Color Throwdown #630

 

Hi everyone! It's time for a new Color Throwdown challenge and yours truly is hosting this week. I was inspired by this gorgeous cake to choose some light, pastel colors - blush, sage green and gold. This was my first time using the boxwood wreath die set from The Greetery...and as always...I'm loving Betsy's creative die designs! It was perfect to add a wedding card to my stash.

I love the postage elements that are from The Greetery's Pretty Postmarks set. The sentiment and lily of the valley are from the Signed and Sealed set. My mother had white lily of the valley in one of her flower beds and the fragrance was always the best! I'm thinking I need to find some and plant them so I can relive that memory!

I smooshed the three distress oxide green inks onto Bristol Smooth Surface paper. After it was dry, I die cut the leafy details and splattered with Yellow Gold paint from the Gansai Tambi Starry Colors palette. Valentine's Day is history for this year, but love that these dies can work all year long.

STAMPS: Signed & Sealed, Pretty Postmarks (The Greetery).

PAPER: Sweet Blush, White (Ink to Paper); Sage Shadow (retired from SU).

INK: Sweet Blush, True Black (Ink to Paper),;Sweet Nectar, Mojito, Last Leaf (WPlud9); Bundled Sage, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint distress oxide ink (Ranger).

DIES: Boxwood Heart Base, Boxwood Heart Details, Postal Frames (The Greetery).

Thanks for stopping by. For more inspiration, check out the rest of the talented design team's creations! Hope to see you in the gallery!                                                                             ~Wanda

ITP Reveal Day #1

 

Woohoo! Happy anniversary to Papertrey Ink on their 14th year of non-stop beautiful products! I've been a fan from the beginning and now I'm proud to be on the design team. I'm so excited to post that we are starting reveals today for the February release! There are so many wonderful new products and I hope you love them as much as I do! Today we are introducing Sweet Hoppiness Stamp Set and Dies + Rainbow Arches Dies + Tiny Blooms Stamp Set and Dies.

This is such a sweet set and just perfect for spring cards! I chose to color the bunny with Copics, but the set has all the bunny "parts" so you can just fill him in by stamping.

I lightly sponged the white card base with Shabby Shutters distress oxide ink and "lined" it with Green Parakeet card stock. I stamped the two sizes of greenery in a circle then layered some more individual greenery sprigs that I die cut to give it more dimension. 

STAMPS: Sweet Hoppiness.

INK: True Black, Green Parakeet, Aqua Mist, Bright Buttercup, Summer Sunrise, Hawaiian Shores, Lovely Lady, Raspberry Fizz (dye inks by Ink to Paper).

PAPER: Green Parakeet, White, Bitty Big: Green Parakeet (Ink to Paper).

DIES: Border Bling: Believe, Sweet Hoppiness, Tiny Tags, Stitched Circles.

Next, I'm showing you a unique rainbow die set that is just so great! I have several rainbow sets but this is a must have! I've nearly covered it all up, but there is an arched greenery die that gives endless decorating options! 

I added some tiny images from the Tiny Blooms set, plus pulled a cloud die from the previously released Playful Patterns set.
 

STAMPS: Tiny Blooms

INK: New Leaf, Simply Chartreuse, Harvest Gold, Lovely Lady, Autumn Rose, Aqua Mist, Lavender Moon, True Black.

PAPER: Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist, Lavender Moon, White, Green Parakeet.

DIES: Rainbow Arches, Tiny Blooms, Playful Patterns, Border Bling: Tin Stitch.

SUPPLIES 

That's it for day one. Come back tomorrow and see what else is in store!                                                        ~Wanda

Sneak Peek

You are going to LOVE the February release at Ink to Paper coming up later in the month on the 20th! Covid has slowed down shipping of supplies yet again...explaining the later release date! This large floral is one of my favorites. Stay tuned for reveals that will start on Tuesday.

                                              ~Wanda

Color Throwdown #629

The weeks are moving right along and we are ready once again for a new Color Throwdown challenge! Vickie is our hostess and she has chosen red, pink and black...just perfect to use Ink to Paper's new balloon cover plate die for a Valentine version! I'll have to give Amy Kolling credit for the idea of using the balloons for a Valentine greeting (sorry, I couldn't find it on her blog to link up here).

I first cut the die from patterned paper so I could paper piece 3 of the balloons. I die cut a circle from the Big Balloons set, sponged with Lovely Lady then used two of the mini stencils with hearts and brushed on ink using Pure Poppy and Hibiscus Burst inks. The sentiment is from The Greetery and was stamped twice with the aid of my trusty MISTI (how did I ever survive without it?!).

I color blended pink and red inks onto the three ribbons to give them an ombre' look. The little flowers from the Big Balloon set were a perfect finishing touch! 

I'm also entering this into the current The Card Concept Challenge where I was inspired by the hearts and the pinks and reds on the cupcakes. I consider my style to be clean and layered.

STAMPS: Big Balloon (Ink to Paper), Sentiment Suite: Love (The Greetery).

PAPER: Head Over Heels 6x6" pad by Echo Park; White, Pure Poppy by Ink to Paper.

INK: Lovely Lady, Hibiscus Burst, Pure Poppy, New Leaf, Ocean Tides, True Black dye inks by Ink to Paper.

DIES: Cover Plate: Big Balloon, Big Balloon (Ink to Paper).

We would love to have you play along in this challenge. Remember, you have the chance to be a guest star stamper for an upcoming challenge if you enter.                       Happy stamping!  ~Wanda

Seize the Birthday

Good Tuesday everyone! The current Seize the Birthday challenge has an optional topping of "hearts" but I'm going to just opt for no toppings this week. I had started this card many weeks ago with the cream, black and purple color scheme for the Color Throwdown challenge in mind. I simply couldn't do it without some green, so I put this on the back burner and decided to post it for the STB challenge. I water colored the flowers and leaves and did a lot of layering.

Here's what I used...

STAMPS: Cake Please (Ink to Paper).

PAPER: Vintage Cream (Ink to Paper), Eggplant Envy (SU), Water color paper by Ranger.

INK: True Black (Ink to Paper).

DIES: Love to Layer: Scalloped Circles, Cake Please, Into the Blooms, Cover Plate: Trellis - all by Ink to Paper. 

OTHER: Mijello Mission Gold water colors.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!  ~Wanda
 

Fusion Card Challenge

 

Good Thursday everyone! Today we have a new Fusion Card Challenge and I went primarily with the sketch and got inspiration from the hearts in the photo. These Forget-Me-Not dies from The Greetery are fun but will admit they are a bit time consuming to assemble. It's so worth the extra effort IMO!

Coloring them with Zig Clean Color brush markers was so much easier then my first attempt with Prismacolor pencils and ink blending with a brush. I love the font on the sentiment die and I also incorporated the smallest of the Shapely Hearts dies in lieu of the circle element. 

PAPER: Bristol Smooth Surface watercolor; White (Ink to Paper); Red CS and Sweet Stack 6x6" pad by My Favorite Things.

DIES: BotaniCuts: Forget-Me-Nots, Shapely Hearts, Let's Have a Word: Love - all from The Greetery.

We'd love to have you play along with us! Use just the sketch or just the photo or use them both for a fusion!

Happy stamping!                                                 ~Wanda
 

Color Throwdown #628

 

Hello everyone! Are you ready for some fab new colors for the new Color Throwdown challenge? This week it's a pink, lavender, yellow and mint green combo with Lynn as our hostess and it has such a springtime feel! 

I was also inspired by the photo to use this heart cover die from Reverse Confetti and paired it with this adorable snail image from RC's Love is in the Air stamp set that was part of their January release. While the background appears color blended, it is actually from a patterned paper pad!

Here is my enabler's list...

STAMPS: Love is in the Air (Reverse Confetti).

PAPER: Color Splash 6x6" pad by Recollections; White by Ink to Paper; X-Press It Blending Card.

INK: Memento Tuxedo Black.

DIES: Falling Hearts Cover Panel, Hearts, Love is in the Air (Reverse Confetti); Sentiment Suite Basics (The Greetery).

COPICS: Y02, Y06, Y08, Y11, BV00, BV01, BV02, RV10, RV13, RV21, G40, G82, G94, C00, C1.

That's a wrap for today! We'd love to see your creation in the throwdown gallery, so hope you can find time to play along.                                                                                   ~Wanda