MFT Color Challenge 189

 Hello! I'm back again with a card challenge, this time MFT's Color Challenge 189.  Here are the colors for this week:

These colors reminded me of summer and I had an idea for a "sunny" card.

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Color Throwdown ctd692 Card Challenge

Today I'm participating in the Color Throwdown ctd692.  The colors are purple, pink, gold and white.  

I wanted to try a full-card shaker card which I have never tried before, and I happened to have a confetti mix with butterflies in it as well as these colors.  Perfect!

My kids loved this.  Hope you do too!  Thanks for stopping by!

The Card Concept Card Challenge #

 

Today I am participating in the Card Concept challenge #175:

While I was down with Covid last week I watched some fun tutorial on shaker cards.  I haven't made any in a very long time, so it was time to try one out, and these colors are perfect because I happened to have confetti in just the right combo.  

I was inspired by the colors and the lemons- circle shapes! 

This was so fun to make and pretty simple once you create the areas for the sequins to go with foam tape.  I love the shape too- I don't make very many slimline cards but love this die with 3 circles.  My kids loved this card out of the three shakers I made.  The others will be featured soon!

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Just Us Girls #631 - Flowers

Hello again! I've been looking for more card challenges to participate in and came across "Just Us Girls" for the first time this week. 

The challenge for this week is flowers, and I had the perfect idea in mind. Last week while I was down with Covid, I watched several youtube videos on no-line watercolors. I wanted to try it with a beautiful stamp I inherited from my Grandmother that I also love to color with alcohol-ink markers. It worked well for this technique, and even though it was my first try, I was pleased with the results.

Even though I was going for a no-line look at the end, I still need practice with using fine paint brushes, so I ended up going around the image with a black marker to make a more finished look.  I also created a panel for the flower to sit on with the same colors and splattered some gold reinker as well as white gouche paint and tombow markers (I used those to paint the flower and background as well).  

Although a lot of cardmakers use regular cardstock instead of watercolor paper, I decided to use watercolor paper for this technique.  I used craft foam to pop up the flower and the background so it would be even and the watercolor paper wouldn't buckle.  This stamp didn't come with a die so I fussy-cut it.

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