Time Out Challenges Participating in Altenew Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop with 12 Challenge Blogs

Hi friends!

I'm here today with a very special post... Time OUT Challenges is participating in Altenew Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop and I had the joy and honor to create two cards for the post! Please have a look at the post at Time Out Challenges to learn how you can take part in the fun! 

I created two cards for the post using Altenew products. 

Card 1

The background is Brusho and I had super fun making it! I simply sprinkled couple of shades of brushos to the background and created bursts of color with spraying water on top. The Scalloped Ornament stamp is stamped on Neenah, colored with Copics and Altenew Markers and die cut with co-ordinating die. I added some white gel pen, white paint splatters and gold sequins for finishing touches. The sentiment stamps come from Seasonal Blooms set. To make the flower portion of the card pop even more, I die cut a rectangle out from the background and popped it up on foam for more dimension. 

Using Scalloped Ornaments stamps and dies, Seasonal Blooms stamps and dies, Nesting Slim Rectangles Die Set 

Card 2

This card took a while to make due to the coloring of the large image... But then again there was not much else to do! I loved how it turned out. This one is colored solely with Altenew Markers. 

Using Simply Spring stamp set and sentiment die from Seasonal Blooms die set

Please head on over to Time Out blog for all the hop details! 

With these cards I'd like to play along:

The Flower Challenge: Card 2 (die cut sentiment)

 

New Challenge at AAA Birthday Card Challenge!

Hi friends!

I'm here with a simple CAS birthday card for the August Challenge at  AAA Birthday Card Challenge. This month we are sponsored by the fabulous digital stamps company Varada Sharma and I'm using their cute Lotus image in my card, colored with Copics. The challenge itsef is a photo inspiration:

I was inspired in a very literal way, I went with the flower theme and color scheme of the photo!

Please head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge and prize details along with plenty of  inspiration from our guest designer Rachelle and our DT members! Do remember that we look for birthday themed cards that are inspired by the photo below. I look forward seeing you play along! Happy crafting!

 

Waffle Flower Christmas in July!

Hi friends!

I'm here with a second entry for the Christmas in July Challenge at Waffle Flower blog. This time I was inspired by the week 1 theme (unconventional Christmas colors) and a little bit of week 2 as well -I did use a tag die and tags where the thing for week 2! I've created my background with brushos and then heat embossed the Waffle Flower poinsettias with copper powder. The white heat embossed sentiment comes from the same set. Hope you like and thanks for popping by!

 

New Challenge at Time Out!

Hi friends!

I'm here with my DT card for the new challenge at Time Out where we have a quote for your inspiration this time:

I was obviously inspired just by one word, "rose", but remember you can be inspired by the whole quote too or choose several words as your starting point. 

If you come from our challenge blog you might have noticed that me and my DT buddy Jill are both using the same image -we actually had a crafting date in Zoom and created our cards in the presence of each other. That was a lot of fun and we plan to have more of such dates too! I wanted to attempt no line watercoloring which I find pretty scary... I was thinking it would be nicer with a friend... And also that I would not give up so easily if I had some company!! My plan worked and I did complete the image (I was super slow though, Jill was able to complete her whole card in the same time as I just did the coloring lol!) and made the card. I tried to go for a short of shabby chic CAS feel with the design. Hope you like!

Please head on over to our challenge blog for all the challenge details and prize information from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps. Our winner also gets to guest design for us and this time we are enjoying of the card art of Jen Willis. 

Thank you for popping by! 

I'd like to join: 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Card for Altenew July Inspiration Challenge!

Hi friends!

I'm here with a super colorful card today... It's for the Altenew July Inspiration Challenge. My card turned out to present sort of a bold version of the color scheme lol. :) One evening I made the background with Brushos and on the next day it was dry and ready for some heat embossing (copper powder) and watercoloring (I used distress inks). The stamp is a pretty new Altenew stamp, Vintage Garden, and the die cut sentiment is from their latest Craft Your Life kit. This was a surprisingly quick card to make but a horror to take a photo off!! Please head on over to my IG account (@nonnis_cards) for a video of the card, it presents it a lot better. :)

I'm joining:

Altenew July Inspiration Challenge:

Thank you for popping by!

 

Christmas in July!

Hi friends!

Believe it or not, this is the second post in a row with a card just for fun for challenges! I love summer vacation!!! :) I used a wonderful poinsettia stamp and die set by Waffle Flower for the focal point of the card (also the sentiment comes from the same set) and then used a Catherine Pooler cover plate for the fun snowflake background -it has a retro feel, right? This WF poinsettia set is one of my best purchases from last year, a definite favorite in my stash. I colored the poinsettia with Copics and added some detail with gel pens and Wink of Stella. This card pleased my eye without any embellies or paint splatters so I just left those out this time! :) 

This card is for:

Waffle Flower Christmas in July Challenge: Classic Christmas Colors

Double Trouble Challenge: Christmas in July (no twist of bow for me!)

Christmas Craft Creations: Anything Goes

I hope you liked my card and thank you for popping by! 

 

Card for Challenges!

HI friends!

I'm not often here with a card "just for fun" but today is the day! :) I've colored in an amazing Power Poppy digi with Copics and pencils. To finish off the card I just simply stamped a sentiment by Pinkfresh Studio and inked the edges of the panel with light blue distress ink. I used a scrap of spotty paper to give the image a "side frame" (I'm sure there's a better way to say that lol!). An image this gorgeous doesn't ned much else added, at least to my taste. Hope you like and thanks for popping by! 

I'm joining:

The Flower Challenge: Spots/ stripes

Stamping Sensations: For a Lady

We Love Chocolate Baroque: Flowers Galore

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Out with the old and in with the new (the paper is from my scraps box, the digi + sentiment stamps are both used for the first time!)

Uniko Studio July/August: Flowers