Mandala birthday card

 Hello and good Wednesday to you!

Here's a card that took me forever to put together,

but (IMHO), it came out amazing. 😊

I hunted in my stash of stamps, and unearthed an ancient

stamp set that I only used one of the eight single rosetta images.

As I was trying to figure out what to do with the larger panel,

I remembered I had a mandala builder stamp set, so I got out

my Gina K. Wreath builder and went to work. I used red and pink inks

as well as coordinating cardstock. I white heat embossed the 

sentiment on black cardstock, then after everything was

put together, added glitter drops to the centers of the 

rosettas and mandala.

A simple sentiment finishes the inside:

My card is based on the sketch at Atlantic Hearts challenge #668,

and the colors at Color Hues #126.

Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful rest of your day!

Supplies:

Stamps: PSA Essentials - Rosettas; Honey Bee Stamps - Mini Messages: Birthday & dies; Gina K. - Rina Krupsky Mandala Maker.

Ink: Taylored Expressions - Lollipop, Cherry Pop; Versamark; Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Taylored Expressions; Neenah

Accessories: Gina K. - Mini Wreath Builder template; MISTI; Stampendous - white EP; heat gun; Nuvo - white blizzard Glitter Drops

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares

Jar of flowers.../CTD#248 & SOS#107

Hi all and Happy Friday! I have a card to share with you all. This is for Color Throwdown #248 and Shopping Our Stash #107: use your oldest embellishment. Here's what I came up with:

Here is the inside:

And the color challenge:

Aren't these colors soothing? And the inspiration picture I loved so much I did almost a literal interpretation of it. I don't think I've ever stamped on kraft with Clear Snap's Frost White chalk ink before, but I gotta say, I'm lovin' the beachy vibe it gives! I masked off 3/4 of the panel then stamped the rosettes. After allowing that to dry I scored the lines, then lightly went over them with the Frost White, then added some ribbon (one of my ancient embellies! I think I've had this ribbon longer than I've been married: 23 years! LOL! I wasn't always a paper crafter. I did my share of sewing, flower arranging, painting, etc. back in the day!) I stamped the jar onto vellum with Jet Black Staz On ink. Using the laundry line as my stems (from Paper Smooches' Pip Squeaks set), I stamped them in Rich Cocoa. After allowing that to dry, I colored the jar with an aqua colored marker, purposely leaving a lot of uncolored streaks. After that dried, I used a white Gelly Roll pen to add highlights. Love how this turned out! The flowers and brads are the other older embellies that I've hoarded over the years. (I started paper crafting in 2007. These are some of the first items I accrued.) Finished the inside with a simple sentiment and more rosettes and that's all she wrote!

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope that you get a chance to play along with these two challenges! Have a great day!

Chris

Supplies
Stamps: Paper Smooches - Crystal Clear (jar), Pip Squeaks (line); PSA Essentials - Rosettas set; My Favorite Things - More Essential Sentiments set
Ink: Staz On - Jet Black; Memento - Rich Cocoa; Clear Snap - Frost White
Card stock: Recollections (kraft, vellum); Paper Smooches (aqua)
Adhesives: SA by 3L - MyStik; Glue Dots; Helmar 450 Glue; Recollections red tape
Accessories: Marvy Uchida markers; Prima flowers (I think?); felt flowers & brads (I have no clue who the mfg. are!); Martha Stewart score tool; Sakura white Gelly Roll pen; Offray ribbon