Freebie from Birdie!

There are so many sites that give us freebies, like Torico over at Birdie Brown.  Her June freebie is so cute and I used him on this card, based on this sketch from Unscripted Sketches:

 

 

I colored him with Copics to match the papers, which are from the June Simon Says Stamp card kit.

 

I'm looking forward to the weekend because I keep seeing techniques that I want to try. I've got many half-made cards on my table and I need to get them done before I move on!

 

Thanks for looking and hope your weekend is swell.

 

 

Father's Day Card + June Bootcamp

Well, it's Wednesday and here I am putting together a Father's Day card.  It will be a little late, but it's better than not sending one at all!

 

Papers: Simon Says Stamp June card kit

Sentiment: letters cut on cricut 3 times, stacked & stamped with Tsukineko Brilliance gold ink

Truck: Nifty Fifties Cricut cartridge

 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

OWH June Bootcamp (I used the repetition of color; drawing colors from the pattern piece into the truck, sentiment, and "road")

FCCB #164 - Father's Day

Paper Playtime - Anything Goes

 

My second card for today is for the OWH mid-week throwdown - Things with Wings

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Sentiment: My Pink Stamper

Owl cut: Lettering Delights

 

Yes, it's a pink owl, but in my imagination, there are pink owls!  Ha ha!

 

Hope you're having a lovely day.

 

 

 



Ciara's makeover with a Retro Sketch

Ciara is our OWH mascot and she looks pretty good as a stamp, so we were challenged to give her a makeover for Flag Day (coming up this weekend).  I used the Retro Sketch 67 as a starting point for two cards:

 

On my first card, I colored Ciara using Copics and made her hat and kerchief in red, white and blue:

I put her on top of that ribbon with a brad in the middle.  The sentiment is computer generated.

 

On my second card, I colored Ciara using Inktense pencils and I used a different red/blue combination with brown as an accent.  Her hat and kerchief are paper-pieced:

The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink, which I embossed in gold.  It's hard to see in the photo, but it says "Thank you for your service to our country".

 

Both cards will be AnyHero cards that I'll put in my next box of cards for OWH.

 

Thanks for stopping by.



OWH Sketch #176

This week's OWH sketch is a great one for making lots of cards easily.  I took a different approach this time and cut the pieces for several cards at once and then pieced them together.  When I assembled the cards, I found myself looking for different embellishments to make each one unique.

 

I used up many of my brads - how did I get so many?  Do they grow at night in my containers when I'm not looking?  Ha ha - this is a good sketch to use them up!

 

and the sketch:

I see Seongsook posted a OSW (one sheet wonder) cutting template for this sketch - that may be fun to try too!

 

Have a happy Monday!

 



Today's card challenges

In between chores, I snuck in a few cards for two challenges. 

 

The first is a sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches:

and here's my card:

The stamps are from Hero Arts - "Right at Home" and the paper is "Beach Cottage" from Creative Imaginations.  I used an Impression Obsession die for the fence. 

 

My second challenge is for Mojo Monday 296 with this sketch:

and here's my card:

This is a 5x5 card for my sister, using the same Beach Cottage paper.  My sister loves magical women, like this mermaid, which I fussycut and mounted on the blue circle.  The stamp is from Tim Holtz and I added some Liquid Pearls on the side.  Such a girly card, and lots of fun to make!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 



Art Journal - my first page

I've been watching posts about Art Journals for a while now with Shari C and decided to take the plunge and start one.  The best thing about an art journal is that there's no right/wrong way - it's whatever you want it to be.  I bought a Strathmore "Visual Journal" and the instructions state that this journal is "whatever you imagine it to be" - which means, get creative, girl!

 

It will be easy for me to create pages using my cardmaking supplies.  I started my first page with my name.  I cut 3 of each letter and stacked them, then inked them with Tsukineko Brilliance Lavender.  The background is a mixture of Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks with white embossing over it using the splatter background stamp.

 

I cut the balloons on my Cricut as well, used Doodlebug Twine for the tails. The stamp is from Ali Edwards.  The paper around the edge is from my stash that I've been hoarding for years - time to use it up, right?

 

I plan on occasionally doing an art journal page and I'm going to keep notes when I get an idea that hits me.  I hope you get encouraged to do this - it's different than keeping a daily journal (which I also do).

 

Happy Friday to ya!



Back to blogland!

Whew!  It's been a few hectic weeks, but I'm back from end-of-school-year activities and another fun-filled scrap weekend with my girlfriends.  I was SO inspired by Kathryn's 6x6 OWH tutorial this week and I made seven cards from template 1!  Here's a sample of some of them:

 

What a timesaver this was for me!  I'm so grateful that she put the time into figuring out the measurements and sketches. 

 

The challenge for the Midweek throwdown is water.  I bought some Nautical digistamps from Birdie Brown and thought they might go with this theme.  I used the sailboat in one of my cards above and used the portly (shall we say?) sailor for this card:

The sentiment is also from Birdie.  The background paper is swirly like water, so that's how I'm claiming this as a water card!  Isn't that sailor sooo cute??  Love him.

 

That's it for me today - thanks for stopping by!