Thursday, March 2, 2023

Stuck On You

You know, I've got several brand-new stamp sets that I haven't even inked up at all yet, plus several more that I've only played with once, so what do I do?  I make cards with retired stamp sets.  I can't help it, sometimes I see a challenge and I'm like OOH I have the perfect stamps for that and there sit my new stamps like what about us???  Yeah yeah, I'll get to you, I promise.  (I hope.)

Anyway.


As soon as I saw the Inspired By Nature challenge, I knew I had to break out one of my retired cactus stamp sets--I have both Cactus Cuties from last year and Flowering Cactus from the year prior, so for this card I used Cactus Cuties with the DSP stack that coordinated with Flowering Cactus.


I used the sketch as a jumping-off point too, though I didn't follow it strictly:


And I was inspired by the colors from The Card Concept:


I think my card kind rides the line between CAS and clean and layered, but since most of the "white space" is patterned paper it probably leans to clean and layered.  I have a friend who is moving to Arizona this summer, so I know she'll be getting this : )

Don't forget about the Go Green challenge at SUO Challenges too, you can use current or retired SU! stuff for that one, just show us shades of green.

Hope you have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cactus Cuties
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Thick Very Vanilla, Flowering Cactus DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Dimensionals, Rustic Metallic Dots

4 comments:

  1. πŸ’—πŸ’—πŸ’—this!! I saw this at the Card Concept Challenge and came by for a closer look. I would love you to come and play with us at the Colorful Options Challenge; green is our color of the month. I hope you'll join the fun! Have a creative week. Join with #colorfuloptionschallenge or at https://colorfuloptions.blogspot.com/ Cheers, Makira

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  2. What a fun card, Christy. Thanks so much for sharing with us at The Card Concept. We enjoy having you play along and hope that you'll visit again soon.
    Blessings,
    karen L, DT
    The Card Concept
    www.karen-mycuprunnethover.blogspot.com

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  3. What an awesome cactus card! Thanks for playing along at The Card Concept!

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  4. Great card Christy :) Simple and perfect. Love that cactus image and how you used our colors. Thanks for joining us at The Card Concepts this week. Karen (DT)

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