Shake It Up: Designer Creative Challenge

Hey there, welcome to my little corner of the world! I'm here today to share a card I made for Craftin Desert Divas Shake It Up Designer Creative Challenge.

I have to tell you, this challenge was kismet! I bought the Bright Horizons Stencil because the moment I saw it a card idea popped into my head. Ever have that happen? My hubby hates it, because it usually means I'm buying more crafting supplies. Anyways, I saw this stencil and I had an idea kicking around in my head, sketched it out, but didn't actually get around to making it. This poor stencil sat around just waiting to be used. Then this designer creative challenge came up and I knew that it would only take a small change to make my card into a shaker.

I started by cutting my card base from some Strathmore Bristol Smooth. I next cut out a panel that was about 1/8" of an inch smaller than the largest die in the Inside Scalloped Rectangle Dies and set it aside. Next I pulled out some patterned paper from my stash and traced the sun portion of the stencil from some bright yellow patterned paper that has cute little polka dots and cut out all the pieces. I did the same thing with the clouds, only I used a blue patterned paper that featured white stripes. The patterned paper that I picked had a sheet with these cute little hearts, so I cut a couple out just in case.

I then aligned my stencil on the smaller piece of Bristol Smooth and used it as a guide to glue down the sun and clouds. I then cut out the largest scalloped frame from the Inside Scalloped Rectangle Dies and glued a piece of acetate to the back of it. I doubled up some 3M foam on the back of the scalloped rectangle die and set it aside. Since the shaker portion is so big I wanted to make sure that even when not being shake you could see the some of the sequins. I accomplished this by just gluing some Mermaid Lagoon Sequins to various parts of my paper pieced sun and clouds. I then glued one of those hearts I had cut out and put a fair amount of sequins in the middle of my sheet so I could attach the front part of the shaker.I added everything to my card base, added my sentiment and Voilà!

Supplies
Paper: Strathmore Bristol Smooth, Scrapbook Paper
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories: Bright Horizons Stencil, Inside Scalloped Rectangle Dies, Mermaid Lagoon Sequins, Ranger Multi Medium Matte Adhesive

Until next time, keep on crafting!

Oh Deer, I C.C. what you did there

Who doesn't love a three day weekend? I did some crafty shopping, saw a movie, saw family, and put together a few cards. On Sunday afternoon I grabbed some of my newest C.C. Designs sets and got to coloring. I have to say I was surprised by how much time I spent coloring. I had thrown in an old movie for background noise, 2 hours later my movie was over and I was still coloring away. I threw on another flick and kept at it. Once I was done I set up my Scan n Cut while I grabbed my card bases, patterned paper, and accessories.

The first card I made was one that I have had in my head since I saw the set. I made a shaker card using C.C. Designs Fawned clear stamp set. I took some white cardstock and blended Candied Apple, Worn Lipstick, and Tattered Rose Distress Oxide Inks to make a gradient Ombre style back ground. Next I mixed up some Work Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink and a little of my Dr. Ph. Martin's Iridescent Calligraphy Color in Silver and flicked it across the front of the card. The picture doesn't do it justice, it's quite shimmery. I cut out the heart using Lawn Fawn's Outside In Stitched Heart dies. I cut a second heart out of some more cardstock and used Lawn Fawn's Grassy Border die on it. I used my Lucky Clover and Forest Moss Distress Oxide Inks to create the grass these adorable deer are on. I filled my shaker with sequins from Neat & Tangled and some mini hearts that I die cut out of some Guava cardstock by Lawn Fawn. I finished it off by embossing the sentiment onto some black cardstock using Hero Art white embossing powder.

Supplies Used
Stamps: C.C. Designs Fawned

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest cardstock, Lawn Fawn's Guava and Black Licorice cardstock, 

Inks: Distress Oxide Ink in Tattered Rose, Worn Lipstick, Candied Apple, Lucky Clover, and Forest Moss. Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Versa Mark. Spectrum Noir Markers. Dr. Ph. Martin's Iridescent Calligraphy Color in Silver

Accessories: Neat & Tangled's Like Magic and Clear Sequins Mix, Lawn Fawn's Outside In Stitched Hearts and Grassy Border Dies, Hero Arts White Embossing Powder. 3M Foam

My next card I used C.C. Designs new Spring Pinkies clear stamp set and paired it with Honey Bee Stamps Hello 2x3 set. 

Ok story time... You see that super adorable patterned paper used to make the scalloped frame? I accidentally bought that. I have been an Amazon Prime customer for several years now, when you log on they usually have recommendations based on previous purchases. Amazon recommended Echo Park's Imagine That paper pack. I mean they weren't wrong to do it because I love it. What I failed to realize as I was scrolling through the product page on my tablet is just how easy it is to buy something using their One Click button. I actually didn't even realize I had done it, until two days later the package showed up and my husband asked what I bought. So yea, try explaining to your husband how you accidentally ordered adorable paper. He got a good chuckle out of it. 

Back to the card.. I stamped this cutie onto some Neenah Classic Crest with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her in with my Spectrum Noir markers. I used Peacock cardstock as the card base. I used Lawn Fawn's Outside In Scalloped Rectangle dies to cut a sheet of that Echo Park paper and cut the middle out using my X-Acto knife. I used some foam tape to add some dimension to the frame and then I layered a piece of Mermaid cardstock that cut out with my Outside In Stitched Rectangle dies, in the middle. I stamped Honey Bee Stamp's Hello onto some Black Licorice cardstock using white embossing powder and then cut it out. I adhered both the sentiment and this cutie with foam tape and finished off the card by adding a few of my left over die cut hearts. 

Supplies Used
Stamps: C.C. Designs - Spring Pinkies, Honey Bee Stamps - Hello

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest cardstock, Lawn Fawn's Guava, Peacock, Mermaid, and Black Licorice cardstock, 

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Versa Mark. Spectrum Noir Markers.

Accessories: Lawn Fawn's Outside In Stitched Scalloped Rectangles, Outside In Stitched Rectangles, Hero Arts White Embossing Powder. 3M Foam

And now for my favorite card I made this weekend...

This card was pretty simple to make, but I love, love, love how it turned out. I used a piece of Mermaid cardstock for the card base, stenciled on the heart background using Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink, and then used my Dr. Ph. Martin's Iridescent Calligraphy Color in Silver to add some sparkly splatters. I cut a piece of Black Licorice cardstock and stamped this sweet sentiment from C.C. Designs Happy Sentiments set and embossed it using white embossing powder. I stamped out one of the Spring Pinkies onto some Neenah Classic Crest with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her using my Spectrum Noir markers. I put it all together and finished off the card with some matching sequins. 

Supplies Used
Stamps: C.C. Designs - Spring Pinkies, C.C. Designs - Happy Sentiments

Paper: Neenah Classic Crest cardstock, Lawn Fawn's Mermaid and Black Licorice cardstock. 

Inks: Distress Oxide Ink Peacock Feathers. Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Versa Mark. Spectrum Noir Markers. Dr. Ph. Martin's Iridescent Calligraphy Color in Silver

Accessories: Neat & Tangled's Clear Sequins Mix, Craft Medley's Rhythm 'N Blues Sequins Mix,  Lawn Fawn's Outside In Stitched  Scalloped Rectangles, Hero Arts White Embossing Powder. 3M Foam

That wraps up this post, until next time Keep On Crafting!

 

Never too soon for Halloween

It seems like every year goodies for certain holidays start showing up sooner and sooner. I know that this can make many people roll their eyes, but not me. I love the first signs of Halloween goods popping up in stores, because that means fall is upon us. This for me starts the most magical time of the year. We start with Halloween, all the adorable costumes, and all the spooky movies. So it should not come as any surprise that my cards for this week are Halloween themed.

I picked up MFT Stamps Witch Way Is The Candy by Birdie Brown a couple of years back and did nothing with it until this year. Honestly, I used to have a job where I was on call 24/7 so as much as I love crafting, I never have time for it. These days though I have a set schedule and much more time to do what I LOVE!

This week I made two Shaker Cards using Witch Way Is The Candy.

My first shaker was easy enough to make. I used Stampin' Up!'s Summer Sun Cardstock for the frame and base of the card because I thought it went really well with the patterned paper from my stash. I die cut some clouds out of white cardstock using Lawn Fawn's Puffy Clouds Border Die and inked it up with some black soot Distress Ink. I threw in some Doodlebug Sequins and BAM, shaker was done.

I didn't run into any issues until I went to color that precious witch. My hubby recently surprised me with a full core set of the Spectrum Noir alcohol markers. While they are similar to Copics, they don't blend quite the same as Copics do. There's definitely a learning curve to them, but they are great markers and a truly sweet gift from a fantastic hubby!

My second card using that cutie put up a little more of a fight.I knew I wanted to put a shaker tag onto a card front and started working on the tag first. My first tag ended in Utter Disaster. I am not saying this to be dramatic, my first tag warped, my sequins fell out due to the warping, it was not pretty. The only thing I managed to salvage from that first tag was the sequins.

Creating my second tag went much smoother than the first. The sentiment is embossed onto black card stock and comes from the HSH Halloween Additions set by  There She Goes. I used some patterned paper from my stash for the background of the tag and sponged some Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide Ink onto some white paper and die cut it out for the top of my tag. I finished the tag off with some Lawn Fawn Gold Sparkle Cord, black ribbon, and some gold Pretty Pink Posh sequins.

My tag ended up just a little bigger than I originally intended so I made a 5x7 card base out of Canson watercolor paper. I used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi to watercolor the base with black and gold and put it all together.

My question to y'all is, are excited to see Halloween stuff already or do you wish they would wait until closer to the actual holiday?

Until next time, keep on craftin'!

Sketch Challenge

Hi all I'm back? Did any of you miss me?

While I have been crafting, I haven't posted anything in quite some time. I have gone through a lot of personal stuff, but I am back. I thought it was time to get back on the horse and start posting again. Please be kind as I am a little rusty.

This week, I wanted to participate in my first ever MFT Stamps Card Challenge #340.

I realize it is only July, but for this Sketch Challenge I opted to use MFT's Witch Way is the Candy? Stamp and Dies. I absolutely LOVE this adorable witch. I used the sketch as a guideline and made a shaker card.

I remembered to take a picture as I was working with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink in Fossilized Amber, but didn't take any of all the other work I put into it. I know, I dropped the ball!

I hope you like this card and much as I liked making it.