Happy Wishes

I've been wanting to play along with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge all week and finally found some time today to create! 

As soon as I saw this sketch I knew it would work perfectly with the now-retired set from Power Poppy called Natural Beauties. Thankfully although the clear set is retired you can still find the images in 2 digital sets in the Power Poppy store, HERE and HERE.

My card is one layer. I stamped the image across the bottom and then colored it with my copic markers. After I finished coloring it I stamped a sentiment from the set in green ink. Nice and simple!

There is still time to play along in the sketch challenge, they close it at 12pm PST Monday!

Thanks for stopping by!

Thinking of You

I'm jumping in and playing along with the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. A friend needed me to make a card for a male friend of hers battling cancer and so I wanted to keep it simple. The sketch by Jen M. was the perfect thing!

I used the SU set Rustic Retreat and stamped the deer and sentiment in Soft Suede, adding a bit of Mossy Meadow to the grass under the deer. The paper is from the Neutrals DSP pack and I used the wood pattern in Soft Suede and Mossy Meadow. For a little extra visual punch I did some paper piercing around all the edges.

The sketch does call for a square but Jen said we could also go rectangle if we preferred so that's what I did.

Sunny Tulips

Happy Sunday! It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a bright and cheery color challenge to work with!

For my card I used a retired set from Power Poppy called Loving Tulips and I used the last 3 colors on the challenge graphic on my card. I just love the yellow and green together, it makes for such a happy card. This card will be going to a woman fighting cancer so cheerful and sunny is definitely needed.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you do with these colors!

Getting Blocked

Happy Sunday! It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a sketch challenge for you with a bonus choice! You get 2 sketches to choose from plus Heidi has also give the option of color blocking so there are SO many possibilities with this challenge.

I haven't had any time to really sit and color so I decided to print out a digital stamp from Power Poppy called Pansies. I absolutely adore this set, it is so fun to color and always relaxes me.

After I colored the image I cut it into 3 panels and then did paper piercing along the open white edges to provide a bit of contrast. The sentiment is also from the digital set and so I made it a golden yellow color, printed it and then mounted it on the same purple cardstock that I used for the card base, popping it up with dimensionals. While I did use colors opposite each other on the color wheel I didn't do the true definition of color blocking but that's ok, close enough right? LOL

Make sure you head over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us, we'd love to see how you interpret the sketch(es)!