A Rainbow Color Dare

The Color Dare challenge blog was started by a fellow consultant, Sarah Stone, and I've been hoping to play along - so here's my first shot!  This week is a rainbow challenge... so I used an idea that I'd seen on Pinterest of stamping butterflies down the side of a card.  I was going to cut off the white edge to the right of the butterflies, following the shape of their wings and then glue a piece of patterned paper underneath... but my daughter convinced me that it was great the way it is!

This was pretty CAS for me!

Cardstock is White Daisy; Stamp sets are Treasure Life & Butterfly Kiss; Inks are Black, Creme Brulee, Sorbet, Tulip, Juniper & Pacifica. - all CTMH.

Key Ingredients & Freshly Made Sketches

I'm a little late, but still wanted to use last week's Freshly Made Sketch when I received my June Key Ingredients kit in the mail yesterday.  I chalked the seashell to make it stand out a bit, after rock 'n rolling the stamp in three different inks:

Patterned papers are Summer Days, by Echo Park; ribbon & sparkles - Key Ingredients kit by Taylored Expressions; Cardstock is Tulip & White Daisy; Inks are Tulip, Sorbet & Creme Brulee; Fall Chalks; Stamp set is Quick Cards - Shell - all CTMH.

The Paper Players Challenge #101

The Paper Players have a sketch challenge this week, so I dug deep into my stash of supplies and came up with some older papers and stamps for this card.  I'm not an overly 'girly' cardmaker, so I actually had fun doing this one for a change:

Patterned papers are Daydream; Cardstock is Black, Lilac Mist, White Daisy & Sweet Leaf; Stamp set is Princess; Ink is Black; Prisma Glitter - all CTMH; Copic marker, Spellbinder's and Taylored Expressions dies.

Mojo Monday #247

I went with the square version of this week's Mojo Monday sketch.  And I grabbed some papers and embellishments that have been around for a while... and had some fun roughing them up a bit around the edges:

Patterned papers, stickers and chipboard are all Miracle; Cardstock is Kraft; Stamp set is Treasure Life; Inks are Desert Sand, Sweet Leaf & Sky; Mocha Opaque Pearls - all CTMH.

Deconstructed Sketch #57

I was having a difficult time with these papers & this week's Deconstructed Sketch... so I finally just walked away and made dinner - and when I came back (without making any changes!) it all magically seemed to work?!  So I glued & stitched it all down and voila:

Patterned papers & sticker strip are Ambrosia, Basic Grey; Cardstock is Black & Colonial White, CTMH; Stamp set is Words of Wisdom, Verve; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Prima flowers; Licorice Opaque Pearls CTMH & Want 2 Scrap.

Inspired By #29

This week's inspiration photo on the Inspired By challenge blog reminded me immediately of my October Afternoon Farmhouse papers... so I took the inspiration fairly literally:

Patterned papers are Farmhouse, October Afternoon; Cardstock is Colonial White, CTMH; Stamp set is Treasures, CTMH; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Baker's Twine, The Twinery.

Three's a Charm

Told you I liked this sketch!  This is the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge making it's third appearance this week - and this time I tipped it over:

Patterned papers are Baby Jane Mini-Deck, Cosmo Cricket; Cardstock is Kraft & Tulip, CTMH; Stamp set is Words of Wisdom, Verve; Ink is Rich Cocoa, Memento; Mini Paper Blooms, Kaisercraft; Spellbinder's dies.