Sketch challenge A2918

I did this card for two challenges today. I found this terrific sketch challenge going on over at The House that Stamps Built website that can be found HERE, and I am using it for the Ways to Use Challenge over on SCS that can be found HERE.

I used about 3 or 4 colors of my newest distress oxide inks on this, some washi tape, and some sequins. I try to keep a stash of encouragement cards in my collection of cards because I am on my Care Team at my church.

CCEE1835 Flowers

It is springtime in Australia, the land of our wonderful Frances, who is hosting this last challenge for August. She writes:

In my part of the world (Australia), Saturday is the first day of Spring .... Flowers are beautiful at any time of the year so for our challenge this week we are to add some flowers to our card.

Want to play along with us this week, don't forget to drop back here to enter the link to your card to Mr Linky at the bottom of the CCEEstampers blogsite. While you are there, check out all the beautiful flowers on the cards of the team members. 

Here is mine, which I made with a retired Stampin' Up Stipple hydrangea stamp which I love. I dry embossed part of the card base, added a thin strip of washi tape, the added my focal and sentiment ovals. I am on the care team at my church and am always in need of sympathy cards, so I decided to make this a sympathy card for my collection. 

Hope you will join in with some of your favorite flower stamps this week. 

I am also including this in the Sisterhood of Crafters flower challenge this week. 

CCEE1834 Riding the Wind

Hi Crafty Friends

It's Frances here again with another fun challenge for you all.

Today (23rd August) is Ride the Wind Day, this day was created to celebrate the anniversary of the first man powered flight. There are so many things that rely on wind for them to work, so let's include something that needs wind on our cards today. Some examples include kite flying, windsurfing, Hang Gliding; Sailing Boats, Birds Flying, Hot Air Balloons, Balloons, Paper Planes etc.

Want to play along with us this week, don't forget to drop back here to enter the link to your card to Mr Linky at the bottom at the CCEEStampers blogsite www.cceestampers.blogspot.com 

While  you are there look to see what our Design Team created this week for the challenge.....

Here's my card and I kind of took a different angle on ridiing the wind. I thought of how a loose feather floats through the air and how it moves as the wind catches it. 

I used distress oxide inks for my background. Stamps I used were from Stampabilities and Unity. 
I added a few sequins as some of the pieces scattered. 

CTD #507

This is for the Color Throwdown Challenge #507. Check it out .https://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/

I am trying out some of my new distress oxide ink colors on this, The flowers and leaves are from Stampin' Up and the sentiment is from Illustrated Faith.  CTF507

CCEE1833 In honor of bees

Hi Crafty Friends,

Welcome to our CCEE Stamps challenge blog. Frances is our wonderful hostess again this week and she had  another challenge for you today.

Apparently Saturday 18th August is World Honey Bee Day, so for our challenge this week we are to include a bee or two on our cards.

Want to play along with us this week, don't forget to drop back here to enter the link to your card to Mr Linky at the bottom of this blog post. While you are there, be sure to check out all the other cute bee cards from the team. 

I used some of my oxide inks including one of the newest, mustard seed and one of the older ones, wild honey. I added a few stamped dots of antique photo. These bees are really part of a trio, but I decided to cute them apart and use them seperately for this card. The sentiment is from an old SU set. 

Dragonfly Journey Challenge 124

I have used this card for the Dare to Get Dirty challenges over on Splitcoaststampers, and thought it would fit this Dragonfly Journey challenge for flower power. These are two sensational stamps I found on the reduced tables at our Hobby Lobby. I love them and have made a card with them at lease once a week in varioius forms and styles. I discovered some glossy paper in my paper stashes today so I used this alcohol ink marker technique in making this card. I stamped the image and the sentiment with Memento Paris Dusk.

CCEE1832

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's Frances here with this week's challenge.

Apparently Tomorrow is World Lion Day .... Lions are also often referred to as the "King of the Jungle" so lets see some jungle animals appearing on our cards this week … bonus points if you include a lion.

Want to play along with us this week, don't forget to drop over to the CCEEStampers blog  to enter the link to your card to Mr Linky at the bottom of the  blog post.

While you are there,  let's see what our Design Team created this week for the challenge .

I don't have but two lion stamps, and this is a new stamp that I have not even used before, so I opted to do an alternative jungle animal. Since the  giraffe and the lion both have manes, I accented up the side with a fringed piece of paper to be mane-like!! 

Come join in on the fun this week. 

A Vintage Journey challenge - resist

I made this card to use for two challenges. The Free for all challenge on SCS which was to make a card about friendship and the A Vintage Journey challenge to do some sort of resist technique. I used two older retired Stampin' Up stamps for the card, I inked the background stamp with versamark and then sprinkled on white embossing powdered. Then I added Ranger distress inks over it. On a seperate piece of white cardstock I stamped the image that I colored with alcohol markers and cut out. I attached it to the front.

Cardz 4 Galz Sketch challenge

Cardz 4 Galz challenge

I loved the sketch that was up for the Cardz 4 Galz  I found today I used a new SU set that I have just recently purchased and the shells are from one of my old SU favorites. I used distress oxide inks for the elements in the tropical scene.

Fresh Made Sketch 348

I love beach themes on summer cards and thought this sketch from Freshly Made Sketch challenge would make a cute one. Here I used an old  Stampin' Up set from a summer long ago. They were just the right size to fit my squares.

CCEE1831 Coloring Book Day

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's Frances Byrne hosting our August challenges.

Apparently today (2nd August) is Coloring Book Day. Coloring books are popular for both young and old. For our challenge today use an image on your card that needs to be colored ... bonus points for those who have coloring books and uses an image from one of those for your card today.

Want to play along with us this week, don't forget to drop back here to enter the link to your card to Mr Linky over on the CCEEStampers blogsite. Check out all the other team cards while you are over there. 

I used a page out of one of my "adult" coloring books that I colored with colored pencils as my background. Then I stamped one of my Unity girls stamp onto white, cut it out and added it to the card. 

Beach, old stamps, and tropical colors

I loved making this card that seemed to fit 3 challenges I found this week. I stamped my own background for this using distress oxide inks, and using a old seashell set from SU dated back to 2000, palm trees from a set from 2006, and my Crosshatch background stamp from many, many years ago as well. The sentiment is  my only new stamp used on this card.from Stampendous. My diecut is from Spellbinders.

Here are the challenges I made this card for:
Retro Rubber challenge#92 Life is a beach

Crafty gals corner  #171 - tropical colors

SC708 and Back to Basics &Beyond #8

I love the elegant look that embossing adds to a card. This was for the Sketch Challenge on Splitcoaststampers today and also for the Back to Basic &Beyond challenge today to use embossing on my card. You can find that challenge HERE

I used versafine black for the flower image and the scripture. I used distress oxide inks for the leaves and sponging on the flower. The scripture stamp is from Rubbernecker, the flower and leaves are from some retired sets from Stampin' Up.  I used gold liquid pearls for the flower center.

Color Throwdown challenge #504

The new colors for this week's color throwdown challenge are black, copper, and white. I used some metallic copper ink and used a stencil brush apply it by using a stencil from Penny Black,  I used versafine black for my image and sentiment. The birds are from Inkadinkado and the sentiment is from Stampabilities. The little speckled dots are made with an old and wonderful SU stamp that I use for everything it seems.  I lucked out and found these two sequins that were copper. 

You can find the challenge HERE.

Here's the swatch: