Freshly Made Sketches #736

I really need more masculine cards so I went in that direction for my card at Freshly Made Sketches.

I started with Tie-Dye paper from Honey Bee and cut it with Hero Arts hexagons.  The background and Dark Teal cardstock are cut with Starshine from Spellbinders.  The sentiment is from Better Press.

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Inkspirational #332

When a challenge asks for a quilt you can be sure I'll be making a card for it.  I had several ideas but for Inkspirational I went with Grandmother's Flower Garden, or a semblance thereof. 

Scraps of patterned papers fill the hexagons on the PTI coverplate, which has been applied to copy paper with double sided sticky sheet.  A little hugs die from SSS layered for dimension finishes it off.  When  you cut a coverplate and only use part of the image, it leaves you with plenty of leftovers.  And you know what leftovers mean.  A twofer.

The original cut of the coverplate slipped so I had to trim it down which gave me the chance to add a border.  This time I used the yellow print from the center of the first quilt for the outside and added a prayer die from SSS.  

Julia from the Design Team mentioned posting a quilt that inspired our cards.  While I do have one, I'm showing the quilt I just made for my granddaughter who is expecting her first baby in March.

The striped fabric around the center is from her graduation quilt and the four plaid squares are leftovers from her baby quilt.  I gave it to her at a baby shower that was held on Saturday.  I'm just glad I found a long-arm quilter to get it done in time. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #567

I need more masculine cards and with the help of a card I saw on Pinterest by Kim Lievense and the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches I ended up with this. 

Hex dies from PinkFresh Studio were used to cut the marble and silver cardstock.  The marble pieces were triple heat embossed to make them shiny.  Sentiment is from Hero Arts and the DSP from Love Nicole.  Not a brand I'm familiar with and I don't remember where I got the two packs of background paper but they are useful for masculine cards.

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Just Us Girls #538 - Wild Card Week

When it's Wild Card Week at Just Us Girls the host gets to pick anything to challenge us and Sue has picked

I've been trying to use more of my patterned paper so this was a fun one for me.

The papers are from a 7 year old pack from Pink Paislee.  I was hoping it would work for a masculine card even though the colors are pastel-y.  The middle panel was cut with Postage dies from HoneyBee and the hexagon from a PinkFresh die and stamped with an Altenew sentiment.  Both are popped up on fun foam.  

Now it's time for you to pull out some of your hoarded wonderful patterned papers and make a card for the challenge. The Design Team and our guest Deborah Frings have inspiration for you on the blog.  Speaking of Deborah - it's her last week with us.  I want to thank her for all the creative projects she showed us this month.

Inspired By #122

Any challenge that has a quilt in it inspires me and Inspired By has one, along with other bedding, this week.

They also have a sketch and I used that - sort of.

All the papers except for the PTI polka dot is from KaiserCraft.  I added an extra hexagon to place my sentiment on.

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Freshly Made Sketches #425

Freshly Made Sketches knows how to challenge me and I like that.  After a couple days of thinking, I came up with this card.

I knew I could use my Pinkfresh hexagons for the trio of images. I looked in my WTDWT (what to do with this) drawer and found a background I had created using Distress Oxides on photo paper, wiping it with a baby wipe to bring out the color.  Then all I had to do was add the RC sentiment and a bee colored with PolyChromos pencils.

Thanks to FMS for another fun sketch and thanks to you for dropping by.

Less Is More #329

I think geometrics make great masculine cards and here's mine for Less Is More.

The hexagon coverplate from PTI was embossed onto Neenah and then some were cut out, stamped with Altenew gray inks and popped up.  The SSS 'Enjoy" was cut from the same Smokey Shadow as the card base.

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Pretty in Pink

Today is the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.

I just happened to do something for the online card class that qualifies for the challenge.

This card was a case of making a mistake and making do.  I made my own stencil from PTI's Happy Hexagons.  I taped the stencil down well but not the paper so it shifted when I was doing the bottom half of the card.  I trimmed it up to 3.75 x 3.75 and put it on a 4.25 square white base.  The hearts are cut from PTI dies and stamped with a sentiment from My Craft Spot.  Using Distress Inks, I started with Spun Sugar at the top and faded it into Picked Raspberry near the bottom.  One Valentine done.

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STB #19 and CTS #33

I have a couple of serendipitous cards today.  I say that because as I struggled with making them, random things just came together.

First up is Seize the Birthday.

Since this is a two week challenge, I usually put it off until an idea comes to me, and then I rush around at the last minute trying to get something made.  Today is no different.  I made this card last night to meet today's deadline.

The paper, already grunged up, came from a 12 x 12 sheet with a different pattern in each quarter of the page.  The serendipitous part comes with the stamping of the sentiment from Hero Arts It's Your Day.  I tried a sample of Navy HA ink but it was too dark.  I cleaned the stamp, but I guess not well enough because when I tried Butter Bar next, it came out this yellowy/greeny color.  It was just perfect for the card.  Yippee!  I'm glad I stamped it on a scrap piece that was a good size.  I used some Old Paper Distress Ink to add some grunge to the sentiment banner to match the card and popped it up on foam tape.

The next challenge was one I thought I was going to have to forego because I just couldn't come up with anything that I was happy with. I spent an hour last night fooling around but  nothing. Then this morning, while in the shower, an idea just washed into my brain.  I do that a lot.  There's just something about freeing your mind while shampooing your hair that makes the ideas flow.

The challenge is for CAS(E) this Sketch and is the second simple sketch I've struggled with this week.

Here's what washed up.

I've had this hexagon embossed cardstock sitting on my desk since I tried embossing with a die.  I was thinking about buying a hexagon embossing folder when I saw a tutorial on Make it Monday about using your die to emboss.  So I took my Happy Hexagons from Papertrey Ink and voila' it worked beautifully.   I cut a few hexies for my three items and then using a template, drew and hand cut the sentiment label.  I used a Hero Art sentiment with their Cement ink and popped all the pieces up on foam.

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LIM #124

There are hexagons all over the place and I'm loving them.  Maybe it's because I'm a quilter and have seen a number of Grandmother's Flower Garden quilts, including the quilt top in my collection.

This was given to me by a friend a while ago in exchange for some work I did for her on another quilt, both made by her aunt.  I couldn't believe that she would just give it to me but I am so thankful.  I need to put a backing on it and have it quilted but it's lovely just as it is, hanging on a ladder in my living room with a number of other quilts.

Needless to say, this was my inspiration for the Less Is More challenge this week - Hexagons.

The shapes are cut from several papers using the Happy Hexagon die from Papertrey Ink.  I then lined them up and glued them on to make my "flower"  The card is a 4.25 by 4.25 size because I wanted the flower to take center stage.  I put it on a slightly smaller cardstock of the same cream color and popped it up.  A little sentiment from My Craft Spot's Tiny Tags in HA Pale Tomato and it's done.

I've had a busy couple of days and this is the last card I made last Saturday.  I'm hoping for a little time in the craft room tomorrow so I can enter a few more challenges before their weekend deadlines.

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Case Study #145

I love the cute little card that is the inspiration for Case Study this week.  A little rustic, a little quilty.  Just my style.

The hexagons are cut from Accent Essentials.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts, stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa.  Everything is inked with Tea Dye Distress Ink, including the edges of the card. Instead of a bow on the sentiment banner, I chose to put some crochet thread through the center of the hexie, just like I might if I was tying off a quilt.  I love mixing papers like I mix fabric and these came from My Mind's Eye.

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