Another Saturday means another Inspired By All The Little Things challenge! We have an incredible photo to get your mojo moving! I was inspired by the colors, leaves and stripes in the afghan. I had first pulled out an autumn coffee cup digi, but then my card took a life of its own - lol! I started with the background brushstroke stripes using distress oxide inks (I'm really loving the coverage these inks give!). These leaves from Simon Says Stamp's Stamptember release - Ornate Leaves - are my new faves, so arranged a trio of them with one of the sentiments. The coffee cups just didn't fit, so I gave them the ax!
STAMPS: Ornate Leaves (Simon Says Stamp).
PAPER: Vintage Cream (PTI), Not Quite Navy (SU).
INK: Faded Jeans, Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick - distress oxide inks by Ranger.
MISC: Oval punches by SU; Wonky Stitched Rectangle die by Lil' Inker Designs.
Our guest designer in the spotlight this week is Kelly Lunceford of Flutter by Atomic butterfly. Be sure to stop by her blog and say hello. Now it's your turn to get inspired and play along!
Hooray for a long four day weekend off work! Late last night, I played with this new Fantasy Floral die set from Altenew and is it ever fun and easy to line up the 3 layers! Can you tell I have such a hard time trying to resist buying more florals - whether it's stamps or dies - lol?! I used two different pinks from my Mijello Mission watercolor paint set and made varying shades of the colors depending on how much water I added. I splattered a darker green over the leaves which were initially watercolored with an olive shade of green. I wanted the flower to pop so it was a no brainer to use black and white with it. The sentiment is from the Painted Greetings stamp set by Altenew. Patterned paper is by Recollections. I'm playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge and love Kim's sketch!
That's all for now, but check back on Wednesday for another card using these floral dies on my Color Throwdown sample! Enjoy your weekend!
It's Friday eve and a startling fact is that Christmas will be over in 2 months from today - EEEK! I need to get a serious start on Christmas cards but it won't be today - hahaha! I needed two pastor appreciation cards, so I went to my 'go to' Plain Jane stamp by Verve using the verse from Jeremiah 17:7. I white embossed on Baked Brown Sugar cardstock then die cut with MFT's Traditional Tags STAX. The little half circle topper is from PTI's Tag Sale #3 die. I CASEed the layout from this card by Amy Sheffer that I had saved on Pinterest. I arranged the die cut stamped elements from PTI's Holiday Greens stamp set very close to Amy's design. I love that this can be used for any winter card...not just Christmas. The background was embossed using SU's Woodgrain EF then lightly sponged with Baked Brown Sugar ink.
That's it for now...a quick post between laundry loads. I'm always amazed at how much laundry continues to happen with just two people in the house anymore! 😁
Whoa! We're at the last Wednesday in October already and I really wish the time would slow down a bit! Lisa is our hostess for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge and has some fabulous fall colors for us: eggplant, olive and rust! I just got the Plaid Background stamp set from Concord and 9th in the mail last week and knew I wanted to incorporate some plaid in my design. I sprayed some water on watercolor cardstock and stamped the leaves from C9's Wildflower stamp set with Crushed Olive distress ink which caused it to "bleed" a bit. After brushing some more of the ink in random areas, I dried it with a heat gun then restamped some leaves with Old Olive ink (SU). I colored in the berries with a Zig marker. I then die cut C9's Floral and Flutter die flowers from Cajun Craze and Elegant Eggplant CS (SU) and adhered clear dew drops to the centers using SU's fine tip glue pen. The rust border was die cut with Reverse Confetti's Edge Essentials die. The card ended up much busier than I wanted, but I had invested so much time in it and didn't want to trash it - lol! The final touch was a white embossed sentiment from C9's Hello Lovely stamp set.
We're happy to have Kapina from the Little Turtle's Room blog as our guest star stamper this week! Congratulations!
We'd love to have you join us in the challenge this week! For more details on how to play along, head over to the Color Throwdown blog
and you'll find the information on the right sidebar. You can also
visit the rest of the design team's creations for more inspiration by
clicking on the links below:
Amy Rohl
Amy Rysavy
Barbara Anders
Broni Holcombe
Jodi Collins
Michele Ferguson - October Guest Designer
I needed one more Halloween card for the grands, so went with the current Sketch For You To Tty layout and to Reverse Confetti's adorable Monsterous stamp set with matching dies! They are so much fun to color with Copics and the Crystal Effects added to their eyeballs is the perfect fun touch! Papers are from RC's Fright Night 6x6 pad and I'm using their Grape Soda, Tangerine and Lime Green cardstock.
DIES: Web Tag Layer (Reverse Confetti); Stitched Rectangle (Lil'
Inker Designs); Stitched Fishtail Flags Die-Namics (MFT).
Now I just need to get these cards ready to mail and hopefully bring a smile to some sweet little munchkins!
Hope everyone is having a super Saturday! Looks like some wonderful fall weather is in store for us in VA, but I'll be heading to work this afternoon (insert sad face here). There's a new Inspired By All The Little Things challenge going on and we hope you will find some time to get inky and join in! There are lots of great elements for inspiration in the photo and I zeroed in on the ladder with the wreath along with the beautiful quilt colors!
I'm once again using this Tall Stripe Panel die by Reverse Confetti. I used it last week and pulled it out again to mimic the ladder concept. Love this stamp set which is a special collaborative set between Simon Says Stamp and Gina K Designs where all the proceeds of its sales will go to hurricane relief efforts. I had to resort to fussy cutting (I'm afraid wafer dies have spoiled me and I can only hope they might come at a later date - hint, hint!). I chose the border sentiment stamp from Concord and 9th's Lace Leaf stamp set and stamped it in Chocolate Chip ink. The wreath was die cut with MFT's Stitched Circle Die-Namics. Papers are from the Glitz "Sunshine in my Soul" 6x6 pad. I used Distress Oxide inks for the florals: Peeled Paint, Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade.
Our special design guest for the week is Meredith MacRitchie of A Delightful Waste of Time. Stop by her blog and say hello!
Hope to see you in the gallery!
I'm on a roll with yet another card using the Simon Says Stamp September card kit. This time it's for the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. The flower and leaves were fussy cut from one of the patterned papers (My Mind's Eye "Blush" 6x6 pad) and popped with foam tape. I dusted off an old Spellbinders die set called Classic Diamonds. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Brush Stroke Messages. This was so quick and easy!
