Freshly Made Sketches #679 and NBUS #72

Today's card is for Karren's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  

I was looking for a flower to put in the middle of my 'banner' when I saw this Sweet Violet from Altenew that I totally forgot about.  It must be one of their older Craft-a-Flower sets because it doesn't have the keyhole system.  Probably why it was on sale at a good price.  I picked four purples from my scraps, darkening one with Villainous Poison Distress Ink, and two greens.  The banner is from Spellbinders Modern Ovals, embossed with SU's Tasteful Textiles and the background is Altenew's Chain Link Fence.  I was amazed at the dimension I got with that folder.  I forgot to add the Pinkfresh sentiment before I embossed the banner but it worked to stamp it on afterwards.  

Both the embossing folder and violet dies are never before used stuff so I'm also sending my card to Darnell's NBUS. 

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Color Hues #105 and Double D Going Green

A couple of weeks ago I spent some time just playing with stencils.  One of the cards I made works great for both the Color Hues (Green and White) and Double D (Going Green) challenges.

The layered stencil called Square Dance is from The Greetery.  I used Evergreen Bough, Pine Needles and Lost Shadow Distress Inks to color it, trimmed it down and added it to a white card base.  I thought the clover from PTI's Stemmed Statements went well with the colors and worked for a masculine card.  It's colored with the same inks and placed on the Modern Oval from Spellbinders.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts. 

Edited to Add:  The D and D gals reminded me of their Stencil Fun Challenge so my card is off to visit them too, minus the splatter twist. 

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