Happy April Fool's Day! What a wonderful coincidence that the Just For Giggles Instagram Hop falls on April Fool's!
I pulled out my brand new Unity Stamps to create my card for today. I did a little fun stencilling first and then stamped my images on top of it. Super simple!
There's a brand new colour challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches that starts today and runs for the next two weeks. Colour challenges force me to use colours I wouldn't necessarily reach for, which helps me grow and discover things that I actually might like. This colour challenge did just that. I love how these colours look together! I had never cut in to any Pebbled Path or Moody Mauve cardstock before this!
I went for a simple floral die cut card for today. I love how the Blackberry Bliss and Moody Mauve work together. And the Pebbled Path is a surprise in there for me!
We have another fabulous sketch for you this week at Atlantic Hearts... These challenges are weekly, but this design team is split in to two so I only need to play along with the odd numbered challenges. I love that these sketches make me try some new things, ideas outside out of my clean and simple box.
I hope you aren't tired of the Pinkfresh Studio washi tape butterflies, because I'm still in love with them!
I'm playing along with the Rediscovery Instagram Hop... this month our theme was Easter. The idea behind this hop is to use items we have in our stash to create a card following the monthly theme rather than buying something new.
I don't send out Easter cards. But I did buy a bit of Easter themed stuff a few years back for design team work. I just love these little bunnies! I added a fun embossing folder and some white daisies to keep things looking a little closer to clean and simple (but this card is NOT clean and simple).
I am late sharing my card for the This or That Instagram Hop this week.... this week our choices were "sweet or snarky".... I just got some stamps from Unity Stamps so I wanted to play with "snarky".
Honestly I don't use images like this very often, so I found this card difficult... It's not really my style in the end and I'm not honestly sure how much I like it.
But I do hope it makes you smile!
Another month means another rainbow card for the Rainbow Connection Instagram Hop. For my card, I took a small strip of black and white patterned paper and I ink blended a rainbow on top of it. I then added some of the rainbow printed washi leaves from Pinkfresh...
The theme for this month with the Birthday Bounce Instagram Hop is "outdoors"... I chose to do a cloud background on a mini slimline card and then added some pretty butterflies to highlight the sentiment...
This week for the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite spring flowers.
All of my most favourite flowers in the garden all bloom in the spring... so my garden is a little boring in the summer. Here in Calgary, spring is a little later than other place in the world so I won't be seeing my tulips (they'll come first), peonies and lilacs for a while yet...
I chose to play with peonies today... I have 8 plants in my backyard of different colours and varieties. While my stencil work for today isn't quite like my one plant, it was the one I was inspired by.... the blooms are white but they have an almost green tint to them. I got a little heavy handed with the ink blending, but still love how my peonies turned out...
It's a masculine challenge at Addicted to CAS this week... something I *really* struggle with.
We have a spring themed challenge for you at CAS on Friday this week! While my card isn't full of spring colours, it does have a big spring daisy on it!
This week on the This or That Instagram Hop, we had to choose between dark and light. I chose to feature the spotLIGHT technique (see what I did there??!!!)
I stamped this background image on white with black ink and I coloured the big letters of BIRTHDAY with bright and fun colours. I cut that strip out of the panel, did a matted black layer behind it and then added it back on top of the panel. To finish it all off, I added some white gel pen dots to the letters.
I had a lot of fun combining the fun colours at Color Throwdown with the fabulous sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.
Today I'm sharing the sketch I designed for the current challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. I just LOVE a mini slimline card and I can't wait to see what others come up with using this sketch!
I played with a little ink blending for my card today... and even left my die cut flower WHITE so that it didn't compete with the ink blending. I only used three colours of ink but allowed for them to overlap to create the other colours of the rainbow.
We have another beautiful sketch to play with at Atlantic Hearts...
I saw the sketch and my first thought was to play with a large floral... this is quite similar to another card I posted recently so maybe I should have done something different.
I had some fun in my creative space this afternoon, playing with the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. I love the subtle look of this brick embossing folder on white cardstock... I'm also entering the challenges at Just Us Girls and Simply Clean and Simple
The My Favorite Instagram Hop has us playing with our favourite shades of green.... I pulled out these fabulous leaf die cuts (thanks Pinkfresh Washi Tape!!) to make a quick and easy card...
