Colour Me......Playful! #39

Happy Wednesday! Time for a new Colour Me......Playful! challenge this week and its a really fabulous color combination!

I'm in desperate need of birthday tags for wine gifts so thought this color combination would be perfect for this. I used the wine bottle tag die which I die cut in white and also die cut the top portion in Tropical Teal which I adhered to the top to make it more sturdy. 

I stamped dotted lines in Harvest Gold across the tag and stamped a few candles from Wishes Come True in Pure Poppy and Orange Zest. Sentiment from Keep It Simple Birthday stamped in Tropical Teal. 

I hope you will play along at Colour Me this week. The Colour Me...! team has made some fabulous cards for your inspiration this week so head on over their blogs and check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our featured designer for September......
Holly Endress

Can't wait to see what you come up with in the gallery! Thanks for taking time to visit.

CASology:Grass

Quick share this evening.....Made a card a couple of days ago but got so swamped that I hadn't had a chance to post.

This card is for the CASology challenge cue card GRASS. I only have grass stamp - an old wooded one from AMuse and wanted to pair it with a simple flower from Flower Fusion.

I stamped the grass in two greens to give it a little more interest. The top in Simply Chartreuse, the bottom in Ripe Avocado. The flower and background card base is Terracotta Tile which I thought would be a nice contrast to the green. 

I added a little bit of stickles in the center of the flower for a little interest.

Hoping to catch up on your blogs soon...thanks for popping by!

Colour Me......! Subtle! #38

Happy Wednesday friends! It's time for a new Colour Me challenge!  This week features a trio of soft colors - yellow, green, and pink - which I thought would be perfect for a baby card for my neighbor. 

I wanted to make the baby card a little more interesting by making a shaker card. I used the PTI Shakers and Sprinkles dies to create a shaker. Background paper for the shaker is from a Project Life card - love the trendy pink pattern. Card base is a fun dotted yellow paper from AMuse. 

Close up of the shaker.....

Hope you are inspired to make a fun colorful card of your own. Check out the pretty cards the Colour Me team has made  for your inspiration this week.  

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our featured designer for September......
Holly Endress

Can't wait to see you in the gallery! Thanks for stopping by! 

Colour Me......Striking! #37

Happy Wednesday friends! Today is the reveal of the new Colour Me....Striking! challenge which pairs a creamy yellow with a bright light green/aqua color. 

This one is a challenge for me because I don't have ink colors that were a good match for these colors but I knew I had things in my stash I could use if I dug around a bit. 

The card front is covered with an amazing graphic patterned paper from the Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine collection which I cut so that the focal point of the design was not exactly centered on the card. You know that Rule of Thirds rule? Always heard about it but never consciously applied it as I have here.

I diecut balloons from Balloon Bash out of Bazzill Dotted Swiss paper and popped them up with foam squares over a simple sentiment banner.

Wow, no major stamping and I think it looks pretty cool.

I hope you will play along at Colour Me this week. The Colour Me...! team has made some fabulous cards for your inspiration this week so head on over their blogs and check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our featured designer for September......
Holly Endress

Can't wait to see what you come up with in the gallery! Thanks for taking time to visit.

CASology:THREE

Fall is my favorite time of the year with cooler weather, cozy sweaters, and apple and pumpkin picking at our local farms. Now that its September I wanted to use my new Leaf Prints set which I've wanted for so long and finally got ,but never played with until today.......

I stamped three leaves in the center of the Rustic Cream card base in leafy colors of Distress Inks. I stamped it on the pad and then sprayed it with a shot of water in the mister to give it a little bit of a watercolor look.

Simple sentiment nestled amongst the leaves. 

Playing along with the CASology:Three challenge as well as Darnell's NBUS challenge #2. 

Unfortunately Mother Nature doesn't realize its September and we still have temperatures up in the upper 80s still. Though after last year's awful winter, I'll take all the heat for as long as we can....

Hope you are having lovely weather where you are. Thanks for taking a peek. 

It's Hip to Be Square

Just bought a used older PTI set Guide Lines last week and had a chance to play with it today. Thought it would be perfect for this month's One Layer Simplicity Challenge - Hip to be Square.

I LOVED the bright colors Ardyth's card for this challenge and was inspired to make a card set using my new Guide Lines stamps which features square shaped medallions.

I made a set of 5 cards, all 4x4 in size in keeping with the SQUARE challenge. 

I used various sentiments from the Keep It Simple sentiment line of stamps. 

I loved picking out different color combinations and almost couldn't stop at just 5 cards! Think this will make a cute gift at some point. Thanks for stopping by! 

Two Cards for the Weekend

Hi friends.....lots to share!

Hubby is back from a year of active duty with the Coast Guard (Yay!) and its been wonderful having him around this past week before he heads back to his regular work again. We had a great day at the beach to close out the summer...less crowds because most of the kids in NJ had to go back to school after Labor Day.

First week of September has come and gone. Girls went back to school on Thursday (another Yay!) and are very excited about the school year ahead (5th and 3rd grades) and hoping that once we all get back into the swing of things, I'll get more crafty time.

Now back to crafty business....

First card I want to share is using the Easel technique for the PTI Make It Monday challenge. LOVE this technique because it is so easy and the results look so cool!

I love how easy the chalkboard look was using fresh snow ink and smokey shadow paper. Although I'm in back to school mode this week, I was in the mood to mimic a coffee bar sign and use the Latte Love set which has almost NEVER been used. The cutout for the easel stand was created using one of the Half and Half dies. 

I finally used the stacked coffee cups die which I embossed in brown to make it easier to color in with Copics. 

Next card I made is for this week's CASology challenge - UNDER - which reminds me of rain and standing under an umbrella. I cut out a panel of multicolored raindrops from the Pink Paislee Hello Sunshine collection and centered it on the white card panel which I die cut a stitched border.

I recently bought a used Scattered Showers stamp set so was happy to use it with dies that have sat unused for ages.  I clustered all the elements in the center to maintain a good amount of white space.

Well, that's it for me this weekend. Hope you had a good one! Thanks for stopping by!

Colour Me....Monochromatic #36

Happy Wednesday friends! It's time for a new Colour Me challenge. This week features a bright and sunny yellow for the monochromatic scheme. Its simply perfect for the summer that's winding down....

For my card I stamped a wavy graphic border from PTI Ombre Builders inking only once but stamping three times starting from the bottom. I believe this technique is called generation stamping. 

I stamped the sentiment from Thank You kindly in a neutral brown and adhered the panel on a piece of kraft card stock with only three sides peeking out. I put the panel on the yellow card base flush right (seems to be my favorite side for cards these days) and added a Jenni Bowlin butterfly. Love the yellow pearls on the butterfly which adds to the softness of the stamped background. 

I hope you will join me at Colour Me this week. The Colour Me team has made some beautiful cards for your inspiration this week so head on over their blogs and check them out.

Claire Broadwater

Hayley Kew
Joanne James

Julia Altermann

Tara Bourgoin

And our featured designer for September......
Holly Endress

Hope you can play along. Can't wait to see you in the gallery! Thanks for taking time to visit.