Hey there! Popping in with a last minute card for the Ellen Hutson June Color Trend challenge. For my card I focused on the top half of the palette and used the fun EE Snailed It stamp set to create a rustic looking card. The layout for the card comes from the current Fab Friday challenge - a sketch. I stamped all the images and die cut them with the matching dies. I used some corrugated paper for the bottom piece in the sketch and then die cut a circle for the top piece. I placed the circle in my mini MISTI, arranged all the images and then stamped the sentiment. I finished things off with a bow tied from some hemp twine. Another clean and simple design. Seems like that is all I'm capable of right now, lol!
Hello! Popping in with a card that I made for a few challenges: Freshly Made Sketches and Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash challenge. When I saw this month's Stock Your Stash challenge I didn't think I would be able to play along as the theme is baby cards and my collection of Reverse Confetti stamps don't include many with a baby theme. But then I saw RC design team members Deanne's super cute card using the whale from the Seaside set and I realized that I have that set... YAY! Thanks for the inspiration Deanne! My niece is going to be having a little boy in November and using the whale is perfect for a card for a baby boy! I have some fun Belle Carta Summer Splash patterned paper and one sheet had a waves pattern on it. I used that for the strip seen on the side of the sketch, as well as for the little ocean that the whale sits on. I did have a hard time finding an ink that worked well with the aqua color in the patterned paper, but finally settled on a aqua blue ink from Hero Arts. I cut apart the "ocean" so I could pop that up over the little whale. The sentiment was created by using the word ahoy from the Seaside set and the word baby from the Beautiful Banners set. I had to mask off portions of each stamp to create my sentiment. That was done using VersaFine CLAIR Twilight ink. A sweet clean and simple design!
Hey there! I made a card... and it was just for fun and for a few challenges! This week's sketch over at My Favorite Things is a super simple one and since I haven't had the opportunity to play along with any of their challenges in awhile I decided to combine it with the current Color Throwdown challenge to make my card. Stamping, plain and simple, is one of my favorite things to do, but when it comes to arranging floral images to create a scene and I'm not using die cuts I really struggle. So I recently decided that I would start using inexpensive white cardstock that I purchased months ago to work with different stamps to build scenes until I got one that I was willing to commit to stamping on my good white cardstock. Best thing I ever decided to do! The end result this go round was my card for the above mentioned challenge. I used the MFT Sketched Blooms 2 stamp set for the floral images and the MFT Aim For the Clouds set for the sentiment. I started by stamping all the stems in gray ink and then added the flowers in yellow. I accented all the flowers with coordinating images from the set using kraft colored ink. The panel was die cut and adhered to a white cardstock base. I stamped the sentiment on kraft cardstock with black ink, trimmed it down to fit my panel and then adhered to my card using foam squares. I am also going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of the fun in the sun since flowers are found out in the sun.
