The newest Simon Says Challenge is Blooming Blooms.
I used Taylored Expressions Blooming with Love and paired it with Hero Arts Happy Mother's Day sentiment. The background is embossed with Taylored Expressions Harlequin embossing folder. I finished with Enamel Dots from Altenew.
I'm also linking-up at the Crafter's Café Blog challenge of Anything Goes with an optional theme of Feminine. And the Creatalicious Challenge is also Anything Goes with an Option of Embossing.
When I saw the newest Inspired By Challenge, I knew I had to visit my neglected drawer of washi tape.
I wanted to make a birthday card for a music lover, so I followed the colors of the inspiration photo with a few musical elements thrown into the mix. I made a slimline card, so I could include more washi in my design including the Music Tape from Eyelet Outlet.
I added sentiments from Hero Arts Let's Celebrate staying relatively closed to the Inspired By Sketch.
I realized today that I better get started on Mother's Day cards. I decided that combining stamping and stenciling was one of the quickest way to get several cards done in a short amount of time.
I started with Taylored Expressions Best Bud Stamp & Stencil combination. For the first one I combined Lemon Meringue and Lollipop inks.
The Mother's Day sentiment is from Taylored Expressions Sweet Sentiments.
For the second one, I switched to Plum Punch and Pink Champagne inks.
My next card was made using the Taylored Expressions Full of Flowers Stamp & Layering Stencil combination using Spearmint, Lavender Glaze and Dried Fig inks.
I love trying different colors and seeing how it changes the look of the flowers.
The current Seize the Birthday Challenge is to create with layers.
I found these birthday tags, stickers, and ephemera in my stash, so I layered it on to create a masculine birthday card.
Happy to be restocking my stash.
We're still celebrating Earth Day at Jingle Belles by making cards featuring recycled items.
Since my recipe worked so well last week, I decided to go with another variation on the same theme. Since Puffs Tissue puts their logo at the bottom (rather than in the center like last week's Kleenex Box), I was able to use a stitched circle to get the most of the lovely holiday floral pattern. I used two of the smaller circles to capture a few more of the lovely little white blooms.
I pulled out the golden yellow from the design by using a piece of K & Company packaging for my card base (they seriously had the best packaging). I die cut CZ Design's Merry & Bright from a scrap of GelliArts print that was so small it was destined for the recycle bin and I backed it with vellum, so the lovely pattern could show through. I had just enough leftover GelliArts print to die cut two snowflakes that I topped with Concord & 9th Enamel Dots.
We hope you'll come share your Earth Day Christmas cards with us at Jingle Belles.
Another week of frolicking through blogland:
Have a tremendous Thursday!
The latest #staycraftychallenge with A Blog Named Hero is to create a card using colors on the opposite side of the color wheel.
I chose purple & yellow and used those colors with my new Hero Arts Daffodil Layering Stencils.
I used this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch using the Hero Arts Rounded Rectangle Infinity dies and a sentiment form Hero Arts Let's Celebrate.
I'm also joining the Birthday Challenge at Little Red Wagon. And the theme is Springtime Flowers at the Double D Challenge.
Some beautiful Concord & 9th flowers to start your day. I made this card with products from the C9 Winter Retreat Event. I just love that color combination.
I'm linking this card at the TIME OUT Challenge where you were supposed to use two of the ideas .. I used Florals & an Arch (and as an overachiever, Pastel colors and Dots).
I also made this fun little Butterfly Card which is perfect for the Creatalicious Embossing Challenge. The embossing folder from the Event just blows my mind every time I use it.
Wishing you a marvelous Tuesday ... do something that makes you laugh outloud.
The current Little Red Wagon Challenge is C is for Circles ... and I love circles.
So I started with one of my GelliArts prints made with a Circle Stencil and multiple layers of paint and cut it into a Circle.
I die cut more circles for my card base. Next, I added a sentiment and little bunny rabbit that I punched with a Circle from Taylored Expressions Tag Team Easter.
I took my inspiration from these fun Easter Eggs at the Inkspirational Challenge. And the Sweet Stampin' Challenge is celebrating Easter Creations.
I had a discussion with a co-worker this week about Tulips. She mentioned hers were getting ready to bloom, which immediately took me back to sitting with my Grandma AtKisson on the couch in the Fall thumbing through the bulb catalogs marking the ones we might want, and then narrowing it down until we finally placed our joint order.
Next it was on our knees in the dirt deciding how close to place the bulbs and tubers, so we got the look we were hoping for come Spring. My grandma's garden was filled with perennials that returned year after year, which I loved.
So when I saw Gina K. Design's Rainbow #monthlymixchallenge for April, I thought of the rainbow of colors that was my Grandma's garden. I stamped the tulips from Gina K. Designs Spring Tulips in black ink and colored them in a rainbow of colors using my Faber Castell pencils and some eraser blending. I added a sentiment from the same set.
I die cut the flowers using Gina K. Designs Single Stitched Rectangle die cut and added a thin yellow border using this week's AAA Cards Challenge Sketch, with the second sentiment from Gina K. Designs Blooming Butterfly.
