OWH Sketch #157

This week's sketch is great!  I had to study it for a bit to get the paper piecing right, but I love the layered look that this sketch produces.  All of my papers came from my stash. 

The stamps are from Stacy Stamps.  I stamped the sailboat twice; once on blue and once in white, then cut the white sails out and glued them on top of the boat.  I used my Copics to color in the hull of the boat and around the water.  I thought the background needed embossing, so I used the Swirls cuttlebug folder.

 

I just sent off 75 OWH cards and when I went through my box, I realized that I had no Birthday cards!  I'll have to get more of those made for the next box and this card will be the first one.

 

I'm looking forward to another online card class for the next two weeks - hope to see some OWH bloggers there!

Have a great day!

 

 

A musical thanks

I needed a thank you card to give to the nice lady who is accompanying my son in an audition and the card fits nicely into two challenges.  Over at the FCCB, their latest challenge to make something musical on a card.  With my musical family, I've really used the Quarter Note cartridge a lot (I think I've cut almost every image on it)! 

 

I cut the piano on page 46 at 2 inches and the phrase "perfectly executed" on page 36 at 1 1/2 inches.  The paper I used is from the Nov 2012 Simon Says Stamp Kit Just a Note and I put a piece of lace tape on the side as well.  Here's my card:

I'm also going to enter this card in Challenge #2 over at Paper Playtime, which is to use some brown.

 

Thanks for looking!



5 happy things

Hello bloggers!  Today I've got five things that make me happy:

 

1. I added another Easter card to my OWH box for the OWH Midweek Throwdown:

2. I made the top 5 winner's circle at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog:

 

Challenge 144 winners

(Thanks FCCB!)

 

3. I worked out after work!

 

4. Tomorrow we're supposed to get sleet/snow in South Carolina!  When it arrives, we'll be outside snapping pictures like crazy.

 

5. It's almost Friday!

 

Yippee!!!  I hope your week is going well too!



Chalkboard tutorial

This week's tutorial at OWH is to create a chalkboard technique for a card.  I loved the video tutorial by Jann!  Using a stamp set from Fiskars called Asian Inspired, I created the following card and "chalked" my stamped images:

The picture is blurry and my lighting is off, but this was my fourth picture! (I gave up trying to get a good picture)  I used a ribbon technique from Sandy Allnock as well.  It's a great way to hold that little ribbon in place.

 

I was on an Asian-themed kick and I completed two more cards. For this one, I used the Cherry Blossom background, colored with Copics and the Love symbol embossed over vellum.

My second card used the same background stamp, but this time, I colored the blossoms with a pink Smooch ink and used the Happiness symbol:

There's just something peaceful about using Asian images, isn't there?  I enjoyed our tutorial for the week.  OWH is just chock-ful of ideas for 2013 and I can't wait to learn more!

 

 

 



A day to play

How I wish I had a three day weekend all the time!  I would spend it like today- taking a walk, shopping and playing in my craft room.  Oh how I envy people who get to do this for a living!

 

OWH started a new series called BootCamp and the first lesson was today. Paula wrote a great article on color basics which is a good lesson for me, since I'm a computer geek by day.

 

Our homework assignment: make a card using one of the color harmonies.  Here are mine:

 

Monochromatic

I created the background using green & yellow alcohol inks, then stamped over it with a flower dipped in Alcohol blending solution.  Sentiment is from the "Very Special" stamp set at Simon Says Stamp, stamped on vellum paper with a white organdy ribbon bow. The cardstock is a mint color that matches my background paper.

 

Analogous

I created another glossy background paper but didn't use the Alcohol blending solution, so the colors stayed green and yellow.  I loosely based this on this week's OWH sketch with ribbon & vellum paper from my stash.  Stamp is from the Stamps of Life:

I look forward to more BootCamp lessons!

 



OWH Sketch #156

Thanks to an OWH blogger, I discovered the Creative Jump Start which is full of creative ideas.  I started in the middle watching a video on alcohol inks and it inspired me to get out my glossy paper and play with my 6 inks (I don't have very many). 

 

I used a felt piece on my ink tool and blotted a few colors, then swished them around to make the purple & green papers.    The two papers that are splattered are from a Tim Holtz technique using canned air: 12 tags of 2012 - July. 

 

I enjoy the splatter technique so much that I've used up an entire can of compressed air!

When I saw this week's OWH sketch, I wanted to use my papers and make the rectangle look like a piece of art.  My first attempt:

I backed my purple inked card with purple and orange vellum.  Hmmm...not too sure if I like this one that much.  My second attempt:

That's better!  The stamp  sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.  I double layered the back of my splatter image with teal and yellow vellum.

 

I totally had an oops moment with this and ruined one splattered paper.  I thought I could heat emboss an image over the glossy paper and watched it bubble up when I pointed my heat gun at it.  Duhh...I know that glossy paper/heat tools don't mix! I'm inspired to buy more alcohol inks and canned air now. 

 

I'm proud to say that I did a bit of scrap wrangling and threw away papers that I hadn't used in six months.  Feels good to clean out a bit!

 



Freshly Made Sketch #69

I'm making my fourth card from January's Simon Says Stamp Card Kit.  The papers and stamps are so much fun!  I hopped on over to Freshly Made Sketches for inspiration and used Sketch 69 for my card:

 

I pieced together two zig zag papers from the card kit and stamped the sentiment with Archival Ink.  The buttons were stamped with Versamark and then embossed.  The card is a 4.25 inch square card, which can be used for a short note for our soldiers to send home.

 

Here's the inspiration:

Thanks for looking!