Heartfelt Condolences - CTD816

Hello, crafty friends! I know it’s been months since I’ve posted here on my blog but I have posted cards over on my Instagram page which you can find here: The Queen’s Scene

Today I’m here joining my other Color Throwdown team mates as we honor Barbara Anders who passed away recently from pancreatic cancer. Bar was the backbone of our Color Throwdown Challenge, she handled so many behind the scenes aspects of running our challenge but more than that Bar was a creative inspiration to myself and so many in the paper crafting world. Bar’s cards were beautiful and designed with an experts eye, stamp companies and other online sites were blessed to have her representing their products. I know that Bar is in the hands of the Lord and is resting and no longer in pain.

For my card today, I used this week’s colors along with the following Spellbinders dies: Autumn Sealed Sprigs and Sunflower Serenade and die cut the sunflower from cajun clay (PTI), the leaves from kraft card stock, the maple leaves from pumpkin pie (SU), the flower centers from chocolate chip and the small daisy flowers from apricot card stock. All of the pieces then had distress oxide ink blending on each of them.

For the background I used a piece of cream card stock and die cut it using the Outside in Stitched Rectangle dies, then stamped the Waffle Flower sentiment and used a wood impression plate for just the inside rectangle.

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  

Broni Holcombe  

Kelly Schirmer 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

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.

Lynn

Treat Cart - CTD796

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

For my card, I used the adorable new Lawn Fawn Treat Cart stamp set and Treat Cart dies to create a Father’s Day card. I started out by stamping all of the images in the stamp set, die cutting them using the dies and coloring them using copic makers. 

Using the Outside In Stitched Rectangle dies, I die cut one rectangle from some orange gingham Doodlebug paper and another from white card stock which I then used the Cloudy Stencil to stencil on some clouds along the top and used the Simple Stitched Borders dies and some lime green card stock for the bottom. For my sentiments, I used the Everyday Sentiment Banner dies. This was a very fun card to create and I can’t wait to use this set again!

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  

Kelly Schirmer 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

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.

Lynn

Have a Wonderful Day! - CTD790

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

For my card I used the Spellbinders Wreath Builder and Little Chickadee dies along with Squeeze the Day sentiment stamp set from Honey Bee Stamps to create a birthday card/thinking of you card. I also used a swiss dot embossing folder on a piece of aqua mist (PTI) card stock for my background and used the following colored card stock to die cut the flowers and bird: daffodil delight, summer sun, old olive, kraft, soft suede (SU).

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  

Kelly Schirmer 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

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.

Lynn

Congrats! - CTD788

Hello there! I’m hostess for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge and I’ve chosen the spring colors of pink, green and yellow. I hope you’ll take the time to play along!

The card I have for today features the Primrose Garden Bundle from Concord &9th, I used the same bundle on my card from last week’s challenge except today I used different colors and a different layout. 

I used the following card stock colors to die cut the flowers and leaves: raspberry fizz, limeade ice, simply chartreuse (PTI). Pink pirouette, daffodil delight (SU).

I used the following inks to blend: pine needles & crushed olive for the leaves, wild honey & spiced marmalade (distress oxide inks). Raspberry fizz & hibiscus burst for the flowers (PTI).

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  

Kelly Schirmer 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

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.

Lynn

Primrose Garden - CTD787

Hello! Long time no see. I haven’t blogged since January but I have still been creating and sharing over on my Instagram account which you can see here. 

 Today I’m jumping in to share my card for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge #787 where we’ve got some cool aqua and green colors to create with.

Ever since I saw the new Primrose Garden Bundle from Concord & 9th with the bold flower dies and the coordinating sentiment stamp set, I knew I need it. I’ve made a handful of cards using it so far and I absolutely love it! 

To create my card, I started out by die cutting the outline base for the flowers and leaves from always artichoke (SU) card stock and adhering it to a white card base.

 Next I die cut the large center flower and matching bud from cool caribbean (SU) and ink blended the center with peacock feathers distress oxide ink and added the black die cut center. For the leaves, I die cut them from old olive and lucky limeade and ink blended on some lucky clover and peeled paint distress oxide ink. the small cluster of flowers were die cut from taken with teal card stock and the medium sized flowers from white card stock and ink blended with tumbled glass. The berries were die cut from limeade ice (PTI) card stock and ink blended with some mowed lawn distress oxide ink. Once I assembled all of my die cut pieces, I die cut and stamped my banner and added some turquoise gems to the white flower centers and some tiny clear gems to the teal ones.

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  

Kelly Schirmer 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

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.

Lynn

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! It’s been a few months since I’ve posted here on my blog but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been creating cards. If you’re not aware, I’ve been posting over on my Instagram account which you can find HERE. Does that mean that I’ll stop posting here on my blog? No, but I won’t be posting as much. In all honesty posting on Instagram is an easier and faster to share my cards and it seems like I don’t get the traffic I used to here on my blog. If Instagram is not your thing, you can also see my cards on Pinterest HERE.

Speaking of Instagram, the above picture is of my top nine most popular cards that I shared on Instagram last year. It really kind of surprised me because almost all of the cards pictured I used Spellbinders dies to create them (other than the hollyhock thank you card which I used The Greetery supplies) and very little stamping.

For those of you who still stop by my blog or subscribe, I thank you and appreciate your support, I hope you’ll continue to do so but also hope you’ll pop over to my Instagram account as well.