The Queen's Scene

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Thinking of You - (CTD445)

Hi there! It's Wednesday and time for a new Color Throwdown Challenge!

For my card, I used two Papertrey Ink stamp sets, Gran's Garden & Graceful Greetings, to create a thinking of you card. I found inspiration not only in this week's colors but in the inspiration photo, I saw the big roses in the comforter and instantly thought of using the Gran's Garden set. I started out with a white card base, then added a piece of enchanted evening cardstock which I stenciled using a Hero Arts herringbone stencil and enchanted evening ink. After that, I die cut the Mix & Mat: Scallops die from white cardstock and stamped my sentiment in enchanted evening ink and adhered it to my card front with foam tape. Next I stamped my roses using lovely lady and scarlet jewel (stamped off) ink and used simply chartreuse ink for the stems. Once my flowers and stem were stamped and die cut I adhered them to my card front, popping up the lower rose with foam tape, and then added some silver sequins and some gold metallic Stickles to the center 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

Lisa Henke

Lynn Put

Amy Tsuruta - May Guest Designer

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Monday, May 22, 2017

A Little Cheeky Hello

Hi there! Hope your day is going well! Today I have the third and final card in a series of shaker cards that I created. For each of the cards pictured below, I used the same flowers from the My Favorite Things Springtime Blooms and the same Peek-a-Boo Window die to create my shaker but different critters.

For today's card, I used the adorable Cheeky Monkey stamp set along with the Cheeky Monkey Die-namics, the same three flowers from the Springtime Blooms and the same grassy hillside die to create a colorful and hopefully fun shaker card. For this card, I turned the Peek-a-Boo die to form a diamond opening for my shaker and backed it up with some summer sun cardstock and a mix of red and gold sequins. I die cut my grassy hill and attached that, then stamped and colored my images using Copic markers and die cut them out. I also die cut a Stitched Sentiment Strip and stamped my Hello sentiment. And I thought it would be fun to have the monkey holding the largest flower like he picked it just for the recipient of the card. Once all of my images were adhered, popping up the monkey with foam tape, I added some yellow stickles to the largest flower for some added sparkle.

To see how the other two cards in this series where created, you can click here and here.

My Favorite Things SPRINGTIME BLOOMS Clear Stamps CS188

My Favorite Things SPRINGTIME BLOOMS Die-Namics MFT1079

My Favorite Things CHEEKY MONKEY Clear Stamps CS103

My Favorite Things CHEEKY MONKEY Die-Namics MFT836

My Favorite Things SQUARE PEEK A BOO WINDOW Die-Namics MFT1113

My Favorite Things STITCHED SENTIMENTS STRIPS Die-Namics MFT1028

Friday, May 19, 2017

A Little Hello

Hello there! Today I'm popping in to share the second card in a series of shaker cards that I created. I'm also entering this card into the My Favorite Things Color Challenge #69.

If you didn't have a chance to see my first shaker card from the other day you can click here. For my card today, I used the My Favorite Things stamp sets Cat-itude with the Cat-itude Die-namics and Springtime Blooms and Die-namics. I thought these cute cats with the funky flowers would be fun to pair together. The first thing I did was to stamp and color all of my images using Copic markers and then die cut them out. Next I cut a panel of white cardstock smaller than my card base and positioned my Square Peek-a-Boo Window die and die cut it out. Once that was done, I die cut a piece of new leaf cardstock using the grassy hillside die and stamped my sentiment along the bottom corner and adhered it onto my white die cut panel. Next I cut a square piece of hibiscus burst cardstock and adhered it to the front of my white card base and added some gold and shades of pink sequins in the center. Then I added a Square Shaker Pouch to my peek a boo window panel and from behind added foam tape to hold it in place and pop the whole panel up, securing in to my card base. After that, I adhered my flowers and cats, some with the cats and large flower being added with foam tape. For some added sparkle, I used a Wink of Stella glitter pen on the flowers and cat collars, added rhinestones to the collars and orange Stickles to the largest flower.

My Favorite Things CAT-ITUDE Clear Stamps CS89

My Favorite Things CAT-ITUDE Die-Namics MFT796

My Favorite Things SPRINGTIME BLOOMS Clear Stamps CS188

My Favorite Things SPRINGTIME BLOOMS Die-Namics MFT1079

My Favorite Things SQUARE PEEK A BOO WINDOW Die-Namics MFT1113

My Favorite Things SQUARE Shaker Pouches 17593

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

A Whole Lot of Lovely - (CTD443)

Hello! It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge! We have some fantastic new colors for all of us to create with and we hope you'll join in and play along.

For my card, I used the My Favorite Things stamp sets, Giraffing Me Crazy with the Griffing Me Crazy Die-namics along with the Springtime Blooms stamp set and Die-namics. I created this card for a friend of mine and I had so much fun pairing these two stamp sets together that I made a few more cards that I'll be sharing within the next two days. I started out by choosing one giraffe image and three flower images from the Springtime Blooms set and then stamped and colored them with Copic markers and die cut them out. Next, I die cut my grassy hillside and stamped my sentiment then played around with the placement of my images until I was happy with them. Then, I thought it would be fun to make this card into a shaker card so I used the MFT Square Peek a Boo Window die along with a Square Shaker Pouch. I backed the die cut window with some hawaiian shores cardstock and filled my shaker with gold, teal and iridescent aqua sequins then added some foam tape and adhered my white die cut panel to my white card base. Then the fun part, I added my grassy hill, tucked in my flowers and added my giraffe with foam tape. Then added some Yellow Stickles to the large flower and some glossy accents to the giraffe's eye.