Raspberry Suite color challenge #1 meets Caardvarks

Hey friends! Today I am excited to share a TWO cards made with colors from the very first Raspberry Suite color challenge hosted by Dawn McVey! She always has amazing color combos and this weeks challenge is one of my favorite go to color palette. My first card also uses the layout sketch from the Caardvarks Hero Arts challenge.

Here is my take on the combination of these two challenges....

I changed the sketch around a little to suit my card and Dawn's color challenge worked wonderfully on this thinking of you card. Can't you just feel love blooming?? :)

And because I couldn't stop at just one, I made another card for the color challenge. This one is inspired by all those shabby/hand cut/layered/inked handmade flowers you see all over the papercraft world. The flower stamp is from the Friends til the End set from PTI. I used the smaller of the two flower images, stamped in brown ink and then crumpled and layered the two to make a 3-D flower.

Other fun details are the Martha Stewart punched fence border on the card edge, some white on white embossed cardstock and hand drawn pen work. Super fun! Thanks to Dawn for such an inspiring challenge. Be forewarned...you may see a few more this week inspired by Brown, white, pink, yellow and orange!

Supplies:

Thinking of You Love Tree

Printed Paper: PTI Bitty Dots

Stamps: PTI Around and About Sentiments

Punches: Marvy Tree, SU! large heart, Fiskars small heart, SU! scallop punch, CM corner rounder

Ribbon: Michaels $1

Shabby Flower

Stamps: PTI Friends til the End

Embossing plate: SU Harlequin

Punch: Martha Stewart

Ink: SU!

Other: button, embroidery floss, zig writer pens, ribbon from a ribbon swap(thanks Kara!)

Ink: SU!