OWH MWT and sketch 173

Today I have a card for you that covers two challenges over at the Stars & Stamps blog. My goal was to finish sketch 173, but as I looked at the finished card, I realized it also fits with the Midweek Throwdown. How great is that!

The MWT is "So Sentimental" meaning the focal point of the card needs to be a sentiment.  This particular sentiment is by Stampendous and I've cut it so it's two lines instead of one long line. I then heat embossed it with black. The patterned papers are Creative Memories that I won in a blog hop awhile ago. The butterfly is a Marvy punch. All of the other papers are Bazzill.

 

Have a wonderful week!

 

Cherie

S&S Sketches 30-32

Today I have some Stars & Stripes sketches for you. I'm working on the last few cards for the Muscle Card challenge that are due no later than April 30. It's been fun working on the masculine type cards. I had no idea how easy they could be once I put my mind to it!

For sketch 30, I used two SU stamps from the Best Dad Ever set, some Basic Grey DP I got on clearance at a LSS, and some cardstock I had on hand.

This is sketch 31. I used the same papers, a cute stamp from Inkadinkado and some black brads.

Last, I did sketch 32. Again, I used the same papers. I love it when I use the papers I just bought. The stamp is from the SU Happiest Birthday Wishes set and I added a couple of small Pearl Pen dots. I rounded opposite corners to give it a softer look. I love my corner rounder.

I hope you enjoyed my take on these great sketches. Enjoy the rest of your day!

Cherie



S&S Sketches 11 & 12

I've done a couple more sketches from the Stars & Stamps blog. I'm slowly working my way through them. I'm trying to do them in order. Let's see if I can keep it up! Here is sketch 11:

The flower paper is DCWV and the embossing folder is Geo Flowers. The buttons and other papers are from my stash. The sentiment is Fiskars. I'm not quite happy with the finished card, but hubby liked it, so that was enough for me! He never has any problem telling me if it needs something or has too much of something else.

For sketch 12, I came up with this:

When I saw this sketch, masculine popped into my head. I'm not sure why, but some of them just seem to look that way. I used one of the new OWH Hero Arts stamp sets, All The Time, that I got for my birthday. I really like how the layering on the sketch makes the image stand out. The only embellishment I used was a dot of Pearl Pen on the center of the clock. I used an EK border punch on the brown paper. All of the papers I had on hand.

Time to try a few more sketches. After all, March is National Craft Month!

Cherie

VCMP Challenge 4, 6 and 7

The VCMP is still going strong over on Stars and Stripes. Have you been playing along? I've fallen behind a bit, but we have until Sunday to complete them all.

This is for challenge 4 (beachy thinking of you) and 6 (sand and sea):

I colored the image with watercolor pencils and used a water pen to finish it. The stamp is Beachfront Boat from Stampendous. The sentiment is from DeNami. I added a few Pearl Pen dots to make it stand out more. The background is Cuttlebugged with Forest Branches. Both images are popped with dimensional adhesive.

Challenge 7 is CAS (clean and simple). I decided to try a new technique I saw here. It's really simple but makes a gorgeous impact. It's not often I don't do any layering or popping of images.

I used a cotton ball and spun suger distress ink for background. The flowers are from Our Crafty Lounge and the sentiment is Studio G. I used Dixie's bow tying technique for the bow.

I hope you have time to play along.
Cherie

Love is in the air!

Our first challenge of the new year over at Crafty Contagion is to make a love card. That's right, Valentine's Day is right around the corner! It's time to drag out the heart and love stamps and paper.  Of course, we all know you can make a love card any time of the year, but hopefully this will give you a jump start on those Valentines.

My card features two stamps from my new Penny Black set "j'aime paris." Aren't those bunnies cute? I cut out three of the hearts and popped them to give some depth to the card. They are colored with Copics. The background paper is DCWV and the pink is Creative Imagination.

This card also uses OWH Sketch #103.

Look out for Cupid!
Cherie

January ODBD Challenge

It's time for another monthy Stars & Stamps blog challenge sponsored by ODBD. The challenge is to use three different patterned papers on a card. At first I thought, no way! But I went through my many piles of paper and discovered three that went well together.

It continues to amaze me how many different papers I have. The brown background paper is from a yard sale at my LSS yesterday, the layering paper is Basic Grey, and the flower pot/swirl paper is Creative Imagination. I added Glossy Accents to the flower on the pot, three layers of ribbon and some Pearl Pen to help make it a little snazzier.

Happy January!
Cherie

Happy New Year!

Well, we did it! We made it to 2012. I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to a better year than last year. And this year, I actually made some resolutions. It's been years since I've made them, but this year I really do want to accomplish a few things, including three crafty ones. 1) Do a blog entry at least once a week. 2) Participate in more challenges. 3) Empty out the container below.

This container is full of cards that need to be revamped. Many of them have just a sentiment slapped on them. I've had some of them for a few years because I knew they weren't good enough to send out. Now I've challenged myself to get them out of the house! And just think of all the new craft stuff I can put in that container.

So here's what I got accomplished out of it today:

This was originally just the pink card base with the celebrate embellie in the middle. I carefully peeled it off and added some more color. The squares are Basic Grey and the green is from a DCWV pack that was pre-embossed. I love that kind of paper. This card is for my friend Mary's birthday.

Next I redid this one:

It originally had only the pink card base with the embellie off to the side. The same papers were used. I'm trying to work on using some of my stash. I have so much paper and ribbon that I'm running out of room in my small craft area. My hubby helped with the pink ribbon placement on this. I wanted to add more but he insisted it would be too much. Turns out he was right lol. The white ribbon came with the embellie.

I love rhinestone sentiments, like the one on here:

And that's all it was before I fixed it...the green card base and sentiment. I couldn't remove the sentiment like I did the other two, so I worked around it. There's actually two different ribbons, the black with stitiching and the white with circles. I added a layered Prima flower and textured brad from Imaginisce. I had to really dig in my box of embellies because I just knew I had those brads.

The last one:

This had a sentiment that didn't come off in one piece, so I kept the card base and created something new. That patterned paper is the last of that Basic Grey piece. I love the Kid Sentiments from Inkadinkado. They are so funny and yet so truthful. I learned how to do the silk flowers from a tutorial on the Stars & Stamps blog. I was surprised how easy it was to deconstruct them and make them easy to use on cards. The top flower is purple, not blue like it looks in the picture.

All of these cards, except the first one, will go to Operation Write Home.

Good luck on any resolutions you made for the new year!

Cherie

Dahlia Fold

Here's my first attempt at doing the dahlia fold for a card. I didn't realize it would turn out to be quite so big, but I like it. I'm not sure I want to attempt doing this with smaller circles. My fingers felt clumsy enough as it was! I found the tutorial for it on the OWH Stars and Stamps blog. They have such a wide variety of amazing tutorials over there.

The patterned paper is Glimpses by SignifyPink. The pink background paper is from my stash and I ran it through my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots embossing folder. The sentiment is from the SU! set Wonderful Words rounded with a corner rounder. In the middle is a half round acrylic crystal I found at Craft Warehouse in Yakima a few weeks ago. I got a big bag of about 500 for $4. If you tip your head just right, you can see the black cardstock base.

I'm off to try some smaller circles. Wish me luck!

Cherie