Freshly Made Sketches #735

Kim's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches was a doozy but I pulled out an older stamp and die set to make a card.  The sketch is square but I don't usually do square cards and this set works in an A2 format.  

PTI's Happy Harlequin stamp set and coverplate has been in my stash for fourteen years.  I've learned a thing or two since then to make the stamping easier.  First I embossed the coverplate onto white cardstock.  Then I cut a panel and used it as a template to align the stamps on the die cut pieces using shades of gray and brown from Altenew to make this a masculine card.  Once stamped, the harlequins were arranged and glued onto the embossed background.  The sentiment is from Spellbinder's Just Add Cake.  I had a few leftover pieces so plan to make another card like this. 

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Just Us GIrls #822 - Die Week

Elizabeth is the host for Die Week at Just Us Girls and she would like to see sentiment dies on our cards.

We are adding a new member to our team - Denise Morgans from The Crafty Den.  Please welcome her as well as our guest designer this month, Kerry Parkinson.  Both of them will blow you away with their card making talent.

As for me, I pulled out an older stamp set to go with my die cut sentiment.

This is pretty much an Altenew card.  Their Beautiful Day stamp set was colored with Vanilla Cream, Coral Bliss, Heartbeat, Just Green and Hunter Green.  The background is the Garden Rose embossing folder and the sentiment is from Versatile Greeting #2.  

The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for you with a wide variety of ways to use a die cut sentiment.  I hope you'll check out their posts and then make a card for the gallery.  I'd love to see you there.

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Color Hues #132

I had an embossing folder on my desk ready for a card for my design team when I realized it would be better suited for the Color Hues challenge.

The Daisies folder from Altenew was inked on the background side with Cornflower Blue from Hero Arts.  I've had that ink forever and it was still juicy enough although I did repeat the process three times and it's still a little blotchy.  The stencil helped color in the centers and add a little shading.  After trimming the panel and mounting on the card base, the foiled sentiment from PFS Perfect Sentiments was popped up.

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Inkspirational #366

I thought I had used up most of my rain stamps for other challenges but when Inkspirational wanted rain I found a way to make it happen.

This card is all Taylored Expressions Over the Rainbow except for the raindrop stencil.  The rainbow was cut in white and colored with Distress Inks with Altenew Andromeda for the indigo. 

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