Inspired by Freshly Made Sketches # 529
I created this water color piece with the plastic wrap technique. I cut it down for the sketch element and did the same colors on one of the die cuts to tuck under the left side panel that is popped with foam tape. The white die cuts are two stacked together. The gold embossed sentiment is from Altenew's Paint a Flower Zinnia set. I used some gold thread and embellishments for a little added sparkle.
Use the sketch with an option to use scraps, which I have done with my card. Recently I organized my patterned paper by color families into folders. While doing this I saw several combinations of scrap that really went well together, so I paper clipped them and every now and then I pick one and make a card. The horizontal kraft piece is from a section of packing material, and the little stars were in a little plastic bag - no idea where they came from.
No sentiment on this as it will probably go out in July or maybe Memorial Day and I'll write inside.
Hope you will check out the rest of the design team inspiration at TSOT and join the challenge!
This new Layered Tulip die from Waffle Flower is so fun to play with and easy to assemble. I cut on shades of pink and green card stocks and then ink blended edges to some contrast and depth.
I embossed a panel and then placed it behind a popped up frame cut with some rectangle dies. The sentiment is an older Savvy die.
Linking to Cut It Up #248 : Spring Project
and CAS on Friday #227 : Flowers
For my design team inspiration, I adjusted the sketch to a top-folding portrait A-2 card. The background was ink blended with the Easter Background stencil from Pretty Pink Posh. The grass, flowers, bunnies and sentiment are from Simon Says Stamp March 2022 Kit 'Hoppy Days Ahead' I colored with Copics and fussy cut. The grass and sentiment with popped up with foam tape.
This week at Allsorts, Lorraine has selected the theme "In the Garden". Sponsors for the challenge are First Stop Stationers with two prizes: Card-io Winter Walks and Oriental Whispers.
My inspiration card did not turn out as I had hoped...but deadlines loom. Perhaps I will add another in a day or so with flowers this time. Plenty of those in the garden as swell. Right now it's just a few daffodils, primroses, anemone, forsythia, and the English daisies.
I hope you will be inspired to create a project and share it with us at Allsorts challenge HERE.
For my design team inspiration I created a 4.25x4.25 square card. The main panel was ink blended with Distress Oxide inks (Scattered Straw, Salt Water Taffy, Abandoned Coral) with MFT Small Brick Wall stencil. Then without removing that stencil, I placed the Cable Knit Heart stencil (Brutus Monroe) over and inked again. The bunnies were stamped, shaded a bit with Copics, and fussy cut. They come from the Simon Says Stamp March kit. The sentiment is from that set as well.
I hope you will play along with the sketch challenge!
Good Morning! It is a new week at Allsorts Challenge, this week Mervi has selected Feminine as her theme. So many amazing women in our lives to celebrate!
Wonderful new sketch challenge # 547 at Try Stampin' On Tuesday
The challenge is to use the sketch with an optional theme: Metallics
My design team inspiration card has been created for a very dear friend. She was a high school teacher and coach at a very important time when through Title IX girls were eligible to play in competitive sports. She launched four programs for girls, was head coach, and was a "driving force for equity in sports." She will be inducted into the school's athletic Hall of Fame.
I used heat silver embossing, metallic water colors, gold shimmer spray through a stencil, matt gold card stock, and some tiny gold star embellishments. The sentiment was cut from a Simon Says die and inlaid with the gold and mounted on a square of shimmery vellum. Lots of shine!
Please join us and share your crafty awesomeness HERE! The team loves to visit and see what you create.
A few years back I was obsessed with creating paper quilts. Warning: It is very addictive! I have been yearning to make some again, so I got out my file folder of quilt patterns and went to the library and checked out McCall's Quilting January/February 2022 edition. I used one of the blocks shown in the Spring Morning quilt designed by Marcie Patch. (pp 79-81)
I usually use small floral prints, but today was wanting to do something a little different and found some bright, spring colored plaid in the scrap stash. Precision cutting is the only tough thing here, and get the glue everywhere especially corners so they don't lift up when embossed ("quilted").
This is a square 5.5"x5.5" card base.
Sketch #226 at CAS on Friday ONE LAYER BIRTHDAY challenge.
* #593 at Just Add Ink Masking challenge
My design team inspiration for you uses some silver heat embossed music on a matt silver card stock. The stamp is from Kaisercraft that has been in my stash for a while. My first thought when I saw the sketch was piano keys...so I cut 1/2" strips of white and black. They are popped up on the background. The sentiment is from some label stickers I got in a kit last year. Just a fun card that I'll save for a dear friend who composes and teaches piano.
Hope you will join us!
My design team card for this week's challenge at Allsorts #667 'Spring is in the Air'. The sponsor for this challenge is Stampers Grove with this beautiful set for a winning entry.
I love spring flowers and freesia have such a marvelous scent as well. This stamp and die set from Altenew has been a favorite of mine. Freesia have many color varieties, and I had to do two for this challenge.
The first card doesn't use typical spring colors, but I have some of this stunning red/orange variety. The back ground was created by blowing bubbles with ink and dish soap in a small bowl and 'catching' the bubbles on the paper. Great fun to do! I added some splatter. The flower was colored with alcohol markers.
My design team inspiration for you uses an older sunflower stamp that was colored with alcohol markers, and a number of tiny sentiments from various sets from Simon Says Stamp and one from an Altenew set. I tried to choose sentiments that expressed concern and support for Ukraine. They were stamped in Whisper ink on the panels I had ink blended with Blue Raspberry, Wild Dandelion, and Sweet Mango from Gina K. I popped the panels with foam tape, and the fussy cut flower was also popped up with foam tape. Some waxed twine was twisted to resemble leaves for that element of the sketch.
I hope you will be inspired to be crafty and link up to the challenge HERE. The team loves to visit your site to see your creations.
I would also like to link this card to Color Hues Challenge - Cards for Ukraine and to
Mod Squad Challenge - Cards for Ukraine. Ink blended with Gina K.
The crafting community is such a wonderful, kind group. Wish we could channel that loving support to the whole world.
The challenge at Allsorts this week Anything Goes with an option to use distressing techniques. I haven't done that for a while and I LOVED making this card! So much fun getting messy with inks, splatter, tearing paper, roughing edges and sponging. My work table needs a thorough cleaning up :-)
The card base is Nina Desert Sand sponged around the edges with some desert sand ink. I then roughed the edges of a piece of dark gray card stock with scissors and embossed with a wood grain folder. Next I did some ink to paper drags to highlight the raised parts and adhered it to the card base.
Then things got really messy! I cut some patterned paper down with deckled edge scissors and then stamped it with a speckle stamp, stenciled it with the negative of the big leaf die, sponged it around the edges. I tore the other paper and sponged it too. These were adhered together and I tied a black string and put dimensional foam tape on the back. The leafy bits were adhered and I splattered with black and white before adhering it to the wood grain panel.
I hope you will give distressing a go or make an A/G card and link up to Allsorts HERE. The design team looks forward to seeing your creations.
Two sponsors for this challenge: a Tattered Lace die and a £15 store voucher for Stamp Addicts.
