Sunflower Studio

BLOGGER'S CHALLENGE #39 - COLOR COMBO

    I'm future posting my Blogger's Challenge card for week 39.  (As you read this I'm relaxing by the pool in Florida...I'm thinking about stamping, though...that counts for something!)
    This week's challenge was to create a card using SU! colors - Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Real Red, and Chocolate Chip.  Perfect...especially since I have this Marcella by K (K&Company) textured paper pad in those exact colors!  The pad is called 'Remix Pattern Mat Deck' in case you decide to look for it and I bought it at Target. 
    The stamp featured here is by Lockhart Stamp Company.  The berries are yummy enough to eat!  I stamped the image on watercolor paper and used various SU! reinkers to paint it.  I then cut it out using a square Nestabilities die and layered it to cardstock in the featured colors.  I also cut a larger scalloped Nestabilities square for the bottom layer.  I used SU!'s Word Window punch - extended to fit the sentiment (A Muse) - at the bottom of the patterned paper.  I love how it allows the sentiment to be a subtle part of the card front.  The chocolate brown ribbon is, again, from the Martha Stewart seam binding collection at Michael's.

WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD

    Two new families have recently moved onto our street.  Our neighborhood is still in the building stages but will eventually have 50 homes.  I love that it's a relatively small neighborhood and that many of us will know each other and our kids will have friends to play with that are close by.  So - big shocker here - I'm actually getting some welcome cards out to them before they've been here for a year or more!
    I'm not sure that any of these stamps had ever been inked up before but I've had them for some time.  Karen Lockhart creates some of THE cutest stamp images out there.  And she has amazing stamp artists on her design team to show them off too...Debbie Olson, Michelle Wooderson, Sharon Harnist, Trudee Sauer (all of these ladies are experts with the Copics too!)  The key and sign post images are by Karen.  I love the simplicity of them.
    The other images here are from the Right at Home set from Stampin' Up! (retired).  I turned, again, to a K&Company mat pad for the patterned papers.  This one is called Happy Trails and the map pattern was perfect for this card.  Everything is colored with Prismacolor Markers.