Freshly Made Sketches #693

I had a little time to make a card for Freshly Made Sketches before my company comes. 

The weeds are a mix of Honey Bee's Autumn Bouquet and Fall Foliage, all cut in white, colored with Altenew inks, and arranged on a panel embossed with HB's Burlap.  The Altenew sentiment is in a wood look frame from WF. 

Thanks for dropping by.  This sentiment is meant for all of you.

 

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The Flower Challenge #104 - Color Challenge.

For the month of July, The Flower Challenge wants you to be inspired by the colors in the photo

The flowers are Golden Days by Altenew, stamped in Peach Perfect, Caramel Toffee and Paper Bag with the leaves in inks from the Cool Summer Night collection.  The background panel was spritzed with Salvaged Patina Distress Spray and covered with a plate from Concord and 9th.  The sentiment is a SB Betterpress done in Paper Bag.  A micro pen helped define the stamens. 

For inspiration please be sure to check out the fantastic cards the design team has made using the colors.  We'd love to see your card in our gallery. 

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Just Us Girls #782 - Die Week

Carol Mc is our host for this week's Die Challenge at Just Us Girls and she wants us to use a summer die.

That leaves it wide open for so many ideas but I went simple with my card.

Honey Bee's Flippin' Fabulous flip flops were cut from some of their DSP and the straps colored with an artist marker in Rose Quartz to match.  The same DSP was used for a border behind the 'sand' that was made using Antique Linen Distress Spray.  As you probably guessed, the sentiment is from the same set.  

I'd like to welcome Donna Mikasa as our guest designer for July.  She and the Design Team have some wonderful summertime cards to inspire you to enter our challenge.  I hope to see your card there. 

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Time Out #292 - Theme Challenge

This week's challenge at Time Out is based on a theme. 

There are so many things you can do with this prompt.  Here is my idea. 

Every summer we travel from our winter home in Ohio to our lake home in northern Michigan.  I know it seems a little crazy when Ohio isn't that far south, but this is a cottage that my parents have had since the early 80's and it holds a lot of memories.  While we discourage seagulls from perching on our dock, this is the general scene at the water's edge - minus the line up of pontoons.   

The nautical images are from Spellbinders Oh Buoy.  The dock is made from The Greetery's Shiplap Builder, leftovers from a previous whitewash technique.  Even the posts were cut from the leftover pieces.  The sky is Tumbled Glass DI over Rabbit Hole clouds and the lake is Salty Ocean.  

How will you represent travel on your card?  The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for  you over on the blog. 

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Inkspirational #344 , Addicted to Stamps and More #495 and Darnell's IDEAS

This is  my second entry into the Inkspirational Challenge - this time using their option of geometric.

I took advantage of a Pinkfresh Studio sale to get this free Garden Trellis stencil and die cut.  The background was stenciled with Altenew Nature's Wonders inks and layered with the die cut in gold.  For the sentiment I cut the die from C9 in gold and layered it with dark brown.  

I'm also sending this to Addicted to Stamps and More who are asking for stencils and/or die cuts and I have both on my card and to Darnell's IDEAS, 5th Monday stencils.

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