Saturday, May 11, 2024
Love for Mother's Day
Spots & Stripes
Good Morning! Great new challenge for this week at Allsorts selected by DT Lorraine is to use
Spots and Stripes on your project. Of course, the Anything Goes is fine if you prefer.
Prizes for this challenge are from Stampendous
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Oh, Knit!
A fun card today for several challenges and to play with a pop-up design seen on Jennifer McGuire's recent video about adding dimension to cards. She showed how to create a pop-up for your front panel. It folds flat for mailing.
I used a Sizzix Sweater embossing folder, matted with blush and yellow card, stamped Simon Says Stamp Yarn Love with black and heat embossed with clear, colored with Copic markers and fussy cut.
Linking to Color Dare #598 and Daring Card Makers - Elemental (I used knitting, texture and and colors from the photo)
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Diamond Gate
Have been collecting directions for lots of folds watching Simply Simple Stamping on YouTube. Such a wonderful source for ideas and tips. This is my try at a Diamond Gate Fold today using some lovely paper a friend gifted me Saturday and a beautiful outline set sent as a thank you from Altenew last year.
I have used some dark charcoal and fog card stock for framing and my images were stamped in Slate ink on the fog panels, then colored with Prisma pencils.
Hello Sunshine - TSOT #646
It is raining today but I know sunshine is on the way. A dear friend and stamping buddy came over today to help with a decoration project and brought some stamps to share. So today's card is from her set that I just had to borrow - Soak It Up, Ellen Hutson - I tried to find it available anywhere, but unfortunately I think it was sold just before she closed her shop :-( I used a Simon Says Stamp die-cut for the sun, and My Favorite Things stencil for waves. I stamped the images, colored with alcohol markers, fussy cut them, cut a slit in the unicorn float and tucked the rhino in for a ride. I cut out some 'hands and feet' and added them, too. The diagonal panel is popped up as are the center items. A little Glossy Accents added to sunglasses and splashes.
Check out the fabulous inspiration cards from the Design Team at TSOT - Try A Sketch On Tuesday and join the fun! We really love seeing how you will interpret this sketch.
Monday, May 6, 2024
Borders AHSC #576
New fun for this week at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.
My DT inspiration for you uses LOTS of snippets from my color card scrap bin. I just went through the scraps and picked a range of blues. The horizontals are all punched with Spellbinders Punch & Pierce Borders, flowers from Spellbinders Floral Butterfly set, and sentiment from Gina K Designs Lovely Flowers.
So excited to see the creative ways this sketch will be interpreted. Please get crafty and share your project with us at AHSC.
Also linking to Die Cut Divas - monochromatic cards, using die cuts. My colors are blues.
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Gatefold Card
At Allsorts this week the challenge is to make a project with more than one fold. I was in Japan and away for five weeks, so I am overwhelmed with yard work. The yard sprang into growth mode and the weeds have taken over! So my DT card is a simple gatefold with a belly band. I have used some patterned paper purchased in Japan. I looked through lots of my flower stamps and the Gina K Designs set Forget Me Nots were the closest thing in size and shape. The sentiment was stamped in Blue Denim ink and is from Gina K's Fancy Phrases set. I also put some Sweet Lilac Nuvo Crystal Drops on the circle.
There are some wonderful prizes this week from Oakwood (2 x A5 stamp sets) and Highlight Crafts (3 x A5 stencils)
And coming up soon is the celebration of Allsorts Challenge 15th Birthday! Lots of special prizes on that week, so don't miss the fun coming soon.