The Spot Challenge #133 - Color Challenge

 Hi There and Happy Tuesday!  I hope you've having an awesome day! We have a new color challenge for you over at The Spot this week, Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie and Pretty Peacock!  These colors are sooo pretty together!  Hope you'll give it a try!  

I used the Timeless Tropical Stamp Set for my card.  There were so many options and although I really think this is an wonderful palette for a fall card, I thought I would go for something a little tropical.

I used Rich Razzleberry for the 11" x 4 1/4" top folding card base and layered on a 4 x 5 1/4" piece of Pumpkin Pie that was embossed with the Scripty 3D Embossing Folder (one of my all time favs!)  I used My Stampin' Blends in the three challenge colors to color in the one large and two smaller flower images.  I used the coordinating In The Tropics dies to cut out the floral images as well as cut the three small die cut flowers.  The sentiment was stamped in Pretty Peacock onto a scrap of Whisper White Cardstock and then cut it with one of my stitched rectangles leaving the sentiment on the right side of the die cut.  I adhered smaller flowers with Multipurpose Adhesive and the larger flower with Stampin' Dimensionals.  I finished this off with three rhinestones colored with Stampin' Blends in Razzleberry and Pumpkin Pie.   I have all of the products used linked below if interested.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings!  Tina

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The Spot Challenge #103 Color Challenge with the Ornate Garden Suite of Products

Hi There!  Hope you are doing well and are hunkered down at home!  This Corona Virus mess is just too crazy for words.  I began working from home this week and will probably do so for at least 4 weeks.  Since I work as an Import Manager for a Retail Chain, I can tell you that unless you are a gas station, grocery store, or pharmacy, if you are in retail, things are super tough right now.  We had to furlough many of our employees and take it down to the bare bones just to give us a chance to survive this thing.  It's so, so sad.... 

At least crafters have their crafts to keep them sane!  So to help jumpstart your creativity, we've got another Spot Challenge for you to check out.

For my design team card, I used Rococo Rose, Blushing Bride and Basic Gray with a little help from the new Ornate Garden Suite of Products.  The suite has two stamp and die bundles, an embossing folder, a ribbon duo and some beautiful gold embellishments. This suite is available to demonstrators to pre-order now and will be available to customers on April 1st!

Here's my card...

I started with an 11 x 4 1/4" piece of Basic Gray Cardstock that was scored at 5 1/2".  I typically use this as a top folding card but today I'm using it as a side folding card.  I added a 4 x 5 1/4" panel of Rococo Rose Cardstock that was embossed with the beautiful Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder.  With a scrap of Blushing Bride I cut a beautiful layer with the ornate Layers Dies.  I backed it with Basic Gray Cardstock to show off that gorgeous detail in the die cut.  I cut a front layer of Basic Gray and heat embossed the sentiment from the Timeless Tropical Stamp Set.  I stamped the single flower from the Ornate Style Stamp Set in basic gray onto Whisper White cardstock.  I used Stampin' Blends to color the image in and then fussy cut it.  the stem was cut from the blossom (by accident.. lol) so I adhered the stem with Multipurpose glue and popped up the blossom with Mini Dimensionals.  

Here's the inside of my card, which I kept super simple by just stamping the small single flower...

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Stay safe and craft!  Blessings, Tina

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PCC372 Sketch Challenge with Stampin' Up! Timeless Tropical again!

Hello and Happy Wednesday!  I'm half way through the work week so that's a super big Woo Hoo!

Paper Craft Crew has another fun sketch up for you to try out this week!

Are you tired of my obsession with Stampin' Up! Timeless Tropical yet?  I can't seem to get enough of it!  This time I used the Palm Trees along with the coordinating dies for them as well as the additional leaves and flowers.

The background was cut using one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies with one of the Follow Your Art DSP sheets.  I thought the pattern and the beautiful coastal cabana had the "beachy" feel I was going for.  I matted that layer with a thin layer of Early Espresso Cardstock.  I used the second from the largest of the Stitched Shapes Squares for my Whisper White to back the trees.  I also used a thin matt of Early Espresso on the stitched square.  To stamp the Palm Trees on a scrap piece of Whisper White Cardstock, I used my Stamparatus Stamping Platform along with Stampin' Write Markers in Garden Green, Mossy Meadow, and Soft Suede.  I used the same markers on the sentiment from Label Me Bold Stamp Set.  To split the Happy Birthday into two seperate sentiments, I used the side of my marker just past the word and used a scrap of paper to make sure the edge was fairly straight.   I fussy cut the seperate sentiments out ... luckily it is just straight lines so really easy! So did you happen to nice that little bit of grass at the bottom of my diamond??  Well I couldn't let my palm trees just hang out there without ground or grass so I used the new Special Days Dies to cut a little sliver of grass in Garden Green Cardstock.  Once I had the grass cut I used the same stitched square to stitch the sides so it would fit right into the corner.  

Here's the inside of my card...

I kept the inside super simple by adding the rest and relax sentiment from Timeless Tropical along with three of the flowers from the coordinating dies.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  If you need any of the products mentioned, below is the link to my Stampin' Up! Website!  Blessings, Tina

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