ColourQ Challenge #85

I saw the beautiful colors at ColourQ this week and loved the earthy tones. The colors inspired me to create two very different cards.

First I created this card which is also for the Hero Arts Monthly Challenge.

I used the Envelope Background Designblock to create the background. The poppies one of my favorites was stamped in StaZon grey ink. The flowers are colored using distress inks and watercolor pencils. (Rusty Hinge, Memento Rich Cocoa) The sentiment (Hero Arts) is stamped using brown pigment ink. Added a touch of silver glimmer mist to white tulle and added to the background.

The second card is a masculine card. 

The image is from Class Act Chapel Road Artstamps - Northern River . The background is an script stamp called old script but I really thought it looked like birch bark and would be a fun background to the trees. :)

The image was stamped using the StaZon grey ink and colored with distress inks.  After the image was colored it was covered in clear embossing powder. 

 Here are the beautiful colors from ColourQ:

Tomorrow I have two challenges to share for Lily Pad Cards and Chapel Road Artstamps.  Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Stripes and Polka Dots

The challenge this week over at the City Crafter Challenge is Stripes and Polka Dots.   I needed one more card for a class I am teaching.

I had to be creative to get the polka dots in and decided to emboss my butterflies with the polk dots embossing folder an sponge them to make the dots pop!  This card also is for the Hero Arts Monthly challenge this month is ATC's, Flowers or coloring.  The Hydrangea is Hero Arts and the sentiment is also Hero Arts.

Here is the second card I am teaching in the class. This uses a Pansy stamp.

Hope you are having a lovely week.

Suzz

Embellish Tags & City Craft Challenge By the Sea

 I merged the Embellish Tags & Color Challenge with the City Crafter Challenge - By the Sea to create this seafaring card.

I love this old lighthouse from the Artistic Outpost Beyond the Sea plate. It is so fun to color. The sentiment is a new one from Verses Rubber Stamps - QQ1203-E Salt of the Ocean.  The background music is from the Artistic Outpost Ephemeral Backgrounds plate.

I had a lot of fun embossing the kraft cardstock and distressing it with the white acrylic paint. The image is colored using distress / dye inks with a dash of the white paint over top.


I hope you had a wonderful weekend. 

Suzz

CR84FN28 - A little Whimsy

I love the bright and cheery colors for the CR84FN28 challenge this week.  The colors are red and yellow and neutrals.  I found this beautiful paper that reminded me of old wallpaper and had to use it for the base of the card.
  

 The rooster has been hanging around on my desk for a few weeks waiting for a chance to show up on one of my cards. I thought he was a fun touch of whimsy as well as perfect for the colors this week. The lovely lace is from Webster's Pages and it is soft and pretty and I hated to cover it up.

The sentiment is Verses MCS0643 -F Wishing You Always.  I stamped the sentiment and then embossed using an embossing folder and added a hint of yellow dye ink. The ribbon is seam binding and is dyed using the Ranger Stains (Mustard Seed).  Love how the Ranger stains quickly dye the ribbon.

My lovely rooster friend is from Layers of Color on a lovely set of stamps called Rise and Shine.

Here are the beautiful inspiration photos courtesy of Adam at Embrace Life. .

And what a perfect quote... So many times I second guess what I am doing on my cards and then I get wonderful feedback from my friends.  So I think to try something new is a good thing even if it doesn't shine the first time it helps us become better and more creative.

For all the details on the challenge this week go to the CR84FN blog.

The fabulous CR84FN Design Team:

Deborah Frings * Sue Lelli  * Andrea Matthews *  Stephanie Kraft * Suzanne Czosek (me)  *  Heather Jensen * Mona Pendleton  * Lisa Somerville  * Lin Brandyberry (Guest Designer)

Happy Sunday to you!

Suzz

Happy Birthday Marilyn!

Happy Birthday to Marilyn! This is for my wonderful MIL.  She has a wonderful green thumb and this card with all the beautiful flowers is perfect for her.

The challenge over at Flourishes was to create a card using a combination from their bingo board. I knew I was going to use their beautiful flowers so I added scallops and die cuts to the combo.

 

  

I just love this dress form as it can be decorated in so many ways. :)  The flowers are from the lovely Violets set from Flourishes. They are colored using watercolor pencils and highlighted with a little clear glitter. 

The butterflies are punched out using an Marvy Uchida punch on some more violets.  The background paper is Websters Pages and I added the Hero Arts Flourish to add a little pattern on the background. 

The distressing is Vintage Photo from Rangers Distress Inks. The frame is left over from one of my other projects where I used the newspaper and glimmer mist. 

I hope you have wonderful weekend planned. Thanks for stopping by.. 

Suzz

Lily Pad Card Challenge - Emboss It

Today is another fun challenge at Lily Pad Cards - Embossing. 

Our sponsor this week is The Crafts Meow! They  provided us with lovely images to work with this week. I was lucky enough to receive the Simply Delightful set.  Here is what I came up with:

Lisa's beautiful card here inspired me to try this fold technique and she tracked down the link with the fold measurements. I was so happy to try out this fun fold with my new lovely stamps. 

All the details of the challenge are at the Lily Pad Blog   and there is a fabulous prize from The Crafts Meow! 

For more inspiration visit the wonderful design team:

Design Team: Alice Wertz, Deborah Nolan, Lin Brandyberry, Nancy Krueger, Sherri Thompson, Vicki Papaioannou

Have a wonderful Friday!

Suzz

Masculine Card - ColourQ Challenge #84

I was playing around with some beautiful collage stamps from Chapel Road Artstamps and  the lovely colors from the ColourQ #84 Challenge to create this masculine card:

The Paper Crafts Sketch Magazine had this lovely sketch which uses scraps to create a grid card and left the sentiment to the left. I liked that design and decided to use it and a bunch of my white cardstock scraps to create a grid card.  The stamps are all Class Act Chapel Road Artstamps.  The colors are Ranger Distress inks (Antique Linen, Faded Jeans, Forest Moss) and Memento Dandelion.


Here is the inspiration photo from the challenge:

Happy Thursday! I will be back tomorrow with something very feminine for the Lily Pad Cards challenge using some new stamps from the Craft's Meow!

Suzz