This week's challenge at the Order of the Opus Gluei is Blue Blue Blue … I decided to see how my new Outpost images from Artistic Outpost would look in shades of blue with Get Sketchy's Sketch #9. The top background is repeatedly stamped with text from the set. The tree and sentiment are stamped on Memory Box DP. I … Read more
Every time I create with the Hero Arts Create Your Own Snowman, I feel like a child playing with paper dolls. I have so much fun dressing up my snowman and using the different faces. When I saw Dawn's Color Challenge this week, for some reason it reminded me of winter, I pulled out my … Read more
This week's challenges at the Hero Arts blogs are to use a variety of Autumn color palettes. This card features Tuesday's palette of Rust, Light Kraft, Teal, and Milk Chocolate. I also combined it with Laura's Sketch #34 from 2 Sketches 4 You. The background is stamped in tone-on-tone with the Postage Background. I … Read more
The neutral color palette for Dawn's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #16 was perfect for a masculine birthday card for the Hero Arts Man Week challenge. I needed a birthday card for a friend's son who is very near and dear to my heart. I thought the Hero Arts Playful Animals set would be the perfect place … Read more
While watching Mad Men on DVR (love that show), I made this quick card combining the Hero Arts blog challenge to make a card with a colored image with Dawn's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #15 and Laura's Sketch 33 from 2 Sketches 4 You. The stamps are all Hero Arts – DesignBlock Flourish (stamped in Versamark … Read more
This color challenge was certainly a challenge for me. I am always amazed at the way Dawn is able to balance the colors in her creations. I love the combination of button colors in the muffin tin, however when I try to combine those exact same colors in my card, I struggle not to end up with … Read more
I thought Dawn's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge would be perfect to try out my gorgeous new Magenta Butterfly Garden stamp. I thought the design of the stamp also coordinated with the overall design of the inspiration soap from Anthropologie. The image was stamped in red and then highlighted with moss, red, and berry colored pencils. All … Read more
This week Dawn found her inspiration colors in the wonderful Coleus plant. Although nature combines these colors beautifully, I found it to be a bit of a challenge to make them work together on a card. This image I used is called Passion Ticket from Invoke Arts … I think it's a fabulous message to live by every … Read more
I wanted to play with some more new rubber this afternoon, so I combined this week's CPS Sketch with a challenge from Daring Cardmakers to make a card with blue and green as the predominant colors. This wonderful Deco Tree from Magenta was stamped in Olive Pastel on DP and clear embossed. I painted … Read more
I combined Dawn's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge with the cool sketch from CPS. Some new stamps arrived in the mail today, so I had to ink one up. I love this Eat Cake Stamp from American Crafts. It is stamped in dark brown and painted with Melon ink. I slid the ends of the paper … Read more