Creating backgrounds

Hello!  The next deadline for Operation Write Home is Father's Day and to get us going, OWH's midweek throwdown challenge is Father's Day cards.  I cut a clock on my Silhouette from Lettering Delights and then realized I had no background paper, so I made my own.

 

I used the clock pieces from the Hero Arts All the time stamp set to make clear embossed images on my background paper.  Next, I used Distress Inks to make it all vintage-y (is that a word?):

 

It amazed me how great a job my Silhouette did cutting the intricate clock face.  Since my father was a clock maker, it's the first thing I think of when making Father's Day cards. 

 

I'm entering this card into A Blog Named Hero's latest challenge - Build a background.

 

My second card is a shameless CASE from Jennifer McGuire's watercolor tutorial -  here.  Sometimes I try a technique because she makes it look so easy and then I totally flop at it, but this one was easy!  Here's the card:

I used Distress Ink watercolor paper and the Sky Blue Brilliance ink for the sentiment.  I love how this came out and I'm going to try another masculine version of this technique.  Fun!

 

I'm entering this card into the Anything Goes challenge at Loves Rubberstamps.

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Only one more day until the weekend!

 

 



*Hero Arts Clear Stamps ALL THE TIME 2012 CL584	*Tim Holtz Distress Ink PAD VINTAGE PHOTO Brown Ranger	*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD DUSTY CONCORD Purple Ranger	*Hero Arts Clear Stamps FANCY BASICS 2013 CL652
*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD MOWED LAWN Ranger SUMMER	*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD PEACOCK FEATHERS Ranger SPRING	*Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD SALTY OCEAN Ranger SUMMER	*Hero Arts Cling Stamp CLASSIC FABRIC DESIGN 2011 Rubber Unmounted CG245
*Tim Holtz DISTRESS WATERCOLOR CARDSTOCK Ranger Ink TDA39549	*BRILLIANCE Dew Drops 4 Ink Pads JEWEL TONE Dew Drop	*Ranger PERFECT PEARLS MIST PEARL Glimmer Spray

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Button challenge

I was organizing my scrapbook magazines and ran across a tutorial using buttons to make a bubble gum machine.  I thought it would make a great card and it just so happens to be the latest challenge over at A Blog Named Hero: Button It! .

 

I used a cut file to make the bubble gum machine and sandwiched the buttons between a piece of acetate and white cardstock:

 

I didn't have any stamps that went with this, so I made my own from the computer.  It went together very quickly and the buttons sure add a cute touch.

 

Hope you can play along too - there's lots of great ideas to use up those buttons!

 

 



Sunday Cards

Hello there!  I've had a busy weekend sewing and crafting.  It's marching band season again and I'm the uniform chairperson, which means sewing and measuring, but I enjoy working with the students so I don't mind.  I'm learning how to cut with fabric on my Cricut, but it's the most frustrating thing ever!

 

#1 - Challenge #29 at A Blog Named Hero

ABNH challenged us to re-use something we intended to throw away.  After my last card (see here), I was going to throw away the extra circles I cut out.  I played around with the shapes and came up with this card:

 

The large scallop is imperfect - one of the scallops was cut clean off, but I hid this underneath my circle sentiment, which uses the Hero Arts Fancy Basics stamp.  So, I re-used the imperfect scallop on a card!  Pretty pleased with myself.  (Ink is Versafine Smokey Gray.)

 

#2 - August ODBD Challenge

Our Daily Bread Designs provides a monthly challenge at Operation Write Home and this month, we're challenge to make something using the colors brown, green, and pink.  I  came up with cherry blossoms as my focal point, which was a free file from SVG Cuts - cherry blossoms -

 

#3 - Sketch #184 at OWH

This week, Doodle Pantry is sponsoring our weekly sketch.  The last time they did this for us, I bought several digi stamps from them and received the Rounded sentiments free with my purchase.  These stamps are exactly what I was looking for on my cards and I printed several of them for today's sketch:

 

This card was my best for today, but here's my first two cards using the sketch:

 

Thanks, Doodle Pantry!  Hope ya'll enjoy the rest of your day.

 

 

 



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!