Hello from very wet and foggy western Washington! A little depressing, but I will take rain and fog over snow any day! I have a card to share that I made using lots of Spellbinders dies and my Spellbinders Glimmer hot foiling system. The Glimmer systems is currently on sale! I haven't done this in a couple to weeks, but I combined my two favorite challenges (Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown) to create my card. I fell in love with the CTD combo the moment I saw it and may have to make another card using those colors! Anywhoo… I didn't have the shade of pink cardstock I wanted for my flower so I just made my own using white cardstock and distress oxide ink in Spun Sugar. The flower and leaves dies are from the Spellbinders May 2019 card kit called Stay Wild. After cutting the two part of the flower I layered them together. The leaves were cut from white cardstock. I used a classic square Spellbinders die to cut the navy blue cardstock. The butterfly was foiled in a pretty light blue foil which is kind of hard to tell. I was able to get a decent close up photo so hopefully you can see that it is light blue. After I foiled the butterfly I die cut it with the matching die. I adhered the square so I could determine where to place the sentiment (from A Jillian Vance Design) and then stamped it in PTI's Spring Rain. I arranged and adhered all the leaves to the flower and then adhered the flower to the square using foam dimensionals. The butterfly wings were slightly bent upward and then adhered to the flower with glue. I finished with a scattering of Pretty Pink Posh pale pink sequins. I just want to remind you that Spellbinders is have a blow out sale on select dies with up to 40% off. Just click here to find out more details. Decided to add this to the current Flower Challenge, as well.
Hello! A quick post to share a card that I made for the MFT sketch and color challenges. When I saw the MFT sketch challenge I immediately thought of a set of triangle dies that I had purchased from MFT a few years ago with the intention of using them for masculine cards. Of course, that didn't happen... until now, lol! Card is pretty self-explanatory, right? Lots of diecutting of triangles using the MFT colors and then arranging them to fit the sketch layout. The sentiment is from the MFT Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes and was stamped using VersaFine CLAIR Morning Mist. Also going to post this over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.
Hello! Popping in with a super clean and simple card that wasn't so simple to make, lol! I started working on this a few days ago and if it weren't for the fact that I got sidetracked a few times I would have finished it on Saturday. But here it is Sunday and I finally got it done. I'm glad that it took so long to make because it is perfect for the new Paper Players challenge! I used the layout from CAS(E) this Sketch and the color from Color Throwdown so will be posting it there, as well as the SSS Wednesday challenge. I love the CTD combo of red, light gray and dark gray as it is perfect for a guy and even though I used a heart for the focal image it still remains pretty masculine I think. The heart die cut is the Deco Heart from Simon Says Stamp. I have had this die for a long time and have never used it. I have been doing to reorganizing and when I went to find the die set it had seemingly disappeared! Then when I went back for the third look through all the dies I found it hiding behind another die set! Anyway... die cut it twice from my favorite red cardstock, Stampin Up! Cherry Cobbler, stacked them and there adhered to the solid heart cut from a gray cardstock. Three strips of light gray cardstock were cut and adhered to a white cardstock base with foam tape. I adhered the heart, the sentiment strip (from the SSS stamp set Beautiful Flowers) that I stamped in VersaFine Morning Mist and I was done! Finally... lol!!
