Hello friends... this week on the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are creating birthday cards featuring an animal. I chose to play with this ignored pattern paper in my stash...
Each month, I play along with some creative friends, busting down our stash of pattern paper for the Pattern Paper Instagram Hop. This month, our optional theme is chevrons. I remembered seeing this fun folding technique so I went looking for directions to create the pieces to create the rhombus shapes that I then put together to create the chevron. Thanks to Patty Stamps for the great tutorial!
This month, our theme for the Crushing Christmas Instagram Hop is Snazzy Snowmen. Of course I had to play! I LOVE snowmen!! I chose to play with a foiled snowflake that I had in my bin of extras as well as this adorable little snowman.
A brand new colourboard challenge starts today at AAA Colourful. Some really pretty colours to inspire you!
I chose to play with the pink, green, blue and teal that I see in this image to create my card. But I struggled a bit to put things together. I hope it came out OK...
This week for the My Favourite Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite tree themed items. I will admit that this is not my favourite tree themed item from my stash, but the ideas I had for my favourite tree stamp weren't working out for me. Instead I pulled out this stencil to create a simple sympathy card.
I'm here with my card for the CASE It Instagram Hop... each month I create a card that is inspired by another Instagram card creator. This month, I chose a card by @joanbardee
Let me show you her card first...
This is such a gorgeous card! I love that she did a rainbow of flowers, kept it clean and simple and used some dimension to make it all pop! I did something very simlar with different stamps and some different sizes of layers.
There's a great new clean and simple challenge at Addicted to CAS... for challenge #310, we are playing with FRAMES!
I love a thin gold frame on my cards... I put it directly on the front of my card and added a die cut printed washi piece and some (gasp) bling!
Each month I play along with a group of creative friends on Instagram where we create and share cards of encouragement... a card we could send to someone who might be going through something tough.
This month, I chose to play with a black and white card and I really like how it turned out! I even used some bling again!
I'm back today with my second card using this fun sketch from Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers...
For this card, I used some patterned paper in my stash as well as some kraft coloured cardstock... Such a quick and easy card to put together since everything but the solid coloured cardstocks and the stamped sentiment came from the same package of pattern paper!
It's been a busy few days here on my blog... lots of hops and challenges to share! This one is for the Clean and Simple Instagram Hop! This month, our theme is Pattern Paper... wait, what?! How do you use pattern paper on a clean and simple card?! I'm also entering this card in to the current challenge at Just us Girls. Their theme is "summer" and what says summer more than butterflies and beautiful flowers?
It's easy... you use it sparingly!
For my card, I used this gorgeous floral paper and placed it directly on my card front. I die cut the butterfly out of a smaller panel and put it on top of the pattern paper. In retrospect, I wish I'd used some foam adhesive to add some dimension.
It's time for another Pick 2 Challenge at Time Out Challenges... here is the graphic with your choices.
I chose the words water, summer and sun and created a ink blended panel trying to depict an ocean sunset... I hope I did OK! I put the ink blended panel behind the die cut oval to add a little interest.
We are celebrating my online friend Jerralyn today... celebrating her birthday! Head over to my Instagram Account to find this card and hop through to see all of the fabulous birthday cards that were made for her!
I kept my card pretty clean and simple. I had these white die cut strips left over from another card so I used them on a smaller white panel and added some printed (and die cut) washi. I even added a few gems to finish it off!
Each month, a group of creative friends gather on Instagram to play with white on white cards. We can use a small amount of another colour on our cards and I usually save that for my sentiment.
The key to white on white cards is layers and dimension. I started with some white die cut strips across the front of my card and then added a gorgeous floral embossed panel.
Hello Sunshine is the theme for the current Card Clubhouse Instagram Hop... I played with a sunburst stencil and some raised panels to create my card.
Hello friends... it's time for a new sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches!
For my card, I pulled out a pretty piece of pattern paper and cut it with a fun frame die. I added a die cut sentiment and some bling to finish it off (I have a lot of bling but hardly ever use it! I'm trying to change that!)
I participated in a surprise Graduation Hop for another Instagram creator named Brennan. He is the host of the Crushin' Christmas Instagram Hop. Brennan is just a young guy, graduating high school today and heading off to college in the fall. A group of us thought it would be fun to surprise him with a Hop to celebrate the big day!
I don't have a lot of graduation themed stuff in my stash... the one thing I need is a graduation cap die because I am super sick of fussy cutting this one out! I focussed on the colour purple as that is one of his high school colours.
I messed up my calendar and almost missed making my design team card for this weeks' sketch at Atlantic Hearts! We did a mini road trip in the new car last week and thankfully I booked the entire week off work which meant I was able to get myself on track to share a card with you.
Let's look at the sketch...
And here's what I did with it... I took some inspiration for colouring from a card I found on Pinterest. I added the waves embossing folder to create some movement for this gorgeous butterfly! I have a little tip for you. I, personally, hate stamping with anything but my Versafine Clair black ink. It's so crisp and clean! But you can't use your Copics (or other alcohol markers as the ink will bleed). So, I use my Misti, stamp my image lightly with Memento... I colour the image and put the piece back in my Misti and stamp on top of it with my Versafine Clair. And BOOM! Crisp and beautiful!
This month, we are creating cards of gratitude for the Build Your Stash Instagram Hop. The goal of this hop is to encourage the participants to make some basic cards that we might need throughout the year so that they are ready to be mailed when we need them. I aim to make two cards following each theme. Some months I fail. This month I didn't!
In my effort to make more clean and simple cards (as they truly are where my heart is at), I did two simple cards to share today.
For this first card, I used some printed Washi and the matching die to cut out this gorgeous spring of leaves and added a simple stamped and die cut sentiment.
For my second card, I kept it simply black and white, breaking up the boredom with a simple embossing folder
This month for the Scraps Only Instagram Hop, we are playing with our favourite colour using only scraps and left over pieces from other projects. I started keeping a bin of extras a few years ago that I go through regularly to find pieces that will work on a project. The larger pieces of cardstock are not scraps, but everything else on this card was found in my bin of extras!
But I cheated... I didn't go with my favourite colour. Instead I went with my favourite colour combination. I had coloured up a couple of these butterflies a few weeks ago and the extra one was in the bin of extras!
This week our choices were COFFEE or ICE CREAM for the This or That Instagram Hop... I am not a coffee drinker (I don't even like the smell of it!) so of course I went with ice cream! I cut my scoop of ice cream out of a piece of patterned paper and added an embossed strip behind the focal point to add a little interest while keeping the card fairly clean and simple.
I really should give my head a shake... I've joined another Instagram Hop. This is is a monthly hop where we share our love for all things Spellbinders. I should have looked at my stash before I joined because I discovered just how little Spellbinders product I own LOL!
For my card today, I dug in to some of the unused items from the 2024 Advent Calendar.
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...
