SMILE - (CTD460)

Hello!  It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge!

For my card, I used the My Favorite Things stamp set Plentiful Petals along with the Plentiful Petals Die-namics to create a birthday card.  I started out with a white card base, then I die cut a panel of white cardstock using the Single Stitched Rectangle Frames and using the inside of the frame I used the Chevron Grid Stencil and blended on some brocade blue ink.  Next I glued on my stitched frame and adhered my stenciled center panel and stamped my sentiment from the All Smiles stamp set.  After that, I blended on some new leaf ink onto the bottom of a piece of new leaf cardstock and die cut my large Double the Smiles Die-namics sentiment and glued that above my stamped sentiment.  Next I stamped my three flowers in pacific point ink, the leaves in new leaf ink and the centers in limeade ice ink and die cut them out.  I adhered my flowers, popping up the largest one, and my leaves and glued on some sequins in the centers and two iridescent green on the stenciled panel. 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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Happy Halloween Pop-Up Card

Hi there!  Today I'm popping in to share a fun Halloween Pop-up box card I created.  Yes I know, Halloween is more than a month away but since fall is my favorite time of year I figured I'd get started making some projects. I used the Lawn Fawn Scalloped Box Card Pop-up die to create my card base and the adorable Halloween Lawn Fawn stamp set Booyah along with the coordinating Booyah dies.  The ghost from this set are just too cute and so fun to mix and match with different costumes.  I'm entering my Halloween pop-up card into the current Lawn Fawnatics Challenge which is to create a scene.  Hopefully my card counts as a three dimensional scene.

Above is a quick video of my card and how it folds flat for mailing and what it looks like from different angles.

I stamped out my different images from the Booyah set, along with a few images from the Spooktacular stamp set, and colored them with Copic markers and added some white gel pen highlights. (The picture above is from my Instagram page where I'm playing along with The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge). Next I die cut the Scalloped Box Card from black cardstock and the side panels from some Doodlebug Designs Halloween Parade designer paper.  I also die cut the Cute Cobweb from black cardstock and glued it to the front lower panel and the smaller spider to the side panel.  For my Happy Halloween sentiment, I used the Happy, Happy, Happy stamp set and dies and the Halloween sentiment from the Booyah set I stamped onto a Fancy Folded Banners die.  The hills inside the box were created with lavender lace cardstock which were die cut using the Stitched Hillside Borders and then I blended on some wilted violet distress ink.  Attached behind each hill, I added a black fence using the Little Picket Fence Border die and then I attached all of my images. It's difficult to see in the pictures, but I added some silver glitter gel pen to the lightning bolt in the purple hair of the one ghost and some yellow glitter gel pen on the bolts and buckle on the other two ghost.  And I added some yellow Stickles on the stars on the background panel.

Lawn Fawn SCALLOPED BOX CARD POP-UP Lawn Cuts LF1376

Lawn Fawn BOOYAH Clear Stamps LF932

Lawn Fawn BOOYAH Lawn Cuts Dies LF933
Lawn Fawn SPOOKTACULAR Clear Stamps LF698
Lawn Fawn SPOOKTACULAR Lawn Cuts Dies LF699
RESERVE Lawn Fawn CUTE COBWEB Lawn Cuts LF1492
Lawn Fawn HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY Clear Stamps LF1334
Lawn Fawn HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY Lawn Cuts LF1335
Lawn Fawn FANCY FOLDED BANNERS Lawn Cuts LF1367
Lawn Fawn STITCHED HILLSIDE BORDERS Lawn Cuts Dies LF772
Lawn Fawn LITTLE PICKET FENCE BORDER Lawn Cuts LF1379

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

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.

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