Hey Friends…I am back this evening with nothing but some projects I made to enter into some challenge posts.  It has been sort of freeing to create for the pure sake of creating.

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Up first is a sketch challenge from the brew crew over at Coffee Loving Cardmakers.  And of course, a coffee/tea theme is always part of the plan.

I pulled out a fun coffee image from Altnew and stamped it onto some kraft paper with some ground express distress ink and then added some versamark ink and clear embossing powder over it.  I also distressed the edges with some distress ink.  The background was created with a stencil and more shades of brown distress ink.  Then using a Verve stamp and die, I added the sentiment to complete the sketch.

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Next up is a theme challenge celebrating the 400th challenge over at The Paper Players.  The obvious choice for the celebration is well…Celebration!

I went with a purple theme, and added bunch of purple distress ink onto some watercolor paper.  I added a die cut sentiment from Elizabeth Craft Designs and a sentiment from The Ink Road.  I also die cut the oval on a plain piece of purple cardstock with an Elizabeth Craft Designs frame die.  Finally I added some sequins from Sparkle Blend sequins.

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I attempted and sort of failed the sketch challenge over at My Favorite Things.  I wanted to reuse what I trimmed away, but it sort of just fizzled in the over all designs.

The background was stamped with distress ink and blended with a different shade of brown.  I used a retired MFT background woodgrain die on the kraft paper and another retired MFT stamp set as the focal image.  I colored the image with my copics and really like how that came out.

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I created a somewhat silly masculine card for the masculine theme card challenge over at Art Impressions.

I stamped out what I believe is a retired front and back stamp set from Art Impressions and then colored it with my Tombow markers and blending tool.

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My last card is a theme challenge from the team over at Allsorts Challenge.  The theme is “In My Garden” and looking for all kinds of floral in the design.  I stamped out some retiring floral stamps from Altnew and colored it with my Dewert watercolor pencils and blended it with my tombow blending marker.

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Thanks for peaking in at my challenge cards!  Have you been playing any interesting challenge groups lately?  Let me know!