Bold and Bright with The Color Throwndown

I'm thrilled to be a guest over at The Color Throwndown blog today! The colors are bold and bright...yellow, orange and blue, perfect for those of you that are ready for summer temps and colors!

For my card I used the Dahlia XL stamp from Power Poppy and colored it with orange and yellow copics, I just love that combo for this flower! I then die cut some yellow and orange patterned paper to help highlight the colors of the dahlia. To incorporate the blue I used blue card stock for my base and then stamped the sentiment in blue, and popped that up over the flower.

Make sure to head over to The Color Throwdown blog to see all the fabulous creations and then give the colors a whirl, I'd love to see what you come up with!

Stamps: Dahlia XL (Power Poppy)

Paper: Pacific Blue (SU), Neenah Solar White, Hello Honey DSP (SU retired), Tangelo Twist (SU retired)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Pacific Blue (SU)

Copics: Y02, Y15, Y19

YR02, YR04, YR07, YR09

Accessories: MFT Blueprints 27, dimensionals

Moose Snowboarding

Over at the Inky Paws Challenge they have a sketch so I grabbed my favorite snow boarding moose (from the set Moose Mountain) and made a card.

I've had this image colored and sitting on my desk for a few weeks now so the challenge was the perfect excuse to get him up on a card. I reached into my stash of paper and used some really old SU PP that matched the colors of the moose's snowsuit. I felt like he was just kind of plain popped up on the front so I stamped the sentiment, used a circle punch to cut it out and then adhered that above the ribbon going across the top of the banner.

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Stamps: Moose Mountain (Newton's Nook)

Paper: Smoky Slate (SU), Neenah Solar White, Welcome Neighbor DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Old Olive (SU), Pumpkin Pie (SU)

Copics: forgot to write them down, ooops!

Accessories: Pumpkin Pie ribbon (SU retired), SU TIEF Softly Falling

SU Banner Framelits (retired), SU 1 3/8" circle punch, dimensionals

Seeing Three

I'm squeaking in with a card for the Jingle Belles challenge, which closes tomorrow. They want to see 3 of something on our project, so I went with 3 deer.

The layout is an older sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and it's supposed to be 3 circles across the front panel. Instead of circles I used deer from the SU set Dashing Deer. I stamped and die cut one and then just die cut the other 2 out of some card stock. I embossed the Crumb Cake panel and adhered that to some patterned paper I got at my local stamp store. I put all of that on a Chocolate Chip card base and then adhered the 3 reindeer to the front and called it good LOL

Stamps: Dashing Deer (SU)

Paper: Chocolate Chip (SU retired), Crumb Cake (SU), Very Vanilla (SU), Simple Stories Sweet Vintage Christmas PP

Ink: Cherry Cobbler (SU), Chocolate Chip (SU retired)

Accessories: Detailed Deer Thinlets Dies (SU), Pinewood Planks TIEF (SU), dimensionals

Let's Catch Up

 I had so much fun making a grid card for the Power Poppy Creative Confetti challenge that I decided to make another one. I was going to do a feminine card this time around but ended up using the Leaping Trout digital image instead. I guess with spring showing it's head here in southcentral Alaska and my husband talking about fishing my brain is just kind of stuck on the fishing themed cards!

Like last time I colored the image with copics and then used a die to cut the image into squares. To get them evenly spaced and lined up I used the frame that gets cut to get it all right and then I pull the frame up and toss it. After I adhered the squares I used a silver gel pen to add some sparkle to the belly of the fish and then I printed out my sentiment and adhered that to the bottom of the card.

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Stamps: Leaping Trout (Power Poppy digital stamp), Fly Guy (sentiment, Power Poppy digital stamp)

Paper: Old Olive (SU), Marina Mist (SU retired), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Printer Ink, Marina Mist (SU retired), Silver Gel Pen

Copics: G21, G24, YG63

R85

B41

B000, B00, B01

Accessories: MFT Square Grid Cover Up, MFT Blueprints 13 and 27

Those That Inspire Us

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun sketch to play along with! As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I wanted to use the Painted Seasons DSP from the SU Sale-A-Bration. I am in LOVE with this paper! I got 3 pkgs of it and just may try and hoard it for years to come LOL

I cut 3 panels from the DSP, flipping the paper to use the backside on the 2nd panel. I then sponged the edges of each panel to help them blend better against the card base. I used another Sale-A-Bration item, the stamp set Part of My Story, for the sentiment. I used a die from the Rose Trellis Thinlets to frame the sentiment. I then cut out some leaves from the Detailed Leaves Thinlets and added those behind my sentiment.

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 how you interpret the sketch!

Stamps: Part of My Story (SU)

Paper: Early Espresso (SU). Call Me Clover (SU), Lemon Lime Twist (SU), Whisper White (SU), Painted Seasons DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Poppy Parade (SU)

Accessories: Rose Threllis Thinlets Dies (SU), Detailed Leaves Thinlets Dies (SU retired), dimensionals

Pansies and Thank You

I played along with a color challenge today, which is not something I normally do because color challenges scare me LOL However I saw the colors for this weeks Color Throwdown and knew that some pansy images I had on my desk would be perfect for this!

I used a digital stamp from Power Poppy called Pansies. I have had it printed out and on my desk for a few weeks now so these colors were the perfect thing to get me kicked into gear and coloring. It's funny, I absolutely cannot stand the color purple....except when it comes to pansies. I just adore my purple and yellow pansies, especially the little Johnny Jump-Up's. They make me smile when I see them in my flower beds!

To incorporate the gray I outlined the image with my C1 copic and then I used gray card stock as my card base.

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Stamps: Pansies (Power Poppy digital stamp)

Paper: Smoky Slate (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: V05, V06, V09

Y02, Y15, Y19

YG03, YG63, YG67

C1

Accessories: Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die

A Fly Father's Day

 I finally found some time to stamp. I don't know what my problem has been lately, I just have zero creative energy. This weeks Power Poppy Creative Confetti Challenge definitely helped me get motivated though.

This week for Creative Confetti we are asked to create a card using a window pane or grid effect. You can use circles, squares...whatever you want!

I knew exactly what image I wanted to use, the Power Poppy digital stamp Fly Guy. It's probably not an image one would automatically think of for a card like this but hey, that's how I roll LOL

I colored the image and then I used a die I have to cut it into a grid pattern. In her post Julie talked about how scared she was to cut her colored image up and I'm not going to lie, I felt some fear too LOL Thankfully it worked out and I'm really happy with the result!

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Stamps: Fly Guy (Power Poppy digital Stamp), Dad + Me (Lawn Fawn, sentiment), Crackle Paint Background (SU)

Paper: Early Espresso (SU), Old Olive (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Early Espresso (SU), Old Olive (SU), Printer Ink

Copics: YG61, YG63, YG91, YG95

G21, G24, G43, G46

E40, E43, E81

E00, E02

E30, E34

B01

R21

E11, E13, W5

Accessories: MFT Square Grid Cover Up Die, MFT Blueprints 13 and 27