CARDtober #31 Favorite Color

This challenge was to use your favorite color. My favorite color is blue, especially royal blue, although the manufacturers don't seem to like it as much as I do, because I have little to no royal blue anything in my stash. I did the best that I could with what I had.

I die cut the blue overlay. I used the watercolors on the flowers, which I made with Heartfelt Creations products.

I also like pink, so I made the white flowers pink with the watercolors, which have a lovely, almost glittery shine to them.

 

CARDtober #30 Product Playtime: Watercolors

Various options were available for this challenge, but since I have never actually used the watercolors that I bought from Tuesday Morning years ago, I decided to pull them out and give them a try. I used them to paint the background, then stamped on top of it once dry, then added a few touches of watercolors again, especially on the seagull and clouds, after the stamping ink had dried. The watercolors have a shimmer to them.

CARDtober #29 Any Type of Texture

My take on this might be a bit weird, but I added texture with Nuvo drops and gems.

I fussy cut the woman, phrase, and florals, and added Nuvo Drops, for a slight texture that can be felt as you run your fingers across the card.

 

Tiny gems were added to the centers of flowers in the paper, which could be easily seen and felt.

CARDtober #28 Monday Multiples

For the record, I did make 2 of this card, although the 1st one didn't have a pocket or card inside. I may scan and add it later, but for now, I am just showing the second version.

On the left is the closed card. The top portion is a flap. The bottom part is a pocket, which is overlapped slightly by the flap. The right image is the open card, with the card insert taken out of the pocket.

CARDtober 27 Pretty Patterned Paper

For this challenge, we were to use patterned papers to create either a set or a single card using the Sheet Load of Cards pattern for May 2020.  This was my take, although instead of a circle, I used a Silhouette print and cut design. I really liked the scalloped edge, and it seemed to match relatively closely to the yellow of the polka dot paper. The ultra thin border of the outside edge is not actually part of the card pattern, but just a piece of card stock that I put behind the card when I scanned it. The cards with a white border don't show up well on the blog, since it also has a white background.

CARDtober 26 Framed by Die Cuts

This one took me 3 tries before I was happy with the results. The first one wasn't bad:

 

I just wasn't really that happy with it. So I tried a second time, hated the border, so I didn't even glue anything down. The example was multiple die cut leaves, which looked really nice, and which went all the way to the outside edge, but a lot of die cutting and/or punching is hard on my hands. I needed something that was easier, but I was having difficulty finding dies that seemed suitable. I finally chose some dies that looked like wooden boards, and that you can ink like stamps for the wood grain to show. I added an AI fall design in the center, and I was a lot happier with this one.

 

CARDtober #25 Loving Leftovers Double Cluster

For this challenge, I am asking card makers to make a card with TWO embellishment clusters: one large, one small.

I used Queen & Co. dies to cut out the cooky jar, baking sheet, rolling pin, and cookies, as well as the mini banners for the small cluster.