5 Cards for Thursday

I am squeaking in at the last moment with a card for WPlus9's Throwback Thursday challenge.  I used WPlus9 inks and Pretty Little Peonies and Pretty Peonies along with a sentiment from one of the Strictly Sentiment sets for my card.  I followed the basic sketch of one of Maureen's inspiration cards.

My next card is inspired by the sketch at Sweet Sunday Sketch #272 and uses the Stamping With Neutrals technique shown in Make it Monday #214.  You can see that I rotated the sketch counter clockwise 90 degrees.  

It was my first time using Brushed Blooms and Background Basics Random Stripes and I don't know why I waited so long.  My focal point is on a panel cut with MFT Pinking Edge rectangle dies, and I only had them for a couple of hours before using them on two cards, so I feel pretty good about that purchase already.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Monday For the Love of Plants.

I used the Old Rose Prints stencil from Stamplorations on my next card.  I sprayed a ton of Heidi Swapp pink color shine through the stencil and then let it dry.  IRL, it is very shimmery.  I am liking the look of pink, gold and black lately, so I paired that panel with some gold striped washi tape and a PTI die cut frame stamped with a gold border.

I am entering this card at Stamplorations June challenge:  Stamps and Washi and Stamplorations Anything Goes.

I have been really enjoying playing in the Retro Rubber challenges, as it encourages me to pull out some of my older stamps that I still love.  The challenge at A Blog Named Hero is Favorite, so I pulled out one of my very favorite Hero Arts Stamps--Birthday Gift, and used it in one of my favorite ways--stamping it multiple times in different colors, cutting them apart and then stacking them back together.

I used the same WPlus9 inks that were still out on my desk from the first card.  I sponged Little Piggy ink on the edges of my pinked layer to match the 2nd layer of my Birthday Gift image.  

The challenge at Retro Rubber #16 is tie it on, and so I cut off the stamped bow from the very top layer of the stack and replaced it with a tiny twine bow.  The stamp I used for this challenge is one of the very first wood stamps I bought when I started stamping about 5 years ago.

Last up is a very quick card I made as soon as I saw the latest CAS(E) this Sketch challenge.  I took a pretty literal interpretation of the sketch, and used a butterfly from Hero Arts Antique Engravings, embossed in white and water colored with Distress Inks.   I masked off a square on my card front and stamped it with the PTI Crackle stamp using WPlus9 Fairy Dust ink.

I am entering this card at Addicted to CAS #65 Butterfly and the Hero Arts Tic Tac Toe Challenge, where I used the diagonal 'watercolor-birthday theme-heat embossing.

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Three Cards for Saturday

I absolutely loved this week's Muse #34 inspiration card, from Therese Calvird.  I was tempted to use some of my many house stamps or dies, but there were so many incredible cards already out there, I felt like all the good house ideas were taken.  So, I went a different route, and was inspired by the fact that the houses were little wooden pieces--and I used some little wooden birds that I have been hoarding for quite some time.  I stuck with the basic layout of the Muse card.  The heart is three layers of the stitched heart from Lil Inkers Of the Heart dies, and they are separated by dimensional adhesive dots.

Both Simon Says Monday and Simon Says Wednesday challenges are embossing, so I will be entering this card in both of those challenges as well.

 

 

Edited to add:  I am linking this to the Metal, Wood, & Cork Challenge in the Moxie Fab World.

My next card uses the colors of this week's Dynamic Duos #70 and follows the sketch at Clean and Simple Stamping #258.  I paper pieced two of the flowers from Verve Great Friend and added some Ranger Black Enamel Accents to the centers.

My last card uses the colors from this week's ColourQ cQc #206 and the sketch from this week's Freshly Made Sketches #103.  I had given up on this week's ColourQ colors, and pulled out a stamp for something else, when it dawned on me just what I should do for this challenge.  I used one of my earliest wooden stamp purchases--Hero Arts Birthday Gift--I think it is supposed to be a birthday cake made out of presents--and stamped all the layers with the ColourQ colors, and then paper pieced it back together.  The piece at the bottom is Rich Razzleberry stamped in Versamark with WMS Off Beat Backgrounds, and embossed with clear EP.  I used some little rhinestones and stickles to decorate the different layers of the Birthday tower.

Both Simon Says Monday and Simon Says Wednesday challenges are embossing, so I will be entering this card in both of those challenges as well.


Supplies Used (PTI):
{all you need is love}
Stamps:  Fillable Frames
Paper:  White, Pure Poppy
Ink:  SU Real Red
Dies:  Lil Inkers of the Heart
Other:  Wooden birds

Just Because
Stamps:  Verve Great Friends
Paper:  White, Harvest Gold, SU Pear Pizazz, SU Basic Grey
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, SU Pear Pizazz
Other:  Ranger Black Enamel Accents

Happy Birthday
Stamps:  Hero Arts Birthday Gift
Paper:  White, Rich Razzleberry
Ink:  Bermuda Bay, Rich Razzleberry, Hibiscus Burst, Harvest Gold, Versamark
Dies:  Numbers Impression Plate
Other:  Clear EP, Stickles, Rhinestones

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