Buttons

Conveniently for me, both Stampin' Royalty and SUO Challenges have challenges this week involving buttons.  Combining those with the sketch challenge at Stampin' Queens I came up with this card:

Now this didn't come out how I'd envisaged in my head and I played around with it so much, I can't even remember what I'd envisaged LOL.  But I'm reasonably happy with it.  I like the clean design and white space and it was good to use Perfect Plum and Certainly Celery again.

I scored a frame around the buttons to add a bit of interest.  The sentiment was colored with my Perfect Plum marker so I could omit the second line of text.

Thanks for looking.

Products used (all Stampin' Up!)

Stamps:  Happiest Birthday Wishes

Cardstock:  Whisper White; Perfect Plum

Accessories:  Perfect Plum marker; Subtles Buttons; White Bakers Twine; Simply Scored

Cheers

Karren

Love & Care

Here is a card I made to cover both the Color Throwdown challenge and Stampin Queens Sketch Challenge.  Melon Mambo is definitely not a favorite color of mine, yet somehow I quite like the finished card.

I used a retired set called Love & Care and colored the stamp with markers using all four of the challenge colors.  I then ran it through the Designer Frames EF.  As you can see, my Big Shot got a fair bit of use while making this card LOL.

Products used (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated):

Stamps:  Love & Care
Cardstock:  Melon Mambo; Pretty in Pink; Always Artichoke; Flirtatious DSP
Ink:  None
Accessories:  Melon Mambo; Pretty in Pink; Always Artichoke Certainly Celery markers; Adorning Accents Edgelits and EF; Designer Frames EF; Quickutz Doily die; Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon

Cheers
Karren

Wedding Card - and not a wedding in sight...

Here is my card for the current Stampin' Queens sketch challenge.

I wanted to use the Big Shot Timeless Type Alphabet for my main focal point.  The only thing I could think of was Mr & Mrs so it became a wedding card.  Who knows when I'll get to use it, but I liked how it came out.

Here is the sketch I worked from:

This card is pretty self-explanatory.  The only thing I did which might not be obvious was sponge some white bakers twine to try and match my color scheme of Very Vanilla and Basic Black.  I sponged with Crumb Cake ink.

Products used (all Stampin' Up!):

Cardstock:  Basic Black; Very Vanilla; Mocha Morning DSP

Ink:  Crumb Cake

Accessories:  Timeless Type Big Shot Alpha; Neutrals Buttons; Bakers Twine; Sponge

Cheers

Karren

Easter Challenge Weekend

Wow, these long weekends are great for getting extra stamping in LOL.  Here's my last challenge card for the week, which covers this week's ColorQ and Stampin Queens sketch challenge:

This is about as CAS as they come!  A few punches; some DSP and matching cardstock; one stamp and a few pearls.

Here are the challenges:

Products used (all Stampin' Up!)

Stamps:  Curly Cute
Cardstock:  Whisper White Textured; Peach Parfait; Blushing Bride; So Saffron; Pear Pizzazz; In Color DSP; Just Add Cake DSP
Ink:  Basic Black
Accessories:  3/4" circle punch; 1" circle punch; pearls

Edited to add:  This card was chosen by Stampin Queens this week as a top pick.

Cheers
Karren