Two-fer Thursday!

Sorry about intruding into your day again, but I was on a Christmas card making roll yesterday and one was designed with the current Freshly Made Sketches #680 in mind...

Narelle used some lovely, patterned paper for her DT card.  You KNOW I have a bit of it to use up myself...  here is my first play:

This one features some lovely paper from HoneyBee's Log Cabin collection.  I attempted

to capture its colors with ink though I wasn't completely happy with my inking, this cute little bird from the Spellbinders' Christmas Bird Poinsettia was fun to arrange!

In the end, my CAS-loving-heart was just not convinced!  When in doubt, don't throw it out - start again!  [Besides, one of my seniors will love it just as is!]

The base was cut using Waffle Flower Crafts Micro Grid Panel 2 coverplate.

This green panel was the leftover, inner panel of PB's Double Frames - embossed

with Simon Hurley for Spellbinders' Bark EF.

That's more like it!  Just like that I have a second card for the 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #97  Don't you love this pink Poinsettia?

Have a great day, my friends!

=] Michele

What's a few challenges between friends?

I was very happy to see my friend Bobby is the 'guest elf' over at Christmas Kickstart #97 - she chose Poinsettias as her theme!  It couldn't come at a more perfect time!  Another dear friend sent a whole collection of Pinkfresh Studio products from one of their Create and Connect sessions.  I fell in love with this one called Joy of the Season that included a press plate with POINSETTIAS!  Having said all that, here is my first playtime:

It's a little homage to a photo that Bobby sent me of ORANGE Poinsettias that she

found at her grocery store - ever since, I remember to include orange Poinsettias to the Season!

Here's another more CAS take on that set:

It wasn't one bit hard to use the colors from Jo's challenge logo:

Speaking of orange flowers - I did mention there would be more tulips, right?  Here are a few more orange tulips for Jules over at Color Hues #107  I loved using another new die from Penny Black called Curvature:

My second time using this set.  This time I die cut the tulips, then stenciled,

and finally embossed with the 3D EF.  It did make using the stencil layers

a little easier.

That's all folks - for now!  I hope you made it over the hump without injury or bother!

=] Michele

Color Hues #107

It's the first of the month and I'm always ready and waiting for the Color Hues combo of the month to show up - Jules does NOT disappoint!  Have you seen this?

 

The entire team did a fabulous job of representing Jules' colors, but it was her very own card that inspired my playtime today.  Check it out HERE it is so beautiful!  All of her die cut flowers brought my Concord & 9th Spring Print set to mind.  You might remember that I cut [almost] a million colors:

Although I only found one shade of orange among these cuts, it was nothing that a little ink-blending couldn't remedy.  No teal?  No problem - I found three A2 panels from C&9th in my stash and cut them using the die - then it was just a matter of piecing them to eye-pleasing perfection using my handy embossed jig.  

By golly, I think I did it!

Once I get started using specific colors, I find it hard to stop at one... you might be treated to a few more tulips soon!

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you'll play along, too!

=] Michele