Color Hues Yellow & Pink Challenge #23 and Honey Bee Stamps Coneflower

Hello Crafters! I've decided to take on a few card challenges and the first one is over at Color Hues. Their challenge is to use Yellow & Pink as the focal color.

As soon as I saw this challenge I knew immediately that I wanted to create something with my new Coneflower dies from Honey Bee Stamps! I love this set and it's so hard to not want to grab it each time that I want to make a card. Here is my card!

I die cut the flower from Gina K Designs heavyweight white cardstock and blended GKD Wild Dandelion, Sweet Corn, Prickly Pear, Dusty Rose and Passionate Pink inks onto the six different layers of the flower and adhered them together. I popped the petals up using pop dots. 

I used a stencil from A Colorful Life Designs and two of the yellow inks to make my own background for the card. I cut three large and three small frame dies from PinkFresh Studio and adhered them together for a little dimension and placed them on my background panel and used pop dots to adhere the coneflower in the middle. The sentiment is a stamp and die also from PinkFresh Studio that I heat embossed in gold. Gold just seemed to compliment the GKD Kraft cardstock that I cut my frames from. To finish it off, I added some yellow & pink gems from Queen & Co.

This is my first time playing along with the color challenge at Color Hues and I can't wait for their next challenge! 

I'll be posting more cards that I made for challenges this weekend so until next time, Happy Crafting!

Cityscape Birthday Card

Hello crafty friends! It's been a few months since I last posted anything. There was Christmas, a Christmas card exchange (I made 30 cards for that plus even more for family and friends!), getting both vaccines (YEA!), and then 'Snowmageddon' here in North Texas 😖 and we had to find warm accommodations since our home had no electricity and no heat for several days! But now I'm back in my craft room and crafting away!

These City Landscape dies from Impression Obsession has been in my stash for quite some time and I decided that it was time to use it! It reminds me of the year that I lived in NYC. For this card I needed something a little more masculine so I kept the colors muted and I also wanted to create a slimline card. These are so much fun to make and they have a lot more 'real estate' than the smaller A2 cards! I used Tim Holtz Distress Inks for the background and used the Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer to spritz some water droplets on it. The die was cut a few times in each color to stretch it out across the bottom of the card. I added strip sentiments from Simon Says Stamp (so quick and easy) and two enamel dots at the bottom. There are also Clear Droplets from Kat Scrappiness scattered through the sky.

I am entering this card in the following challenge: 

ModSquad Challenge - Fairytale Castle: The challenge is to incorporate a building or some type of architecture. 

Thanks for visiting and until next time, Happy Crafting!