Happy Birthday for Alphabet Challenge Blog

 Hello and welcome. I am so excited about this post because it's my first as part of the Alphabet Challenge Blog Design Team. I am thrilled to be part of a talented group of card makers to bring you challenges that inspire you to be creative! With that, this month's Letter is I for Inspired by Colour. We hope that you are Inspired by the colors of the beautiful image below...

And here is what I did with the colors:

I used the beautiful Pierced Bloom die set from SU! and cut a bunch of foliage and the smaller size bloom in the 2 different pinky colors. I place a pearl in the center of each bloom for a little shine. I add the white heat embossed HB sentiment in the same dark green color as the base for cohesiveness. I found in stash this pretty green patterned paper that has both greens and placed all the die cuts on that. I also found an old roll of white lacey tape that I placed down first for a little interest. 

I placed a few pearl dots throughout the card and that finishes it up and into my HB card stash it goes! 

Thanks so much for stopping by. I look forward to many challenges with ACB and the ladies there to hopefully inspire you to join in the challenge! See you in the Gallery!

Bye for now~

Melissa

For Sunday Stamps Challenge 340

 Hello! It's Sunday again and that means it's time for a brand new challenge over on the Sunday Stamps blog. This time around, it's a very interesting sketch challenge by our wonderful Annette. Check the image below...

And my interpretation...

So as you can see...I did take creative liberty with the sketch :0...and  I'm calling this Vintage Grunge! There are A LOT of layers to the front of the card done with Extra Heavy CS so I will add to the interior card to help balance. I used a distressed gray plank paper for the vertical rectangles of the sketch. I layered that on a very dark charcoal gray so the plank CS looked a little softer. I used a decorate edge on the horizontal band that ended up covered a little more than planned because I bumped up the size of the feature rectangle to back the beautiful Tim Holtz Wildflower dies-love these!! I layered those beauties on vintage look dictionary paper which I distressed along with most of the papers.  

 

A few ephemera pieces and shiny gold dots and a Happy Birthday sentiment, and this card is finished for the HB card stash.

Thanks again for stopping by and taking a look.  Be sure to stop by the other SSC DT blogs and see how they interpreted this very interesting sketch!

See you soon-

Melissa

 

Thinking of You

 Hi and welcome! It's Tuesday and time again for a brand new sketch challenge over at Try a Sketch on Tuesday blog. Check out the very interesting image below...

And here is what I did with the sketch...

I used the Honey Bee stamp set from a few years back but to me, it's a classic! I stamped the bees in a gray ink to soften them a bit and I like the look. I'm told my name, Melissa is Greek for honey bee so I have a few bee things around the house...

I placed all the stamped images on faux wood DSP to make the stamped images pop some. A few gold discs placed here and there and a friendly sentiment finished this card. 

Thanks for stopping by. Please be sure to stop by see what the other ladies on the DT made with this fun image. See you in the gallery...

Melissa

Thinking of You for Sunday Stamps!

 Hi! This card is for the new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and  this round it's a very bold color challenge, in the graphic and colors. See the image below...

And here is my card...

What to do and how to use the colors...? I went back a bit and selected the A Touch of Ink stamp set. LOVE all the images in this set. I used the hummingbird stamp because I thought it would work great with the blues. The hummer is 2 tone blue with darker blue on the tips of his feathers but the camera didn't pick up that up well. I was able to incorporate most of the colors for the challenge. 

Here is a closer look...Thanks again for stopping by and I hope you do again! Be sure to stop by the other DT blogs and see how they used these fun colors. Hope to see you in the gallery! See you next time.

Melissa

HELLO for TSOT 650

 Hello again. Thanks for stopping by to see my card for the new sketch challenge over at Try A Sketch on Tuesday. See the fun graphic below...

And my card...

These foliage dies are from the Spellbinders May 2024 kit. It has images of Flamingoes, florals and these mixed leaves. I live in Florida so that kit was right up my alley! This kit is so versatile to use all the components together or break them off into groups...love it! With this card, I wanted the leaves to be the feature, so I placed them on a neutral colored base and dry embossed the band from the sketch in a basket weave to keep the tropical theme. I heat embossed the simple sentiment in gold to tie in with the metallic gold discs placed throughout the card front.

 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will join in with us for this fun sketch challenge. Be sure to stop by the other DT blogs and see the beauties they made with this sketch. Bye for now...

Melissa

MERRY & BRIGHT Ornaments

 Hello and welcome! I am very excited for this post because...it's my first for the Sparkles Christmas Challenges blog as part of the Design Team! I am very excited to be creating along side these ladies to give and receive creative inspiration! The challenge for July is...

                  #162 A Handmade Ornament or Ornaments

I went way back to one of my favorite ornament stamp sets called Keepsake Ornaments. I think I still enjoy using this set because it's such a traditional Christmas look and I decorate in a traditional look.

Happy Birthday for SSC338

 It's Sunday and that means it's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps Challenge. This time it's a sketch and it's brought to you by Amy. See the graphic below...

And here's what I did with the sketch...

I'm funny in the way that I don't usually run out and buy the hottest selling stamp sets when they first come out and, it's no exception with this set called Artistically Inked from 2021! It's retired and I bought the die set on super clearance. After using the beautiful dies, I decided I wanted the matching stamp set so I searched the internet for the stamp set and found a very good, practically new set on Ebay. I recently started seeing this set used on different platforms and it caught my attention so I was very surprised when I found out it was from 2021 😆.

I selected a bright, sunny color combo for the card and placed the main die over the stamped images. That die is my favorite part of the bundle and is what drew me to the set. I then dry brushed the embossed background with white acrylic paint to age it and show the texture. I placed the postage dies cut images on top of that and added the HB sentiment. I added clear sequins to the centers of the flowers to add a little shine. This card is done and ready for my ever dwindling stash...

Thanks for stopping by. Please be sure to stop by the other DT blogs to see how they used the sketch. Bye for now...

Melissa