MFT Wednesday Sketch

 A quick CAS design to build up my baby card stash...inspired by the new MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge! Stamps are from MFT's Beautiful Baby set with matching dies.  The elephant's ear was stamped on white CS with black ink, fussy cut and popped with foam tape.  Designer papers are from Authentique's Spring Bundle 6x6 pad.
I dug into the archives for my rick rack Die-Namics from MFT and the stitched rectangle die is by Lil' Inker Designs.  Fun little bottle of star sequins was a buy from Hobby Lobby.
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Color Throwdown

Happy hump day once again! Vickie is our hostess for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge and has a most appropriate WARM image to inspire us (very timely for the bitter cold temps happening this month - at least for some of us).  Here's my take on it (including a wee bit of "neutral" green and yellow - lol)...

The tweed stenciled background has been on my leftover pile for quite some time and thought it would work perfectly with this postage frame accented with a new Reverse Confetti sentiment and flowers!  Here's what I used...

STAMPS: The Lord's Strength (Reverse Confetti), Garden Bunch (Reverse Confetti).
PAPER: Basic Gray, Smoky Slate (SU), Neenah Solar White, Green (? source - from my mountainous scrap pile).
INK: Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Smoky Slate, Daffodil Delight, Memento Tuxedo Black.
ACCESSORIES: Tweed stencil by Hero Arts; Stitched rectangle die by Lil' Inker Designs;Stamped Note, Garden Bunch and Leafy Confetti Cuts by Reverse Confetti; White thread; Rhinestones (SU).

A big shout out to our guest star stamper - Peggy Gottschau of That's A Lot of Scrap! - and to our talented February guest designer - Kay Miller of My Joyful Moments.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.  
Barbara Anders  
Broni Holcombe   
Joan Ervin
Jodi Collins 
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Lynn Put  
Vickie Zimmer 
Wanda Cullen (you are here)
Kay Miller - February Guest Designer 

Looking forward to seeing how you use these colors this week!   Happy stamping!

Fusion meets CC

Just had to play along with Peggy's gorgeous color palette for the SCS Color Challenge: Cherry Cobbler, Hello Honey and Mossy Meadow.  I skipped the glitter dessert option simply because I forgot it - lol!  I watercolored with Mustard Seed distress ink then stamped images with Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive inks. I love the matching dies to this newly released Floral and Flutter bundle by Concord and 9th. I attached them with a tiny glue dot so the edges could be curled up. Sentiment is by PTI (Wet Paint stamp and die set). The houndstooth BG stamp is by MFT and the punched border is by Martha Stewart. The sketch used is for the current Fusion Card Challenge.

Mojo Monday

Another week has zipped on by and a fabulous new sketch is on board for the Mojo Monday challenge!  I'm thinking about spring in spite of the horribly frigid weekend we just had, so I reached for these happy papers from the Hello Sunshine pad by Doodlebug Design Inc.  I thought the flower and leaves stamps from Verve's Dream Big set echoed the patterned paper.  Here's what else I used...

STAMPS: Dream Big (Verve), Sparkly Dreams (Verve).
INK: Melon Mambo, Lucky Limeade (SU), Memento Tuxedo Black.
DIES: Dreamy Leaves and Scalloped Flowers by Verve; Stitched square and panel dies by Lil' Inker Designs.

For more inspiration from the rest of the mojomakers, click on their blog links below...or...you can go to the Mojo Monday blog and click on the first nine thumbnails. 
Carole Burrage
Julee Tilman (Owner)
Justin Krieger
Lori Tecler
Marisa Ritzen 
Mary Fish
Sarah Bigelow
Teresa Kline
Wanda Cullen (you are here)

MFT Wednesday Sketch

A great new sketch is posted for the MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge!  Love the tag element and just had to squeeze in one more heart this week instead of the square!  I am such a sucker for flower stamps and dies and simply couldn't resist this new Mini Modern Blooms set!  What is SOOO helpful with this set are the markings on the acetate in the packaging that let you know which stamps to layer together for each flower and leaf!  It totally takes the guess work out of the equation.  

My starting point was a leftover piece of watercolor cardstock that had smooshed distress inks on it.  Unfortunately, I don't recall the ink colors that I used, so your guess is as good as mine. 

STAMPS: Mini Modern Blooms (MFT), Label Maker Sentiments (MFT).
DIES: Mini Modern Blooms (MFT), Label Maker Sentiments (MFT), Traditional Tags STAX (MFT), Sketch Heart (Simon Says Stamp), Stitched Rectangle (Lil' Inker Designs).  

Off to get some sleep...a big day coming up tomorrow!  I'm going to babysit Miss Q while her mommy and daddy and friends and family members help them move to a new location...just a few miles away.   
 

Watercolor Valentine

Papertrey Ink has an incredible 10 days of celebration for their 9th anniversary! Work has interfered with my participation, but I had to

get at least one card made for their Create Along With Us challenge. (edited to add: Oops!  Collection was already closed - insert sad face here). We were to select a team member's creation from this month's release that inspired us.  That was no small feat, but one of my faves was Amy Sheffer's color palette and design on her post here.  I watercolored the background using Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron distress inks.  I'm also playing along with The Card Concept challenge #48 where I would guess my style is clean and layered.  Here's what I used...

STAMPS: Bitty Bouquets (PTI).
PAPER: Hawaiian Shores (PTI), Ranger watercolor CS.
INK: Melon Mambo (SU), Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers (TH distress ink). 
DIES: Bitty Bouquets (PTI), Wet Paint (PTI), Sketch Heart (Simon Says Stamp). 

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Color Throwdown

Happy hump day everyone! Lynn has a really fabulous, rich color palette for the new Color Throwdown Challenge inspired by these yummy cookies: pink, hot pink, purple/mulberry and gold! 

I got some happy mail last week from a fairly new stamp company - Concord and 9th. I loved this fun Love You, Mean It stamp set with fabulous sentiments, only to change my mind and add a sentiment from another set called By Your Side!  Don't you just love their great fonts?!  I gold embossed the wreath then stamped the larger roses with Rich Razzleberry - stamped off once for the filler stamp.  The roses were all stamped with black ink for the outline then the teeny roses were colored in with Copics - RV02 and RV04 - for the two shades of pink.  The pinks didn't show up well enough to suit me, so I opted for a touch of washi tape that had both shades! I matted the panel with metallic gold and Plum Pudding (PTI) cardstock.  I embellished with washi tape and some SRM sticker stitches.

Congratulations to Bonnie Sharp of The Lucky Clucker blog!  She's our guest star stamper this week!

For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location. Barbara Anders  
Broni Holcombe   
Joan Ervin
Jodi Collins 
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Lynn Put  
Vickie Zimmer 
Wanda Cullen (you are here)
Kay Miller - February Guest Designer Looking forward to seeing how you use these colors this week!   Happy stamping!