Using color

I so love using color challenges.  Most often, they end up being colors I might not have thought to put together so they make me go out of my box a bit.  I used The Play Date Café combo.

 For this card, I turned to a set of stamps by Avery Elle. I LOVE these flowers so it is always fun to think of more ways to use them. The inks are from Clearsnap, they have such a great array of color choices.  

 One of the other things that makes this card fun is that it is a one layer card. I usually find that to be quite a challenge and it just came so naturally with the design I used. I simple stamped the flowers over and over and left a piece unstamped so I could add my sentiment there. I also used what seems to be my more "go to" supply, Liquid Pearls!!!!

Here is The Play Date Café color combination that I used.
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A little bit of play time

Whenever I have a few minutes to play around with paper, glue and stamps, I love to turn to an online challenge or sketch. Here I went to the retro sketch.

 I created the interesting background with a Hero Arts background stamp. I love the pink and that it didn't stamp completely. I added some pink Liquid Pearls to the pattern.

 For my one larger accent piece to match the sketch, I went to a digital stamp set from Hero Arts.  I had purchased it from 2 peas but it doesn't seen to be available there anymore. I picked the size I wanted and the cut it out. I colored it with Stephanie Barnard spray inks from Clearsnap. I masked off portions so I could spray different colors in each section. LOVE how it turned out. The sentiment is also from Hero Arts.

 Here is the retro sketch.
And for a quick little photo...

We went to find a fireworks display last night and loved it!!! They were setting off any fireworks in our own town this year so we went to a neighboring town, stopping off for some really good pizza first!

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Stamping Fun

I found a few challenges online to help me with my creating!!!

 First up, I used the Colour Q color combo, the CASology Fireworks challenge and the Simon Says Patriotic challenge for this card. It was fun to add that golden yellow because of the color combo.

 The sentiment stamp is from Impression Obsession, love this set and the fireworks look is really a sunburst stamp from Hero Arts. I used Clearsnap inks, there are so many great colors to choose from.

Here is the Colour Q combo.

 The CASology challenge.

And the Simon Says stamp Patriotic challenge.

 Next up, I tried my hand at the Lawnscaping Challenge sketch.  Lawn Fawn stamps are so fun so I pulled out some for my card.

 I created a background for my circle, I love this border stamp. I colored the circle with a couple spray ink colors and then added some color with Copic markers in some of the rectangles. I also added some Glossy Accents to some of the rectangles and to the paper airplanes.

Here is the Lawnscaping Challenge.
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Yellow flower - Pink flower

I didn't plan this, but both cards I want to share with you today have a big flower as the focal point!!!

 First up, I used the Freshly Made sketch to create this card.  The brown dot piece is a stencil sprayed with brown Stephanie Barnard spray ink by Clearsnap. 

 The flower and leaves here are dies from My Favorite Things.  You can see the embossed lines too.

 Here is the Freshly Made sketch.

 For this card I turned to the color combination at The Play Date Café.  I just love the softness of this combo.  The alphabet letters were cut with a set of dies from Hero Arts.

 LOVE this flower, a stamp and matching dies from Avery Elle. 

Here is The Play Date Café combo.
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I love the color red!

This card is the perfect example of that.

 I used the retro sketch to create this card. What is sort of funny is that the piece with the red roses and the sprayed pink background is a piece I was playing with some time ago and when I finished I just left it sitting on my desk. This week I decided it was the perfect starting point to use the sketch and the create a card. That great spray background is some Stephanie Barnard Spray inks from Clearsnap.

 That wonderful "thank you"stamp in that amazing font is from Avery Elle.

Here is the retro sketch.
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Sunshiny Flowers

I am always into experimenting!!!

 This card is one example of that.  This Hero Arts flower stamp is fun and so I did a bit of experimenting on a way to ink it up.  The background is a wonderful spray of two shades of the Stephanie Barnard spray inks by Clearsnap.

 

 I took two colors of Distress Stain and daubed them directly on the stamp. I spritzed it with water first and then stamped it.  I did each flower twice so I could cut out the middle section to add it with foam tape for added dimension. The dots in the middle were finished with Liquid Pearls.

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Clouds make me smile!

I wanted to use the CAS(E) this sketch for this week so I went to this adorable set of sticker elements by My Little Shoebox.

 Using these super cute stickers made making my card as easy as 1, 2, 3! Seriously QUICK and easy. The cute sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps.

  I turned the sketch and thought that the three cloud stickers worked to match the inspiration of the sketch.

Here is the CAS(E) this sketch and turned it.

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