A dozen cards

I have three groups of cards left to share from the craft retreat I attended at the beginning of the month. Originally I was going to share each group in a separate post. But then I decided I was ready to move on to other things, so instead I'm going to share them all in one post. There are twelve cards altogether, so I'll just add a sentence or two about each card.

I love the color palette of these cards! The blue card was made for one of the challenges on my retreat BINGO board (to use Tri-Blend alcohol markers). I didn't want to do a lot of coloring, so I chose images that weren't too small or detailed. I colored and die cut the images and added a few small birds and some paint splatter to the background. For the other two cards, I stamped all the images on a half sheet of white card stock then trimmed it down for two card backgrounds. Each panel is matted with gold foil card stock. I added a stamped greeting to one card and die-cut letters to the other.

Most of these cards were designed for challenges. For the upper left card, the challenge was to make a card where 90% of the embellishments were made with stamping. I stamped and die cut a bunch of flowers and leaves for my embellishments. For the top middle card, the challenge was to make a card primarily with the products we received in our goody bags. The products I used were the patterned papers, the blue "happy" strip, and the arrow embellishments. The top right card wasn't a challenge; just a simple stamping card to try out a color combo. For the bottom left card, the challenge was to use three different die sets; I chose the flowers, the label shape, and the scalloped border. The last card was a color challenge. I stamped the colored blocks using the colors I chose for the challenge and then I added a small punched flower of each color for a simple embellishment.

And we're down to the last three cards! The purple card on the left was not a BINGO challenge, but it was a personal challenge. By the time we were starting to wrap up on Sunday morning I realized I had used every stamp set I brought with me except one. So I had to squeeze out one more card so I could say I'd used every stamp set. Yahoo! The other two cards were two more color challenges. For the card in the middle I used ink as the way to work in all my colors. I tried that method for the card on the right, too, but I wasn't crazy about how those three ink colors looked together. So instead I focused on card stock with a couple of die-cut sprigs and little punched flowers.

That's it! I've shared all 53 cards I made during the retreat. If you have any questions, just leave me a comment, and I'll do my best to respond as soon as I can. I'm not sure if I'll be back with another post this week. I have an idea brewing for a project, and if I decide to do it, I'll be busy making a bunch of cards in a short amount of time. :)

Thanks for stopping by!