Sunday, March 10, 2024

A Floral Square and a Meaningful Sentiment

 

First, I made a kraft square card...then realized it really didn't feature the flower for The Flower Challenge.  So it was a start-over.  The poppy image is a new one from Unity.  One stamper used it every day for about a month to make a wonderful variety of cards.  For this one, I water-colored the poppy. I'm looking forward to seeing what else I can do with the image.  For now, it's a 5x5 square card. I actually have invitation envelopes so I can also mail it.

 The sentiment is so meaningful for me...and for 3 of my 4 siblings. Our mother had an extended peony garden; all of us have some of her peony plants in our own gardens and we have extended our floral choices to dahlias, coneflowers, black-eyed Susans, poppies, clematis, etc.  In our senior years, we have definitely found our own gardens and know our mother would be proud.  



A Mix of Paper Patterns


 This Sunday Stamps sketch took me places I don't remember going before!  By that, I mean that I mixed patterned paper to achieve the design.  And I was able to use a sentiment that I've never used before...a wood-mounted stamp. 



Saturday, March 9, 2024

Purple with Butterfly




I changed the "foliage" into a purple and metallic gold butterfly for this Freshly Made Sketch. Because I have a hug inventory of 6x6 paper pads, it's always a challenge to make choices for cards ... unless the challenge specifies a color. 



Soft Color Throwdown

 


I am really attracted to the colors in the current Color Throwdown palette. They aren't colors I would normally use, but that might change.  I don't recall where the large leaf die came from but the flower is a wood-mount stamp that I just love. It's a Hero Arts stamp called Classic Bloom.  I like to paper piece with it. 







Saturday, March 2, 2024

Handling the Pressure with Squares/Circles

 The OPTIONAL TWIST for today's challenge is:

SQUARES and/or CIRCLES




I will never use all of the embossing folders that I own!  Never!  It's a sickness, I guess.  I quit counting at 100.  This folder is one of the older ones.  Using kraft cardstock is something I don't do often, but the folder seemed to need it for this week's Can You Handle the Pressure?  






Freshly Made with an Oldie

 

The paper-pieced flower is years old; I've just kept it around because I really liked it.  Today, when I looked at the Freshly Made Sketch 625, the flower was on a shelf nearby.  Just a couple of patterned papers later, the card idea was complete.  (I am really happy with the tiny sentiment from Penny Black; I am always wishing there were more small messages that fit almost any situation.)  IRL, the blue of the card is green; I don't know why it photographed this way. 





Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Tones of Plum for Sunday Stamps


The color palette from Sunday Stamps is a rich collection of colors.  I decided to try alcohol inks, but might not have ended up with true "plum tones."