Color Throwdown #845 and NBUS #80

Sadly Color Throwdown is closing their challenge after #845 is complete.  It wouldn't be right not to make a card to say goodbye and to thank all of the design team members past and present for giving us such a fun and colorful challenge.  

My favorite thing next to birds is flowers and I just had to have this Garden Cosmos die set from Altenew.  I think they are so dainty, especially their feathery leaves.  They were colored in Altenew inks - Fresh Lemon for the body, Chamomile for the edges which was also used for the centers of the flowers and the corners of the card and Sweet Leaf and Just Green for the leaves.  A panel was cut with Spellbinders Notched Corners and embossed with SU Subtle folder.  The sentiment is from Betterpress.

A new die means my card is headed for Darnell's NBUS challenge too.  

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The Flower Challenge #101

I hope you enjoyed our 100th birthday celebration last month.  Now it's on to The Flower Challenge #101.

It should be a colorful gallery with lots of Spring flowers popping up.

The PTI iris were cut from Bristol and colored with Zigs.  Would you believe I found this patterned paper that matched the iris colors?  I think it came from some freebies from Honey Bee Stamps.  For texture, I ran it through with the Tasteful Textiles folder from SU and used their Subtle folder on the Notched Frames from SB to layer my flowers on.  A simple sentiment from Spellbinders finished it off. 

The Design Team has plenty of inspiration for you over on the blog.  We hope you'll join us for this challenge. 

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Time Out #271 -

It's our theme challenge at Time Out and we'd like to see cards that offer friendship, encouragement and/or support.

 

The Rustic Floral stencil from PinkFresh Studio was colored with Altenew inks.  The panel was cut with Spellbinders Notched Corner Frames and added to a yellow card base.  The sentiment is from CASual Fridays (nlib).

Our sponsor for this challenge is Uniko and they are offering a $25 store credit to our winner.   I hope we will see your card in our gallery. 

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The Flower Challenge #91

May the 4th be with you! 😊  

It is the 4th of May and time for the next The Flower Challenge.

This should be a fun one.  You can use any medium to color your flowers so if you need practice with watercolors, Zigs, alcohol markers, or pencils this would be a good time to do it.

I've had this Bouquet Builder image from Waffle Flower stamped and sitting on my desk for a while.  I thought I'd practice with my Altenew artist markers and when it was done I was happy enough with it to make this my card for the challenge.  The panel was cut with Spellbinders notched rectangles and layered on yellow cardstock.  The foiled sentiment is also from Spellbinders.

The Design Team has some wonderful cards to inspire you.  We hope you'll get your favorite coloring medium out and make a card for the challenge. 

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