Thanks, You're Fintastic - (CTD447)

Hi there!  It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge and we've got some great new colors for all of us to work with!

For my card, I used the fun Lawn Fawn stamp sets Fintastic Friends with the Fintastic Friends Lawn Cuts along with the Octiopi My Heart stamp set and Lawn Cuts and the Scripty Thanks Lawn Cut to make a thank you card.  I started out by watercoloring a piece of watercolor paper using my Jane Davenport watercolors and setting it aside to dry. Then I stamped my images and colored them with Copic markers and die cut them out.  Next I die cut a piece of kraft cardstock using the Stitched Hillside Borders die and stamped my sentiment and adhered it to the bottom of my watercolored panel, then attached that panel to a white card base.  After that I die cut three Scripty Thanks from enchanted evening cardstock and glued them together.  I adhered all of my fish and my die cut thanks and popped up the octopus with foam tape, then stamped some bubbles in aqua ink and then glued on some iridescent sequins.  It's hard to see but in the picture below you can also see how I added some Wink of Stella glitter pen to the octopus, fish and bubbles. 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 Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Audrey Tokach - June Guest Designer

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Lawn Fawn - Clear Acrylic Stamps - Fintastic Friends

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Cuts - Dies - Fintastic Friends

Lawn Fawn - Clear Acrylic Stamps - Octopi My Heart

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Cuts - Dies - Octopi My Heart

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Cuts - Dies - Scripty Thanks

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Cuts - Dies - Stitched Hillside Borders
ZIG - Memory System - Wink Of Stella - Glitter Brush Marker - Glitter Clear

Craft Medley - Cup Sequins - Black and White Classic

Birthday Tweetings - (CTD446)

Hello!  It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge and with the start of June, I'd like to welcome our new guest designer for this month, Audrey Tokach.

After seeing the colors and inspiration photo for this week's CTD Challenge, I thought that I'd go with the fun birds in the My Favorite Things stamp set, Tweet Friends and Tweet Friends Die-namics.  And after browsing through a few challenge sites, I thought I'd play along with the current Inkspirational Challenge which is to create a window somewhere on your card.

So for my card, I used a white card base and used the Inside & Out Stitched Rectangle die to cut my window and backed it up with a piece of berry sorbet cardstock which I stenciled using the Diagonal Bars Stencil.  Next I die cut the Cheerful Cages die, both the solid cage and the detailed cage and glued them together and adhered the cage with foam tape to my card front.  I also stamped two of the birds from the Tweet Friends set and colored them with Copic markers, die cut them out and adhered them to the cage.  After that, I used a Stitched Sentiment Strip die that I die cut and stamped my sentiment, adding it to the bottom of my cut out window.  Then I stamped and die cut some flowers from the Mini Modern Blooms set and added them to two corners of my 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 you can see all 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

Audrey Tokach - June 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.

My Favorite Things TWEET FRIENDS Clear Stamps CS108

My Favorite Things TWEET FRIENDS Die-Namics MFT855
My Favorite Things CHEERFUL CAGES Die-Namics MFT854 
My Favorite Things INSIDE AND OUT STITCHED RECTANGLE Stax Die-Namics MFT847
My Favorite Things STITCHED SENTIMENTS STRIPS Die-Namics MFT1028

My Favorite Things MINI MODERN BLOOMS Clear Stamps CS94

My Favorite Things MINI MODERN BLOOMS Die-Namics MFT809

Thinking of You - (CTD445)

Hi there!  It's Wednesday and time for a new Color Throwdown Challenge!

For my card, I used two Papertrey Ink stamp sets, Gran's Garden & Graceful Greetings, to create a thinking of you card.  I found inspiration not only in this week's colors but in the inspiration photo, I saw the big roses in the comforter and instantly thought of using the Gran's Garden set.  I started out with a white card base, then added a piece of enchanted evening cardstock which I stenciled using a Hero Arts herringbone stencil and enchanted evening ink.  After that, I die cut the Mix & Mat: Scallops die from white cardstock and stamped my sentiment in enchanted evening ink and adhered it to my card front with foam tape.  Next I stamped my roses using lovely lady and scarlet jewel (stamped off) ink and used simply chartreuse ink for the stems.  Once my flowers and stem were stamped and die cut I adhered them to my card front, popping up the lower rose with foam tape, and then added some silver sequins and some gold metallic Stickles to the center of the 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 Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Amy Tsuruta - May Guest Designer

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A Little Cheeky Hello

Hi there!  Hope your day is going well!  Today I have the third and final card in a series of shaker cards that I created.  For each of the cards pictured below, I used the same flowers from the My Favorite Things Springtime Blooms and the same Peek-a-Boo Window die to create my shaker but different critters. For today's card, I used the adorable Cheeky Monkey stamp set along with the Cheeky Monkey Die-namics, the same three flowers from the Springtime Blooms and the same grassy hillside die to create  a colorful and hopefully fun shaker card.  For this card, I turned the Peek-a-Boo die to form a diamond opening for my shaker and backed it up with some summer sun cardstock and a mix of red and gold sequins.  I die cut my grassy hill and attached that, then stamped and colored my images using Copic markers and die cut them out.  I also die cut a Stitched Sentiment Strip and stamped my Hello sentiment. And I thought it would be fun to have the monkey holding the largest flower like he picked it just for the recipient of the card.  Once all of my images were adhered, popping up the monkey with foam tape, I added some yellow stickles to the largest flower for some added sparkle. To see how the other two cards in this series where created, you can click here and here.
My Favorite Things SPRINGTIME BLOOMS Clear Stamps CS188
My Favorite Things SPRINGTIME BLOOMS Die-Namics MFT1079
My Favorite Things CHEEKY MONKEY Clear Stamps CS103
My Favorite Things CHEEKY MONKEY Die-Namics MFT836
My Favorite Things SQUARE PEEK A BOO WINDOW Die-Namics MFT1113
My Favorite Things STITCHED SENTIMENTS STRIPS Die-Namics MFT1028