"Hello Spring" is the theme this month for the Rediscover Your Supplies Instagram Hop. I dug in to my stash for a few things... the pattern paper is super old, I don't often use this colour of cardstock and I used some edge dies that I haven't used in a while.
The end of March! Already?! I'm back with my second and final card using the current sketch at Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers.
I chose to use some more masculine looking apers for today with some plaid and a wonderful reindeer die!
This week for the This or That Instagram Hop, we had to choose between dragons and unicorns. I honestly forgot about the baby dragons stamp set I had so I defaulted to this fabulous unicorn set instead
Every month, a group of us play together on Instagram, sharing relatively clean and simple cards using the colours of the rainbow.
For today, I used three colours of Distress Ink through a stencil to create my rainbow.
I love this floral stamp that I'm using for my card for the Birthday Bash Instagram Hop. It's so simple to colour, which I love. I managed to remember to play with the suggested colours to go along with our botanical theme.
This morning I was going through the challenge blogs I sometimes play along with and I decided to create one card to play along with two challenges... First I used the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and then I added the mood board inspiration from Just Us Girls
Each month, a group of us hop on Instagram, each sharing three cards we've made following a common theme. The catch is, we each choose something to highlight in all three of our cards... a colour combination, a stamp set, a layout, a technique... something that will maybe help spark your creativity with the items already in your stash.
For March, our theme is sympathy cards... never something we like to make, but sadly something we need to have on hand.
In my mind, sympathy cards should be subtle and subdued. I also like the imagery of a butterfly for sympathy cards. All three of my cards use the same Pinkfresh Washi tape suite as well as the same sentiment stamp and die... and two of them feature the same embossing folder as well.
We have a great new challenge for you to play with at Addicted to CAS... and it's one of my favourite things!
I just love playing with stripes... so much so, I had trouble deciding which stripes I wanted to play with! I ended up choosing this fun watercolour-like pattern paper that was actually a diagonal stripe so I cut it down with a die to make the stripes horizontal. I even managed to use an extra piece I had cut to make a card last week!
The theme for March for the Pattern Paper Party Instagram Hop is Flowers. I used a fun floral paper to cut my flowers and leaves to create my card for today.
Our theme for this month for the Crushing Christmas Instagram Hop is Jolly Gingerbread. I pulled out some cute papers from my stash as well as a fun stamp that I coloured quickly with my Copics
It's a spring themed challenge at CAS on Friday... and what's more spring-like than some pretty daisies?
I cut these open daisies and added a bright yellow centre to each of them and then added them to small white squares that I put on to my card front with foam adhesive.
My only regret is that my sentiment stamp was ripping and I couldn't get it quite straight when I stamped it on my card front... should have done that first, I guess LOL
We have such a fun challenge for you at Time Out Challenges! I can't wait to see how you interpret our idea of using a clear element on your project!
I went with a fully clear panel for my card front! To do this, I cut a piece of acetate that was the same size as my card front but with an extra 1/2" on the folded side. I scored the piece of acetate and put a piece of white cardstock inside the flap to create a card back.
The key to a card like this is to make it so that your adhesive doesn't show through. I adhered my paper strips only in the centre 3/4" or so and then added the 1" gold strip to the inside of the card, putting adhesive only behind the paper strips.
What a fun sketch for us to play with for the current challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches! Joanne did a great job with this one!
I had a few ideas in my head for this one... but when this one popped in to my mind, I knew I had to go for it!
There's a wonderful and simple new sketch at Atlantic Hearts today...
I had some fun with some circles for my card... even with that big square element! I used a fun pattern paper behind a stained glass style die and added an embossed panel to the bottom of the card.
We are playing with a Lucky Shamrock theme with the My Favourite Instagram Hop this week... I have a a few sentiments with the word "luck" or "lucky" in them but I can't think of anything else in my stash.
So I improvised! The only problem was that I couldn't find a stamp that I could easily partially stamp the words "wishing you" so I should have changed my front panel.
I used a pattern paper from a Christmas package, an alphabet die set and a heart die to create my card!
Happy Sunday, creative friends... it's time for a new colourboard challenge over at AAA Colourful! I can't wait to see what colours YOU pull out of this fabulous graphic!
I see sunshine glinting off of what looks like ice bubbles... I used a kraft coloured cardstock as well as a pretty but muted yellow and a deep dark blue.
Another sketch from Freshly Made that I really wanted to play with... but another card made when I wasn't feeling overly creative. I think it turned out pretty well, but I feel like I always reach for these washi tape elements when I'm not feeling creative.
Each month, a group of us find a papercrafting creation on Instagram that inspires us enough to want to make a card based on that creation and we share it for the CASE It Instagram Hop Some months I will copy that card almost exactly, some months I play with the elements to create something different but similar.
This month, I was inspired by Verena Shapiro. This is her card
I fell in love first with the colours... out of my usual wheelhouse, but so freakin' pretty! Of course her mini slimline caught my eye as well. To create my card, I used the same colours and the leaves, but I made a more clean and simple version of her card.
