Seize the Birthday #321 and NBUS #84

When Spellbinders had a sale a while ago I purchased their Perched Birds.  I thought they would be great for the challenge at Seize the Birthday - Anything with Wings. 

I started with a trimmed panel, an MFT cloud stencil and Speckled Egg DI for the background.  All the bits and pieces were cut from scraps.  Then it was the sentiment dilemma.  I found this one on the Gerda Steiner Owl set.  I think it fits. 

This is the first outing for this die set so I'm sending it to Darnell's NBUS challenge, too.

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Just Us Girls #813 - Die Week

Sue is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and this time she has a specific topic.

She wants you to include either something green, something referring to luck or maybe a combination of both while using your dies.  

I want to welcome Milla as our guest designer for the month of March.  Be sure to stop by her blog at Mustesormi to see her wonderful coloring.

I smooshed a panel with Rustic Wilderness, Mowed Lawn and Bundled Sage Distress Oxides and cut it with Penny Black's Classy Frames.  Their Ascending die was colored with Distress Spray in Rustic Wilderness and they were both splattered in gold paint from Altenew.  The frame was cut three more times, once in gold and layered around the panel.  The gold embossed sentiment is from Honey Bee's Gently Squeezed.

There are a lot of greens and die cuts over on the Just Us Girls blog post to inspire you.  We hope to see you in our gallery. 

I'm also sending this to Color Hues for their green and gold challenge.

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Time Out #308- Happy 12th Birthday!

That's right.  Time Out is 12 years old.  You can read about its start on the blog.  For this challenge we welcome Stef Perry as our muse and she has created a card for all of us to CASE. 

Here's a closer look.

Stef does a beautiful job of coloring flowers and while she used alcohol markers for hers, I went with a different medium.

It all started with gold embossing Hello Beautiful from Altenew and then using the stencils to color the flowers. The background panel was trimmed down and embossed with the Time Worn Type folder by SU.  Before adding it to a C9 Nutmeg card base, a few gold splatters were added.  The sentiment is from BetterPress foiled in gold. 

We hope you will CASE Stef's card for the challenge  Please be sure to tell us how you were inspired. 

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The Paper Players #775

The Paper Players are looking for Mystical Creatures for their current challenge.  I don't have any dragons or unicorns but I do have gnomes so I went with that.  

This card was created last Halloween but I never posted it.  I hope that's okay and that this cutie is accepted into the gallery.  The gnome is from Gina K and the witches hat from Sizzix fit him perfectly.  The background paper is from Doodlebug Designs, the oval is from Spellbinders and the  sentiment was computer generated.

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Freshly Made Sketches #725

My Free Form stencil from MFT disappeared and that was what I was going to use for a card for Freshly Made Sketches.  Time to pivot.  

The Punch and Pierced Plate from SB was already cut in the folder and made a lovely background for a simple, inked bloom from Altenew's Garden Cosmos, done in Gina K's light and medium Carnation and Altenew's Silver Sprout and Sagestone.  The little sentiment is from BetterPress.  

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