I'm here today to share with you, the card I created for the June Mini Slimline Instagram Hop. I used a few leftover pieces of patterned paper and added this fabulous moth that I fussy cut from another sheet of pattern paper. I had trouble deciding where the sentiment should go...
Happy June, my friends! Today is my hubby's and mine 35th wedding anniversary! It feels like we've been married forever while also feeling like it was all just a few years ago! Crazy!
I'm here today with my first card using the fabulous June sketch at Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers!
I was going to do a fully white on white card for my first card, but I felt like the snowflake got lost... so instead, I cut the snowflake out of some silver holographic cardstock to let it shine!
This week we are playing with our favourite embossing folder for the My Favourite Instagram Hop. I'm not sure that this is my favourite embossing folder, but it's certainly my most versatile folder ! I use it a lot!
I used the debossed side this time and dragged a grey ink pad across it to create my grout lines.
I'm participating in a hop to celebrate my friend Melissa's birthday today! Go check out the hop on Instagram and leave some comments for your chance to win one of the prizes Melissa has offered up! I"m sure she'd love some more birthday wishes!
I was inspired by a card I saw by Cathy Zielske a few weeks ago. I cut my panel and then cut my banner out of that panel. I fit the two pieces back together and put them through my Big Shot with a 3-D embossing folder. I did some ink blending on the tag shaped piece and tried to get a gradient of colour on it. I put the embossed panel on the card front and then added the tag shape with foam adhesive. I finished it off with a simple stamped and die cut sentiment that I popped up on foam adhesive.
This month, we are playing with the idea of funny or snarky for the Rediscover Your Supplies Instagram Hop. While I have some stamps and dies that fit this theme, I was going to pass... but then I realized that this was exactly the reason I joined this hop! I NEED to use my stash!
So, here's a card made completely from things that have been buried a little too deeply in my stash for too long..
There's a fun new clean and simple challenge that starts today at Addicted to CAS...
I almost didn't play in this challenge but then I remembered this cute little fox that I was sent by Michelle V Park Designs. Isn't he adorable? I scrounged through my bin of extras and found the little stitched squares and finished it all off with a simple sentiment.
Hello Creative Friends... I'm here today with my second and final card following the current sketch at Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers.
Challenge #335 at CAS on Friday has a RAINBOW theme... I love playing with rainbow colours and I love this rainbow die set from my stash as well. I love playing with the colours of the rainbow and today I made them pastels.
This week on the This or That Instagram Hop, we had to choose between INSIDE and OUTSIDE. I chose to play with an idea by Sandi MacIver. I cut a panel for my card front and then cut out the centre of the panel as well. I then put them back together and put them in to an embossing folder. I took the pieces out and did some ink blending on the inside part of the panel. I matted the inside panel and added it back to the card front.
Another rainbow colour inspired card for you for the Rainbow Connection Instagram Hop. Sadly, the paper I chose to use, while rainbow colours, isn't as happy and exciting as it could have been.
I cut the letters out of the pattern paper and layered it on top of two pieces of cardstock also cut with the dies to create a little dimension. I stamped a large floral image in black on a smaller card panel, place my letters on top and then finished off the sentiment with a word stamp
I struggled a bit with my card for the Birthday Bash Instagram Hop... I always struggle with this hop, but usually it's because I completely forget about the moodboard that goes with the challenge. This month, I remembered the check the moodboard and knewa floral card would be easy. And it all should have been easy as I LOVE shades of blues and pinks and purples... but I was running out of time and my ideas weren't coming together. I almost feel like this is a frankenstein-esque project! I really wanted to LOVE the goild foiling on that dark blue floral...
It's time for a new colour challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches...
I had an idea for this card when I saw the colours and then ended up going a different way... sort of. I was going to do a few die cut balloons using the two shades of blue (with the grey as the tail) and then thought some clouds might be nice. So I used the lighter shade of blue to stencil my clouds and then the balloon in that colour didn't look right. So one balloon it is.
This month for the Embossing Folder Instagram Hop, we are playing with the blackout technique. After some trial and error, I found a few things that worked for me for this....
*ink blend darker than you think you should with your colours
*choose an embossing folder that has a lot of texture on it (not one with a lot of open space)
*use a 3D embossing folder
*use a light hand an MANY passes with your black ink to create the black out
I think this is probably the first time I've had good success with this technique...
There's a brand new sketch challenge that starts today at Atlantic Hearts!
I played with some new to me papers to create my card for today... I'm trying to hone my skills at putting papers together. I'm not sure I won the battle with this card as the pink layer just wasn't quite enough of a pop against the busy background.
Once again, I am playing along with the Gina K Appreciation Instagram Hop... I don't have a lot of her products as I can't find them locally any more... but I sure do love Gina's style and her products!
For this hop, I played with my favourite layering stencil that I have in my stash as well as a rainbow of Gina K inks. Everything on this card is by from Gina K!
This week on the This or That Instagram Hop, we had to choose between Masculine and Feminine. You all know that I struggle with masculine cards, so of course I went more feminine... but I put a masculine twist on my card by using a wood plank embossing folder and by colouring my flowers in what is considered a more masculine colour.
This month for the Pattern Paper Instagram Hop, we are playing with the idea of a distressed edge. We are all trying to use up some of the papers already in our stash, so I dug out this great floral paper to play with.
To create my distressed edge, I simply tore my pattern paper. To get the white edge (since this paper has a white core), I tore the scrap piece towards me, leaving a white edge on the strip I wanted to use. I then used another pattern behind that first strip to highlight the torn edge.
This month for the Crushing Christmas Instagram Hop, we are playing with stencils. I don't have a lot of stencils and I don't play with what I do have too often. I got this stencil from Kraftin' Kimmie about a year ago and decided to pull it out. I used some stencil paste with the stencil to create my winter themed background. Once I created the background I had no idea what to do next! I played around with a few items in my stash and ended up with this.
We were challenged to do a masculine themed card this week for the My Favourite Instagram Hop... I almost skipped it because I don't feel like I do masculine cards well. I did some searching on Pinterest and found a card using this colour combination and thought "why not?".
It's time, once again, for the Create It 3-Ways Instagram Hop. Each month, a group of us plays with a common theme... the twist is that we each choose (for ourselves) at least one thing to showcase in three cards using that theme. It could be a stamp or die set, a colour scheme, a technique, a layout... Our goal is to stretch our supplies a little more by creating different looks using the same items.
This month, our theme is "celebrate"
I used all of the same products on my three cards... but made them in three different layouts. I also used the same size matted front panel for all three cards.
This was the card I made first... I just LOVE this pattern paper!! I also think this is my favourite of the three (do you have a favourite?)
And then I created this one...
And finally, this one...
It's time for a new clean and simple challenge at Addicted to CAS!
Playing with these challenges makes me realize how narrow my crafty stash is... I buy what I like, not what I think I might need for challenges. To that end, I couldn't think of any stamps in my stash that would work for this challenge. Then I remembered the suite of items from Stampin' Up! with the hot air balloons. I've made a few cards by cutting out the balloons from the pattern paper but I didn't feel like doing that for this card... instead I just used a piece of the the pattern paper.
