Happy Birthday to You

Happy Friday, crafty friends!  Yesterday I was in the mood to create something on the cute side so after looking on the sites I follow, I found two challenges I thought I would join in, and created a birthday shaker card.

I'm entering my card in this week's Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge with it's neon colors and the Lawnscaping Challenge which is to use flowers on your card.

For my card I used the Lawn Fawn stamp sets, Gleeful Gardens and Scripty Sayings along with the coordinating dies and the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders die and a MFT sun die.   To assemble my shaker card, I started out with a white card base and sponged some tumbled glass distress ink on the front of my card.  Then I die cut a rectangle from a piece of fun foam and another rectangle from white cardstock.  Basically my layers to create the shaker are, sponged card base, white fun foam with die cut rectangle, sprinkle in my shaker bits, a piece of acetate and my top layer which is a white piece of cardstock with a rectangle cut out.  I hope that makes sense.  Once I had my shaker put together, I added my die cut hillside from limeade ice cardstock which I stamped my sentiment on, my die cut sun and my stamped and die cut images which I colored using Copic markers.

Hello Friend

Hello!  Happy Thursday!  Today I'm sharing a card that I created for the Addicted to CAS Challenge which is to create a card using Inlaid Die(s). For my card I used the Concord & 9th stamp set, Wildflower and stamped only two of the images from the set on to watercolor paper, the stem and flower stamps.  After stamping my images, I used circle dies in three different sizes and die cut circles from my stamped panel.  On these circles I used my Zig Clean Color Real Brushes and an aqua brush to watercolor in some color.  Only adding color to the circles is the Spotlighting technique. The only color I added to the main panel other than the circles was to use a silver glitter pen on the stems and stamens of the flowers.  Next I adhered my stamped panel onto black cardstock adding the circles back in place and used foam tape to pop up the whole panel and added it to my white card base.  To finish off my card, I stamped my sentiment from the MFT Label Maker Sentiments and added some silver sequins. Thank you so much for your visit today!

Wildflower - (CTD387)

Hi there!  It's Wednesday and time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge.  Before I get to my card, I'd like welcome this month's guest designer, Amy Rohl.

For my card I used a new to me stamp set by Concord & 9th, Wildflower.  I used a piece of watercolor paper and stamped my images using a Versa Mark ink pad and heat embossed with white embossing powder.  Then I used some Tim Holtz distress inks, festive berries, spiced marmalade, mustard seed and cracked pistachio to do my watercoloring.  For my sentiment I used the My Favorite Things stamp set, Label Maker Sentiments and stamped them using a black Palette ink pad.  The whole watercolored panel was popped up using foam tape and added to my white card base.  To add a little shimmer to my card, I added some iridescent sequins scattered throughout my 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 you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Joan Ervin

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Amy Rohl - April Guest Designer

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Tweet Friends

Happy Friday!  It's been a long week and I'm looking forward to the weekend, how about you?  Today I'm sharing another card that I created using the new My Favorite Things Tweet Friends set. I used the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #230 for my layout and the Colors from this week's Colour Queen Challenge #335, I'm also entering my card in the Simon Says Anything Goes Challenge.  My card is pretty simple and straight forward, I die cut the bird cage using the Cheerful Cages Die-namics then die cut the birds and colored them using Copic markers using a white gel pen to add some white dots for detail.   After that I used the MFT Diagonal Bars stencil and sponged on some berry sorbet ink on a panel of berry sorbet cardstock, only stenciling the upper middle portion of my panel.  Then I stamped my sentiment onto a strip of aqua mist and added a horizontal strip of tropical teal, then my bird cage and birds popping up the larger bird with foam tape.  As a final detail I added some teal sequins.