The Card Concept New Arrival or Busy Bee

 

Well Hello friends! 

We have a new challenge at the Card Concept: New Arrival or Busy Bee.

Guess what I chose? 

Just had to play with The Greetery's Honey Bee dies for this one!

Mostly inked the bees, but added some white pen, and vellum for wings. 

If you look closely, I colored some glossy accents and dipped the honey 

stick into it. 

I was definitely inspired by the bee images on the inspiration photo

I also used the colors, and honey vibe for my vintage and Layered card.

The Card Concept #193 {New Arrival} or {Busy Bee}

The Greetery

Honey Bee die, Honey Jar stamps and dies, Lovely Silhouettes, Seed

Catalogue Background stamp, Buzz Worthy Sentiments Stamp set

Concord and 9th

Eclectic Garden Stamp set

Poppystamps

 Circle dies, Rain drops

Inks, Altenew & Ranger Distress Oxides

The Card Concept: Beautiful Butterflies

The Card Concept's back!

Hi friends, and welcome back to the Card Concept's Card Challenge. 

It's a challenge that gives you styles to create the perfect card. And if

those styles aren't just right, combine them, or create one of your own! 

Our styles are listed here: 

The Styles Defined

I have some inspiration for you 

I went with a Clean and Layered card, with a bit of Classy Elegance too. See how 

combining your styles is just fine? Rather monochromatic, rather dramatic (with the

black). Have fun with your choice of styles, but don't be confined! We'd love to see

what style you create with, and what butterflies are in your stash.

The Butterfly Love is the brainchild of Concord and 9th. I used their 'thingamajig' (yes

it's a real tool) and stamped 4 times to cover the background. All Inks Altenew.

Banner: C9's Everyday Bouquet.

Grab your favorite butterfly stamp (or 2 or 3) and join the fun!

Our challenges are 2 weeks and we'd love to see what inspired you. 

Happy Crafting!

The Card Concept #119 {Beautiful Butterflies} 

Day 3 25 Days of Christmas Tags

It's day 3 of 25 Days of Christmas Tags, and the inspiration  just keeps

coming. Today Concord and 9th are the sponsors, and I decided

to use Tenia's tag as my muse.

Here's Tenia's tag:

I love the gold rings, non traditional pink and green, shape of the tag,

well, honestly loved the whole thing!

So here's mine:

Didn't stray far from the tree rings (sorry...) with my tag.

Used the same C9 Tree Ring stamp on PTI's Quilted tag. Even added a bit of 

washi in the bottom right hand corner. Did add the tree and sentiment from 

C9's Christmas Cottage.

Play along here on Tracey's blog:

 The 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2018 - Day 3 

Card Concept Challenge

Welcome back Card Concept fans for a new challenge.

I see a party going on! A pastel party!

Remember choose a card style or combine a couple of styles (listed on the blog), and

play along! 

See you in the lineup!

Two-fer Card Challenge: Leaves

It's time again for a Two-fer Challenge: Leaves!

Honestly, what's better than one card for a challenge? 2, of course!

Love playing along with Darnell and the talented crew at the Two-fer blog!

2 cards, 2 different occasions, 1 image used 2 ways.

Concord and 9th's Thankful Leaves dies provided the window for my shaker.

Lindy's Stamp Gang Autumn Mix powders

Thankful Leaves Turnabout: Sentiment (C9)

That's copper embossing powder embossed onto heat resistant acetate.

And my 2nd card is a birthday card.

The 2nd card also used the leaf die from C9, but this time with the veins in place.

Glittered by adding packing tape to the back of the die and pressing glitter onto the top of 

the die. 

The pattern paper was a leftover piece made with C9's Turnabout, with some added

copic coloring. I embossed the tips of the leaves, and the stamped panel with 

copper embossing powder. Also copper embossed the sentiment (PTI's Initial Thoughts)

You have until Sept. 24 to play along, and there's lots on inspiration

from the team.

Have a wonderful week of crafty goodness!

Twofer Card Challenge #9

So Very Thankful

Greetings C9 fans! 

Playing along with their latest challenge:

A Color Challenge!

I had so much fun playing with C9's new set Thankful Leaves Turnabout.

Are you familiar with their turnabout stamps? Using a misti or other stamping device, you

stamp the aligned image and turning the stamped cardstock, stamp again, and 

again, achieving an all over pattern.

My first stamping was with versa mark and bronze embossing powder.

Next came Catherine Pooler's Sauna Ink, followed by the Ton's Peach Blossom.

Finally the 4th stamping was with PTI's Melon Berry.

The leaf, (Thankful Leaves dies) was cut with it's skeleton image in place, embossed 

several times with colors from Lindy's Stamp Gang,

Mermaid Seashells Set, and finally on the stem with bronze ep.

(Lindy's Midnight Copper)

I cut the leaf again, minus the veins, with vellum, and sponge inked the back, then,

clear embossed it.

The sentiment and several others come with the Turnabout set.

Play along on the challenge blog, Where Creativity Meets C9, here:

Challenge #25 – Color Inspiration

Thanks for the visit, and Happy Crafting!

Card Concept: Oh Happy Day

Hi Card Concept Fans! We're back from a summer break to bring you this

inspiration:

September 5 {Colorful Basics}

Now I don't know about you, but I see a rainbow of stripes, clean and graphic style, and

a few little details with a shot of clean white drapes with a red stripe in the mirror.

How about a birthday cake (C9) with a rainbow of layers? Graphic with clean layers.

Hope I see you in the lineup. I love seeing how you're inspired by our photo.

Happy Crafting!