Summer Card Camp - Week 4

Hi there!

I've tried really hard today to get a card made on the FIRST day of the new color challenge - and I have managed it. Lucky, because being Week 4, it was my last chance. It's another card which is quite a change from my usual style. Although I like making vintage cards with lots of details & layers, I am always taken by the clean and simple modern cards I see on the internet. Today's very fresh, calm colors inspired me to try something simpler than usual. The irony is that this card took as long as any of the others I usually make, even though it seems to have fewer elements.

I've also taken the big step with this card of using some of the vintage buttons I've recently inherited from my great-grandmother's stash. I've had them for a few months but haven't used them until now. It's very amusing to think that perhaps my own tendency to hoard craft items is a link back to my ancestors!

Supplies:

Cardstock: white & a very pale aqua from a sample pack of watercolour papers

Ink: Versacolor Celadon

Stamp: Waltzing Mouse Half Pint Heroes

Other: embroidery floss, PTI Beautiful Blooms II flower die, vintage buttons

Here's another card I finished today - it was supposed to be finished in time to put it in the Week 3 gallery, but I didn't make the deadline. Oh well. I figured the more cards I had in the gallery, the greater the chances of winning one of the prizes....but it turns out I won one anyway! I got an email to say I won the Sizzix Alterations die pack - AWESOME!!!!! I don't have any of these dies & I've been wanting the label die set for ages. I am SO happy!

Supplies:

Cardstock: SU! Chocolate Chip, Vanilla, a caramel piece from a swatch of Core'dinations

Paper: Cosmo Cricket Mini Deck - Garden Variety

Ink: Versacolor Scarlet, Ranger Distress Ink - Antique Linen

Stamps: PTI Tea for Two

Other: PTI Tea for Two Collection die, PTI Mat Stack 3 die, ribbon

You might also have noticed I've finally figured out how to make the photos bigger on the blog. Now all I have to do is figure out how to make the page scroll faster - probably take the photos with a smaller file size on the camera? If you're reading this & you know what I'm doing wrong, please let me know!

That's it for now. Thanks for looking.

-Kerri