Creative Sketches Color Challenge - 28 & Diva Inspiration

Hello all!!!  Another week has come and gone and here we are at another Thursday.  Time for both the Creative Sketches and UDI Blog Inspiration challenges!!!

The challenge this week on Creative Sketches is to use the colors of Daffodil Delight, Bashful Blue and Elegant Eggplant.  What a combo!!!  I played with this combo some the other day for my GCA 131 card.   I have to say that the Bashful Blue threw me for a loop!

So, I started with a Whisper White card base and the sketch from Stamping 411 for this week.  A nice easy and clean sketch.  Worked for me with these colors!  And I pulled out a stamp set that I haven't used, at all, and put ink to it!!  (And I buy more why???)

I used Silhouette Sentiments, a level 1 hostess set.  Since the Bashful Blue was throwing me off, I tried to keep it to a minimum.  I stamped the weedy flower image in Bashful Blue, randomly.  With the sketch you can really use anything on the left hand side, so I stamped the images in the three colors.  The smaller flower which I stamped in Elegant Eggplant, is from Because I Care, another level 1 hostess set.  Notice the theme???

The rest is really quite simple, and easy.  I stamped the bird/branch and then stamped the bird again and cut it out.  It's popped up with dimensionals.  Whisper White taffeta and Daffodil Delight 1/8" taffeta were used with white crochet thread tied around and through the button to hold it on.

If you get a minute, check out each of the sites and play along!!

Happy Stamping!!!

~~~Ann~~~

GCA #96 - Anything Goes!!!

Hello all!!!  As I feverishly continue to work on my convention swaps, I have 8 days until I leave, I just could not think of a theme for this week.  So, anything goes this week!!  Show me what you are busy crafting and creating!!!

My card uses the new Level 1 hostess set, Because I Care.  A wonderful set and love the hydrangea in it!  On my hydrangea I stamped the flower in Bashful Blue and outlined it with the Concord Crush marker.  I also thumped my marker over the surface of the flower.  The stem/leaves were colored in with my Pear Pizazz marker.

Over on Stampin' Addicts the sketch challenge for last week was a minimal version of a card in the new catalog.  You can find it on page 69.  My Top Note piece is Night of Navy layered with Whisper White which I stamped the Sanded bg in NON.  I actually off stamped this twice before applying to the WW.

The dsp layer is from the Greenhouse Gala series and uses the Pear Pizazz ornate trim.  This is layered onto a piece of Pear Pizazz and the top half was stamped with the strip of small flowers, repeatedly, after I inked it up with my Pear Pizazz marker.

I used Whisper White taffeta for my bow, which I created on my bow maker I've had for years!!  There is a triple bow on this one.  The Top Note panel is popped up with dimensionals as is the hydrangea.  I used a leftover butterfly die cut, in Wild Wasabi, to add interest.  The sentiment panel is punched from Pear Pizazz with the scallop oval and WW is the large oval.  The saying is stamped in NON.  NON marker was used to create the dots on the scallops.

Have creating this week!!

Happy Stamping!!

~~~Ann~~~