Freshly Made Sketches #694

I wasn't sure I'd get a card made for Freshly Made Sketches this week but piece by piece it came together.  

There were several reworkings of my idea but Peony Dream from Altenew was my main focus.  It's cut from white and colored with Altenw Ink in Sunray and Chamomile  with the leaves in Firefly.  The sentiment from Hero Arts is embossed in white on dark brown.  I haven't used my C9 Double Stripe Card Front in a while and it wanted to be part of this card.  I'm not really crazy about it - the leaves look disconnected - but sketches often do that to me.  It's called a challenge for a reason.  lol

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Color Hues #110

Pink and Plum.  Those are the colors Karen picked for the Color Hues challenge.  Perfect for flowers, don't you think? 

 

In this case the flowers are Peony Dreams from Altenew, cut from the best pink and plum paper I could find in my stash.  The medium plum one is textured and I'm not sure where it came from.  It's the only mid-range one I had.  The background is Tasteful Textiles from SU! and the sentiment is a BetterPress from Spellbinder's 'You Are Everything' which happens to be on sale half price as of this post.

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The Flower Challenge #100

It's time for another challenge at The Flower Challenge and this time we want you to include circles on your card along with your floral focus.

Because this is our 100th challenge, a few of the Design Team members have prizes to give to some of the cardmakers who enter the challenge.  You'll find more details on the The Flower Challenge blog. 

My flowers are from Altenew's Peony Bouquet, stamped with Altenew ink, mounted on two Braided Circles from PFS and added to a card base of PTI Berry Sorbet.  The sentiment is a BetterPress from Spellbinders.  

This is only one way to add circles to your card.  For more inspiration be sure to check out the beautiful cards that the Design Team has created.  

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The Flower Challenge #99 -

The Flower Challenge is back with the first challenge of 2025.

My card features Honey Bee's Peony, cut in C9 Ballet Slipper and inked to give it dimension.  The Soft Stone panel was stamped using  CP Twilight and a background from The Stamp Market.   The sentiment is from Hero Arts. 

The Design Team has some wonderful pink flowers decorating The Flower Challenge blog.  Take a peek and make a card to enter into our gallery.  We'd love to see you there. 

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Just Us GIrls #750 - Stencil Week

I'm hosting Stencil Week at Just Us Girls.

Peony Print from PFS was hot foiled on Hammermill paper in gold.  The coordinating stencils were used to color them using Distress Inks.  After adding a gold border, the panel was added to a pink card base along with a gold foil sentiment also from PFS.  You can see some of the gold border at the top but the sentiment looks black.  Too bad foil is so hard to photograph but if you've used foil at all you can imagine what it looks like IRL. 

The Design Team and our guest Kerry have a variety of stenciled cards for you to be inspired by.  Please check them out and then make a card for our gallery.  We'd love to see you there.

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Just Us Girls #737 - Stencil Week

It's Stencil Week at Just Us Girls and our host is Elizabeth.

This is one of our most entered challenges so you are all enjoying stenciling cards.  But if you need inspiration, be sure to check out the Design Team and our guest designer Cat Craig.  They have some wonderful creations for you.

My card features the hot foiled Peony Print from Pinkfresh Studio.  Stencils were used to color it with Coral Bliss, Minty Mint and Sweet Leaf inks from Altenew using stencils.  The sentiment from Altenew's One Go Birthday is heat embossed in gold.

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Color Throwdown #781

Hey there!  I'm so glad you dropped by. 

No time for chatter today.  I have a deadline to meet at Color Throwdown.  I saw a card someone made for the challenge and knew that one of my foiled panels I made last week would be perfect for it. 

I hope they consider gold foil a neutral.  The Peony Print hot foil plate is from Pinkfresh and it's colored with a stencil in the required colors.  A simple foiled sentiment from Spellbinders finishes it off.

I'm off to enter it in the gallery.  Have a great day!

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The Heart Desires #12 and CAS Watercolor

When I visited Michele a while ago, I stamped her Mondo Peony from EbyE on some Bristol so I could color it later with my Zigs. I knew it was perfect for The Heart Desires after seeing this mood board.

I love those gorgeous bright colors.

I didn't know what to do with it after it was colored so it sat on my desk for a few days. I decided to fussy cut it and place it on a vellum panel cut with N&T scallops and white heat embossed with a background stamp from SSS. A little sentiment from WP9 finishes it off.

I'm also sending this to CAS Watercolor.

Thanks for dropping by and please do enjoy your day.