Coffee and Chocolate Chip Cookies - CTD604

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

For my card I used a two different Lawn Fawn stamp sets to create a simple card with a more masculine look. I used the Thanks a Latte stamp set and dies along with the Milk and Cookies stamp set and dies. 

I used a square card base and added a panel of Doodlebug kraft in color black herringbone paper and then used the Outside In Stitched Rectangle dies to first die cut a piece of kraft Doodlebug Design dot-stripe paper and then to die cut a piece of white card stock for my images. I colored my images with Copic markers and adhered them to my white stitched rectangle, popping up the one chocolate chip cookie with foam tape and then added my sentiment which I stamped onto an Everyday Sentiment Banners die.

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

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Sending Sunshine & Smiles - CTD603

Hello there! I hope you’re doing well! It’s Wednesday and time for a new Color Throwdown Challenge. We have some sunny colors for all of us to create with this week and we hope you’ll play along.

I just love this week’s cheerful colors and I’ve been having so much fun creating slimline cards. As soon as I saw the colors for this week I thought of these adorable frogs from the Lawn Fawn Toadally Awesome stamp set and coordinating dies and to go along with it I used the new All the Clouds stamp set and All the Clouds dies for my clouds, sun and sentiment.

To create my card I used the Small Slimline with Lift the Flaps die with a piece of white card stock and used the new Lawn Fawn cloud stencil with some fossilized amber, wild honey and carved pumpkin distress oxide inks to create my sky. And for the bottom of my card, I used the Grassy Hillside Borders die and the Stitched Hillside Borders dies and blended on some lucky clover on the grass and lucky clover and peacock feathers distress oxide ink on the pond water.

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

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Spellbinders How Does Your Garden Grow Alphabet

Happy Saturday! Today I’m sharing a card that I created using the July 2020 Large Die of the Month, How Does Your Garden Grow Alphabet dies. With 32 dies, and alphabet letters in a fun font along with additional flowers and greenery, it’s a great die set to have.

For my card, I used the alphabet dies with some enchanted evening card stock and die cut the word Friend. I used one of the sets of flowers and die cut them from yellow card stock and blended on some wild honey destress oxide ink along the bottom of each flower. Next I die cut the stems from simply chartreuse card stock and blended on some mowed lawn distress oxide ink on each and them adhered each flower with stem to a letter.

For my background, I used some Pebbles Family Ties paper and matted it with yellow card stock then added a piece of white card stock which I stamped my Everyday Sayings sentiment on and attached my die cut letters. I added a strip of yellow gingham paper from the Family Ties pack under my letters and my card was complete.

Mermaid Card Collection Day 3 - Let’s Shellabrate

 Hello there! I’m back with the third and final day of my Mermaid Card Collection and today I have another slimline card featuring one of the mermaids from the Under the Sea stamp set.

 To create my card, I stamped several images from the Under the Sea set, colored them using Copic markers and die cut them out using the Under the Sea dies. For my sentiment, I used the Let’s Shellebrate from the Mermaid Song stamp set and dies.

 For my background, I used the Small Slimline with Lift the Flaps die and white card stock and then blended on some tumbled glass and broken china distress oxide ink using a wave stencil. I also used some kraft card stock for my sandy ocean bottom which I die cut using Stitched Hillside Borders die and blended on some vintage photo distress oxide ink around the edges. 

 To finish off my card, I added small pearls to the center of the clam shell (see photo above), some sequins, some Glossy Accents on the stamped bubbles in the background and some Wink of Stella glitter pen on the mermaid, the shell she’s holding and the clam shell with pearls.

Mermaid Card Collection Day 2 - Swimming By

 Hello! I’m here with Day 2 of my Mermaid Card Collection and today I have a fun shaker card that I created using the Honey Bee stamp set, Swimming By.

To create my card I started out by stamping some of the fun images from the Swimming By stamp set and coloring them using Copic markers then die cutting them out using the Swimming By dies. Next I die cut two white card stock panels using the Outside In Stitched Rectangle dies. On one of the panels I used the Small Stitched Circle dies for the window to my shaker and on the other panel I used a wave stencil and some distress oxide inks (tumbled glass & mermaid lagoon) to blend my ocean view. 

Once my ink blending was dry, I used my Misti tool and stamped part of my sentiment and some bubble images. After that I positioned two of the seaweed images on my ink blended panel and glued them in place. I used my anti-static tool on my ink blended panel and in the middle added some iridescent sequins, blue sequins and glitter for my shaker bits.

For my top panel with circle cut out, on the back side I added acetate for the window and added foam tape and adhered it to my ink blended panel to create my shaker (see photo below). Then I adhered another seaweed image, the turtle, my die cut sentiment and my mermaid which I popped up with foam tape. In the photo above you can see how I glued a small shell in the mermaids hand and how I used a Wink of Stella glitter pen on the mermaids tail and on the turtle.

Thanks for stopping by! You can view this mermaid shaker card in action over on my Instagram account by clicking here.

Mermaid Card Collection Day 1 - CTD#602

Hello there crafty friends! I hope your week is going well. Today starts a new Color Throwdown Challenge with some fantastic new colors to create with.
This week’s colors are blue, green, peach and gold (I used yellow) and using the colors for challenge #602 I’ve created a collection of mermaid cards that I’ll be sharing here on my blog and on my social media.

Today is Day 1 of my Mermaid Card Collection where I created a slimline card using the Honey Bee stamp set Under the Sea. I put a lot into this card and enjoyed the creative process. This is my first time using Honey Bee stamps and when I saw that these darling mermaids were retiring I knew I had to nab them up.

The first thing I did to create my card was to stamp the mermaid and a bunch of the other images from the Under the Sea set and to die cut them out using the Under the Sea dies. Next I used the Small Slimline with Lift the Flaps die and die  cut my stitched panel from white card stock. After that I arranged my images on the white slimline panel until I was happy with my layout and then colored my images using Copic markers.

Once my images where colored, I used some distress oxide inks (tumbled glass, broken china, mowed lawn & lucky clover) and a wave stencil to create a blended background. For the sand at the bottom of my card, I die cut a piece of kraft card stock using the Stitched Hillside Borders die and blended on some vintage photo distress oxide ink around the edges. In the photo above you can see that I used some Glossy Accents on the bottle and also on the bubbles throughout my background. Next I stamped my sentiment using my Misti tool and die cut the Fantastic portion of the sentiment and adhered that.

This sweet little mermaid image comes with her hands together like she should be holding something and so I used a kraft knife and made a V cut around her hands and added a seashell with a pearl. I added all of my fun images to my card and popped up the mermaid using foam tape. I added some sequins and dots of Glossy Accents in my background and used my clear Wink of Stella glitter pen on the mermaids tail, crown (I love that there’s a crown in each stamp set) and the shell she’s holding.

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

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Fairy Friend - CTD#601

Hello there! It’s time for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge where we have some pretty colors to create with for this week.

For my card I used my favorite fairy set which is the Hello Bluebird Fairy Garden stamp set and coordinating Fairy Garden dies. To create my card I started out by stamping all of my images and coloring them using Copic markers then die cutting them out.

Once my images were ready, I used the Outside In Stitched Circles and die cut a piece of white card stock. I then used the Lawn Fawn grass stencil and blended on some brushed corduroy and vintage photo distress oxide ink for the grass and some antique linen for the around the edges of my circle.

Next I used a piece of pink gingham Doodlebug paper and die cut it with the Outside In Stitched Square dies and attached it to a white square card base. I added my ink blended circle and then my images which I popped up the two fairies and ladybug using foam tape. After that I added my white heat embossed sentiment, a few iridescent sequins and some glitter to the wand and along the bottom of my card. I also used some Wink of Stella clear glitter pen on the fairy wings and flowers.

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

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I’m So Happy I Found You - CTD#600

Hello! It’s time for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge and can you believe that this is the 600th Challenge? Crazy! The Color Throwdown Challenge has been around for a long time and I feel honored to been part of such a great team.

 For my card I used the Lawn Fawn stamp set Hey Lady along with the Hey Lady dies to create a fun card. I used the Outside In Stitched Rectangle dies and die cut a piece of red Dot-Stripe Doodlebug Design paper for my background. Next I die cut a white stitched rectangle. After that I stamped my images and colored them using Copic markers and die cut them out. 

 After that I stamped my images and colored them using Copic markers and die cut them out. Once that was done I adhered three of the large green leaves to my white stitched rectangle and ran it through my die cutting machine again so that it cut off the edges of my leaves. Next I adhered the remaining leaves and the lady bugs popping up two of them with foam tape and then adhered my white rectangle to my red background and glued on the pieces of the leaves that where die cut off. For the magnifying glass, I used a piece of clear acetate and glued it between two of the die cut magnifying glass pieces. I stamped my sentiment onto a white banner that I die cut using the Everyday Sentiment Banners dies.

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

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.