Head Over WHEELS for You

There is a fabulous color challenge over at ScrapFIT: aquamarine, taupe and white! I knew I had these colors in my stash and had recently acquired a new bicycle stamp that I really wanted to use. So, I started by stamping the bicycle image onto tan cardstock with aquamarine ink , then distressed the outer edges of the cardstock with taupe/dune ink.  Once the image was dry, I used a black marker and drew over the tires, seat, handle bars and pedals.  I matted the bicycle image onto a piece of white cardstock and layered this onto aqua cardstock.  I cut a piece of patterned taupe paper slightly smaller than the card base. I adhered the bike panel to the patterned paper and added the punched hearts, the twine and the sentiment..."Head Over WHEELS for You!".  I finished by inking around the outer edge of the patterned paper before adhering this to the cardbase.

Supplies:
Cardbase: Paper Studios
Cardstock: Aquamarine: DCWV, white/taupe...pieces from my scrap stash
Stamp: Studio G
Patterned paper: Colorbok: Cafe au Lait
Twine: The Twinery
Hearts:  Small: hand held punch...no brand name, Medium: Troll, and Large: Hand-cut Markers: Sakura
Ink: Page  Craft: Dune, Studio G: aqua
Font: MS Word Calibri

Aluminum Foil Snowflake

I discovered yet another fabulous blog. It's called 52 (Christmas) Cart Throwdown. The current color challenge is purple, metallic silver and white. So I put together this card with the large silver snowflake as a focal point.  I used two shades of purple and a white cardbase.  To create the silver snowflake, I adhered aluminum foil to cardstock and ran this through my die cut machine. It embossed and cut beautifully. I added purple gems to the snowflake and layered the snowflake on a piece of purple vellum. The background is a punched background that I adhered to a white cardbase.

Supplies:
Cardbase: Paper Studios
Punch: background: Martha Stewart, Snowflake: Fiskar's Fuse
Gems: Studio G
Vellum and Patterned paper: Unknown (bought it at a garage sale)
Adhesive: Scotch ATG, Scotch Quick Dry

This is another card I made for the same challenge. I used aluminium foil to create the silver snowflakes and the bottom edge of the card.

Supplies:
Cardbase: Paper Studios
Snowflakes: Emagination, EK Success
Penguin: Fiskar's Fuse
Tag: Fiskar's Fuse
Twine: Twineology
Markers: Bic Mark It
Colored Pencils: Crayola
Adhesive: Scotch ATG, Scotch Quick Dry, Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Squares