Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge Week 8 by Andie

During this time of quarantine, Brandy and I miss crafting together.  It isn't that we did so often - we didn't see each other every week sometimes.  It's more that we can't see each other.  So I had an idea to create a challenge each week - one just for Brandy and she could create one just for me.  Brandy has to amp the idea up and came up with our official title.  This is our eighth week of challenges.  I present to you Week Eight of the Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge.

Brandy's Challenge for Andie:

Cool/sweet Treats with a summer pallet. 

Your color pallet and inspiration photo are provided.

I had so much fun with the challenge this week.  Again, this challenge caused me to think outside my typical box.  I remembered a free 6 x 6 patterned paper pad with coordinating ephemera in the stash.  I pulled that out with the intention to use it to make cards just using the ephemera in a collage style card.  However, the ephemera didn't have a lot of sweet treats so I went searching what to add.  I had my Silhouette machine out for another project and so I just decided to search for a cut file that fit.  I found these delightful popsicles and away we went.   

The sentiments are from two different stamps sets.  "Happy Birthday" is from the Simply Said stamp set from Clearly Besotted and the "today is all about you" is from the Reverse Confetti Word Up stamp set.  Other than that, it's a patterned paper show.  A couple of the cards I added Crystal Accents to create some shine.  Otherwise, the cards seem to make themselves.

I'm not sure we meant to have these challenges go on so long.  Arizona is opening back up, but both Brandy and I are being cautious about how much we expose one another until we see a little more concrete data.  As such, we continue to miss our time together.  We've decided to shake up the challenge a bit for the month of June.  More on that next week.

Happy June, everyone.  It's officially here.

I'm Over the Moon

Ever has stamp or die envy?  I will admit that there are times where I am a tiny bit jealous of a stamp or die set that Brandy has.  Usually I resist giving in to this petty thinking and either request a few stamped images and/or satisfy the "itch" by making something pretty with what I have.  When Waffle Flower offered grab bags of products Brandy and I each purchased a set and one set had the Waffle Flower Moon and Star die set.  I was ecstatic because this is one of the sets I had some die envy over.  It took me a little while to get some other projects out of the way, but I'm sharing today my first sets using this die.  First are a pair of Welcome Baby cards for the stash.

I just love the sentiment on this yellow one from the Simon Says Stamps Tiny Words Faith stamp set.

One last card that could be an all occasion and/or birthday card.  The soft pastels were made using my Brusho watercolor crystals.

A Patterned Paper Set of Notecards

I shopped the stash looking for patterned paper to go with some of the florals colored after stamping with my Concord & 9th Annuals stamp and die set.  I ended up selecting the Mintay Papers Farmlife paper pad because the blues went together well.  And also, the patterns are so delightful!  I can tell you I was absolutely thrilled with how this card turned out.  It really looks like it was made to go together.

I was so enamored by the paper patterns and the small images I decided to fussy cut out some frames and images for use in collages and put together two more cards using a small Reverse Confetti Word-up stamp set. 

It has been a while since I used patterned papers to make cards.  I forgot how very much I love to do so and these two cards make me smile.