Anything but a Card for Creative Confetti

This week my entry is not a card for Creative Confetti because that is the challenge. I thought of making a lot of things, but I am not really good at anything that is not paper.  I am going to stick with what I know.   

So here is the thing, I have a clear cover on my iPhone on purpose.  I like to make my own covers and change them up for the season or any reason.  When you order a stamp set from Power Poppy, it always comes wrapped in some pretty paper and with it a note from Marcie.  I save the papers and make my phone cover.  Here are some examples.

The one on the bottom was my Christmas cover!  Now it is time to get on to Spring.  I would have continued to make covers from the pretty papers, but this challenge made me think a bit differently.
Why not color up an image and use that!  What a great idea Julie!  I had some stamped images and choose the Ruffled Wild Orchids to color and be my Spring iPhone cover.

 I am so glad that I did and I love how it turned out.  This could be a new thing for me.

Using my Copic markers this was done in a short time or relaxing coloring. 

Thanks, Julie for the Challenge. 

I will be entering this in this weeks, CREATIVE CONFETTI Challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by and I love your comments.  

                                                                                        

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

It is Anything Goes for this Challenge at Seize the Birthday. 

Just be sure that it is a birthday card.  We love to see all of your creations.

I went to my box of many dies and used one that it new for me.  It will remind you of spring when all of the birds return from winter. 

Here is my card. 

Stamps and dies from My Favorite Things. called  A Tweet Hello, Die-Namics Bird Bath die word windows and Grassy dies. Ink for the clouds are GKD Sea Glass, SU Pretty in Pink and So Saffron.

I put one more bird on the inside too. I went with a plain red envelope for this card. 

Please look at what the rest of the team at Seize the Birthday has for your inspiration.  

Our Surprise Party Guest for you.  She is Tenia Nelson, also known as Jazzy Paper Designs.  Just click here

Thanks for stopping by and I love your comments. Thanks!

                                                                              

Creative Confetti - On the Grid

For this challenge, I decided to take it right out of the PARK!  Julie has challenged us to color up an image and cut it up.  She used a grid, but in her description of the challenge, this is what she says.
Try different shapes! Have a little hexagon punch? Or how about a circle die? It's up to you!

I had a die that I wanted to try for this challenge, and I may have knocked this one too far out of the park as it is not a grid. But I had fun anyway and got a great card too.  Here is how I started.  

I just got the new digital stamp Flowering Branches.  I printed that our in Sea Glass card stock. 

I made it big so I could decide what part of the digi I would usefor this.


I used a layering die to cut a 5 1/4 X 4 panel from this digi.


Then I die cut the word die Beautiful from Die Namics from the digi;

I also cut the same die from gray cardstock.



This die has an outline of the letters.  I carefully laid the gray outline back into the spaces like a puzzle and then used the digital image cut-outs to put the letters back in.

Here is how it looks, this may be helpful to see what I am saying.

 I know that it is not a grid, but a good example of cutting up your image.  (Hint)  I placed everything in the card before I colored it.  That way if I didn't like it, I had not spent as much time on it. Surprisingly, it was easy to color after die cutting.

Don't forget to use up all of the digital image.  Here I colored up a bunch of berries and added them to the inside. 

I am entering this in the Creative Confetti Challenge Here

Thanks for stopping by and I do appreciate your thoughts. 

Ombre Ink Blending

The new challenge at Gina K Designs is Ombre Ink Blending and since I just got a new set of blending brushes, I got do it.  Here we go. 

This was simple to complete using the Pressed Flowers 2 stamp set and dies. I stamped and colored them up and then added them to my card base with was ink blending with Distressed ink in Fossilized Amber.  Looks like sunshine. I am sadly in need of a lot of encouragement cards so I added the sentiment from the same stamp set. 
Thanks for stopping by, I hope that enjoy!  This is a month long challenge and there is lots of time.
You will find the details HERE
                                                                            

Double D Challenge - Watercolor

It's time for Team Diane to bring you another fun challenge for the next two weeks.  It is fitting for the Spring that we are all hoping to see soon.  Check out the Mood board for inspiration. 

I was inspired by the lower left panel as it reminded me of a field of flowers.  

Here is the card that I made for this challenge and your inspiration.

 For this card, I used a stamp set that was gifted to me from a dear friend.  It is Paper Trey Ink A Year of Flowers. I stamped it in Distressed ink in Old Paper and then did some watercoloring over that.  The lines of the Old Paper disappear when you do that and It gives this look. Stamping the flowers again in the background filled in the picture.  Remember to mask off the flowers in the foreground. To give the flowers an anchor I painted in some grass and ground.  For texture, I pulled out some texture dies that I received from My Favorite Things as a freebie.  They leave texture in the cardstock. I used several across the top and some on the bottom.   I chose a plain green envelope for this card.

On the inside, I stamped the one flower image with the Old Paper ink.  Again I used the dies. 

Here is the prize 

Be sure to visit the Double D Team Challenge for more inspirations.  Team Darlene is awesome. 

Thanks for the comments that you take time to leave for me.  I do appreciate every one of them.