Time Spent with You... - CTD554

Hello there! It’s Wednesday and the last day of July, can you believe it? I’m sad that summer is going by so fast. Today I’m sharing my card for the new Color Throwdown Challenge that starts today with some bold colors and a fun inspiration photo. This is also the first card in a small card series I created using these colors and similar products.

For my card, I used the adorable new Hello Bluebird stamp set Strawberry Jam along with the coordinating Strawberry Jam dies. I stamped and colored all of my images using Copic markers and paper pieced the picnic blanket. I used some older Papertrey Ink pure poppy patterned paper for both the picnic blanket and for the card front. I used the Stitched Sentiment Strips dies and die cut a banner and stamped my sentiment. I adhered black card stock to my card front then attached the picnic blanket and accessories then added the mouse and bird with foam tape. After that I adhered the top piece, with the strawberry vine frame and red polka dot paper, with foam tape. The little green caterpillar was popped up with foam tape as well.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams blog links below or you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen
Susie Moore - July Guest Designer

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Have a Smooth Birthday - CTD553

Hello and happy Wednesday! It’s time for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge and we have some fun summer colors to create with.

 With the challenge colors of orange, pink and yellow, I pulled out a stamp set I thought would work well which was the Lawn Fawn So Smooth stamp set and So Smooth dies. I stamped all of my images and colored them with Copic markers then die cut them out. The bunch of bananas I stamped from the Love Ya Bunches stamp set. I stamped my sentiment onto a banner that I die cut using the Everyday Sentiment Banners die. I die cut a piece of white card stock using the Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables die and blended on some wild honey distress oxide ink in the middle and added some white splatters of craft paint. I used some Doodlebug Designs yellow and orange paper for along the top and bottom and adhered my stitched panel to a white card base. I popped up the blender and bananas using foam tape.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams blog links below or you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen
Susie Moore - July Guest Designer

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget, you can follow me on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest to see what I'm up to.

Floral Fantasy - Happy Birthday - CTD552

Hello! Today starts a brand new Color Throwdown Challenge were we have the colors gray, pink, silver and white to create with.

For my card, I used the Altenew stamp set Floral Fantasy along with the Floral Fantasy dies to create a birthday card. I used a white card base then added a strip of silver metallic card stock and then a scrap piece of charcoal gray polka dot paper. I used the Inside & Out Stitched Rectangle dies to die cut a piece of white card stock and then used the Painted Greetings stamp set for my sentiment. Next I stamped two roses and leaves from the Painted Flowers stamp set using the Altenew inks Pink Diamond and Rubellite. Once that was done, I die cut the large rose from the Floral Fantasy set and stamped it in Pink Diamond, Pinkalicious, Rubellite and Razzelberry, the Cherry Blossom mini ink cubes and die cut and stamped the leaves in going gray. I added foam tape to adhere the large rose and also to the stitched rectangle which I adhered to my card base. I added some clear rhinestones and some wink of stella glitter pen for some bling.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams blog links below or you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen
Susie Moore - July Guest Designer

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget, you can follow me on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest to see what I'm up to.

Hello - CTD551

Hi there! A brand new Color Throwdown Challenge starts today with the colors of pink, gold, black and white. We hope you’ll take the time to play along with us!

For my card, I used the Altenew stamp set Painted Flowers to create a thinking of you card. I die cut a rectangle from white card stock using the Small Stitched Rectangle dies and stamped my flowers in Pink Diamond and Rubellite Altenew ink. For the leaves, I stamped them in going gray ink stamping off to create a lighter shade and then stamping fully inked for the darker. I used the Altenew stamp set Flower Arrangement for my sentiment along the bottom of my die cut rectangle, then added foam tape to the back of it and adhered to my card base which I added a piece of scrap black and white polk a dot paper and a strip of metallic gold paper. For a little bling, I added some black rhinestones scattered around my flowers and stems.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams blog links below or you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen
Susie Moore - July Guest Designer

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget, you can follow me on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest to see what I'm up to.

Well, hello there! - CTD550

Hello, hello! It’s Wednesday and time for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge! We have some perfect colors and a great inspiration photo to go along with it for our challenge this week. Before I get to my card, I’d like to welcome our talented guest designer for this month, Susie Moore.

 For my card, I used the adorable new Hello Bluebird stamp set Field Mice along with the Field Mice dies to create a thinking of you card. I have so many ideas for making cards using the new sets I just received from Hello Bluebirds last release. For the strawberry vines and inch worm I used the new Strawberry Jam stamp set and Strawberry Jam dies. I stamped all of my images then colored them with Copic markers and then die cut them out. I altered the strawberry vines after coloring them by cutting sections apart so that I could create my own wreath surrounding the die cut oval I cut out. I used the Outside In Stitched Rectangle die to die cut a piece of white card stock and the strip of Doodlebug red gingham paper for along the bottom. Then I used a banner that I die cut using the Everyday Sentiment Banner dies for my sentiment. For the oval, I blended on some tumbled glass and mowed lawn distress inks.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams blog links below or you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen
Susie Moore - July Guest Designer

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget, you can follow me on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest to see what I'm up to.