Make a Wish

This card was fairly simple and easy to put together (even though I used 4 stamp sets and 4 Framelit sets, lol), but the bright, clean look was exactly what I was going for, and the silver vellum was the perfect accent!

Challenges I used:

Hand Stamped Sentiments - (see sketch below)
Create With Connie and Mary - (see palette below)

Pinwheel Polaroid (Another self-CASE)

I'm really starting to enjoy challenging myself by imagining two different spins on a card while I'm designing, and doing to the cutting, etc. for both at once... saves time, rather than going back to the idea later and getting all the same tools out again and measuring again, and it feels like a "BOGO" when I have two totally different (although, very similar) cards after one sitdown :)

For this one, I used the classic white Polaroid frame with the black, undeveloped background, and added just the color elements for a big POP! I swapped out the flowers for a pinwheel, the scallops for the clouds and gave it a bright sentiment to add a last splash of bold.



Challenges I used:

Craft Project Central - (see sketch below)
Seize the Birthday
Ruby's Rainbow - Happy Birthday
The Card Concept - Create a Birthday Card (with the Clean and Layered style)

Polaroid Perfection

I have to admit, when I bought the On Film Framelits (bundled with the Peachy Keen stamp set), I figured I would probably only use the polariod and the film strip dies for scrapbooking (when I finally start catching up that is ;) ). I was wrong... I am realizing now that they will get a lot of use in my cardmaking as well :)

Also, while I have lots of 3D project aspirations for the new Fringe Scissors, but they also make simple things like grass on cards so much quicker!



Challenges I used:

Pile It On - Floral Fantasy
Craft Project Central - (see sketch below)
Color Throwdown - (see palette below)
Southern Girls - Floral Frenzy
Pause Dream Enjoy - Twine it Up!

CASEing Myself!

I was so happy with the card I just finished, mainly because I managed to keep it almost identical to what I planned in my head, so it didn't take me an hour or two of redesigning or stressing ;) So I made another, slightly altered version of it! I swapped the colors out for Island Indigo and Gumball Green (actually, on the ribbon, it's Wild Wasabi, which came out darker, so I used GG for the Little Leaves), and the gold for silver (that's better!!!). I also used a bolder stamp from the Petite Petals, and heat embossed that in silver as well.

Challenges I used:

Pals Paper Arts - (see sketch below)
Sweet Stamps - Spring Flowers
Little Red Wagon - Yearning for Spring
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Faux Dip Dye

I'm trying to remember to use at least one new technique each club night, and this is the one I chose for this card. This is the marker and aqua pen version of Faux Dip Dying, which works perfectly with the 7/8" cotton ribbon. I used the Hardwood background stamp again, to be the fence behind my flowers and "grass", and used Summer Starfruit for the Petite Petals flowers to go with the "gold" palette (seeing as I'm not a gold tone fan, so I have next to none of it in my stash). The Little Leaves and the dip dye is Pistachio Pudding, and the base, background and Lovely Labels sentiment are all Crumb Cake.

Challenges I used:

Pile it On - Sweet/Soft
Pals Paper Arts - (see sketch below)
Just Add Ink - (see palette below)
The Card Concept - Floral Theme, Clean and Layered Style
Crafting By Designs - Colors of Spring

 

Worn and Woodsy

Here's a simple, yet manly card I whipped up for Hubby's birthday. I love the Hardwood background stamp!! And along with some retired paper and ribbon (frayed), and the rustic looking birthday stamp from the Label Love set, it has just the right look.

Challenges I used:

Create With Connie and Mary - (see sketch below)
Cardz 4 Guyz - Clean and Simple

Single Layer with Painter's Tape Technique

My club girls were wanting to try the Painter's Tape technique, and I came across a single layer challenge (which is always quite a challenge for me), and a sketch that worked great with it, (although I am now too late to share with both of those challenges, as well as the colour challenge I used... oops!). I used the tape with Crisp Cantaloupe and Pistachio Pudding, and then while the tape was still on the card, I stamped the Chevron background stamp in Smoky Slate. Then I removed the tape, stamped the sentiment from Sale-a-Bration's See Ya Later set, and some Spiral Spins accents. Then a Basic Metal Button, a retired Calypso Coral button and an Old Olive Candy Dot to embellish, without taking away from the single layer aspect.

Challenges I used:

Clean & Simple Stamping - (see sketch below)
Dynamic Duos - (see palette below)
SUO Challenges - No Layers
Inspired By - (see image below)
Just Add Ink - Just Add Stripes
Pile It On - Stripes and/or Dots
Crafty Cardmakers - This is a man's world
Ruby's Rainbow - Spots and Stripes

Petal Parade

When I saw the Petal Parade, this big flower made me think of the Natural Compositions floral DSP, so I decided to do an emboss resist with that, behind the Hexagon Hive die to layer the flower and hexagon sentiment onto...

Challenges I used for this:

Craft Project Central - (see sketch below)
Top Tip Tuesday - Girly
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Clever Cutting
The Crafting Cafe - Embossing

I Heart You

I had so much trouble with this card at first, and thought the colour combo may have been too bright and garish, and I was trying to fit too many elements into... but I just kept playing with the pieces, eliminating some and adding others and all of a sudden, It Just Fit! And now I absolutely love it!!

Challenges I used:

Pile It On - Holidays/Celebrations (Valentine's)
Create With Connie and Mary - (see sketch below)
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Out with the Old, In with the New (The I<3U from the Thinlits die set)
Hiding In My Craft Room - Super Scraps Saturday (used scraps for the diecuts)
Delightful Sketches - Patterned Paper
Victorine - 3 Layers
Make It Monday - ATG

The End (of Christmas) ;)

And last, but not least, here are the last two I whipped up super fast... no sketches, no challenges, just really quick and easy, and saving them here for posterity. But I LOVE using this reindeer stamp with a Cherry Cobbler Candy Dot to turn him into Rudolph :)

Oh Christmas Tree!

This one is a CASE of my last card, with a few simple tweaks and a new colour challenge...

Challenges I used:


CAS(E) This Sketch - (see sketch below)
Dynamic Duos - (see palette below)

Shiny Stocking

Since we missed the last day of school to play in the snow, instead of rushing to get the teacher/staff cards done that day before pickup time, I got to take it easy and spread them out over the holidays ;) The last of them are being posted tonight, and then I'll be moving on from the Christmas theme till next fall...

Can I just say, I LOVE this Honeycomb Hive Die!!! It's a great way to showcase designer papers while breaking up the pattern a bit, and adding a lot of interest to a card front. I used the Encore Silver ink instead of the Smoky Slate (on the stocking, and sponged on the cardstock edges under the ribbon), and the Basic Gray two-tone ribbon was perfect to add some contrast.

Challenges I used:

CAS(E) This Sketch - (see sketch below)
Color Throwdown - (see palette below)
SUO Challenges - Colors of January
Creatilicious - Wishes

Love in Any Language

Does that title get anyone else's head singing? Maybe I'm showing my age, but that old Sandi Patti song is forever burned in there :) Anyway, this new little set is perfect for quick and easy (or creative and complicated), Valentine's cards or just to say "I Love You" anytime... this one is pretty simple, since we'll be doing this one at club, but it's got some extra interest with the cutouts, pop-ups and especially the ruffle trim on the sentiment heart, inspired by the birds feathers. I love how easy this stuff is to manipulate for a really pretty touch.

This is the Sale-a-Bration embossing folder, which I also used to represent snow on two recent cards.

Challenges I used:

Clean and Simple Stamping - (see sketch below)
Create With Connie and Mary - (see palette below)
Handstamped Sentiments - (see inspiration photo below)
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Little Red Wagon - New Beginnings (or New Scrappy Stuff ;)
Pile it On - Just Because (I love you)

Frozen!

I almost called this post "Let it snow", but I'm pretty sure I've used that one before ;) While this guy doesn't fully resemble Olaf with his misshapen head, he does remind me of him still, so it makes me think of the Disney movie Frozen, (which is FABULOUS by the way!!!). And it's definitely an icy, snowy scene. I used a folder from the upcoming Sale-a-Bration for snow again, and the trees behind the Button Buddies snowman is from the cutest forest animal sets yet, Life in the Forest, from the 2014 Occasions catalogue. I also used the retired waffle paper (on a spool) for the layers of snow, and Versamark with Iridescent Ice for all the heat embossing. And the Encore Silver ink for the sponged edges on the Basic Gray and the Deco Labels diecut. I'm also particularly proud of myself, because, although I've known how to do the masking technique for double layered stamping for years, this is the first time I actually used it, lol!

As sometimes happens, I can't decide between two different shot settings of my image, and am including both for the sake of accurate preservation...

Challenges I used:
Pals Paper Arts - (see sketch below) Flipped and using the layers of snow instead of layers of DSP/Ribbon
SUO Challenges - It's Almost the "Last Minute"
Inky Chicks - Christmas
Little Red Wagon - Merry Christmas, Anything Christmas
Nutcrafters - Snow, snow, everywhere
Ribbon Carousel - Anything Goes

Cheers!

Usually I'm more of a Merry Christmas kind of girl, but this Happy Holiday stamp was just so cute and colorable, I had to get it! And this new paper from the Occasions Catty is perfect for this sketch, and for a fun Christmas vibe. Overall, I'm very happy with the look of this simple card :)

Challenges I used:

Pals Paper Arts - (see sketch below)
Inky Chicks - Christmas
Ribbon Carousel - Anything Goes
ABC Challenges - Blue, Bows and Bling