OWH MWT and sentiment stamps

I signed up for the Holiday Card workshop at Online Classes and finally got a chance to participate today - the last day of class!  The class is full of ideas and videos from Kristina Werner, Jennifer McGuire and lots of great guests.

 

On day 9 of the class, Jennifer taught how to use sentiment stamps as background stamps, which is a great idea!  I wanted to participate in this week's mid-week throwdown at OWH, which is a color challenge of red, white and blue.  A while back, I bought the military hero stamp set from Papertrey Ink and I've used it many times to make AnyHero cards.  I thought I could use the sentiments to make a background for a card.

 

I laid out the stamps onto a scrap piece of paper & decided which color I would use for each stamp:

 

 

I stamped the paper twice - once with the stamps in a red ink and again with different stamps in a blue ink.  It took me several tries to get this right.  I learned that the stamps need to be close together to get the right effect.

 

 

I embossed the white background paper with a Cuttlebug stars folder and added a red ribbon behind the block of sentiment stamps.  I thought it needed some extra bling, so I added brads.

 

Although it doesn't look like it from the picture, the front of the card is shorter.  The red strip of paper at the bottom is actually on the back of the card.  When you open the card, it looks like this:

 

 

This was a fun technique to use on a card.  Since I totally missed the Oct 31 deadline for Christmas cards, I'm going to make them anyway and hold on to them until next year. 

 

Hope you're enjoying your Friday!  Thanks for looking!

Back from the band!

It's been almost a month since marching band took over my life and away from blogging.  I love volunteering with the students, but missed my creative time alone.  I've been keeping up with OWH and everything going on and I'm ready to get back in the swing of card-making.

 

First thing to get back into is November's Our Daily Bread Design challenge for OWH.  This time, we're challenged to use a neglected tool and I chose my rulers.  I remember when these were the only things besides stickers that we could use to embellish our scrapbook pages.  Here's my sad ruler:

 

 

I used red & green Memory Markers to draw a zig zag border on my card.  The stamps I used are from Technique Tuesday and I put a dab of Stickles on the holly and berries:

It turned out to be a very clean-and-simple card and will kick-start my card-making mojo!  Let's see if I can keep it up! 

 

Thanks for looking.



Circle Frame SVG

I made a circle frame SVG file today that can be used on an A2 card.  I thought it looked great on top of the Bazzill 6x6 "Believe" paper with the holiday words:

 

 

If you would like to have the frame, you can download it here: Circle frame.

Enjoy!

 



OWH Sketch #142

OWH's sketch 142 is great!  I put together this card in about an hour - wowza!  The snowflake paper is from Bazzill's 6x6 "Believe" paper and the cut files are courtesy of Bird: Birthday wishes.  I hand-cut the banners and used Antique Linen distress ink on them.

 

 

 

And here's our weekly sketch:

 

Have a great day!



October Scrap Retreat

I'm getting in some great scrapping and card-making this weekend with my friends in Myrtle Beach, SC.  We rented this house, stuffed it with our tables & scrapping gear and enjoyed crafting all weekend long:

 

I've completed 24 scrapbook pages! Yippee!  Now I'm going to switch to card-making for my last day and see what I can get made for Operation Write Home.

 

My first job is to catch up with the October Our Daily Bread Design challenge: use circles.  I used the October Simon Says Stamp kit to make this holiday card and Mojo Monday's latest sketch as inspiration:

 

Here's my card:

 

I see we've already got our first 25 for the OBDB challenge - I hope we can get up to 50!  Have a lovely Sunday!

 



OWH Sketch #140

My work and volunteer activities have taken priority and left little time for card making!  Tonight I'm putting my OWH box together and although it's only 54 cards, they need to be mailed ASAP!  I've lost my craft mojo lately, but working on an Any Hero card tonight got me back into a crafty mood.  I've also been inspired by the pictures of OWH card-making parties - what fun everyone is having!

 

I used sketch #140 (sort of) and made this last Any Hero card for my box:

Here's the sketch:

 

Thank you to all the OWHers who submit cards and tutorials to keep me inspired!!

 



The longest short week ever!

What a week it's been for me...several friends commented that this was the longest 4 day week ever!  That's what it felt like for me with marching band and football season starting.  It's left me little time to work on cards, except for today.

 

I did participate in this week's Mid-week throwdown - I just never posted my card:

 

 

Today's sketch was fun!  I used papers & stamps from the July Simon Says Stamp kit club.

Another crooked card picture!  Here's our sketch:

There's so many great things going on at the OWH Stars & Stamps blog - it's been great reading. I loved the OWH ATG tutorial and I've wanted to bling out my ATG gun for a while - now maybe I'll do it. 

 

Today's sketch is sponsored by Paper Smooches and I don't have any of their stamps, but I really want to get some soon....hmmm...will have to add that to my wish list.

 

I hope everyone's having a nice day - it's finally cooled down to 86 degrees today in South Yaka-sakee (South Carolina).  Take care!