The newest Challenge at Shopping Our Stash is By the Numbers - create a card featuring at least one number.
I reached deep into the stash archives for a Cuttlebug Number Collage embossing folder and paired it with a long-ago pad of Graphic 45 Core'dinations Cardstock, so I could sand away the embossed numbers.
I topped the sanded numbers with a sentiment from Kristina Werner's Celebrate with some Starfruit Enamel Dots from Concord & 9th.
This card came together inspired by multiple challenges. I started with inspiration from the Patriotic Decor at The Card Concept. My card is defined as their clean & layered style.
I took inspiration from the Colors and the Patriotic images using papers from Doodlebug Design Land That I Love collection.
I went with a Birthday theme with a sentiment from Kristina Werner's Celebrate for the Birthday Code Word at Addicted to CAS.
I also included a patriotic eagle in my card for the Simon Says Something with Wings Challenge and the Clean & Simple Things that Fly Challenge at The Paper Players.
I used the Simple Stories Pet Shoppe Collection to make a Year of the Snake Birthday Card for the April Lunar New Year Challenge.
I colored my snake image with alcohol ink markers and used the layout from the Just Add Ink Challenge.
The top sentiment is from the same Simple Stories set and the Happy Birthday is from Concord & 9th Endless Birthday stamp set.
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.
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.
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 March Jaded Blossom Challenge is Anything Goes.
I inked-up my never-before-used Jaded Blossom Tulips (to join the NBUS Challenge). I had a scrap of the orange paper on my studio table, so that's the color I decided to use.
My Grandma and I used to spend the fall going through the Tulip catalogs picking out the colors were were going to plant. I just loved all of the different color possibilities and that they came back year-after-year. I remember planting deep purple ones together with white ones one year ... so dramatic.
Next I die cut the Jaded Blossom Mason Jar from green vellum. I die cut the jar second time to shorten it, so it would work with my tulip. I added a silver lid and stamped the tulip stem twice to elongate it.
I finished with a Happy Birthday sentiment from Jaded Blossom Super Sized Birthday Greetings and some silver bling.
The newest color combination at The Color Hue Challenge is Lemon & Lime.
I grabbed a Lime Gelliarts print that was for the Retro theme in last week's #marchprinting challenge and cut it using a faux stitched rectangle die cut. My faux stitching is linking-up at the It's a Fake Challenge at Little Red Wagon. I also die cut the candles from Concord & 9th Make a Wish from Lemon cardstock & the overlay on the candles from the same Lime GelliArts print.
I added a bit of lemon ink to the candle flames and finished with a sentiment from the Concord & 9th Make a Wish stamps attached with foam tape for dimension.
The newest Stay Crafty with a Blog Named Hero Challenge is to make a mailable card (and mail it).
Birthday cards are something I regularly mail, so I that's what I made. I started with tone-on-tone stamping of the Hero Arts Abstract Frames Bold Print.
Next, I added the star balloon transfer from the Birthday Hero Transfers, but decided that it didn't have enough contrast (However I am still linking-up at the S is for ... Challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz with my Star), so I added the blue balloon dog transfer on top. Then I added a blue sentiment transfer and blue stars to create a triangle of blue.
I finished with a few red gems to create another visual triangle with the large die cut sentiment from Hero Arts It's Our Anniversary (backed with coordinating yellow glitter).
