All about Orange

Not sure how it happened but my post today is full of shades of ORANGE! It has to be good, right!?

First of all, I want to share what I came up with to go with the Colour Q color challenge #28 for this week. Again, I just love the way they pictured the colors.

Because white is one of the colors, I made that my card base and embossed it with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The embossing makes this card also fit the Little Red Wagon challenge #24 for dry embossing.

Can you believe this butterfly!? It is actually just cut from a piece of new Jenni Bowlin Core Impressions Core'dinations cardstock. This particular piece of cardstock has embossed butterflies all of it in different sizes. I simple cut out one of them and sanded it to expose the embossed image.

And, I also wanted to play with the Card Patterns sketch #59 this week. Their sponsor is Hero Arts so I pulled out some of my Hero Arts stamps to go with the sketch.

Once again, I pulled out my wood grain background stamp. I love that is looks neat is about any color you stamp it in. Here I picked a cranberry color. I did spray that with a couple different colors of Glimmer Mist and then added a flourish stamped image over that.
The white piece is embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. By rubbing it a little bit with a Fluid Chalk stamp pad, I added some color over the embossed design. The butterfly is colored with Copic markers and I added little bits of Aleene's Paper Glaze to the black portions of the butterfly to add a glass-like look.
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And my husband and I went on a fun adventure this last weekend to see the poppy fields. We drove over to the Leona Valley area just outside of Palmdale, CA. For as far as you can see, you see blankets of orange. This is the peak season for that and it was truly amazing.


This is a close-up of some yellow wildflowers that were scattered in the orange poppies.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HUGS & KISSES card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials and Jenni Bowlin Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Fly a Kite: Sprinklers/October Afternoon
Sentiment sticker – SRM stickers
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Circle punch – Papershapers/EK Success
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Machine sewing3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Sandpaper

ALL YOURS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
WoodGrain background stamp, flourish stamp and butterfly stamp – Hero Arts
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Copic Markers
Glimmer Mist – Tatterned Angels
Scallop oval punch - Marvy
Apron Lace border punch – Fiskars
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.

3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®