Allsorts 12th Birthday Celebration Challenge with Lots of Prizes and Happy, Bright and Sunny Colors

Hello and welcome! It's time already for a new theme at Allsorts challenge. It's a special week this week as we are celebrating Allsorts' 12th Birthday, how wonderful is that!! And we are also introducing two new design team members, Lolo and Lorraine, both long time crafters and bloggers so you may already be familiar with their wonderful work and you can take a look at their first Allsorts DT creations in todays Allsorts blog post! 

For our 12th birthday we are giving away 12 prizes this week so there will be 12 lucky winners but you do have to join in our challenge in order to be entered into the drawing. Our theme this week is "Happy, Bright and Sunny Colors". And remember you may enter up to 3 times for more chances to win!

You can take a look at the prizes below, the first photo (Heartfelt Creations lot) is the grand prize, and the goodies in the second photo will be divided into 11 additional prizes, all coming from this wonderful group of sponsors: Craft Stash, Chloes Cards, Tattered Lace, Crafting.co.uk, Sizzix and Bee Crafty.

 

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I decided to use yellow and green for my bright, happy and sunny card, these colors always make me happy, and I chose a pretty rose stamp from Penny Black's set All Abloom.

Distress inks were used to make the background,  I used a technique referred to "Splash Watercolor", I've mentioned it before here, but if you've missed those posts, then you can take a peek at Loll's super short video and see how this is done. 

This background was actually done a while ago but haven't used it then, so I don't remember the exact inks, probably Mustard Stain and the green looks a lot like Mowed Lawn and then some sort of a darker yellow?

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So after discovering the background in the box, I decided to make it a floral card keeping the flower yellow as well following an inspiration photo from the The Card Concept , and I chose this rose from the Penny Black set All Abloom. It was stamped directly on this background using Versafine Onyx ink, then stamped again on a separate piece of Bristol Vellum paper, colored with Zig Clean Color markers and I cut out just the blossoms to adhere to the card with foam tape. The butterfly is also part of the same stamp set by Penny Black.

Next I used a chicken wire stencil by TCW and Mustard Stain ink to add some more interest to the card and once again I used my Stampin Up French Script (long retired) randomly as well. For the script I used Twisted Citron Distress ink. 

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The black faux stitching was done with a retired set by Whimsy Stamps and the sentiment is from Penny Black's set Sprinkles and Smiles, both stamped using Versafine Onyx ink. 

To finish off the card I added some parrot green jute twine (I had purchased it from May Arts but it's no longer listed on their site, some colors are available via Amazon unfortunately not this shade of green but you may like this alternative) to the card and adhered to a heavy weight white card base. 

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Inspiration Photo:

The Card Concept - Garden Pleasures (Inspired by the yellow flowers, my card style this time is Freestyle Collage)

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Use PB stamps // Stamping Sensations - Blooming Beautiful // We Love Chocolate Baroque Challenge - Bright Sunny Colors //  

Colour Crazy Challenge - Coloring // Aud Sentiments Challenge - For the Girls // Cardz 4 Galz - Things with Wings // Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes // Ike's World - Butterflies // Addicted to Stamps and More - Stencils // Crafty Gals Corner - For the Ladies // The Paper Funday - Flowers // 

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