Blog Candy Winner!

Hi everyone!  I was late getting on to my computer tonight to choose the blog candy winner from this weekend's OWH Blog Skip.  I used random number generator and it chose commenter #2 - Kathy S!

I'll send you an email, Kathy.

Thanks to everyone for your kind comments and joining in the Blog Skip!

 

OWH Sketch #158

What a weekend!  I was happy to read all of the lovely comments from everyone from OWH's Blogskip. Thanks so much! Tomorrow night I'll pick one of the comments for my blog candy.

 

Today is our weekly OWH sketch challenge - #158:

 

Here's my card, which I started before the Super Bowl and finished during halftime:

I paper pieced the Floating Blossoms Hero Arts flower stamp (something I've never done before) and popped up the pieces with foam tape. The paper is Echo Park, This & That, with a ribbon from my stash. 

 

This card also fits the latest challenge over at A Blog Named Hero, so I'm entering my card there too:

If the rest of the Super Bowl is a snoozer, I'm switching it to Downton Abbey!  Hopefully, my husband will be asleep by then...he he!   Have a lovely Sunday!

 

 



OWH Blogskip - Cards with Critters

Hello everyone and welcome to OWH’s Cards with Critters Blogskip!  We’ve got a talented bunch of ladies providing ideas today and I’m excited to be part of the group.  In fact, I may have gone overboard with three cards, making this blogpost a little long - so be sure to check out my blog candy at the end! 

My chosen critter?  Why, cats of course, since two of them allow me to coexist with them (cats are such snobs).

Cat Card #1

 I colored the stamp with my Inktense pencils, trying to make him look like my calico cat, Suzume.  I mounted him on black cardstock and used Vintage Photo to distress the image. 

 I embossed the paws behind the striped paper with clear embossing powder and my final touch was some black twine at the top.  Every time I read the sentiment, it makes me smile!

Stamp: Feline Set from Art Impressions

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Inktense pencils

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

 

Cat Card #2

 I cut the cat from the Nifty Fifties cartrdige, using gray cardstock. This one is in honor of my other cat, Lucy. The striped paper had a stripe of brown, which didn't match my black card, so I adhered a piece of black paper over the brown stripes.

Stamp: My Pink Stamper

Paper: Basic Grey Out of Print

Striped and gray papers from my stash

 

Cat Card #3

This kitty is from an SVG file.  I had a small bit of striped paper that I cut into dots which pulls all the colors together.  I drew her smile and whiskers by hand and chalked her face and paws a bit.

 

Papers from my stash

Stamp from Friends Furever, embossed in white

 

Now on to the blog candy!  I'm giving away a Teresa Collins Fabrications Canvas 6x6 paper pad and the Hot Air Balloon Collage stamp from TPC Studio.  Just leave me a comment if you'd like to win it and I'll draw the names by Monday, Feb 4th at 6:00 pm EST and email the winner.

 

  

 

Now skip on over to the next stop, which is Joann Ross. If you get lost along the way, you can always start at the beginning here: Stars and Stamps.

 

Happy skipping!

 

 



Clean & Simple 2 - Day 4

I'm so happy that I've been able to keep up with class & make one card each day from the lesson.  Today's lesson was on white space.  I used a Hero Arts floral stamp on a green cardstock with Colorbox white ink:

I didn't think the ink contrasted enough against the green, so I traced over the image with the Signo white pen.  I didn't feel the need to embellish at all and left plenty of negative space.  This class is certainly stretching my creativity and I love it!



Clean & Simple 2 - Day 3

Today's class lesson is stamping techniques.  I used the chevron stamp from Simon Says Stamp to make the background for my card.  I tried using chalk inks, but found that the Memento inks of Rhubarb Stalk, Potter's Clay and Desert Sand had the best effect.

 

The paper bow was a freebie from SVG Cuts Paper Bow, which will lays flat and doesn't add much bulk to the card.

I think someone at OWH read my blogpost where I admitted that my last box had no birthday cards in it because that's this week's Midweek Throwdown theme!  Ha ha.  Now I'm getting busy with those cards!

 

Take care and thanks for looking.



Clean & Simple 2 - Day 2

I colored over the sentiment in today's card with my Inktense pencils, then went over them with water.  I used a Spellbinders die to make a mask out of transparency film and inked over the sentiment with Tumbled Glass distress ink.  It was a bit scary for me to do this directly on a card, but I conquered my fear!

Stamp from the Stamps of Life

 

Then I used the positive part of the transparency to make another watercolor image. I messed the outside of the die because I made a mistake and just colored the rest of the image!  A happy mistake, I guess.

Stamp sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.

 

Catch ya tomorrow!



Clean & Simple 2 - Day 1

Today is the start of another fabulous online card class - Clean & Simple 2.  I look forward to each day of the class and when it's over, I go thru withdrawl and have to see a therapist.  Ha - not really - but I do feel a letdown when it's all over with.

 

Never mind all of that negativity - today's class had wonderful tips and inspiration.  I modeled my card from Julie Ebersole's card:

 

Supplies:

Hero Arts Envelope Pattern Stamp

Hero Arts Soft Leaf Shadow Ink

Black washi tape

Thanks stamp from ?

Green paper from Hobby Lobby

Papertrey Ink Smoky cardstock

 

I love the tone-on-tone effect with the background stamp against the green paper. I totally had an Oops! mistake where the pattern stamp left a blank area and guess what - that's where my Thanks embellishment went.  I sooo wanted to add some ribbon, but I didn't and I love the way it came out. This will be a great card to put in my OWH box!

 

Catch ya tomorrow.