Krafty Chicks challenge #706 Stamps

Good morning lovely friends; I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week.  I'm here today to share my card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge.  We are back around to Week 1 which is 'Stamps' so grab your rubber stamps, clear stamps or even your digital images and join in the fun.  

It was my mother-in-law's birthday recently so used this opportunity to make her a card from my boys.  I had just received this stamp and die set so was eager to try it out.  Here is my card:

A closer look at the beautiful image:

I also decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the gorgeous image, coloured it with Promarkers and used the matching die to cut it out.  I took a panel of peach card and used the die to cut an aperture from the centre.  I wanted the image to have some dimension and stability so cut it another 3 times from white card and adhered them together with liquid glue before adding it to the aperture, again with liquid glue.  I've had a piece of vellum sitting on my desk for months so decided to put it to good use and added it behind the aperture (I could have made a shaker card but thought the vellum would make a nice change).  I was debating what to put behind the vellum and found a small piece of this green gingham paper and thought that would co-ordinate with the green in the image and also the vellum would soften it so placed that behind.  I added foam tape behind the peach panel and added it to my card base.  The sentiment was stamped with black ink onto white card and cut it out with a rectangle die.  I added this with foam squares, overlapping the image, on the lower right side. I finished off with a few gold sequins.  The finished card is 6" square.  I don't make square cards very often these days so it was a nice change.  For the inside I cut a white panel, stamped my greeting in black ink and adhered it to a panel of peach card with double sided tape.  I found another thin strip of the patterned paper and added that to the very bottom of the panel.  This was then added to the card base with double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - birthdays

As You Like It challenge - monochrome or colourful (I love all the colours so very rarely create a monochrome card)

Color Throwdown challenge - peach, sage green & cream

Craft Rocket challenge - for the girls

I love Promarkers challenge - ATG option love/romance

Incy Wincy Designs challenge - birthday and/or funny, humourous

Inkspirational challenge - mood board (I was inspired by the colours)

Pearly Sparkles challenge - celebrate

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - bright and cheerful

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - add a sentiment

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG option the DIES have it

Tic Tac Toe challenge - floral, free, metallic (my sequins are gold)

Triple B challenge - include at least one bird, butterfly or bloom

We Love Stamping challenge - feminine

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'Stamps' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer Shirley, who is joining us for March. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Spellbinders - Lily Arch stamp & dies (CSOM Feb 24)

Spellbinders - color essential sequins gold smooth discs

Spellbinders - Essential rectangles (to cut out sentiment)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - Simply Said stamp set

Clearly Besotted Stamps - happy birthday all (retired)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - mini calligraphy (retired)

Stampin' Up - card stock vellum

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Craft UK - 250gsm 12x12 white card (to make card base)

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Promarkers

peach card from stash

Falling for Wednesdays IG Hop - week 6

Happy Wednesday friends; I hope you've had a brilliant week so far.  I'm back with my card for this week's Falling for Wednesdays IG Hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  We are now on Week 6 (only one more week to go) and this week is all about 'farmers market'.

I know it sounds a daunting theme this week but it's not really.  Farmers markets have a vast array of produce such as fruit, veggies, flowers, baked goods etc.  I envisaged a farmers market stand so did a quick internet search and found this free image at Our Mindful Life.  The one issue I had was that I don't have a printer but thankfully my son managed to get it printed for me.  Here is my card:

I also decorated the inside:

Here are the Promarkers I used:

the image after I finished colouring it (before adding any highlights etc):

this is the image before it was coloured:

I was a little intimidated as the image was so large and it took me ages to actually pick up my pens and begin colouring but once I started it went quite quickly.  There were a few things that I wasn't actually sure what they were but I coloured them to suit what I wanted them to be lol!  There was some greyscale/shadowing on the image which did help but I think I did ok with my colouring considering it was such a big image.  I coloured it with Promarkers and added some highlights with a white gel pen.  The image panel ended up being 5 1/2" x 6 3/4" so my card was a custom size of 5 3/4" x 7".  The panel was added to a chocolate card mat and then this was adhered to my card base with foam tape.  I heat embossed a sentiment using gold embossing powder and die cut this out with a banner die.  The banner was also added with foam tape.  Finally a few gold sequins for some extra shine.   

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

As You Like It challenge - favourite harvest colours (I always think of orange, yellows, dark greens, browns and red; they remind me of the lush fruit and vegetables around this time of year)

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - signs of fall (entry #3)

Dream Valley challenge - make it digital (my image is a free digital colouring page)

Get Creative challenge - pumpkin spice, please 

Inspiration Station challenge - inspiration prompt #53 (I was inspired by the pumpkins and colours)

Shopping our Stash challenge - colour me beautiful (I used alcohol markers to colour my image)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

I hope you will be able to join us over at Instagram and check out the hop.  As always please use the #ffwcardgroup2023 to find all our creations and we will be able to find yours if you want to join in the fun too.  

Enjoy the rest of your day.  I'll be back again tomorrow with my fourth and final card for the Krafty Chicks challenge and week 4 is all occasions.  

I appreciate you stopping by.  

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

free image from Our Mindful Life.com

Promarkers

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white cardstock

Gina K Designs - harvest silhouettes stamp set (for sentiment)

MFT - blueprints 27 (for banner to cut sentiment)

Gina K Designs - everything nice (for inside greeting and image)

Gina K Designs - sweet mango ink (to stamp image on inside)

Sakura - white gelly roll 10 pen

Versamark ink pad for embossing

Cosmic shimmer - bright gold detail embossing powder

Craft UK Limited - 12" x 12" white card 250gsm (to make my card base)

Limetree Crafts - dark chocolate card 300gsm

Versafine onyx black ink

Spellbinders - gold smooth disc sequins