Dynamic Duos 3 and FTL191

One thing after another prevented me from doing any kind of creating this week, but Saturday night I had plans to catch up on what was going on with my favorite weekly challenges and find some inspiration.  I had been working outside in the garden all day and was exhausted but I wasn't going to let that stop me!  The colors at Dynamic Duos caught my eye and with the FTL sketch, I made this card.

I love to use black on a card, usually as an accent, but for this one I decided to let it really make a statement by using it as my big vertical layer.  I added some dry embossing to it (the dessert option on the challenge) then finished it off with the big daisy from the Sizzix Daisies #2 die. The sentiment is from Occasional Quotes.

I really tried to post this card last night, but I couldn't keep my eyes open.  I think I may have even snoozed a bit while hovering over the keyboard!   I've got another busy day ahead of me, but I'm going to try and get some stamping done for some of my other favorite challenges!

Thanks for stopping by!

Freshly Made Sketches 34

I think I mentioned the other day that the impending end of the current Stampin' Up! catalog has apparently got me feeling a little nostalgic about some other retired supplies I have in my stash.  Well, as I contemplated making my card for Freshly Made Sketches this week, I came across some retired designer paper called Berry Bliss.  And this lead me to one of the companion stamps sets for this paper called One of a Kind.  And this in turn lead to my card this week.

The DSP that I used primarily uses Close to Cocoa, but I didn't have any of that cardstock or ink so I used Chocolate Chip instead.  I did have some Purely Pomegranate so I used some cardstock and stamped the image a couple of times with that ink color.  One image was stamped directly onto to DSP and cut out to layer over the same image stamped onto some Whisper White.  The little Chocolate Chip center of the image was inked in Versamark then clear embossed.  And in the center is a Build a Brad. I wish those had never retired because I always thought that it was so cool to make your own brad!  Add a little Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon and I was done!

Lesley has given us a great sketch this week.  It's got all kinds of shapes that I love to combine.  And the design team has got some FABULOUS cards this week to light your creativity on fire, so run right over to Freshly Made Sketches and check them out.  I hope you can find some time to join us this week!

Lesley Croghan

Linda Callahan

Cindy Hall

Tui Nathan

Jennifer Timko

Rita Wright

Erna Logtenberg

Tara Murphy Bourgoin