Papertrey Ink 9th Anniversary Color Pop Fortune Teller Challenge and Case This Sketch #159

This challenge was cute!  It involved printing out a fortune teller (we also know it as a cootie catcher) and by following the instructions provided the fortune teller would provide you with a color scheme to use.  My daughter loved it soo much that she did it with each family member even though they had no desire to make a card.  Time is winding down as all challenge entries must be posted by 7 am tomorrow morning but you can still download the fortune teller to have any time you get stuck for a color combo.  Click here.

I  decided to make this challenge really easy since the colors were already provided for me I sought out the latest Case This Sketch Challenge to help me complete my card.

The colors the fortune teller provided me were Berry Sorbet, Aqua Mist and Summer Sunrise.  My wonderful MISTI and PTI's Plaid Builder stamp set made the background appear in no time! I used black fun foam to cut the die cut which added dimension quickly.  Sure beats cutting several layers of cardstock and gluing them together!

Supplies are listed and linked below:

PTI Plaid Builder Stamp Set

PTI Wonderful Words: Birthday Stamp Set

PTI Wonderful Words Birthday Die

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Scrapbuster Card and Color Throwdown #375

I'm back again!  Can you believe it only 1 day between posts!   As I mentioned in yesterday's post one of my goals for 2016 is to use some of my neglected crafting items.  So I thought it might be good to do some scrapbuster cards.  Okay so you may be asking what is a scrapbuster card?!  Well in my eyes it is a card that uses up little scraps of paper.

When I first started card making my card designs centered around patterned  paper and solid paper die cuts.  Then I got into stamping and using ink on my cards and my paper got neglected.  So when I saw Michelle's wonderful card I just knew it was perfect for those little solid scraps of paper that I can't possibly throw away.    Take a good look at this graphical beauty!

Check out the deets on her blog Here.   I just love how the focal point is tilted and the dramatic contrast of the bright colored cardstock against the soft stone background!

Trying to keep my trend of doing more challenges going I decided to duplicate this card but use the colors in the latest Color Throwdown Challenge.

 Here is what I came up with:

It's hard to tell in the photo but originally the birthday word die cuts didn't stand out from the background that much so I took a thin black sharpie and roughly drew in a shadow.  I took a photo of this in progress and that little bit of black really makes a difference.

I did emboss the sentiments but they didn't get raised much when heated.  Does embossing powder get old?  I've had this stuff forever and I could have sworn it was more raised in the past.  I added teeny tiny black rhinestones to the sentiments as a finishing touch.

I always try and make more than one card since I have everything out it is just as easy to make  4 versus one.  I had plenty of scraps left too.

I wanted something a little more bold and colorful this time so thus the rainbow die cuts on the black background.  I switched out silver rhinestones for black. I rounded both bottom corners too. 

Hopefully I'll discover more scrapbusting card designs and share them with you in the future.  I will label them as such so if you ever get tired of all your scraps collecting dust you can find my posts easily.

Supplies listed and linked below:

PTI Wonderful Words Birthday Stamps

PTI Wonderful Words Birthday Die

2MM rhinestones

PTI=Papertrey Ink

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