Today Its A Green Butterfly!!!

Yep... another butterfly!  This time a card for the current JUGs challenge which is a very lovely color challenge:  white, green and blue.   And yep, I once again reached for the new Hero Arts Classic Fabric Design cling for my card.  I stamped the design in both light blue (Fresh Ink's Capri Blue) and green (SU! Pear Pizzaz) on white cardstock.  The green piece was diecut using the SU! butterfly die and some light blue pearls were added to the body.  A piece of darker green ruffle ribbon from Websters Pages was adhered to the blue stamped piece.  The sentiment, also from Hero Arts, was stamped using True Black ink and the butterfly adhered to the piece.  The entire piece was then adhered to the card front using foam dimensionals.  The layout is based on the current sketch from Clean & Simple.

Thanks for taking a peek....

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI White; Stamps:  HA Classic Fabric Design & Find Joy; Ink:  Fresh Ink Capri Blue, SU! Pear Pizzaz & PTI True Black; Websters Pages green ruffle ribbon; Cuttlebug; butterfly die

ColourQ50 and FTL108

Going to keep things short again, today with a quick post about my card for ColourQ50.  The colors this week are three colors from the new Stampin Up! In Color line up:  Cherry Cobler, Pear Pizzaz & Peach Parfait, as well as the new Stampin Up! color Early Espresso & white.   I used the new sketch from Clean & Simple, FTL108 for the layout.  When I made the card this morning I really liked it, but now I'm not so sure.  But no going back now!

As always with SU!'s in colors line up I don't always like all the colors.  This year I'm not really wild about two of the colors:  Blushing Bride (too similar to Pink Pirouette) and Concord Crush (I'm not a huge fan of purple), but I am wild about Cherry Cobler & Pear Pizzaz.  Cherry Cobler is this rich, deep red and Pear Pizzaz is a beautiful shade of green.   I think both of them will be in my September SU! order! (ETA:  My oops!! Cherry Cobler isn't in the In Color line up!  But it is a new SU! color.)

Thanks from taking a peek... hope your weekend is going well.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SU! Whisper White, Cherry Cobler; Pear Pizzaz & Peach Parfail pp; Ink:  SU! Early Espress; Stamps:  {Stamps}of Life Hello2You; Cuttlebug; Spellbinders Large Scallope & Large Circle dies; Cuttlebug Polka Dot embossing folder; SU! Two Step bird punch

A Couple of Simple Fall Cards

I have a couple of simple fall cards today.  One for the current CAS challenge at Splitcoaststampers and the other using the current Clean & Simple sketch (FTL 106). 

The first card is the CAS card I made for the Splitcoaststampers challenge.  I used the new {Stamps}of Life set, Spooks2Scare, that I just got in the mail on Saturday.   {Stamps}of Life has a monthly stamp club and if you join every month you automatically get the new stamp set sent to you.  Then on the 7th, Stephanie, the owner, reveals additional new sets for the month.  One of the best parts??? The stamps are good quality and inexpensive!!  Check'em out!

The second card I made using FTL106.  I really like the Clean & Simple blog and alot of my cards are made using Natasha's wonderful CAS sketches.  Yet another blog that if you haven't checked out, you really should!

Thanks for taking a peek.... hope you had a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Trick or Treat card:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream, SU! Pumpkin Pie; Ink:  PTI True Black, Memento Grape; Black Diamond & Diamond Stickles, Stamps:  {Stamps}of Life - Spooks2Scare

Togetherness card:  Cardstock:  PTI Kraft & Vintage Cream; Stamps:  Hero Arts Season of Giving; Ink:  SU! Close to Cocoa, More Mustard & Pumpkin Pie.

Simple Color....

Today, I'm still on my simplicity kick.  This time with color, though.  Again, I have two cards for two different color challenges, but both using several colors in common.  The first card is for ColourQ (#47), one of my favorite color challenges.  I haven't played along the last few weeks for various reasons.  The major one being I didn't have any of the new SU! colors.  I used the sketch from a challenge blog that I have yet to have a chance to participate in:  Pals Paper Arts, PPA57.   It was just what I need to finally get my card put together since I was really stumped as to how to use the striking color combo (Poppy Parade, More Mustard, Basic Grey & Bermuda Bay) put forth by Arielle (actually, that happens to me alot!).  For this card I used a new SU! set called Just Believe. 

My second card is also for a color challenge called Color Cue put forth by the very talented Dawn of WPlus9Design Studio.  Her colors this month:  Gold, Red, Aqua & White/Cream.  Now SU!'s Bermuda Bay could be taken for an aqua color, but because it tends more toward the green end, I went with SU!'s Tempting Turquoise because when I think "aqua" I think more of a blue color.  I also used Dawn's fantastic stamp set Woodgrain Silhouettes, one of my most favorite sets, and the current sketch from Clean & Simple, FTL105.  I probably should have stamped the leaf image a bit more off the cardstock to give it better balance....  Well, live and learn.

So, thanks for taking a peek... I hope you have a wonderful day!

(PS... there are no graphics for the color challenges or the sketch challenges because I didn't want a big, long post.  Appropriate links have been provided.)

Supplies:  ColourQ:  Cardstock:  PTI White; SU! Poppy Parade, Bermuda Bay; Stamps:  SU! Just Believe; Ink:  SU! More Mustard; Ancient Page Stone Grey; Memento Tuxedo Black; Rhinestones:  Kaiser Craft; Cuttlebug; SU! Lattice Square EF

Color Cue:  Cardstock:  PTI white; SU! Poppy Parade & Tempting Turquoise; Ink:  SU! More Mustard; Palette Cote' Azure; Memento Tuxedo Black, Stamps:  Woodgrain Silhouettes; Punch:  EK Success:  Bracket

CTD93 & FTL91

Another color challenge card, today. This time using the colors from Color Throwdown 93. Such lovely colors and so hard for me to put together! And when I find it hard to put colors together, I love to turn to CAS sketches from Clean & Simple . This time FTL91.

I used the Delightful Dahlias set from PTI for the card, along with PTI's white cardstock for the panel (love Stamper's Select white! best stuff around!). The patterned paper is also PTI.
Thanks for taking a look! Have a blessed day!