HIMCR 361 scraps theme with Christmas in July twist

2nd Saturdays of the month at HIMCR are about using your scraps, thus the twist for July is to have Christmas included in your paper-crafted creation.

Here is what I made for the DT inspirations for #361:

This photo shown below is proof that papers on the right have been used previously, so my scraps. As seen above, the spring green glitter paper wasn't used. Red cardstock was folded for the card base. The antique wallpaper looking paper (The Paper Studio) was used for sentiment backing for both the cover and inside panels. The khaki green and dark red prints are old stock as is the 6" x 6" cardstock.

The fabulous winter deer featured Christmas card is for challenge #361's Design Team inspirations using the prize sponsor's image(s) at HIMCR. Use the blog post link for seeing the rest of the DT cards, details for this challenge and participating, guidelines, past sponsors, archived posts, and more.
Link:  http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2018/07/hmcr-361-super-scraps-saturday-with.html

Thanks, MHK Designs, for the majestic Holiday Deer image set! MHK Designs is #361's DT provider of images plus the prize sponsor for a selected winner from the pool of anticipated participant's linked creations:  https://www.etsy.com/shop/MHKDesigns?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Some more photos of the card that use the green glitter paper as a backdrop:

As soon as I saw this very impressive deer image at MHK Designs, I knew I wanted to select this to use for this Saturday. Thanks again, MHK Designs, for allowing us to pick out what we wanted to use from your marvelous digital images!!

Until another challenge or occasion/need to craft, from the USA heartland, Becca S

Bookmarks with color palette for CTD 501 and IB 28

What colors remind you of nature? meadows? woods? hills and mountains?

These challenges started at different times this week have been the sources of motivation for creating 2 bookmarks. A school district near us has the mascot Timberwolves and colors of dark green, gray, and black. So I decided this evening to fuse the color combos together a bit:

Inspired By #28 Campfire S'mores (colors: kraft, white, dark brown/black, and green from the boxes)
Color Throwdown #501 colors (grey, yellow, kraft, and white)

http://theseinspiredchallenges.blogspot.com/2018/07/inspired-by-campfire-smores.html



and

 

https://colorthrowdown.blogspot.com/2018/07/color-throwdown-501.html

Here's my shopped supplies from my stockpiles to get ready. You will notice some editing has been done. Until I've played around with combinations and sizes, several changes can occur while in the process of making paper crafted creations. Digital images have had several layers of colored pencils (black, gray, dark brown, light brown) added to them to make them match the color palettes better. Placement of elements is different between the two. Thinking of you border is different on each bookmark as well as what was used as the base and what was used for the background.

#1: CTD 501

#2: IB 28

Supply sources:
a. damask paper used for a backdrop and the dotted papers are= The Paper Studio
b. dark pine green and medium gray cardstock= The Paper Studio
c. marbled caramel thin weight cardstock and putty gray cardstock=Colorbok
d. kraft cardstock=?
e. Thinking of You stamp= Stampin' Up (bought used/resale shop)

Continuing to craft in the USA heartland, Becca S

PPCC blog 388 DT creations with Sketchy Saturday layout 18

Friends are like flowers in the garden of life....

2 cards featured for the PPCC blog design team and an additional one made that looks better in person than after photographing, so it will appear here but not on the PPCC blog.

Occasions: birthday (2) and friendship (1)

Colors: lots of violets, blues, greens

#1: for PPCC #388

#2: for PPCC #388 and Sketchy Saturday #18

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges blog ID badge and link to get details about participating as a crafter, seeing what the other crew members of the DT have made, and more:

http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/2018/07/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-388-and-dt.html

The prize sponsor and DT images provider for PPCC #388 is Bugaboo:
https://bugaboostamps.com/

and a 2nd prize sponsor for PPCC #388 is Di's Digi Stamps:
https://www.disdigistamps.com/

Sketch design that inspired my layouts for the birthday cards: (#2 is more closely aligned to sketch than #1, so I will only submit/link card #2 for sketches by laurel)

https://laurelseabrookdesigns.blogspot.com/2018/07/sketchy-saturday-with-reverse-confetti.html

Additional views of the birthday cards:

#3: sentiment from the Flower Garden Set by Bugaboo, this week's PPCC blog prize sponsor and images provider for the design team=

Still crafting in the USA heartland, Becca S