TSOT #694 "Hello"

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #694 and combining it with our Sister Challenge, Double Trouble # 3-2-1 Recipe "A Special Day" (3-layers card base does not count, 2-Shapes and/or Images, and 1-stenciled and/or dry embossing technique.

Recently I attended a Hero Arts Friendship Stamp Along and one of the cards had a stamping technique that made the stamps appear as embossed. Click here for instruction for this technique Hero Arts Friendship Stamp Along: Class #3 with Kelly Taylor

Please hop on over to Try a Sketch On Tuesday, check out the Design Team's inspiration for this sketch and share your creativity... hope to see you there.

You may want to hop on over to our sister challenge, Double Trouble to see if you have already met their 3-2-1 Recipe ingredients. If you have, you can enter the challenge and be eligible for random drawing chances... or maybe you just have to add an ingredient to meet the requirement. Hope to see you there.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Beautiful Blossoms #40 "Anything Goes with Florals"

Can you Handle the Pressure "Dry/Heat Embossing" (Stamp and Ink look-a-like for Dry embossed Technique) Understand if this does not meet dry embossing

I Spy with my little Eye #35 & #36 Combined "Spring Flowers / Spring Showers" 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers

     Personal Stamped Background bordered with Grey Cardstock 

Cardstock 

     CTMH Mink and White Daisy     

Stamps 

     Hero Arts DC343 "Abstract Floral" 

     CTMH "Just to Say" Sentiment Hello 

Dies 

     Pink & Main #PNM038 "Scallop Hexagon Dies"

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "London Fog" Ink 

     Jim Holtz Distress Inks - Variety of Colors 

     CTMH White Daisy Pigment-based

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

  

Challenge #215 3-2-1 Recipe "A Special Day" with TSOT #694

Here is my card for Double Trouble Thing 1's 3-2-1 Recipe "A Special Day" and my interpretation of the required ingredients, plus  enhancements. 

3 - Layers (Card Base Does Not Count) 

Patterned Paper using CTMH Sawyer bordered with Eggplant Cardstock 

and 2 Sawyer Stickers adhered with foam tape 

2 - Shapes or Images 

Floral and Rainbow Stickers  

 

1 - Stenciled and/or Dry Embossed Element

Background dry embossed with EF Paper Studios "Bubbles" 

You can stop here... OR PLAY ALONG WITH

Thing 3's Optional Twist - include a kite or other flying element

and/or 

Thing 2's Optional Dare using TSOT Sketch #694, a bi-weekly challenge starting on April 28th. We also have an Alternate Challenge at Beautiful Blossoms 'Anything Florals Goes with Optional Mood Board #40' until their closing date of May 12th and earn another chance in our random drawing.

I included Twisted Sister's optional twist using flower(s) and Double Dare's dare to use TSOT Sketch #694 and alternate at Beautiful Blossoms #40. My card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but the sketch was my inspiration in combining the two challenges to show how easy it is to participant in both DTC and TSOT challenges.

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "Paw-some" and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Beautiful Blossoms #40 "Anything Goes with Florals"

Can You Handle the Pressure 4/2026 with a Twist of Flowers 

Love Those Pretty Papers April Challenge "Spring Flowers" 

I Spy with my little Eye #35 & #36 Combined "Spring Flowers / Spring Showers" 

I was awarded one of the Top 3 Picks at Ellie's Garden Party #14.   

TicTacToe #291 (Left Diagonal: Floral, Dry Embossing

and Patterned Paper)

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     CTMH "Sawyer" Patterned Papers, Zip Strip & Sticker Sheet 

Cardstock 

     CTMH White Daisy and Eggplant 

Stamps 

     CTMH D1629 "Just to Say" Sentiments

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

Other 

     CTMH Thin Foam Tape 

     Embossing Folder in Stash 

Challenge TSOT #688 with DTC #209 3-2-1 Recipe "The Mail Must Go On"

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #688 and combining it with out Sister Challenge, Double Trouble # 3-2-1 Recipe "The Mail Must Go On".

This stamp is one of my favorites and thought it would be perfect for TSOT's sketch. Using Memento London Fog ink I stamped image at an angle and off the edge of a 4" x 5 1/4" white cardstock which left a lot of white space for my CAS technique. A second image was stamped to fussy cut some of the flowers to adhere with 3D thin foam tape for dimension. Recipe completed 3-layers, 2-fussy cut images, and 1-CAS Technique. 

The image was colored using Copic Sketch alcohol-base brushes in a variety of pastel colors, adhered fussy-cut florals with 3D tape, the white cardstock was bordered with a good color match of the purple flowers and then adhered to cardbase. Sentiment was stamped in London Fog. 

On the inside buttom right-hand corner of the card base I stamped the same image angled at the bottom and off the edge using London Fog with no coloring.    

Please hop on over to Try a Sketch On Tuesday, check out the Design Team's inspiration for this sketch and share your creativity... hope to see you there.

You may want to hop on over to our sister challenge, Double Trouble to see if you have already met their 3-2-1 Recipe ingredients. If you have, you can enter the challenge and be eligible for random drawing chances... or maybe you just have to add an ingredient to meet the requirement. Hope to see you there.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Floral Goes Optional Mood Board 37

Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 11 "Anything in or from a Garden" 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:

Cardstock 

     White and Purple    

Stamps 

     Creative Expressions "Butterfly Blooms" 

     2nd Image, "Butterfly Blooms" stamped and fussy-cut florals  

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "London Fog" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) - Variety of Pastels

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

You're the Best - Color Dare #672

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #672 wherein you have to use both colors and no additional colors; however you can use free, black and white, neutrals an gold metallic. Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #649 was combined with the color graphic. 

Looked through my stash for patterned papers in sapphire, brown and vanilla shades and cut in 1/2" strips. Made a Vanilla strip 3/4" and adhered diagonally on a 4" x 5 1/4" panel, randomly placed 1/2" strips from the vanilla strip around the perimeter. Cut off the overlap of 1/2" strips, bordered the panel using Sapphire cardstock and adhered to a vanilla cardbase.  

For the focal point I used a stitched rectangle and cut florals in a vase, two in sapphire and two in vanilla, added a small cut of each color and placed opposite color behind dots of each vase between layers.  The floral vases were adhered to stitched rectangle using glue and some 3D thin foam tape.  

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #672 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

If you like to combine additional Challenges... consider hopping over to either Double Trouble "3-2-1 Recipe" and/or our sister challenge Try a Sketch on Tuesday and see how easy it might be to combine one or both challenges with Color Dare.

Also entered at the Following Challenges:
Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Florals with Optional Mood Board #

Cut It Up #340 "Use more than one die"  
Triple B Oct "Birds, Butterflies & Blooms"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers
     Variety of Scraps using Sapphire and Brown Patterned Paper 
Cardstock
     Sapphire and Vanilla    

Stamps
     Sentiments "Just to Say" 
Dies
     Peachy Cheap "Spring Easter"

     Frame Die in Stash 
Inks/Pens
     Sapphire Ink
Other
     3D Thin Foam Tape

Color Dare #668

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #668 which you must use both colors as shown or closest to.  My first thought was to use these colors for a blended background with a silhouette, but then leaned toward an older technique I had not used in a while, "Triple Time Stamping".  

Cut three proportional rectangle panels, stacked securing with some adhesive and used the Misti to stamp floral images using these colors in, around and across the panels. Randomly stamped small wire mesh around florals using Heather ink. Separated panels and bordered each with candy apple cardstock. and adhered each panel to match up with the floral design.  Stamped a small sentiment in the lower right-corner. 

From same stamp set another floral was stamped on the inside bottom right-hand corner along with a the wire mesh.  

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #668 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Consider hopping over to our DTC sister challenge Try a Sketch on Tuesday and see how easy it might be to combine one or both challenges with Color Dare.

Also entered at the Following Challenges:
Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Florals with Optional Mood Board #32 

Colorful Options Sep 2025 "Anything Goes, Colors and/or theme" 

Ellibelle's Garden Party No. 6 "Anything In or From a Garden" 

Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday September Challenge "AnyThing Goes"

Inspiration Station Sept 2025 Photo #77

     Inspiration Photo: Using Red & Yellow Colors
The Neglected Stuff "August" 

     Stuff:  Paper Garden Stamps, Triple Time Stamping Technique 
Triple 3 Sep 2025 Challenges "Birds, Blooms and Butterflies"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Cardstock
     White Daisy and Candy Apple 
Stamps
     S1509 Paper Garden 

     D1629 Just to Say 
Inks/Pens
     Memento "London Fog" Ink
     Candy Apple Ink 

     Canary Ink 

TSOT #676 - 25th Anniversary

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT) Sketch #676. The CTMH paperpack "Love Story - Silver Pack" had some paper I've wanted to use for quite some time. My inspiration and plan was to use the 3-2-1 Recipe at Double Trouble but my final card ended up as a grey/silver monochromatic perfect for a 25th Wedding Annniversary. 

I chose a scalloped hexagon cutting out the center with a smaller hexagon to make the frame for the focal point. The focal point was a flower that was right in the middle for the background patterned paper and the hexagon frame was approximately the same size as my focal point. The frame was adhered with 3D thin foam tape and from the same patterned paper the same floral was fussy-cut to use for layering and dimension. 

For more dimension the leaves were lifted up over the frame, another sprig was fussy-cut and adhered with 3D thin foam tape over the same sprig on the patterned paper. Wink of Stella was added to the frame, floral, leaves and sprig which gave a little sparkle against the background.  

To finish my card a sentiment was die cut using three different dies, layered 3 times for dimension and adhered to the bottom of the background. Again added Wink of Stella to bring in more sparkle against the background.  

Please hop on over to Try a Sketch On Tuesday, check out the Design Team's inspiration for this sketch and share your creativity... hope to see you there. 

You may want to hop on over to our sister challenge, Double Trouble to see if you have already met their 3-2-1 Recipe ingredients. If you have, you can enter the challenge and be eligible for random drawing chances... or maybe you just have to add an ingredient to meet the requirement. Hope to also see you there.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above "Anything Goes with a Die Cut" August 

I Spy With My Little Eye No. 28 "Something to Celebrate"

Ellibelle's Garden Party 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Floral Goes Optional Mood Board 31" 

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - Aug 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise:
Design Papers

     Love Story Paperpack "Silver"    

Cardstock 

     Gray and White Daisy  

Dies 

     Pink and Main Scallop Hexagon Dies 

     Lil'Inker Mixed/Stitched Numbers Die Set 

     Paper Roses "Words" 

     My Artc Alphabet Stamp and Cuts 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Bitty Sparkles 

DTC Challenge #197 3-2-1 Recipe "You're In the Spotlight" with TSOT #676

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #197 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "You're in the Spotlight" consisting of 3 Color of Choice (Purple, Yellow, Lagoon and Green), 2 Layers Not to Include Card Base, and 1 Spotlight Technique.  Click on Spotlight Technique here for easy tutorials for creating this technique. Also included using  Twisted Sister's optional twist to include flower(s) and share my card with our alternate challenge "Triple B (Butterflies, Birds & Blooms)".  My inspiration came from our sister challenge, TSOT, Try a Sketch on Tuesday #676, rotating the sketch to landscape.  

In the CTMH paperpack "Love Story" there was a large floral sticker in black and white.  I chose a scalloped circle, cutting out the center with a smaller scalloped circle to make a frame for the spotlight technique. I circled off the space to be colored and then colored the florals and leaves within the circle using Copic Sketch  (alcohol-base) pens.  

Adhered the floral on black cardstock, added 3D thin foam tape to adhere to the card base.  The frame was place around the colored floral sticker and adhered to the background.  To finish my card a sentiment was die cut using white cardstock was placed in upper right-hand corner. 

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe "You're in the Spotlight" and play along with our optional twist and double dare while earning additional chances to our random drawing. Check out the Design Teams inspirations and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above "Anything Goes with a Die Cut" August 

Ellibelle's Garden Party 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Floral Goes Optional Mood Board 30" 

The Neglected Stuff "   Used: Floral Sticker from retired CTMH Paperpack

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - August 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Love Story Paperpack "Floral Sticker"     

Cardstock 

     Black and White Daisy

Dies 

     Scalloped Circle Dies 

     Peachy Cheap "Words" 

Inks/Pens 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) Variable Colors

     Copic Multi-Liner "Black" 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Bitty Sparkles 

Color Dare #662 Hugs

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #662. This color challenge was a little bit of a challenge for me... I had no idea what I had in my stash... surprised when I found some gold metallic and a clear plastic piece of gold polka-dots. 

 

First cut a white cardbase and a gold metallic for the border and adhered them together. The polka dot was cut the same size as the white cardbase and then adhered using glue placed behind several polka-dots so glue wouldn't be seen through the plastic.

The polka dot background appeared simple but yet eloquent... felt it deserved a pop of color for the focal point and what better than a pink flower cut from glitter and gold metallic leaves. To finish the card, cut in gold one of my favorite sentiments for an all occasion card and layered with white cardstock.

 

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #662 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above "July"  A/G with a Die Cut  

All Sorts Challenge #828 "Flowers" 

Beautiful Blossoms 

Ellibelle's Corner: Garden Party #4 

Ellibelle's Corner: Crafty Wednesday (June/July)

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     CTMH Clear Plastic with Gold Polka Dots 

     Gold Metallic Paper 

     CTMH Pink Glitter Paper

Cardstock 

     White Daisy 

Dies 

     In Stash, unknown vendor "Gold Leaves"  

     Reasonable Dies "Flowers #5A26411

     Tuttie Designs "Hugs Sentiment"

Inks/Pens 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

DTC #195 3-2-1 Recipe "Inky Pinkies" Beautiful Wishes.. AND TSOT #674

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #195 using the 3-2-1 Recipe "Inky Pinkies" and combining it with our Sister Challenge, Try a Sketch on Tuesday (TSOT Sketch #674) which starts on July 7th. This card will not be entered in TSOT challenge due to the backlinking rule but used as an example of combining the two challenges for interested participants.  

I love this style of card but I don't do them very often.  I like to experiment with them as there are a lot of cardmakers that do this style and make it look simple... but don't let that fool you... it's not that simple. It was fun to look through my stash for backgrounds peviously made and foiled to use with one of my favorite butterfly floral stamps and with an add of a couple more stamps it seemed to fit the sketch.  Added a sentiment and strips of the background on the inside of card base on the right-hand border.  

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble, have fun with our 3-2-1 Recipe " " and play along with our optional twist and dare while earning additional chances to our random draw. Check out the Design Teams inspirations, optional twists and dare and let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

Then hop on over to our sister challenge,Try a Sketch On Tuesday to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and you may want to consider using their sketch with our 3-2-1 recipe.

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Beautiful Blossoms "Anything Floral Goes Optional Mood Board 30 

The Neglected Stuff "June" Neglected Stuff Used: Background Techniques 

Triple B: Birds, Butterflies and Blooms - July 

Simon Says Fun with Paint featuring Paper Artsy 

Elllibelle's Crafty Wednesday "Anything Goes"  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Background: Jel Plate Technique and Add of Gold Foil 

Cardstock 

     Lagoon and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Rubbernecker Stamps "Beautiful Wishes"

     Visible Image "Transmission Glitch" 

     Creative Expressions "Butterfly Blooms" 

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

Thinking of You - Color Dare #652

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #652 and the soft colors were perfect for a pretty Spring floral using the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #629.  

Decided to keep much to the sketch and enhanced it with stitched frames. Selected a subtle striped patterned paper layered with a light brown border to match the softness of the florals. Stamped a sentiment and the card was completed.  

Please hop on over to Color Dare's Color Board #652 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... please join us for this fun color challenge... hope to see you there.

 

If you like to combine additional Challenges... consider hopping over to either Double Trouble "3-2-1 Recipe" and/or our sister challenge Try a Sketch on Tuesday and see how easy it might be to combine one or both challenges with Color Dare. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

A Cut Above "May" Must use at least one die

Beautiful Blossoms "Optional Mood Board #29" 

Cut It Up #300 "Send Me Flowers"  (Must use at least one die)

The Neglected Stuff "May" Brought out of hiding Floral Dies, border frame from my daughter's destash a year ago, and CTMH frames never used.  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Lovely Story Paperpack "Stripe" 

Cardstock 

     Toffee and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Sentiment:  D1629 Just to Say 

Dies 

     Stampin' Up Floral Cut & Emboss Dies

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

 

Color Dare #650 and Double Trouble 3-2-1 Recipe "For Someone Special"

This is my Design Team project for Color Dare #650 You MUST use the two colors in the graphic. There are some Free colors you can add to your project but you MUST use Blue and Purple. For my free color I chose to use a silver embossing for my stamped mage.  

I chose to combine the Double Trouble's 3-2-1 Recipe "For Someone Special" and Color Dare graphic. The Background ingredient is a pretty gray diamond pattern and stamped my butterfly and  floral image VersaMark and then heat embossed with silver embossing powder. The Color Dare graphic has two colors that must be used, purple and blue, colored using Distress Inks for a close match, and this covered the 2-Colors of Your Choice ingredient. Smudged some color on my patterned paper while coloring so chose a decorative border die to cut the bottom r-h corner, added a purple corner including the background border.  Added a die cut sentiment and some jems to meet the 3-Layers ingredient.  

After photo was taken and posted the colors this was not a good match of the purple and blues... so a second card was done with a better match, but my smudge was in a different spot that I covered with a silver pen.    

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #650, check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

And/Or

You may also like to hop over to our Sister Challenge, to see how easy it might be to combine Double Trouble's 3-2-1 Recipe Challenge with a color challenge.  

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Beautiful Blossoms #28 "Anything Goes with a Floral" 

Double Trouble's 3-2-1 Recipe Challenge "For Someone Special" 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Since CTMH has closed it's doors I have sorted my CTMH design paper packs and  mix-ins in shades of color and theme. I have a large supply of CTMH papers and they are all so pretty and will remain in my stash for a long time and used quite frequently.  Future posts will only be identified as CTMH patterned papers.  

First Color Dare #850  

Design Paper Papers 

     CTMH Grey Patterned Paper for Background

Cardstock 

     Purple (Eggplant) and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Creative Expressions "Butterfly Blooms"      

Dies 

     Tutti Design "Hugs" Sentiment 

     Border Die - Stitched (In Stash) 

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "London Fog" Ink 

     CTMH Sapphire and Eggplant Inks 

Other 

     CTMH Small Clear Sparkles 

     VersaMark Ink and Silver Embossing Powder