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Hello! It’s Wednesday and time for this week’s Color Throwdown Challenge! This week we have the colors pink, brown, black and white along with whatever other neutrals you’d like to use.
For my card I used the Hello Bluebird stamp set Fairy Garden and the Fairy Garden dies which I’ve been having fun creating with. To create my card, I used a piece of white cardstock and blended on some spun sugar distress ink in the center and some antique linen distress oxide ink along the bottom then sprinkled it with some water drops, let it sit for a minute then lifted them up with a piece of paper towel. Once that was done I watered down some white craft paint and did white splatters onto my blended cardstock. While that was drying, I stamped my images and colored them using Copic markers. For along the bottom of my card I used the Grassy Hillside border die and some cream colored cardstock to die cut some grass. Yes even if you can’t use green on your card you can still make it work. I used some frayed burlap oxide ink along the edges of my die cut grass and attached it to the bottom of my card front. Next I added my images, popping up the two fairies and the mushrooms. I heat embossed my sentiment with white embossing powder onto a strip of black cardstock. As a finishing touch, I added some Wink of Stella clear glitter pen to the fairies wings, dresses, leaves, flowers and magic wand. I also added some chunkier glitter to all of the flowers. If you look close at the pictures below you can see the glitter in a starburst around the fairies magic wand.
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 Rohl
Amy Rysavy
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Today I’ve got a fun shaker card that I’m sharing where I used some new (to me) products from Queen & Company.
Usually shaker cards are a bit of a struggle for me with all the cutting of foam tape, acetate and having everything line up just right. Well after receiving the Love Jar Kit and some other supplies from Queen & Company, I can tell you it was so much easier to make a shaker card. Everything is pre-cut and ready to go which made it much more fun.
To create my card, I die cut a bunch of the stems, flowers and leaves along with the heart tag using the Love Jar Flowers & Stems dies and then stamped the flowers in a rainbow of colors and the stems in new leaf ink. I stamped the tag with the heart image from the kit in red ink and then stamped the for you sentiment. Next I used a piece of gray dot paper from the Love Jar Kit along with the mason jar lid die and die cut it out. After that, I used the Dots Paper Pad and die cut the mason jar, the red polka dot for under the lid, the yellow polka dot for my background and the red dotted paper for along the bottom of my card. Once all of my pieces were cut, it was time to assemble my shaker. I arranged my stems how I liked them onto the pre-cut white paper shaped as the mason jar and glued them down. Then I removed the backing to the pre-cut foam mason jar piece and adhered that on top of my stems. Next I used my anti-static powder tool all inside the opening where my shaker bits would go and then added some of the Love Jar Flower Toppings from the kit along with some clear Pastel Diamonds Toppings. Once my shaker bits were added, I adhered the pre-cut acetate and die cut aqua paper to seal it up. I wanted my stems to come out of the opening in the lid and not behind it so what I did was to use a piece of press n seal along the top of my stems coming out of my shaker and then cut the stems right at the top of the jar then adhered the lid to the jar, insert my stems through the hold in the lid and glue them from the back. Super easy and gave me the look I wanted. All that was left to do then was to tie on some yellow bakers twine from the kit and add my tag then adhere everything down, popping up my flowers with foam tape and added some fun yellow Goosebumps and some rhinestones from the kit.
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Hello, Hello! I’ve been on a card making kick and totally inspired by the new Hello Bluebird stamp sets, Fairy Garden and Garden Friends. If you follow me on Instagram, you know I love gardening. Every year I pant vegetables in raised beds, I have an herb garden, a fairy garden, roses, perennials and a pond so the adorable images in these new stamp sets really hit home. This is the third card I’ve created using these sets, if you’d like to see the other two cards, you can either scroll down or click here or here. Today I used the sweet bird images from the Garden Friends set to create a birthday (or Bird-day) card. I thought of birds singing in the early morning with the sun coming up.
My card for today was created using much of the same supplies as the last two cards I create over the past few days where I used the Fairy Garden set with coordinating dies along with the Garden Friends set with dies except for the background on this card I used mustard seed distress ink for the center, then spiced marmalade and on the edges, I used ripe persimmon. I also used a brighter green for my grass, I used new leaf cardstock and blended on some ripe avocado ink along the edges. I popped up the two mushrooms with ladybug, the snail, butterfly and the singing bird with foam tape. I also added some Wink of Stella clear glitter pen to the butterfly and the orange flowers.
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