Thoughtful - (CTD459)

Hello there!  It's Wednesday and time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge.  Before I get to my card, I'd like to extend a welcome to our September guest designer and Color Throwdown alumni, Tammy Hershberger.

For my card, I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Gran's Garden along with the coordinating dies to create a thank you card.  I used a white card base, then added a die cut stitched panel of true black striped patterned paper.  On top of that I added a die cut scalloped tag which I stamped my thank you sentiment from the PTI It's the Thought stamp set, then added my leaves which I stamped in black and basic gray and my roses which I stamped in real red and scarlett jewel with black for the centers.  I popped up one of the roses for some added dimension and added black glitter to the center of the roses and black rhinestones as an accent. 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

Tammy Hershberger - September Guest Designer

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Wishing you a Magical Day

Hello there!  Happy Friday!  Today I'm sharing a fun card I created using the Avery Elle stamp set Be a Unicorn along with the coordinating Be a Unicorn dies. I needed a birthday card to mail to my niece and before I had an idea of what I wanted to make I purchased a Target gift card and inspiration hit.  The gift card was so pretty with it's sun burst and unicorn and when you tilted the card it had a metallic shimmer that I thought I'd try and re-create something close with the card I would make.  I started out with a white card base then used a panel of white cardstock which I corner rounded and blended on some mustard seed distress ink in the upper left corner.  Next I die cut a sun from the Papertrey Ink set Heart to Heart #6 and made a mask laying it over where I had blended on the yellow.  Once my sun mask was in place, I really started having fun with blending on my distress inks.  I used spiced marmalade, picked raspberry and wilted violet distress inks to blend in my background.  Once my ink blending was done, I removed my sun mask and stamped just the outline of the sun image from the Heart to Heart #6 set and then blended over the whole top of my card with more mustard seed distress ink and then stamped some sun rays in pumpkin pie ink using the PTI stamp set, Hello Sunshine.  Next I stamped all of my images and colored them using Copic markers then die cut them out along with two sets of clouds using the Lawn Fawn Puffy Cloud Borders.  I stamped my sentiment and some stars onto the die clouds then blended on some spun sugar distress ink along the edges and adhered them to my card front, popping up the top layer of clouds with foam tape.  I added my unicorn, hearts and star, popping up the unicorn with more foam tape and then I used a Wink of Stella glitter pen on the sun, the unicorn and the edges of the clouds, some icicle Stickles on the stars and some Glossy Accents on the hearts and horn of the unicorn.
Avery Elle Clear Stamp BE A UNICORN 023642

Avery Elle Steel Die BE A UNICORN DIES 023659

Lawn Fawn PUFFY CLOUD BORDERS Lawn Cuts LF915

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad MINI KIT #1 TDPK40316

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad MINI KIT #4 TDPK40347

Hello Teacher - (CTD458)

Happy Wednesday!  I'm hosting the new Color Throwdown Challenge that starts today and I've chosen a few primary colors which I thought would be fun to create with since it's back to school time.

Using the colors I picked for our challenge, I decided to create a few tags to wrap up some goodies for my youngest son's teachers for the first day of school.  I used the Lawn Fawn stamp set Thanks a Bushel along with the Thanks a Bushel Lawn Cuts.  I started out by die cutting two Lawn Fawn Stitched Circle Tags and blending on some mustard seed distress ink in the centers.  Next I added the grass which I die cut using the Grassy Hillside Borders die and I stamped my sentiment.  The sentiment was stamped from two different stamp sets, I used the word teacher from the Thanks a Bushel set and the hello from the Elphie Selfie set.  After that, I had stamped all of my images and colored them with Copic markers and I adhered the bushel of apples and a single apple to my tag using foam tape.  I also die cut a smaller tag from the Lawn Fawn Tiny Tags dies and stamped the to and from from the Tiny Tag Sayings: Birthday set and attached one of the apples I had stamped, die cut and colored along the edge then tied them both together with black and white bakers twine. 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

Sheri Gilson - August Guest Designer

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Lawn Fawn THANKS A BUSHEL Clear Stamps LF1208

Lawn Fawn THANKS A BUSHEL Lawn Cuts Dies LF1209

Lawn Fawn STITCHED CIRCLE TAGS Lawn Cuts Dies LF989

Lawn Fawn GRASSY HILLSIDE BORDERS Lawn Cuts Dies LF1200

Lawn Fawn ELPHIE SELFIE Clear Stamps LF1328

Lawn Fawn TINY TAG SAYINGS Lawn Cuts Dies LF1223

Lawn Fawn TINY TAG SAYINGS BIRTHDAY Clear Stamps LF1421

HIPPO BIRD-DAY - (CTD457)

Hi there!  I hope you're having a good day!  I'm here to share my card for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge.  We've got some sweet colors for our challenge this week and we hope you'll take the time to play along.

For my card, I used the adorable My Favorite Things Happy Hippos stamp set and Happy Hippos coordinating Die-namics to create a birthday card.  I used a white card base, then added a white frame that I die cut using the Single Stitched Line Rectangle Frames Die-namics.  Next I added a stitched rectangle using some MFT Dots & Stripes Sorbet designer paper and Inside & Out Stitched Rectangle dies.  The pink striped paper looks darker in my pictures for some reason, it's not really that dark of a pink.  I also stamped my sentiment on a Stitched Fishtail Sentiment Strips which I shortened by die cutting once, then stamping and then lining the banner piece up in the die again where I wanted cut and running it through again.  I stamped and colored these fun little hippos with Copic markers and after adhering my sentiment banner along the bottom of my card, I added my stacked up hippos with foam tape then added the balloons birds and some silver sequins. 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

Sheri Gilson - August 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 HAPPY HIPPOS Clear Stamps BB47

My Favorite Things HAPPY HIPPOS Die-Namics MFT1136

My Favorite Things SINGLE STITCH LINE RECTANGLE FRAMES Die-Namics MFT950

My Favorite Things DOTS AND STRIPES SORBET 6x6 Paper Pack 00760

My Favorite Things INSIDE AND OUT STITCHED RECTANGLE Stax Die-Namics MFT847

My Favorite Things STITCHED FISHTAIL SENTIMENT STRIPS Die-Namics MFT1123