MIM #128:Randomly Stamped Backgrounds & Curtain Call: Watermelon Wonder

 

This is the second card that I made for both Papertrey's Make It Monday Randomly Stamped Backgrounds and Curtain Call's Watermelon Wonder Challenge.  My inspiration for this card came from the painted image on the bottom right of Curtain Call's inspiration collage.  It's much prettier in person, but this was the best I could do for pictures tonight.  The boys in the house decided to have an impromptu campout in the family room, so I'm confined to the not-so-great lighting of the guest room.

You may be wondering how this qualifies for PTI's challenge, but I did indeed randomly stamp the flowers from PTI's Pretty Peonies set on the background in about 9 or 10 different inks.  It's just hard to tell because after I stamped the flowers I took my aqua painter and painted over all of them, adding lots of water until they blended together. 

When everything dried I heat embossed some leaves from PTI's Turning a New Leaf set and a sentiment from PTI's Botanical Silhouettes.  The name of the blue embossing powder is "Heavenly Blue", which made me smile.  It seems quite fitting for a sympathy card, dontcha think?  Here's one last shot with a different background.

 

Curtain Call: Watermelon Wonder Challenge

When I saw Curtain Call's Watermelon Wonder Challenge I had similar feelings to the first challenge....there is so much to draw inspiration from...where should I start?  I couldn't decide, so I ended up making three cards.  This one obviously pulls from the party tablescape image.  I just couldn't get those pinwheels out of my head, so I decided I would completely focus on them and make them the focal point of my card.  I pulled out a bunch of scraps, cut, scored, and glued until I had a pile of pinwheels, and then I just randomly placed them on the card.  I sort of love it.  It reminds me of some Halloween decorations I made for a church party a few years ago.  I essentially did the same thing, just mega sized.  The pinwheels were huge and the cluster of them covered at least 15 feet on a wall.  Oh, and the sentiment is from PTI's Happy Hexagon's set.  That wraps it up for me...I've got two more posts to finish up quickly, and then I'm off to bed.  Thanks for stopping by!

Make It Monday #128: Randomly Stamped Backgrounds & Simon Says...Anything Goes

Hi!  Just popping in to share a card I made for PTI's Make It Monday challenge.  Sometimes I feel like I need to be a bit more free spirited, so randomly stamping a background was good for me. :) I had fun, and I really tried hard to ignore that things weren't quite as evenly distributed as I would have preferred,   resisting all urges to toss this card and start over, so I'm proud of myself. :)  I used a color combo from The Color Throwdown, but in my efforts to keep family time my top priority, I didn't get the card finished and posted in time.  No big deal, though, because I actually just love this color combo, and I'm always glad to find colors that make me happy.  And something about all those pillows looking like they're being tossed in the air makes me happy, too.  Oh, and I love this sentiment.  The inside reads "feel better soon", and although I made this as a get well card, I decided that "Need a couch day?" perfectly describes how I feel on some of the tougher mom days.  Every once in a while there are days where I have to work very hard at resisting the urge to just plop on the couch and stay there until bedtime.  I'm hoping someone out there can relate. :) Maybe I should make a tag like this into a magnet and stick it on the fridge, so if a days seems to be going a bit rough I can look at it and hopefully it will make me smile.  Oh, and I almost forgot.  I'm also linking this up at the Simon Says...Anything Goes Challenge.  I love those.  It's kind of fun to have so much variety in the the projects linked up.

Supplies (all PTI unless otherwise noted)

Stamps: On My Couch

Ink: Pumpkin Pie (SU!), Wild Hare (Color Box), Harvest Gold, Hawaiian Shores, True Black

Cardstock: Lemon Tart, Soft Stone, White 

Other: embroidery floss (Michael's), Tag Sale #3 die

Make It Monday #127: Double Backgrounds & ColourQ #200

I watched this week's Make It Monday  yesterday morning, and last night I got a chance to make a card using the double stamped background technique.  I pulled out all of my background stamps and thinking I had had a stroke of brilliance, I combined PTI's BB: Text Styles and the chicken wire from BB: Farm & Barn to create my background.  It was the very first combination I tried and I loved it, so I went with it and finished off my card.  A couple minutes ago I checked back on Nichole's blog to see the number of the challenge, so I could write my post.  While I was there I decided to check on the twitter updates...apparently my text + chicken wire combination wasn't quite as original as I thought.  This fabulous card by the oh-so-talented Maureen Plut was tweeted about last night for using a very similar background combination.  Shucks.  However I decided it was silly to be bummed that my background wasn't a clever, new idea and to focus on the positive instead.  A happier train of thought was to flatter myself and say that great mind's think alike. :) 

This card was really fun to put together.  I started by selecting my color scheme from this week's ColourQ Challenge.  

Then I stamped the text in PTI's lemon tart ink and the chicken wire in SU!'s So Saffron ink on a panel.  I've been loving the collages I've seen all over the place, so I decided to try my hand at a very simplified version. First, I watercolored and trimmed the flower and leaf images from PTI's Pretty Peonies.  Then I stamped one of the frame images from the same stamp set in SU!'s Blue Bayou Ink onto the background panel to anchor everything.  The rest of my little cluster includes two banners with words from PTI's Round & Round and Friendship Jar Fillers, a little wood clothespin, pearls, and some leaf ribbon that my sister gave me forever ago.  This last photo shows the text a bit better than my first. 

And that's it for me. :) Hope you are having a happy week! 

 

The Play Date Cafe: Splash of Neon, TAWS Be Inspired #33, & (CAS)E This Sketch #38

Just popping in to share a quick card I made for the following three challenges:

The Play Date Café          TAWS Be Inspired #33                CTS #38

I've been wanting to make a card with just stamping alone for a while now, and it felt good to finally make one.  After seeing the TAWS inspiration photo I knew I wanted to make a single-layer card using Good Point from TAWS...I figured it would be nice and graphic and perfect for all that black and white. Then, when I saw this week's sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch I knew it would be perfect for what I wanted to do.  I flipped the sketch, but even then the chevron image I used was a bit large for the sketch, but hopefully you can still see it. Oh, and I promise the yellow looks much more neon in person (which is important since The Play Date Café's color scheme is black, white, and a splash of neon), but I'm barely getting this in before the PDC deadline, so I don't have time to take another photo.  And honestly, this card was just a last minute card just for fun, so I'd rather use the time I have left tonight to make some more cards. :) Hopefully you'll just take my word for it.  Thanks for taking a look! :)
Supplies
Stamps: Alphabet Soup, Good Point (TAWS)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento), Yo-yo Yellow (SU!)
Cardstock: Stamper's Select White (PTI)
Other: colored pencil