Color Throwdown #589

It's hump day and that means a new Color Throwdown challenge is happening. Vicki has a great color palette - red, black, gray, white - for us and we'd love to see how you highlight these colors! Here's my take on it with a clean and simple card. I let the patterned paper do most of the talking and then added three diecuts to finish it up. Easy peasy!

PAPER: Licorice by Bazzill Basic Paper True Black, Red Poppy, White by Papertrey Ink.
DIES: Stitched Rectangle and Circle STAX Die-Namics by My Favorite Things; Miss You by Altenew; Prim Poppy by Memory Box, Inc.

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

Spring Birthday

Our youngest grand will turn one on the 16th and lives about 2 1/2 hours away. With all the COVID-19 quarantine, we will miss seeing her in person and will need to settle for Facetime! I can hardly stand not being there in person, but I know it's for the best.

I started with these beautiful patterned papers from Gina K Designs Sending Love 6x6 pack. Not birthday papers per se, but loved the springy colors and thought it would work for the "spring fling" theme that's happening for the Seize the Birthday challenge. I combined stamps from SU (Number of Years) and Reverse Confetti (Lift Me Up). Images were colored with Copics.
I added Clear Star glitter pen highlights on the cupcake icing (not gray in real life). 

I just made a dozen deviled eggs since it's not Easter without them - lol! BBQ chicken on the grill will also be on the menu along with some cheesy potatoes and a veggie. Oh...and you can't forget the chocolate cake! My birthday falls on Easter this year and the weather isn't sounding too great. May have to move up the meal to this evening. Have a blessed Easter everyone!     ~Wanda

It's Friday...But Sunday's Coming!

 
Good Friday everyone! It's good for what it means in this holy week and it's good to have another week of quarantine pass by which will bring us closer to the light at the end of the tunnel. April is a huge birthday month with many friends and family on the list! I had loads of fun creating this card using The Greetery's new Top Down Day stamps and dies.

The sky was stenciled using My Favorite Things' cloud stencil and Aqua Mist ink. The patterned papers are from the Bitty Big: Aqua Mist pack by Papertrey Ink. All of the stamped images were popped up with foam tape. To soften up the look, I used a corner chomper on the lower corners.

I never get tired of listening to this Easter meditation by S.M. Lockridge (1913-2000), pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in San Diego from 1953 to 1993.

It’s Friday
Jesus is praying
Peter’s a sleeping
Judas is betraying
But Sunday’s comin’
It’s Friday
Pilate’s struggling
The council is conspiring
The crowd is vilifying
They don’t even know
That Sunday’s comin’
It’s Friday
The disciples are running
Like sheep without a shepherd
Mary’s crying
Peter is denying
But they don’t know
That Sunday’s a comin’
It’s Friday
The Romans beat my Jesus
They robe him in scarlet
They crown him with thorns
But they don’t know
That Sunday’s comin’
It’s Friday
See Jesus walking to Calvary
His blood dripping
His body stumbling
And his spirit’s burdened
But you see, it’s only Friday
Sunday’s comin’
It’s Friday
The world’s winning
People are sinning
And evil’s grinning
It’s Friday
The soldiers nail my Savior’s hands
To the cross
They nail my Savior’s feet
To the cross
And then they raise him up
Next to criminals
It’s Friday
But let me tell you something
Sunday’s comin’
It’s Friday
The disciples are questioning
What has happened to their King
And the Pharisees are celebrating
That their scheming
Has been achieved
But they don’t know
It’s only Friday
Sunday’s comin’
It’s Friday
He’s hanging on the cross
Feeling forsaken by his Father
Left alone and dying
Can nobody save him?
Ooooh
It’s Friday
But Sunday’s comin’
It’s Friday
The earth trembles
The sky grows dark
My King yields his spirit
It’s Friday
Hope is lost
Death has won
Sin has conquered
and Satan’s just a laughin’
It’s Friday
Jesus is buried
A soldier stands guard
And a rock is rolled into place
But it’s Friday
It is only Friday
Sunday is a comin’!

Be safe and have a blessed Easter!            ~Wanda

Color Throwdown #588

Another week of pandemic precautions is behind us and it's time again for another Color Throwdown Challenge! Lynn is hosting this week and has some super cheerful colors for us! I knew right away I wanted to create a card using the Fresh Floral Stamp + Stencil Guide that was released in The Greetery's March release. Wow! This is such a fun and amazing and easy way to  make a patterned background!

Betsy has included a very helpful guide with the stamp/stencil set. I didn't want to cover up much of the design so only added one of the very timely sentiments from the Comforting Commands set (also by The Greetery) and embellished with twine. The base die is The Greetery's Postage Frames. 

INK: Miss Piggy, VI Pink, Sweet Gelato, Queen Bee, Pumpkin Spice, Lime Light - dye inks by WPlus9; Memento Tuxedo Black.

I hope you are staying well in your corner of the world! It's such a special season and it's so hard to think the churches are closed for Easter Sunday...BUT...we serve a risen Saviour and we can celebrate at home just as well! Happy Easter everyone! 
                                                      ~Wanda

Just Cruisin' By

I finally got to ink up this fun new set recently released by The Greetery. My very first car that I owned was a navy blue VW bug, so that was naturally the first color I used to ink up this ride! I used the current sketch for the Sunday Stamps Challenge.

I had to have a car my senior year of college to be able to visit public health families that were on my case load. That little VW had to ford a shallow stream to get to one family...the same family that had their guinea pig running through the house! When I saw what looked like a rat running behind the sofa, the mother reassured me it was only their pet guinea pig! Eeekk!! 

Betsy has a very helpful layering guide with this stamp set which makes it so easy to put together. I'm thinking my dad might enjoy this card for his birthday. He'll be 94 in June and I can still remember him making me change a tire on my "bug" in case I ever had a flat tire!

STAMPS: Top Down Day (The Greetery).
PAPER: Summer Dreams 6x6" pad by Echo Park; White by Papertrey Ink.
INK: Blueberry Sky, Enchanted Evening, Sweet Blush, Hibiscus Burst, Pure Poppy, Bright Buttercup, Orange Zest, Hawaiian Shores, Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink); Piggy Bank (Reverse Confetti).
DIES: Stitched Circle and Rectangle STAX Die-Namics by My Favorite Things; Top Down Day (The Greetery). 

Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting!        ~Wanda

Budding Beauties Spring

It's a spring flower Sunday morning in my craft room and I'm being blessed by worship music in the background! Buying Amazon's Alexa was a great investment as I can just verbalize my music requests and instantly have them playing! But I digress. On to my weekend cards. I'm using a newly released stamp/die set from The Greetery called Budding Beauties Spring. I chose to just use the florals as a nosegay and didn't pair them with the Bottled Up set. That's in my future - lol!

The base was die cut with Ink to Paper's Border Bling: Tin Stitch die then layered with a Postage Frames die from The Greetery. Of course, my fave PTI color of Aqua Mist was chosen! I finished it off with a Fit To Be Tied bow and tiny tag sentiment - also by The Greetery.

You might need your shades for this one! Bright Buttercup is a VERY vivid yellow but it's like bringing sunshine into your home when you use it!

Same supplies used on this card except the sentiment.

STAMPS: Budding Beauties Spring, Sentiment Suite: Birthday, Sentiment Suite: Thinking of You - all from The Greetery.
PAPER: Aqua Mist, Bright Buttercup, White (Papertrey Ink).
INK: Green Parakeet, New Leaf, Harvest Gold, Bright Buttercup, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Lavender Moon, Plum Pudding, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores - dye inks by Papertrey Ink; Memento Tuxedo Black.  
DIES: Border Bling: Tin Stitch (Ink to Paper); Postage Frames, Budding Beauties Spring, Fit To Be Tied, Sentiment Suite (The Greetery).

Hope you are having a blessed Palm Sunday!    ~Wanda

Pray Without Ceasing

What better sentiment than this during this nightmare of the coronavirus pandemic?! I learned that our daughter who is an RN was assigned to work directly with positive COVID-19 patients in a hospital in SC today! You can imagine I was doing some praying! I love the Comforting Commands stamp set from The Greetery and think they pair up so well with this gorgeous new Print Shop: Fresh Floral set that is a combination of stencils and stamping! You can whip out a gorgeous background in no time and it's so much fun to try out different color combinations. You'll see another card with a similar design but different colors coming up this next Wednesday.

I couldn't resist adding one of the sweet birds from the Robin and Wren set.  The only embellishment was twine.

STAMPS: Robin and Wren, Comforting Commands, Print Shop: Fresh Floral - all by The Greetery.
PAPER: White (Papertrey Ink).
INK: Dried Marigold, Abandoned Coral, Ripe Persimmon, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Squeezed Lemonade, Fossilized Amber, Tumbled Glass, Broken China distress oxide inks by Ranger; Memento Tuxedo Black.
DIES: Stitched Rectangle STAX Die-Namics by My Favorite Things; Robin and Wren, Comforting Commands by The Greetery.

 
 Thanks for stopping by and commenting! Stay safe and stay home!
                                                                      ~Wanda