Special Offer at Reverse Confetti

***Scroll on down for my Color Throwdown post***

Happy Valentine's Day blog friends! ❤️  I wanted to share a special offer that is happening at Reverse Confetti - today only!

If you haven't used their products yet, today is the day to get an order in!  Their shipping is amazingly fast and you will love the great quality in everything they sell!  Yes...I'm a big fan!

Here's a card that showcases some of my favorites from their January release...

Not your typical Valentine colors but that's the rebel in me - lol!  I used alcohol inks for the background then splattered some yellow gold Gansai Tambi Starry Colors paint over it.  The outline of the Falling Hearts Panel die is the same size as one of the frames from the All Framed Up die set, so that's how I achieved the contrasting color!  Who can resist the adorable cheetahs with heart-shaped spots in the Love Spots stamp set?!

 

Color Throwdown

Hello blog friends and Happy Valentine's Day! It's time again for a new Color Throwdown Challenge and yours truly is this week's hostess. I fell in love with this beautiful heart-shaped floral photo and thought it would make a fun color palette - lilac, green, gray, white - to brighten up this gray winter season!  Even though love is in the air, I went with a non-Valentine card and went with my favorite subject matter: flowers!

I stamped the colors using distress inks then took a brush and lightly dabbed some water over the images to blend the colors a bit. The center flower is popped up with foam tape and the 'you' sentiment was cut 4 times - three times with gray CS and once with black CS.  
 

STAMPS: Hibiscus Bouquet (Altenew), Marble BG (MFT).
INK: Wilted Violet, Mowed Lawn, Squeezed Lemonade distress inks by Ranger; Silver Lining dye ink by WPlus9; Versafine Onyx Black.
DIES: Striped Sentiment Strip Die-Namic by MFT; Hibiscus Bouquet by Altenew.

To play along with us, please go to the Color Throwdown Challenge blog for all the details!  For more inspiration from the rest of the design team, click on their links below:
Amy Rohl 
Amy Rysavy
Barbara Anders   
Broni Holcombe
Jodi Collins 
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Lynn Put  
Vickie Zimmer 
Wanda Cullen (you are here)  
Claire Apostoloff  - February Guest Designer 

Quote from 365 Days of Wonder: 

 FEB 14 - "To be loved, be lovable."

                                  --Ovid              

Reverse Confetti Blog Hop

The Confetti Crew and 'Fetti Friends are back with another blog hop and you'll see that love is in the air as you check out all the wonderful projects that are anything but a card! This was so much fun for me that I couldn't stop with just one project.  First up are two creations that play on the words of the sentiment "Love You To Pieces" from the January release set: Heart Filled Sentiments.  

I re-purposed puzzle pieces to create this ornament (everyone has that puzzle box with missing pieces, so this is an idea for you!).  I used acrylic paint (Liquitex Cadmium Red Deep Hue) then splattered gold paint over all the pieces.  I adhered the pieces together in a heart shape using Tombow Multi Mono liquid glue.  Here you can see it hanging on the wall.

Items used for the tag:
STAMPS: Heart Filled Sentiments, Garden Bunch
PAPER: Very Merry 6x6 pad, Lime Green
DIES: Pierced Round Top Layers, Tag Me, Leafy

My second play on the sentiment is a jar filled with Reese's Pieces candy - a door prize I'm donating for our church's annual Valentine banquet.  It's so easy to add a tag to a Mason jar with a special topper!

 
Last, but not least, here is a fun way to dress up a plain frame...

 
This recent photo of our 18 month old grandson was too sweet not to frame!  Those dimples with that great smile make my heart melt!  I Copic-colored these cute images from the Heart Spots stamp set and attached a banner with another sentiment from Heart Filled Sentiments. 

Amy Kolling

Melissa Phillips

Tricia Barber

Lisa Henke

Amy Rohl

Heather Hoffman

Amy Tsuruta

Kathy Schweinfurth

Audrey Tokach

Deanne Kuntz

Jeanne Jachna

Susan Liles

Samantha Mann - 'Fetti Friend 

Wanda Cullen - 'Fetti Friend (you are here!)

❤️ There is a prize involved in this hop, so be sure to head on over to the Reverse Confetti blog to see how you could possibly be a winner!

Quote from 365 Days of Wonder:

FEB 8: "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known".     --Carl Sagan

Color Throwdown & CAS(E) This Sketch

Another Wednesday means another Color Throwdown Challenge is happening! You will LOVE Vickie's great colors - red, pink and gray - which were perfect for a birthday card I needed to create for a special aunt and uncle! 

I finally got to ink up this new Marble Background stamp from MFT!  I can see this is one I'll be heading for time and time again.  I inked it up with WPlus9's Silver Lining dye ink.  I had some leftover pieces of alcohol ink papers so cut several of the floral die

layers from it and paired more layers from PTI's Pure Poppy CS.  I used Poppystamps' Small and Large Marianna Vine Background dies and cut from vellum and white CS.  In hindsight, I wish I had used some silver or gray leaves so they'd have better visibility.  The sentiment (Painted Greetings by Altenew) was white embossed on black CS.  I used Altenew's Fantasy Floral Die set again...so easy and fun to create a dimensional design!  I'm also playing along with the current CAS(E) This Sketch challenge which happens to be a retro sketch.

We're happy to welcome a new guest designer for the month of February!  Say hello to Claire Apostoloff from Life on the Scrap Heap blog!

To play along with us, please go to the Color Throwdown Challenge blog for all the details!  For more inspiration from the rest of the design team, click on their links below:
Amy Rohl 
Amy Rysavy
Barbara Anders   
Broni Holcombe
Jodi Collins 
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Lynn Put  
Vickie Zimmer 
Wanda Cullen (you are here)  
Claire Apostoloff  - February Guest Designer

Will You Be My Valentine?

The Paper Players challenge for this week is asking us to use a Valentine theme. I decided to play with some of my favorite dies and stamps from Reverse Confetti's January release!  

I previously made a pink/red/white version of the same layout, but this time I went with non-traditional colors thinking this would work well for a masculine recipient.  The background is a leftover panel from a day I was experimenting with alcohol ink blending.  I splattered some gold paint over it then layered the Falling Hearts die and a white embossed sentiment strip with a sentiment from the Heart Filled Sentiments stamp set. 

STAMPS: Heart Filled Sentiments (Reverse Confetti).
PAPER: White and Tropical Teal (PTI), Lime Green (RC).
INK: Versamark; Ranger alcohol inks.
DIES: Falling Hearts by Reverse Confetti. 

Quote from 365 Days of Wonder:

FEB 5 - "Give me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth."      --Archimedes
 

Freshly Made Sketches and SSSWC

It's a snowy, rainy Sunday that is perfect for some stamping time since church was cancelled and I'm waiting for the Super Bowl to begin! I'm not a big fan of either team, so I'll be rooting for the underdog! ❄️😁 🏉  I'm using the sketch for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge and am also entering my card into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge where Anything Goes is the theme this week.  

 

I love layering up Altenew's Peony Dream 3D die set!  I had the frame (Reverse Confetti All Framed Up) already die cut from Pacific Point and White CS (yes, I'm trying to whittle away at the many extra leftovers I have in my stash).  The sentiment - from Altenew's Hibiscus Bouquet stamp set - was stamped twice using a MISTI.  It's a 'must have' tool to get a dark, crisp result when stamping with black ink!

Quote from 365 Days of Wonder:

"Love a little more each day."

                            --Madison       

Inspired By All The Little Things

A new month and another Saturday means a new Inspired By All The Little Things Challenge is on board!  I recently bought a new Valentine's Day 6x6 paper pad at Mike's and thought I'd never have any use for this bicycle paper!  Then I saw the inspiration photo and laughed out loud!  This paper was perfect to use with this challenge! The little flowers tucked into a couple of spots in the photo also inspired my creation.  I used the sketch for the current Paper Players Challenge.

I used products from multiple stamp companies. Here is my
enabler's list:
STAMPS: Wet Paint (PTI), Fresh Cut Florals (WPlus9).
PAPER: Valentine's Day 6x6 pad (Recollections), Brushed gold CS, White CS (PTI). Cherry Cobbler and Crisp Cantaloupe (SU).
INK: Buttercup, Sunshine, Rose, Lead, Piggy Bank, Sand, Parakeet, Grass - dye inks by Reverse Confetti; Versamark.
DIES: Wet Paint (Papertrey Ink), Fresh Cut Florals (WPlus9), Sketch Heart (Simon Says Stamp), Stitched Fishtail Flags STAX Die-Namics (MFT), Lacey Scallop Circles (Reverse Confetti).

FEB 3 - Quote from 365 Days of Wonder:

 "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."  

                        --Victor Hugo