This card was for my husband's brother for an early January birthday. I've missed several birthdays during Covid! About the time I was making this, the weather here and in northern California was really cold for several weeks, and we were all saying, let's bring on the warmth! Ultimately, I decided to case a card I made several years ago to be able to re-use these wonderful cattail scenery dies, speed up my finishing time, and bring the idea of warm cattail weather and a lovely sunset sky! We all sure need some gold rays and are already getting tired of winter!
In preparation of another round of challenge catch-ups, I looked over my challenge list to see what might fit my card idea. I found 14 fairly new to older challenges that would fit by the time I finished. They are listed below:
1) AOCC22 - All Occasion Card Challenge/ January 2022. An ongoing/monthly challenge encourages you to set goals ahead for each month to help you complete and mail your cards more timely! This is the first card I need for the New Year...a masculine birthday card.
2) USEIT2022 - Use It Challenge/ January 2022. An ongoing/ annual challenge that requires you to use OLD/ DUSTY and long unused items and/or OLD/NEW items purchased, never used, and seemingly forgotten! My OLD item(s): 2018 punch (Tailored Tag) and 2019 stamp/ die set (Friends Like You/ Friendly Silhouettes). It was good to pull these out after two years and re-use them!1)
3) S2S21NOV - Save to Stamp (aka Stamp to Support One Another)/ Sponging, Brayering, Blending - 11/5/21. A monthly challenge originally to make cards to earn credit to purchase more stamping products, but evolved into a challenge to cards, make friends, and to support one another. My card features an ink-sponged and blended sunset sky.
4) F4A592 - Free for All Challenge/ Colorful Weather - 9/3/21. Challenge: what do you think of when you hear colorful weather...your choice. My card depicts a colorful sunset.
5) WORD0821 - Fan Club Monthly Challenge - August 2021/ Kitchen Sink - 8/16/21. Challenge: be inspired by food, kitchen things, i.e. a dish pattern. My inspiration is from a Cattails embroidery kitchen towel and a cattails dish pattern: Cambridge Pottery Dishes and Cattails Embroidery Towels. My card is for the WORD challenge for MISC. My first-letter elements used are M=markers (cattail coloring, pearl coloring), Mini pearls; I=insect (dragonflies); S=sunset sky, So Saffron cs, Soft Suede cs ; C=cattails, celebrating, Crushed Curry cs.
6) MIX449 - Mix-ability Challenge/ Masculine Birthday - 8/6/21. Challenge: any technique or design for a masculine birthday card. My card is for BIL's birthday. Mediums: Dye-based ink (stamping & sponged sunset), Copic markers (dark brown cattails), pigment ink (ink-distressed edges).
7) MMTPT641 - Teapot Challenge/ Sending Smiles to Sam - 11/3/20. Challenge: make a tent card. Make it cheerful. I made a simple tent card (top fold) with a cheerful, warm nature theme. As I'm late to the party, this will be a birthday card for my husband's brother.
IC749 - Inspiration Challenge/ Laundry Basket - 4/11/20. Colors and nature were my inspiration choice: Harvest Pumpkin Quilt!. I used the colors in sunset sky and nature scene.
9) FS677 - Featured Stamper Challenge/ Oh My Paper Crafting (aka Angela Bode) - 1/26/20. I always love browsing Angie's gallery to see what she's been up to. I'm doing some challenge catch-ups and found this card: Summer Flight!. I was inspired by this lovely nature scene of cattails and dragonflies. I kept Angie's cattail and dragonfly nature scene, but changed it up to a sunset die-cut scene instead a morning-look stamped scene, thus changing my color scheme entirely.
10) ABC10C2 - Alphabet Challenge - Round 10/ Letter C--Double Challenge = climate - 9/5/19. My card features a CATTAILS nature scene showing a lovely warm climate depicted by the beautiful sunset sky.
11) CAS549 - Clean & Simple Challenge/ Sunset - 9/2/19. Challenge: include a sunset on your card.
12) SC764 - Sketch Challenge - 8/28/19. Sketch Tweaking: Sketch features 4 horizontal strips on a cardbase with a circle at right lower side. I exchanged the 4 strips to 4 horizontal sponged color bands and I changed circle shape to a quadrilateral in the same position.
13) WT730 - Ways to Use It Challenge/ Waters Edge - 3/7/19. Challenge: use water, water images, watercoloring, etc. My card features a nature scene of cattails which grow in wetlands of up to 2 ft. of water. I have not depicted the water itself, but the cattails scene where one "feels" rather than sees the water and "knows" it's there or the cattails would not be!
14) CC658 - Color Challenge/ Delightfully Blissful with a Twist - 10/24/17. Colors: Blackberry Bliss, Tangelo Twist, Daffodil Delight, Black (optional). I chose not to use the optional black, but did add the neutral shade of Soft Suede for the cattails. The other colors were achieved by sponging on a Daffodil Yellow cardstock.
Ingredients: Stampin' Up Products: Cardstocks--Rich Razzleberry, So Saffron, Soft Suede, Naturals-Ivory (retired). Inks--Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Real Red (sky sponging/ stamping). Stamps--Friend Like You (sentiment/ dragonflies). Dies--Friendly Silhouettes (cattails/ dragonflies). Punch: Tailored Tag. Marker: Early Espresso (cattails). Mini Pearls (Copic colored). Other: EK Victorian corner punch (inside). Size: 4-3/4" x 6".
Registered: September 28, 2005 Location: NC,USA Posts: 1542
Sat, Feb 12, 2022 @ 2:39 AM
A really stunning sunset scene. Such a lot f challenges you covered with this one. The cattails and dragonflies scene and warm sky brought summer back for me.
------------------------------ Happy Crafting, SuZ FS818 Proud Fan Club Member