Another card for ColourQ #201

It seems that when I am doing these color challenges, I always end up making more than one card if I love that particular color combination. After I make my first card, I often find myself continuing to think of all the wonderful possibilities with those colors that I need to make another. Does that happen to you?

I am really loving the color combination at ColourQ so I made another card using one of my new favorite sets Round Repeats. This set is perfect - graphical, elegant, and so versatile. I love this resulting card though it took me many tries to get the sentiment straight (a different one than this) so I had lots of practice creating these medallions.

Hope you like it too. Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Paper: PTI Aqua Mist, Neenah White
Stamps: PTI Round Repeats & Think Big Favorites
Ink: Momento Grey Flannel & Nautical Blue, PTI Melon Berry & Aqua Mist
Other: My Mind's Eye enamel dots

ColourQ #201

Its hard to believe that the summer is almost over and my girls will be out of camp soon and then we're headed out of town to visit family. That means less craft time for me so I'm trying to get in as much creating as I can.

This birthday card was inspired by this week's ColourQ challenge. I love this color combo and wanted to create something that clustered all the colors together. I created a mask of the '40' and stamped various types of flowers in these pretty colors. Voila! A gorgeous floral 40 perfect for one of my friends. Think I'll definitely try this masking technique again.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies:
Paper: PTI Aqua Mist & Enchanted Evening, Neenah White
Stamps: PTI Mini Blooms & Big Birthday Wishes
Ink: Momento Grey Flannel & Nautical Blue, PTI Melon Berry & Aqua Mist
Other: PTI Linen Embossing Plate, Spellbinders Rectangle Die

Summer Means Ice Cream

I don't know about you but we pretty much eat ice cream or some type of frozen cold dessert every day in the summer. Whether its a fruity popsicle, an ice cream sandwich, or my ultimate ice cream truck favorite - the Choco Taco - its our favorite way to cool off and end a long summer afternoon.

So ice cream was foremost of my mind when I saw this week's CAS-ology cue card 'DESSERT'. Pair that with the summery bright colors at Dynamic Duos this week and the simple sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch and I came up with this -

Does ice cream top your favorite dessert list?

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Paper: Memory Box Kraft, Neenah White, PTI Raspberry Fizz Bitty Dot, PTI Harvest Gold
Stamps: PTI Sweet As Can Be, Inkadinkado Thank You Words
Ink: PTI Hibiscus Burst & Harvest Gold
Other: PTI Double Ended Banner Die
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ColourQ #200

I always seem to be in need of Thank You cards so I made another one using this week's ColourQ palette. I'm loving these colors because its a subtle masculine combo. I raised the white panel with foam squares and I think it adds such a nice touch to the card. And of course, I had to throw some yummy enamel dots on the card to finish it off.

Hope you are having a great week! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Paper: PTI Enchanted Evening, Neenah White
Stamps: PTI Thanks All Ways & Round Repeats
Ink: Colorbox French Blue, Momento Nautical Blue, PTI Harvest Gold, & PTI Ripe Avocado
Other: My Minds Eye Sweetest Thing enamel dots

Speechless Again

The Speechless challenge at One Layer Wednesday has gotten me thinking....and I just had to make another card! I was trying to come up with ways to add interest without bulk. So my card features an embossed frame around my stamped image. I also used a touch of stickles for the champagne glasses and floating bubbles. I love the effect of both - simple and elegant. Again, hoping the message is coming through without words!

As always, thanks for taking a peek.

Supplies:
Paper: Neenah White
Stamp: AMuse Bubbly
Other: PTI Fillable Frames #10, Stickles

Happy 200 ColourQ!

Its challenge #200 at ColourQ, one of my favorite weekly challenges! Congrats and thanks to the ColourQ team for providing us with great inspiration every week.

When I saw these colors I immediately thought of using Perfect Pearl powders I just got. Hoping you see all the subtle shimmer of the powders of this card in these photos. So much prettier in real life.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Paper: PTI Enchanted Evening
Stamps: PTI Thanks All Ways, Mehndi Medallion, & Mega Mehndi Medallion
Other: Versamark Ink, Filigree White Embossing Powder, Pearl Ex Powders Turquoise, Solar Gold, & Spring Green

OLW151

I'm playing along with One Layer Wednesday this week and the theme is SPEECHLESS. That means no sentiments, in essence completely speechless plus the added challenge of no layers. Seems easy huh? Hmmm, not so much. It was pretty hard create something that conveys a message completely without any words.

Here's my first card where I created a little scene which I hope conveys a 'have a great summer', 'have a great vacation' or maybe even 'relax'

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies:
Paper: Neenah White
Stamps: PTI Snowflake Flurries, Flipping Out, Buttons & Bits, and Watercolor Wonder
Ink: PTI Pure Poppy, Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold, Classic Kraft, and Hawaiian Shore

Counselor Thank Yous

Just starting to make my thank you cards for my girl's summer camp counselors. Have to make about 12 of them in the next two weeks. Probably easier to make them all the same but what fun is that? Here's the first one I made using the bonus colors this week a Summer Card Camp 2 which screamed summer to me. The counselors are all high school & college age so the images from Papertrey's Live Life Love seemed perfect. This die cuts notches for the gift card I am including and the back is blank for my daughters to write a short thank you note. I will use this die for them all and probably just change up the colors & design a little bit.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Paper: Neenah White
Stamps: Papertrey Ink Live Life Love
Ink: Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise, & Aqua Mist
Other: Papertrey Card Basics 2 Die