{PIN}spirational Challenge #157

{PIN}spirational Challenge #157 

Don't you love the photo challenges.  Sometimes you look at them and immediately get an idea in your head. This one from {PIN}spirational Challenge caught my eye because it was bright and sunny and the background reminded me of a little girl's dress in swiss dot fabric.

I knew immediately I wanted to use my girl stamp as the main focus.  Here is my finished design.  I used my favorite "Mindy" cling stamp from Julie Nutting and colored her in with Marvy bright markers.  Her face was blank so I used a sharpie to add eyelashes, nose and mouth.  I cut her out and set her aside while I created my background with dylusions fresh lime ink spray and water.  

I added grosgrain ribbon with white dots to the left side of my background, attached my girl "Mindy", stamped some flowers and my wording, added sequins and tossed in a little glitter with crystal stickles.  I love how it turned out!

 I also linked to Crafting With an Attitude (Challenge 11) after checking out their beautiful blog for the first time. 

 

 

I found these bright, funky, 3-D heart stickers that I couldn't wait to use on a card so I rummaged through my paper stash for a cool and funky design that I could use.  I cut my paper down to size, added a black strip and placed the 3-D hearts to the left.  I used a punch for the large yellow and black circles, adhered them together slightly off, stamped my wording and added a pop dot underneath.

Felt that it still needed a little something so I added black sequins, hole punched yellow circles and set them slightly off before attaching them to the bottom half of my card.

In my abstract mind it goes along with the retrosketches challenge #198 so I hurried up and linked it to their website.  Hope you enjoy this bright funky card! 

Congrats to Fusion on their 2nd year anniversary!  I only started doing card challenges last year and when I came across their photos and sketches, I was hooked.  Now I am constantly checking their blog for their latest inspirations.

This week's card challenge of brightly colored flowers reminds me that Spring isn't too far away.   Also, working with these colors helps to brighten these cold cloudy winter days. 

 I wanted to combine both the photo and the sketch for my card design.

 

And this is what I came up with.

With Thoughts of You

First, I chose Dylusions' fresh lime ink spray to color my background.  I stamped my sentiments towards the center of my background sheet and then stamped three Inkadinkado floral stamps in an oval pattern around it.  I used my markers to color in the flowers and then fussy cut around the floral design.

The lower half of the card was created with Dylusions' pure sunshine ink spray and a zigzag stencil.  I mounted it below the flowers and added a strip of grosgrain ribbon and popped up a butterfly for a fun accent.  Kinda puts a little spring in my heart!

Check out the latest Card Concept challenge!  I knew I had to join in.  The colors warm my heart and I couldn't wait to try my hand at it.  So here is the challenge picture:

And here is my version.

In my stash of favorite things I found the Kindred Spirits vellum sheet, fussy cut around the wording and mounted it on white textured card stock.  I used postbox red Dylusions' ink spray and water for my red background.  When it was dry, I added a red and white zigzag adhesive border to the bottom and a thin brown grosgrain ribbon with white stitching above it.  Also in my stash were the printed red cups and I heat embossed white hearts for fun.  I mounted my wording towards the top of the red paper and 3-D'd the cups over the ribbon.  This was all mounted on a red and white chevron design paper.  I finished it off  with snowflake sequins.

I was very happy with the way my card turned out.  It warms my heart and I can almost smell the hot cocoa!  Thanks for stopping by!

I am sooo excited...I got "In The Mailbox winner"!!  
Thanks Annie!
 

Happy 2016!  

 I want to wish everyone a very

fabulous and creative New Year!

   First card of the new year and I was thinking soft blue and whimsical with snowflakes.  Something that would make me smile.

  Then I remembered I had some cute sparkly snowflake stickers and iridescent snowflake sequins in my stash drawer that I thought would be fun to use. So, of course, I grabbed my Dylusions spray ink for the background, added more water to soften the blue and topped it with a wavy stencil.  Once it was dry, I inked a snowflake design with robin egg blue and stamped it all over the background, heat embossed my sentiment and then added those snowflakes.  I layered this over shiny silver card stock.  And guess what, I'm smiling.  Hope this card makes you smile too!

I am excited to join Cards in Envy for their shiny new year card challenge.  This is my first time entering and I checked to be sure I followed their requirements and even used an A2 size card.

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