When You're Not Here - (CTD416)

Hi there!  I'm late with my Color Throwdown Challenge post for today but better late than never.  Since I was late, I was able to use this week's My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge to go along with the pretty color combination we have over at the Color Throwdown.

For my card I used the My Favorite Things stamp sets Pretty Posies with the Pretty Posies Die-namics and I Knead You with the I Knead You Die-namics.  Looking at the CTD inspiration photo I wanted to use a floral set but also wanted something cute thrown in.  I used a strip of polka dotted coral colored paper from the MFT Dots & Stripes Sorbet paper pack then added an embossed piece of kraft cardstock.  Next I stamped, colored (with Copic markers) and die cut my floral images and cat along with the Single Stitched Oval Die-namics Frame.  For the inside of the frame, I blended on some melon berry ink and used the same ink for two of my flowers along with some tropical teal and rich razzelberry.  After that I stamped my sentiment on a banner and adhered all my pieces down onto my card, popping up the largest coral flower with foam tape and gluing on some teal 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

Erin Lee Schreiner - October Guest Designer

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Where Creativity Meets C9 - October Sneak Peek!

Hi there!  I'm up over on the Where Creativity Meets C9 blog today sharing the card that I created and I hope you'll take to the time to pop over and check it out! While you're there why not join in and play along with our current challenge?

A Magical Day - (CTD415)

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

For my card I used the Lawn Fawn stamp set Fairy Friends along with the Fairy Friends Lawn Cuts.  A month or so ago I sat and stamped a whole sheet of these fairies and flowers and colored them with Copic markers knowing I would use them on different cards.  Well that's what I used for my card today.  I'm lacking in the mojo department today, it might have something to do with staying up late last night and cleaning my basement and being tired, so it was nice to be able to reach for these stamped, colored and die cut pieces to put a card together today.  For my background paper, I used the Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid petite paper and matted it with brown cardstock.  Then I die cut two circles, one from white cardstock and another from brown for the mat.  I blended on some broken china distress ink on my white circle and then used the Lawn Fawn Grassy Hillside Borders to die cut  my green hill.  I added my fairy house, stone steps, flowers and popped up fairy to my circle and adhered it to my card along with my sentiment banner and flowers.  As a finishing touch, I used my Wink of Stella glitter brush and added glitter to the fairy's wings and all of the flowers. 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

Erin Lee Schreiner - October Guest Designer

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Fall Fun Week - Last Day!

Happy Sunday!  Today is the last day for my Fall Fun series and I thought it would be fun to go back and share some of my favorite fall cards from the last few years.   Sooooo in no particular order...the first card above was created using the Papertrey Ink stamp set Simple Sunflower and the paper sunflower was cut out using my Silhouette machine. The next card set with a fall theme were also created using a Papertrey Ink stamp set, last years anniversary set, Petite Pots.

The gift set above was created using the Papertrey Ink stamp set, Autumn Acorns.

Last fall I created a group of fun cards using the new Lawn Fawn stamp set Happy Harvest.

Above are three Halloween treat bags that were simple and fun to create using the Lawn Fawn stamp set, Spooktacular. Last month I was privileged to be a Guest Designer over on the My Favorite Things blog and created a group of cards, the two I'm sharing now were two of my favorite fall themed cards using the stamp set, Fall Friends. This last week during my Fall Fun Week, I shared a new group of cards using some cute Lawn Fawn stamp sets and I had such fun making these cards.   Thank you so much to those of you who followed along with my Fall Fun series this week! It's been Fun! :)