Freshly Made Sketches #620

I decided to enter Freshly Made Sketches #620 after my Concord & 9th order arrived and 

I pictured the knitted heart as the main element in the sketch.

 

 And here's my card with a simplified take on the sketch.

 

After watching Jennifer McGuire go through her stash of AI backgrounds, I went through

mine and looked for the most appropriate ones for a heart. All of the dies were cut from

one inked piece and assembled with the "stray" yarn coming off on the side.

 

I stamped the sentiment before running the card base through Waffle Flower's

Quilting Texture Die. In hindsight, I didn't have to add the extra stitches over the

heart because it looks super variegated even without it. But I do love the texture.

I'm off to link this up with a few days to spare. Thanks for stopping by!

One Card, Two Challenges

It's not often that I enter two challenges at once, but my card fits the criteria for

Color Throwdown 715 and Freshly Made Sketches 558.

 

 

Here's my card. The Throwdown colors are green, orange, and white and I just

realized I threw in a bit of gold. Uh oh.

The leaves and sentiment are by Waffle Flower Crafts. I own a bunch of leaf dies

but have to admit that these are among my faves. The solid portion was colored with

Zig Markers and a waterbrush and the gold outline was adhered slightly offset

and bent a little for interest. I stamped the sentiment in brown ink and rounded

off the right bottom corner.

 

Off to enter these--both deadlines are tomorrow! Yikes!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Edited to add: My card was chosen as the random winner of the challenge! As the

Featured Stamper I'm invited to join a future challenge. Stay tuned!

 

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My card was also chosen as the Queen of Clean on Freshly Made Sketches!

SO very honored--thank you, Jacquie!

 

The Flower Challenge 60--Colour Turquoise

Lately I've been playing with stencils and love this coloring medium. Stencils have come 

a long way and layered stencils do all the heavy work for you. Your job is to line them up! 

I used Altenew's Polka Dot Buds Stencil and made several panels in different 

color combos.

 

 When I saw that the latest Flower Challenge was Colour Turquoise, I chose a panel that

fit the challenge. 

 

The blooms and leaves were stenciled with ink from The Stamp Market. Notice the edges 

of the panel? I was inspired by the fabulous Yoonsun and remembered that during my early 

years of crafting, I was distressing the edges of cards like a mad woman. You, too?

Yoonsun uses Tim Holtz Paper Distresser Tool. I owned one before, but used a scissors 

and it did the job. I love the look of distressing. It's very forgiving and you don't have to 

worry about gluing down your panel perfectly or even having the corners curl up. 

It's part of the look!

 

My card was finished off with a sentiment from Waffle Flower Crafts. I thought about

adding some embellishments but didn't want to take away from the busy background.

 

Shout out to Yoonsun for inspiring me to distress again. You may be seeing future projects

with paper distressing on them. Thanks for stopping by!

 

Waffle Flower March Challenge -- Greenery

 

I haven't been consistent about keeping up with Facebook, but I got an invitation to

participate in Waffle Flower's March Challenge with a Greenery theme.

 

I was going to pass but remembered that I bought their Spring Leaves Dies and with the

Peerless Watercolors that arrived, I decided to join the challenge.

I painted some watercolor paper with different colors of Peerless watercolors then

cut out the small leaf shape. The outline was cut from gold card stock then adhered

over the solid piece a little off center. 

I adhered them to a white card base then gold embossed the sentiment. I spattered

some gold ink and rounded off a bottom corner. Oh, and I "joojed" (a Laurafadora 

term) the top part of the outline leaves for a bit of dimension.

Thanks so much for stopping by!