The Queen's Scene

Friday, March 18, 2016

I Miss Hanging Out With You

Happy Friday! The card I'm sharing today was created using the My Favorite Things Color Challenge #41 and the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge #272. I combined both challenges and used the super fun MFT's Cheeky Monkey stamp set and Die-namics. I love this set it's so cute and playful!

Along with the Cheeky Monkey set, I used the MFT's Mini Modern Blooms set for my leaves (I really need some jungle leaf dies but made do). I started out my card with a white card base, then randomly stamped a die cut stitched panel using the leaf from the MMB set. Next I cut my horizontal strips of daffodil and new leaf card stock and a die cut circle of new leaf and one from watercolor paper. I used some Crushed Olive distress ink to add some watercoloring on my die cut circle and set that a side to dry. After that I die cut, stamped and colored my monkeys and bananas using Copic markers and die cut and stamped three of the larger leaves from the Mini Modern Blooms set in new leaf. Once all my pieces were complete, I adhered them all together, using foam adhesive to pop up the monkeys and stamped my sentiment in black Palette ink.

Hope you have some fun plans for the weekend!

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Celebrate Today - (CTD384)

Hi there! It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge!

For my card using this week's colors, I used a one of the sheets that came in the Papertrey Ink Color Pop kit. I die cut my sentiment from white card stock and sponged on some lovely lilac ink along the bottom of each word. Next I used the stencil from the kit and stenciled on some of the smaller flowers and all of the leaves. After that I stenciled two pure poppy flowers and die cut those layering them together. After everything was stenciled and die cut, I stamped in the details and adhered everything onto the card front using foam adhesive to pop up the large red flower. As added details, I added some black and white bakers twine and some red rhinestones.

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 you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe

Lisa Henke

Lynn Put

Leslie Miller - March Guest Designer

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Rainbow

Hi there, crafty friends! Today I've got a card that I'm sharing using the fun Avery Elle stamp set, Skating By. I'm entering my card today into two challenges, the first is the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge and the second is for the A Blog Named Hero Challenge. Both challenges are all about creating with Rainbow colors.

I stamped my image onto a die cut stitched panel using black Palette ink and I used Copic markers to color. Below is a quick slideshow of how I stamped my card.

Have a wonderful day!

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Bold Blossoms Birthday - (CTD383)

Hello there! It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge #383. Our hostess for this week is Broni who chose our cheerful color palette and inspiration photo.

For my card, I used a piece of watercolor paper and stamped my sentiment in black palette ink, then using a circle die I lightly traced a circle about the size of my die cut wreath so I would know where to watercolor in some mustard seed distress ink. Once my watercoloring was mostly dry, I added some splatters of marmalade distress ink for a bit more color. One of the things you can't see from the pictures of my card today is that the watercolored yellow actually has a gold shimmer to it when the light hits it. This happened by accident because right before I made this card, I was working with some Martha Stewart gold metallic paint and had cleaned my brushes in my water cup. So when I did my watercoloring for this card the metallic paint mixed with the yellow, it's a pretty touch and I will try this again for sure. While my watercoloring was drying, I die cut and stamped my flowers, leaves, bird and wreath adding Copic marker detail to the wreath and flowers. I used the Papertrey Ink stamp sets Bold Blossoms, Winter Woods, Graceful Greetings and the wreath die. Once everything was dry, I arranged and adhered everything to my card front, popping the largest flower with foam tape and added three sequins.