Cardz 4 Guys #368

This is a fun one.  Cardz 4 Guys theme is "S is for . . ."  What would you make? I think S is for sneakers.

I recently picked up some paper that looked like leather and used it with MFT's All Star High Top die.  Scraps of brown were used for the sole and eyelets and some brown twine acts as laces.  The background is patterned paper I've had in my stash and the sentiment was computer generated.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Get those sneakers out and go for a walk.

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As You See It #341

I don't think I've ever played in the As You See It challenge before but after seeing my friend Michele as the guest designer, I decided to play along.  The board below shows the five items you must include on your card.

For the pastel portion I stamped the cocktails from Newton's Nook in VersaFine gray , heat embossed them (another requirement), colored them with Zigs, and die cut them.  I heat embossed a celebration sentiment from the set, cut it with a PFS label, punched holes and attached with gray and white twine.  This all takes place on a panel cut with a die from MFT.  

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The Paper Players #712

I went looking for a couple of challenges to play in yesterday and found The Paper Players.  The challenge closes soon so this is a quick post for a quick Clean and Simple card.

I started with blending Distress Inks on a panel of Bristol and cutting a Hero Arts tag from it.  The Santa silhouette is from Tim Holtz and the sentiment from Penny Black.  A little black and white twine finished it off.  

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Just Us Girls #702 - Photo Week

It's time for Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Ina has this lovely one for us.

I love the changing of the leaves in the Fall.  And I love putting colorful ones on my cards.

I started by coloring a panel with Mica Sprays.  When dry, I cut leaves from Lawn Fawn.  I have used them many times so I tried to find a new way to arrange them.  I found this card by Linda Walmsley on Pinterest and CASEd it.  The sentiment is from Altenew. 

We'd love to see your cards inspired by the photo, the design team and our guest designer Bonnie Klass. If you win the challenge you could be a future guest designer. 

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Inspired By - Colorful Kicks

I knew what to do the minute I saw the photo at Inspired By.  Get out my NBUS All Star High Top from MFT.

I bought this die because my granddaughter loves to wear her Converse and while she does have a pair in yellow she often wears one each of red and blue.  I was cutting down some of my 12x12 paper to fit in my desktop paper trays and this textured yellow was among them - the perfect choice.  I was on the ball enough to put Couture Creations double sided tape on my papers before cutting out those tiny pieces.  I can't believe how easy that made putting it all together.  I'm not usually a "little bits" kind of card maker but the adhesive worked like a charm.  The rays die by Reverse Confetti made a wonderful background.  Again I struggled with a sentiment but this one by Technique Tuesday worked.  Especially since Kjerstin will be embarking on new adventures soon.

I'm also sending this over to the NBUS challenge. 

Thanks for dropping by.  What new adventures do you have in store?

Tag You're It! #97

It's time for another challenge at Tag You're It!  and this time Kara is our host.  She chose this as our inspiration.

This is so colorful and it will be fun to use up those scraps of patterned paper although I made mine from an ancient 6 x 12 pad from Provocraft.  I just checked.  It's dated 2005.

I used layered tags from a company that it out of business and that is where the sentiment came from too.  I placed them on a PTI tag with some black hemp glued with matte medium. 

The Design Team had some fun with flags and their tags are available to see on the blog so please check them out.  We hope you'll be inspired to make a tag for the challenge.

AAA Card Challenge #135

The AAA Card Challenge was a little different this time.  Sort of like a tic tac toe but with a pie chart instead.   There is also a 'friend' option and (gasp) I didn't use it.

Now that I'm posting this I see I may not have followed one of the pie pieces correctly.  See if you can figure out what I did.

Yes, it says ONE matted layer and I have two. :(  Good thing I also stamped and die cut so with the colored pencils I have three pieces of the pie.  The lavender, tag and sentiment are from PTI.  I need more sympathy cards so went with that instead of using the friend option.

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As You See It #193

I'd say my decorating style is a little eclectic but not so much my card making style.  Eclectic is what they're looking for at As You See It and I took the challenge.

I used the EBE panel for my stripes and tucked the patterned paper hearts into it.  Both cut outs.  I'm not a bow person but I had to include one so I tied some pink and white twine across the top.

Thanks for dropping by.  It's another snowy, blowy day so I'll be inside crafting for most of it. I hope you get some crafting time too.

Addicted to CAS #131

Jaydee is our host at Addicted to CAS and she has chosen this as our code word for this challenge.

As luck would have it (pardon the pun 😉) I had what I thought was a great stamp for the challenge.

The clover image, tag and sentiment are from PTI.  I stamped the clover on a label die from CF and colored it with PolyChromos pencils.  The label was popped up on fun foam and a second tag was cut from purple and the two tied together with twine.

The Design Team has some wonderful cards inspired by the code word.  Take a look at theirs and then make your own 'lucky/luck' card.  We'd love to see yours in the gallery.

Addicted to CAS #120

I love florals.  Don't you?  If so you're in luck because that is the word our host Jaydee has chosen for Addicted to CAS.

I have a lot of floral stamps so the difficult part was choosing which one to use.  I decided to go with one of my newest ones.

I colored the poppy from PTI's Stemmed Statements with Inktense pencils and framed it with a new die that I ordered from AliExpress.  A number of blog friends have ordered from them - inexpensive but it takes a while to get the product.  I popped the frame up with fun foam, added the tag and sentiment from the same set and tied on some twine.   I got lots of dimension while still keeping my card CAS.

Our sponsor for this challenge is STAMPlorations.  They will award a $10 store certificate to the winner so get out those floral stamps and get busy making your clean and simple card. ;)

Time Out #52 and Muse: Christmas Visions #37

The sun is shining, oh happy day!  If often sing this song when the weather breaks and it's beautiful out.  So why am I on the computer?  Because I have two cards to show you.

This one is for Time Out using my new SSS Roses for You and inspired by this card by Marjan for the 'CASE with your own twist' challenge.

I used a TH stencil with Peeled Paint DI on Linen cardstock.  I told you I'd use it, Anita ;).  I stamped the flowers and did a loose watercolor with Altenew and Distress inks.  The sentiment is from CF. The wonderful Kim of Cupcakes, Cards and Kim celebrated a 'big' birthday recently and  Kylie has a link up at her blog, Kylie's Addicted to Stamps for us to send our birthday wishes.  This card will be going there.

Here is my card for Muse: Christmas Visions

based on this card by Emily Leiphart.

I used my PTI jar stamps and dies, coloring the snowman's clothing with DI and adding some white enamel accents to cover the stamped snow dots.  I'm not sure that was the best thing to do but it looks good from a certain angle.

Here's hoping you have a happy day.

Tag, You're It! #40

Jen Mitchell has a valentine inspiration tag for us this week at Tag You're It!.

I was inspired by the theme and the panel on the tag.

I got my Penny Black order just in time to make this - and many more valentines to come.  I stamped the tic-tac-toe board in black and then put red Stickles on the hearts.  The glitter paper matched and I used it for a border to set the panel off.  A little sentiment from MCS and some glitter twine and there you have it.  How does Jen's tag inspire you?  I hope to see your tag in the gallery.

Make It Monday #228

After seeing some cards by Jennifer McGuire, I bought a set of Metallic Perfect Pearls.  I'm glad I could use them for this week's Make It Monday challenge - Pearlized Blending.  Don't know what that means? Go see the video by Lizzie Jones.  She shows you exactly what to do.  I may have deviated a little but I love the results.

First I blended Distress Inks on two scraps of paper - Ripe Persimmon and Wild Honey on one and Fired Brick, Vintage Photo and a dab of Shabby Shutters on the other.  I cut PTI's  Rustic Wreath from each and then used copper PP on the first and bronze on the second.  Then the magic.  I cut each wreath and intertwined them.  I thought too much color got lost by layering them. Since the wreath wasn't big enough to encircle my MFT die, I cut a couple of extra pieces from the leftover paper and fit it in.  The sentiment is NBUS from PTI stamped in HA Just Rust.  The panel is popped up on foam and a little Hemptique bow tops it off.  Here's a close-up so you can see the shine better.

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Tag You're It! #31

Here's the inspiration for Tag You're It! this week.  Isn't it gorgeous?

Here's my take on it, choosing to put my tag on a card.

The leaf is covered with DI and gold Perfect Pearls.  The rust background paper is embossed with Woods by WRM and mounted on some Neehah Solar White..  The sentiment is from CB embossed in gold and I added a little gold thread to my twine.

I'm so glad you dropped by and I hope you leave a comment so I know you were here.

Tag You're It #29

When you win a challenge, you're obliged to enter the next one.  That's not a rule, just my personal feeling, so here's my tag for this week's Tag You're It!  The lovely and talented Carol Mayne made this wonderful card for our inspiration.  In fact, this is my second Just Me:c CASEing this week.

I took the colors of pink, white and black, and the word die and made this card.

A double cut tag, one white and one black, are adorned with pink watercolored Artful Flowers.  The silver word die is from a Christmas set from SSS and the stamped sentiment is from Clearly Besotted. A little Spun Sugar was inked around the edges.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderfully creative week.

Muse #129, CASology #160, and Freshly Made #200

Boy are you going to get an eyeful today.  I've been whipping up a storm in my craft room and I have one card due by 8 am tomorrow and two cards due by noon.  I'm going to put them all in one post, if you don't mind.  First up is Muse.  Here's the inspiration from Anita.

I pretty much followed her formula, changing just the details.

I used a Tim Holtz stencil with Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink, Winnie & Walter word die done in SSS Slate instead of black since I thought the sentiment warranted it, and a gold dragonfly from Elizabeth Crafts.  I'm sorry about the darkness of the photos.  It's pouring rain here today.

The next card is for CASology.

This card features a Cuttlebug embossing folder, Penny Black sentiment, SSS tag die, Stormy Sky Distress Ink, and Hemptique cord.  

And last but not least, my entry into Freshly Made Sketches 200th challenge celebration.  The sketch itself is very simple and wide open to interpretation.  They are thanking us for following them and entering the challenges every week by offering prizes.  I thought I would thank them for giving us such wonderful challenges and Design Team inspiration.

I triple embossed the 'thanks' die from MFT with Liquid Platinum and then used a Fresh Squeezed stamp to give it some texture.  The Hero Arts grid is also embossed in platinum and a sentiment from PTI is embossed in white on a Dark Chocolate banner. 

Whew!  That was a lot for one post and I still have other cards done that need to be posted.  I sure hope the challenges for the coming week spark as much creativity in me as this past week has done. I'm raring to go!

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