend of mine !

The party theme was Italy, that's why she's dressed in Green, Red and White.

Hope you like and participate !

Hugs, Yone

Embossing

Happy Thursday everyone. Hope you will stop by and join in on our Embossing challenge, I see some really wonderful entries and hope to see more :)

For today's card I used one of my favorite Gilli's (well they are all my favs lol) Cowgirl Gilli, isn't she just a cutie. Shhh don't let my hubby know that I told you this but so far this is one of his favs that I have created so far lol.

I got a little carried away on my embossing hehe, I dry embossed my DP with stars and my mat with dots, even my die cuts are embossed lol,

Please check out the DT creations, they always have something just wonderful for inspiration.

Have a wonderful day.

Embossing Gilli's House

Today it's my turn to play along with our current challenge- Embossing! I still had Gilli's house on my craft table from the last challenge (that tells you the state of my craft room hee hee) and I got this sweet and simple card idea as soon as I picked it up!

I tried this card idea on a A2 size card (4.25x5.50) but it didn't work at all. Something seemed off and I realized that with the shape of Gilli's house she needed a square card- with rounded corners obviously ;). It worked perfectly!

When using embossing powder it is important to prime your paper first so that you don't have a million little bits of  your embossing powder everywhere to take away from the clean look of the card. I used a little pouch called an embossing buddy and wiped it all over my card. Be warned if you are using coloured cardstock it can leave a white powdery film on your paper so use a gentle touch. This eliminates the static of the paper and releases the embossing powder except where you want it to stay. For my ink I prefer to use Versamark watermark ink in clear. I ink up my stamp and firmly press it to the paper. I then use some detail embossing powder and pour it over my paper. Don't worry about how much you use as you can pour almost all of it back into your container. When you pick up your card the powder should only stay where you have put the ink. I give a light tap to my paper to further release any random bits that may be trying to sneak onto my card. You take your embossing gun to heat the powder and then watch the magic happen! All these years and I still enjoy watching that powder melt lol!

I added a sentiment as this card is intended for someone moving into their new home- it certainly would be a special day! I added a touch of ribbon and then whimsy hit me and I cut out some cloud shapes. I ran it through my Xyron sticker maker to add adhesive then I added white fluff and glitter to my clouds to make it pop out from the white card base. 

I hope you are having fun with our embossing challenge- I sure did!

Cheers- Andrea

Renaissance Gilli!

Hello Gilli Girls,
Vivi here and I bring a card for you today for the embossing challenge.
This is my first time playing with Renaissance Gilli stamp.. Could not believe, I have this stamp for such a long time and had never inked it up.
Take a look:

For the embossing challenge, I have embossed gilli and sentiment images.
Take a closer look at the embossed image and sentiment:

I inked gilli image with versamark and then embossed with black embossing powder..  I really liked the effect as Gilli looks shining. Sentiment is from Stamping Scrapping Designs. this stamp matches perfectly with spellbinders which I used to cut the heart shape. I placed my Gilli on the cardstock cut with nesties.  I colored the gilli image using copic markers.
Pearl chain, flower, cardstock and ribbon are from my stash.
I hope you like my card and come on over to play with us
Many Thanks for stopping by!
xoxo
Vivi

Embossing

Happy Saturday everyone. Please welcome our Guest Designer for this month Darlene Lyons.

Hi!  My name is Darlene Lyons and I live in Ayr, Ontario.  I am a SAHM blessed with two beautiful girls Abigail and Hailey and a wonderful supportive husband Todd, who gets the addict I've become since being introduced to scrapbooking five years ago.  After having my girls, I needed some "me time" so I dabbled in all types of papercrafting, and loved spending time with others who share the same passion for it.  After spending more time at the table than my girls colouring, I needed to find an adult excuse to colour, which I found in Copics!!  The only thing I like more than creating is buying the things "I need" to create!  lol  With the encouragement of some close friends, I started a blog at the end of this past year and haven't looked back once.

I am thrilled to be a Guest Designer for House of Gilli and look forward to inspiring you, and being inspired by you, to create wonderful pieces of work!

 

She used Strolling Gilli and isn't she colored beautifully. 

You still have time to enter our Emboss challenge, please post your creation below with inlinkz.

Also please leave Darlene some love on her gorgeous creation.

A Little Embossing

Welcome Gilli Fans,

Jo here with my card for the challenge this time around. As you know our theme is Embossing. This could be embossing with your heat tool and embossing powders or it could be dry embossing maybe your cuttlebug and folders or even embossing a brass stencil.  I have to confess I don’t do much embossing. It’s not because I don’t have the supplies or can’t do it, I just don’t do it. So this was a good challenge for me to break out some of my supplies and go for it.

This is Gilli Painter. I love her outfit. She is just splashing design all over.  I have embossed some leaves on the DP itself with a violet pearl embossing powder. The verse is also embossed . 

                                 

I broke out my little air brush set from Copic and air brush the ribbon with the same color family I used for Gilli.

I hope that you will break out what ever means you have for embossing and show us what you create. Thanks for stopping by today. Don’t forget to enter your card into Inlinkz to be eligible for the prize. It’s located at the bottom of the page.

Challenge 32 ~ Emboss

     We loved your beautiful sparkle and ribbon cards for our last challenge, and this time our challenge is to emboss.  You may use any type of embossing on your card or project and as much or little embossing as you like.  

     I've chosen to emboss my sentiment on my card, and it only took me a few hours to come to this decision.  :)   My image is Gilli Duty and I picture her all set to go out and do some gardening or walk the dog.  I colored Gilli with Copics, but the stamp has lots of nice clean space to paper piece or use whatever type of coloring you love.  

     So get out your embossing tools and enter your creation in our challenge, and you could be the winner of a Gilli goodie!!!  ....Once you have one Gilli stamp, you most certainly will want more!!!  Have fun and thanks for stopping by.  Ann  :)

Ribbon and Sparkle Recycled Box

Hi, Everyone !

I'm Yone and today is my turn to show a 

Ribbon & Sparkle project for the current challenge

 here at the House of GILLI !

Instead of making a card, I decided for 

a recycled box for my gift cards that will be sold in a shop 

for the Mother's Day on the 2nd Sunday of May here in Brazil.

The picture is not so good, but I put some glitter on her dress

and the ribbon and the flower has got some "sparkle"!

Hope you enjoy my idea and participate on this challenge !

 

Hugs, Yone