Let's Craft and Create Challenge #198 AG - Use Polka Dots and/or Stripes

 

Wow time sure is zipping by. It's time for a new challenge over at Let's Craft and Create. Challenge #198 starts today 

. The challenge is Anything Goes with the option to us Polka Dots and/or Stripes. I decided to use both.

I started with heavyweight white cardstock cut, scored and folded to make a standard 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" A2 card base. I chose pattern papers from a MFT 6" X 6" paper pad.

I cut the polka dotted pattern paper to 4" X 5 1/4" and matted it with some lilac card stock cut to 4 1/8" X 5 3/8".I adhered those together and add them to my card base using liquid adhesive.

I found my image in the Silhouette Design Store, printed it and cut it out after sizing to 3 1/4" high.

I used the largest die in the Hello Bluebird nesting half circle dies to cut my diagonal striped paper. I turned it on its side and adhered my birthday gnome to the pattern paper. I popped it up with some foam tape and attached it to the card front.

I stamped my sentiment with some Hero Arts Orchid ink on a scrap of white cardstock using the Honeybee Stamps Birthday Wishes stamps and dies.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you will head over to Let's Craft and Create and check out the great projects by the rest of the Design Team and then link up your project.

You Perk Me Up

 

Hey everyone, I'm back with a new card.  I heard about a new Challenge Blog called Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge. I decided to participate this challenge which was Coffee and Snowflakes.

For my card I found this image in Cricut Access. I cut my image at 4". There are additional extras with this image that I decided not to use. Once I had my image cut and adhered together I created my card base.

I started with some heavyweight white cardstock cut, scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I cut my patterned paper to 4" X 5 1/4". Before adhering to my card base I embossed some small snowflakes using both Clear embossing powder and some Hero Arts Satin White embossing powder.

I adhered my cup to my pattern paper with some liquid adhesive. I then adhered that to my card base also with liquid adhesive.

I stamped my sentiment with some Memento Espresso Truffle ink.  

Thanks for visiting today. I hope you will come back soon.

Your Kindness Doesn't Go Unnoticed

Here is a card I made for a friend of mine.

My card is a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" white card stock. I used the Simon Says Stamp Brush Stroke messages stamp from the October 2017 card kit to stamp my colored swatches across the top of the card.  I used Distress Oxide inks in Wild Honey, Abandoned Coral,Fossilized Amber, and Squeezed Marmalade for the swatches.  The sentiment is from a Hero Arts Kindness stamp set and is stamped in Distress Oxide Vintage Photo ink.

Be Mine Card

I have another Valentine Day card for you today. I do think this card would work great for an Anniversary or even a Birthday too. Or just to say Hello to someone, and let them know you are thinking about them. So the last card I made used some Hero Art stamps. While I later found out that Hero Arts makes a die that fits those stamps. (Yes, Kim can order Hero Arts products. Just contact her through Customer Service at Cutters Creek.) Of course I had to get them. Then this idea popped into my head and this is what I came up with. My card is a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" white card stock card base. I love using the Bazzill smooth white card stock for my card bases. It is a good sturdy paper and since it is smooth everything you layer on top lies nice and flat. I added a black mat cut to 4" X 5 1/4" and then the patterned paper mat cut to 3 3/4" X 5".  I added some Washi Tape from American Crafts at the bottom of my patterned paper for some color. For my heart balloons I cut both sizes of the small dies out of some patterned paper. For my sentiment I stamped that in some Memento Tuxedo Black ink on some red card stock. I used my eBosser to cut all the hearts out. Got to love the eBosser! I did use my magnetic shim which works great to help keep your dies in place. In case you are wondering, the machines shipping now come with the magnetic shim. For those of us that got in on the first shipment they did not but Cutters Creek sells them. I then attached some of the Doodlebug twine to each of my hearts and adhered them to my card with some foam tape. The red heart and pink heart are both on two thicknesses of foam tape and the rest is on one thickness. Finally, I doubled some of the pink and white striped twine and tied all the strings together in a bow. I added a couple of pink heart stick pens that are from My Minds Eye and some white stitching with my gel pen. I had a lot of fun making this one and with the eBosser doing all the work it went together really quick.