World Cardmaking Day

It’s World Cardmaking Day, and I’ve had a bit of time to create a couple of cards. I’m hoping I’ll have time to finish at least one more that needs to get in the mail later today. But for now here’s a card for the current challenge at The Flower Challenge: Clean and Simple. Right up my alley.

In August, I was lucky enough to attend an Altenew Open House in Syracuse. We had the opportunity to play with the September release, so the image from the now released “Flower Garden” was stamped on a piece of white cardstock then. All it needed was a bit of coloring and a sentiment (also from Altenew).

I added the front panel to a card made from Papertrey Ink’s “Lilac Grace,” and called it done. It’s almost a one layer card!

I don’t often do partial coloring, but I really like it here, and think I’ll do more of it in the future.

The second card is also for a challenge: Inspired By: A Truckload of Fall. 

As soon as I saw the image, I knew I’d play along this week. I had the perfect stamp set and it had been awhile since I pulled it out: “Little Pickup” by Honeybee Stamps. 

After coloring the image with Copics, I die cut the piece with a “Stitched Rectangle,” and then die cut a slightly larger “Stitched Rectangle” from a piece of patterned paper by Sunny Studio. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink’s “Scene It: Celebrations” set. All was then adhered to a kraft card. Not quite sure which guy will get this card this fall. If it was a bit more CAS I could enter it in another current challenge for masculine cards. I didn’t think of that while I was creating it!