Color My Heart Color Dare #604

 Hello!  Thank you for stopping by.  Color My Heart Color Dare #604 is up and ready for your fun and creativity!

This challenge is....

I'm using Flamingo, Ballerina, Clover and Limeade.  I am also featuring foilable stickers from Brutus Monroe and flower/sentiment images from Crafty Meraki.  This is a simple, single layer (basically) card that will only take a single stamp to mail.

I also recently purchased a Minc machine, so I pulled out some Poly-something card panels from GinaK.  It's so hard to photograph the silver foil that I used on the butterfly and the background.  It's there though and looks great in person! 

Tuesday Morning Sketches #759

 Hello friends!  Thank you for stopping by.  The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's really simple.  It's a good one for washi tapes, die cuts or as I did, embossing folders.

My card was made using the 3D Pretty Petal Trellis embossing folder from Tonic Studios.  This is not my idea, I totally CASE'd DT member Filomena's technique.

Filomena did bright colors on hers but I kept mine very light.  This picture doesn't do it justice!  The sentiment is from the brand new Foliage and Simple Sentiments die set.  

I do hope you'll join us - c'mon, it'll be fun!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #758

 Hello!  I hope everyone enjoyed a nice extended weekend.  The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's an easy one.  But feel free to make it a fun fold like I did.

My card features BRIGHTS - yes, I played with brights.  Not generally my go-to color palette.  I actually started out my idea for a special little boy in my life who is turning 6 (gasp!) but the printed paper doesn't work - but I went with what I had and now it's just a bright greeting card.

This card features red card stock from Lawn Fawn, Colorful Spring paper from Brutus Monroe, die cut words from Tonic Studios, glitter and mirror card also from Tonic Studios and star die cuts from Pink & Main.  All my favorites!

This is a gatefold card but not in the traditional way.  And the blue star tucks into the yellow star to keep the card closed.  This was a really fun card to make and was really super simple.

I do hope you'll join us at the TMS blog and be sure to visit the design team and leave them some love.  See you there!

Color My Heart Color Dare #602

 Hello!  Thank you for stopping by.  Color My Heart Color Dare #602 is up and ready for your fun and creativity!

This challenge is....

What a great color combo! It's very hard to photograph purple. Royal (eggplant) looks black but hopefully you can see the difference of the frame which is eggplant and the sentiment that is truly black.  My card features dies from Spellbinders, an embossing folder from Tonic Studios and a sentiment die set from Scrapbook.Com. 

Here's a close up of the focal point.  I did add some glitter gloss from Tonic Studios on the sentiment to add just a little bit of shine.

I also used some pretty gems from Brutus Monroe. 

I hope you join us for the challenge! 

Tuesday Morning Sketches #757

 Hello friends!  Thank you for stopping by.  The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's a fabulous sketch by Debbie. 

My card features products from Brutus Monroe and I am so pleased with how this turned out.

The card base is Glacier card stock from Spellbinders.  The card panel I used the circles stencil from Brutus Monroe masking off the section for my focal point.  I used blue, purple and pink inks.  Then I used the Fabulous Florals die set cutting them from white card stock.  I colored the flowers using the same blue, purple and pink inks.  The center piece and the leaves I colored with green inks.  The flower pieces I then covered with embossing ink and used Pearl embossing powder.  The sentiment is from a Tonic Studios craft kit.  It's a die that I cut using lavender mirror card stock also from Tonic Studios.

Isn't that pearl shine gorgeous!  I just love it.

I do hope you'll join us at TMS.  Leave some love for the team!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #756

 Hello!  Thank you for stopping by!  The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and we're collaborating with our friends at Double Trouble Paper Crafting. Please visit either blogs for details!

My card features Retro Rainbow papers from Brutus Monroe and Floral stamp from Tonic Studios.  I'm not sure how this using anything old from my stash, but in my stash nonetheless and needed some attention!

The patterns of the papers remind me of crazy fun socks so why not use them!!

I hope you'll join us, you have plenty of time as this challenge runs 2 weeks.

Birthstone Challenge May-June

Hello!  It's time for another challenge at Birthstone Challenge.  This challenge will run until June 15th.  The birthstones are Pearl and Emerald and the twist is Engagement/Wedding/Anniversary.

My card for this challenge is made from a paper pad I have had forever!  I don't know how long this has been in stash but it's perfect for this challenge.  If you can't tell, I am showcasing pearl.  I did pair it with with a neutral Kraft and it's absolutely beautiful!

All the dies are from Tonic Studios - some from different memory books sets and the big daisy is from the Blooming Bouquet set.  This turned out so pretty... took most of the day to put it together, but the outcome was worth the time.

I hope to see you over at Birthstone Challenge.