Lots of Challenge Fun

Today, I'm trying to combine several challenges in one card, LOL! Not easy, but I think I pulled it off. I started off with using my new Distress Oxide sprays that I sprayed over, when dry, with Perfect Pearls Mist. Then I pulled out some heart dies, colored my kangaroo with Copics, hearts with colored pencils, and used my Copic air brush to make some white flowers match.

Double Trouble Challenge #21 calls for flowers and bzzzz. If you look closely at the flowers on the top, you will find a tiny bumble bee!
Then, as an added bonus, we could use a sketch from:
Atlantic Hearts Sketch #302. (Sketch below)
Paper Smooches February Challenge is "hearts" and this adorable little kangaroo, hearts, and sentiment are from A Little Lovin.
Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge #23 has some pretty inspiration and I selected the pink and blue color theme as my inspiration. And, finally, lots of coloring on that fun image and the little hearts for:
The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Thanks for coming by. I hope you will check out each of these fun challenges!

Double Trouble and The Three Amigos Challenges

Double Trouble has one extra challenge this month, making this Challenge #6. Thing One asks for something, anything, or everything. Thing Two suggests we add our post to a previous partner. And, Thing Three asks us to decorate the inside of our card. One of our previous partners was The Three Amigos so I am joining in on their embossing, wet or dry, challenge.

I had an unused stamp set from Recollections,Cheeky Modern Pop Unicorn, that was sitting in my "neglected" pile. I also had some very thin black paper sitting in a pile. So, I stamped "SOMETHING", the Unicorn on the black paper with white ink, colored lightly in white and then added the colors using Polychromos pencils. I added some shine with sparkle pens and some Glossy Accents on the horn. The background is both wet and dry EMBOSSED adding Wow gold embossing powder over an embossed piece of Yupo that had been colored with alcohol inks (it's the pink and yellow vertical stripes that you can barely see). The sentiment on the front was from the set and I added some pretty Liquid Pearls.

To add to the INSIDE of the card, I stamped the sentiment that came with the set then added some Bo Bunny glitter paste through an Altenew stencil called Warp Speed.

Hope you'll join in on the fun for both of these groups! Thanks for your visit.

Mixed Media May Flowers

The Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge for May is "May flowers".

I am working on an envelope book and this is one of the pages that will be in that book. Many of the pages will be made from long envelopes that are folded in half and cut open on the ends to make double pockets. I did a mixed media page here using Color Bursts, Nuvo Crystal Drops, Tim Holtz ChitChat, Glass Bead Glitter Gel, and flowers from Winnie and Walter.








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Spring into April

The Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge for April is "April showers bring May flowers". Since this went along with the photo inspiration, Spring,
challenge from Paper Smooches, I am combining the two this month.

I created the background using stamps from Botanicals 2 and heat embossed them in white. Then, I blended the background with Gina K inks. The panel was wrapped with black twine and the silhouettes were added from the Silhouette Flowers Wise Dies set. The sentiment comes from Delightful Greetings and was heat embossed in white also and popped (as was the bow and a few of the flower tops). The panel was backed with black and attached to a piece of Gina K paper.

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Piles of Hamburgers YUM!

The Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge for February has a challenge of Nom Nom!  Talk about an inspiring photo! Do take a look to see how this inspired me to show off my love of hamburgers, LOL!

I just love this stamp set from Your Next Stamp called Happy Meal. I have used it so many times. Gosh, I wish I could still eat hamburgers, but alas, I can only dream of them and craft with them these days! I created a mask and stacked four burgers on top of each other. Then, I colored and cut out two more. One is popped as is the sentiment.

Your Next Stamp also has a challenge blog, so I used the sketch with the tall on the opposite side. I didn't want to make purple and blue hamburgers though!

And, finally, look closely at the pretty stitching for the background paper. WeAre3 on Etsy has a great digital set called In Stitches. The very useful variety of shaped stitching is so to use, in its PNG form, and can be adjusted to fit any sized paper shape.


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Shared with:
Three Amigos
Not Just Cards Challenge
Your Next Stamp Challenge

Accordion Folded Christmas Card

This month, the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge is "Beary Christmas. Do take a look at the beautiful inspiration! I just loved the tiny patterned paper with the trees. I didn't have it in that color, but I had some similar paper in blue that I used to make this card.

Unusual for me not to do any coloring, but I really wanted to play with this accordion fold from SplitCoastStampers called a Panel Pull-out. Here is what it looks like from the top.

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Cats and Bats - A Halloween Card

The Three Amigos has a blog hop and a challenge for October. The theme is Cats and Bats! Do click on the link above to see the Cats & Bats paper pack to see and select the color inspiration as well. 

Inside

The background is a Cuttlebug embossing folder that has Distress inks over the top. The sentiment is a stamp from Studio G. The die cuts were topped with Spectrum Noir clear glitter pen, and the black dots are Nuvo Crystal drops.

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New Challenge from The Three Amigos

There's a new challenge in town! The Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge!
For this first challenge, they are using the Close to My Heart Paper Pack, Some Kinda Wonderful (or this as a color pallet/inspiration). I selected the gray, green, and black for my inspiration. I used the fox and turtle from the Some Kinda Wonderful stamp set, colored with watercolor pencils, and the sentiment from the Share the Love stamp set. The die cut is Regal Borders and Pockets from Heartfelt Creations. 

 Thanks for stopping by. Do take a look at the new challenge. I truly enjoy reading any comments that you take the time to leave for me!