Party Pandas

This weeks challenge card has inspiration from 3 challenges:

• Freshly Made Sketches - Sketch 324
• TGIF Challenges - #147 Sale-A-Bration inspiration
• Watercooler Wednesday - All about Occasions

I used the new stamp set from the Stampin Up Sale-A-Bration catalogue called Party Pandas.

This card uses Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red and Smoky Slate card and ink. The background has the panda stamped in various directions in Versamark, although it is a little hard to see in the photo. The greeting is from Happy Birthday Gorgeous.

Thank you to the designers of these challenge sites for their on-going inspiration and helping me to keep my creativity going.

New Challenge cards for 2016 - Card 3

This card used the challenges from 2 sites I often use for inspiration, both from the current challenges and the archives. The Design Teams always give me new ideas for expanding my repertoire.

Freshly Made Sketches 218:

 

ColourQ 323:

My card is...

This card used Balloon Celebration and the Happy Patterns stencil set.

This weekend's challenge cards - Part 1

This afternoon I took some me time in my craft studio to design using some of the great challenges for this week.

This card used the colour combination from The Card Concept, the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the technique from The Paper Plunge.

For The Card Concept challenge, I chose the Stampin Up colours of Pink Pirouette, Crisp Cantaloupe, Smoky Slate and Soft Suede, in the Clean and Simple Style:

For the sketch From Freshly Made Sketches, I chose to make each panel in the sketch a separate layer:

For the Emboss It! technique from The Paper Plunge I chose to use the Stampin Up Print Poetry embossing folder.

The main stamp on the card is Sweetbriar Rose, the background is stamped with Gorgeous Grunge in Pink Pirouette, Crisp Cantaloupe and Soft Suede. The greeting is from the And Many More set.

Check out the cards made by other participants in the challenge, and of course the talented designers.