Hello - (CTD404)

Hello!  It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge! Before I get to my card I'd like to welcome this month's Color Throwdown Guest Designer, Wanda Guess.

For my card I went with a clean and simple look and kept the focus on my main image.  I used the Papertrey Ink stamp sets Spring Woods & Winter Woods for my sentiment.  For some reason the colors in these pictures look more blue instead of aqua/teal but I used craft, hawaiian shores, tropical teal, chocolate chip, simply chartreuse and tumbled glass ink.  I die cut a circle from a white cardstock panel, then sponged tumbled glass distress ink onto my card front and adhered the die cut panel using foam tape over top of the sponged background.  To add some interest to the die cut circle in the front of my card, I die cut a frame and adhered it to my card front then added the bird and branch 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 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

Wanda Guess - August Guest Designer

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Sending Birthday Cheer - (CTD403)

Hi there!  It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge.

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Bloomers to create a soft watercolored background and I used some metallic gold paper to die cut the Sending from the PTI Don't Forget to Write kit along with the birthday cheer sentiment which I stamped on a pale pink banner.  For my flowers I inked them up then misted them with water and stamped them onto watercolor paper overlapping the flowers in clusters.  Once the flowers started to dry, I stamped the centers of the flowers and used a water brush to blend some of the colors.

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

Kim Singdahlsen - July Guest Designer

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Papertrey Ink July Blog Hop - A Book for Your Birthday

Hello!  I've got a card and coordinating bookmarks that I'm sharing for the Papertrey Ink July Blog Hop.  The inspiration for this month's hop is the photo below.  When I first saw the inspiration photo for the hop my first thought was that I loved the colors within it, then I started thinking about what elements I'd like to make into a card and out of the flowered pillow and patterns, my eye zeroed in on the little stack of books.  So that's what I went with.  I'm huge lover of books and reading and I'm always in need of a birthday card for one of the girls in my book club, so I used my PTI stamp set Bibliophile and coordinating dies to create a birthday card. I used the colors from the wood floor for my books, the aqua color for my background which I used a PTI impressions plate on, the white for my teacup and a pop of the coral color in my rose.  And I'm also entering this card in for the Gilded in Gold with Danielle Flanders Stamp-a-faire challenge because I used some Martha Stewart gold leaf paint and painted the edges of my teacup, the edges of two books on my card and the bottom edges of my bookmarks.  The rose is from the PTI stamp set The Sweet Life and I stamped it in berry sorbet and pure poppy with the leaves in simply chartreuse. The bookmarks I kept simple other than stamping a quick little quote from the Bibliophile set, adding a cluster of roses and painting the bottoms with metallic gold paint.

Papertrey Ink Stamp-a-Faire - A Friend

Hi there and good morning!  I've got another card for the Papertrey Ink Stamp-a-Faire that I'm sharing today.  For this card I used the Watercolor Like a Master with Kay Miller challenge.  If you're in the card making/papercrafting community then I'm sure you've seen and have heard of Kay Miller and know how gorgeous her cards are.  Kay creates the most beautiful watercolors on her cards and for this challenge she is sharing her first ever video on how she watercolors, so be sure to pop over and watch. For my card I used the PTI stamp sets Garden Grace and Choose Joy.  I started out with a piece of watercolor paper and by stamping the solid leaf stamp with limeade ice ink and then stamping the solid flower stamp in berry sorbet ink.  Then I used my water brush and blurred the edges of some of the flowers and leaves careful not to have the colors run together too much.  Next I added some water to the center of my card and added some aqua mist ink.  After that I inked up the outline leaf stamp in ocean tides and stamped over the solid leaves and inked up the outline of the flower in pure poppy ink and stamped that.  I ended up adding a few single flowers and sets of leaves along the edge of my card just to fill it in a bit more and then I went back in again with my water brush and softened some of the edges on the stamped images.  Once the center of my paper was dry, I stamped my sentiment and glued on some iridescent sequins.