April 17, 2012

Good Morning!  It's Tuesday and time for another challenge over at the Twisted Tuesday's challenge blog.  This week's challenge is a color challenge - we were to use pink, red, and green.  The twist this week was that we needed to use 3 brads and ribbon. 

I ended up using my 3 brads in the flower centers, and my ribbon is in place of my leaves, and I used some twine tied across my vase and it's threaded through my sentiment and then tied with a bow.

My flowers were simply stamped and then punched out.  Each flower was stamped twice so that they have another flower underneath- they are two layers and using my bone folder I rolled the flowers outward and the flower layer underneath I rolled under.  I wanted to give my flowers some dimension.  The centers of my flowers are just some more stamped flowers that I punched out using my smaller circle punches.  The green layer is a 3/4" circle punch and then my brads are in the center of those.

And here's a close up photo of the flowers on my card.  I wanted to try and show you the different dimension of my flowers.  I have one flower placed on my card just using glue dots and the next flower I used dimensionals, but the third (the highest flower) I ended up stacking my dimensionals so that it would raise up more that the others.  To stack your dimensionals, simply place a few dimensionals where you would like them to be and peel off the backing.  Next, place a few more dimensionals on top of the first ones you placed down and again, peel off the backing.

Did you figure out how I made my vase?  It's actually a die cut from the labels collection.  I just cut off the point along the bottom.  I love the versility of this die, I bet it would make a cute basket too!

I'm also entering my card above for the following challenges:
~ Stampin' Up! Only Blog challenge The challenge was to use a favorite item from the 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog that will soon be retiring.  I love the Mixed Bunch stamp set with the coordination punch!  Plus the labels die I used will also be retiring.  Hopefully the die will make it into the new catty!

~ My Craft Spot Challenge Which was to 'Make it Pop'.  I Really popped up those flowers with my dimensionals!  I love dimensionals and I find myself using them all the time.

~ Craft Your Passion We were to use at least one punch or die cut on our projects.  I used my Blossom punch to punch out my flowers.

~ Lollipop Crafts This challenge was to create a spring themed card.  Well I don't know about you, but nothing screams spring to me like flowers do, right?

~Made Especially for You This challenge was perfect for me since I love to do everything in 3's.  We were to create a card with 3 flowers on it.

Card Details-
Stamps: Mixed Bunch, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card Stock: White, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Real Red retired DSP- from 6x6 paper stack
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Black Stazon
Supplies: Big Shot, Labels Collection Framelits Die, Brads- retired from SAB, Ribbon, Twine, Hole Punch, Word Window Punch, Blossom Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch, Bone Folder, Dimensionals
Technique: Punch Art
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Wait, don't go yet.....I had so much fun with the Twisted Tuesday challenge that I decided to make a second card! This time I wanted to make a card using the same colors only I didn't want to make a flower card.  All I kept thinking was that I wanted to do something with some strawberries and so this is what I came up with.

I stamped my images and punched them out.  My apple, cherry, and strawberry images were colored using my SU markers.  The apple image in the center has dimensionals underneath it.

I punched a white border using my eyelet border punch just below my wild wasabi dsp.  I decided to add my three brads just above my wild wasabi dsp.  And for my sentiment I stamped it and punched it out using my word window punch.  Then I placed my sentiment particially underneath my main image panel.  In case you are not able to read my sentiment is reads- 'sweet treats'.

Card Details-
Stamps: Tart & Tangy, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Card Stock: White, Pretty in Pink, Wild Wasabi, Wild Wasabi dsp from the subltes designer series paper stack, Real Red, Real Red retired DSP- from 6x6 paper stack
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Black Stazon
Supplies: Ribbon, Brads, SU Markers- Real Red, Wild Wasabi, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Dimensionals, Eyelet Border Punch, Word Window Punch, SU Mat Pack & Paper Piercing tool- for ligning up brads

If you have time be sure to stop on by the other DT member's blogs and check out their cards for today's challenge.  Here is a link to their blogs:

Melina

AnnMarie

Jeanette

Have a great Tuesday, thanks for stopping by!

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