Color Hues Challenge #137 - Black and Red - Congrats, You Did It Hockey (Ronron Designs Rice Paper)

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Welcome to Colour Hues Challenge #137 where Julie P invites us to play with hues of Black and Red for the next two weeks. Julie is in the midst of settling into her new home, so our wonderful leader, Nancy, is taking the lead as hostess.

We're delighted to have two talented crafters joining us as Guest Designers for this challenge: Joanne James and Julia Aston.

The focal image on my card,  made with rice paper, hails from Canadian company Ronron Designs. The rice paper is an easy medium to work with for a variety of purposes: cards, journals, albums, glass, canvas...and so much more.  They're expanding their line to include stamps, stencils and papers, alongside new rice paper images.  My cart is rapidly filling up.

I've added a Taylored Expressions' sentiment, secretly hoping it will be to congratulate my nephew for earning a spot on a high level team. Tryouts happening soon.  Fingers crossed! 

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous Black and Red inspiration from our guests and my wonderfully talented team.

Looking forward to seeing how this combination sparks your creativity.

The challenge will be open until July 29th at 9AM. 

The winners will be posted an hour before our next challenge and the overall

 winner will have the opportunity to be a future Guest Designer.

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Just Us Girls Challenge #832 - Moodboard - Thanks from the Ocean Depths (SSD Ephemera, Better Press Society)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #832 where Bobby has selected a beach/ocean/vacation themed moodboard for inspiration this week.  Summer vibes galore!

Once again, we're delighted to have Bonnie Klass joining us as our July Guest Designer. 

My inspiration comes from the bottom right photo: ocean + a single focal element. My background paper and pretty floral sea turtle are from Simply Stated Design; the grid - which I added just because - is from Uniquely Creative. Sentiment from one of my Spellbinders' Better Press Society collections.

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous inspiration from Bonnie and my talented team.
Looking forward to seeing how the mood board sparks your creativity.

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AAA Colourful Colourboard #30 - Magic and Mischief (SB Craft-O-Ween Books)

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Welcome to AAA Colourful Challenge #30, where we invite you to draw inspiration from the beautiful colours featured in the dramatic sunset image below.  We're delighted to have Deanne joining us as our Guest Designer. 

 

After several attempts to replicate the sky with ink blending, I gave up and headed in a different direction: Halloween.  The die cut images are from last year's Spellbinders' Craft-O-Ween collection. An assortment of colour-board inspired cardstock played much more cooperatively than my inks did! LOL! 

Please head to the challenge blog to see fabulous inspiration from my talented teammates.

Looking forward to seeing how this Colourboard inspires you!

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Just Us Girls Challenge #831 - Word Week -- PLAY - Hockey (Ronron Designs Rice Paper)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #831, where Vicki has selected PLAY as our Word Week theme. 

Once again, we're delighted to have Bonnie Klass joining us as our July Guest Designer.

Of course I went with "playing hockey' as my interpretation of this multi-nuanced word. I've used a new medium for the hockey player image - rice paper - designed by Canadian company, Ronron Designs.  The background paper is from Simply Stated Design, also Canadian and, sadly, closed for all but the owner's Patreon group. Happy to report I'm one of those! Yay! I'll add a sentiment appropriate for the occasion; secretly hoping it will be to congratulate my nephew for making a high level team. Fingers crossed! 

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous inspiration from our guest designer and my amazing teammates.

Looking forward to seeing how you play with PLAY!

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AAA Cards Challenge #318 - Follow My Lead - Follow Marlies - Let's Shell-ebrate (SSD Crab Ephemera)

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Welcome to AAA Cards Challenge #318 - Follow My Lead. For the next two weeks, we invite you to draw inspiration from Marlie's card, featured below.  

Inspiration card:

To follow Marlie's 'lead', I translated her background into a grid die cut and her coffee beans into a trio of way too cute crabs from Simply Stated Design. A sentiment from Waffle Flower finished off my CAS card.

Please visit the main blog to see my teammates' fabulous takes on the sketch.
Looking forward to seeing how it inspires you.

A reminder that we're looking for Clean and Simple designs; you can find the description of what that means here. 

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Inkspirational Challenge #371 - Visual Prompt - Summer Vibe - Lemon Daydream Just For You and A Little Something To Make You Smile (SSD)

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Welcome to Inkspirational Challenge #371.  For the next two weeks, we invite you to take your cue from the bright, beautiful Visual Prompt below. Whether you're inspired by the soft pink blossoms, sunny lemons, refreshing drink, vibrant colour palette  or simply the summery vibe, we'd love to see how you interpret it in your own style.

I'm sharing two cards featuring the beautiful Lemon Daydream collection from Simply Stated Design. For something a little different, I paired with background dies from AALL & Create,

Please visit the main blog to see fabulous cards from my talented design team, then join us in the gallery with a mood board card/project of your own.

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Just Us Girls Challenge #830 - Use A Die Week - Forgotten Favourite - For the Record (Concord and 9th)

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Welcome to Just Us Girls Challenge #830. Time to dust off an old favourite! 
For this week's Use A Die Challenge, Ina asks that we dig into our die collection, find a 'forgotten favourite' and bring it out for a play date.  Let's let the 'oldies but goodies' shine!

We're delighted to have Bonnie joining us as our July Guest Designer. 

We all have that die set (or, in my case, multiple sets); the one we absolutely had to have, used a handful of times then quietly tucked away.  The hidden gem I've brought out for another *spin* is  Concord & 9th's For the Record collection. I had a blast reuniting with this set; a reminder that some things never go out of style: vinyl records, great music and favourite dies! 

Please visit the main blog to see which *forgotten favourites dies* my talented team have showcased, then rummage through your stash and bring out oldie of your own to feature.

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