Color Hues #57 and The Male Room #171

Sage and Coral.  Those are the colors for Color Hues and the first thing I thought of was the Mega Succulent from Altenew that came to me through a friend's purge. 

I started by smooshing CP Sage ink on a watercolor panel, then heat embossed the succulent in white.  The edges were painted with Abandon Coral DI and more color added with Bundled Sage Distress Spray. The sentiment from Neat and Tangled was stamped in Bundled Sage Oxide ink.  

That was actually my second attempt.  I wasn't crazy about the first try but didn't want it to go to waste so I made some adjustments and made this card for The Male Room.  They want masculine cards featuring nature.

This time it was embossed in black and watercolored with Distress Inks. The offending part of the image was the outside edge so I fussy cut it off and foam mounted the center portion on black.  A scrap of sage paper was heat embossed in black with the Hero Arts sentiment and the edges rounded with a corner chomper.

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Color Hues #18

I brought with me what I thought would be a great image to color for the Color Hues challenge.  Michele stamped it for me quite a while ago and it's from Waffle Flower.

I used my Zigs in two colors of purple and teal and what looks like kraft for the pot.  A little black splattering and a sentiment from The Ton finished it off.  

This is the first card making I've done in a while.  Everything else you've seen has been scheduled.  It felt good to color again.  I have a few other things I want to do as soon as I get organized.  

Thanks for dropping by.  I hope you are all doing well.

Addicted to Stamps and More #295

This is the photo inspiration for our challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.  I knew just what stamp set I was going to use but it took a while to decide how to lay out my card. 

After I had everything colored with Zigs and the SSS succulents planted, I played around with how to arrange the pots on my card.  PPP to the rescue.  I layered the film strip die three times and glued the pots in.  The vertical birthday die is also layered.

The Design Team has some wonderful cards based on the photo for you to see as inspiration for your own card.  We'd love to see yours in our gallery.

Tag You're It! #50

Kelly has made a darling double tag for our inspiration at Tag You're It! this time, incorporating what is so luscious this time of year - strawberries.

I focused instead on what I think to be her technique which is watercolor lifting.  

I cut the tags with a MFT die, one from DP and one from Mixed Media paper. I stamped the succulents and pot from SSS, masked the pot and covered the entire tag with Lucky Clover Distress Ink. Using a small brush and clean water I wet the leaves and used a paper towel to blot them, lifting off the color.  The pot is colored with Zigs.  I just realized I forgot to stamp a sentiment  but this way I can use it for anything.

How does Kelly's tag inspire you?  Will you make strawberries or other fruit?  Will you use the colors?  Or maybe the technique like I did?  If you need more inspiration, head on over to the Tag You're It! blog and see what the rest of the design team have created.

Looking forward to seeing your tag in the gallery.

Addicted to Stamps and More #157

It's time for another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week it's

 Make Your Mark

Use anything that will make a mark - pencils, markers, pens and let us know what you used if it isn't obvious.  For my card, I used my Zig Clear Brush Pens.

The images are from SSS Cups and Succulents.  I rested two of them on a popped up panel that was stamped with Altenew's Wood Pallet Background, inked with HA Charcoal. The same ink was used to stamp the sentiment by Clearly Besotted. 

Now it's your turn.  Head on over to Addicted to Stamps and More to get inspiration from the rest of the Design Team, then "Make Your Mark".  There's a $20 gift certificate from CAS-ual Fridays up for grabs.

CASology #135

I played around with my Inktense pencils again and while I can't seem to use them the way I think they're supposed to be used, I've found a way that works for me.  I used them to make my card for CASology where cue word is mini.

I used my NBUS succulent stamp from SSS to put a mini image in the corner of my card and then emphasized it with the sentiment that says "a little something".  :-)  It looked a little too plain and I didn't have any cardstock that matched the flower so I watercolored the edge of my card base.

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