Fabulous! --The Card Concept #65

January 24, 2017

Today I am playing along with The Card Concept!  I love this challenge and I am always inspired by all the DT cards.  I really enjoy seeing the variety of styles and learn so much from their examples.

My favorite is big, bold colors, and this challenge has it!  I used the colors and the inspiration from the vintage photos for my card. 

I created a Clean and Simple card.  This is a rarity for me because I love lots of layers and stuff!  LOL!

My base card is white.  I added a piece of orange paper on the top.  Then, I created the watercolored background using Picked Raspberry Tim Holtz Distress ink.  I decided to stamp the Martini Lady  from Suzy Says Stamps on white paper and fussy cut her for a darker image.  It is very difficult to achieve this image if you just stamp on the watercolor paper.  I wanted her to be the focal point.  The sentiment is created by using Spiced Marmalade Distress ink on watercolored paper and then using the "fabulous" word die from The Ton and cut it out three times.  I added pearls for her necklace and earrings.  

I hope you enjoyed my card today!  Thanks for stopping by! 

HUGS!

Claire

Bring on the Boos! --PP316 and FMS 257

October 9, 2016

It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at The Paper Players!

This week the sensational Sandy is our hostess!  She has a fun color challenge for all of us to play along with!  We can't wait to see what you create!  

I am also using the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.  Jen M. is the hostess this week.  I hope she won't mind that I changed the shape a little on my card. :) 

The base card is white and I cut a piece of Halloween paper with spider webs all over it with a stitched rectangle die.  I thought the pumpkin pie color and black was perfect for my background.  I just received this Martini Lady stamp set from So Suzy Stamps.  I LOL'd  when I first saw it.  My dear friend LOVES martini's.  I knew I had to make a card for her using this set.  I thought the off set rectangle gave her more pizzazz!  I used a retired SU stamp set called "Making Spirits Bright" to stamp the Halloween martini!  The eyeball really sets it off, don't you think?  I colored it with a Wild Wasabi marker.  It is the only place I use this color, but I felt it worked perfectly.  I fussy cut the glass and added it to my "martini girl's " hand.  I used Wink of Stella to make it shine.  The sentiment is from the same set.  I added pearls on her necklace!  All "southern" girls wear pearls.  LOL!

So happy you stopped by my blog today!  Please leave a message!  I love to hear from you!  

Don't forget to check out the fabulous inspirations from our design team and I hope that you will play along with our challenge this week.

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater

 Jaydee
Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy
Sandy Mathis 

Linda Callahan

Hannelie Bester

Colleen Begley

Challenge Rules:

 Create a NEW paper, or digital, project.

1. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us. 
2. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
3. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL.  Entries linked to more than 3 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification!
4. Have fun!

All stamping products are welcome! Thank you for joining the Paper Players this week.  

Have a wonderful week!
XXX,
Claire