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

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.