BYSH Cardmakers Sketch #54 Challenge

 

Hey everyone. There is a new challenge over at BYSH Cardmakers using Sketch 54. This is my first inspiration project with this sketch.

I used pattern papers from Honeybee Stamps for my card and matted everything with some gold matte cardstock.

I die cut a 2 1/4" circle out of some white cardstock and embossed it with a 3D embossing folder from Simon Says Stamp. I then spritzed it with some sheer sparkle spray.  Next, I white heat embossed my sentiment on some black cardstock. The sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp Graceful Holiday Greetings and die cut with the matching dies.

Once the white circle was dry, I adhered it to my card using some liquid adhesive. I added my sentiment to the white circle with some narrow foam strips. To finish the card, I added some gold pearls.

I appreciate you stopping by. I encourage you to head over to the BYSH Cardmakers blog and check out the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team, then add your project to our Facebook group for a chance at winning a prize.

The Creative Crafter Challenge #76

 

It's time for a new challenge over at The Creative Crafters. As always, the challenge is Anything Goes. This is my card for the challenge.

My card base is heavyweight white cardstock cut and folded to make an A2 card base. My pattern paper if from the Blooms 6" X 6" paper pad by Carta Bella. I cut the paper to 3 3/4" X 5". I matted it on blue cardstock cut to 4" X 5 1/4". My focal image is a cut apart from the paper pad. I matted it on some pink cardstock. I popped it up with some foam tape.

My sentiment is from Honeybee Stamps that I white heat embossed on more of the blue cardstock. I used the matching die to cut the sentiment then popped it up on my card. To finish my card, I added some light blue gemstones from Honeybee Stamps. I put 3 on opposite corners of my focal image and several around my sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you will head over to The Creative Crafters and link up a project. See you there.

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #197 Anything Goes - Add Flowers

 

Wow! Summer has arrived in a big way here. It's time for a new challenge at Let's Craft and Create. Our challenge for July is Anything Goes with the option to Add Flowers. This is my take on the challenge.

This image was a Print then Cut image that I found in the Silhouette Design Store. I sized my image to about 3" tall. After printing it, I used my Silhouette Portrait to cut it out. I cut three more of the images without printing them out of the cardstock leftover from the Print and Cut image. What I did was duplicated the image. I then ungrouped the image and deleted the flowers which left me with just the red cut line of the image. I then duplicated that two more times and arranged them on my mat to the right and underneath the Print then Cut image. After reading the registration marks my Portrait cut out the image I printed along with the other 3 blank images. I then adhered the layers all together which added some dimension and stability to my image. I then white heat embossed my sentiment onto the pot the flowers were in.

I started with heavyweight white cardstock that was cut, scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. The pattern paper I chose was from a Honeybee Stamps 6" X 6" paper pad. I cut it down to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" so it covered my entire card front. To finish the card I added some blue confetti to the front.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will head over to Let's Craft and Create and play along with us. See you there.

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #188 AG + The Colors of Fall

 

There is a new challenge over at Let's Craft and Create. Challenge #188 is Anything Goes with the option of The Colors of Fall (Use any or all of these colors - red, yellow, orange, brown). This is my project.

For my card I started off with some heavyweight white cardstock, cut, scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. Next, I cut a piece of pattern paper to 4" X 5 1/4". My pattern paper is from an Echo Park Welcome Autumn 6" X 6" Mega Pad. I used a dark brown solid from the same paper pad and die cut it with Pink Fresh Studio's Geo Tiles coverplate die. I applied an adhesive sheet to the back of the paper before die cutting it so it was easier to adhere to my pattern paper. After I had those layered together, I attached them to my card base with liquid adhesive.

The leaves were cut from colored cardstock using an Autumn Leaves die set from Spellbinders. I heat embossed the word fall with some gold embossing powder and die cut it out using the matching dies from Honeybee Stamps. The word Greetings is from the same Honeybee stamp set and was also embossed in gold. I popped up my fall sentiment with foam tape. To finish the card, I added some gold pearls.

Now I hope you will pop on over to Let's Craft and Create to look at the inspiration provided by the rest of the Design Team and link up your project. We would love to have you join us.

Happy Holidays

 

I know it's been awhile but this time of year is super busy for me and time got away from me. Today I have a fun Holiday Card.

I started with some white heavyweight cardstock that I cut, scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. Next I cut another panel of heavyweight cardstock to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" panel. I used the Honeybee Stamps Fancy Flakes cover plate die to cut my panel. I then used the Pierced Fancy Flakes Cover Plate to add the piercing detail to my snowflakes.

I then cut a piece of mirror cardstock just slightly smaller than 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" to fit behind my snowflake cover plate image. I adhered that with liquid glue. I used my Cricut Maker 3 to cut my Happy Holidays sentiment from more of the blue mirror card stock for the shadow and white cardstock for the top layer. Again I used liquid adhesive to adhere them together and some small strips of foam tape to adhere the sentiment to the card.

I added some sequin from the Simply Snowflakes Sequin Mix from Honeybee Stamps.

This was a quick and easy card to put together and a great last minute card to make.

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #175 AG Option Lots of Layers

 

It is hard to believe we are into the month of September, but we are. It also means it is time for a new challenge at Let's Craft and Create. The challenge this month is Anything Goes with the option of Lots of Layers.  Today I have a fall card for you.

For this card I started with some Simon Says Stamp Burnt Orange cardstock that I cut, scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. Next I pulled out some pattern paper from the Echo Park Fall 6" X 6" paper pad.

Using the MFT A2 Double Stitched Rectangle STAX Dies I cut the orange gingham with the largest die. I then cut some of the burnt orange paper with the next smaller die. Finally I cut the leaf pattern paper with the third smaller die. I adhered the orange gingham pattern paper to my card base using liquid adhesive. I then adhered the leaf pattern paper to the burnt orange cardstock using liquid adhesive. I adhered this layer to my card base using some foam tape to pop it up.

Now comes the fun part. I took a piece of Canson XL Watercolor paper and cut it in forth so I had a manageable size to work with. I grabbed a box and put my paper in it. I then sprayed it with some Distress Oxide sprays. I used Wild Honey, Festive Berries, Crackling Campfire, and Ripe Persimmon. This was the first time I used these and I was amazed how much they dried back and lightened, especially when I sprayed them with water. I did do several layers then dried it. Next I pulled out the new Tim Holtz Ranger Mica Stains. I sprayed my paper with the Jack O Lantern and Flickering Candle. I then dried the paper again with my heat tool. The sparkle is amazing in real life. It was hard to catch on camera.

Next I took most of the leaf dies from the Tim Holtz Fall Foilage Thinlit Dies and cut the leaves from the background I made. To make the leaves stand out a bit more I took some Fossilized Amber, Barn Door, and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide inks and a small blending brush and went around some of the edges of the leaves and also added a bit of color to the middle of some of them.

I then added some small pieces of foam tape to the back of my leaves. I arranged them in the center of my leaf pattern paper adhering them as I went.

For my sentiment I used the Honeybee Stamps Fall Honeycuts die to cut out my word Fall. I cut the top layer from some red pattern paper from the Echo Park Fall 6"X6" paper pad. I cut the shadow from vellum. I adhered the sentiment together with liquid adhesive. 

I adhered the word Fall to the center of my leaves with some liquid adhesive.  I then stamped the word slendor on a scrap of the burnt orange cardstock using some Versamark watermark  ink. I added some Antique Gold Simon Says Stamp Ultra Fine embossing powder. I melted that with my heat gun.  I then attached the sentiment strip with some foam tape and added it to my card under the word Fall.

To finish the card I added some Honeybee Stamps Celebration Confetti. I used some of the orange and gold Confetti. 

Now it's your turn. Pop on over to Let's Craft and Create and play along with us. It's a lot of fun. Hope to see you there.

Happy Birthday

 

Today I have for you another birthday card. To make this card I started with some heavy weight white cardstock that was cut, scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2"  card base. All products used for this card came from a Simon Says Stamp card kit.

I cut a piece of heavy weight cardstock to 4" X 5 1/4". I used the dandelion wishes embossing folder to emboss this white cardstock. Next I selected this piece of pattern paper from the kit. I used the dandelion wishes stamp set to stamp my images. I treated the pattern paper with my anti static tool and stamped the images with Versamark ink. I then sprinkled white embossing powder on the images and used my heat tool to melt the embossing powder.

Next I selected my sentiment and again stamped it with Versamark ink and sprinkled with white embossing powder and heated with my heat gun to melt the embossing powder.

I adhered the pattern paper to the white embossed cardstock with liquid adhesive. I adhered all to my cardbase with some foam tape.

To finish the card I added some confetti from Honeybee Stamps with some liquid glue.

Thanks so much for stopping by today for a visit. I would love it if you left me a comment. Hope to see you again soon.