A butterfly on a branch - birthday wishes

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Happy Saturday and Shanna Tova everybody!

We had a lovely family gathering yesterday evening, and I spent the morning making a new card, a birthday wishes card. I used scraps of cs, both for the die cuts and for the stamping, reducing the scraps pile!

I die cut the background blue branch, using SSS Clustered Leaves die, and then I die cut from a navy blue cs with SSS Detailed Clustered die, and layered it on the blue branch. I adhered the double branch to the white basis.

I stamped and die cut the butterfly, using MFT More Brilliant Butterflies stamps and dies set (on of my FAV!), with distress oxide inks (mutard seeds, squeezed lemonade and chipped sapphire).

I die cut a small flower and small circles from a yellow cs, adhered it to the branch and above all - adhered the butterfly with foam tape.

The sentiment (SU) was stamped over a yellow cs and adhered to the basis with foam tape.

Challenges:

Color Throwdown #760 - blue, navy and yellow:

Global Design Project #411 - outdoors:

Just Add Ink #670 - just add wildlife:

AAA Birthday #53 - animals:

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Autumn colors card

 

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As soon as I saw the current challenge at Color Throwdown, I knew I just can't resist those colors! So so beautiful.

I used several distress inks and distress oxide inks - aged mahogany, spiced marmalade, dried marigold and festive berries, with leaves stencil (Creative Impression).

I cut the leaf steam (SSS) from a golden cardstock, and put some of the cut leaves back inside, adhering it to the colored panel.

I die cut a small tag for the sticker sentiment, and added a red twine, and adhered it to the panel.

I then matted the panel with an orange cardstock and adhered it to the maroon basis.

Challenges:

Color Throwdown #579:

Freshly Made Scktches #602:

AAA Cards #248 - add a tag:

Inkspirational #298 - moodboard:

I loved the colors and the autumn leaves on the street.

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A rainbow on the edge - CAS card using solid cardstock scraps

 

I'm still working on reducing the pile of scraps... After I made 2 blue-green cards (you can see them HERE), I opted for a more colorful design - the whole rainbow colors!

I adhered the colorful scraps on a scrap of a white cardstock, this time not lining them up, for more interest.

The colorful panel was adhered to the edge of the kraft basis with foam tape.

I die cut the sentiment 3 times for some dimensional, and adhered  to the kraft basis.

I die cut a branch with leaves (SSS Detailed Leaf Cluster die) from a textured white carstock, and adhered it to the kraft basis, partialy under the colorful stripes.

Challenges:

AAA Cards #228 - along the edge + rainbows:

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Scraps of scraps of scraps cas cards

The pile of scraps is overloaded, and I had to reduce it.

For the 1st card, I trimmed stripes, 1/4" each, in blue and green tones, and adhered them to a white cardstock. 

I trimmed the excess (which provided a nice colored stripes for the 2nd card), and double matted it with black and gold cardstocks.

I die cut the leaves from a white cardstock scrap, leaving some of the inside die cuts, to make it more interesting, and adhered it to the colored panel.

I used more scraps on the back of the panel, for some dimension,  instead of using foam tape, and adhered it to the white basis.

I wanted to keep it as flat as possible, so I didn't add any other embellishment.

I adhered the sentiment sticker (which says, in Hebrew 'Quick Recovery').

As I mentioned before, I was left with colored stripes, so I cut the edges to form a banner stripes, adhered them to a kraft panel, and then matted it with a black cardstock.

Again I used a sticker for my sentiment, and added some star stickers too.

I think the pile of scraped is just slightly reduced, so more work need to be done with those scraps...

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Happy Birthday in blue

A winner at Seize the Birthday

This is a card combining two stamps - one is from Stampin' Up, 'BIRTHDAY', which I have a little more than a year, and the other, 'happy', is from SimonSays Stamps, which I have for ages, many many years.

I like the way the liitle' happy' stamping is overlapping the big' BIRTHDAY' one, and I like the ombre in the blues. 

I used Lindy's embossing powder in silver to create the two lines, framing the sentiment, and matted the panel on a black cardstock.

The card is for some challenges:

The Paper People #617- color challenge: blue, silver and blak & white:

This color combination is so perfect for a masculine card, and everyone need more of these.

Seize the Birthday #251 - many of something + a birthday card:

I have many 'happy' here :).

Retro Rubber Challenge #195 - ombre:

AAA Birthday Cards #43 - monochrome:

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Autumn leaves card - only solid cardstocks

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This card was made using only solid cardstocks. 

I used SSS Outline Clustered Leaves die with 4 cs in brown, grayish blue, orange and white.

I adhered the brown ounline die cut to a pale gray cs, and filled the empty leaves spaces with die cut leaves in the other colors, adding a few around.

For the sentimen, Mazzal Tov, I die cut it twice - in blue and in orange. I took the blue one, and filled in the gaps with the orange letters, and also added two white leaves on both sides.

The panel was adhered to a black basis and my cars was done.

I'm entering it to the following challenges:

Sunday Stamps -:

I actually managed to use all 5 colors from the scheme!

SimonSays Stamps Monday challenge - Fall moodboard:

Just Us Girls - CAS:

Addicted to CAS - Autumn

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Hello card, with leaves on the edge

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Happy Holiday to all my crafty friends, be it Passover or Easter!

I have a new card to share with you.

I used SimomSaysStamp Cluster Leaves die and colored the leaves with inks in sage and lavender.

I used SSS detailed Leaf Cluster die on  a blue cs, and layered it on the inked leaves. I really love the look of the framed leaves, and how they're going over the edge.

I adhered 3 die cut flowers and colored them with pink ink, added them on slelected points of the leaves, and then adhered greenish enamel dots for the centers.

To finish up my card I die cut the 'hello' and colored it with the same sage ink.

Challenges:

Festive Friday #FF107 - I used pink, blue and die cut:

Color Throwdown #688 - pink, lavender, sage and blue:

Little Red Wagon #649 - 3 of something. I used 3 die cut flowers and 3 enamel dots.

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