Basteltraum's Challenge #90: Summer

Hello everyone

I hope things are going smoothly at your side! As we have a piece of "normality" back, I really look forward to summer! Although we don't travel anywhere, I am sure there are plenty of possibilities to enjoy summer around your area - as we do! :-)

This month's challenge hosted by Bastel-Traum is all about summer themed cards. I took it literally and created a card with a bunch of tropical leaves and a Copic colored flamingo (yes, I know I have colored lots of these througout the years, but I never get tired of them, haha ).

The background is brushed with distress oxides (squeezed lemonade and dried marigold) and I used a stencil by MFT and some teeny tiny star stamps to give the background more fizziness :-)

I diecut the summer sentiment 4 times of teal cardstock and stacked them together with glue for more dimension. The little "hello" sentiment is sponged with a tint of the same distress oxides as the background for bringing the whole design together.

I hope you got inspired and will play along with us this month!

Thank you for stopping by and - most importantly - happy crafting!!

Basteltraum's Challenge #88: Color combination

Hello crafty friends

How are you doing with all the craziness that is going on in our world?! Well, I am privileged as I have a safe home, all my loves are safe and sound at home too and we enjoy a lot of family time together. And of course we are crafting up a storm!! :-))

But for today I have another card inspriation for you. A new challenge started over at Bastel-Traum's blog and it is all about color combinations. You can choose from two different combos - I went with the pink one, of course, hahaha :-))

I sponged some Distress Oxide (Picked Raspberry)  onto a piece of watercolor cardstock that I diecut first with a dotted frame die. Then I stamped that cute flower stamp also on a scrap of watercolor paper and colored it with my Ecoline Brushmarkers. Then I wrapped some hemp cord around my panel to ground my little flower on the card. The flower itself is attached with some foam tape for more depth. The sentiment is stamped with Onyx Black Versafine ink. Some teeny tiny rhinestones (I always use these from the nail art supplies) finished off this pretty clean and simple card design.

I hope you got inspired and you will play along with us! Thank you for stopping by and spending some time with me.

Stay safe, stay home and happy crafting!