I'm finally starting to settle in after a month of travel, medical appointments and other activities for my mom. I'm afraid this has taken all my time, energy and attention, so apart from updating you on Stampin' Up! promos I've been unable to take time to blog or work on any projects.
Well, all that's about to change as things are starting to get into a rhythm around here and I feel like it's time to get my creative mojo working again. To get me started I decided to dive in and make a card using Susan Horr's wonderful colour challenge WWC21 on the Wacky Watercooler this week. When you see these colours you're going to know why it got my interest:
Here's What I Came Up With:
Earlier this year I received a birthday card from my friend Phyllis, that I absolutely adored. Here's Phyllis' card:
When I saw Susan's colour challenge yesterday I knew I had only a little bit of time to enter the challenge so I needed a quick and easy card. The colours in the challenge made me think of Phyllis' card and so I decided to CASe her idea adding some of my own touches, of course. Here's my card:
The card base is Sahara Sand with a layer of Bermuda Bay. I used the same image from the Work of Art stamp set as Phyllis, and stamped it with my stamp-a-ma-jig in Calypso Coral, Pool Party and So Saffron inks. To me these stacked images resemble the layers of a birthday cake.
The butterflies were embossed with the Beautiful Wings Embosslit, and are adorned with small basic rhinestones. I used dimensionals to mount them to the card face.
I'm a big fan of banners so I was super excited to use my new Balloon Framelits Die to create this fun little banner. I added the teeniest butterflies from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit along the length of the banner and also adorned each of them with a basic rhinestone. They are just so cute!
When I bought the Balloon Framelits, I purchased them as a bundle along with the Celebrate Today stamp set. This saved me 15% off the total cost. I loved the script of the "celebrate" sentiment from this set and think it looks great stamped in Calypso Coral on the face of this card. It's just one of 17 stamps in this wonderful photopolymer set and is available in the Occasions Catalogue until June 2nd, 2015.
Supplies:
Stamps: Work of Art, Celebrate Today and Big Day (Sale-a-bration)
Ink: Calypso Coral, So Saffron, Pool Party and Momento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Sahara Sand, Bermuda Bay, So Saffron, Calypso Coral and Pool Party
Accessories: Trimmer, Big Shot Machine, Filigree Finial Embossing Folder, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Balloons Thinlet Die, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals, Adhesive.
I hope you enjoyed this card and will come back and visit my blog again. The Wacky Watercooler challenges are a great place to get inspired and creative. If the urge hits you, there's still a bit of time left before this challenge ends. If not make sure you check out this blog link regularly to see the great challenges that are offered.
Happy Stamping!
Penny Tokens
Well, all that's about to change as things are starting to get into a rhythm around here and I feel like it's time to get my creative mojo working again. To get me started I decided to dive in and make a card using Susan Horr's wonderful colour challenge WWC21 on the Wacky Watercooler this week. When you see these colours you're going to know why it got my interest:
Here's What I Came Up With:
Earlier this year I received a birthday card from my friend Phyllis, that I absolutely adored. Here's Phyllis' card:
When I saw Susan's colour challenge yesterday I knew I had only a little bit of time to enter the challenge so I needed a quick and easy card. The colours in the challenge made me think of Phyllis' card and so I decided to CASe her idea adding some of my own touches, of course. Here's my card:
The card base is Sahara Sand with a layer of Bermuda Bay. I used the same image from the Work of Art stamp set as Phyllis, and stamped it with my stamp-a-ma-jig in Calypso Coral, Pool Party and So Saffron inks. To me these stacked images resemble the layers of a birthday cake.
The butterflies were embossed with the Beautiful Wings Embosslit, and are adorned with small basic rhinestones. I used dimensionals to mount them to the card face.
I'm a big fan of banners so I was super excited to use my new Balloon Framelits Die to create this fun little banner. I added the teeniest butterflies from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit along the length of the banner and also adorned each of them with a basic rhinestone. They are just so cute!
When I bought the Balloon Framelits, I purchased them as a bundle along with the Celebrate Today stamp set. This saved me 15% off the total cost. I loved the script of the "celebrate" sentiment from this set and think it looks great stamped in Calypso Coral on the face of this card. It's just one of 17 stamps in this wonderful photopolymer set and is available in the Occasions Catalogue until June 2nd, 2015.
The raised embossing was done with the Filigree Finial Embossing Folder. I think it adds a very festive look to this card, and reminds me of confetti.
The inside of the card is stamped with the birthday sentiment "celebrate" from the Big Day Sale-a-bration stamp set.
Supplies:
Stamps: Work of Art, Celebrate Today and Big Day (Sale-a-bration)
Ink: Calypso Coral, So Saffron, Pool Party and Momento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Sahara Sand, Bermuda Bay, So Saffron, Calypso Coral and Pool Party
Accessories: Trimmer, Big Shot Machine, Filigree Finial Embossing Folder, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Balloons Thinlet Die, Basic Rhinestones, Dimensionals, Adhesive.
I hope you enjoyed this card and will come back and visit my blog again. The Wacky Watercooler challenges are a great place to get inspired and creative. If the urge hits you, there's still a bit of time left before this challenge ends. If not make sure you check out this blog link regularly to see the great challenges that are offered.
Penny Tokens
