Sweet Christmas Wishes - CTD573

Hi there! A new Color Throwdown Challenge starts today and it’s our last one for this year. We hope you’ll take the time to play along with us using the colors lime green, hot pink and white.

 Well my hot pink looks more purply than hot pink but it’s what I had. I used the Lawn Fawn stamp set, Thanks a Latte along with the Thanks a Latte dies to create a “sweet” Christmas card with cocoa, cookies and a candy cane. I started out with a white card base then added two strips of pink gingham Doodlebug paper along the top and bottom. I not only used the Thanks a Latte set but also the Milk and Cookies stamp set and dies as well and I stamped my images out and colored them using Copic markers then die cut them. Once all of my images were colored and die cut I adhered them to my card front popping up the cocoa cup, a cookie and the plate with a cookie on it with foam tape. For my sentiment, I used the Simple Wavy Banners dies and some white card stock and then stamped the word sweet and wishes from the Milk and Cookies set and the Christmas from the Wavy Sayings set to create my own custom sentiment.

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
Amy Tsuruta - December Guest Designer

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Joy to You and Yours - CTD572

Hello, hello! Can you believe that it’s the first week of December? It’s a busy time of year and before we know it it will be 2020. I’m here today to share my card for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge #572 where we have some great new colors to create with. Before I get started I’d like to welcome our guest designer for this month, Amy Tsuruta.

 For my card, I used this week’s CTD colors and the adorable Hello Bluebird stamp set, Frosty Littles along with the coordinating Frosty Littles dies. To create my card, I started by stamping my images, first the sweet little snowmen from the Frosty Littles set and then the trees from the Frosty Friends set and dies, and then I colored them using Copic markers and die cut them out. I used the Outside In Stitched Square Stackables dies to die cut a piece of green Doodlebug paper and attached it to my card base. After that I used the Stitched Scalloped Circle Frames and die cut it using white card stock. Once that was done I cut a piece for the snow using the Stitched Hillside Borders and then blended on some tumbled glass distress oxide ink on both the circle and the snowy hill. I used the Merry Wishes stamp set to stamp the Joy along the top of my circle which I stamped in tropical teal and stamped a second time just slightly below and then stamped the to you and yours along the bottom. Finally I adhered my images to the circle, popping up the two snowmen and stamped some snowflake in the background and added some glitter to the snow and snowmen hats then added more foam tape to adhere the circle inside the scalloped frame. 

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
Amy Tsuruta - December Guest Designer

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Be Jolly - CTD571

Hello! It’s Wednesday and time for this week’s Color Thowdown Challenge.

For my card I used this week’s fun colors and the cute Hello Bluebird stamp set, Frosty Friends and Frosty Friends dies to create a Christmas card. To get started, I stamped my images and colored them using Copic markers then die cut them out. After that I used the Skating Pond Scene die and die cut it from white card stock and then used some tumbled glass distress oxide ink and blended it onto the pond. Next I used the Outside In Stitched Square Stackables dies and die cut a piece of scrap hot pink paper to adhere to my card base and used the smaller size to die cut a white card stock square. On the white card stock square I adhered my pieces from the Skating Pond Scene and die cut the square again which cut off overlap and gave a nice stitched look. Once that was done, I blended more tumbled glass distress oxide ink along the edges. Once my background was done I adhered my images, popping up the penguins and little bird with foam tape, and added some snowflakes and glitter.

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
Michelle Lupton - November Guest Designer

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Merry Christmas - CTD570

Hello there! It’s Wednesday and time for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge.

 For my card I used the Lawn Fawn stamp set, Ready, Set, Snow along with the coordinating Ready, Set, Snow dies to create a Christmas card. I used the Outside In Stitched Square Stackables dies to first emboss my card base with the stitched lines and then again to die cut a piece of red striped Doodlebug paper and a strip of Knit Picky Fall paper. Once those two steps were done, I stamped my images, stamping the trees in gray ink, and colored the snowmen and snow globe base using Copic markers. For the top portion of the snow globe, I created a mask and blended on some tumbled glass and peacock feathers distress oxide ink. After that, I heat dried the blended ink with my heat tool and then heat embossed the snowflakes within the snow globe using white embossing powder. I adhered my snow globe to my stitched square and attached the snowmen and stitched square to my card using foam tape. I die cut some snowflakes using the Mini Snowflakes dies and added some glitter to the inside of the snow globe.

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
Michelle Lupton - November Guest Designer

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Have a Novel Birthday

Hello! Good morning! I’m popping in to share a card that I created using the fun My Favorite Things stamp set Our Story. I don’t know about you but I’m an avid reader and once the fall/winter temps get cold I love to snuggle up with a good book, a cup of tea and my cat, so this set definitely speaks to me.

 To create my card, I used the pretty colors from the current Sunday Stamps Challenge and the MFT Our Story stamp set and Our Story dies. I used the Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables dies to die cut a piece of Doodlebug paper for my background and a strip of Perfectly Plaid fall paper. I stamped my sentiment and die cut it using the Stitched Fishtail Sentiment Strips die.   I also used the Outside In Stitched Square Stackables dies to die cut a piece of Knock on Wood paper and Knit Picky paper for my images. I stamped my images and colored them using Copic markers then die cut them out and adhered them to my stitched square, popping up the girl in the chair, the stack of books and the cat with foam tape. I also used foam tape to pop up the stitched square which I adhered to my background.

Fall Floral Hello - CTD568

Hello and happy Wednesday! I’m hosting this week over at the Color Throwdown Challenge and I chose some warm autumn colors for us to create with. I hope you’ll take the time to join us and play along using the colors, orange, brown, green and cream. Before I get to my card, I’d like to welcome November’s CTD guest designer, Michelle Lupton.

Using this week’s colors, I wanted to create a floral card but with a natural fall feel to it so I used the Hello Bluebird stamp set Wildflower Bouquet with the Wildflower Bouquet dies. I started out with a white card base, then using the Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackable dies I die cut a white card stock panel. Using the same rectangle dies, I created my own stencil from card stock and blended on some antique linen distress oxide ink and stamped my sentiment from the Cheery Greetings stamp set. Next I die cut a bunch of the flowers, stems and berries using the Wildflower Bouquet dies and stamped them  using canyon clay, terra-cotta tile, spring moss, simply chartreuse:(PTI), chocolate chip and pumpkin pie:(SU) and antique linen distress oxide. For a touch of sparkle, I added some rust colored rhinestones.

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
Michelle Lupton - November Guest Designer

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I Can Smell Autumn Dancing in the Breeze

 Happy Friday! It’s day three and the final day of my Hello Bluebird Mini Card Series. Today’s card features the sweet Fall Friends stamp set which is one of my favorites solely because of the deer image carrying the books, not that the other images aren’t cute, they definitely are, but just because I’m a reader and book lover. I thought the two critter images with the deers scarf blowing in the wind and fall leaves in the breeze would be perfect paired with this sentiment from the Pumpkin Time set. Below you can see the set of all three cards in this series and for more info on the first two cards you can click here and here.

As mentioned above, for my card today I used the Hello Bluebird stamp set Fall Friends and the Fall Friends dies. I stamped my images and colored them using Copic markers then die cut them out. For my background, I used some perfectly plaid fall paper and die cut it using the Outside In Stitched Square Stackables dies. I also used the Outside In Stitched Circle Stackables dies and die cut a white card stock circle which I blended some antique linen distress oxide ink along the outer edges and stamped my sentiment from the Pumpkin Time stamp set. I popped up the die cut circle and fox image with foam tape and adhered the rest of my images to complete my card.

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Autumn is...

 Happy Halloween! It’s Day 2 of my Hello Bluebird Mini Card Series and today I’m featuring a fun fall card with the cute critters from the Autumn Gatherings stamp set. These little guys are bundled up in their scarves and hat and sipping their pumpkin spice lattes just enjoying a fall day.

For my card today, I used not only the Autumn Gatherings stamp set and Autumn Gatherings dies which I love because you can dress these guys up to hold or wear a whole bunch of different accessories but I also used the Fall Friends stamp set and Fall Friends dies for the large pumpkins and larger sized fall leaves. For my background, I used some perfectly plaid fall paper and die cut it using the Outside In Stitched Square Stackables dies. Next I used the Skating Pond Scene die and used just the trees which I die cut from white card stock and blended on some antique linen and vintage photo distress oxide ink and added them along the top of my card. After that I die cut a smaller stitched square from white card stock and blended on some wild honey and ripe persimmon distress oxide ink and after drying it with my heat tool I used my Misti tool to stamp the sentiment from the Pumpkin Time stamp set. I also used the smaller leaf images from the Pumpkin Time stamp set and dies. I stamped my images from the Autumn Gatherings set and colored them using Copic markers then die cut them out. I adhered everything to my card front popping up the center sentiment square, the two critters and the smallest pumpkin.

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Pumpkin Time - CTD567

Hello, hello! Today I’m sharing the first card in a mini series of cards that I created using Hello Bluebird stamps and products. The card I have for today I used the wonderful colors for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge.

 For today’s card, I used the Hello Bluebird stamp set Pumpkin Time along with the Pumpkin Time dies. I’m such a huge lover of fall and so when I saw this set with the cute images and all of the fall quotes and sentiments I knew I needed it. To create my card I started out by stamping the images from the set and coloring them using Copic markers then die cutting them out. Next I used my Outside In Stitched Square Stackables dies and first die cut a piece of Perfectly Plaid fall paper and secondly a piece of white card stock. On the white card stock piece I blended on some spiced marmalade and ripe persimmon distress oxide ink, keeping it darker along the outer edges, then sprinkled on some water which I blotted with paper towel. Next I used the Birch Tree dies and die cut them from white card stock. I used the Stitched Hillside Borders dies and a piece of kraft card stock for my ground and blended on some vintage photo on both the birch trees and the ground piece before adhering to my ink blended square. I added my images popping up the fox with the cart and the center square piece with 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
Rosemary Dennis - October Guest Designer

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Leaves are Falling Autumn is Calling

Hello, crafty friends! For the next few days I’ll be sharing some fall themed Hello Bluebird cards here on my blog and I’m excited to share this first with you today.

Hello Bluebird Stamps has a challenge going on over at their Instagram page and it’s all about fall or #hellobluebirdlovesfall I should write (it ends Oct. 31). If you’ve visited my blog here over the last few months then you know I’m crazy about the Hello Bluebird Fairy Garden stamps, I think they’re the sweetest. So with that in mind I knew I wanted to used the adorable fairies from the Fairy Garden set to create a fall scene for my entry.

For my card, I used several different Hello Bluebird stamp set with the focus mainly on the fairies from the Fairy Garden stamp set and Fairy Garden dies. I created an elongated card, not my first but it’s been a while, instead of a standard A2 sized card. For my background I used a combination of distress oxide inks, starting at the top of my card I used Fossilized Amber, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade and Walnut Stain along the bottom. Along the ends and top corners I blended on some Candied Apple so the birch trees would stand out a little more and then I sprinkled on some water and blotted it with paper towel. I used my heat tool to dry my blended background before stamping my sentiment from the Pumpkin Time stamp set. I used my Misti tool to stamp the sentiment to make sure I got a good impression. I also stamped the grass/ground images from the Pig Day stamp set along the bottom of my card to give more definition to the ground.

Once my background was completed, I used the Birch Tree dies and die cut them from white card stock then blended on some Antique Linen and Vintage Photo distress oxide ink and added them to my card. I stamped all of my images and colored them using Copic markers then die cut them out. Other than the fairies, I used the stamp set Pumpkin Time and the Pumpkin Time dies for not only the sentiment but the little pumpkin cart (I cut the fox off after stamping), the mouse, small pumpkin and leaves. I used the Fall Friends stamp set and Fall Friends dies for the tiny pumpkin the one fairy is holding and the larger pumpkin. The large mushroom is from the Garden Friends stamp set and dies and the medium mushrooms are from the Fairy Garden set. The small pumpkin in the bottom center is from the Autumn Gatherings stamp set and dies and the little birds are from the Pig Day stamp set and dies. Yes I used a lot of Hello Bluebird stamp sets:) I adhered all of my images to my card front, popping up the three fairies and pumpkin cart with foam tape.

Below is a close-up shot of the metallic gold Spica pen I used on the wings of each fairy along with the clear Wink of Stella glitter pen I used on the fairies, pumpkins and leaves.

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