Well, it's already near September and the kids are back in school. It was a nice summer and I am sad to see it behind us. My favorite time of year is the fall though, so I look forward to sweaters and pumpkin-flavored foods and beautiful colors.
The Stampin' Celebration Challenge (SC134) for this month is a great way to ease into the fall feeling!
I love the neutral colors in this inspiration and I couldn't wait to dust off my Hardwood background stamp from Stampin' Up!.
For this card I stamped the Hardwood background stamp with Sahara Sand onto Very Vanilla cardstock. Then I used the Rose Garden Thinlits to die cut the leaves with Old Olive cardstock and the flowers with Sahara Sand cardstock.
The greeting is from the Number of Years Photopolymer Stamp Set from Stampin' Up! I used the dots from the same stamp set and stamped them using Chocolate Chip ink. I added a Delicate White Doilie as a background to the greeting.
These items can be found in the Stampin' Up 2016 Annual Catalog.
Hope you are inspired enough to join us this month! We look forward to seeing your design!
Welcome back to Stampin' Celebration and the August Sketch Challenge (SC133)!
I was able to preorder some items from the Stampin' Up! 2016 Holiday Catalog and I couldn't wait to use the new Paisley Suite of products!!
I am a fan of paisley and so when I saw this stamp set I knew it would be given a lot of love this fall!
I also love that Stampin' Up! introduced copper mettalic products into the 2016-2017 Annual Catalog! They did not disappoint when they added copper foil to the 2016 Holiday catalog!!
So for this challenge I wanted to incorporate copper and paisley into the design.
Here is what I cam up with...
I have to be honest, it took a whle to get this to where I wanted it to be. Usually with a sketch challenge I have an easier time developing a card. For this one, perhaps I was restricting myself too much, bt I finally got it to where I was happy with the end result.
The color combination is Copper, Bermuda Bay, Cajun Craze and Tangerine Tango on a background of Very Vanilla. I took the colors from a combination I saw on Pinterest a long time ago! While I didn't stick with the color combination totally, it certainly was an inspiration to the design.
This card uses the Paisley & Posies stamp set and the Paisley framelits from the 2016 Holiday Catalog (sneak peak)!. The greeting is from Rose Wonder and I added the Bermuda Bay sequin trim.
I hope you get to play along with us this month! Can't wait to see what you create.
It's time for the August Inspiration Challenge! YAY! It's a little bittersweet that August is here already. My kids start school in 2 weeks and my son (first born) will be a senior in high school. So we will get to "enjoy" him for another year and then watch him continue to spread his wings. I am excited for him and so far the reality has not hit me. So let's move to the fun stuff so I can stay distracted!
The Stampin' Celebration August Inspiration Challenge is so great! I love the nautical theme.
For my card I decided to use the color scheme of Night of Navy and Daffodil Delight. I wanted to use balloons, unfortunately, I misplaced my balloon framelit so I decided to go with stars instead.
The two greetings are from two of my favorite stamp sets in the Stampin' Up! 2016 Annual catalog. Thoughtful Banners Photopolymer Stamp Set and Confetti Celebration Wood Mount stamp set. I have used these stamp sets a lot since I purchased them. Very versatile, and who can't use more celebration type cards?!?
I used the Stars framelits Duet Banner Punch to make the various shapes. Then I topped the card off with some white sequins from the Metallics Sequins Assortment. The background is Night of Navy Designer Series Paper from the Regals DSP pack.
I can't wait to see what you create with this challenge!
