Freshly Made Sketches #703

I don't have my dome dies with me so I had to get creative with my card for Freshly Made Sketches.  Karren said we don't have to use an arch frame so I went with an oval.  

It's the Stylish Ovals from Spellbinders and I used two to make a frame from dark brown, then layered it on SB Acorn cardstock that was embossed with Altenew's Organic Linen.  The flowers are SSS Icelandic Poppy die cuts that Bonnie sent me in my birthday card. She knows how much I love those dies.  Thanks again, Bonnie. They are colored with Altenew Pastel Sunrise and Canyon Clay ink.  I also inked a scrap and stamped the Hero Arts sentiment in dark brown. 

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Just Us Girls #792 - Word Week

Carol Mc is the host for Word Week at Just Us Girls and has chosen this:

There are so many ways you can go with this word but I chose to use Pitcher-esque from The Greetery as my container. 

After stamping and cutting the pitcher, I filled it with flowers from Simon Hurley's Floral Stems and placed it on an embossed background using Altenew's Window Slats folder.  

What will you use for a container?  For inspiration, check out what the Design Team and our guest Jaydee have made.  

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Time Out #297 - Inspired By

It's time for another Inspired By challenge at Time Out.

My favorite season is Fall/Autumn and I bet you can guess why. 

Yes, it's all the beautiful colors in the leaves - before they fall and you have to rake them, that is. 😁 I played with Distress Oxides in Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade, Cracking Campfire, Candied Apple, Rusty Hinge Rustic Wilderness and Aged Mahogany on a panel of mixed media paper until I was happy with how it looked and then cut it with Honey Bee Trees.   I used Broken China and Lucky Clover for the background.  The sentiment is from HB's Sweater Weather on a leftover piece of the inked panel.

So what is your favorite season and how are you going to show us on a card?  There is plenty of inspiration from the Design Team so check them out and enter a card in our gallery.  Our sponsor is Waffle Flower and they are offering a $25 store credit to the winner of the challenge. 

 

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Color Throwdown #840 and NBUS #78

My NBUS Freshly Picked Dies from Concord and 9th were perfect for the challenge at Color Throwdown.  

Isn't this just the cutest basket of apples.  And what's even cuter is the fact the sentiment from the add on stamp set is included.  See that "pick me" on the top apple?  If you pull it, you get this.

Everything was cut from colored cardstock with a little shading and the basket was splattered.  The MFT Wonky Rectangle die was edged with some Mustard Seed DI to add more yellow.  

Since this was the first outing for this die set, I'm sending it to Darnell's NBUS but also to her IDEAS since it's Die Week. 

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Inkspirational #349

I knew when I saw the challenge at Inkspirational that I was going to have to get creative.  I didn't bring any tag dies with me, or any thread/ribbon.  I went scrounging and found some heavy twine and that meant I needed to make a rustic card. 

I cut the pine cone and greens from Honey Bee's Winter Foliage and then pondered what to make the tag from.  Spellbinder's Four Petal Nesting Dies to the rescue.  I used a small circle die from another set and a tag was born.  And why not make a shaped card while I'm at it so I cut the larger size Petal die, inking the edges of both with Rocky Shores.  It needed more so I added the PB script in the background before popping up the tag. The sentiment is from Altenew. 

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