My Favorite Things Color Challenge #195

 Hi There,

I'm back today with a fun color challenge from My Favorite Things.

Here's my take on the challenge.  I used Waffle Flowers stamps for the butterflies and Honey Bee Stamps for the sentiment.

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MFT Color Challenge 194

 Hi there,

I'm back today with a fun color challenge from MFT.  

 I loved these colors and had an idea for fun florals and a shaker card.  

The stamps are spring peonies from Honey Bee stamps.  The jar is a shaker die from Alinacutle.

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It's Wednesday Blitzday! MFT Challenge Sketch 601

 

Hi there, 

I'm back today with a sketch challenge from My Favorite Things.

I decided to make a birthday card and turned the sketch sideways.  I cut the letters with my Silhouette Portrait and used various masculine-looking patterned papers from over the years.

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Time Out Challenges - Be Kind

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Hope your summer is going well so far.  We had a lovely trip to visit family and friends but it's good to be home and to get back to cardmaking.  Today I am participating in the Time Out Challenge- Be Kind

I remembered a stamp set from Stampin' Up! with a phrase about kindness in it, so I built the card around that.  The other stamps are Honey Bee Spring Peony set.  I had some lovely metallic pink paper from Amazon that I used for the background.  

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more card challenges...

 Hi again!

I'm back today with a card that I made for a few different challenges:

For the colors, I used this inspiration from the Card Concept #178

For the theme, time out challenges #216

 Alphabet challenge blog's Friendship theme

and for the layout, MFT Wednesday Sketch 599

The stamps/dies are from Papertrey ink and Amazon.

Hope you're enjoying your summer! Thanks for stopping by!

Color Throwdown ctd698

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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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