Colour Q # 323

Colour Q has some nice colors to play with.

Kraft, aqau mist, berry sorbet, sweet blush and white.!

 

stamps & dies:  PTI: Scripted Stamp, Bitty Bouquet

paper:  MFT Dots & Stripes Neutral paper pack

 

CAS(E) this Sketch and Colour Q 304

A fun sketch over at CAS(E) this Sketch and also playing along with Colour Q.

 

Stamps and dies:  WPlus9: Going Places

cuttlebug EF:  clouds

PTI soft stone paper

copics for the colors 

Spent the day doing some organizing with my dies and magnetic sheets.  

My BFF is coming down next Sunday and will be here for a week or longer!

I am taking the train to her on Wednesday to celebrate her dad's 95th birthday! 

She lives in Washington close to Seattle.

Have a great week!

Heart Hugs

Colour Q # 292

Because there is an extension in this Colour Q challenge I was able to post this card.

The technique for this card was from Julie Ebersol over at The Classroom.
she showed how to do a special and partial die cutting.
I love this and it was really easy, go check it out on the blog.

I used a nestabilities circle die and the dies from PTI Bitty Bouquets.
The sentiment was embossed with Ranger pink embossing powder which is so pretty and so easy to
emboss, it is yummy!  And I love the color, it really looks more like Berry Sorbet  which is the color I used for the strawberry slush.
The background was sponged on with distress inks with the same yellow, orange and aqua colors.
Thanks for taking a look!

Colour Q Challenge # 239

I laid down some painters tape on two sides and then sponged on my colors,

sure looks bolder and brighter in the picture than it is in real life?

I used PTI Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet, and Orange Zest

the image and sentiment were done in Ripe Avocao.

I mounted it on a ripe avocado card base.

 

 

You can go HERE  to play along.

Thanks for taking a look!
And we have sun and warmth!
Suppose to be in the 80's for the next few days!!

Heart hugs,
Colleen

Colour Q # 216

LOVE the colors this week!!

You can go HERE   and access the challenge:  here are the colors for this week:

Fun, right?

 

and the inside

Lawn Fawn dies, PTI paper, and sentiment and border stamp
oh and a little blue twine from the Twinery!

Happy Day everyone!
Heart Hugs,
Colleen



Make It Monday and Colour Q

Today I am taking the Make It Monday # 136 Textured Stamping and Colour Q # 211 and letting them meet!  Ashley has a video on Capture the Moment demonstrating how she got some texture on her stamping. 

 I used the balloons from Birthday Bash and the sentiment from Think Big Favorites # 12.

I stamped the balloons with raspberry fizz, lemonade ice, and orange zest and then swiped the pad across the inked image before stamping.  I did stamp some second generation stamping for some of the balloons.

This is a fun technique to get some texture on your solid images.

We are having a little Indian Summer here in Oregon...wow nearly 70 degrees today.

Heart Hugs Friends,

Colleen

ColourQ Challenge # 206

Sorry for the bad lighting, I have a burned out light above my work space!  This card was made for the ColourQ Challenge # 206 I do not have the exact colors they suggest, but I hope I came close!  I decided to pull out a flower I haven't used in a while and I love this sunflower...and I think it is okay to use many colors for this flower...not to mention hawaiian shores for the leaves!!  BTW, that scarf is gorgeous!!
                                             
                                                                                                                             Stamps:  PTI Simple Sunflower, Tag It's # 2, Happy for You
Ink:  hawaiian shores, harvest gold, autumn rose, berry sorbet
Paper:  PTI white, berry sorbet                                                               

Colour Q Challenge # 203

Fun colors this week for the ColourQ Challenge.

I used Rosie Posie for the big flower and leaves, and Beautiful Blooms for the smaller flowers.  The top portion was stamped with the new PTI Autumn Pattern Pieces.  The sentiment is from Ruby Rose.  I die cut the small scallop border from a PTI die. 

                                                                                                                                Ink used:  memento Bahama Blue,  PTI blueberry sky, dark chocolate, simply chartreuse                                                                       
                                                             

ColourQ Challenge # 192

Such pretty colors for the challenge this week.  HERE is the link to play along.
                                                             I  have been playing with the Ruby Rose set since I received it...such a fun flower to play with and add all sorts of color combinations.

I stamped the background script sentiment (MFT Poppy) with memento London Fog ink.

I then stamped the flowers and the die cuts using Blueberry Sky and Spring rain.

The leaves are stamped in Spring Moss ink.  

The birthday sentiment is also from the MFT Poppy stamp set.

I added some faux pearls to the center and to random places on the card.

The card is backed with MFT "steel gray" color, placed then on a white card base.

                                                     

ColourQ Challenge # 189

There is a little story behind this "Joy" card...last Saturday I was at a Mother's Day luncheon at my church...the two hosts of the event talked about 'serving with love' and when you serve with love you are filled with joy and you spread that joy to others.  They then each held up a jar of JOY liquid detergent and told us they were passing the "Joy" to a random lady in the room, and throughout the luncheon, that person could then pass it on to someone else!  And the other thing they mentioned about the word "JOY" is that it could be an acronym for Jesus Over You!  Do you love it?  The Joy certainly comes from the love of Our Lord, and He would definitely want us to pass that love or joy on...so I made this card to give to the two hostesses!  They are two very special ladies!  The inspiration from this card came from Betsy Veldman HERE .  Now I really liked how she did her card, but when I tried it, it just didn't look quite right to me, so I just stamped the same joy flower all over the page...I did emboss the die though onto various parts of the card.

This is going to the ColourQ Challenge which you can access HERE .

Papertrey Ink products:
 paper:  white, black
 ink:  berry sorbet, pure poppy, limeade ice, memento black
 stamps:  Signature Series:  Flower, Hello Sunshine
 die: Signature Series:  flower die

ColourQ Challenge # 186

Fun colors at the Colour Q Challenge this week...go check it out...
I used Papertrey ink...so my colors were:  raspberry fizz, orange zest, and limeade ice.  My hello definition in the background is stamped with kraft ink...that is a Hero Arts stamp.  The larger flowers are also Hero Arts, the smaller ones are from PTI Birds & Bloom.  I cut a strip of white paper and swiped the three primary colors on the sheet, then I used the "hello" die from PTI Wonderful Words:  hello to die cut the word, I used dimensional tape to adhere it to the card base.  I added a twinery twine in the hot pink color.

This was a fun color combo to play with!  I hope you will go give it a try too!

Colour Q # 186

Here is the picture with the colors for this week's Colour Q Challenge..go
Here to check out the challenge and all the inspiration from the team.

All products PTI
paper:  stampers select white, kraft
ink:  raspberry fizz, simply chartreuse, orange zest, kraft
stamps:  Up, Up and Away, and additions

Retro Sketches and ColourQ Challenges

We have a great sketch from a fellow Oregonian...none other than Deanna Dean at Kloset Kreations!  Love her style and love her Dimensional Dots...go check them out on her sidebar!  Here is the sketch for the Retro Sketches:
And you can access the challenge HERE  at the Retro Sketches:  a challenge blog...isn't that a fun scketch?  I decided to combine the ColourQ challenge using this sketch.  these are the colors for this challenge:
Go HERE to access the ColourQ challenge and see what all the DT made for their cards.  This is what I came up with:

All products Papertrey except the twine
paper:  white, hawaiian shores pp, berry sorbet pp
stamps:  Tremendous Treats:  birthday, make a wish
ink:  memento grape jelly
copics:  red, mint green, violet
twine:  Twinery purple
 

Colour Q # 184

Pretty colors at the Colour Q Challenge this week...go check it out HERE ....
don't you like those colors together?  I love gray and pink together and just a touch of the others really looks nice.

Paper:  PTI white select, true black pattern paper
stamps:  Birds & Blooms
ink:  memento london fog, memento angel pink, HA latte
twine:  Twinery

Colour Challenge # 180

Well, aren't these fun and maybe a bit masculine colors?  I always always struggle with male type cards...but this turned out to be pretty simple, but I like it a lot.  Want to play with the Challenge?  Then go  HERE to the blog and check out all the other fun and different inspirations!
Here are the colors...for this weeks Colour Q Challenge # 180!
Paper:  PTI white, new leaf, simply chartreuse, smokey shadow, true black
ink:  PTI new leaf and simply chartreuse, Hero Arts charcoal, memento black
Stamps:  PTI Stylish Sentiments:  Birthday, Hero Arts Box of Dots 

Colour Q # 179

Here are the colors for this weeks challenge, this is my second card.  I wanted to use the Wreath for All Seasons and make it springy...this could just go to one of my aunts, maybe in April or May...don't you think that would work?

paper:  PTI kraft, white, berry sorbet
ink:  PTI kraft, berry sorbet, scarlet jewel
stamps:  PTI Wreath for all Seasons, Birds and Blooms
twine from the twinery

Colour Q and Freshly Made Sketches

I have a new stamp set given to me by my BFF of 56 years!  She came down from Seattle to visit me for my birthday (outside Portland, Oregon) and she gave me several little goodies.  The stamps are from The Stamps of Life...the pinwheels2stamp!  I love it and have always wanted a pinwheel stamp...so I couldn't resist using it for both the color challenge on Colour Q and also the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches!
These are the colors...I substituted PTI colors and used berry sorbet, summer sunrise, scarlet jewel and kraft and of course white!  Go HERE for the info on the Colour Q challenge and go HERE to check out the sketch and the inspiration from the design team.

Colour Q Challenge # 147

These are the colors for this challenge, I used PTI's colors,  simply chartreuse, aqua mist, hibiscus burst and blueberry sky.   the sentiment is from Think big # 2.
Go HERE to check out the other entries and the designers cards!