Fabulous Sugar Peas

Good morning!  I hope you had a beautiful Fourth of July for our American friends!

We are back with another Inspired By challenge and we were sponsored by the wonderful Sugar Pea Designs.  I was lucky to get to play with the Simply Fabulous Stamp set and the Sugar Cut Fabulous die.  The stamps are so easy and beautiful to use and the die cut my card stock perfectly!

Here is the challenge photo this week

loooove.

I was inspired to create three cards this week inspired by the colors, the cherries, the design of the flowers and cute patterns of the towels.

You Don't Look a Day Over Fabulous card

love this sentiment!

Have a Fabulous Birthday and Make Today Fabulous cards

Make sure to check out what the design team did over on THE BLOG, what the Sugar Peas Design Team created and the generous prize they have offered this week for one lucky participant!!

Spring Sunshine

Welcome!

On the Inspired By blog, the team has shown so many gorgeous projects inspired by this beautiful inspiration pic, hop on over there to see all the amazing cards and a layout.

 I was inspired by the designs on the towels (floral and patterns), colors and layout of the towels (sketch).

                                      

To create the background similar to some on towels, I did a quick search of the Silhouette store for a design to be my stencil.

Stencil created with:  Snapdragon Snippets Background cut file in the Silhouette Cameo Design Store and Michael's Recollections card stock.

I did not photograph the original ink blending with my stencil, so I thought I would share the picture with the next set of cards I created.

Praying For You Card

Sending Hugs card

Birthday Greetings Card

Stamps:  Winnie & Walter Sending You, Neat and Tangled No Words, Papertrey Ink Pretty Peonies (5th year anniversary set)

Inks:  Tim Holtz Victorian Velvet distressed ink, Tim Holtz Mustard Seed distressed ink, Memento Pear Tart dye ink

On the next card, I was inspired to create a sketch from the inspiration photo.  On the first sketch card I used patterned papers to create my card. On my second card I used my stamps and inks, staying true to the florals and colors in the inspiration photo while using the sketch.

( Laurel's inspiration photos lend themselves to all kinds of interpretations:  colors, themes, focal point (flowers), inspiration from her titles of the photos, I love that about her challenges.  So, I wanted to show an interpretation of the "layout" of the inspiration :))

 I Am Here For You card

Some Bunny Loves You card

On my last card, I used the sketch of the "towels layout" but chose to use patterned papers instead of my stamps and inks to create the color palette for this one.

A Happy Hello card

Happy Happy Ellie

Hello and good morning.  I’m back to share a couple of cards I created this week, inspired by the newest challenge over at Inspired By this week. 

Here are my cards.

happy, happy Ellie card

I was inspired by the background (white brick wall), the three focal elements (balloons) the color scheme (green and white), the pops of white on the green mason jar (the repeated sentiment) and the angles of the jars (oval mat for sentiment).

I tried to incorporate the patterns from the straws into the balloons for additional fun.

My next card was a literal interpretation of the "party scene"

lucky me card

I was focused on brick background, color scheme and lantern banner.

party bunny card

I wanted to create a bunny on his way to a party and to give it a pop of fun, I added an Action Wobbler.  I love these and so do the recipients I've shared them with, it makes the element move when you touch it like a bobble head.  I chose to add one to the back of the entire oval so the entire "party scene" moves.

Picture from the top so you can see how the wobbler "pops" the image out to be moved and to interact with the recipient.

Please make sure to check out the challenge on the blog and what the entire team did HERE, amazing!

hello 2018

Hello!  I am really excited to be typing this post this morning.  I am returning to creating and could not be more excited to get started.  I have missed all of this process so much and feel like I am finally in a place to be able to create regularly.
I participated in a challenge over at Laurel Seabrook's blog.  I loved the pillows she chose for this challenge, there was a lot to be inspired by.

                           hello card.

On my first card, I was inspired by the patterns, pillow shape and the diamond grid texture.

                               happy happy happy day (Inside reads:  you Rockstar) card

On my second card, I was inspired to make a masculine congratulations card using the colors as my focal and a glittered black stock for the dimension.

 I am thankful to be able to share today and look forward to a year of creating♥

danni