Color Hues: Yellow and Pale Teal

It's mid-month already, and time for a new Color Hues challenge! Nancy has picked our new hues, and they are yellow and pale teal. (I have enough trouble figuring out teal, and Nancy gives it a qualifier, yikes!) With thoughts of making cards to show support for Ukraine, here's how I interpreted the colours:

It could be said my teal is not overly pale, but if it's not dark teal, it must be light, right? :D My sunflower is an older wood-mount stamp, and after embossing, I coloured it with Copics and added a bit of sparkle to the centres. To keep the main panel from being too plain, I added some background interest with a stencil and yellow ink. (Easier to see in person than in photos.) The sentiment is stamped on some coordinating yellow cardstock. The bottom strip? From a Concord & 9th envelope I saved after they had to replace a die for me! 

What will you do with these two hues? I hope you will join us! 

Supplies: Neenah white & scrap yellow cardstock, Rubber Stampede Sunflower II & PTI Brushed Blooms stamps, Versafine onyx black & squeezed lemonade distress ink, Wow clear gloss embossing powder, Copic markers, Memory Box scraped paint stencil, Lawn Fawn glitter pen, foam tape

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Addicted to Stamps and More: Die Cuts and Stencils

It's time to show off your die cuts and/or stencils at Addicted to Stamps and More! I've got a bit of each on my card today: 

My friend and snarky sister Barbara sent me some die cuts along with a card recently, and instead of hoarding all of them, I decided to put this layered butterfly to use almost right away. I really like it in the shades of blue, with the glittery black body. The top layer was a good match for tumbled glass distress ink, and so I used it with a cloud stencil/mask to create a sky panel. It's matted with some black glitter cardstock as well. I adhered just the one side of the wings to the card base, and tucked a sentiment into the corner, embossed with sparkly embossing powder to go with the black pieces. I also rounded one corner to soften the overall look a bit. 

Thanks to a tip from my friend Barbara, I'm adding this to the current Shopping Our Stash challenge: Spread Your Wings. (The butterfly may be new-to-me, but the cloud stencil and sentiment are definitely stash.) 

My teammates at ATSM have used stencils and die cuts in beautiful ways, so head over to the blog for lots of inspiration. I hope you'll join us! 

Supplies: Neenah white, $ store black glitter & assorted blue cardstock, Clearly Besotted Say What? stamp, Versafine onyx black & tumbled glass distress ink, Hero Arts sparkle embossing powder, Birch Press glimmer butterfly dies, MFT cloud stencil

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A Tiny Craft: Masculine

Look at that, it's the middle of March! And that means it's time for a new A Tiny Craft (ATC) challenge. This month, we're all about masculine artist trading cards or coins. I have some terrific masculine patterned paper that I am much better at admiring than actually using, so out it came:

Most of the designs for this set of four comes from a Graphic 45 paper pad called A Proper Gentleman, with a few pieces from a DCWV pad called Timeless Type. I thought it would be fun to keep to a sports/leisure theme, and picked my main panels accordingly. A few I matted with black cardstock while others I left plain. I used some very old office-supply brads on two of them, and added a trio of Nuvo drops to a third. Here's a closer look at each one: 

I'm adding these to the current ATC Around the World Challenge where it's Anything Goes this month. 

I'm hope you'll head to A Tiny Craft and see the fun creations of my design teammates, and then I hope you'll be inspired to join us! 

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A Little Splatter at Scrap 'n Stamp

I'm on the Scrap 'n Stamp blog today with a card to go with the Random Acts of Cardness prompt I chose: splatter! (I never said it had to be a lot of splatter... :D) Click on the blog link to see more! 

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Happy Little Stampers: Stencils

It's time for the March STENCIL challenge at Happy Little Stampers! I picked a full card stencil for my inspiration this time: 

I started by blending yellow and orange distress inks on my cardstock panel - at first, I tried a third colour, but didn't like the result. I just flipped it over and started again! As you can see, I also splatted some water drops on for a little extra interest. Then I added the stencil and the same two inks. The orange was fine, but the yellow was almost invisible, so I blended off most of the orange ink on my brush onto scrap paper, then added just enough orange to the yellow so they showed. With the cheery colours, I thought the sentiment was apt - and as it turned out, I needed a get well card for a friend who recently broke her leg, and this makes a nice encouragement card. 

I'm adding this to the March STAMPlorations Stencil challenge. 

Lots more stencil inspiration on the HLS blog, and you have the month to join us! 

Supplies: Neenah white cardstock, Papertrey Ink Simple Sunflower stamps, Catherine Pooler orange twist & squeezed lemonade & carved pumpkin distress ink, ARTplorations happy flowers stencil, The Greetery speed tagging die, The Twinery marigold twine, foam tape

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The Sisters are Vibrantly Snarky

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is back with a new challenge: V is for Vibrant! Early March seems like a good time to add a little extra vibrancy to things. Edna has certainly embraced the challenge, although I am a little worried about her hair. :D I decided to go vibrant with alcohol inks: 

This yellow and blue are two of my brightest alcohol inks, so I added a few drops of each to my Yupo panel and blew them around with some rubbing alcohol. While that dried, I matched a couple of Copic markers to colour in the backdrop of this retro ATC panel. And my sentiment? Part of one of two brand new stamp sets from our very own sister, Chris! I know, snarky sentiment sets, who would have guessed? :D 

With an ATC and sentiment both from STAMPlorations, I'm adding this to their ongoing Anything Goes challenge. 

You will find vibrantly snarky inspiration on the blog from my sisters in snark as well as our current guest designer and Queen of Snark, Granne! Design something vibrant and join us! 

Supplies: Neenah white & Recollections black cardstock, Yupo paper, STAMPlorations Some Snark stamp, Versafine onyx black ink, Wow clear gloss embossing powder, STAMPlorations Retro People ATC, Copic markers, Piñata sun bright yellow & Baja blue alcohol inks, Sugar Pea Designs cardfront element builder & MFT blueprints 29 die

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