Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Wildflower Bouquet - CTD681

Happy Wednesday! I’m sharing my card for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge where we have the beautiful colors of celery green, sage green, pink and plum and we hope you’ll play along.
After seeing the inspiration photo and colors for this week’s challenge, I knew I wanted to create a floral card that would be soft and pretty looking. I used the Hello Bluebird stamp set Wildflower Bouquet along with the coordinating dies and started stamping.
The first thing I did was to pull my ink colors which were pretty in pink, regal rose, pale plum, perfect plum, certainly celery and mellow moss (all SU). After that I die cut a bunch of the flowers and stems (it’s always great to have a bunch of these pre-die cut), next I knew I wanted my largest flowers to be pink so I started with stamping those and then moved onto my green leaves and stems.
I used my white card base to arrange my flowers and I always think of arranging a real flower arrangement when I do this and I try to work in threes, three pink flowers, three pale plum flowers, three celery leaves etc. Once I have my arrangement, I use a piece of press n seal over the top and set it aside so I can create my background. 

For my background, I used a handmade stencil I created that I keep on hand and blended in some spun sugar and worn lipstick distress oxide ink. Next I used a anti static bag along the top where I’m going to stamp my sentiment and place it into my Misti tool. I used the Hello Bluebird stamp set, Cheery Greetings and stamped it in black ink. Once that was done I adhered my flowers and stems, popping up the three pink flowers with foam tape and then glued on some iridescent sequins and added some pink glitter to the centers of the three pink 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
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Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Have a Hoppy Birthday - CTD680

Hello, hello! Today I’m sharing my card for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge #680 where I created a slimline birthday card with a frog theme.
For my card I used the Lawn Fawn stamp set Toadally Awesome along with coordinating dies as well as the Small Slimline with Lift the Flaps die to create my base. For my background I blended on some tumbled glass and salty ocean distress oxide ink and used the Cloudy Stencil for the sky. I also used the Happy Trails stamp set and dies for the pine trees in my background and Gleeful Gardens set and dies for the grasses along my pond.
All of my images were stamped then die cut and then colored using copic markers.
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
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Skating by to say hi - CTD679

Hello there! It’s time for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge where we have the colors blue, green and gold.
For my card I used the Hello Bluebird stamp set, Winter Skate to create a slimline thinking of you card. I stamped, then die cut using the coordinating dies, then colored the images using copic markers. 

I used the Small Slimline with Lift the Flaps dies to die cut two pieces of white card stock then blended on some tumbled glass distress oxide ink along the top and bottom of the piece then added some cracked pistachio ink along the bottom blending it in with the tumbled glass. I used the second die cut slimline piece and trimmed it with scissors to create my snowy ground around the skating pond, then stamped my sentiment along the bottom of the whole piece. I stamped some snowflakes and the swirl on the skating pond using tumbled glass distress ink and then added all of my images popping up all but the squirrel in the back with foam tape.
I matted my scene with yellow card stock and spring rain polka dot paper then added it to a white card front. I also add some iridescent glitter to the snow around the skating pond for a touch of sparkle.
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
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Let’s Toast, Valentine - CTD678

Hello and happy Wednesday! I’m hostess this week over at the Color Throwdown Challenge and I’ve chosen the colors pink, red, cranberry and kraft to create with which I thought would be perfect for creating Valentines.
For my card I used some Lawn Fawn products to create a mini slimline Valentine card with a breakfast theme. I started out by stamping and die cutting my images from the Let’s Toast set, plus dies, where I used the toaster, toast, knife and sentiment. Next I stamped images from the Milk and Cookies set which were the milk container and glass of juice. I also used the So Smooth set for the strawberries and yogurt and the Love You a Latte set for the coffee cup and finally the new Cerealsly Awesome mini set for the cereal bowl.
After stamping and die cutting all of my images, I colored them using copic markers. For the two toast images, I stamped the peanut butter using brushed corduroy distress oxide ink and for the jelly I used candied apple distress oxide ink then stamped the faces and cheeks. For my background I used a red striped piece of Doodlebug paper and for my scene I used white card stock with a strip of kraft card stock along the bottom. I popped up the two pieces of toast and the cereal bowl with foam tape and added iridescent glitter to the small pink hearts.
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
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