July 4th VCMP!

Yippee!  OWH is hosting a 4th of July VCMP - Virtual Card making party!  These parties are chock full of inspiration and are a lot of fun!   All of my cards will be in this blog post.

VCMP #1 - Sybrina's His/Hers OWH sketch card

I used sketch #3:

for my two cards:

VCMP #2 - Michelle's Thank You/Stencil card

VCMP #3 - A2Z's Paper piecing card

VCMP #4 - Lori's Red/white/blue birthday card

VCMP #5 - Beth's Colored background

VCMP #6 - JoAnn's Traditional/Non Traditional Christmas cards:

 

Using OWH sketch #96:

VCMP #7 - ODBD Things with Wings

VCMP #8 - Cherie's 1 circle, 2 banners (I did 3): 

VCMP #9: Andrea's masculine  with vintage image:

VCMP #10 - Bobbi's 3 textures:

(Dry embossing; ribbon; die)

 VCMP #11: Marilyn's Travel:

VCMP #12: Tami's Red/White/Blue Christmas

VCMP #13 - OWH Sketch #232

VCMP #14 - Annette's Thick/Thin

 

VCMP #15 - Becca's Teen Time 

VCMP #16 - Yvonne's Furry creature love

VCMP #17 - Sherry's Christmas inchies

VCMP #18 - Sherry's technique - Faux

(I did faux letterpress)

All done!  Whew - I'm tired!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

OWH Labor Day VCMP

Woo hoo!  Let's get this party started!
 This is one of my favorite things to participate in - so much inspiration.  I like to put all the challenges in big post, so here goes.

Challenge #1: Nancy's Sketch Challenge
This is a great sketch for using up scraps, which I did on this Christmas card:

  

 

Challenge #2: Diane's OWH Letter

O - Orange; W - White; H - Happy Birthday

 

Challenge #3: Seongsook's Triple Die Cutting

 

 Challenge #4: Annette's Love Card

 

 

Image by Doodledragon

 

Challenge #5: Donna's Masking Tape Stamping

 

 OWH Sketch #188

 

 Challenge #6: Sybrina's Cards 4 kids

 

I chose the center on the Bingo tile - Stamping/Punny Sentiment/Things with 4 legs

 

Challenge #7: Marilyn's Fall Card using an OWH sketch

I used sketch #88:

 

Challenge #8: Blue Moon's Un-BEE-lievable challenge:

 

 Challenge #9: Donna's Negative space

 

 

 Woohoo!  I completed all the challenges and I see many other ladies did too!  Can we do this again?  Please!  How about over the holiday break - one a day??  This was lots of fun and I'm going to go check out what everyone else did.

 

Thanks to all the ladies who hosted a challenge.

 

 

 

 



National Scrapbook Day rebellion

Hi everyone!  Although I went to a weekend crop for National Scrapbook Day (15 pages done!), I wanted to participate in OWH's VCMP - Virtual Card making party.  I've got a lot of catching up to do and I plan on putting all the cards in this one post.

 

Challenge #1: ODBD Miss You :

I made the background on glossy paper with alcohol inks.  The sentiment is from Stamps of Life, mounted on to two pieces of vellum.

 

Challenge #2: Kids cards

 

I cut the Ipod images on my Cricut and the sentiment is from the You set at Simon Says Stamp.  I now see that Paula didn't challenge is to do both a boy & girl card, but it was easy to make the second one.

 

Challenge #3: Romance cards

The sentiment is a rubon from Creative Imaginations and the papers are all from my stash.  The ruffle card tutorial was one of the first ones I watched over a year ago and it was fun to re-visit the technique.

 

Challenge #4: Card from a scrapbook sketch

Here's the sketch from Crafty Sketches October 2011: 

Here's my take on the sketch:

 

The papers, sentiment and hearts are from the May Simon Says Stamp card kit. I inked the hearts with Tsukineko Brilliance gold ink.  Now, I know that the Mother's Day deadline for OWH has passed, but I had to make some Mother's Day cards to mail out.

 

Challenge #5: OWH Sketch #171

 

Sentiment, lace & paper is from the May SSS card kit.  This started out as a masculine card, but the lace took it to the feminine side.  Once Sandy challenged us with romance, I can't seem to get off that subject!

 

Challenge #6: Handmade by Julie - Use a photo on a card

 

What a great idea!  This picture is from my Hawaii trip last year - I took tons of flower pictures.  The sentiment is from Jillibean and the papers are from the April Simon Says Stamp kit.

 

Challenge #7: Summertime cards

 

Paper & sentiment from the April SSS card kit.  I colored the digistamp using Copics and embossed the top yellow half of the card with the Swirls Cuttlebug folder.

 

Challenge #8: Googlie Eyes

 

I used an image from My Cute Graphics and the sentiment is from the You set from Simon Says Stamp.  I thought I had no googly eyes, but I found a small bag this morning!  Yeah!  I need to stay away from craft stores for a while and use my stash.

 

Alrighty then - I completed all the VCMP challenges and got a good head start on my next OWH box.  I'm gonna check out what the other ladies have been doing this past weekend and....relax!

 

Thanks for stopping by.



VCMP Blog Candy winner!

Hi everyone!  I waited a week to announce the blog candy winner for my Virtual Card Making Party (VCMP) post and it is:

 

Comment #22 by Shari B. from

Create Inspire and Amuse

 

 I'll email you Shari! 

 

Thanks for all the entries for my chevron challenge - ya'll made amazing cards and have inspired me to make more zig zaggy cards!

VCMP Challenges #9 and 10

All good things come to an end - like our VCMP this weekend.  I wanted to make a card for every challenge and here are my entries for the last two challenges:

 

Sharon's White on white challenge:

I embossed the background and cut an image from the Ornamental Iron cartridge on my Cricut (first time I've used this cart!)  The sentiment is from Simon Says stamps and I layered butterflies on top, along with a piece of ribbon behind the sentiment.  I thought this was going to be hard, but it came together easily for me.

 

Our last challenge (boo hoo) is from Kaylee: Glitz and Glam but not Glitter.  One way to put on the glitz is from reflective paper and I sure do have tons.  I stamped & embossed the birdcage and sentiment in silver on turquoise paper.  We had a color challenge a while back to use turquoise & silver and I think it's an elegant combination:

My bow is a little wonky-gotta straighten that out.  The white paper is from Simon Says Stamp and comes with the woodgrain embossing.

 

I was so inspired by the many bloggers who made cards for the challenges - I'm still going thru the cards in my challenge and thanking everyone for submitting a card.  I hope ya'll will consider being a hostess the next time around - it really is a lot of fun!

 

Next up - boot camp!



VCMP Challenge #8

Donna's VCMP challenge at Indiana Inking is Washi Tape.  I do own some rolls, but I don't use it very often, so I was happy to have a chance to pull it out.  My washi tape here is from Simon Says Stamp - the "With Love".  I simply placed the tape over a piece of cardstock - very easy.

 

The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday and those are heart brads on the end of the sentiment, which I distressed with Fire Brick.  I have tons of heart brads...I need to keep using them on cards.

 

OK - on to the next challenge!