Freshly Made Sketches #731

Even though Donna's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches had color, I went with a black and white theme.

The little white panels are from a SU set that was gifted to me.  I brought out some older silhouettes to stamp on them - three from Technique Tuesday, two from Catherine Pooler and one from My Favorite Things.  The heat embossed sentiment is from The Ton. 

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Just Us GIrls #681 - CAS Week

It's time for a clean and simple card at Just Us Girls and Lisa E has chosen silhouette as our theme.

The Design Team and our May guest Claire Apostoloff have some wonderful CAS silhouette cards to inspire you.  Here's mine. 

I started by spraying a panel with Salvaged Patina.  While it was drying, I cut two panels with the LF Scalloped Square for dimension and stamped the sentiment from PTI.  The flower silhouettes are from MFT.   

I hope you will make a card for this week's challenge.  If you are chosen as the winner,  you could be a future guest designer. 

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AAA Card Challenge #210

I'm back in my crafting studio and raring to go.  I have so many ideas that my desk is covered with bits and pieces of unfinished cards and stamp sets.  I did finish one for  AAA Cards  that will be expiring shortly.  

I made my own hexagon stencil from a PinkFresh Studion die and colored it with a variety of Distress Inks.  The images, including the sentiment, are all from an ancient Technique Tuesday set.  Funny how looking at it on the big screen makes you think of a better way to do this.  I should have turned the hexagon with the bottom flat for the grass to rest on.  Oh well. 

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Twofer Challenge #32 - Silhouettes

I made a card for a challenge when I saw that I hadn't followed the prompt correctly.  Not to worry.  I made another card based on it and had my entries into the Twofer Challenge.

For the blue card I taped off a strip along the side, inked it with Twisted Citron, Weathered Wood and Faded Jeans Distress Inks and stamped the flower from MFT's silhouettes.  The sentiment is from PB Snippets.

The other card used Scattered Straw, Abandoned Coral and Dusty Concord Distress Inks.  I stamped the bottom with a PB background stamp and then added the flowers.  

I thought the sentiment from The Ton was a little play on words considering the bird on the branch. The occasions are not that different but I took them from the sidebar of the blog.

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Addicted to CAS #183

Vicki has chosen this for the code word at Addicted to CAS.

I have a number of silhouette stamps so wanted to do something different for a background.  I know! What about those Distress Spray Stains I bought?  They were a good deal but I've barely used them.

I used Evergreen Bough and Shabby Shutters.  (Why didn't I get any blues?)  The flowers are from Catherine Pooler and the butterfly from Technique Tuesday stamped in CP Black Jack ink all framed with a deckle edge rectangle from HoneyBee. The sentiment is a PB Snippet.

The Design Team looks forward to seeing your silhouette cards in the gallery.

The Flower Challenge #36 - Reminder

There's still time to make a card 

for our September challenge at The Flower Challenge.

"Anything Goes" means anything goes as long as stamped or die cut flowers are the focal point of your card and you've followed the rest of the rules posted on the blog. 

My Favorite Things is our sponsor this month and each member of the Design Team is using stamps that were gifted by them.  They have also generously offered two prizes of $25 to their store for our winning cards.

For my card I used their Flower Silhouettes.

Not silhouettes you say?  I wanted to show there is another way to use the stamp set.  I colored the flowers with Distress Inks, spritzed them and stamped using my MISTI.  That gave the the opportunity to stamp more than once to get some extra color.  I placed my bouquet on an MFT die cut from Altenew Spicy Yogurt and put that on some Desert Storm. 

We hope to see your flower card in our gallery.

Just Us Girls #419 - Trend Week

I know you've seen it all over blog land.  Silhouette stamping.  That's what our host Lisa has chosen for Trend Week at Just Us Girls.

My NBUS SOA carolers were the answer to the required silhouettes.

I stamped the staff from the set in VersaMark on Dove Gray and dusted with Perfect Pearls for a barely there look.  The panel was inked with Distress Oxide in Faded Jeans and given an almost too liberal spray of PP.  Once dry, the silhouettes and sentiment were added with HA India Ink Black.

What silhouettes do you have hiding in your stash?  Pull them out and make a card for this week's challenge.  You may be chosen Chic of the Week and have a chance of being a guest designer like this month's guest Trina Pham.  Please go check out what our wonderful Design Team have created for your inspiration.

See you in the gallery.