So for todays challenge, we had to go to each of the designers, roll the dice to determine our numbers (1-6) and see what you get

For my cards I got

Color Selection #1 Harvest Gold

Color Se;ection #2 Razberry Fizz

Color Selection #3 Melon Berry

Neutral Selection True Black

Occassion Selection Thank you

Technique Selection Watercolor

Embelishment Selection Button

Fiber Selection Embriodery Floss

Sketch Selection was #4 (see above)

So I used the melon berry on the top and used a Impression Obession Cover-all stamp FIZZ to give it some texture. I used the confetti garland die to cut out the Harvest Gold and used the matching stamp set to stamp it with back.  Since I did not have any embroidery floss that matched, I dyed white floss with the melon berry stamp pad!  I ran the floss thru 3 true black Papertery Ink buttons along the garland.   I stamped a Thank You with the papertrey Ink Think Big Favorites #19 Stamp and watercolored the image with Anna Griffin water color markers.  Using a spellbinder circle and scallop circle die I was able to cut out the circle and framed it.

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OK, I really struggled to do this…. my creativity was a little off today.   It took me all day to make two cards.   But I guess that happens to all of us at one time or another.  So I reached into my box of papertrey ink dies and pulled out the Framed Out Die #12.  It reminded me of a little polaroid.  So I took some striped paper and paper that looked like frames and made the card.  However I needed something to put in the frames.  I remembered that some of my October Afternoon paper had some little kids, so here they are!!!

From my stash was some flowers from K&Co. and added to the top of the stripes.  Wha-LA!!! Done!

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Todays challenge is using stripes.  I thought I would take a twist and make plaid from a single stripe stamp (Mama Elephant stripe set)  So I am channeling my inner Laura Bassen.   Laura loves to make plaid using a single stripe.   I had always wanted to try this so I became Laura and stamped away….OK not the best Laura because there were mistakes.  But I am sure the first time she also made errors.   I used Papertrey Ink colors Scarlet Jewel, Pure Poppy,  Summer Sunrise, Limeaid, New Leaf.  I also used the Love die from the Papertrey Ink One Liner Die set.

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For this card I wanted something that was simple and was just the word happy.  Using the Papertrey Ink Wonderful Words Die Collection, I just did a tri color card and die cut hello three times.   I used Papertrey Ink cardstock Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise and Orange Zest.

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Todays challenge  is making a word the focal point of the card.   I have the Papertrey Ink Wonderful Words Together Die.   I am still loving the paperpack I just bought and really liked the gold and cream paper but was not sure how to use it, that is until today.   I just watch a video reminding people that you can emboss an entire die cut.  Hmmm, I have embossing powder and this awesome “Together” die cut.  Whah-La!!!! Magic!  Now what goes with gold….hmmmmm, romance, champagne!   Oh yes, I have that awesome champagne die from My Favorite Things.   I cut the glasses from vellum and white cardstock and used some light gold shimmer paper from the Paper Source for the liquid.  To make additional bubbles I used the Starform glitter stickers.   I LOVE these stickers  They add just a little extra something to cards, and for a mere $2.00 I get hundreds of round stickers of many tiny sizes.    They have many colors, this one is the transparent glitter with gold.

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OK, As you can see from the first photo to this one,   My hair is frizzled and I am looking tired.   🙁   Oh well, it gives me another chance to win~~~

So I had two card ideas for Birthday, the Hap-PEA Birthday, and making a shaker card with balloons.     This was the first shaker card I ever made.   and I learned a lot about what to do first, last, glue, etc.   I thought I had it set in my mind what to do in what order but I learned a few things and how to redo things over again.   I also learned that wet glue is too tricky for this process!!!!   But I learned, and I like the card, even though there were mistakes made.

To start with I made a card front with the three balloons from the Papertrey Ink Balloon Dash die set and the BirthdayTrio die set.   After that I used post it notes (the new ones that are for labels that are sticky all over the back) to cut balloons to mask the balloons.  Then removing the one mask, I used distress ink to color the area where the balloon will be.  I used Squeezed Lemonade, Salty Ocean and Mowed Lawn.   Once all the balloon areas were inked, I then used copic markers to make the color banner for the bottom.  I used the following markers

Y04, Y13, G09, G14, B05, B21

I then used the die cut of the word birthday and put it back into the paper and lined up the inside of the a, d and space before the y.    Next time I do this, I will just add it to the acetate.   Then I put the balloon masks back on the card and built a foam tape wall around each balloon.  I used 2 layers of foam tape to make it large enough for  the sequins.   Once I was done with that, I cut a piece of acetate and added to the card front with the die cuts holes.   This is where I made a big mistake, I put foam tape to the bottom of the card below the words.  When I tried to put the acetate on, it would not lay down, I should have put the acetate on first.   Then I glued the acetate down on the card.   Another mistake,  the glue oozed all over and seeped into the acetate, then it got on the front and got all icky.  BIG mistake.   So I decided to cut another front but because I had did the back already I wanted it lined up so I used the front as a guide.   Well I got glue all over the die, and everything else.   Ok, I cleaned everything up and cut it out again.  The die was not perfect and you can see the words are a bit off and the spaces are off.  But at this point, I was just so tired of this and the deadline was looming.  So my card is not perfect

Once I did it again and cut the acetate on first and used a dry tape to glue it together it worked better.   I got some really cool sequins from Studio Calico that had two shades of sequins per pack.  I filled the balloons and put the top on.  Perfect!!

I took some plain bakers twine and colored it it the copics and tied it onto the balloon bottoms and finished the card.

I like it a lot and I learned a lot.   NO GLUE….LOL

I hope you enjoy it and please leave some comment love!!!!!