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Happy New Year!!! Welcome to my first post of the year! I hope all of you had a great holiday spent with family and friends and are ready to get creative again (maybe with some new stamping supplies?). Today I’m sharing the card I created for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge #474. We have a neutral color palette of Gray, Ivory and Black to create with and a lovely inspiration photo with birds
I used a new Flora and Fauna stamp set that Santa brought me for Christmas to create my card, I thought the Aviary Love Set with the bird images would work nicely for the challenge this week.
I stamped the stem, bird and heart images from the set onto a white die cut Stitched Mini Scallop Square Stax and colored the images using Copic markers. I used a white card base and adhered a smoky shadow panel of cardstock which I had randomly stamped with the matching stem image in basic gray ink. Next I added my stamped scalloped square with foam tape and a strip of black cardstock which I embossed my sentiment using white embossing powder and tied on some 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
Hi there, crafty friends! Cold windy weather is in the forecast for today here in Michigan and I'm working on finishing up my Christmas shopping list. For today's Color Throwdown Challenge I created a set of chilly penguin tags to go along with my son's teacher gifts which I have wrapped up. Before I get to my tags, I'd like to welcome our December Guest Designer, Debra James.
For my tags, I used the adorable Lawn Fawn stamp set, Toboggan Together along with the Toboggan Together die cuts. I used the Lawn Fawn Stitched Circle Tags and die cut two white tags and two red tags (to go underneath the white tag and for my son to sign). Next I die cut a circle of light gray cardstock for each and sponged on some gray ink around the edges. Then I used the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders die and die cut my snowy hills. After that, I stamped all of my images and colored them with Copic markers, stamping the trees in gray ink, and then die cut them out. For my sentiments, I used the Happy Happy Happy Add On's stamp set and dies along with a Fancy Folded Banner in red cardstock. For the smaller tags, I used the Tiny Tags die and stamped them with the Tiny Tag Sayings set. Once I had all of my pieces together, I assembled my tags, popping up the cute penguin with foam tape and I added some silver glitter snowflakes using the Mini Snowflakes dies and glitter paper. For some finishing touches I added some clear rhinestones in the centers of the snowflakes, some Glossy Accents to the penguins beak and some white glitter to the trees and the penguins Santa hat.
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
