Just Us Girls # 477 - Word Week

Vicki is our host this week at Just Us Girls and she has chosen a word that should fill our gallery.

I spent way more time on my card that I usually do but once I had the idea in my head I had to keep going.  It's all part of using neglected stamps.

First I wanted to do a text background with the sentiments from the MFT Stay Tuned set.  It takes a while and some practice to get those laid out correctly.  For once it wasn't MISTI but my trusty old Fiskars press to the rescue.  There was a mis-stamp near the top so I cut another piece of the Fog paper and stamped the sentiment in Red which I think worked out even better design-wise.  I couldn't just pop the TV on so I cut 4 layers putting the sentiment on the bottom and then adding acetate between the middle two. It looks great IRL.  This must be a rescue card because I knew I wanted the sentiment to say "It's Your Birthday".  Typing it into Evernote brought up the perfect one by EBE.

Please check out the birthday cards the rest of the Design Team and our guest designer, Greta Hess, have made.  We hope they inspire you to make a card for the challenge.

CAS Mix-Up - March

Happy Birthday, CAS Mix-Up!  I can't believe it's been two years. It seems like just yesterday I was having fun trying new techniques to make cards for your challenge.  This month it's working with acetate.

I used alcohol ink on acetate and then stamped the background stamp from PB (one that I forgot I had) in archival ink on the opposite side. I used a frame die for the sentiment and colored it with Distress Inks to match the alcohol ink. 

I hope you're having a good day.  I just returned from a wonderful Lenten Breakfast that the women of our church hosted for area churches.  Yesterday we made cinnamon rolls and I was in early this morning baking breakfast casseroles and making curried fruit.  My husband and a couple of other men did the dishes while we enjoyed a musical program.  Next week another church is hosting a Lenten Luncheon.  It's good to get together with a like community of women - sort of like our crafty blogging friends.

Merry Monday #276

So far I think I've only missed one Merry Monday challenge but then it's only six weeks into the new year. :)  This week is a photo challenge.

I was inspired by the frosty window and pine boughs.

Instead of just frosting the window panes, I made a shaker card.  When I reached for a bottle of glitter I found out it was micro beads which was even better.  I know the Christmas tree is a little hidden but if I had my tree in a window it would be centered and so this one is.  The TH boughs were heat embossed with Sparkling Snow and the sentiment from PTI is stamped with Altenew Evergreen.

This is the first shaker I've made in a while and I must say that the Scor-Tape worked beautifully to hold it all together.  Much better than the glue I had been using.  Instead of foam strips, I used extra thick fun foam which is a good depth, at least for these beads.

Thanks for taking a peek through my window.

Addicted to Stamps and More #275

Challenge #275 at Addicted to Stamps and More is a photo challenge.  We're asking you to make a card inspired by this photo.  

There are a variety of elements in the photo that would make a wonderful card.  Here's what inspired me.

I loved the pictures on the wall with the black and white stripe but I wanted to do something a little different.  I had this black striped acetate that I cut to A2 card size.  Then I had to figure out how to put the card together so I could adhere the acetate and also have some hanging off the edge.  My solution was to fold a portion of my card panel over the acetate, glue it down with Scor-tape and use it for my sentiment from CF.  I cut off the other edge of the panel the same width.  The measurement in between is what I used for the actual card portion and adhered the panel to it.  The MFT tree was cut from gold foil polka dot paper. 

This is something different than I've ever done before and I enjoyed the creativity of it.  We'd love to see you get creative and make a card for the challenge.  How about it?

The Card Concept #64

What do you consider pretty things?  The Card Concept came up with some pretty good ones in their photo inspiration.

I happened to have some gold spotted acetate, wishing it were zebra but I guess cheetah will do, that I used as the main part of my CAS card.

I added just a touch of pink in a frame and then paid homage to the typewriter keys with a Neat and Tangled sentiment.

After seeing a post on Facebook, I've taken on the project of putting all my stamps and dies on Evernote.  It will take a while but if I do 10 or so each day I can make short work of it.  The older I get, and the more stamps I accumulate, the more difficult it is to remember everything I have.  I'm hoping this organizational system will help.  I'm also hoping that as I go through my stamps I get inspiration for cards, especially from sets I may not have used in a awhile.  Wish me luck.

Curtain Call and The Heart Desires #5

I have a couple of pumpkin cards today - each very different from the other. The more elegant one is for Curtain Call - Glittery Gourds.

This is the best photo I could get with the gold polka dotted acetate cut the size of my card.  There are gold die cut pumpkins and a gold embossed sentiment.  Is that glittery enough for you?

From the sublime to the ridiculous, here's a card for The Heart Desires.

There were a number of ways to be inspired by the photo (see below) but since I needed a Halloween birthday card for a friend I stacked up these W & W pumpkins and colored them with Distress Ink.  I thought the face from Peachy Keen went well with the MFT sentiment.

I'm glad you dropped by.  I love your comments so I hope you leave one.

Tic-Tac-Toe #1 and AAA #55

With so many challenges out there in the blogosphere, it's difficult to keep up with and/or decide which ones to participate in.  I have my list of 'usually dos' but once in a while a new one comes along I want to try.  I have to give credit to my friend Michele for steering me in the direction of the Tic-Tac-Toe maiden voyage.

You know how these work, right?  I picked row one for my card.

It can be rather difficult to photograph acetate but I think this came out fairly well.  You just need to know that all the polka dots are gold. :)  I bought this gorgeous printed acetate pad after seeing Therese from Lost in Paper use it.  Sorry I can't find the link to the actual project.  I cut the word die from MFT from gold and gold embossed the sentiment from Avery Elle. Black glitter paper covers the folded over edge so I'm also going to send this to AAA where glitter is the theme.

Thanks for dropping by.