Freshly Made Sketches #620 and NBUS #58

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Last week Linda honored me with a favorite pick at Freshly Made Sketches.  With that encouragement, I had to make a card for Jacquie's challenge this week.  Here it is mixing the old with the new.  

I took advantage of a few after Christmas sales and purchased this beautiful magnolia from Altenew, so I'm also sending my card to NBUS. The layers were all cut in white and colored with Altenew inks. The background is a coverplate from STAMPlorations, the stitched rectangle and circle dies from SSS and the sentiment from My Craft Spot (oob). 

This goes to show how older products can look new again when paired with new stamps and dies.  I plan to use more of my older stash this year.  Let's see how that goes. 😁

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Color Hues #45

Peach and gray.  Doesn't that sound like a lovely color combination?  That's what Color Hues is looking for in their recent challenge.   Here's the card I made for their gallery.

I started with Dove gray from C9, cut it with Altenew's Watercolor Stripes cover die and glued to my card base.  Altenew's Garden Rose was stenciled with their Peach Perfect and stamped with Pastel Sunrise. The leaves were stenciled with Hickory Smoke DI.  I thought it needed more so I cut the fern from PTI's Dahlia set out of vellum and added that to my arrangement.  I thought the gray's looked more like the same color when I chose the paper and ink.  I even stamped them in Memento London Fog. 

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Color Hues #43

It's not often that I run right out and purchase a stamp/die when they first come out, which usually means when I do decide I want it, it's out of stock.  I didn't want to take that chance with PinkFresh Studio's Stained Glass.  I got the die, stencil and hot foil plate but only used the stencil and die for my card for Color Hues.  

I used Distress Inks in Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron and Speckled Egg through the three stencils and then layered the white die cut over it.  The sentiment from PFS is hot foiled in gold.  This makes a great masculine card and I can see it in so many other colors.  

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