Celebrate - CTD724

Happy New Year! I hope all of you enjoyed the holidays! The Color Throwdown Challenge is back and we’ve got some striking colors to kick off the new year.

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set, Gran’s Garden along with the coordinating dies and the Calligraphy Classics set for my sentiment. To stamp my flowers, I used seedless preserves distress oxide ink and rich razzleberry su ink and for the stems I used smoky slate gray ink. In the center of each flower I added some black glitter and popped up a single flower with foam tape.

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 see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy RohlAmy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

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Snowman Competition - CTD723

Hello! Happy Holidays! I hope you’re enjoying the season! Today is Wednesday and time for a new Color Throwdown Challenge, this is our last challenge for this year until the new year.

The colors for this week’s challenge are blue, pink and gold (I went with yellow gold) and created a slimline Christmas card. I used the Hello Bluebird stamp set (which is one of my favorites from the last release), Snowman Competition along with the coordinating dies.

The supplies I used to create my card are straight forward, I stamped and die cut the images from the Snowman Competition set, colored them with copic markers and added white gel pen highlights. For the background I blended on some tumbled glass and broken china distress oxide ink and stamped the snowflakes from the set. 

I stamped my sentiment along the bottom, added my images popping up the two outside critters and the stacked squirrel and bunny with foam tape and then added some white die cut snowflakes and some glitter along the bottom.

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 see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy RohlAmy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

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Curio Cabinet - CTD720

Hello, crafty friends! Today I’m sharing my card for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge where the colors are sage green, black, kraft and copper. After seeing the colors and inspiration photo, I immediately thought of using The Greetery’s Curio dies to create my card.

This was the first time using the Curio Dies as I’ve just recently acquired them and although I can honestly say this card took me quite a bit of time, I’m actually pleased at how it turned out (I don’t always feel that way).

I started out by die cutting with the Curio: Spring Findings die. I die cut the nest from dark brown and kraft card stock and the eggs from white. Next I die cut the feather, snail and branch with spring blossom from white card stock. After that I used the Curio: Summer Findings die and die cut the butterflies from more white card stock and the fern and greenery including the leaves for the nest from sage green card stock.

Once almost all of my pieces were die cut, I used some distress oxide ink to add definition to my die cut pieces. On the eggs I used antique linen and on the nest walnut stain and black soot. On the greenery and leaves I used some Stampin’ Up always artichoke ink and on the orange pieces like the butterflies and snail I used pumpkin pie and cajun craze. I also watered down some black soot distress ink and added splatters on the butterflies, snail, feather, nest and blossom branch.

I used the Curio: Divider & Details Die and die cut the frame twice from kraft card stock, once to glue onto black card stock and another to hinge and lift like the photo above. I also used the Curio:Cover Die to die cut the frame using kraft card stock which I then blended on some walnut stain and vintage photo distress oxide ink. The hinge and latch pieces as well as the paperclip were all die cut from metallic copper card stock.

For my sentiment, I used the Curio: Labels Stamp Set and stamped the happy birthday onto one of the banners that I die cut from the Curio: Divider & Details die.

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 see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy RohlAmy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

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Effortless Beauties - CTD718

Hello, hello! It’s my turn to host over at the Color Throwdown Challenge and I’ve chosen the colors of cranberry, gray, mustard and rust!

The supplies I used to create my card are:

Papertrey Ink Effortless Beauties, Inside & Out Birthday, Feathered Friends Mini, PTI Oval dies, Cover Plate: Ornate. Ink SU: Cherry Cobbler, pumpkin pie, really rust, daffodil delight, smoky slate, basic gray.

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 see all of the sample entries in one location.

Amy RohlAmy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Susie Moore

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

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.