Back to School

 

I retired from teaching six years ago, but have substituted and volunteered every year since then.  This will be my first year not in a classroom because of COVID, but I will be able to help my grandchildren as they distance learn.  

My card is basically one layer then set on a red card base.  I used the ruler stamp for the other frame in the sketch. I used some masking for the images in the lower right corner.  

Linking to Paper Players #504"Back to School"  and to 

Crazy 4 Challenges #548 sketch.

Birthday

 Freshly Made Sketch # 448 this week.

My card uses Altenew Paint-a-Flower Anemone and a Papertrey Ink sentiment. I shaded the flowers on the image with a Copic marker.

Atlantic Hearts #381

 

Monday means a fun new sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!  My card will post there Wednesday when the Design Team adds their inspiration. But you don't need to wait. Check out the sketch, create your card and post on the Linky.

My card used some background paper from my stash, floral image/dies from Altenew (Charming Doodles) colored with Altenew Artist Markers, and a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp (Leafy Frames).  The button element is a Close To My Heart embellishment from my stash. As I type this I realized I left out the little band of card stock behind it...hope that since it's not a button it will be ok.  

Enjoy the ride

 

Freshly Made Sketches this week!   I have been cleaning my solid card stock drawers of scraps. Saving everything just is crazy.  I had a pile of neutrals - the last drawer - sitting on my table and thought I would try a masculine card.  After cutting lots of strips of various widths, I put adhesive on the vertical panel and randomly attached them, trimmed the sides, and attached to the card front.

The bicyle is part of an older Hero Arts set, sentiment from a long retired CTMH, and the postage die is new from Simon Says.

AAA Card Challenge

 Using some Sea Glass and Olive inks to create a watery card for AAA Cards Challenge #171 

Atlantic Hearts #377

My Design Team card for this week's sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #377.

I stamped a Hero Arts image and colored it with Altenew Artist Markers. I used the Altenew square weave stencil to dry emboss the white panel behind the flowers, and then again with Distress Oxide Mowed Lawn to create the card base panel. The sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp Circle Sayings set. Embellished with two gems from Close to My Heart stash.

I have spent the weekend working on building up my birthday card stash and creating some to send to my son in Japan.  He likes giving them to his                                             colleagues.   I hope you'll try this sketch and join us at Atlantic Hearts!

Made in Minutes!

A fun challenge at AAA Card Challenges right now is 'Made in Minutes' which was perfect for me to use a new stencil - Mega Bloom from Altenew.  It has been on my desk for a few weeks with projects backed up.  It is a gorgeous stencil image. To stay within the CAS and made in minutes guidelines, I placed the stencil off to the left side of the card stock and used only one color of Distress Oxide Ink  (Shaded Lilac).  The Altenew sentiment was stamped in VersaFine Black Onyx. I did cut the panel down a bit and used foam to adhere it to the heavy white card base. Really -this took less than ten minutes!