FCCB #142 - Shaped Card

It's been a while since I played in one of the FCCB's challenges and this week's challenge was to make a shaped card.  This was a real struggle for me because I pulled out my Gypsy and welded a butterfly from Simply Charmed.  I had to re-teach myself the buttons on the Gypsy because it had been soooo long since I used it!

 

I added bling to the card with Imaginesce buttons and used Liquid Pearls on the circles with the yellow strip.  Shaped cards are so unique and I'm glad I pushed myself to make one.  Now that I've got the Gypsy file, it should be easy to make more of these.

 

Here's the link to this week's challenge: FCCB #142.  Hope you're all having a nice holiday weekend!



OWH MWT-Red White & Blue

Hi everyone!  I'm sooo happy to have our four day weekend coming up with Christmas!  For the first time, I watched OWH TV live (usually I'm asleep when it comes on).  Sandy has an unofficial challenge for us to make children's cards for our heroes.

 

I had already started making the cute crayons from the Elmo's Party Cricut cartridge and I just turned some of them into red, white and blue.  The stamp I used is from the Stamps of Life, which I bought in August and am just now using for the first time (shameful!).

 

Here's my card:

Elmo's Party has lots of cute images and I'm using them to make lots of cute cards, like this one:

I'm trying to get all my cards done to send off my box next week. 

I hope to enter some challenges this weekend too.

Have a nice holiday!



Tuesday Tutorial - Snowy Scene

Today's OWH tutorial is on making snowy scenes.  I have to admit that I was intimidated by this tutorial and I read it about 5 times before diving in and just giving it a try.

 

Here was my first try....umm not very successful because I failed to follow the instructions!  I didn't mask the bottom line straight and also didn't ink enough sky at the top.  Also, the three stamps don't belong together.  I don't think the dandelion stamp is an accurate winter stamp, duh!

So, I tried it again and here's my card.  Much better, but I wish I had some leaf stamps or the lovely pinecone stamps from the tutorial.  I'm going to keep my inks out for a bit and get inky with some more cards.

 

When my cat hang outs with me, I put on bird videos from Youtube for her to enjoy.  She bats at the screen, but gives up and is content with just watching them.  She's quite the little huntress and brings me lizards, squirrels, and birds, which is supposed to be a complement:

Thanks for all your nice comments.  I enjoy reading them!  Take care and consider giving this tutorial a try.

 



Sunday Sketch - OWH 151

If it's Sunday, then it's time for another OWH sketch.  After watching a few of the Interactive Card Project videos, I've learned how to change-up the sketch by rotating it.  I did that with today's sketch:

 

I made three cards with the sketch.  For the first one, I used the sketch as is, and embossed the paper on the right and put paper strips around it to define it a bit more:

I goofed with my stamp and stamped "IH" at first, so I made another stamp and pasted it over my mistake.  Ha ha! 

For my second card, I used an EK success border stamp that makes me think of Frank Lloyd Wright designs.  I wanted a masculine card and I turned the sketch on its side:

My last card used shiny paper from my stash and it was hard to photograph:

 

My cat is still in the habit of keeping my company while I scrap.  She likes to sit on my laptop, making it impossible for me to use it!

We're having a cold, wet day in South Carolina today, so all I want to do is stay inside.  I hope you've had a great weekend!

 



Dollar Stamp with Inktense Pencils

Hi everyone!  I bought a $1.00 stamp at Michael's today and was inspired by Jennifer McGuire's latest post on Simon Says Stamp to color it in with Inktense Pencils.  (That post is here: Hero Arts Release Party).

 

I used Mojo Sketch 244 to create my card, using paper from my stash:

My cat is still hanging out on my craft table and she enjoyed tugging at my ribbons, thinking it was a toy I left out for her:

Now if I just get her to cut some paper for me!

Have a nice Saturday!



OWH and Interactive Card making

Sandy Allnock, the president at OWH, has really outdone herself!  She's put together tons of videos for us in an Interactive Cardmaking project here: ICP.  Wowza!  I've had tons of fun watching some videos and I've only selected Card A!!  Already I've learned some great tips and it helped me put together these cards fast.....I think this is just a wonderful project and I can't imagine the hours that Sandy put into this for us.

 

Here's my first card...Card AAABB...using Tim Holtz stamps.  The papers are all from my stash, as well as the ribbon.  This is a masculine card...no sentiment or occasion, so that makes it a general card.

My next card is Card ABBBB.  It's fun to watch Sandy take the same sketch and make it toally different.  This time I used two different embossing folders for the circle and background.  I created the coffee mug from a Scrap Chick SVG file and the stamp sentiment is from Stamps of Life:

It's going to be fun to go back and go thru the other cards and videos.  I plan on using this to get my creative mojo back or when I need help.  Great job, Sandy!  Thanks for all your hard work.



OWH Sketch 150

Hi bloggers!  It's just a peachy day in sunny South Carolina - in the high 70's!  Wowwee.  I had a very productive weekend, getting a lot of chores done (even cleaned my washer!) and putting away a lot of my scrap stuff. 

 

I like to have blank cards ready to go and I took the time to cut & score cards. I discovered that I can score two cards at a time on my scoring board if I put them together.  May seem like a duh-moment, but I had never thought of this before:

 

Here's my basket of cards, ready to pull out and finish:

 

I cut plenty of white paper for the inside of my cards too, it's stacked in the back.

So now I was ready to take on today's OWH sketch:

I made three cards with this sketch - two feminine and one masculine.  The papers on my feminine cards are from the August Simon Says Stamp card kit.

On the card below, I embossed the flower and used Inktense coloring pencils & water to color in the flower.  Too easy!  Oh - and this card will be my submission for this month's ODBD challenge.

Finally, my cat has started supervising my crafting and now insists on sitting on my craft table.  I distracted her today by opening a window for her to sit at, but I'm going to have to find her another place to sleep...ha ha!

Excuse the messy desk!

Have a great day!