Dragonflies

I painted these dragonflies with the Zig Clean Color Brush pens and a clear Wink of Stella pen. These dragonflies are from STAMPlorations - i love the sketchiness of the images in this set. The background paper is glitter paper from a DCWV 6x6 pad.
I am entering this into :

STAMPlorations CAS challenge for June: Anything CAS with a twist = blue

AAA Cards: Watercolor

Curtain Call: Photo Inspiration (I was inspired by the nautical theme and all of the blues. Dragonflies are found along the shore and the back glitter paper is the glittering body of water).

Addicted to Stamps and More: Anything Goes

         

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Mailing Love

I created this card for the SCS CAS308 challenge - to translate your new year's resolution into a card.  I also used the colors from the Curtain Call Inspiration Photo.  I don't really make resolutions but I really do need to improve on mailing my cards on time or mailing them period!  I make them on time but I don't mail them on time and sometimes I forget to mail them.  So this is me mailing my cards and on time!!
I printed off this A Day For Daisies Mailing Love digi image onto Gina K Pure Luxury Card stock so that I could color it with Copics and not have the color bleed through this one layer card.
I am also going to submit this card to the current ADFD challenge which is Add Some Ombre.

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Faux Laser Cut Card

The inspiration site for the SCS Inspiration challenge tonight was the Paper Art & Sculpture Pinterest site.  I was inspired by two pins:  the humming bird and this pin, the 3rd frame down.  This site reminded me of the Faux Laser Cut technique that Jennifer McGuire shared on her blog.  I used a Quickutz Hummingbird die and a Cuttlebug/Anna Griffin flower die to make this card.

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

Virginia's View Challenge #11 - Clean Slate

The Curtain Call - Winter Wonder  
I was inspired by the neutral colors in the photo.

ShowCASe Your Style  - Use at least one die cut

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Darnell's NBUS challenge #3  - This is the first time I used the hummingbird die.

Birthday Wishes

I found a few minutes to play tonight - I am in between travels! This was created for the FTL298 which will be posted on Friday the 4th at the Clean and Simple Stamping blog.  I used the
Curtain Call Birthday Bash challenge to help me choose the colors and patterned paper.  The paper is from MME and the sentiment is from PaperTrey.

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Birthdays Are Like Quilts...

This is a clean and not so simple card!  I created this for the Curtain Call challenge:

and it is a case of Cristina's card:

I used one of my Quilt dies from WPlus9 and used the colors from the inspiration photo and cut out the quilt design.  I used the same die to cut out the squares on the top panel.  I used one of the cut out squares as a template and adhered the different colors to the card base.  This turned out to be very time consuming but I think it was worth the effort!  The top panel is adhered with foam tape.  The sentiment is from PaperTrey and was stamped with Hero Arts Charcoal Shadow ink.

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Taylored Expressions Blog Hop Blast from the Past

This is my second post for today - please scroll down or click HERE to see my Anything But A Card post for Woodware USA Clear Stamps.

Welcome to the Taylored Expressions (TE) Blast from the Past blog hop!   I used this sketch that Sankari created:

 And I used the colors from this week's Curtain Call #44:

I used Taylored Expressions Garden Party Blooms stamp set and colored the images with SU! markers.  The patterned paper is from Paper Trey and the yellow textured paper is Bazzill.  I cut out the three flowers on the lower left and popped them up on foam squares.

Below is a list of the other participants on the hop!  I hope you check out what everyone else has created and leave them a comment!



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CAS60 and Curtain Call Color Challenge

I made this card for two challenges:  This week's SCS CAS60 challenge which is a sketch: Inspired by Carly.  It is also for a new to me color challenge called Curtain Call Color Challenge.  Here are the colors:

Love these colors together!!
I used an image from PaperTrey's (PTI) Butterfly Dreams stamped in Versafine Onyx Black on PTI Sweet Blush paper.  All the paper is PTI's as well as the sentiment.  I used a Spellbinders Ribbon slide die and PTI Sweet Blush grosgrain ribbon.  To finish it off I attached a crocheted butterfly with a back brad to the tag and adhesive pearls to the butterfly bodies.
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Supplies: Stamps - PaperTrey; Ink - Versafine Onyx Black; Paper - PaperTrey; Misc - Spellbinders Ribbon Slide Tag, Crocheted Butterfly, PTI Ribbon, Adhesive pearls, Brad