Stamptacular Sunday Challenge(3) # 19

The theme for this week's challenge is called:

"3-2-1"

For this week’s challenge I created a card that uses THREE brads, TWO different pattern papers, and ONE flower.

Supplies:

black cardstock - Memory Lane

pattern papers - Anna Griffin

stamp ink - black, magenta, orange - Stampin' Up

orange paper - Paper Company

Zig .05 black marker for writing

hot pink silk flower from Hobby Lobby

medium pink brads - American Crafts (2 brads are on inside)

black letter stickers/stamps - David Walker designs by Creative Imagination

Thanks for taking a peek!

Cards I've made lately

Here's a few photo's of the cards I've made recently just for fun with my cousin, Jen. Jen let me use her patterns, paper, stamps and embellies so I don't have a list of supplies for them right now, I may add that later. The cardstock is a brown or gray kraft type. I know some of the glittery flower stickers are from K&Company. The styles of these cards include wedding, children's and baby cards. I'm still new at using my scanner so I realize that they are not the best quality but I hope you can at least get an idea.

The wedding cake card idea came from two of the (Design Team) DT's, Paula and Nikki, at the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge blog. Nikki gives the specifics of how to make it on her blog and she made the wedding cake card too. Simply Beautiful! Paula used it for a birthday card and her design is very cute! I really liked it with that cute mouse on top!

Thanks for looking!

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge (2) #18

This is my second time doing the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge. I'm sure I'll do better with time and practice. So, this time the theme is "Child's Play" and I decided to do a birthday card for a child. I made one earlier for a birthday party that my son went to for his friend who was turning 7. Since the card was well received there, I improved upon it and thought I'd post it here for this challenge. I'm glad to participate!

Supplies:

cream, blue, light green, white and yellow cardstock - unknown source from my scrap pile

Classic Alphabet Stamps - Stampin' Up

Line Design Stamp - Close to My Heart

Watercolor pencils - Stampin' Up

circlular punchie - Fiskars

Stamp Ink - ColorBox tangerine, scarlet and VersaColor indigo

Light Pink shine - Pearl X brush pigment

One toothpick - helps the wick to stand up on its own

Adhesive - Scotch tape, Elmer's school glue

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

Challenge #17
Theme: Inside-Outside
Inside: first picture



Outside: second picture


This is my first attempt at joining the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge. I finished today! The theme is "Inside-Out" which means that I needed to create a project where I decorated both the inside and the outside. I chose to create a card, of course. I was excited to be able to go to Scrapbook Haus with my cousin, Jen, and they had the idea for this amazing bluebonnet card. I couldn't resist making it as well! So, the picture above shows what I did with it.

A list of my supplies include:

Cream/Sage green kraft cardstock - unknown source
Bluebonnet stamp - Deadbeat Designs
Friend and floral stamps - Stampin' Up
Ink used for bluebonnets - Stampin' Up brush markers
Ink used for two of the flowers and edging - ColorBox pigment royal blue and ColorBox cats eye chalks in blues and brown combination pack
Ink used for one of the flowers - Encore! Metallic light blue
Flocking on bluebonnets - Flower Flock/Crushed Velvet Flock (?) in Delphinium Blue
Adhesive used - Scotch photo and craft glue

This is my first time using a type of crushed velvet flock (I'll track down the brand and update this when I can find it) and I'm so happy with the result! It was so fun and I love how it came out although it really does look better in real life!

For the love of making cards

I've been up to making a few more cards from ones I designed a while ago. I thought I've needed to start building up a better card stash again in order to have them on hand as I need them. So today, I went to a couple of different card stores, like Hallmark and Carlton Cards, to get some ideas from the ones that are being sold and it was fun. I like to do that from time to time in order to get my creative juices flowing again.
Anyway, take a peek at my cards.

Feels like Spring with Green cards:

• Celery green cardstock from Stampin' Up
• Lemon yellow cardstock from Bazzill used for flower punches
• Flower punch by Fiskars
  
• Rob & Bob Studio patterned paper from Provo Craft
• Prima small blue flowers in their milk bottle line
  
• Making Memories silver brads
• light blue ribbon is from an unknown source
  
• White ink along edges is Stampin' Up Craft White Ink
  

Warms the Heart card:

• tan and brown cardstock from American Crafts
• red cardstock is from an unknown source
• Gold pigment ink is from ColorBox
• Red pigment ink is Scarlet from ColorBox
• Chocolate Brown ink is from Stampin' Up
• Edging ink is from Tim Holtz Ranger Industries
  
• Watercolor pencils/Chalks from Stampin' Up
• Star brad is from Making Memories
• Heart Stamp and saying is from Stampin' Up
  

I really have had fun making these. Now, I'll be working on Father's Day cards next.

cards I made just to post here

I can't resist blogging and I couldn't think of what I wanted to post next so I made some cards just for the occasion. I'm amazed at how great I think these turned out. I really had my creative juices flowing for sure today.
I'm not sure what brands the cardstock is, some could be Stampin' Up, but the stamps are for sure Stampin' Up. Believe it or not, I only used one tiny piece of patterned paper ~ the rest of the paper is cardstock and inks that I created. My inks are a combination of Stampin' Up, VersaColor, ColorBox fluid chalk inks.
If you drop by, feel free to comment and let me know what your thoughts are on these cards. Perhaps, these might work for the card class I'll be teaching in October better.

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Now playing: Edvard Grieg - Notturno
via FoxyTunes

just some cards I've made

First of all, I'm new to posting my cards or papercraft items so bear with me. I wanted to post some cards that I've been working on this weekend. I haven't done anything with papercrafting for quite some time-about 18 months or more. So, when I was asked to teach a cardmaking class, I was surprised they still wanted me to. Also, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to get back into it. Anyway, this is what I've come up with. I don't really think the pictures do them justice. I did my best in taking them though.

The thanks card is a design from my sister-in-law, Amy, sent me that she created. I took her idea and this is my version of her card. On the flamingo b-day card that is a Stampin' Up stamp and the paper is Elsie. The hope stamps are Close to my heart - Spunky Alphabet and I used a flower punch on the bottom. A fun technique that I came up with. Too bad, you can't see the inking and pattern paper because I thought it looks really cool. The red card is actually a deep burnt orange red color and the accents are orange and black. I thought these colors were perfect for fall. Anyone know the new fall colors and trends this year, though? The quote on this card reads: To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. I love that quote so it's on my sidebar!
I'd love to hear your feedback, if you'd care to comment, so I can be sure to have some great card kits made up for the class which is coming up on Oct. 18th. Thanks for looking.