A quick post with a card for One Layer Wednesday. I haven't done a card for OLW in several weeks because I have had a hard time coming up with anything good for either challenge. This week Jennifer gave us a sketch to use for our cards, which was extremely helpful in getting my one layer mojo working again! I flipped the sketch as I often like to do. All supplies are from Stampin Up!, except the punch used for the butterfly (Martha Stewart). 
I really do! If you haven't tried ColourQ you really should. Week after week Arielle finds amazing inspiration photos from which she pulls her color combinations. One of my favorite things to do on Tuesday morning is click on to the ColourQ blog to see what the new combo will be and to be amazed by what Arielle and the design team have done with the colors. I am never disappointed! And much to my glee Arielle has picked me twice to be colourQueen!! Thank you, Arielle!
Posting a card for two challenges: ODBD Shining the Light (a sketch) and Sentimental Sundays (a color challenge). The colors we were asked to use are: Summer Sun, Handsome Hunter, Poppy Parade & Old Olive. For me, not a group of colors that I found easy to combine. I thought using the sketch would make it easier, but to be honest it actually made it harder for me. Oh well... another case of live and learn. However, in the end I do think that the card turned out rather nice.
I flipped the Card Patterns sketch so that the circle element is on the other side of the card because I have a habit of tying my bows so they end up on the righthand side of the card! For some reason a bow on the righthand side is just more pleasing to me. Finally, I'm going to put this in the current Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger challenge as it fits that challenge, as well (sorry I don't have the Trigger graphic... I kinda ran out of room!). And, eeekk!! Cath picked my card from last week's Tuesday Trigger challenge as a trigger target!! How cool is that???? 
A quick post with a card I made for the current Tuesday Trigger challenge at Moxie Fab. When I looked at the trigger picture I was immediately drawn to the rosettes on the pillow and nothing else. I like the idea of deconstructing something and wanted to take the image down even further.. So, I made three felt roses using this new rolled flower die that I got from My Favorite Things. I'm still trying to get the hang of making the flowers look right, but I think these turned out pretty good.
So.... darn! I had to make a second card! This one for the sketch. I used one of my favorite DeNami stamps "Leafy Vine Wreath". I stamped it in Memento Pear Tart and added a bit of color with YG00. I combined the image with PTI's Simply Chartruse patterned paper and ribbon and kraft cardstock. A bit of bling was added, as well. Overall I like how the card turned out.
Two cards today, again, for two color challenges: ColourQ and Curtain Call. For both of these challenges I took the cards down to the basics of each color challenge. There is almost no cardstock and/or patterned paper used for either card other than the white cardstock used to make the cards. I tried to rely solely on my inks and thankfully I have inks in pretty much all the colors used. I did use a bit of patterned paper for my ColourQ card.
So... the other day I made a card that turned out EXACTLY how I envisioned it would turn out. Today I have a card that didn't turn out quite how I had envisioned it would. I still like the card, but well.... I used the current color combo from CR84FN of kraft, brown & red! I love anything with kraft so doing this challenge was a no-brainer. 
The first card is for my favorite color challenge ColourQ. This week Arielle chose a super fun and bright color combo of Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Taken with Teal, Melon Mambo and white. I'm not a huge fan of Tangerine Tango (or any orange for that matter), but combined with the other colors I totally love it. I went really CAS for the card which wasn't hard for me to do as CAS is my favorite style of cardmaking. That's another goal for this year... to really embrace my inner CAS! Two different Stampin Up! sets were used for the card: Priceless & Whimsical Words. 
The second card is for a new to me color challange: Curtain Call. I have been taking a look at the color combos from Curtain Call for several months now and finally decided to play along with this week's combo of Always Artichoke, Marina Mist, Pacific Point, Cherry Cobbler & white. This combo was harder for me to put together in a good way, but I think I succeeded by keeping it CAS. I followed the current sketch from Splitcoaststampers for the card, as well. This card uses a Stampin Up! set called Syle Beautiful. Love the damask type motifs in this set!
This time for the current Waltzingmouse sketch challenge. I often wish I was the kind of cardmaker who can pile all kinds of lovely trims and bits on a card and make it work, but I'm not. Nothing wrong with being someone who tends more toward the clean and simple end of cardmaking, though. While this card is simple I did try to step outside that box and add some trims that I normally don't add, like the crocheted ribbon and the little medallion used on the card, as well. I'm not completely certain that I like the bow on the card, but card was rather plain looking without it. There isn't alot of stamping on this card and no sentiment, but that's okay I think. 
A card today for the current JUGs sketch challenge using a Heartfelt Creations image. The Heartfelt Creations image I used is from HCPC572 Clematis/Cottage set. I got out my Primsa pencils and did some coloring with those. The patterned paper I used is from Websters Pages (WonderFall/Hollywood Vogue combo collection). I ink distressed the image with some Ranger Old Paper distress ink. 
the most wonderful thing! I'm so glad that I have made some lovely "friends I haven't met, yet" here in the papercrafting world! Hopefully I will be able to meet some of you in real life one day! When I made this card today I wasn't necessarily thinking that this would be entered into any challenges, but the more I looked at it the more I realized it fit several out there. First, it works for the current Sentimental Sundays challenge: Friendship. Second it fits the current Flourishes challenge: flowers. And third, I used the current Mojo Monday sketch for the card. 
