This month for the Rediscovery Instagram Hop, we are digging in to our stash to find things to play with using a geometric theme. I had lots of ideas but decided to keep it super quick by using this fun patterned paper...
A friend of mine asked me to make a card for her to give to a newly married couple. I search Pinterest for some ideas to get my mojo going and I came across a card with this saying on it. I decided to play with the Silhouette Design Studio software to try to get a fun layout for it... and then sent it off to my printer. I had to print on printer paper as my printer doesn't print on cardstock so I adhered the printed paper to a scrap of cardstock before cutting it out.
Happy Last Thursday of August, creative friends! How on earth is summer almost over? Calgary has had such a wet and cool summer (although this week has been fabulous)... I'm so sad to see the sun setting earlier and earlier... and in a few weeks I'll be getting up before dawn again on work days. So sad.
Today I am here with the team at Time Out Challenges with Challenge #296...
I had a scrap of patterned paper in my stash that didn't seem big enough to do much with... So I cut it in half and used it to frame a wonderful friendship sentiment... I added some butterflies to finish it all off.
Each month, a group of us gather on Instagram to share rainbow inspired clean and simple cards... we take the colours of the rainbow and make a clean and simple card that makes those colours shine.
This month, I chose to stencil my colours through a brick pattern stencil along the edge of my front panel. I stamped a floral stamp over top of it and let it stamp off the edge of my panel. Super quick and simple!
I almost didn't participate in the Birthday Bounce Instagram Hop this month because I couldn't think of anything in my stash that would work for the confetti or sprinkles theme. But then I was digging through some new patterned paper and found these fabulous designs in it and whipped up a quick birthday card.
This week for the My Favorite Instagram Hop, we are using our favourite monochromatic look... I saw some samples from Gina K where her hubby had suggested ink blending in shades of grey. I LOVED how they looked so I thought I would play with the idea... I did a full 6x6 panel and cut out a portion of it for my card today (you'll see the rest of it in about 10 days)
We have a wonderful new challenge for you at Addicted to CAS...
I was going to play with some of my rainbow themed stash, but I had these foil butterflies left over from a project a few weeks ago and decided to play with them instead...
I'm back with my second and final card using the August Sketch at Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers. I thought that this sketch would be more difficult for me than it was...
For my card today, I decided that a simple silver and white card would be fun to play with. I but my strips and then put them in to the embossing folder to emboss them. I found the brushed silver snowflake in my bin of extras.
The challenge at CAS on Friday is to use vellum in your clean and simple design. I decided to try embossing a piece of vellum with an embossing folder. I did a small strip and put it between my white panels and put a green panel behind it. The colours were so subdued, I felt it would make a perfect sympathy card.
My friend Claire hosts a monthly Christmas card challenge on Instagram... this month her theme is "white on white". She and I were joking around a few days ago because she didn't know why she chose that theme as she struggles with white and white. I figured that since I gave her a little advice, I should play along as well...
White on White isn't easy... you need layers, texture and dimension.
A group of us participate in an Instagram Hop each month where we play with some of the patterned paper in our stash. The goal is to use up some of what we have instead of buying new... and so far, I've done just that!
This month, our optional theme is banners... so I used a banner die to cut up some patterned paper from the same collection... this way I know that all of the colours go together.
This month for the Crushing Christmas Instagram Hop, our theme is Ornament Overload! I was digging through my stash of Christmas supplies and came across this die that my sister gave me a few years ago. I had an idea to cut it out twice and then use my craft knife to cut out a portion of it to have two different colours in the die cut.
I would NEVER do this for more than one card LOL! It took too much time (and a little swearing) to make multiples of this one...
We have a new colour challenge for you at CAS Colours & Sketches...
I knew I wanted to try something a little different than just some die cuts in these colours (which I tend to do most often) so I stamped up this cute little guy and coloured him up instead.
There's a wonderful new sketch at Atlantic Hearts this week.... so many ideas ran through my head...
I decided to play with the waves embossing folder that I've used several times before... and by doing it on the blues, it truly looks like waves this time!
This week on the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite woodland creatures. I decided to go monochormatic for my card for today to enhance the idea of my favourite animal from the woods... a raccoon!
Hello crafty friends... it's a new month and a new theme with the Create it Three Ways Instagram Hop. Each month, we each create three cards using at least one common element in all three cards. This month, our theme is sympathy cards... not a reason anyone wants to make a card. For me, a sympathy card needs to be simple and subdued. So that's what I went with.
And for something a little different, I used the exact same products on all three cards...
