Color Throwdown #454 and The Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge

A very last minute entry for the Color Throwdown #454 and not so last minute for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge Herb Garden. I was away this past weekend at the cottage for our annual family reunion barbeque. Why a reunion every year? Probably the norm for so many of you. Families grow, children grow up and life gets busy.

I am 1 of 5 children, add in spouses, 14 grand children and 10 great grand children and along with my parents we are 31. We all live in the greater Toronto area and yet if we don't do this a year flies by and we haven't gotten together. It is so nice to see everyone and catch up.

So today I am trying to get back into routine but I really wanted to play along with both challenges. I had this card in back of my mind all week. I love the serene colours at the Color Throwdown and I was inspired by foliage at the Curtain Call.

I splattered some green ink onto a kraft panel, stamped and white embossed my sentiment and finally added some white and green die cut leaves. Clean and simple.

I am also submitting this to the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Splatter It!

Color Throwdown Guest Design #453

Back again with my last post as the July Guest Designer at the Color Throwdown.  I have had so much fun playing along with team this month. This week the colours for ctd453 are light raspberry, yellow and green.

I used a stamp set that hasn't seen much love, My Favorite Things Buildable Blooms. I have been so  inspired by florals lately and it was fun to pull this set out. I stamped my background using this week's colours and then filled in the spaces with grey dots, thank for the tip Stephanie Klauck. My sentiment was made with four hugs die cuts stacked together and the panel was adhered to the card base with foam tape.

A closer look at the stacked sentiment:





Head over to the Color Throwdown blog to see how you can play along and to see more colour inspiration from the Design Team follow the links below. 

Amy Rohl 
Amy Rysavy 
Barbara Anders
Broni Holcombe
Jodi Collins
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Lynn Put 
Vickie Zimmer
Wanda Cullen

Tracey McNeely (July Guest Designer)

Color Throwdown Guest Design #452

Back again with another post as the July Guest Designer at the Color Throwdown.  This week the colours for ctd452 are green, yellow, red and turquoise.

I sponged Tumbled Glass onto the main panel using the My Favorite Things Cloud Mix-able Stencil and then die cut the panel with the largest My Favorite Things Wonky Stitched Rectangle. The frappé cups are from the Essentials by Ellen Oh Frappe stamps and dies. They were stamped onto Bristol cardstock and coloured with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush pens. The panel and all the cups were adhered with foam tape. I brushed the elusive Clear Wink of Stella over all of the cups. It looks great in real life--trust me! lol

Hope to see you play along again this week!

Head over to the Color Throwdown blog to see how you can play along and to see more colour inspiration from the Design Team follow the links below. 

Amy Rohl 
Amy Rysavy 
Barbara Anders
Broni Holcombe
Jodi Collins
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Lynn Put 
Vickie Zimmer
Wanda Cullen

Tracey McNeely (July Guest Designer)

Color Throwdown #451 Guest Designer

Back again with another post as the July Guest Designer at the Color Throwdown.  This week the colours for ctd451 are light pink, dark pink and green.

I used My Favorite Things Flashy Florals for my card today, I haven't had that set out in too long I forgot how much I love those blooms. I die cut my sentiment from the dies that go along with the stamp set in black. Then I stamped and die cut the large and small flower with their respective detail stamps first. I placed the flowers on a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" top folding card base to get an idea of where I wanted to put the sentiment and the flowers to give me an idea of where I wanted to stamp my leaves. Once the leaves were stamped I adhered the rest of the images to the card, adding the smaller flower with foam tape for dimension. Last step was to add a few clear, Stickles filled sequins.

Head over to the Color Throwdown blog to see how you can play along and to see more colour inspiration from the Design Team follow the links below. 

Amy Rohl 
Amy Rysavy 
Barbara Anders
Broni Holcombe
Jodi Collins
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Lynn Put 
Vickie Zimmer
Wanda Cullen

Tracey McNeely (July Guest Designer)

Color Throwdown #450 July Guest Designer

I am excited to share with you today that I have been invited to be the July Guest Designer at the Color Throwdown.  Every Wednesday there is a new color challenge and I will be playing along with the design team all month. This week the colours for ctd450 are royal blue, yellow, brick red and white.

For my card I cut a white cardstock panel 4" x 5 1/4" and I used the My Favorite Things Thanks die to cut the word the centre. I stamped the rest of my sentiment underneath using a retired stamp set also from My Favorite Things called For The Boys.Then I sponged Distress Oxide inks on to three separate panels of Bristol Smooth cardstock--Faded Jeans, Fossilized Amber and Fired Brick.  Each panel was splattered with water and the water was soaked up with a paper towel lifting some of the colour. Once dry I die cut the word thanks from each panel. I placed a piece of 2" Scor Tape on the back of the main card panel and then inlayed the letters into the panel mixing up the colours. Finally the panel was adhered to a 4 1/4" x 5 1/4" card base with adhesive foam tape.



Head over to the Color Throwdown blog to see how you can play along and to see more colour inspiration from the Design Team follow the links below. 

Amy Rohl 
Amy Rysavy 
Barbara Anders
Broni Holcombe
Jodi Collins
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Lynn Put 
Vickie Zimmer
Wanda Cullen

Tracey McNeely (July Guest Designer)

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Muse 99, Darnell's NBUS challenge, Color Throwdown and a new technique, to me...

I hope that you are having a wonderful Sunday.
It has been a really long time since I played over at Muse, but I love Vicki's card inspiration and I was feeling in the mood to create something just because.

I have had this Impression Obsession die for almost a year and I have never used it before. I guess I was waiting for the right moment. I also used the love die from the original Papertrey Wet Paint dies




I wanted to do some inlaid die cutting and I wanted to keep the white centres of the hearts that were two cuts.  Enter lazy here, I am not very patient picking away. So I tried something new to simplify the process. First I die cut the heart from my white panel, then I flipped it over and applied adhesive to the borders and then laid strips of score tape over the opening of the die, removed the backing and set it aside.

Before I die cut the heart on the red cardstock I wiped a fabric softener sheet over the plate I was cutting into on my Big Shot. Then I die cut the red heart and carefully removed the die to keep all the pieces intact. Next I removed the inside red pieces from the double cut hearts. Here is the fun part I carefully laid the heart die cut over the front of my white panel, lining it up and then pressed down gently rubbing the pieces into place. It made the coolest sounds as the pieces stuck to the panel. When you remove the panel all the red pieces are inlaid (well with only a few tiny pieces that fell out en route). Easy peasy.

I am submitted this to the Color Throwdown #324.

I am also submitted this to Darnell's NBUS Challenge #3, thanks Darnell for getting me use my schuff!!

I am also submitting this to the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Something New.