I created today’s card for the PPA Celebrity Color Challenge. Mary Fish was sweet enough to ask me to participate. Today’s color combination is:

I decided to use the branch from Flourishes Humming Along stamp set. It was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock, cut with the largest of the Classic Circle Nestabilities and colored with Copic Markers (Blossoms: Y21, YR12, Leaves: YG93, YG95, YG97, Background: BG01, BG0000). The image was layered on a piece of Basic Black cardstock cut and embossed with the largest of the Lacey Circle Nestabilities.

A 4 3/4″ square of Webster’s Pages patterned paper was sanded and stitched to a 1/4″ bigger piece of basic black cardstock. A 2″ x 4 3/4″ strip of basic black cardstock was cut and embossed with Fair Isle Borderabilities. A 1 1/2″ wide strip of Webster’s Pages paper was stitched to the black strip. The strips were adhered to the square and Turquoise Linen ribbon was tied around it and topped with a Basic Grey Button. The layers were attached to a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Neenah Solar White cardstock folded in half.

The sentiment is also from the Humming Along set. A black label was cut with a Fancy Tag die, a Solar White one with Double Ended Tag die. The white tag was colored with BG01 and BG0000 stamped and layered on the black Fancy Tag. The ends were topped with Mango Kaisercraft Pearls. Pearl Kaisercraft Pearls were airbrushed with Copic Marker BG02 to match my ribbon and adhered to the top right corner to finish off the card front.

The inside of the card is kept so simple, that I didn’t take a picture. I just stamped the branch from the set in Peeled Paint Distress ink into the lower right corner.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have time to play with these colors! Have a wonderful day!

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I created this card for the last Color Challenge on SCS. We were to use Always Artichoke, Pretty in Pink and Cherry Cobbler. I picked the Flourishes Gerber Daisies again so I could use them for a not so clean and simple card. 🙂

I stamped the Daisies in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored them with Copic Markers (R20, R21, R29 and E09 Flower heads, BG93, BG96 leaves and BG0000 for the background). It was cut with Petite Oval Nestabilities, layered first on a black oval cutout, then a white scallop oval.

The card base is a 4 1/2″ x 11 1/2″ piece of Basic Black cardstock folded in half. A 1 3/8″ x 5 1/4″ strip of Boxer Basic Grey paper was adhered to a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Boxer paper, after a black cardstock strip had been cut and embossed with Eyelet Borderabilities and layered under the paper strip. Pink Silk Ribbon as well as white Melissa Frances lace was taped over the horizontal strip and tied on top with a Basic Grey button and white embroidery floss.

To the right top and botton of the right hand side two small black eyelet die cuts from the pendant pack were adhered and topped with Snow Kaisercraft Pearls.

The sentiment is from the same set. It was stamped on Neenah Solar White paper, cut with Petite Oval Nestabilities. It was colored with R20 and R21 and layered on a black piece of cardstock cut and embossed with Fancy Tag dies. A few more pearls were added to finish off the card front.

The inside of the card is simple. A black strip of cardstock was cut and embossed with Eyelet Borderabilities. It was taped under a 1 3/8″ x 4 1/4″ strip of Boxer paper. the strip was adhered to a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of Whisper White cardstock. The butterfly from the Gerber Daisies was stamped on the top left corner and colored with the red markers used for the Daisies. Another black flower die cut was adhered to the lower right hand corner and topped with a pearl.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles

I couldn’t wait to play with my new set Fucshia in Bloom. I thought it was perfect for the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge. This time it was a color challenge: Kraft, Black, hot pink and light yellow. I stamped the image in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored it with Copic Markers (RV10, RV11, RV14 and YR31 Flower heads, YG91, YG93 leaves, picked those colors to keep close to the Kraft color). The image was cut with Petite Oval Nestabilities and airbrushedwith Copic Marker YR31.

The card base was cut out of black cardstock with Curved Rectangle Nestabilities. Next is a piece of Kraft cardstock cut  and embossed with the next size smaller die. A thin strip of Cherry Hill October Afternoon Paperwas cut with the same die and layered on the left side of the Kraft die cut, after a white piece of cardstock cut and embossed with Kaleidoscope Borderabilities was layered underneath the patterned paper. White linen ribbon was tied around it, topped with a Basic Grey button that was tied on with black waxed Linen.

The main image was adhered on a piece of black cardstock cut with Label 10 Nestabilities. The layers were attached to the card front with dimensionals. The sentiment is from the same set, stamped with Tuxedo black Memento Ink on Neenah Solar White cardstock and cut with Petite Oval Nestabilities. The oval was airbrushed with YG93. Pearl Kaisercraft Pearls finished off the card front.

The inside of the card was kept pretty simple. Just another Kraft piece of cardstock cut with Curved Rectangle Nestabilities and layered with a strip of Cherry Hill cardstock. The border stamp from the Fucshia set was stamped over both layers with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day. Hugs and smiles