On the 15th of each month a group of friends called the Creative Crew have a challenge. We take turns hosting the challenge and this time our hosts are Jeanette and Barb.  

Barb pulled a color pallet from her Color Cube:  

And Jeanette provided our layout sketch.

All of us work our stash to create a card and here is mine.

Card base is Stampin Up Early Esspresso, embossed with Geo Arch hot foil plate by Pinkfresh Studio.  Copper metallic ink by Lisa Horton was applied to the embossed panel.

The rounded rectangles are Turquoise Sea card stock by Gina K Designs.  Taylored Expression's Mocha ink was used with  Altenew's Paper Echoes Stencil to create the script on these panels.

The square and circle were ink blended on white card stock using Gina K Designs Medium Cranberry ink.  The foliage stamp is also an old set by Gina K, stamped with the Mocha ink.

The sentiment is from my stash with more of the copper metallic ink applied to it.

Finally three Champagne Sparkle Spots by Trinity Stamps were added under the square panel.

What a fun challenge!! I think this might be a record-setting card for the number of different companies used, for me at least!

Here are the links to view the other members of the Creative Crew.  Please view their cards and leave some love.

Barb - Barb's Inkin' In Retirement

Jeanette - Cre8tive Play

Lorraine - SCS Gallery

Terry - It's Totally Terry

Tracie - Crafty Creations by Tracie 

Hot Mess=Success With Solar Pastes

On the 12th of each month a group of my friends hold a Hot Mess = Success Challenge.  Our goal is to create a card using any messy technique we want.  And we determine what is our personal definition of messy!

This card used:

• Solar Pastes: Minty Fresh, Beluga and Golden Hour
• Butterflies stencil by Scrapbook.com
• Blue Corn card stock by Taylored Expressions
• Sentiment by Taylored Expressions with gold embossing powder
  

Two panels of Blue Corn were used.  One for the butterflies and the other for the excess solar paste. That panel became the background for my card.

This shows both panels while wet.  When dried, the Solar Paste really shines!

I hope that you like my card. The pastes are really fun to work with.

Thanks for dropping by.  Now go visit my Hot Mess friends using the links below.

Jeanette

Barb

Terry