Freshly Made Sketchesd #748

Verena is hosting Freshly Made Sketches and her sketch made me think of my Houseplants die set from Altenew.

The polka dot paper scrap was the jumping off point and I made the pot in matching gray with pink flowers and added a pink strip accent.  The background is the Subtle folder from SU and the sentiment is from Altenew's One-Go Birthday.  

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The Paper Players #778

It's a sketch at The Paper Players and Claire designed a great one.  I wanted to put a bird as my focal point and found one already colored in the package.

It's from Hummingbird Thanks from Pretty Pink Posh.  Next I went in search of patterned paper and found both pieces in a pack from Honey Bee called Team Tie-Dye.  The green was cut with a deckle edge from My Craft Spot (oob) and the label is from Pinkfresh Studio's Dotted Fancy Frames.  I used one of the dies from the set to partial die cut the vertical banner.   The Subtle embossing folder from SU and a sentiment from SSS finish it off.  

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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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Just Us Girls #800 - Celebrating 800 Challenges with Anything Goes

Can you believe it?  This is Just Us Girls' 800th challenge.  Our host Vicki decided to make it an Anything Goes challenge.

To add to the celebration, some of the Team Members are giving away a prize on their blog.  To win, you need to play in this challenge, and also leave a comment on the Team Member's personal blog.  I am giving away the following hot foil plate from Spellbinders.

Remember - you must play in the challenge and comment on my blog post to be eligible to win.

This being the first challenge of the month, we are welcoming a guest designer, Leslie Miller.  Please take time to visit her blog and leave a comment.  You'll love seeing all her wonderful cards.  

Now for mine:

When I saw Nicki Hearts Cards make a card with the PTI Snowdrops I knew they had to be mine.  EZPZ die cuts shaded with Distress Ink and arranged on a panel of SB Oceantide that has been embossed with the SU Subtle folder.  The sentiment is a PFS Christmas Banner.  So simple yet so sweet.  

Now it's your turn.  Let's fill that gallery with whatever strikes your fancy.

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Inkspirational #353

The challenge at Inkspirational is "Seeing Stars" and a lot of the designers have a Christmas theme but I'm entering a card I made for my grandson on his 40th birthday. 

The stars are dies from PFS, the numbers are Scrapbook.com all cut in gold. Gina K Cranberry Tart was embossed with the Subtle folder from SU for the background.  This sent wishes that all the stars align in the coming year for this wonderful, thoughtful young man.

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Freshly Made Sketches #704

My first thought when I saw Michele's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches was leaves.  I didn't bring my favorite set with me so I had a second thought.  I still need Christmas cards so why not use the small die cuts from Spellbinder's Christmas Wonders.

I didn't realize when I bought the set that it was part of an Envelope of Wonder series and all the images fit in an envelope which was a separate die.  With the huge warehouse sale, I've rectified that and also added another of their Wonder sets - plus a whole lot more.  😁  The sale is still going on if you haven't checked it out yet.

  

The bows, bell and ornaments are all cut from foil but it doesn't show up in the photo.  The small ornaments are from another SB set called Stocking Full of Joy.  The sentiment from Honey Bee fit the wonder theme well.  It was stamped before embossing the background with the Subtle folder. 

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Just Us Girls #783 - Mood Board Week

It's Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls and Carol M has a fun one for us. 

 There are so many images that you can use, together or separately, to make a wonderful nature inspired card. 

I took the colors and used the Honey Bee Wildflowers for my card.  Two SU! embossing folders were used on the background - Ferns and Subtle - along with SB Elliptical Ovals.  The sentiment is also from Honey Bee.

Need some inspiration?  The Design Team and our guest designer Donna Mikasa have cards to do just that over on the blog.  Check them out and then add your card to our gallery.  We'd love to see you there. 

I hadn't thought of how much this card resembles the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #695 until Donna pointed it out.  I'm sending this card to them but there will be another one later. 

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Double D - Flower Pots

I don't usually post twice in one day but Double D is closing soon and I wanted to get a card entered.

Technically these are vases not pots but they still hold flowers so I'm going with it, especially since Judy used the same set. 😉  The vases are from Simon Hurley and cut from patterned paper.  The flowers are also Simon's, cut from scraps of cardstock and shaded with artist markers.  You can't see it very well but the background has been embossed with the Subtle folder.  

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Time Out #289 - Inspired By

This challenge at Time Out is an inspiration one.  

We want a card featuring your favorite winged thing.  Those who know me know my love of owls and that my card would probably showcase one, although I do have a love for all birds and have a number of stamps and dies that would work.

This cutie is from Gerda Steiner and is colored with PolyChromos pencils.  I thought that was the best way to get the look of feathers.  Once colored, he was masked and the background inked with Salvaged Patina.  Lawn Fawn's Stitched Scalloped Square Frame was embossed with the Subtle folder and popped up.  The sentiment is from the same GS set.

The feathers should be flying in the gallery.  We hope your card is one of them.  The winner will receive $25 store credit to Lawn Fawn and a chance to guest design with us.  

I'm also sending my card to The Paper Players #738  CAS - Things that Fly.

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Just Us Girls #751 - CASE the Designer

Five Thursdays in October brings us to another CASE the Designer challenge at Just Us Girls.

There is a wide variety of cards for you to choose from among the Design Team makes.  Here's mine.

The Tim Holtz Skeleton Leaves were cut in white and colored in a variety of Distress Inks to give an Autumn vibe.  The background is PTI Fine Linen embossed with the Subtle folder and an Altenew label cut in rust was stamped with a Jillian Vance sentiment. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #629

Hey there crafty friends.  Thanks for dropping by.  

Today's card is for Freshly Made Sketches.  

I started with Altenew's Dazzling Dahlia, stenciled in the Martian Terrain inks, because I thought the shape imitated that in Amy's sketch.  Then it was decision time about how to finish it off.  I found the DSP from a Honey Bee pack, cut it with an MFT scallop and popped it up over a panel embossed with the Subtle Texture folder.  The sentiment is also from Honey Bee. 

I had fun trying a few new techniques over the weekend and I'll be posting some of them shortly. 

  

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Freshly Made Sketches #583

There is an interesting sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and while I had an immediate idea, following through with all the details was more difficult that I thought.  Maybe you should see the sketch first.

I have the Rustic Floral  Wreath from Pinkfresh Studio and stenciled with Altenew Inks.  It has the swag of flowers on both sides so I cut them apart and used one on my card along with a heat embossed sentiment from Sunny Studio.  The bow from PTI is cut from brown metallic paper.  That's what took so long - trying to figure out what color the bow should be.  I inked it with the same colors as the flowers and it turned out so different.  Nothing else I had matched but when I saw this scrap of brown I knew it was what I had been looking for. 

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