Just Us Girls #367 Wild Card & Less Is More #300 Celebrate

 

One card for two challenges.

JUGS  

 

&

Less Is More 

Celebrations and Festivals

I made a background piece of rainbow paper with my Ziggs and then used it to die cut the work Celebrate. Also used it for a strip along the bottom.

Avery Elle Butterflies in PTI's Amethyst Allure, Summer Sunrise and Berry Sorbet

PPP Sequins & Dot stamp by Judith

  

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Make It Monday #266 with Lexi That's A Wrap

 

This week Lexi has a video on how to make your own wrapping paper.

See here:MIM 

PTI's Tremendous & Tiny Treats Christmas, Fab Flakes, Pure Poppy, New Leaf and Blueberry Sky

I forgot to take a picture of the paper before wrapping so had to unwrap and wrap again.  Hence a bit wrinkled. 

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Merry Monday #220 with Bonnie

 

How will you decorate your door?  That is what Bonnie wants us to use on our card this week.  Come look at the inspiration by the other Merry Makers and join us at Merry Monday

 

I decided to make my card look like a house and door front.  Hope I succeeded in this.

MFT. Small Brick Wall,  Used top of Window die frame to create the door.

PTI's Woodgrain , Deck The Halls, Holiday Home, Keep It Simple Frames in Green Parakeet, New Leaf, Spring Rain, Classic Kraft and Pure Poppy

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The Heart Desires #5 Guest Designer - 2nd Card

 

This is my second card as Guest Designer for The Heart Desires.

Items used from the Shop are Avery Elle  Dotted Border Dies & 

Gold Enamel Dots

PTI's Autumn Pumpkins colored with Copics

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PTI October 2016 Blog Hop Challenge

  

My card for 

PTI's October 2016 Blog Hop 

PTI's Autumn Pumpkins, Autumn Adornment, in Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Terracotta Tile & Ocean Tides

Woodgrain Impression Plate coated with Distress Ink Pumice Stone,  BB Music Sheets embossed in clear and then sponged with Classic Kraft.

Stylized Autumn die cut from some marbleized paper that I had from another challenge.

Color Wink of Stella on Pumpkins. 

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Make It Monday #265 with Lizzie Layered Dry Brush

 

My card for MIM this week

Didn't think I was going to be able to play.  I do not have any white acrylic paint so tried stamping pigment white ink on a block and then adding the refill.  Tried several times just couldn't get a good panel.  Tried just the ink from the pad and  that didn't work either.  Finally tried just refills on a block and after several tries got one I liked enough to use.  Couldn't get the brush lines to show very well.

Lizzie's card

PTI's Green Parakeet & Spring Rain for background.  Flowers are Amethyst Allure, Royal Velvet and Summer Sunrise on Forget Me Not

MFT Stitched Square.

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Merry Monday #219 Use Birds

Sue's challenge this week is to use birds on your card.  And this is a challenge for me as somehow I have a hard time making cards with birds that look good.  I used this cute MFT Season's Tweetings image and colored with Copics.  You can't go wrong with this little cutie.

Doodle bug Frosty Friends PP, Darice Snowflakes EF

Lil Inkers Stitched Oval

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The Paper Players #317 Clean & Simple Leaf with Nance

 

I guess I really was thinking Spring or Summer, no turning leaves.  It's just I've made several cards lately in the oranges & yellows that I was ready for another color. 

I am entering this on The Paper Players

PTI Meadow Greens, Turning a New Leaf in Green Parakeet, Aqua Mist, Green Parakeet pattern paper, 

Avery Elle Scallop Border Dies 

 

I used the leaves above to make the card below as a stencil for a technique on MIM this week by Melissa (see previous post).

 These were left over leaves and I liked how they came out so thought I could use them for another card and enter in The Paper Players.

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PTI's Make It Monday #264 with Melissa Die Cut Stencil Shapes

 

This is a great technique by Melissa, which you can view here: MIM 

I really like how this came out

PTI's Meadow Greens, Turning a New Leaf in Green Parakeet, Aqua Mist, Soft Stone & Smokey Shadow

The leaf in the middle is what I used as one of my shapes that I sponged around.  I loved how it turned out so decided to use it on my card. 

Melissa Cards are so soft and beautiful.

 

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Merry Monday #218 Use Plaid

 

Nina has asked us to use plaid on our cards this week.  Come join us at Merry Monday

to help get those cards done before the rush....

I wish I had done the sentiment is a color.  Oh well, what's done is done.

 

 

PTI's Holiday Greens Border, Holiday Plaid Paper, Ombre Sentiment, Christmas in New Leaf, Green Parakeet & Pure Poppy

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The Heart Desires #5 Guest Designer

 

Imagine my surprise when I was asked to be the Guest Designer for The Heart Desires for the months of October & November.

This is my first card for October where I chose to use the Colors and Large Sentiment 

Thanks ladies for inviting me to be your GD.

 

I picked up a few items form The Heart Desires Shop

This pretty leaf stencil from Carta Bella Stencil

 as well as  Avery Elle  Dotted Border Dies.  It is hard to see in the picture, but it is on the bottom of the card.

The Tag is from PTI and Melon Berry Ink.  Distress Inks for sponging

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Create Along with Us October 2016

 

I made some tags for this week's Create Along With Us.  I was inspired by Ashley's tags she created.  They seemed easy and I needed some tags.

I used my Ziggy's to put on color and then spritzed them with water.  Let them dry and then stamped with Wet Paint Holiday stamp set.

Here are Ashley's

 

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CAS Watercolor October

 

Another card for CAS Watercolour  

Hope this qualifies for CAS, there is lots of white space at the top, not so much at the bottom.

Again, it took me numerous times to get this right, but finally came up with something I liked.

I used Distress Inks to stamp on some Art Impressions Foliage and a couple of images from WPlus 9 Fresh Cut Florals & Coming Up Roses, then used an Aqua paint brush to soften the edges with water to get the watercolor look.

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CAS Mix Up October -2 Ghosting

 

A second card for CAS Mix Up 

Really like how this one came out.  I sponged on Distress Ink and spritzed water on the Altenew Peony Bouquet stamp and stamped.  Tried several times but wasn't getting a crisp image.  Finally figured I need to wipe it with a paper towel before it spread too much.  The reason it is cut like it is because the top flower had spread too much so didn't want to re-do again.

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Merry Monday #217 with Lori

 

Lori's wants us to make a Vintage/Retro themed card.

This is my take on the challenge.

MFT's Inspired by Christmas in PTI's Scarlet Jewel 

Stamped the background sleigh in Fine Linen 

MFT's Stitched Circles 

PTI's Rustic Cream cardstock

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CAS Watercolor October Challenge, Addicted to CAS #98 & Just Us Girls #363

 

My third card for today.  Entering this in Loll & Bonnie's new challenge

CAS Watercolor 

 

Addicted to CAS  

 

&

JUGS 

PTI's Autumn Pumpkins & Lawn Fawn Small Stitched Leaves watercolored with Gansai Tambi watercolors.  Smooshed PTI's New Leaf for background and tapped New Leaf and Terracotta Tile.  Wasn't getting much of the green, then all of sudden there was too much.  Oh well....

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