Monday, May 30, 2016

The Challenge #75

Hello and Happy Memorial Day to my US friends!  It's the 5th Monday of the month which means we have a wild card sketch for you this week at The Challenge.








For my card today I used some of my favorite stamps and dies from Concord & 9th.  To make the card base I stamped the flowers and berries from Wildflower on watercolor paper and colored with my Zig Clean Color watercolor pens.  I used a 4" doily (folded in half), as my semi-circle element, and wrapped some gold cord around the card just above that.  I cut the butterfly from Floral & Flutter Die from shiny gold card stock.  I also cut a butterfly from Reverse Confetti's Butterfly Dreams Confetti Cuts from vellum to place underneath the gold butterfly.  The word "beautiful", from the Beautiful You Dies, was also cut from shiny gold card stock.  "Be your own kind of" is from the stamp set Beautiful Words; I stamped it on black card stock and embossed in white.  I added 3 black sequins to finish my card.

I hope that you'll play along with this week's sketch.  This will be the last challenge at The Challenge until September, we're taking a summer vacation :)  Be sure to drop by Lesley's blog to see what the rest of the design team created!

16 comments:

  1. Love this card and especially the background!

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  2. What is not to love about this card Diane, your colouring is superb!

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  3. Love look the gold butterfly and sentiment gives! such a fresh and pretty background you colored!!

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  4. Boy oh boy, you keep cranking out these amazing cards. Wish I had your skill and imagination. This one is so beautifully layered and colored I had to stop and say, kudos, girl.

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  5. Absolutely gorgeous! My Zigs and I do not work well together (I just don't *get* them), but you've inspired me to try yet again. Fingers crossed I can achieve 'something' with this beauty as inspiration!
    ~carol

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  6. Stunning card, your background is so pretty and I love your beautiful butterfly.

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  7. Ok wow. Every single card you make I think I say that but really wow. This one is my new favorite.

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  8. I really, really love this, Diane! Your coloring is awesome and the gold butterfly with vellum is gorgeous!

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  9. Diane, this is absolutely stunning! The background is gorgeous and the butterfly and vellum, WOW!!

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  10. This is gorgeous, Diane! I love your wonderful take on the sketch!

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  11. love the look of this beautiful, bright and sunny card mf..

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  12. WOW, WOW, WOW! This is so gorgeous! Every detail is amazing! XX

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  13. That is just so very pretty!! The coloring is lovely, and the touches of gold foil are perfection!! Beautiful!

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