Flutter By Wednesday - a Color Challenge

Happy Wednesday to you all! A new Wednesday means it's time for a new challenge from Danni at Flutter By Wednesdays. This week's challenge is a color challenge, and the colors to use are blue, yellow and green. You are allowed to use other colors, also, but please make these your dominant colors. Have fun, and be sure to link up your creations - including a butterfly or a fairy, of course! - to the Flutter By Wednesday blog. Check out the awesome creations by the design team while you're there.

My card uses an image I stamped a long time ago. I came across it after it our move. It's a stamp from Door County Rubber Stamps. (Check out the "About Us" page. My husband took the picture when we were there a few years ago!) The stamp I used is called Tracey's Bouquet. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and used Goo Gone for blending. I added tiny black gems for the black-eyed susan flowers. I matted with black. The entire card front is covered with sparkly cardstock from a Die Cuts With a View matstack. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. It's matted with black and mounted on foam squares.

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One-Layer Sympathy

I made this card for Susan Raihala's blog challenge to do a one-layer card with overlapping image and sentiment.  (This was last week's challenge.  You can find her new challenge on Wednesday's post.  It's "repetition.")

I used a shadow stamp by Hero Arts with Memories Soft Leaf ink. The sentiment and image are stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink. The sentiment is from Rubber Stampede and the image is a wooden stamp from Inkadinkado. I colored the image with Mellow Moss and Pale Plum markers.


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More Flowers - Birthday

I got up really early this morning, so I had time to make a card. It’s another one for 2RedBananas challenge – to use flowers. Not too much of a challenge for me! And it’s another post done while I’m walking on the treadmill. I know – I SHOULD be walking outside on these wonderful days, but then I can’t do computer!! LOL!

I stamped my image on white with Versafine Onyx Black. The stamp is from Door County Rubber Stamps and Scrapbooking. I colored her with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol, and cut and embossed her with an Oval Nestability. I matted her on a scalloped Oval Nestability, also in white. The background paper is from Die Cuts With a View Citrus matstack. I added a sheer white ribbon. The sentiment is stamped with Versafine, also, and is from Stampin’ Up!’s Sincere Salutations. (Love that set!) AND I added something new to me – Flowersoft. I got mine at A Bit of This N That. I ordered it on Friday night and had it on Tuesday – after a Monday holiday!!

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"Take Joy in the Little Things"

OK – now I’m REALLY back! I guess I missed stamping more than I thought. When I got up this morning, the first thing I did was head down to my stamping area and not the computer. The computer is almost ALWAYS the first thing I do! LOL!

So, here is my card for today. When we were in Door County, Wisconsin, we stopped at Oscar's Door County Rubber Stamps. What a great place – boy does she have stamps! And most of them are made right there – how cool! The stamps all come mounted on wood, but since she makes them there, I asked if it would be possible to get them unmounted. Oscar (yes, Oscar is the owner and a "she") was so awesome. The ones I wanted were not made up yet, so she offered to make them for me to be picked up later that day!! I got a couple of sweet little girls. I was looking at the web site to find the name of the one I used today, but I can’t find it. The other one I got is called “Tracy’s Bouquet.”

I used Memories black dye ink to stamp the image. I used Prismacolor pencils for most of the coloring, and Gamsol and stumps to blend the color. For the flowers, however, I used Stampin’ Up! markers in Summer Sun, Cameo Coral, and Positively Pink. I used Rectangle Nestabilities for cutting out the image and the matting. The hole for the sentiment is made with Long Oval Nestabilities. I cut it out of the Lavender Lace cardstock. I stamped the sentiment (from Verve’s set called Petals and Stems) on a scrap of the background paper (Die Cuts With a View Nana’s Nursery – Boys) and placed it behind the Lavender cardstock, which I had already embossed with the Dotted Swiss embossing folder, then I added a couple lavender brads. The top background is the same DCWV paper as the sentiment.

I mounted the main image and matting on Pop Dots for extra dimension, and added some Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon with a strip of the DCWV paper on top between the top and bottom.

I think I’ll add a picture of the stamp store, too. It’s very unique and charming!

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