Wednesday, February 5, 2025

The Flower Challenge

A quick and easy card featuring the color pink for The Flower Challenge. I went to my leftover pile and rescued the background panel that used two patterned papers in a blush pink color. 

I die cut the sentiment twice to give it more dimension and to make it easier to adhere to the card. No stamps or ink used...only die cuts!

PAPER: Bitty Big: Sweet Blush, Weathervane, Stamper's Select White (Papertrey Ink).
DIES: Elegant Edges: Nature's Blooms (Papertrey Ink); Stitched Rectangles STAX Die-Namics (My Favorite Things); With Sympathy (Simon Says Stamp).
That's it for today. Have a good one!  ~Wanda

 


Color Throwdown #826

 


Welcome to another Color Throwdown challenge! It's the month of love so I decided to get busy and create a Valentine card. Our colors for this first Wednesday of February are pink, brown and white. I pulled an old chrysanthemum die from Hero Arts and color blended with 2 shades of pink.  

I color blended the leaves using 3 shades of brown. Splatters were done using Ground Espresso distress ink.

STAMPS: Tiers of Cheer Valentine, Larger Than Life: Love Sentiments (Papertrey Ink).
INK: Lovely Lady, Raspberry Fizz, Classic Kraft, Cocoa Bean, Dark Chocolate (PTI); Versafine Clair Nocturne; Ground Espresso distress.
PAPER: Stampers Select White, Dark Chocolate (PTI).
DIES: Tiers of Cheer Valentine, Into the Blooms: Blossoming Beauties, Border Bling: Tin Stitch (PTI); Hand Drawn Heart (The Stamp Market); Chrysanthemum (Hero Arts); Nested Circle Dies (Art Impressions). 
Thanks for stopping by! We hope to see you in the gallery and remember the new format of having the challenge only on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month...giving you more time to play along!                                                                               ~Wanda


Friday, January 31, 2025

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge

 


Somehow, I never opened these sweet panda stamps and dies after ordering them many months ago! The My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge was perfect to get my mojo going. 

I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto X-Press It Blending Card paper. It's my favorite for coloring with Copics.

STAMPS: Panda Pals (My Favorite Things).
INK: Memento Tuxedo Black.
PAPER: Valentine's Day 6x6" pad (Echo Park); Stamper's Select White; X-Press It Blending Card.
DIES: Panda Pals, Blueprints 27 (My Favorite Things); Love to Layer: Rounded Hearts 2 (Papertrey Ink).
COPICS: Y08, Y13, BG000, RV00, C0, E33, E23, E25, YG03, YG05, YG17.

 Thanks so much for stopping by!  ~Wanda

 

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Freshly Made Sketches

 


Good Thursday morning friends! I'm finishing up this card for the new Freshly Made Sketches challenge where Judy has chosen a fun layout! I started with the leafy embossed background panel from my leftover pile. I then popped up a small circle and arranged some geraniums over and around it.

There was a small "oops" moment where the top right corner had a torn area when I removed some mint tape (you know the tape that has low tack and isn't supposed to tear your paper when you remove it?) :-( I turned the mistake around by placing the sentiment tag over it! 

STAMPS: Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You (The Greetery).
INK: Unsure of distress inks since the florals were also leftovers from a project long ago.
PAPER: Stamper's Select White, True Black, Bitty Big: True Black (Papertrey Ink).
DIES: Sentiment Suite Basics (The Greetery); Into the Blooms: Geranium (Papertrey Ink); Stitched Ric Rac (My Favorite Things); Nested Circles (Art Impressions).
OTHER: Curving Leaves 3D embossing folder (Altenew). 
 
Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting!  Wanda

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Word Art Wednesday

 

Luke1:79 is the verse we are focusing on at Word Art Wednesday for the last challenge in January. I had a leftover "sunburst" panel in my stash that uses different triangles in a quilted look. I chose it because, to me, yellow represents "light" and gray represents "shadow" in the verse.  Be sure to hop over to the challenge post by Karen to be inspired by her devotional!

The sentiment was computer generated using Karen's great layout of the verse. I layered up multiple daisy dies after die cutting all the florals from white paper. I then color blended lightly.

PAPER: Breeze 6x6 pad by My Mind's Eye; Stampers Select White (Papertrey Ink).
DIES: Into the Blooms: Daisies (Papertrey Ink).
 
Thanks so much for stopping by and hope to see you in the WAW gallery!    ~Wanda

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Red + Kraft


The current theme for the Seize the Birthday challenge is to use red + kraft. I started with this leftover panel that was foiled using a matte black foil. I'm making a conscious effort to whittle away and use up my sizeable extras/leftover pile, so this is a small start.

This large bloom die set from Papertrey Ink is a new favorite and so easy to line up and assemble. I've been reaching for it a lot lately. I cut the parts from white cardstock then color blend.

STAMPS: Tuck It Sentiments (Papertrey Ink).
INK: Pure Poppy, Scarlet Jewel, Bright Buttercup, Classic Kraft (PTI); Versafine Clair Nocturne.
PAPER: Classic Kraft, True Black, Stamper's Select White (PTI).
DIES: Into the Blooms: Big Bloom, Pierced Feature Frames (Papertrey Ink); Stitched Rectangle STAX Die-Namics, Blueprints 27 (My Favorite Things).
OTHER: Matte foil; Pleasing Pineapple hot foil plate (PTI).

 
Thanks so much for stopping by!  ~Wanda

 

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Sketch Saturday

It's a quick post before the football game between Washington Commanders and Philadelphia Eagles gets going! Go Commanders! 

My card uses a loose interpretation of the block layout for the new Sketch Saturday challenge. The florals are washi tape adhered to white cardstock then die cut then adhered to a stenciled background. 

STAMPS: Chrysanthemum (Pinkfresh Studio.
PAPER: Stamper's Select White (Papertrey Ink.
INK: Lovely Lady, Hibiscus Burst, Harvest Gold, Melon Berry (Papertrey Ink); Versafine Clair Nocturne.
DIES: Chrysanthemum (Pinkfresh Studio); Stitched Polka Dot Card Front (Concord & 9th); Skinny Frames: Diagonal Border (Papertrey Ink).
OTHER: Modern Rug stencil (Pinkfresh Studio).  

 
Thanks for stopping by and commenting!  ~Wanda