It's Wednesday and that means there's a new challenge on the Color Throwdown blog! I had a request from a coworker for a St. Patrick's Day birthday card, so this is what I came up with.
I went with a metallic gold in the cording and sequins and found some scraps of these two green patterned papers that I thought would work. The cupcake was paper pieced and Crystal Ice Stickles were added to the icing. The shamrock is a digi stamp from a free set that Julee has been offering this month in the Verve store - printed and colored with Copics (YG23, YG25).
Here's what else I used:
STAMPS: Small Packages (Verve).
PAPER: Shamrock patterned paper by Recollections
DIES: Lacy Scallop Circles Confetti Cuts by Reverse Confetti.
Congratulations to Sandy Mathis from Stamp With Sandy - our guest star stamper this week! Be sure to stop by her blog and say hello!
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I definitely wanted to play along with PTI's 10th Anniversary Challenge to use our favorite PTI flowers. One of my faves to watercolor is the Peonies on Parade stamp set with coordinating dies. I white embossed on Ranger watercolor CS then painted with Mijello Mission gold paints. I paired them with another favorite die -Phrase Play #5 Stamp and Die set. Background paper is from Echo Park's Splendid Sunshine 6x6 pad.
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After caring for a sick 8 month old grandson today, I finally got some time to stamp after making a huge pot of chili for supper - so appropriate for the chilly and snowy forecast heading our way! I literally took every element on this card from my scrap pile! I flipped the current layout for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge. The florals (Daisy by Altenew) were fussy cut and popped with foam tape. I smooshed distress inks over watercolor paper prior to stamping the Carte Postale background stamp - an old one by Stampendous. The sentiment die is Hand Lettered Hello by WPlus9.
During the time it took me to make this card, the dreaded snow has started to fall. I'm so ready for spring and am sure all the daffodils and budding trees are wondering what in the world is going on with the weather these days!
Sadly, I needed a sympathy card for my cousin's family who lost their 30 y.o. son very unexpectedly. Verve's Forever In Our Hearts stamp set always comes to my rescue when I need sympathy sentiments and the new Mojo Monday Challenge sketch was so perfect for a clean and simple design!
STAMPS: Forever in Our Hearts and Better Together by Verve.
INK: Coastal Cabana and Baked Brown Sugar by SU.
DIES: Stitched Rectangles by Lil' Inker Designs.
We'd love to see how you interpret this challenge! You'll want to post your creation on the Mojo Monday blog. If you need more inspiration, check out the design team's creations below:
Good Saturday everyone! Check out this fun inspiration photo for the new Inspired By All The Little Things challenge! I was inspired to use a rainbow of colors, a music theme along with black as a part of the color combo. I kept waffling between two ideas and ended up making two cards...never deciding which one was the best interpretation. Guess I'll let you be the judge - haha.
My first card uses the Who's That Musical Girl stamp set by My Favorite Things. My rainbow of color is simply the striped paper border. The focal image was paper pieced and colored with Copics. The treble clef tag was stamped in black ink then clear embossed and attached with tiny brads.
For my second attempt, I watercolored on Ranger watercolor CS using Mijello Mission Gold paints. I then die cut a trio of Chloe Stems - a die by Memory Box. The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti's Dream In Color stamp set. So there you have it...you get two for the price of one today!
We're happy to have Michelle Lupton from Handmade by Michelle as our guest designer this week! Be sure to stop by her blog and say hello.
To see what the rest of the designers created, head on over to the Inspired By blog HERE. Here's hoping you will find some time to join us!
The new challenge for Where Creativity Meets C9 is to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) one of the design team member's cards. Melissa Bickford's card for challenge #6 caught my eye and I knew it would be perfect to use Concord and 9th's Floral and Flutter Dies with a sentiment from their Give Thanks stamp set. You can see Melissa's card HERE that inspired me.
I already had a water colored panel on my leftover pile that used a number of Ranger distress inks blended together. I cut out 3 floral dies and I quickly had a thank you card to add to my stash.
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It's Wednesday and that means there's a new Color Throwdown Challenge on board! Broni is our hostess and has chosen some fabulous colors - cornflower blue, bright green, white - that are so striking together!
My first struggle was trying to come up with the right shade of blue. I finally went with Blueprint Sketch distress ink with highlight stamping using Chipped Sapphire. The leaves were stamped with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn distress inks. The background behind the striped cover plate die is a piece of watercolor cardstock that has the above inks smooshed over it. I wanted to add the illusion of dew drops, so added some Grey Mist Nuvo Jewel Drops.
STAMPS: Flashy Florals (MFT).
DIES: Flashy Florals (MFT), Small Hello (Simon Says Stamp), Stripe Sentiment Cover Plate (MFT).
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
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