The Paper Players #787

For Leanne's sketch at The Paper Players I pulled out my new pastel Ohuhu markers.  I saw Gina K talking about their markers and I've always wanted some lighter colored ones so I took advantage of their sale.  They worked great coloring the image for my card.

It's an oldie from MFT called Pawty Time.  Before I colored I had to find some patterned paper so I could coordinate everything.  This polka dot from Simple Stories has been in my stash for 14 years and is one of the few packs I brought with me.  The gift was colored in the reverse and I added the sentiment from the same set.  It's not in the same place as the sketch but was the only way it would fit without covering the image.  This turned out so well that I will be coloring the rest of the images in the set for more birthday cards for the littles in our family.  

ETA:  At the urging of several on The Paper Player team, I'm adding my card to Just Add Ink. 

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Christmas Kickstart #98

This month's challenge at Christmas Kickstart is "Winter Warmers", as picked by Jo's elf, Becca.  There are lots of ways to go with this theme and this is what I chose to do.

Those cute little owls from MFT are wearing their winter warmers.  They are stamped on Bristol and colored with Zigs.  To add to the knitted warm weather wear theme, I stenciled the knit background with a PTI stencil in Salvaged Patina, then surrounded it with a frame from Waffle Flower.  A sentiment from the same set was stamped on the snow bank.  

Why make one card when you can make two?  

On this one the owls are gray and their scarf and hat are in navy and dark red.  The background is patterned paper stamped with another sentiment from the set.

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CAS Christmas - January 20

It's serendipitous that the CAS Christmas challenge is "tag".  I happened to have a tag I made for the now defunct Tag You're It! and it will work for this challenge as long as the team think it's CAS enough.

The images are from MFT and colored with PolyChromos pencils.  My NBUS Nordic frame from The Greetery makes a clean backdrop and lets a little of the yellow show through. 

Thanks for dropping by today.  It makes me happy when you visit.

The Flower Challenge #36 - Reminder

There's still time to make a card 

for our September challenge at The Flower Challenge.

"Anything Goes" means anything goes as long as stamped or die cut flowers are the focal point of your card and you've followed the rest of the rules posted on the blog. 

My Favorite Things is our sponsor this month and each member of the Design Team is using stamps that were gifted by them.  They have also generously offered two prizes of $25 to their store for our winning cards.

For my card I used their Flower Silhouettes.

Not silhouettes you say?  I wanted to show there is another way to use the stamp set.  I colored the flowers with Distress Inks, spritzed them and stamped using my MISTI.  That gave the the opportunity to stamp more than once to get some extra color.  I placed my bouquet on an MFT die cut from Altenew Spicy Yogurt and put that on some Desert Storm. 

We hope to see your flower card in our gallery.

The Flower Challenge #36

You're going to like The Flower Challenge.  It's 

See? I said you'd like it.  You can make any flower you want but please be sure to read the rules under the tab at the top of the blog. We'd hate for your card to be disqualified. This month we are being sponsored by My Favorite Things and all the designers as well as our guest, Michele Ferguson, will be using stamps that were gifted to us by My Favorite Things.  They have also given us two $25 gift certificates to give our winners.  Yes, winners.  We will be choosing two this month so be sure and get your flower cards in.

For my card I used Brilliant Blooms, colored with Zigs, 

die cut and placed on gray cardstock.

Have fun creating!