Yesterday’s Technique lover challenge Totally IrResistable asked to combine Versamark Resist with Embossing Resist. I hadn’t done any resist cards in a long time.

After doing all my Monday chores (cleaning all bed spreads, dusting, vaccuming, moping, bathrooms…)I got to play. I asked Jenn what I should use and she told me Season of Joy and gave me this color combo: Tempting Turquoise, Rose Red and Chocolate Chip. I asked if I could add Wild Wasabi and the basics for the card were settled.

The card base is a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Rose Red cardstock, folded in half and sponged around the edges. Next is a 5″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock, sponged around the edges and stamped with the swirl and the tiny flower from Season of Joy.

Next is a 2 1/4″ x 4 3/4″ piece of Apple Cider paper with a small strip of white cardstock added.

For the main image I cut a piece of glossy cardstock 2 5/8″ x 3″ and stamped the Christmas tree with Versamark in the middle of the cardstock. I embossed it with clear embossing powder. Next I stamped the big word background from the same set in Versamark over the tree. I dried it with my heat gun.

Then I brayered Turquoise over the entire piece of cardstock. I rubbed a paper towel over the image, to take off the extra ink. I added the dotted border with Chocolate Chip ink and All in a Row (You know I have to use it, right?) I layered the cardstock on a sponged piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock and piece of sponged Rose Red cardstock.

For the accent I stamped the Poinsetta from Season of Joy in Rose Red and the small flower in Chocolate Chip on Shimmery White cardstock and cut both out. I layered them over a swirl stamped and sponged piece of 1 1/4″ circle of Wild Wasabi and a 1 3/8″ sponged Rose Red circle. I topped the flower off with a small turquoise circle jewel brad from the Ice collection.

It still looked too bare and I needed to add a little zing to it.  I punched out small Rose Red flowers with the Three for you Punch and sponged the edges in the same color.  The flowers were taped to the right side of the main image and silver brads were added.

I heated the image again, poured Dazzling Diamond glitter over it and heated it again. I outline my Poinsetta with my Sakura glue pen and added glitter to that as well.

Last I added a sponged Photo corner with three silver brads.

Although I would have never added Turquoise to the mix, I like the combo now.

Here is another card made for the sketch this weekend, as well as the Color Challenge from last Tuesday on SCS.

I love how this came out. I started out making it a baby card, but then I changed it to one for a girlfriend. Now that my So many Sayings are unmounted, it is becoming one of my favorite sets.

If I only had the courage to cut up my Happiness set like that. Maybe next weeks. Baby steps. I feel like I am mutilating the stamps when I keep them unmounted.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Groovy Guava cardstock, layered with a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Basic black cardstock and a 3 3/4″ x 5″ piece of Soft Sky Prints Designer paper. The corner of the black cardstock and the designer paper were punched with ticket corner punch.

The black photo corner was punched out with the Photo corner punch and silver brads were added. Then I doodled a border all around the Soft Sky Paper.

I punched two circles with my 1 1/4″ circle punch out of Shimmery white cardstock. I used the dotted background stamp from the Three For You Punch Kit in Groovy Guava to add the pattern and layered it on 1 3/8″ black circles. I layered those on a Groovy Guava scallop circle and a regular circle out of the same color. Last I doodled a border matching the border on the designer paper on the circles.

For my horizontal strips, I took a 1 1/4″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Basic Black cardstock. I added the scallop border with my corner rounder punch and punched out the holes with my Crop-a-dile. On top of that I layered a 1″ x 3 3/4″ strip of shimmery white and last a strip of ribbon from the Sherbert Ribbon Originals pack.

I stamped the giraffe from Wild About You on 1 7/8″ x 3″ piece of Shimmery White cardstock in Groovy Guava and outlined it with my black 03Micron pen. Micron pens are my favorite to doodle with. I punched the corners with the ticket corner punch and doodled a border around the outer edges of the image. The next layer was a 2 1/8″ x 3 1/4″ piece of Basic Black cardstock. I added silver brads in each corner, punched a slot with the horizontal slot punch and added Groovy Guava double stitched ribbon to the upper ride side.

The saying from So Many Sayings was stamped in black on Shimmery White cardstock, punched out with the small oval punch and topped with a small oval frame from the Pewter Hodgepodge Hardware kit.

Last I punched Groovy Guava and Soft Sky flowers with my Three For You Punch, layered them on my circles and topped them off with black vintage brads.

Today’s inspiration challenge was great for me. I love the colors in the image.

I just started participating in the inspiration challenges last week. Here is what I do. I write down the colors that are in it, and images that I have and could use. For this one I wrote down: So Saffron, More Mustard, Ruby Red, Really Rust, More Mustard, Always Artchoke and Chocolate, for images leaves or Poppies.

I went through my stamps and decided to use the Level 1 hostess set: Oh So Lovely. It has a beautiful poppy image in it.

I inked up the background stamp in More Mustard, stamped it off once before stamping it on Shimmery White cardstock. I repeated this two more times and lined them up next to each other. No, didn’t use the Stamp-A-Majic. I am usually too lazy for that and just eyeball.

Next I stamped the Poppy image in Brown Stazon over the background and colored it in with Classic ink pads (Ruby Red, More Mustard, Mellow Moss and Always Aritchoke) and Aqua Painter.  I cut the image into a 3 /4 circle with my Coluzzle and sponged the edges with More Mustard, Really Rust and stippled just a touch of chocolate chip on the edges. Then I layered it on Chocolate chip with the long retired Coluzzle Companion set. I cut out the next big circle out of Shimmery white and made it into a scallop circle with my corner rounder.

After I made my main image, I pulled out my cardstock to decide on the rest of the card.

I finally settled on a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Always Artichoke as my card base (another square card, who would have known. LOL).

I stamped the front with Linen in Always Artichoke and sponged the edges in the same color for more depth.

I stamped a 2 1/4″ wide strip of Ruby Red first with Linen, then with the swirl from Baroque Motifs in Ruby Red and sponged the edges as well. On the top part, I added a small strip of chocolate chip cardstock and added my Faux Stitching with All in a Row.

Once I had the basic elements done for my card it was time to PUNCH IT UP A NOTCH:

The main image still looked too blah. I seem to need some kind of border on my main panels lately. Since All in a Row Stitching would be a little tough on the circle, I settled for paper piercing. then I added a piece of Antique Brass Hodgepodge Hardware with Fairy Tale Ribbon Original to add a splash of yellow and three antique brass brads next to that.

Underneath the Ruby Red strip, I paper pierced a row to tie in the paper piercing in the circle.

I pulled out my unmounted So many Sayings and decided to make this my Anniversary card for Rick. Our anniversary isn’t until October, but hey…this will be the first time I don’t have to stamp the card the night before! SWEET!

I stamped absolute bliss over the flower stem, since it still needed something and another piece of ribbon just didn’t look right. Then I punched out a small oval with our small oval punch, stamped the background stamp from Oh, so Lovely in More Mustard in second generation over it, sponged the edges and added You and Me in chocolate chip over it.

I taped it to the ruby red cardstock and topped it with a small oval frame from the Antique Brass Hodgepodge Hardware.

….well, if you count Crazy Frank, it’s card sample #2 already!

I had a blast making this card. I am still a bit trigger happy with the ticket corner punch and the hardware….but I like how it turned out. The triple layer flower head is my favorite part, I think.

My card base is a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Really Rust cardstock folded in half, followed by a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Wild Wasabi and a 3 3/4″ x 5″ piece of Chocolate Chip. On both layers I punched each corner with the ticket corner punch.

The third layer is pieced together with two pieces of the Apple Cider Designer paper from the Holiday Mini catalog.

For the circular accents in the sketch I used a Chocolate Chip and a River Rock punchout made with the Scallop Circle punch.  I sponged the River Rock scallop circle and used my paper piercing tool to add small holes in each scallop. Next I  added a 1 3/8″ Chocolate Chip circle. Then I stamped the flower stamp from the True Friend set in chocolate chip and punched it out withthe 1 1/4″ circle punch. Next I stamped the same image in Really Rust, cut out the flower and attached it with a Aged Copper Brad.

The Chocolate Chip scallop circle was topped with a 1 3/8″ River Rock Circle, stamped with the triple flower image in River Rock and paper pierced.

The horizontal layers are a 1 1/4″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Wild Wasabi, a 1″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Chocolate chip and medium size twill to wich I added a ribbon buckle from the Antique BrassHodgepodge Hardware.

The center image layers measure 2 1/4″ x 3 1/2″ for the Wild Wasabi, 2″ x 3 1/4″ for the Chocolate chip and 1 3/4″ x 3″ for the Very Vanilla cardstock. The Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla layers had all four corners punched with the ticket corner punch.

I stamped the Very Vanilla cardstock with the triple flower in River Rock ink second generation (I inked the image, stamped off on a piece of scrap paper and then stamped on the cardstock) and sponged the edges. Then I stamped the big flower in Wild Wasabi. I added the dotted border with All in a Row and Chocolate Chip ink (You know I HAD to use it on my card somewhere).

Next I stamped the stem with leaves again in Wild Wasabi on Very Vanilla cardstock and cut out the leaves.  I stamped the flower head twice in Chocolate Chip, once in Really Rust. I cut all around one of the Chocolate Chip flowers. The Really Rust flower I cut just inside the dotted lines. The last Chocolate Flower I cut just the inside flower part out. I layered all three together and topped it off with another Aged Copper Brad.

Small Twill was wrapped around the Very Vanilla/Chocolate Chip layers and a piece of the Ribbon Originals Jersey tied on. It the center sits a Antique Brass Paper Clip. I added a Antique Brass Brad in each corner of the Wild Wasabi layer.

The Saying is from True Friend as well. I just inked up the Friend part with my Chocolate Chip ink spot and stamped it on Very Vanilla. I sponged River Rock ink on the edges and added an oval frame from the Antique Brass Hodgepodge Hardware over it.