The Paper Players #742 and Color Throwdown #835

As I was working on a card for The Paper Players (Fresh and Fruity) I noticed that the same card would work for Color Throwdown with a little background change.

The lemons are from Lawn Fawn, cut from cardstock and shaded with Altenew Inks.  The panels are Pinkfresh Studio's Dotted Fancy Frames, one cut in turquoise for the color challenge,  and the sentiment is from Altenew's Weekend Doodles. 

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Just Us Girls #734 - Color Week

Stephanie is the host for Color Week at Just Us Girls and these are the colors she has chosen.

I went a totally different way than you would expect with these colors.

The yellow said lemon to me so I got out my Lawn Fawn set and made a bunch of them.  The background is Watercolor Stripes coverplate from Altenew cut in coral cardstock.  I cut one of the stripes in white so that I could stamp the sentiment from Trinity Stamps and inset it in the space.  

I said I made a bunch of lemons so here is the other card I made with them. I must admit I made this first but then realized I couldn't use the green for the challenge. 

I ink blended a background with Squeezed Lemonade and Abandoned Coral and arranged the lemons across it, including some leaves and a flower.  Same lemons but these look brighter than the first card.  It's all a matter of photography. 

What do you think of when you hear coral and yellow?  We'd love to see what you come up with using our colors.  For inspiration please check out the Design Team and our guest Cat Craig. 

In case you haven't noticed, we've extended our timeline, moving the challenge deadline to Wednesday at 6:00 pm.  The Winner of the Week will be posted at 7:00 am the next day, one hour before the challenge goes live.  

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Double D - Lemon-Ade

I'm so glad I have my new lemon dies from Lawn Fawn to make a card for Double D's Lemon-Ade Challenge.  

Cut mostly from C9 cardstock, I arranged the lemons on a Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle along with a sentiment from Altenew. Needing a little more color and definition, I added a frame of gingham from Honey Bee. 

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Color Throwdown #745 and NBUS #51

I'm happy that my play time with new dies the other day fit the colors at Color Throwdown.

I have been wanting a lemon/lime die set and settled on the one from Lawn Fawn.  I cut them all from Bristol cardstock and colored them with Altenew inks. The plaid background is an embossing folder from Spellbinder. I didn't bring any fun/punny sentiments with me but I do need an anniversary card and thought I'd write the punny part inside.  I white heat embossed the sentiment from Hero Arts and colored it with the same ink as the leaves. 

I'm also sending my card to NBUS since the die is new.  

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Inkspirational #237

It's time to squeeze the day!  So says my card for Inkspirational.

The background was made on my gel plate, bordered in black on a white card base.  To replicate the taxis in the photo I used lemons from Concord & 9th, colored with Zigs.  If you're going to squeeze lemons you'll get juice so I made a couple of drops using a die from Sunny Studio.  The sentiment was computer generated.

Have a great day!

Twofer Card Challenge #24

You know how you buy stamps because you love them and then don't use them right away?  That's the way I felt about the Squeeze the Day set by EbyE.  Well I found a reason to break it out - the Twofer Challenge and their word prompt.

I used the set, including the punny sentiments, to make both lemons and limes, coloring them with Altenew watercolors.

The lemons were die cut and some of them popped up with foam tape for my encouragement card.

For the birthday card I did all over stamping and then added some light spatters.  It's the little image with the leaf that you can find on both cards.

Thanks for another fun challenge, Twofer Team.