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 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.
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.
I wanted to make a fun Easter Card using the Scrapbook.com Hippity Hoppity Stamps.
I decided to use the colors from the TGIF Challenge.
I stamped a trio of Peeps in the three challenge colors.
I'm also linking-up at the CAS on Sunday Bunny Challenge.
I also took inspiration from Double D Easter Challenge.
I needed another masculine card for a teenage boy who loves guitars.
I chose this week's Sketch Saturday as my layout with the Free My Soul Stamp from Technique Junkies. I used the colors from the Just Add Ink Colour Challenge, inking my stamps with a blend of Soft Sea Foam & Balmy Blue.
I pulled in the Petunia Pop with some Alcohol Ink designer paper and attached it to a Smoky Slate Card Base. I used a grey/blue magazine page behind my stamped image & for the strip down the left.
I finished with a few Reminisce Rock Star Guitar Stickers.
The newest challenge at the Simon Says Monday Challenge is Hip Hop!
I found this fun little Hip Hop Ephemera in my Easter drawer, and I combined it with strips from four different Gelliarts prints.
I'm going diagonal Tic Tac Toe for The Paper Players Challenge with Lavender, Animal & Ribbon.
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.
We're still all Grinchy at Jingle Belles this week - creating cards that are predominantly green.
I've been doing the GelliArts #marchprintingchallenge, so I'm currently up to my ears in GelliArts prints. I chose a number of green prints from my stash and cut them into 3/8" strips. Next I attached the strips to a cardstock base in a quilt-like pattern. When I was done, I ran it through an embossing folder to unify the patterns with an all-over texture.
I finished with fun green Ephemera from Fancy Pants Cookies for Kringle Collection.
Remember, one lucky participant will win the PoppyStamps Nordic Dimple Christmas Trees Die Set.
The March Pinkfresh Studio Challenge is Spell It Out - to get creative using Pinkfresh Alphabet Stamps and/or Dies.
I used three of the colors from the Challenge photo to die cut HAPPY using Pinkfresh Studio Adore Alphabet to make a masculine birthday card. I used the two shades of blue ink with the Pinkfresh Studio Layered Sunburst Stencil Set.
I used foam tape to attach the letters and cut the "birthday" from a sentiment found in Pinkfresh Studio Happy Birthday Sentiments. I finished with some Stargazer gems.
I'm also linking-up at the Seven Hills Craft Challenge to use a Stamp, a Die and a Stencil on a card. I'm also joining the March Stencil Fun Challenge.
When I bought Kristina Werner's Loved & Missed Stamp Set, I honestly hoped I would never need to use it. But since I do need another pet sympathy card, I'm grateful to have it.
I chose the colors from this week's Color Throwdown since I thought the browns worked well for the paw prints ... and since he was a boy kitty, the blue seems liked the right sympathy hue.
I'm also linking-up at Make My Monday Use a Die Cut Challenge.
