Sunshine in my pocket

This is my second card I’m entering into the Paper Smooches card challenge here.

It is a cool shade challenge using these colors

(Teal, light purple, kraft, orange)

So here is my second card using the adorable acorn in the Paper Smooches “Falling for You” stamp set.

I clear embossed the acorn in the background on kraft paper. Can you see those shimmering in the background? Then I used some distress inks to ink up the banner with purple, teal, and orange. The “Hello” is cut using My Favorite Things hello dies. I painted it with watercolor.

I’m pretty happy about that watercolored acorn. I’m loving my watercolors right now. I popped the acorn up with some dimensionals.

Hello, Fall!

Edited to add: This card was a WINNER! I won the challenge…So Happy, Excited, and Grateful!

I’m loving Verve Stamps. In fact, I have a couple sets now…and today I am going to use a stamp that I WON from Verve. (Thanks! I love it!) I thought I’d turn it into a tag card and enter into the current Verve Challenge here.

The fonts they used on this stamp are just BEAUTIFUL, and I heat embossed it in silver on my tag. Yes, I made that tag from scratch (I don’t have a tag die cut….yet! Wink*)

The flag on the left is embossed with a new embossing folder I found at Hobby Lobby (50% off; how could I resist?) I think it pairs nicely with this sentiment. You might be surprised to know that the “paper” I embossed is actually the backing to vinyl that I used on some girls camp water bottles! I loved how it had a bit of shine to it and I knew it would come in handy for something! 🙂

These little snowflakes I cut out with my cricut using the NEW Anna Griffen Winter Wonderland cartridge! I’m loving that cartridge so far, and I’ve only used it once.

I added a little glitter to those snowflakes and I love the shimmer it adds.

So there’s my first Verve Tag Challenge card ever! A little winter, a little glitter, a little embossing and a tag. Hope you like it!

Last week I had a few computer challenges and so I couldn’t upload my card in time for the Paper Smooches Challenge! So this week, I have TWO cards I’m entering.

This week is a color challenge:

(Teal, Light Purple, Kraft, Orange)

I knew I wanted to use my little acorn stamp from the Paper Smooches “Falling For You” set. And this card changed quite a few times over the course of the creation process!

Here’s the first draft. It seemed a little plain to me, but I did LOVE how that plaid acorn turned out using watercolors and Inktense pencils. The “tree branch” was painted teal to match the acorn and embossing with a wood grain embossing folder. But that Sentiment seemed a bit out of place.

I thought it would be great to have the sentiment hanging from the tree. But it here seemed a bit too low, so I changed it to this:

What do you think about the evolution of this card? I used a little plaid paper to play off the plaid acorn. <3

Entering into the Paper Smooches challenge here.