Peachy, peachy!

Color combo challenges aren't my favorites; I just always struggle to find a way to use the colors. This particular Sunday Stamps palette was different for me...primarily because I was attracted to the shades of orange with the blue.  In fact, I cut the leaves before I did anything else and then worked to determine what else I needed. It was a piece of DSP with swirls of the colors that made it possible to use the die cut. Backwards, but it worked. And with this card, I inched back into card-making after many weeks of traveling. 

A Birthday Silhouette

I'm trying to get back into the groove of card-making after many weeks of absence. This 

Seize the Birthday challenge was truly a challenge to find a silhouette image among my stamps. Over the year, I have avoided silhouette stamps because they often don't stamp without a lot of effort, particularly wood-mounted stamps.  Luckily, I found this Indigo Blu image which is many years old but never inked.

 

Flower with Embossing (I was 3 days too late!)

Wow....I've been gone from home for just about 5 weeks!   2 1/2 weeks in New York (Manhattan and the Catskills) and another week in western Oregon.  Travel time in between pushed the absence longer.)  It has taken me some time to get back into my craft room to work. The first accomplishment was this card for The Flower Challenge #103  Hopefully, I can work with more creative layouts soon.  

 

Stencil on a Birthday Card

(I LOVE the "Seize the Birthday" theme image!)   In spite of my heavy purge of supplies, stamps, and tools recently, I did keep all of my stencils.  They take up very little space and I haven't used most of them.  I used one with lots of angular designs for my card.  

 

The Pressure of Weather

The OPTIONAL TWIST for today's challenge is:

WEATHER
(clouds, sunshine, rain, snow, etc.)

When I saw "weather" as the theme for Can You Handle the Pressure? I was sure that I didn't have any "weather-related" images...but then I found this old-but-unused Deep Red "Retro Umbrella Girl."  I chose the clouds embossing folder and tried to accent the clouds with some white ink. Adhesive "raindrops" were the perfect accent.  (So sorry that the cloud embossing doesn't show up on black)

Freshly Made Sketch #684

 

It's been a month since I've made a card for this blog; I realize that I am simply slowing down with my card-making.  Because I recently purged my tools and supplies, I didn't have a punch for the shaped edge.  I resorted to a partial rectangular die for the shape of this Freshly Made Sketch.

Spring is at Color Throwdown

 

Generally, I seem to struggle with color challenges; this was no exception.  The colors for Color Throwdown are definitely ones I associate with Easter.  I chose the tulip die with the idea of making the flowers colored on a green stem.   I struggle because of larger, arthritic hands...so it was a challenge.