Sending Hugs - CTD507

Hello, crafty friends! It’s Wednesday and time for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge.

After looking at the inspiration photo for this week’s colors, I knew I wanted to use a stamp set that had some bold images. I pulled out my neglected Papertrey Ink stamp set Ruby Rose and randomly stamped some of the floral images onto a white stitched die cut rectangle. I used the colors royal velvet, aqua mist, new leaf, limeade ice and lavender lace (su). I left room along the bottom of my stitched panel to add the die cut hugs word and to stamp the word sending which is from the Big Hugs stamp set. I popped up a few of the centers on the flowers and added some iridescent sequins to finish off my card.

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
 Joy Taylor - August Guest Designer

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Thank you - CTD506

Good morning! I’m here with my card for today’s Color Throwdown Challenge where we have the colors of aqua, peach, gray and white. I hope you’ll take the time to play along!

In all honesty I struggled with this card, lately I’ve been feeling unmotivated to create and my mojo has taken a hike. I must have taken this card apart about five times before finally calling it quits.
I used the Altenew stamp set Flower Arrangement along with the Flower Arrangement dies to create a thank you card. I used the colors melon berry and canyon clay for the flowers and aqua mist and ocean tides for the leaves. I die cut a panel of gray gingham Doodlebug paper using the Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables die and stamped my sentiment in black ink.

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
 Joy Taylor - August Guest Designer

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.

Altenew - Clear Photopolymer Stamps - Flower Arrangement
Altenew - Dies - Flower Arrangement

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Cuts - Dies - Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Thanks - CTD505

Hello, hello! It’s Wednesday and time for a new Color Throwdown Challenge.

 For my card, I used the My Favorite Things stamp set Bold Blooms to create a thank you card. It drives me crazy that it looks like the color pinks on my card don’t match in these photos, there’s nothing worse for me than when I’ve taken the time to create a card and the colors don’t photograph well because the lighting is off even after editing. You’ll have to trust me when I say that the die cut Thanks was cut from raspberry fizz cardstock and two of the flowers were stamped in raspberry fizz ink and they do match. 
To create my card, I die cut a panel of soft stone gray cardstock using the Outside In Stitched Rectangle dies, then used the Diagonal Bars stencil and blended on some going gray ink. Next I die cut a bunch of the flowers and stems from the Bold Blooms set, using the Bold Blooms dies, and stamped the flowers in raspberry fizz and hibiscus burst and the leaves and stems in hawaiian shores and tropical teal (I really do love this color combination). After that, I die cut two of the thanks from the Thanks & Hello dies, one in white cardstock and another in raspberry fizz and glued them together slightly off so that the white would shadow the raspberry and then glued the thanks to the bottom of my gray panel. Once that was done, I arranged my flowers and leaves and adhered them down, popping up the one flower with foam tape for dimension. For a little bit of glitz, I added some teal sequins and some icicle 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   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen
 Joy Taylor - August Guest Designer

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.
Bold Blooms
Die-namics Bold Blooms

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Cuts - Dies - Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Die-namics Thanks & Hello

Mermaid Wishes

 Hello there and happy Sunday! I’m popping in with a mermaid birthday card I created using the Flora and Fauna stamp set, Under the Sea.

 To create my card, I used the Under the Sea set and a white card base along with a white die cut stitched rectangle that I cut out using the Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables die. I blended on some tumbled glass distress ink and some broken china distress oxide ink onto my die cut rectangle. Next I stamped the wave from the set in the broken china oxide ink and my sentiment from the Glass Dome set. I stamped the seaweed along the bottom in tropical teal, simply chartreuse and royal velvet stamped off. After that, I stamped all of the images I wanted to use onto white cardstock and colored them with Copic markers, then fussy cut them out. I glued all of my sea life onto the stitched panel and then stamped the little bubbles from the set. I added the mermaid using foam tape then added more foam tape to the back of my stitched panel and adhered it to my white card base. For some sparkle, I added some iridescent sequins and some icicle Stickles glitter.

Thanks for stopping by!

Flora and Fauna UNDER THE SEA Clear Stamp Set 20134

Flora and Fauna GLASS DOME Clear Stamp Set 20117

Lawn Fawn OUTSIDE IN STITCHED RECTANGLE STACKABLES Lawn Cuts LF1442

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad TUMBLED GLASS Ranger TIM27188

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Pad BROKEN CHINA Ranger TDO55846