S& S Midweek Challenge: Miss You

Operation Write Home needs Missing You cards for our deployed military to send home to their family, friends, and loved ones. I am getting ready to send a box of cards to OWH so created one more to enter this challenge. A CAS card!

DSP: Unknown
CS: Bazzill
Sentiment: "Right at Home" clear stamp set by Hero Arts
Circle Embellishment: Candi by Craftwork Cards

Greens and Blue and More

This card will be entered in the Unscripted Sketches Summer Flashback Challenge #7. It was so much fun to create, mainly because this sketch is awesome!! I used one of my recent purchases (the chair die and stamp set) and added texture to the background. The chair has a paper-pieced pillow, and chair and sentiment are raised with dimensional adhesive.

Stamp and Die: "Small Hayward Chair" by Poppy Stamps
Circle Die: Spellbinders
Embossing Folder: "Tiny Bubbles" by Cuttlebug
Patterned Paper: my stash
CS: Bazzill
Sentiment: "All the Time" Collection by Hero Arts
Border Punch: EK Success

OWH Sketch #182

These sketches are so easy to follow! Thanks to the precise measurements of each element. Sketches are always good, but these are always great :)
I found the patterned paper at the recent Scrapbook Expo in a bin of double-sided patterned 12x12 paper for 33 cents each. I bought a few of them to make cards following the "One Sheet Wonder" formula. When I looked more closely at this paper, I realized the front and back were almost the same pattern, only one was smaller. So this paper would not work for the One Sheet Wonder idea. Then when I saw this sketch, I knew this paper would work for a CAS card like this:

DSP: "Stop Watches" by Scrappin' Sports

Blue CS: Bazzill

Brads: Recollections

Sentiment: "All the Time" stamp set by Hero Arts

Challenges: 

OWH Sketch #182

HIMCR #107: Freestyle

Challenges 4 Everybody #25: Anything Goes

Sister Act Card Challenge #16: Anything Goes

TTCRD: Anything Goes

Simple Sketch and No Patterned Paper

This was a fun card to make and is entered in two challenges.

Embossing Folder and Image: 'Flowers and Vines Set' by Sizzix and Hero Arts

Green Ink: 'Old Olive' by Stampin' Up!

Sentiment: The Stamps of Life

Embossing at Sentiment Tag: 'Birch Background' by Our Daily Bread Designs and Versamark

CS: my stash

Challenges:

Shopping Our Stash #104: No Patterned Paper

Unscripted Sketches #213

S & S Midweek Challenge: It's About Time

Embossing this card was less fun than usual as my heat tool has a mind of it's own and sometimes decides not to work. It finally did work, and here is my card.

Large Clock Stamp: "All the Time" by Hero Arts

Embossing Powder: Black by Recollections

Brad: We are Memory Keepers

Heat Tool: Recollections

Small Clock Stamp: "Time Capsule" by Fun Stampers Journey

Watermark Ink: Versamark

Clear Embossing Powder: Recollections

Border Punch: EK Success

CS: my stash

Sentiment: Studio G

Black Ink: "Dragonfly Black" by ColorBox

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #97: Text or Letters

I decided on a "shabby chic" design for this challenge. I gathered stamps from multiple sets and this is my creation.

Flowers: my stash (bought months ago)

Text: Hampton Art

Clock: "Time Capsule" by Fun Stampers Journey

Sentiment: "All the Time" by Hero Arts

Ink for Images: "Chocolate" by TPC Studio

Distress Ink: "brushed corduroy" by Ranger for Tim Holtz

OWH Design Bootcamp: Basic Color Theory

The Stars and Stamps blog by Operation Write Home has a great tutorial about color theory along with  amazing card samples. These samples exemplify monochromatic, analogous, and complementary color combinations. My card is monochromatic and CAS. I thought about adding pink flowers or a butterfly, then decided to dry emboss the DP and leave as is. The subtle design of the paper and pretty ribbon work for me. This card will also be entered into the Shopping Our Stash Challenge 86: Use Your Oldest Ribbon and The Cheerful Stamp Pad Challenge # 52: Tickled Pink.

And I would be 'tickled pink' if you would be so kind as to take a minute and Join my site! Thank you.

Ribbon: "Holiday Time" Fabric Ribbon from Wal-Mart (never used, very old, it was most likely on sale)
Embossing Folder: Sizzix/Hero Arts and Cuttlebug
Brad: my stash
DP: my stash
Pink CS: Bazzill

S&S Midweek Challenge: Miss You

After all the celebrating with family during the holidays, along with visiting my good friend in the hospital since Thanksgiving, I lost my creative mojo. Yesterday and today, I finally sat down and created cards for Operation Write Home.
Here is my "Miss You" card suitable for a young boy. I made several more of these with little girl and boy stickers.

Sticker: Me and My Big Ideas
DP: my stash
CS: Bazzill and Recollections

Sentiment: Hero Arts
Small brown dots: Candi by Craftwork Cards

ODBD December Challenge: Flowers

When I saw this idea used on a card (the square cut-out), I knew I wanted to try it. So this Stars & Stamps Our Daily Bread Designs challenge became my chance !

Flowers and Ribbon: Hero Arts
Sentiment: unmarked wood mounted stamp
DP: my stash
Brad: Button  Brads from Hobby Lobby
Border Punch: EK Success
Square Die: QuicKutz

OWH Sketch #149 and S&S Midweek Challenge

Here's one card for 2 challenges! This uses the OWH Sketch (with artistic license) and the Stars and Stamps Challenge "Love or Hugs". I figure if a bear offers someone a "warm & fuzzy" it is similar to a human hug!

Precolored Digital Stamp and Sentiment: Doodle Pantry
Ribbon: Hero Arts
Scalloped Circle Die: Spellbinders
CS: my stash
DP: K&Company
Brad: "Button Brads" from Hobby Lobby
Ink: Ranger Distress "brushed corduroy"

S & S Midweek Challenge

Create a card using Kraft card stock and one or two other colors. Fun! Here I used a selection of paper pads for the Kraft and DP.

Clock & sentiment stamps: Hero Arts
Butterfly die: Memory Box
Kraft CS: Kraft Fun Day paper pad by My Mind's Eye
Colorful DP: Max and Whiskers paper pad by BasicGrey
"Notebook" DP: K & Company

Stars & Stamps Midweek Challenge

Today we are making a "missing you" card. Although mine has a different sentiment, I think it works. I had fun paper-piecing the little house and masking the cloud. I should have distressed the edges. Next time!


DP: Daffodil Pad by K&Co.
CS: Bazzill
Sentiment: Hero Arts
Image stamps: The Stamps of Life
Ink: Chocolate by TPC Studio, Cyan by Color Box
Corner Rounder: Creative Memories

Stars & Stamps Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge

The challenge this time is to choose three elements in a row either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally (as in a tic-tac-toe matrix) and incorporate them on a card. This was a great challenge and I decided to use "stripes, layers, and die cut".

Our Daily Bread Designs will be making a shipping donation based on the number of cards. ODBD will sponsor one large box of cards for every 25 cards linked to the challenge post, with a maximum of 2 boxes per month. So tell all your friends to come and enter the challenge too! Post your cards at the Stars & Stamps blog.

DP: Recollections

CS: Bazzill

Owl stamp & sentiment: The Stamps of Life

Heart stamp: Hero Arts

Scallop die cut: Nesties by Spellbinders

Ink: Chocolate by TPC Studio

Doodle Pantry Digital Challenge 21

I had a difficult time deciding which darling little digi stamp to use for DPDC21. Finally decided on this cute squirrel. Join us! With every entry fulfilling the requirements of the challenge, you get a freebie digi!!
Also joined the There's Magic in the Air challenge--use a critter on a card.

Image & sentiment: Doodle Pantry
DP: from my stash
Green CS: Bazzill
Heart stamp: Hero Arts
Ink: Red Pepper by Ranger
Edger punch: ek success

OWH VCMP Challenge #11: Rainforest

This challenge called for using greens with a splash of color. I immediately thought of using my frog stamp set. In keeping with the theme, the sky is green. The splash of color is the pool of water. I used a Hero Arts cloud stamp as a template and chalked the outside of the clouds using green blending chalk. It is difficult to see in the picture, and looks better in person. I stamped the frog (2-step stamping using the outline stamp with black ink and the 'inside' stamp with green ink) and lily pad on white cardstock and cut them out. I'm not sure if I will add a sentiment.

Paper: unk
Frog and lily pad: The Stamps of Life
Clouds: Hero Arts
Chalk: Inkadinkado
Black ink: Dragonfly by Color Box
Green ink: studio g

OWH VCMP Challenge #10: Vintage

This was really fun! I have several retro digi's and haven't used them. So here's one for the Vintage challenge.

Patterned cardstock: K&Company
Digital images: Free Vintage Digital Stamps (search "Collage")
Sentiment: Hero Arts

OWH Bling Challenge

The most recent OWH challenge was to make a card using bling without using glitter. Here are 2 colorful cards I made using clear and golden rhinestones. I used the "2 stamping" technique on the flower: the black outline is made with one stamp and the petals are made with another matching stamp. You will notice my dancing kitty made another appearance. This time I cut her dress out of patterned paper and attached it to her stamped image.

Patterned paper: Magenta
Plain cardstock: Bazzill
Circle dies: Nestabilities by Spellbinder
Flower stamps: The Stamps of Life
Ink: Dragonfly Black and Burnt Sienna by Color Box
Kitty stamp: Hero Arts
Rhinestones: Studio 18

OWH Sketch 105

Here is the card I made to match the most recent OWH Sketch. I really love my dancing kitty stamp!

Patterned Paper: Magenta
Colored Pen: "Victorian Rose" Uchida
Cardstock: Bazzill
Rubber Stamp:  Hero Arts
Dies: Nestabilities by Spellbinders