I'm Back with 3 Challenges - Amazing!

I've been itching to get back into card making but so much life has been happening. However, today I made it happen.

For such a simple card I managed to squeeze in 3 challenges. ColourQ #281, Retro Sketches #154 and CAS on Sunday #52 (Chevrons)

Thanks for stopping by! I hope to be back soon!!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Live, Love, Life; Keep It Simple: Get Well (PTI)

Paper: White, Hawaiian Shores Bitty Dots patterned paper (PTI)

Ink: Cool Caribbean, Wisteria Wonder (SU)

Other: Calypso Coral Baker's Twine, Certainly Celery button (SU), dimensional, glue dot

RS#66 for Father's Day

I figured I better get started on my Father's Day cards. It will be here before I'm ready for it.  This card is for my hubby who loves woodworking. I used the Retro Sketches layout but reversed it.

This was one of those cards where you assemble, disasemble, change the colors, assemble, disassemble, add some embossing, assemble...... You get the idea. This is the final result.   I had some silver wrapping paper that I had saved (you can't just throw stuff like that away) so I used it on the tools. Hope he likes it. Happy Friday!

Here you can see the tools. They were flopping all over so I added a touch of glue behind each tool to hold them in place but not look like they were totally glued down.

Supplies by Stampin'Up unless noted:

Stamps: On Your Birthday

Paper: Creamy Caramel, Bordering Blue, Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy, Black, White, Regals DSP Stack, Silver wrapping paper (non SU)

Ink: Night of Navy

Accessories: Vintage Brads, dimensionals

Tools: Stripes EF, Dots EF, MFT Die-namics Tool Charms die, MFT Die-namics Say What die, Simon Says Stamps Full Card Triangles die

Retro Sketches #63 and Dynamic Duos #52

My original plan was to make a card for The Alley Way Stamps Be Inspired Challenged.  I don't have any TAWS stamps so I printed out the free bird image.  That was a couple days ago. I sat down this afternoon to make a card and got caught up in the Retro Sketches layout and then the Dynamic Duos color challenge and didn't remember that the TAWS challenge was also a color challenge. Oops!  So I guess I don't qualify for that challenge anymore.  I still had fun making this bird card :-)

The DD Challenge is celebrating their one year anniversary and they are letting up pick from all their past challenges. I chose the yellow and black combo from DD#3.

Both the bird and the arrow are popped up on dimensionals. Hope you like my little bird. I think he's kinda cute!

Supplies:

Stamps: TAWS free digital bird image, Love Ya Bunches  sentiment (SU), Sketched Shapes (PTI)

Paper: Brights DSP Stack (Daffodil Delight), White  (SU)

Ink: Daffodil Delight marker (SU), Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories: Teresa Collins & My Mind's Eye enamel dots, dimensionals

Tools: Sketched Shaped die (PTI)

Edited: I got a Dynamic Darling honorable mention for this card. Yay!

2 Challenges

2 posts in one day. AMAZING!  This is for the Retro Sketches Challenge and also the colourQ Challenge.

 I just got the Quilt Prints stamp set and this is my first time using it.  It took me a few tries to get the hang of it and it's still not perfect. I'm a perfectionist and like things to be just right but I guess I have to let that go.  I tried stamping the quilt outline in Blush Blossom but just couldn't see it so stamped it in Smoky Shadow. A bit of a cheat for the color challenge but what can I say. I'll have to claim old eyes.  So after stamping the quilt print I trimmed it up and then tied some Baker's twine around it.  Then I ran some white paper through my Big Shot using the Fishtail Flag Stax twice to get the double ended flag. The sentiment is on dimensionals and the quilt panel is also on dimensionals. Hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by!

 

Supplies:
Stamps: Quilt Prints (wplus9), Best Dad Ever (SU)
Paper: White
Ink: So Saffron, Calypso Coral, Sage Shadow, Blush Blossom, Smoky Shadow
Accessories: Calypso Coral Baker's twine, dimensionals (SU)
Tools: Fishtail Flag Stax die (MFT)

2nd Halloween Card Today

Amazing!  I got a 2nd card made and I didn't even case anyone. It is for 2 more challenges.  Retrosketches RS#34 and the colourQ challenge cQc#160.  OK, here's the card.

This time I used the smaller pocket stamp from Wplus9 A Pocketful.  I must have given my Kiwi Kiss to one of my daughter's so I used Lucky Limeade instead. The cute little spiders jumping out of the pocket are from the Pocketful: Halloween set.  I used my Sakura Stardust gelly roll pen on the spiders to give them some added pizzazz.  From there this card turned into one of those where you tinker and tinker until you finally like it.  I just kept adding little strips of paper and I think that I like the result. The black strip on the right is from the SU's Neutrals DSP pack, then comes a strip of Tangerine Tango. On the left I die cut the scallops from Rich Razzleberry DSP, then there's a strip of black and finally a strip of Lucky Limeade. I tied some Baker's twine around and added a tag which is a PTI die cut from the Tiny Tags set and the Boo sentiment is from the SU Tiny Tags set.  

Closeup - Can you see the spidery shimmer?

 

Now check out the inside. 

The sentiment and little spider webs are from the MFT set Primitive Pumpkins.













Challenges:

               

Supplies:
Stamps: A Pocketful and A Pocketful: Halloween (Wplus9), Tiny Tags (PTI), Tiny Tags (SU)
Paper: Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Neutrals DSP, Brights DSP (SU)
Ink: Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry and Basic Black (SU)
Accessories: Baker's twine, dimensionals
Tools: Pocket die (Wplus9), Tiny Tags die (PTI), Die-Namics Scallop medium (MFT), Sakura Stardust gelly roll pen

Edited:  My card was chosen as a colourQ Courtier!

Spooky Bingo Bits

This card accomplishes 3 challenges. Can you believe it!!  Yay!  The Dynamic Duos (DD#20), Retro Sketches (RS#29) and Casual Friday (CFC70).

The card base is embossed with the SU spider web folder.  I stamped 3 different images from Spooky Bingo Bits onto white and matted them with Lucky Limeade & then black. They are popped up on dimensionals on the Lucky Limeade DSP which has a piece of Lucky Limeade behind it. I stamped the "Boo" sentiment from SU's Tiny Tags set onto a die cut tag from PTI also called Tiny Tags. This is tied on with black/white Baker's twine.  Pretty simple!

The Challenges:

              

Supplies (all Stampin'Up unless noted):

Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits, Tiny Tags (SU) & Tiny Tags (PTI)

Paper: Lucky Limeade, Basic Black, Whisper White, Lucky Limeade DSP

Ink: Lucky Limeade, Basic Black

Accessories: Baker's twine (non SU), dimensionals

Tools: Tiny Tags die (PTI), Spider Web EF