Monday challenges

Yes, I know the post title seems out of place because today is Tuesday.  Today I’m sharing cards I made yesterday for the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps April release party challenges at Splitcoaststampers.com.  Sweet ‘n Sassy sponsored three challenges to celebrate their new products.

Since I don’t always do things in order, LOL, the first card I created was for the third challenge, to make a monochromatic card.  This idea came to me pretty quickly; I’ve seen this general card idea done by several people who share their work in the Splitcoaststampers gallery.  The only hesitation I had was in choosing white or Soft Sky cardstock for the base of this one layer card.  I decided to hoard the Soft Sky and go with white. I used large Post-It notes to mask off the area I wanted to ink.

The second challenge was to use the theme of “April showers” as your inspiration.  I wasn’t easily coming up with any ideas for that, so I went on with the first challenge and made a birthday card.  I decided to combine this with the current Sweet Stop sketch challenge – to use any of the previous Sweet Stop sketches.  I chose sketch #145 to show off one of my newest digital images.  I took the color scheme from the designer papers.

And now I have two more cards for the box I’m planning to send to Operation Write Home at the end of the month.  Now I need to get working on Father’s Day cards to include in that shipment!

Supplies for the monochromatic card:
Stamps: Butterfly Flourish, Love From Cocoa (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Soft Sky, Baja Breeze, Blue Bayou (Stampin’ Up)
Other: post-it notes; sponges

Supplies for the birthday card:
Digital Image: Cookie’s Gift (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Stamps: Everyday Sayings (Lizzie Anne Designs)
Cardstock: Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry, Razzleberry Lemonade designer paper (Stampin’ Up); Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); printer ink
Other: Rich Razzleberry ribbon (SU); markers (Copic)