Lazy Summer Day

I'm back with another challenge card. I created this one for three different challenges - Roses on Paper, Just Magnolia and Stampin' for the Weekend.

For the Roses on Paper challenge, you must follow the challenge theme AND use a Magnolia, Rachelle Anne Miller, Sarah Kay, The Greeting Farm or Alota image. The current theme is to use flowers and to combine the ROP challenge with any other challenge. I chose Relaxing Tilda for the image, and there are flowers in the image itself, my DP and as embellishments on the card. And obviously, I met the requirement to combine challenges with the other two that I am doing with this one.

The Just Magnolia challenge theme this week is Summer. I don't have any Magnolia images with an obvious Summer theme, but I have a couple on my wish list. I think maybe this image is supposed to really be Spring since Tilda is wearing her little jacket, but I decided that maybe where Tilda lives it isn't 95 degrees with a heat index of 105 like it is here. :) I thought the image was perfect for the summer quote that I found. I printed the quote on my computer and cut it out with my Nesties. The quote, by Sir John Lubbock, says "To lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

The final challenge for this card is Stampin' for the Weekend. This is the third week for this new challenge blog and I've really been enjoying their challenges. So far they've been a little different than some of the other blogs. The challenge theme for this week is Rock n Roll 60's. When I first saw the title I kind of panicked because I wasn't quite sure what it was going to be, but it turned out fine. They provided three song titles from the 1960's and we were to use one of them as our inspiration. We were only to consider the title and not the lyrics. The three songs provided were:

"Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harem

"Time of the Season" by The Zombies

"Please Mr. Postman" by the Marvellettes

The song I chose for my inspiration is "Time of the Season" which by the way is one of my favorite songs of all time - even though I was only four when it was popular. I love 1960's songs. The tie-in - obviously - is the summer theme of my card. I did consider "Whiter Shade of Pale" (another of my favorite songs) because I'm working on some all white cards for a swap I'm in, but I wouldn't have been able to combine that with the Just Magnolia challenge and I posted an all white card not too long ago anyway which was similar to the one I'm working on.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you'll check out the other great creations on these awesome blogs. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Supplies
Stamp: Relaxing Tilda (Magnolia); quote is computer generated
Paper: Yellow and blue cardstock (DCWV); DP - Spring Stack (DCWV)
Embellishments: Circle and scalloped circle Nestabilities and rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinder); large flowers - Chloe's Closet (Making Memories); small flowers (Prima); flower brads (Making Memories); button, twine, ribbon
Technique: Prismacolor pencils blended with mineral spirits
Finished card size: 6" square

Flutter Anya - A Four Challenge Card

What a week!! I have been beyond busy this week at work and at home. I'm having a hard time getting in my creative time. To top it off, I have to work tomorrow. Yuck! So it's been even more important to try to combine challenges whenever I can this week. I managed four again with this one - Roses on Paper, Mojo Monday, A Spoon Full of Sugar and Cute Card Thursday. Yea!!

Roses on Paper is not a challenge I do often. I think I've only done it twice before. The current challenge is a color challenge - pink, green and yellow. In addition to meeting the challenge theme, participants are required to stamps from specific lines - Magnolia, Sarah Kay, Rachelle Anne Miller, The Greeting Farm or Alota. For the image I chose one of my new stamps from The Greeting Farm - Flutter Anya. I chose the Basic Grey Two Scoops paper as my starting point for the colors. That particular paper does have all those colors. Unfortunately, in the piece I cut, the yellow got covered up by the image.

For my layout I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch, which is pictured below. I had to move my circle piece to the left so it wasn't on top of Anya's head. I probably should have made the card a 5x7 to give myself more vertical space, but I always figure these things out after I have everything cut and half of it glued down. However, in my defense, one of the DT members moved her circle to the left too, so I think I'm okay. :)

The theme for this week's A Spoon Full of Sugar challenge is butterflies. Of course the little cutie Anya is a butterfly (although I thought she was a fairy when I ordered her). I also added a butterfly embellishment, which I made with my Spellbinder butterfly die and some gems.

The fourth and final challenge for this card is Cute Card Thursday. The theme for that challenge is quotations. I chose one of my favorite butterfly quotes to go with the theme - "The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." It's kind of an elegant sounding quote for such a whimsical card, but I like it anyway. I printed the quote on the computer and cut it out with my circle Nesties.

Thanks for stopping by. I guess I better get some sleep so I'll be nice and refreshed for my Saturday at work. Yippee...Have a great weekend!

Supplies
Stamp: Flutter Anya (The Greeting Farm); quote is computer generated
Ink: Onyx Black (VersaFine); Rouge Chalk Ink (Colorbox)
Paper: Light pink cardstock (unknown); yellow cardstock (Archiver's); dark pink cardstock (Club Scrap); DP - Two Scoops (Basic Grey)
Embellishments: circle, scalloped circle, square and scalloped square Nestabilities (Spellbinder); butterfly die (Spellbinder); clear and pink gems (unknown); clear flower gems (Jesse James Dress it Up)
Technique: Prismacolor pencils blended with mineral spirits
Finished card size: 6" square

Roses on Paper Challenge #7 - Sketch

The current Roses on Paper challenge is another challenge from Rosette - a sketch. In addition to following the sketch, you must use a Magnolia, Whiff of Joy, Alota, Sarah Kay, Rachelle Anne Miller or Greeting Farm image. I just purchased my first Whiff of Joy and Magnolia stamps. For this challenge I chose a sweet image from Whiff of Joy. I really like the Whiff of Joy images - A LOT!

This color combination is something COMPLETELY out of the ordinary for me. I'm trying really hard to go with some different combinations and not use the same ones over and over. I would never have put the blue color with the pink and purple, but the colors were all in my DP so I decided that they must go together. :) Now that it's all together, I think I like it. The scan does not show the colors quite right. In real life they are softer.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my card. Be sure to stop by the Roses on Paper challenge blog to see the other great work there.

Supplies

Stamp: Melinda Hugging Heart (Whiff of Joy - Guardian Angel Collection)

Ink: Jet Black (StazOn)

Paper: Pink, blue and purple cardstock (unknown); DP - Wild Asparagus (My Mind's Eye)

Embellishments: Ribbon (Offray); Flowers (Prima); Brads (Making Memories); Heart Charm (Blue Moon Beads); Floral Fantasy Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug)

Technique: Prismacolor pencils blended with Turpenoid

Roses on Paper Challenge #6 - Love and Friendship

Okay - I am waaaayyyyy out of my box with this one. LOL! When I came home from vacation last weekend I found amongst my pile of bills and junk mail a little envie from my dear friend Susan filled with Magnolia, Sarah Kay and Whiff of Joy Images. These are all very new to me and it's definitely not my usual style. I really wasn't sure I liked these, but once I got this one colored and a card put together - I think maybe I do. I like it enough to post it for the current Roses on Paper challenge - my first submission for this challenge.



Roses on Paper is a US-based online store that sells Magnolia, Sarah Kay, Whiff of Joy and other stamps. I have not yet ordered from them, but have been told that they have excellent customer service and great shipping prices. When I'm finally ready to buy my first Tilda stamp, I definitely plan to order from Roses on Paper.

It was a lot of fun getting outside my box for this challenge. I'm already looking forward to my next one!

Supplies:
Stamps: Tilda with Balloons (Magnolia); Sentiment (Studio G)
Paper: Cardstock (DCWV); DP (Basic Grey)
Embellishments: Ribbon (from my stash); flowers (Paper Studio); brad
Technique: Prisma colored pencil blended with Gamsol