Tag Thank You

 Inspired by several challenges today.  

I have used a background stamp heat embossed on water color card and then did some loose water color in pinks and greens. When it was dry I cut a piece as a tag and stamped the small sentiment. The die cut layered tulip is from a Waffle Flower set. Ribbon from my stash.

Linking to Tic Tac Toe Challenge        My Time to Craft #504  -Springtime  and Cards 4 Galz  #195-Spring Flowers

Springtime Love

New sketch #600 at Try Stampin' On Tuesday!  The option is to include a Bunny, Duck or Lamb

I have done too many bunny cards lately and my stash doesn't have much in the way of animals. So I'm sticking with cherry blossoms for my card today. The neighborhood has some stunning trees that are just now beginning to show signs of flowers.

I used two embossing folders - Altenews Planks for base and Tim Holtz for the pink blossoms, The stamped image is Penny Black, The Unfolding, inked with Gina K. The sentiment is from Altenew Paint-a-Flower White Swan Echinacea set.

Some fantastic cards from the Design team at TSOT. Check them out and we hope you will join us in the challenge. 

                              Also linking to Triple B Challenge with these Cherry blossoms .

Happy Easter

 Monday morning and a new sketch at 

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! 

My Design Team inspiration for you used a double stencil technique. I put Altenew Ombre Stripes stencil over Pretty Pink Posh Easter Background stencil, and using small blender brushes applied various pastel inks from Gina K Designs. That was cut down with Gina K Master Layouts 2 die and adhered to some gingham.  The bunny die is from Simon Says Stamp and it was cut twice from heavy card and before gluing them together I used the brush to add some color to the ears and nose that I carefully did not pop out from the bottom die. The sentiment is a older stamp from my stash, Verve I think.

The rest of the creative team is posted on AHSC blog on Wednesday!  Hope you will join the challenge.

Bold Birthday

 A new sketch at Sketch Saturday!  The optional twist: Use buttons.

My card does not use buttons, but lots of color. When trying to decide on a color palette for my card, I saw The Card Concept challenge 191b and loved it.  And per Just Add Ink challenge #645, there was no stamping involved. See below.

I ink blended Twisted Citron and Broken China Distress Oxide on white card and then cut it with Altenew's Cubed Cover die. That was trimmed and backed with the Navy card stock.  I used the trimmed piece and used it as a stencil on a white scrap with the same colors, and then decided to glue in the negative pieces left in the die and cut a circle. Mounted that on a navy circle. I inked a scrap with Broken China for the horizontal rectangle and used another piece of navy for the sentiment back. Sentiment die from Poppy.   Hope you will check out this fun sketch and the rest of the DT inspiration.

Linking to The Card Concept #191b

and Just Add Ink #645

Rain

 Hello! It's my week to host the challenge at Allsorts, and for challenge #721 the theme I've chosen is

                                           *** A/G or Rain***   ☔⛈🌈

You can have the sentiment be about rain (lots of fun rain idioms), anything you use when it's raining (umbrella, raincoat, rain boots), rain itself (drizzle, downpour, mist, etc.)  Prizes for this challenge will be announced March 31st.

Prizes from Oakwood, Highlight Crafts, AALL and Create and Craft Stash, these links take you to their individual websites and you can read more about each on our Patrons’ page here.

My inspiration for you is a card made with a rain stencil; I tinted some paste with blue dye reinker and framed ithat panel with card stock popped up. The rain boot was cut several times for added dimension and paper-pieced the boot and colored the flowers and leaves with Copics. The sentiment was computer generated and fussy cut.

Check out the inspiration from the rest of the creative Design Team at Allsorts and play along! I am excited to visit your blog posts!

Pastel Thank You

 The new challenge #720 at Allsorts this week

            ***  Anything Goes with Option - Perfect Pastels (Spring Colors) ***

Prizes from Oakwood, Highlight Crafts, AALL and Create and Craft Stash, these links take you to their individual websites and you can read more about each on our Patrons’ page here.  Winners will be announced on Friday 31st March.

My card was inspired by a video I saw recently using the Pop & Flip design. It is a simple and effective interactive card design. You can see instructions at Dawn Griffith's blog.

I used some Creative Expressions paper in the pale lilac, Spellbinders Nested Oval dies,   stamped images from Altenew's Focus On You set, and the inside Thank You stamp is a background stamp from Simon Says Stamp. The ribbon is Stampin' Up from my stash. The flowers and leaf were colored with Altenew Artists Markers and cut with coordinating dies.

Condolences

 A wonderful new sketch at Try Stampin' On Tuesday. The optional twist this week is weather.

My silver splattered piece reminds me of a moody sky.  The die cut is Memory Box, Darling Poppies and some Altenew silver thread, Pretty Pink Posh silver confetti.  The silver embossed sentiment is a retired set from CTMH.

Check out the wonderful Design Team cards at TSOT and join the challenge.