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!

 

Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge #10 -- GNOMES

 

Entering Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge is a first for me. I've always meant to 

join a challenge but never had the time. I couldn't resist this month's challenge because 

I have a few gnomes and a ton of coffee related stamps and dies.

I had some leftover gnomes and wanted to have one holding onto a coffee mug.

Extra gnome noses worked perfectly as hands! The sentiment was stamped on a

panel before being embossed with the coffee cups so it's a little wonky looking

but still readable, I think.

A strip of gingham plaid was added to the panel and the gnome and some

greenery were adhered to the card.

And I can chalk up another Christmas card for my stash!

Thanks for stopping by!

The Flower Challenge 73 -- Use a Sentiment and 6th Birthday

The Flower Challenge is celebrating their 6th birthday and the current challenge is

to Use a Sentiment.

 

I started stenciling Altenew's Flower Bed Stencil and couldn't stop at one panel.

It's a fun stencil with unlimited color combinations. After working on the stenciling,

I chose three different sentiments from Concord & 9th.

The main sentiment was cut from Concord & 9th's Mushroom card stock and all were

backed with vellum. I went "old school" and used gemstones from my stash to finish off 

all three cards.

Happy 6th Birthday, Flower Challenge. Here's to many more years of floral inspiration!

Fusion Challenge -- Autumn Leaves

I have a soft spot for leaves and after seeing blogging friend Michele's card and finding out

that Fusion's latest challenge is all about leaves, I had to join in. 

At Fusion you can play with the sketch or with the inspiration photo, or both. I went with

the photo--such gorgeous colors!

 

A pad of Altenew patterned paper made quick work of choosing the colors, and I

used a retired set of leaves from MFT. A dark brown panel was embossed with

an Altenew folder and the leaves were adhered and pulled up for dimension.

I die cut the "thankful" from white card stock, then inked it in ombré colors and

adhered it to the shadow piece. The sentiment was then adhered to the card.

Thanks to Michele for directing me to the challenge and thanks for stopping by!

Inspired by National Coffee Day

 

I was excited to see that Laurel and Inspired by Challenges are back! And I wanted

to participate in the current challenge which is all about coffee.

 

 

Here's Laurel's easy peasy sketch.

 

 

And here's my easy peasy take on it.

 

 

 I own SO MANY coffee themed stamps and dies and one of my faves is this set of 

cups from Memory Box, which is long discontinued. I cut them from white card 

stock and inked them in warm colors. I die cut a small heart from the middle 

mug and mounted all of the cups on a kraft card base.

 

 Originally I was planning to white emboss the sentiment, but after stamping it 

in Versamark ink, I like how it looked so I clear embossed it instead. 

 

And that's a wrap. I'd better link this card in the IB gallery. 

Thank for stopping by! 

 

 

Guest Designer at The Flower Challenge

 

Several months ago I was invited to guest at The Flower Challenge and I humbly 

accepted. The theme for this month's challenge is to Add Sparkle in addition to 

featuring flowers as the focal point.

Here's my card featuring some subtle sparkle.

I'm such a fan of Honeybee Stamps' Lovely Layer flowers. This time I used the Coneflower

Honey Cuts. I cut all the pieces from white card stock and inked them with various dye inks.

The sentiment was silver embossed and the card was finished off with a rounded right

corner and some sparkling sequins.

So grab your bling and join the challenge! You have a full month to join and

you can enter more than once. Hope to see you in the gallery!

Many thanks to Viv and the DT for the kind invite to guest with you! 💝

A Card for Elysha

When blogging friend Aileen (huh_what_pardon) requested a card for her

sweet daughter's 30th birthday on Instagram, I couldn't resist. Judging by the 

responses and comments, Elysha will be receiving a ton of well wishes, and Aileen's

husband will be building a second mailbox just for Elysha's cards.

 

I asked Aileen what were Elysha's interests and favorite colors and made my card

per her responses.

 

I finally took out the rainbow sets from Honeybee Stamps from its packaging. I usually like 

to ink distress, but sought the easy route because I want to get this into the mail as soon

 as possible. It's quite a distance between Hawaii and Australia.

 

I liked the pastel colors in this patterned paper pad and finished off the card with a

sentiment from Simon Says Stamp and some iridescent drops.

 

Wishing Elysha the happiest birthday with many more to come! 

 

 

The Flower Challenge 71 and SSS August Flickr Challenge

I'm linking up this card to two challenges: The Flower Challenge 71--Circle/Circles, and

Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge for August which is Anything Goes.

 

 

 

The circle diecut is from an old deckle edge set that is so old, I don't remember 

the company I bought it from. I want to say it's from Papertrey Ink but there was

no packaging so maybe it's not. Lil' Inkers, maybe? I miss that company.

Here's a closer look at the diecut. If anyone knows where it's from, I'd be much

obliged. It came in two sizes and I also have a rectangle set of two dies.

The hummingbird and flowers are from Simon's Dream Big release. I've never seen

a real hummingbird, and I think I colored him a bit too bold. The sentiment is 

from Avery Elle.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Color Throwdown 705

I'm not one to enter color challenges--because I'm color challenged. Unless

the colors jump out and I have an idea, then I'll pass. But this week's challenge 

at Color Throwdown did just that. Jumped out at me and I had an idea.

 

 

Leaves came to mind, although the purple made me decide to use gingko leaves.

I colored three of them, spattered them with white paint and adhered them to a 

white card base. Clear sequins, a Memory Box sentiment and rounded off corner 

finished off the card.

And that's a wrap. Thanks for stopping by!

The Flower Challenge #70 -- CAS

This month's challenge theme at The Flower Challenge is CAS, probably one of my

favorite card styles.

 

And my order from Simon Says Stamp arrived with new goodies that fit the

challenge perfectly. 

 

 Jennifer McGuire enabled me yet again when she shared some cards on her 

You Tube channel using the embossing folder/die combo. Spotlighting the

flower was a good way to keep the card clean and simple and I'm such a fan

of 3D embossing. All that texture!

I chose a sentiment from Altenew and some clear drops to finish off the card.

Thanks for stopping by!