Time Out #325

It's a theme challenge at Time Out.

We are being sponsored by Birch Press and the winner of this challenge will receive a $25 store credit.

We are being joined by Rita Wright as a guest designer. She and the Design Team have plenty of inspiration for you over on the blog.

I saw Jennifer McGuire do a card similar to this using Pinkfresh Studio Beautiful Branch and I wanted to try it.  The flowers are stenciled with red from Altenew and Rustic Wilderness Distress ink. The top corner of the card base is cut to give the branch some open space and a second die cut glued to the back of it for a cleaner look.  It looked rather bare to me so I stamped and colored another one for the bottom.  The sentiment is from Honey Bee's Squeeze the Day.  

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The Paper Players #809

Christy has a great sketch at The Paper Players.  I wanted to do something other than Halloween or Christmas so I made a masculine card. 

My son-in-law's birthday was the other day and I gave him a card using Taylored Expressions golf set. It inspired me to make this one.  Truth be told I actually was going to use the golf bag on his card and that's why it's in green and white - the colors of Michigan State where he went to school.  Since it was ready for a card, I made this one for any other golfer in the family.  The white background was embossed with Lawn Fawn's Woodgrain.  The green is from a Christmas pack from Honey Bee, cut with a fancy edge from a now defunct company and cut again with Kristina's Finishing Touches.  The sentiment was computer generated.  

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Peace on Earth #122

I got Spellbinder's St. Nick back in February and made one card with him.  I thought I would work on Christmas cards this summer and made him but never put him on a card until now.  This one's for Peace on Earth.

I wanted to make a more rustic version so I used paper from The Paper Studio for his coat and the tree.  He's a tall one so I put him on a Monarch card (7 1/4 x 3 5/8) made from PTI Rustic White.  A simple sentiment from Penny Black finishes it off.  

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Color Hues #143

No Halloween from me for the orange and black challenge at Color Hues.  

I knew I wanted to use my Honey Bee Coneflower for the challenge so I cut it in SB Carrot, inked the inside edges and added a black cone.  The background is a reverse stencil print that I got by using Brushos through a stencil for another challenge. The panel was trimmed down to show a black border and a heat embossed sentiment from The Ton finished it off.  

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