Embellish Magazine Color Trend & Buttons

The wonderfully talented folks over at Embellish magazine have brought us another WONDERFUL color palette and design element challenge. I'm pretty giddy over this one because it calls for BUTTONS! Ohh how I heart buttons!! I would use them on every card if I thought I could get away with it ;)

For my focal point I actually wanted the flowers heat embossed. I ended up having to stamp them in the colored ink then re-stamped them in versa-mark and used clear embossing powder. A little extra work especially since the flowers were masked off, but so worth the effort (as I'm writting this, I had an "ohh Duh!" moment. I not only have a Versa-Mark pen, but a regular embossing ink pen as well...would have been SO much easier!!) For my back ground I used a distress ink and randomly stamped buttons all over. I finished off my card by adding the buttons to the flower centers and dotting the "i" in my sentiment.

Can you see the stamped buttons on the pretty yellow back ground...here's a closer look

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Yummy Circles

The folks over at Embellish Magazine have come up with another awesome challenge...

Aren't those colors simply gorgeous together...I would have NEVER thought to throw a chocolaty color in with red and green!

When I saw this I knew I had the perfect paper...I know, it's a bit of a shock, me having store bought patterned paper, who'da thunk, right? I do LOVE making my own patterned paper, but sometimes...though very rarely, will pull something outta my secret stash ;)

I just love this little ribbon from the Admit One set by Lawn Fawn...so versatile! I stamped them in a chocolate Momento ink and stamped the letters in a red Momento ink. I think the alphabet is by MSE, but not quite sure.

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Colors and Stripes....

The gals over at Embellish magazine have come up with yet another fun challenge! What a great color palette and then throwing in those yummy stripes...LOVE it :) My first thought was of glitter, glitter and more lovely glitter.

I stamped and then fussy cut those flowers...the red have blue glitter centers and the blue ones have red glitter centers. I then used iridescent glitter on all the petals. The iridescent ribbon picks up all the red in the card...I heart glitter, can ya tell? lol

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Embellish Magazine - Color Trend Challenge / Embossed Flowers

I have practically waited till the last possible moment for this challenge at Embellish Magazine...I was a little stumped with it. I don't like looking at the other cards already submitted for a challenge until after I have my card in hand...so no insperation could be found that way...I always want to make sure my card is my own original idea. I tried different sketches, walked away on several occasions...I just couldn't get my head around "embossed flowers" and the colors. I have NEVER used red on a card...not even for Christmas lol! I hope you like my take on this challenge...it REALLY got me thinking outside of my box!

I had a package of white paper flowers in different sizes with clear bling centers and decided they would be perfect for what I needed...with a little modification of course ;) I took off the rhinestones and ran them thru my cuttlebug. Then I dusted them with 2 shades of red chalk, layered them together and added a pearl for the center. I punched out leaves with my new favorite toy, the McGill leaf punch, and used my bone folder to emboss "veins". It's hard to tell with all the fuzzies in the way, but the green strip is scalloped along the length and then layered with cream colored crocheted ribbon. I twisted a green & brown fibers and added them over the ribbon. I decided to add the sentiment directly to the background. I thought adding it as a tag would take away from the flowers...I really wanted them to be the focal point. I'm pretty happy with my card, the flowers are awesome...what a way to add depth and deminsion to them! Hubby didn't like the little fence I fussy cut and tucked up under the flowers...what do you think?

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Embellish Magazine color challenge - quilt block card

I love the color combo that Embellish Magazine challenged us with so much I just had to make another card!

A few years back I decided to make my hubby a quilt and I chose a Fence Rail design. It's made up of small strips sewn into blocks, then the blocks are all sewn together (in alternating directions) to make up the quilt. My quilt was much loved, well used and has since been retired. Seeing it hanging on the quilt rack in my bedroom inspired me to try out this little card....



I had a hard time not adding a little sparkly bling to this card, but it's going into the collection I'm sending to Operation Write Home and they can't have sparkles getting onto the service men/womens uniforms. They send blank cards to soldiers for them to write home to loved ones with...what a great thing to do isn't it?!?!

Supplies:
DeNami Design stamps - ornamental flowers, zigzag stitch border & sentiment
Cardstock - cream, light brown
Inks - Momento & Staz-on Timber brown
Markers - TomBow
DeNami Design chocolate brown grosgrain ribbon

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Embellish Magazine - color trends challenge

The wonderful folks over at Embellish Magazine have come up with yet another awesome color combo for a color trends challenge! This challenge is being sponsored by The Craft's Meow. They have some DARLING stamps!

What a set of fun colors: yellow, pink, green and brown

I scoured thru my stamps and pulled out the cutest set of froggies...I heart them!

Supplies:

Stamps by Penny Black

Tom Bow markers

Stickles

Bazzill flowers and brads

pink, green, yellow & brown card stocks



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Embellish Magazine Nautical Challenge -

The wonderful folks over at Embillish Magazine have teamed up with my all time fave stamp company, DeNami Design, to bring us a challenge that is sure to get us in the mood for a beach vacation!

I had a lot of fun coming up with this card. Don’t ya just love a relaxing walk on the beach and picking up pretty sea shells? And just what do we do with all those beautiful shells we collect....we display them in a pretty little bowl of course!

I made a standard card from chocolate card stock and added a layer of maroon card stock. To make the “water” I cut a panel of white card stock and colored it all over with a light blue chalk then went over that with another shade of light blue. To make the “waves” I tore the edge and using the scrap I tore off, just went across the torn edge randomly with turquoise chalk. To make the “sand” I started off with a piece of cream card stock. I inked it all over with a distress ink then using a lightish brown and chocolate brown ink, added the pebble texture. I adhered the “sand” panel then adhered the “water” panel just over lapping the other panel slightly to the card base. I stamped the fish bowl onto a piece of acetate and cut it out then added a little of my sand technique to the very bottom of it. So it wouldn’t be so clear, I placed that little piece of tissue that comes with it back on. I stamped all the shells onto a piece of scrap cream card stock, colored them in and fussy cut them all out. After deciding where to place the bowl, I added a couple of shells “inside” the bowl (between the acetate & tissue layer) and attached it with glue dots. Then I adhered the rest of the shells randomly all over the card (some attached with pop dots). I punched 2 scalloped (haha - a fishy reference!!) circles, stamped my sentiment and added another shell. I finished it all off with a pretty maroon ribbon / bow.

Supplies:

Card stock – white, chocolate, cream & maroon

Color – Tombow markers

              Tim Holtz Linen Distress

              Staz-on Black, Saddle Brown & Timber Brown

              Stampin Up chalk – Bliss Blue, Ballet Blue & Tempting Turquoise

Stamps – DeNami Design #D132 You’re a treasure sentiment

                  DeNami Design #H82 Medium round bowl

                  DeNami Design #PF04 Seashell stamp set

                  Stampin Up – itty bitty backgrounds set

Other – Marvy 1 ½” & 2” scallop punches

               Acetate by Stampendous

              Dollar store ribbon

              Glue dots

              Pop dots

              tape runner

I hope you enjoyed my take on this wonderfully fun theme!!