Color Hues Challenge #131

 Another 'free' day for me I can add another challenge to my 'belt'!
I choose The Color Hues Challenge of Coral & Green
with my neutrals of black and white.

One of my newest embossing folders and stencils this year was
the SSS Butterfly Escapade set.  My bank account 'cringes' every month
when Simon has a new release as there is always something I

need/want in each release!  

The inks I chose for this card was Altenew Coral Bliss and Shadow Creek.  I just wish the true colors of this showed up
better, it is way more of a suble green and coral color
then the picture shows.

I have a few more of these done in other color combos that will

'appear' at a later date, after all you can't stop with just one, right??

Let Joy Blossom

 I had some free days with no DT projects so I joined in a challenge at
CAS Colors & Sketches
with the sketch shown below.

This certainly was an easy CAS sketch with many possibilities
that if you visit the site you will see fabulous examples from the design team!

I had a new Whirl Butterflies die from SSS

that I was able to use for the first time today.
The sentiment is a rub on that just came in the mail
on Saturday!

That's it, pretty easy peasy!!

It's Your Day

 Can You Handle The Pressure is bringing to you an
OPTIONAL theme of FLOWERS
but you can create anything as long as an embossing folder is used, that is a MUST
to enter our challenge!

I found an already embossed panel in my 'spare parts'
box and since that is my goal of to use this year, plus the fact
that it is downright pretty, I pulled it out to use.
The folder is Spellbinders Flower Frenzy which I  'might' of picked up
during one of their warehouse sales.
I need to make more of my Spellbinders Bold Blooms flowers so am trying to 
use up what I already have made and that is where these flowers
came from.  They worked perfectly with my folder and perfect for the theme.
The sentiment is a Betterpress stamp and die.

So many new embossing folders out there
to purchase, we hope to see some at our
Can You Handle The Pressure challenge!

Birds and/or Eggs Challenge

 I was once again able to have some free time to enter a challenge I saw
at Make My Monday where the theme is Birds and/or Eggs.

I purchased a set of rub ons from Prima Among The Wildflowers
 that had the prettiest images on it, one is quite large but it does fit a 6x6 card base. 
Do go and check them out!
The one I used has both a bird and eggs on it and I was thinking it
would make a beautiful baby card, but because it is a
Congratulations sentiment, it could be used for about any occasion. 
It was rubbed onto one of my favorite Waffle Flower dies
Lacy Layers 2 (no longer available).

It certainly will be an easy mailer, with the rise of postage
that is a 'good' thing!!

Do you like to use pretty 'rub on's too??

With Deepest Sympathy

 I saw this pretty Baby's Breath stencil at Papertrey ink and saw it had been used
for a sympathy card on one of their samples and thought it would be
perfect for that, but when I put it my cart and saw the shipping for
just one lightweight stencil I backed out, but along came my
|'partner in crime' Dar and when I showed her the stencil she
wanted it too and a few other things so she bought it for me and then 
mailed it to me, now how nice is that of a friend!!

I used some pretty Altenew inks for my stencil, if you do layering stencils
I can recommend these ink cubes, they come in a set of four colors
from light to dark and I have had them for quite a long time and they still
are as good as the day I had bought them.  The sentiment is Hero Arts.  A simple but pretty sympathy card.

I plan on making several more of these cards in different colors

Hoping this is CAS for the challenge at 
CAS On Friday#332 as it certainly was VERY simple to create
and lots of clean white space and the theme is SYMPATHY!

Mini Daffodils

 Hello friends, I created a card today specifically for a few CAS challenges.

Fab N Funky #635 with a theme of CAS

Addicted To CAS #306 with a theme of POSTAGE

Waffle Flower's Aprils release had the cutest Daffodil stencil
for a very reasonable price ($7)
and usually until supplies last if you spend $25or more
 they offer up a free 'something' the day of the new release
and this time it was the free 'Postage' die to go with the stencil.

Being that Daffodils are my favorite Spring flower,
how could I resist and with all

the fabulous newly released products it certainly isn't a hardship to spend $25!

I had just purchased some new yellow inks from SSS in the colors of
Lemonade, Sunbeam and Citrus, perfect for the three colors
the stencil required for the flowers.
The other colors used were Altenew Shadow Creek and Icy Water,
Dew Drop Rich Cocoa for the Pink Fresh Studio Simply Sentiments.

I'll be back tomorrow with another CAS card!

April Showers Bring May Flowers

It's time for a new challenge at Pick 3,
Projects
The challenge that you pick three out of six elements for your card.

For my card I choose Boots~Rain~Pastel.

Products Used:
Sizzix EB Rain Clouds EB folder
Paper Smooches Rain Boots
Paper Rose  Bluebird Paper
Sue Wilson Butterfly
Spellbinders Flowers

This is a fun new challenge, come and have some
fun with us at Pick 3.

Entering the following challenges:
If You Gave A Crafter A Cookie #215 .... Rainy Days

DL Art. Thankful Thursday #391 .... Optional Showers

Cardz For Galz #274 .... April Showers

Time Out #311 ... Rain~Pastels~Blooms