The Queen's Scene: January 2021

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Elephant Friends Birthday Card - CTD627

Hello, hello! I’m sharing my card for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge where we have the colors pink, blue and gray to create with.

For my card I used the fun Elephant Friends stamp set and dies from Hello Bluebird to create a birthday card. I started out by stamping and die cutting these sweet images and then coloring them using copic markers.

Next I used a square white card base, added a piece of Papertrey Ink blue polka dot paper and then used the Stitched Mini Scallop Square Stax dies and Outside In Stitched Square dies to die cut the pieces for my images. On my top stitched square, I used the Cloudy Stencil and blended on some marina mist ink and along the bottom (even thought I forgot that I wasn’t supposed to use green on my card) I used some shabby shutters distress oxide ink. After that I stamped my sentiment from the Typed Everyday stamp set and added my images 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 RohlAmy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe

Lynn Put

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

With Sympathy - CTD626

Good morning! Thanks for stopping by! It’s Wednesday and time for a new Color Throwdown Challenge. Our colors for this week are plum, cream and black and we hope you’ll take the time to play along.

For my card, I used the Altenew stamp set Painted Flowers along with the coordinating Painted Flowers dies to create a sympathy card. I started out by using a rectangle stencil and blending on some antique linen distress oxide ink. Once that was done I used my Misti tool and stamped my sentiment from the Painted Greetings stamp set.

Once my background and sentiment were stamped, I stamped my flowers on some white card stock using pale plum, dusty concord and elegant eggplant inks and stamped the leaves using antique linen distress ink, stamping off the main layer of the leaf, then I die cut all of the flowers. I arranged my die cut flowers around my sentiment and then stamped some of the extra leaves and stems directly on my card base. I popped up three of the flowers with foam tape and adhered the remaining flowers. I added some iridescent plum colored sequins and some glitter on the flowers to finish off my card.

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 RohlAmy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe

Lynn Put

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.

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Life update

Hi there everyone! I usually don’t share personal things here on my blog but today I thought I would share something big that happened for our family. After being in our house for more than 19 years, we moved and bought a house in the country. We’ve wanted to move to a house with property for a very long time but with three kids we decided years ago to live in a subdivision. Well with our youngest son moving from middle school to high school we decided to make the big move and we couldn’t be happier. This is the reason that I haven’t been creating and sharing here on my blog, since we started house shopping in early spring and the whole process was very stressful.

We’ve been in our new house less than two weeks and love the small town feel and peaceful atmosphere. We’re still unpacking boxes and getting settled and even though it was hard leaving our old house and my craft studio with built in cabinets and counter tops, we’re here to stay. I’ve been having fun creating a crafting space here at our new house and hope to share some pictures and video soon but within the next few days I thought it would be fun to share the video I made of my old crafting space so please stay tuned.

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Blossoming Branches - CTD625

Hello, hello! It feels like forever since the last time I posted here on my blog and it’s been months since I actually made a card. As if last year wasn’t crazy enough, our family made some BIG changes in the tail end of last year, all for the good, but I’ve been super busy. I’ll explain all of that in my next blog post but I wanted to make sure I was able to jump in and join my Color Throwdown team mates in this week’s challenge. The colors for this week are blue, pink and green.

I went with softer tones of the challenge colors and was thinking of spring and apple blossoms. I used the Ink to Paper stamp sets Blossoming Branches along with the Blossoming Branches dies and for my little blue bird I used the Feathered Friends Mini 1 stamp set and dies.

For my background I used a scrap piece of some My Minds Eye pink striped paper, added a horizontal strip of hibiscus burst card stock and stamped my sentiment from the Blossoming Branches set along the bottom. I stamped the bird in marina mist and bashful blue ink (su), the branch in chocolate chip (su), the flowers in hibiscus burst (stamped off) and raspberry fizz and the leaves in simply chartreuse and ripe avocado ink. I used the Mix & Mat Scallops die with white card stock and adhered all of my pieces, popping up the whole panel along with the bird and the three largest flowers with foam tape. I added some chunky glitter to the centers of the three largest flowers to give it some sparkle and to finish it off.