Two Challenges

A quick second post for today as I wanted to show you a card I am entering for two challenges. The first is ColourQ where the colours for this week are shown in the inspiration picture above and the second is a new challenge site called Twisted Tuesday where each week there is a challenge with a 'twist'. This week's challenge is called 'I never promised you a rose garden' and the twist is that the card has to have flowers but NOT roses! As you will see ColourQ are asking for Poppy Parade but, as I don't actually have this colour, I have used Real Red which I think is probably the closest colour. I started by stamping the leafy stamp from Borderlines in Lucky Limeade, and re-stamping to give a lighter shade, in the bottom corner of a piece of Whisper White cardstock which was then matted on to Basic Black and then on to a plain white card blank. The flowers were made with the Boho Blossoms punch and I stamped the small 'stamen' stamp from Greenhouse Garden onto Pumpkin Pie and Real Red cardstock, using Basic Black, before punching the flowers out. The sentiment is from a recent SAB set (no longer available) also stamped in Basic Black.

Do come back tomorrow to see the last (well maybe!) of my case'd punch art - I promise I'll move onto something else soon :0)

ColourQ Greens

I struggled with the ColourQ challenge this week which, as you can see from the inspiration picture above, is all about greens. I made the card shown below first but was not at all happy with it, too much green for my liking, so moved on to make the card shown above 

which is much more my style!                           

I used one of the stamps from Borderlines and stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock with Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green and Basic Gray - and stamped again with each colour without re-inking. This was matted onto Garden Green cardstock and then onto a Vanilla card blank. The sentiment was stamped in Garden Green, punched with the Word Window punch and matted onto a Garden Green Modern label with two tiny Basic Pearls added. Three butterflies were diecut fron the Beautiful Wings Embosslits die using Certainly Celery DSP from the Subtles Paper Stack, a Basic Pearl placed in the centres and added to the card. If anyone's interested, the card on the right was using all the same colours with the Certainly Celery panel embossed in the Elegant Bouquet folder and the addition of Certainly Celery Grosgrain ribbon.

ColourQ Challenge - again!

  
You may have read yesterday that my original idea for this week's ColourQ challenge hadn't quite come together so I abandoned it and made one completely different. Well not to be beaten I went back to it and here it is - absolutely nothing like the original idea I had in my head but finished nevertheless. I began by taking a piece of Riding Hood Red cardstock and glueing two narrower strips of Old Olive and More Mustard on to it before running through the Stripes Embossing Folder. I matted this onto some Crumb Cake cardstock and punched out a circle through all the layers to allow the white card blank to show through, and made a frame for the aperture using two circle punches. I then added my sentiment to the base card using my stamp-a-ma-Jig in R.H.Red and, before fixing the top layer on, I tied a knot of Crumb Cake Taffeta ribbon around and added some small coloured circles down the edge to finish the card off.

ColourQ Challenge

The ColourQ challenge this week is based on the patterned skirt above and, as you can see, uses Riding Hood Red, Old Olive, More Mustard, Kraft (or Crumb Cake as we know it) and white. I attempted to make a male card using embossed strips of card but couldn't quite get it to look how I wanted so I may be back with that another day! 

So onto the one I did manage to make - I started by stamping the flowers from Everything Eleanor in Riding Hood Red and More Mustard using the rock'n'roll technique. I used my blender pen to colour in the flowers, some by just blending the ink already there and others I added more ink to get a stronger colour, and then cut them out. A piece of Whisper White cardstock was matted onto a Crumb Cake card blank and the background stamp, again from Everything Eleanor was stamped in Crumb Cake. I added some leafy branches in Old Olive using a stamp from Vintage Vogue, some of which I stamped off first to give a lighter colour. I then arranged the flowers and when I was happy with the positioning I glued the small flowers down first and then curled the larger flowers and stuck these with dimensionals to give some depth. The sentiment is from Sincere Salutations, stamped in R.H.Red and the 'bunny ears' bow is made with R.H.Red Tafffeta Ribbon.

Some news from last week's challenge is that my Paisley Petals entry was picked as a 'ColourQ Courtiers' card - how good is that? I'm not too sure I deserved it as there were some brilliant entries but a big thank you to the design team anyway :0) 

Colour Q Combo - again!

 

Those of you that saw my post yesterday will know that I had a go at this week's ColourQ challenge (scroll down to last post for more details) using Wisteria Wonder, Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry, Bravo Burgundy and white. I decided that I really liked the colour combo and the photo that ColourQ provided for the challenge inspired me to make another card using Paisley Petals, so I experimented a little and this is what I came up with.

I started by stamping one of the stamps from the set in Versamark, onto Wisteria Wonder cardstock, and embossed with White Embosssing powder. I then used  a combination of Stampin'Write markers, a blender pen and a white gel pen to colour in the image. This was then matted onto a white card blank and a strip of Bravo Burgundy cardstock, punched with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, was positioned underneath. The sentiment, from Petite Pairs, was punched out with the Oval punch and matted onto a Bravo Burgundy Scallop Oval.

My internet is very 'hit and miss' again so my apologies if I do not get to post as often as usual. What did we ever do before computers?? Have a great weekend and hopefully I'll be back soon.

New Colour Challenge

This morning, thanks to Vicky, I came across a fabulous 'colour' challenge site called COLOUR Q and just had to have a go. This sort of challenge is exactly what I need to kick me out of my comfort zone, where I invariably choose monochrome for my creations!

The picture, above left, shows this week's colour combo and my attempt is shown on the right. I used the brand new Create a Cupcake set, available in the Spring Mini, and stamped the cases in Rich Razzleberry, Island Indigo & Bravo Burgundy onto Whisper White cardstock. The 'frosting' was stamped with Versamark and I used some Heat'n'Stick to adhere the Dazzling Diamonds and then cut them all out by hand (I don't have the co-ordinating punch yet so had to resort to scissors this time!!) The card blank is a 15cm square and I made an embossed frame using my scoreboard before adding my cake stand. This was made, from Wisteria Wonder cardstock, using the Extra Large Oval punch and the Scallop Border punch with a narrow strip of Island Indigo placed across. The candles were stamped directly onto the card blank  with the cupcakes placed on top and the card was finished off with two sentiments, again from Create a Cupcake, stamped in Island Indigo. I just hope it was ok to add a touch of yellow for the flames as they really didn't look right in any of the other colours. Not the best card I've ever made but at least I had a go!!!

The ColourQ site is fantastic for anyone like me who's a bit scared of mixing colours - not only can you look through all the past challenges for inspiration but on the side bar there is a list of all the colours if you have something specific in mind (bear in mind though that this is an American site so you won't be familiar with ALL the colours!)

Before you go just hop over to Vicky's site (here) and have a look at her card, it's very CAS and GORGEOUS!!