Fusion Card Challenge

 

Hello everyone! Hope you are having a great week! If you have some free time, we'd love to have you play along with us at Fusion Card Challenge. I used both the sketch and the thanks theme from the photo. It was a very simple design and I started by adhering 3 die cut snowflakes over this patterned paper.

Here is what I used:
STAMPS: Warm Winter Wishes by Flourishes (company is no longer in business).
PAPER: Altitude 6x6 pack by BoBunny; Tropical Teal by Papertrey Ink.
INK: Tropical Teal (PTI).
DIES: Snowflake Trio (WPlus9); Blueprint 27 (My Favorite Things); Stitched Circle STAX (My Favorite Things); Sentiment Suite Basics (The Greetery).

For more inpiration, check out the rest of the design team's cards HERE. Hope to see you in the gallery!                       ~Wanda

Guest Designer at CTS

 

It's always an honor to have your card chosen as a challenge winner and I am thrilled to say that happened to me which leads to my being a guest designer for CAS(E) This Sketch challenge #348!  Woohoo and a big thank you to Chrissy Larson for the invite! 

This sketch has endless possibilities, but I went with a new collaboration stamp set between Reverse Confetti and Simon Says Stamp for their Stamptember celebration. It's called Wonderful You and I've loved using it!

The card base is Fine Linen CS by Papertrey Ink. I stamped the leaf sprig outline repeatedly with Memento Tuxedo Black ink (using my MISTI to get at least two inkings). Then I used Old Paper, Peeled Paint and Evergreen Bough distress oxide inks to "fill in" the leaves with color. I splattered black paint from my Mijello Mission Gold palette, waited for it to dry, then die cut with the Crimped Frame die by The Greetery.  I wrapped jute twine around the panel then added this sweet little tag - Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You - by The Greetery. I am loving this color combination for fall!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Love reading your comments!
                                                                        ~Wanda

Color Throwdown #569

 It's Wednesday and that means a new Color Throwdown challenge is happening! Vickie is our hostess this week and has chosen a great trio of colors - lavender, purple and green - that I turned into another Christmas card. 

Here is what I used:
STAMPS: Woodland Wreaths, Merry and Bright - WPlus9.
PAPER: Altitude 6x6 pad by BoBunny; Dots and Stripes Winter 6x6 pad by Echo Park; White glitter CS; White by Papertrey Ink.
INK: Pear Pizzazz, Garden Green, Certainly Celery, Soft Suede by Stampin' Up; Memento Tuxedo Black.
DIES: Stag Trio, Merry and Bright, Woodland Wreaths - WPlus9; Stitched Flags STAX, Stitched Rectangle STAX by My Favorite Things; Sentiment Suite Basics by The Greetery. 

We'd love to see how you interpret these colors! If you need more inspiration, check out the rest of the design team samples below. 

  Amy Rohl

 Amy Rysavy
Barbara Anders

 Broni Holcombe  

Jodi Collins 

 Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put 

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen (you are here)

~Wanda

Paper Players Color Challenge

 

It's color week at The Paper Players and Claire has chosen some really gorgeous colors for us! I decided to go with some ink smooshing (that's a technical term, I'm sure - lol!). I went with a holiday sentiment but I'm thinking I may need to add some kind of ornament accents to make it look more like a Christmas card.

I used the closest distress inks that I could match with the SU colors and went with Peacock Feathers, Wilted Violet, and Twisted Citron. I first triple stamped the Abstract Triangles background (Simon Says Stamp) with black ink then smooshed on the distress inks. A frame was die cut using Papertrey Ink's Pierced Feature Frames die and I adhered a vellum layer behind it. The sentiment is by Lil Inker Designs. 

We sure would love to have you join us! For more inspiration from the rest of the design team, you'll want to check it out HERE.
                                                                    ~Wanda

CAS(E) This Sketch

This card is for the Day 8 coloring challenge (yes, I'm a day behind!) on Kathy Racoosin's The Daily Marker blog and I'm also using the layout for the current CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. You might recognize the background as an ink blending coloring using the Taylored Expressions brushes that I posted earlier in the month. 

I gold embossed this poinsettia image from Altenew's Poinsettia and Pine set then colored with Zig clean color brush markers. The sentiment and banner die are by The Greetery.

STAMPS: Poinsettia and Pine (Altenew); Sentiment Suite: Christmas (The Greetery).
PAPER: Smooth White (My Favorite Things); Ranger water color cardstock.
INK: Versamark; Pink Pirouette (Stampin' Up); Memento Tuxedo Black.
DIES: Poinsettia and Pine (Altenew); Sentiment Suite Basics (The Greetery).
STENCIL: Frosty Flakes (The Greetery).
ZIGS: 028, 050, 045, 041, 046.

30 Day Coloring Challenge

It's hard to believe we are already up to Day 7 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge! I went WAY back in my archives to get this old Flourishes set - Snow Wonderful - and also dug out some long neglected watercolor pencils to color the image! I blended the colors with an Aquapainter.

I'm also playing along with the new Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

 

STAMPS: Snow Wonderful (Flourishes).

PAPER: Norland paper pad by Farm House Paper Co.; Smooth White by My Favorite Things.

INK: Memento Tuxedo Black.

DIES: Blueprint 27 Die-Namics by MFT; Classic Keyhole Template die by Flourishes.

It was in the low 60's today, but they tell us the weather will take a nose dive tonight and we'll only be high of low 40's tomorrow! Guess it's time to bring out the heavy weight layers! :-)

                                                         Stay warm!   ~Wanda

Color Throwdown

Lynn is hosting the Color Throwdown Challenge this week and has some awesome fall colors selected! I went with these leafy sprigs from the Wonderful You set that was a Stamptember collaboration set between Reverse Confetti and Simon Says Stamp. Unfortunately, this set is sold out and there will be no restocking. The sentiment is from RC's Sentiment Essentials set.

It's a very straight forward design using the following inks from WPlus9: Mojito, Pumpkin Spice, Coconut Husk. I used the Crimped Frame die from The Greetery. 

We're thrilled to have Michelle Lupton guesting with us during November! I've been an admirer of her talents for a good while and you will want to stop by her blog - Handmade by Michelle - and check out her beautiful sample!

We'd love to see how you interpret these colors! If you need more inspiration, check out the rest of the design team samples below. 

  Amy Rohl 

 Amy Rysavy
Barbara Anders 

 Broni Holcombe  

Jodi Collins 

 Lisa Henke  

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put  

Vickie Zimmer  

Wanda Cullen (you are here)

I'm adding a quick photo to show my Copic-colored image for Day 6 of Kathy Racoosin's #thedailymarker30day challenge. I can't keep up with making the finished card every day, so this will have to suffice!

 

~Wanda