Birthday Girl Gold Fish- kwerner color inspiration #52

I saw Kristina's Color Inspiration this week and liked the colors and had time, so I decided to make a card. The colors are Baja/aqua, saffron, mustard, sand and white. I needed to make a birthday card for my husband's little cousin who is going to be 5, so I used this challenge to get it done (I know she will like this card).

I saw these colors and thought of a gold fish in the water, so I went with it and here is what I came up with.
This little girl gold fish is off to her birthday party. I made her using punches and used some ink to sponge around her to give her some more depth. The "party" is a white rub on. I used only the colors in the challenge.

In this close up you can see I used the Big Shot and the Flourish texture plate to give the Baja Breeze card stock some texture. The pebbles are made using the 3/4" and the 1/2" circle punches and again sponged to give them more depth.


I figured I better show you where she is going, so here is the inside of the card. A present is


waiting for her on a table and a Happy Birthday banner is hung all in celebration of her!

The banner was stamped in Versa Mark using the Birthday Wish stamp, from the Under $10 page, and then embossed with white embossing powder. I again used the Flourish texture plate and the Big Shot to give the Baja Breeze card stock some texture.

Thanks for looking and have a great week!

Three Scoop Cone- kwerner color inspiration #51

I stopped by Kristina's blog and saw her Color Inspiration #51 and decided to participate. The colors this week are Chocolate, Rose, Mustard and White. I used Stampin' Up! colors so the colors I used are Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, More Mustard and Whisper White.


Here is what I came up with, a vanilla three scoop ice cream cone with hot fudge and cherry on top! I had fun with this one.

I put the More Mustard card stock though the big shot with the Weave texture plate to give it the "cone" look. The ice cream was made using the circle scallop punch. The sentiment is from the level 3 hostess set Goody-Goody Gumdrops.


I drew the "hot fudge" on top using the Chocolate Chip Stampin' Write marker and then covered it with crystal effects and then topped it off with a 1/2" punched circle cherry.

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kwerner design Color Inspiration #47- big shot hi

I saw Kristina's color inspiration this week on her blog and liked the colors, Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron and Whisper White, so I made a card.



Here is what I made. It is kind of different for me, but it just kind of fell into place. There is no stamping on it at all, but a lot of Big Shot. I used the Flower Layers die, the Serif Essentials Alphabet die and the Weave texture plate.






In this picture, you can see the Weave texture on the Whisper White card stock. The DSP I just I found in my scrap box. The button is from the Fresh Favorites 2 button pack from SU.







Here you can see that I put the "H" and the "I" on dimensionals to pop it off the card a little bit.

Thanks for looking, have a great weekend!

kwerner design Color Inspiration #43

I saw Kristina's color inspiration this week and really liked the colors so I thought I would give it a try!

I just received the new Stampin' Up! Simple Flower embosslits die that I ordered and thought I would play with it. It is so neat, you get a deeply embossed image in a cute shape without cutting anything by hand!

So here is that card I made using all of the colors for this week (Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Brocade Blue). Very simple and quick card, but still cute! The Thank You stamp is from the Thank You Kindly stamp set from SU! and the ribbon is the 1/4" grosgrain in Chocolate Chip.






Here is a close up of the card so you can see the embossing a little better!

Thanks for looking!

P.S. Here is another color combination using all of the in colors and some Basic Black paper for the background. I like this one too!

color inspiration #39

I decided I would do the color inspiration from kwernerdesign.com this week, since I have time! The colors are not my normal colors (Basic Black, Real Red, So saffron, Whisper White and Green Galore), but I managed to make up a cute card using them.

I used Tart and Tangy stamp set and all the colors mentions above to stamp the fruit in. The greeting, from Happiness Always stamp set, was stamped in Versa Mark and then embossed with white embossing powder. I used the 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" square punches to punch out the individual fruits and then I used dimensionals to pop the squares off the white background. I sewed the black zig-zag using my new sewing machine.





This second picture shows the dimentionals and the black zig-zag sewing closer.


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kwernerdesign.com Color Inspiration #28

This card was made for the kwernerdesign.com Color Inspiration #28 (click on the image to go to her blog). It was to create something using Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red, Sage Shadow and Whisper White.

Here is what I came up with. It uses all the above colors and nothing else! This card just came together for me and I liked how it turned out!

The stamp sets used were Bella Blossoms and Canvas (stamped on the Sage Shadow for the background). Other accessories used were Pumpkin Pie ribbon and a clip from SU's Clips Assortment.

The Pumpkin Pie part of the flower is popped up using dimensionals. This pictures shows that a little better.

I had fun making my first kwernerdesign.com Color Inspiration and I hope to do more in the future!

Thanks for looking!