Freshly Made Sketches #741

Not having a lot of supplies is really stretching my creativity and such was the case for Narelle's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  I must have gone through my stash three times trying out things and finally settled on this.

The flowers are from Penny Black's Love Blooms, stamped on watercolor paper and colored with Distress Inks in Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed and Rustic Wilderness.  The frames are from their Frame It, watercolored with Scorched Timber.   The background is SU Timeworn Type and the sentiment is a BetterPress.  

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Time Out #299 - Photo Inspiration

We have an interesting photo to inspire your card at Time Out.

Here's a close up view.

I have a die from Altenew called Framed that I hadn't used in ages and knew I could do something with it to replicate that wall.

Taking a photo of this card was a horror story with all the gold and holographic paper but I love how the card turned out.  I already had the textured gold cardstock and embossed the one in the upper right, layering the frames for dimension.  The sentiment is from Spellbinders and the mirrors were arranged on woodgrain paper. 

I thought you might like to see a picture of my brother's half bath.  His wife has decorated with mirrors like our inspiration photo.

Lawn Fawn is our sponsor for this photo challenge with the winner getting $25 in store credit. 

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Twofer #36

The Twofer Challenge has a twist this time.  They're giving us a choice of what image to use to make two cards for two different occasions.  I missed playing with them the last two months but I'm back with a vengeance with a new stamp set from The Greetery.  Needless to say I didn't stop buying while I was gone but it all came to Ohio so I didn't get to play until I got home.

Quite a different look right?  

I made this card first, stamping the flower as it comes from the set.  I mounted it on Nordic Frames, also from The Greetery.

I knew right away how I wanted to use the stamp for a second card but it gave me fits.  This is actually my second attempt at creating black-eyed Susans from one part of the flower.  I masked the blooms and did a wash on watercolor paper before stamping.  The 'cone' is from an Altenew set, the frame from PTI and the sentiment from My Sentiments Exactly.  

I made both cards without thinking about a sentiment.  Bad idea!!  One is necessary to convey two different occasions for the challenge so I scrambled to find ones that would fit on the cards.

Since I used a NBUS stamp set, I'll send the first card to Darnell's second challenge. 

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