Sunshine Shaker

 

I had a little fun with color blending and stenciling to make this card. I took white card stock, placed this honeycomb stencils on it, then blended blue, pink and yellow Distress inks to get the colors of the rainbow. Die-cut an oval in the center, and stamped a happy sun and clouds on the card beneath, then added some clear sequins and a clear plastic cover to make a shaker card. 

This card is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- interactive

Crazy is our fame, stencils are our game (May challenge)  -- stenciling 

Word Art Wednesday #595 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2320 -- anything goes

Pattie's Creations #206 --  anything goes

Fresh Cherries

I'm trying to organize my stamping space, and I've come to a realization that I impulse buy supplies when they are on deep deep discount. Case in point is this stencil (seen under the card), which includes pears and apples as well as cherries. It's really an old wall stencil I bought cheap and I can't remember using before now.  I'm glad I finally got around to it, I think it came out cute.

The cherries were stenciled, then cut with an oval die and framed on a scallop oval. The black base card left from a fancy fold I tried recently -- this half of the paper got in the way of a diagonal cut, so I had to trim part of it off. I decided to use it as a fold that reveals part of the inside of the card. The gingham print was a natural choice with the cherries, as was the "sweet" sentiment, which is part of an old SU set. The sentiment is white embossed. A few acrylic drops finish off the card.

This card is for these challenges:

Double D: Fresh picked.

Stencils are our game -- use a stencil

Word Art Wednesday #593 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2318 -- anything goes

Butterfly -- positive and negative

 I got the idea for this card from a video by Laurel Beard, although I made several changes to make it my own. You can see the snippets I started with on the right. I just knew I wanted to do a patchwork, so I chose a solid and several prints, eventually narrowing it down to just one print. The larger white snippet I used as the backing behind the patchwork pieces to give me something sturdier to die-cut. Before die-cutting, I embossed the square, which added some much-needed texture to the blue.

I wasn't planning on using the die-cut butterfly at all, just the negative, but it sort of flew to that corner of the card and seemed to fit there.  The sentiment is from Purple Onion Designs.

This card is for these challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #181 -- colors straw and sky blue, plus butterfly

Snippets Playground #453 -- use snippets

Can You Handle the Pressure? -- use an embossing folder 

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2317 -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #592 -- anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #111 -- anything goes