Bicycle in the Garden

Welcome to my studio!  I was inspired by the photo inspiration from Just Add Ink challenge #415.  The bicycle reminded me of a bicycle stamp in my stash from Papers and Such and I just had to use it.  I stamped the image in versamark on Vellum and heat embossed with White EP.  I colored the bike with Pencils....the first time that I colored on vellum in this manner and I liked the results. I fussy cut the bike and adhered with vellum tape to the garden background that I created with paper from Our Daily Bread Shabby Rose collection and a garden fence that I cut from Glossy White CS with Our Daily Bread Gilded Gate dies.  Finished with die cut Happy Birthday and Butterfly from shimmery Pink CS cut with Cheery Lynn dies.   I was pleased with the finished results....love that you can see the fence through the spokes of the bike...and the flowers through the fence. 

 Just Add Ink: #415-Oops! Missed the deadline but I still like the card.

Other challenges: 

Allsorts Challenge: Week 475 In the Garden

Stamping Sensations: July Challenge-In My Garden. The stamped bicycle is the central point of my card.

Stamp, Ink, Paper: Challenge #157 Card Maker's Challenge.  Used some of my favorite paper, colors(Pink and Green) , and some of my favorite stamps and dies.

 The Paper Players: PP400 Celebration Theme Challenge

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Focus on Beautiful Days

Hello!  I am taking a break from Christmas cards and making this card focuses on the sentiment. I used 2 layers, the card base of Green CS and and a pink one,  underneath the Patterned layer from Our Daily Bread Shabby Rose Collection.  That was embossed with Cuttlebug EF Divine Swirls.  I popped up the die cut that I stamped with the Repeat Impressions sentiment Beautiful Days, one of my faves. For my focus,  I used Memento Rose Bud ink for stamping on Ivory CS  and distressed it with some distress inks and edged it with a green Copic.  To me this is a clean and simple card because it was so quick and easy but fails to really be CAS because of the layers.

Challenges:
The House That Stamps Built: Designers' Choice Challenge111 Focus on Sentiment.
Word Art Wednesday: Challenge 209 Anything Goes
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Anything with Pattern Paper
Artistic Inspirations Challenge: #144 Anything Goes. First time to enter this challenge.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Gateway to a Garden

 Hello!  I was  tested by the recent challenge at Mrs. A's Butterflies.... her guest selected A for the challenge and we were asked to use an Arch on our butterfly cards and I had no idea what to use for my arch.  Then the light came on and I thought I should use a gate with an arch leading into a garden.  I pulled out Our Daily  Bread Gilded Gate die and a frame die from Spellbinders Card Creator and used white glossy paper to build my gate with an arch. I only used the top part of the frame and attached with the gate.  I used a pattern paper from ODB Shabby Rose Collection Paper Pad to create the garden filled with roses and butterflies. I added green vines cut with Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish die and Prima Pink Roses with layered butterflies punched from pattern papers and pink CS.  I decided to not use a sentiment on the front but used that on the inside (shown below)  of the card finished with more of the pattern papers and a sentiment from Repeat Impressions.



Challenges:
Butterfly Challenge: #37 Butterflies and letter A for Arches


Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Use pattern paper on your card

Clear It Out Challenges: Theme is Anything Goes and Stash is Anything Goes. Everything is from my stash....roses are very old stash.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa