Play Date Cafe Challenge #48

Julie selected  the beautiful inspiration photo for the Play Date Cafe challenge this week:. 

I selected this beautiful stamp set from Crafty Individuals to use on my cards. I ended up creating two cards.

My first card:

 

Recipe for Image Panels:

1. 
   
   Stamp trees using black pigment ink and emboss with clear embossing powder.
2. 
   
   Sponge grey dye ink on bottom of cardstock.
3. 
   
   Sponge lime green dye ink on middle of cardstack to top of trees.
4. 
   
   Sponge blue dye ink on top half of cardstock and around the edges.

After I finished my first card, I decided to keep playing. I had a piece of patterned paper sitting on my desk and I wondered if I could achieve a similar effect. The paper pretty much looked like the background on my card. (I was really pleased that it worked) and I created this easel card.  

Recipe for backgrounds.

1. Sponge Adirondack Brights Citrus all over white cardstock.
2. Take the Memento London Fog Dye ink and drag along the edges and front of the green inked cardstock.
3. Sponge edges with Ranger Distress Inks - Chipped Sapphire.
4. Stamp images with Sapphire ink.

Pretty simple but love the effect of the grey ink directly applied to the cardstock in random areas.

We have a great sponsor this week at the PDCC Crafty Individuals.  They provided the Design Team with stamps and a prize for the winner of the challenge.

Each design team member selected a different stamp set. You will have to go check out what they did with the colors and their stamp set!

Play Date Cafe design team

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn
Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

I always enjoy seeing how people interpret and use the colors for the challenge. So many inspirational ideas! Have a wonderful Thursday!

Suzz

Golden Sunset

I apologize that you can see my shadow box peeking out of the corner in this picture. :) I take a few photos every time and then edit them to try to correct any lighting issues but if I don't pay attention like this photo I don't realize how close to the edge of the box my card is.

This started as a background to a house but after I finished the back two steps I decided I didn't want to put my house on the front step and leave the view. :)

The trees are from Crafty Individuals (CI-209) and the sentiment is from Kodomo.

The background is sponged using Ranger Distress Inks (Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge) and a touch of black dye ink.

I pulled the measurements from Splitcoaststampers tutorials.

Enjoy the sunset. :)

Suzz