'Orange' You Glad it's Summer- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning.
You have a few more days left to play along with us at
The Flower Challenge




Our Guest Designer this month is Mac Mable from thesweetestofpeas. Do check out her blog if you have a minute as she makes such fabulous cards.

I chose summer for the theme of my card and here is what I did.

1.  Using a piece of heavy white cardstock, I brayered some orange, yellow and red acrylic paint onto a large piece of cardstock, blending the colours and covering the whole piece.
2.  When the brayered piece was completely dry, I cut the main panel to fit the card base as the background.
3.  I placed the leftover painted piece into my Misti and stamped the Lotus flower twice using some Versafine Clair ink, then I clear heat embossed them.
4.  Using my white Posca pen, I added some white details to the flowers and splattered them as well.
5.  While the flowers dried, I die-cut the white panel with a stitched die and stamped the sentiment.
6.  I fussy cut out the flowers then I assembled the card, pop dotted the flowers in place and added 3 black gems for interest.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies
Stamps- Lotus Flower (Altenew); Treasure the Moments (Impression Obsession)
Inks- Versafine Clair Noir; acrylic paint
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Misti (My Sweet Petunia); brayer (Speedball); black gems; Posca white pen;
pop dots; clear embossing powder; heat tool; stitched die (Memory Box)

Summer Roses- The Flower Challenge

Welcome
A new month means a new theme at
The Flower Challenge

This month our theme is:



Our Guest Designer this month is Mac Mable from thesweetestofpeas. Do check out her blog if you have a minute as she makes such fabulous cards.


I chose Summer for the theme of my card so here is what I did to create my card.
I began by making the background using my Gel Plate.  I wanted a white border on my card so I positioned my Rectangle Acrylic Mask onto my heavy white cardstock first, then I brayered some Salty Ocean DOX ink onto the plate, splattered with some diluted Blueprint Sketch DOX ink and pulled my print.
Leaving the mask in place, I stamped the roses along the top then coloured them using my Zig Waterbrush markers.  I dried that and then stamped the sentiment and clear heat embossed it.
I mounted the panel onto a pale mauve piece of cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.



Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.
I hope you will come and play along with us.

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.

Supplies
Stamps- Flowers Are the Music (Rubbernecker); Bouquet Large (AALL and Create)
Inks- Versafine Clair; Distress Oxides; Zig markers
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Rectangle Acrylic Mask (A Colorful Life Designs); paintbrush;
pearl dots; clear eb powder; heat tool

Navy and One Other Colour- The Flower Challenge

Good Morning
Here is another card I made for
The Flower Challenge.

This month our theme is:

Our Guest Designer this month is Jenny Hall from jennyhalldesign.com. Do check out her blog if you have a minute as she makes such fabulous cards.

Here are my card details.
I began with a background piece that I made on my Gel Plate using some fringed yarn.
This is what it looks like:



So I brayered some light blue paint onto my Gel Plate, laid on the yarn and then let the paint dry.  I removed the yarn and then brayered some navy paint over that and pulled the print.
While that dried, I looked through some of my painted backgrounds that didn't work out, so instead of tossing them, I like to save them to use for die cutting.  I die cut the flowers using one of those pieces.
I layered the flower dies, then I glued a pearl gem into the center of the flowers.
I die-cut the panel with the Hemstitch die to add interest and then glued the flowers into the one corner.
I stamped the sentiment onto a small leftover painted piece with Versamark and white heat embossed it.  I pop dotted that into the top corner.
Finally, I mounted it all onto a heavy white card base.



Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:
We Love to Create- ANYTHING GOES
Shopping Our Stash- UFO's
(made the flowers from unusable prints)
Time Out- INSPIRED BY WORDS

Supplies

Stamps- Cool Tag Banner Sentiments (YNS)
Inks- Versamark; Dollar Store paints
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Gel Plate; Flower die (Unknown...from a friend); Cuttlebug;
Hemstitch Die (Spellbinders); pearls; brayer; yarn, white eb powder; heat tool

Words to Live By- The Flower Challenge

Welcome

This month we are creating Monochrome flower cards at 

The Flower Challenge

This month we would like to see a 'Monochrome' look on your cards.This means either 'black and white' or varying tones of one colour. We are allowing a white card base & touches of white also, so you could have a white card base with say shades of purple stamped flowers or dies on as an example.

This month we welcome 

Guest Designer this month is  Nonni from  Nonnishandmadecards

So onto my card details.

I began by creating a background using my Gelli Plate and the Tribal Blanket stencil.  I rolled some dark blue paint onto my plate with a brayer, laid the stencil over that and pulled the print.

I set that aside to dry completely.

Next, I die cut the hollyhocks using a die from Impression Obsession.  I left the flowers in white so it would pop against the dark colour of my background.  I stamped the sentiment using my Misti, cut it into a flag shape and pop dotted it to the side of my card front.

I mounted the finished panel onto a piece of dark blue cardstock, then onto a white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by to take a look.

Discount Code for A Colorful Life Designs

*Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.*

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simply Create Too- USE FLOWERS

Creative Artiste- MIXED MEDIA

CAS on Fridays- USE A DIE

Supplies
Stamps- The Best (SU)
Inks- Versafine Clair
Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)
Accessories and Tools- Gelli Plate; Tribal Blanket (A Colorful Life Designs); brayer;
acrylic paint (Dollar Store); Hollyhock die (Impression Obsession)