Geometric Landscape

Hello my CMHCD friends,

For today I am sharing our next challenge at Color My Heart Color Dare. This is the first card from me this New Year at CMHCD. I do hope this post finds everyone healthy and hopeful for a new year. The color challenge for today is absolutely beautiful. It kind of reminds me of Spring. I am wondering if anyone feels the same way. You can be the judge; here is my card for today, enjoy! 

This lovely faceted stamp is a new one for me!
It is from Altenew called Geometric Landscape.
The geometric crane, also by Altenew, reinforces the geometric theme.

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Now for our challenge!

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #422

I chose all the colors!

Shawna Standish

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I decided to use all the colors on our palette because they are so beautiful together. After white heat embossing the geometric landscape stamp I went in with my Zigs and colored one side of the rhombuses and blended it out using an aqua brush.  

I wanted to give it a more masculine feel so my husband can use it. That is why I went with the solid peacock color at the top of the card.

Challenges Entered:

The Male Room: TMR146- Animals

Sweet Stampin': New

Shopping Our Stash: #436 - What's New With You?

NBUS: Challenge #22 and Happy New Year!

My new stamp is Geometric Landscape and never used Ori Kami Stamp & Die Bundle from Altenew. Merry Christmas to me!!

Well, thank you again for taking the time out of your busy day to visit my corner of the internet. I do hope you will join us at Color My Heart Color Dare and play along.

Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and stay healthy. Until then take care and we will see you soon!

Stand Out

Hello All,

For today I will be playing along with CAS(E) this Sketch, Sweet Stampin', and INKspirational Challenges. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

Our leaping frog shouldn't be 'moving' at all. This little green guy actually comes from a yoga stamp set from Stampendous (see below). It shows the frog stretching to one side. To me, it looked like it was leaping through the air.

Even though there are a lot of elements it seems a bit CAS for me. All that white space the frog leaping into is just divine.

I do enjoy this sentiment for a couple of reasons. One, I like the swampy 'stand out' sentiment. It looks wet and not perfect. Secondly, the saying is just perfect for the leaping amphibian. The scene above reminds me of a swampy area where frogs live.

 Challenges Entered:

Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Take a Leap

INKspirational: Challenge 208- Leap

CAS(E) this Sketch: CTS#361 

  

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. I hope you all have a fantastic day and lots of good crafting vibes headed your way.

All the best,

 

Oceans Delight

Hello Everyone,

For today I am entering one card into four challenges; Just Us Girls, Sweet Stampin', and The Paper Players. Each challenge was very important for this design. Here is my card for today, enjoy.

The crashing wave was actually so easy to make it made me laugh. All you so stamp
some Gorgeous Grunge and heat emboss it white. The Memory Box die cut waves are made of vellum
for translucency. The shells are so delightful with this scene.

As you can see the layout from The Paper Players is represented by the three neutrals, main focal point image
and banner. All I did was condense it a bit.

Details showing the swirls and pearls! The three pearls at the corner of the sentiment added the perfect amount of embellishment. And again a close up of the shells colored using PrismaColor colored pencils.

Challenges Entered:
Just Us Girls: Photo Week- #336
Sweet Stampin': Swirls and Pearls
The Paper Players: PP288

Swirls and Pearls

A few years ago my family went to Cape Cod Massachusetts to visit my mother. There we got a personal tour of the local waterways, sea wildlife, and Shelly Island! Well that is what my daughter coined the island. This place was incredible! The entire island was chuck full of complete hardly damaged shells. They were just laying around in heaps and piles all done by nature. It was shell overload for myself and my children. Thank goodness we didn't fly home because we took our weight in shells with us!

It was a magical place for all and I am sure some of you have even visited 'Shelly Island'. Making this card brought back these memories and all I could do was smile. 

Thank you so much for joining me at TheGrandStampede. I do hope you enjoyed your visit. If you feel so inclined to leave a message that would be great! If not that is fine too, I am just happy you dropped by.. Have a great day and until next time, take care.

All the Best,

Shawna

Blood Moon

Hello All!

Well oops I missed the CAS-ology challenge for moon. But I just couldn't resist making this as soon as inspiration hit. I was watching television last night when I saw a massive moon rise over a cluster of pine trees.. That's it!!

Okay now I had the idea but lets take it a bit further and make it a blood moon! What on earth is a blood moon? Click here for a short video on what a blood moon is. I am certified space nut and I love it!! The mysteries of the Universe never ever bore me! I could watch space shows for eternity.. (get it! okay bad joke).

Now that I am back down to earth here is my card for tonight.

Card is 5.5" x 4"
I wanted it to look like a panorama picture

Gigantic blood moon for Halloween!

Detail showing the understated sentiment.

I thought this card would be great for the Halloween season.. It was actually very simple to make. First I die cut a circle and masked of the moon and the ground line and sponged the sky. Using the negative space of the circle die cut I started to sponge the moon. Took the mask off the ground line and stamped the tree line and sponged the rest black. Finally stamped the sentiment. Easy to make but WOW how effective and bold!! And well..... spooky.

I would like to submit this card to the following blogs:
Addicted to Stamps: Challenge #161- Anything Goes
Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog: Make a Scene
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Blog: Use a Stamp
TIME OUT Challenge Blog: Challenge #39- Make Your Mark

          

Well that is all for me tonight I hope you have a great day and I want to thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to be with me. I really do appreciate it!! If you want to leave a comment that would be great as well. Take care all and see you soon!

All the Best,
Shawna