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One Layer Birthday - CAS-ual Friday Challenge

Here's a one layer birthday card that I am submitting to the CAS-ual Friday birthday challenge (CFC51). 

Card Construction Details:

1.  Cleaned my stamp room and put about 35 sets in storage for use later this year and organized and labeled the rest.  Nice feeling.

2.  A2 white card, scored on the side.

3.  Stamped sentiment from PTI Beautiful Butterflies in Memento black ink.

4.  Stamped 3 small images from PTI's Honey Bees set in various Ranger Distress inks.

 5.  Stamped row of hearts from PTI's Around and About Sentiments in Ranger Festive Berries ink and a separate heart from that same set in the upper corner of the sentiment.  I like the 3 pops of bright red Festive Berries Distress ink that form a triangle of sorts.

6.  Using a red primsacolor pencil, filled in the red hearts and flower, as clear stamps and Distress inks are not a great match.

7.  Rounded corners.

8.  Adhered black sequin (from Impress Rubber Flower Sequin Kit) to center of red flower.  Nice alternative to rhinestones.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Cheerful, despite listening to a budget debate on C-Span. 

Waltzingmouse Challenge 91: Butterfly Masking

Can't resist the one layer sketch challenge this week at Waltzingmouse.  Here's my second submission --

Card Construction Details:

1.  Cut a bunch of butterflies with the Silhouette digital cutter.

2.  Using the open spaces on the die cut paper as a mask, sponged with various Ranger Distress inks.

3.  Stamped a wonderful Waltzingmouse Say It Loud sentiment.

4.  Rounded corners.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Thinking of ways to take this idea and go further with it....

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A note - loved reading your comments to my last post on folks with autism spectrum disorders.  Lots of interesting ideas and thoughts. 

On an entirely different note, since I have been a frequent poster on the Papertrey Ink forum, I thought I'd mention that I asked to be removed from the forum.  Therefore, if you try and send me a message there, you won't see me as a member any more.  Great products, nice forum folks.  No big mystery here, I'm just trying to surround myself with positive energy on all fronts.  Who knows?  Maybe I'll go back when things improve. 

Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge 91

The sketch?

One layer! Right up my alley. Here's my take. Normally I would have cut out the butterfly and adhered; but no, have to play by the rules. 

Hope I get to make another one, but my week coming up is looking chock full of everything except stamping.

Card Construction Details:

1. Stamped butterfly from Waltzingmouse Stamps Nordic Spring onto A2 card.

2. Colored with Prismacolor pencils.

3.  Stamped sentiment from WMS.

4.  Using craft knife, cut out part of the wings of the butterfly.

5.  Added Ranger Glossy Accents to center of fly and yellow dots.

MOOD WHEN DONE = listening to a lecture by Bill Clinton and Jon Stewart.  Interesting.

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #67 -- Ornament

Back in the stamp room!

Here is the WMS Sketch -- you can find the details of this sketch challenge here: >Took one look at this and an idea immediately popped into my head.

And then I got to work.

Click on the pics to enlarge....

 

Die cut with Spellbinders Nestability Heirloom Ornament largest die.

Flower is the medium size Poinsettia from Walzingmouse Stamps Big Blooms: Poinsettia.

Applied Barn Door Distress ink to the flowers (just flip the ink pad over and rub over the cardstock), misted, cut out and dried. 

Added Ranger White Glossy Accents to the ornament and the flower. Outlined leaves and parts of the flower with a fine Black Copic Marker.  Added darker Copic marker

Added gold cord on top and bottom by adhering to plain white die cut ornament. 

Here's another look -- you can see the flower layered over the leaves -

 

Punched hole and added a gold cord hanger.  Will use as Christmas card by adding hand written note to the back. This will fit an A2 envelope.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Good to be stamping again. 

 

 

Be Merry!

And that's an order!  Even in July...

Fiddled around with this string of lights (lights and sentiment in a Her Arts sampler stamp set that I bought used), killing much paper and ink in the process. 

Several hours later I came up with this design.  It ignores the fact that strings of light do not stay up in the air by themselves.  Think of it as contemporary strings of light, or a branch wrapped in lights, or a sign of hope in a desolate world, or this is what happens when you start at 2 a.m... 

Purposefully colored the lights (Copics) to go along with the Summer Card Camp color challenge. 

 And then decided to go all red and see what happens. 

And this is what happened. 

Prefer the red.  May need to knock off a few more.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Merry (after all, it was an order)

Top card uses A Muse Studio Sage cardstock and bottom uses A Muse Studio Cherry.  Yum

My Favorite Things . . .

3 of my favorite things -- kraft cardstock, colored pencils, and Ranger Glossy White Accents.

I'm a lukcy duck and won a spot in Jennifer McGuire's and Kristina Werner's online summer camp.  I'm also lucky that I finished this card before I saw this week's color challenge.  (However, I have another card with these colors that I just need to photograph...)

Card Construction Details:

1.  A2 Kraft card.

2.  Stamped various flowers with Memories Dye ink.  Elongated the 3rd stem with a fine black pen because the stem was not long enough.

3.  Colored flowers with Prismacolor pencils -- yellow, orange, red, lighter green and a darker green.

4.  Stamped sentiment in wrong place -- should have been a bit lower.  Added small flowers to try and tie the sentiment with the rest of card.  Did I succeed?  Who knows?  Eye in the beholder and all that...

5.  Added Ranger Glossy Accents.

6.  Rounded corners. 

MOOD WHEN DONE = fiesty

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches Friendly Flowers and Sentiment Sampler
Ink:  Memories Black Dye
Cardstock:  PTI Kraft
Other: Prismacolor Pencils, Ranger Glossy Accents White, W R Memories Corner Chomper

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #54

Here's my take on the sketch --

You can see the sketch challenge here. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Sewing Box Hugs
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo
Cardstock:  A Muse Studio Blueberry and Sugar
Other:  Copic markers, scissors, dimensionals

Mood When Done = cheerful

 

Color Block Butterflies

Been making cards with Butterfly Dreams from Papertrey -- a set too long neglected.  Here's the first one I made, and I decided to submit it to the CAS-ual Friday Color Block challenge.

 

 

 

 

 

Card Construction Details:

1.  Trimmed white PTI cardstock to 4" x 5.25".

2.  Stamped outline butterfly image from PTI Butterfly Dreams as shown, overlapping a bit, in Memento Tuxedo.

3.  Got out color wheel, and selected Copics to use. Colored in with Copics, coloring the overlapped portions of the wings with both colors.

3.  Stamped sentiment from PTI Birthday Basics.

4.  Adhered orange rhinestones (Impress Rubber Stamps) with Quickie Glue Pen.

5.  Rounded corners on one side, added some orange ribbon (needed a 3rd pop of orange.)

6. Adhered to A2 White card with dimensionals.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Colorful

Another CAS-usual Friday Bling Challenge

Let's face it.

Bling is good.  It's a great way to add a little something to a card without spending a fortune.  (I adhere all my bling -- even so called "self adhesive" bling with a Quickie Glue pen.)

And apparently I'm addicted to the CAS-friday Challenge Blog.  At least this week's challenge to use bling caught my eye and I made this card with the challenge in mind.  (Normally, challenges scare me, but not this one...)

 

 

 

 

 

Card Construction Details:

1.  Remembered that I bought a used Papertrey Ink Beyond Basic Borders set.  Love that leafy stamp.

2.  A2 white card.

3.  Stamped sentiment in A Muse Studio Blueberry ink (a really happy blue).

4.  Stamped leaf border in AMS Sage ink.

5.  Punched flowers out of AMS Buttercup cardstock (punching easy due to thinner cardstock).  Shade of yellow perfect with Blueberry -- both bright and happy.

6.  Adhered blue rhinestones with a Quickie Glue pen and bent up petals.

7. Adhered flowers to leaf border.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Happy

Happy Birthday to Waltzingmouse Stamps

Two years ago Waltzingmouse Stamps entered the highly competitive field of online stamp companies -- right smack in the middle of the worst recessions to hit the world in decades.

But it flourished. 

Because:

- the quality of the stamps are first rate/p>

- the designs are different

- the customer service is perfect

- the Design Team is fabulous

- Claire Brennan cares more about quality and service and beauty than she does making a pound, and

- because sometimes good things happen to good people.

So thank you Claire!

And what better way to thank Claire (other than placing an order!) than to make a card with Waltzingmouse Stamps --

Card Construction Details:

1.  A2 Kraft card, trimmed on the long side so that the finished card is 4" x 5 and 1/2".

2.  Stamped each half of my favorite doily from Dainty Doilies 2 on scrap paper.  Lined up perfectly the first time.  The trick was to line up the center of the doily and stand above the image.  Stamped the image with A Muse Studio Navy ink onto kraft card.

3.  Stamped small doily from Waltzingmouse Large Doily with same ink on A Muse Studio Sugar cardstock and punched with circle punch.

4.  Stamped sentiment from Waltzingmouse Join Us on white scrap, trimmed.

5.  Added white accents with gel pen.

6.  Adhered sentiment and then adhered center doily with a dimensional.

7. Yawn.  Card needs something.

8. Remembered Cas-Usual Friday bling challenge.

9.  Gently removed sentiment, rounded edges of sentiment panel with Corner Rounder and rounded bottom corners of card.  Reattached sentiment.

10.  Added large bling.

MOOD WHEN DONE = Grateful