Color Throwdown ctd698

Hi there,

Today I'm participating in the darling Color Throwdown ctd698 challenge.  I just love strawberries and had fun with this inspiration.

Here's my take on it:

The flower dies are from Spellbinders and the Strawberries are from Amazon, I think.  I've had them a few years.  

Here's the inspiration photo:

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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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The Card Concept #174

 Today I am participating in the Card Concept #174, "How Does Your Garden Grow?"  Here is the inspiration photo.  I immediately knew when I saw this photo and color scheme that I had to make a door card with flowers.

One of my favorite stamp sets ever is Stampin' Up! At Home.  I love the door and accessories and keep coming back to them over the years.

The embossing folder is also from Stampin' Up! and the card-base is polka-dotted embossed paper from Bazzill.

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Altenew Color Combination Inspiration

 I'm back today with another card challenge.  This time, Altenew's Color Combination Inspiration Challenge, Inspired by Nature.  See the challenge here.

Here is the inspiration photo: 

I took the stripes very literally and used one of my favorite Altenew stamp sets and dies - Painted Flowers.  I love that these flowers look good in any color combinations.  

Do these colors inspire you?  I'd love for you to leave a comment.  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Color Throwdown #690

 Here's another card challenge I participated in this week.  I often use blue and gray, but realized I don't ever use mustard yellow, so it was good to try something outside of the ordinary.  Here's the inspiration photo.  I love the pillow- in fact my living room colors are blue, white and grey, so it would look great on my sofa! :). 

I had so many ideas running through my mind because of the geometric pattern on the pillow and the colors.  I'll share two of those I came up with:

Do you ever use this color scheme?  Thanks for stopping by!

MFT It's Wednesday Challenge

 

I had so much fun looking for card challenges last week that I thought I'd try some new ones this week.  Here is the sketch from the My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge #591.

I made this card using Papertrey ink stamps and dies.  I hadn't tried this shape before but it was pretty fun!

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Simon Monday Challenge

Hello again,

I'm back again so soon!  Another card challenge I decided to create for this week is Simon's Monday challenge.  In the Designer Spotlight, they used paints and inks to create their unique cards.  I decided to use watercolor for a softer, spring-y look.  The Sweet Peas are blooming in my garden right now so I was excited to pull out this stamp and try and re-create the look I've been enjoying (if only I could capture the smell!)

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Many Anemones in Yellow | The Great Cover Up Challenge

Spring Greetings!

Hope it is spring where you are (or will be very soon!). We've had spring-like weather the past month or so, even getting up in the 90's last week, but this week has been some much-needed rain, for which we're very grateful here.

I was having a bit of trouble coming up with ideas so I decided to search for some card challenges to spark my creativity.  Wish I had thought of that before!  So many ideas are popping into my mind now that I can't create fast enough.  

Today's cards are inspired by Papertrey Ink's The Great Cover-Up Challenge.  This week's challenge was to use yellow flowers.  I have to admit I don't make very many cards using yellow.  I tend to go for pinks, reds, and blues.  But I had so much fun creating yellow anemones today and I was excited to find that the beautiful tray my Dad made me for Christmas is a great backdrop for card photos.  Win-win!

Here are the two cards I made for this challenge.  I love the black/yellow combo even if it does remind me of a bumble bee.  :). 

In this one I also used some washi tape I've had around for a while and can never think how I want to use it.  I am inspired to try using more now.

Loving these sentiment strips as another way to create a quick card!

What do you think? Does this inspire you to try something yellow?  I hope so!  I'll be back soon with some more fun spring cards I've been working on.

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