Digital Retreat August #1 - On My Mind Paper Pumpkin

Tracy and I had a retreat day today & one of the items I gathered as inspiration was from The Creative Cat Crew & Creative Bugs group I left in Washington.I love the simplicity of the design & the large accent item. Tracy & I decided to replicate this layout with anything other than a flower.

~Enjoy!

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We decided on the Sailing Home suite of items and this month's Paper Pumpkin On My Mind. We also substituted the background for a card from the Come Sail Away Memories & More pack. I sponged the edges of the card with a little Night of Navy to give it a little more character. The color pallette we chose was Night of Navy, Basic Gray and Whisper White. While Tracy used the stamps from Sailing Home for her focal point, I used the large sailboat from the Paper Pumpkin kit. My envelope is stamped with the boat & birds from Sailing Home and the water from Hide Tide. The sentiment is from Seaside Notions. Don't forget to check out Tracy's card over at Stuff n Thingz!

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Stampin' Up! products used:

• Sailing Home
• Hide Tide
• Seaside Notions
• July 2019 Paper Pumpkin On My Mind
• Come Sail Away Memories & More pack
• Night of Navy
• Basic Gray
• Whisper White

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Digital Retreat May #4 - Incredible Like You

After the Sea of Textures card - I was wiped! So we wrapped up the mini-retreat and I had to put the other side of my brain to work for a while. So after a few hours of chores, I circled back - time to play catch up - I missed one of the color challenges / Colour Combo Blog Hop that Tracy participated in, so here us my take on Balmy Blue, Mango Melody and Blackberry Bliss.

What is funny about this card - is I whipped it together in about 15 minutes (the design) using the Incredible Like You stamp set. Its amazing what can happen when you clear your head!

~Enjoy

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Tracy's card

Color Inspiration

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Digital Retreat May #3 - Painted Harvest

This card's inspiration was drawn from a color combination I found appealing of Pear Pizzazz, Soft Seafoam, Pineapple Punch and Whisper White, a very soft combination - as you can see from the picture - this is where the wheels fell off... First the stamp set we chose was again, a very little used set for both of us called Painted Harvest. Since it had the sunflower effect, Tracy suggested we use brown for the center & so we added Early Espresso.

We had decided to case another card and go simple since we struggled with the Sea of Texture card so much. I wanted to use a technique I had never done before which was to color Shimmer Texture paste and apply it with the brick stencil.

~Enjoy

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Tracy's card

Inspiration photos

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Digital Retreat May #2 - Sea of Texture

Tracy had the Facebook Inkspiration color challenge due so we decided to go for it with Berry Burst, Garden Green, Blackberry Bliss and Melon Mambo. These colors typically lend themselves to flowers - so we decided to challenge ourselves & NOT do flowers. Instead we chose a set we both had not used since last March when we crafted for the last time at my old house in Washington, Sea of Texture.

We both really struggled with this set and took mots of the time we had that day in the creation process. Tracy was trying to replicate the tunnel card she created last time without going back and revisiting the original. I actually had headed down an alternate path but then at the last minute decided to ditch that one and start over! The top one is the final result while the bottom one is the one I gave up on. Looking back, the one I ditched was not sooo bad. A sentiment & ribbon - may be able to save it (If I hadn't stolen a bunch of the pieces for the top card)!

UPDATE! I was chosen as a Top 5 selection for the Colour INKspiration Challenges Facebook group! Alas, I did not win - but how exciting to get chosen as a first time entry to be a Top 5 card!

~Enjoy

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Here is Tracy's card 

Here is my first attempt

 

Inspiration colors

Winner!!! Well, Top 5 Nominated:

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Digital Retreat May #1 - Tropical Chic - #simplestamping

My friend Tracy and I have the opportunity to create together digitally on Saturday! We started with a color combination challenge of Gray Granite, Poppy Parade and Daffodil Delight. Tracy does a ton of color challenges & blog hops, so this inspiration came from one of those she was preparing for.

The tricky part this month is trying to find a set that will be in the 2019-2020 catalog that neither of us have purchased from yet -so it has to be a carry over set - there were not many to choose from but we both had Tropical Chic & neither of us have used it very much. See Tracy's version below, I love what she did with the frmae & the corrugated paper behind it! Since it was first in the day - I considered this my warm up card - #simplestamping!

I did have to color the baker's twine  and also the rhinestones with a Blends marker to get a little more yellow on the card.

~Enjoy

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Check out Tracy's card !

Inspiration colors

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