CAS-ual Fridays #33 - Kraft, Twine, and Nautical

 What a great challenge going on at CAS-ual Fridays - Create a clearn and simple project using kraft and twine.  I decided to combine it with another more difficult challenge posed by a new friend of mine ... use a lighthouse image or something nautical on a christmas card. 

I adore making little embellishments like this one to cover bow knots.  The simple sentiment was all that was needed.  I didn't have any green vellum, so I used ink and sponge to make plain vellum the colour I needed. 

Off to see what other creations were made using kraft and twine at CAS-ual Fridays.

Thanks for dropping by.

Donelda

Take 3 Challenge - Hero Arts Stem Blossom - Take 2

Welcome back to day 2 of my Take 3 Challenge using the Hero Arts stamp Long Stem Blossom.  My Take 2 card was created because I wanted to color in those little flowers with my white gel pen.  Adorable.  Silver baubles in the centers!

And tearing is a great way to add texture without a lot of bulk!  3 layers of it here! 

Overall it is a very different look from yesterday`s card!  But you have to drop back by tomorrow to see my Take 3 card ... or should I say cards!!  Another totally different look!

Thanks for dropping by,

Donelda



Take 3 - Week of July 11 - part 3

Well, this is my last card for this week's Take 3 challenge.

I think I really did a good job of creating 3 very different cards this week.

This card uses a new technique that I have seen on many blogs but haven't actually tried until now.  It is where you use your acrylic block to create a shadow background by inking up the acrylic block.  That's right, pat the ink right on to the acrylic block, mist with water and stamp it onto the paper.

On top of this background image, I added some inked and misted images of that Hero Arts leaf stmap that I am featuring in this week's Take 3 challenge. 

I hope you have enjoyed this week's Take 3.  I love this particular stamp set so you might see one of the other images in it featured in a future Take 3 week challenge.

Thanks again for dropping by for a visit.  I truely appreciate all your visits and comments.
Donelda

PTI Make It Monday - Go To Sentiment Card

A new feature to come to the PTI world and Nichole Heady's blog is the Make It Monday series.  One of the Design Team or Nichole will be showing a technique video!  Every week!! 

Today Erin Lincoln demonstrated this sentment card. Kinda reminds me of Susan R's One Layer Wednesday challenge a few weeks ago!! 

Black card base, white focal piece, Aqua Mist torn cardstock at bottom (probably my favorite  PTI color!).  Large Star is traced onto Itty Bitty Dots paper in more Aqua Mist.  Stars are from Around & About Sentiments.  The birthday wishes are from the following sets from top to bottom: Demask Designs, Rustic Brnaches, Around & About Sentiments, Round and Round, Paper Tray, Birthday Basics, Birthday Basics .. all, of course, from Papertrey Ink! 

It's been fun so far at PTI.  Can't wait to see what Nichole has in store for us tomorrow!
Donelda

Live for Today

Don't you love this sentiment!  It means a lot to myself and my team at work!! 


Just wanted to create with it.  I made the sentiment verigated by stamping it first in Pumpkin Pie, then just the top and bottom using Really Rust, and finishing the very edge with Chocolate Chip (all Stampin' Up colors).

Stamps: Through the Trees (Papertrey Ink).

Enjoy your day!
Donelda

Sisterly Love

I created this card for a friend to give to her sister!! She had seen THIS card and liked it so I recreated a similar card for her to give.

I don't create collage type cards very often, mostly because I am not very good at it!! But I try :-)

Thanks for dropping in!

Donelda

Clean and Simple (CAS) Challenge # 60 - Sketch

I really liked the most recent Clean and Simple challenge - it was a layout! Everything here is created with scraps!!!! and I enjoyed making my first card so much I went ahead and create 2!!!

Butterfly Trio

Supplies: Stamps - Background Basics: Text, Around and About (Papertrey Ink); Paper - White, Kraft (Stampin' Up!) other colors (scraps); Ink - Chocolate Chip (Stampin' Up!); Other - crimper (Fiskers), border punch (Fiskers), butterfly punch (Martha Stewart), sponge.

Best Wishes

Supplies: Stamps - Turning a New Leaf, Rustic Branch (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Versamark, black; Paper - White (SU!), kraft file folder, all other paper are scraps from my bin; Other - 1" square punch, dimensionals.

Thanks for dropping in! Keep scrolling up and down, I've got a bunch of challenge cards created and posted!!

Donelda

Sympathy Tree

This entire card is made from scraps!!! I had stamped and colored the tree a long time ago and it sat, unused in my scrap bin. Same with the rest of the paper and even the hemp was a piece I had cut but not used in the past.

I love that particular sympathy sentiment .. it is from Birds Of a Feather (Papertrey Ink). And there is just something about tearing on a sympathy card.

Thanks for dropping in!!

Donelda

Sympathy with Scraps

I pulled this card together a while ago. It was created with some older pieces from my "to be used some day" bin and my "scrap bin". The flowers were stamped onto watercolor paper. I also had 'splattered' the watercolor paper with brown acrylic paint. A little tearing and some brown hemp pulled this clean and simple sympathy together easily.

Supplies: Watercolor Minis (Stampin' Up!), Mixed Messages (Papertrey Ink); Cardstock - Very Vanilla (Stampin' Up!).

Enjoy your day!!

Donelda

Boy Valentine Cards x 2

That's right, I've been creating masculine cards for the last few weeks. And masculine cards mean big guys and little guys. When I bought this stamp set by Recollections (Michaels), I realized that one of the monsters had a "heart tail". that made me realize I could use these cute guys for valentine cards. I went to town!! I colored the monsters with my alcohol markers (Copic). I also used this new cuttlebug embossing folder (Distressed Stripes) - bought it purposefully becuase it was "masculine". I hand drew the speech bubble on the right, like Kristina Werner likes to do. Supplies - Stamps - Monsters (Recollections), Everyday Flexible Phrases (Stampin' Up!, retired); Paper - Whisper White, Kraft, Green Galore (Stampin' Up!); Ink - black; Other - alcohol markers (Copic), hemp, dimensionals, embossing folder (Cuttlebug), corner rounder, black marker. Thanks for dropping in to my little blogging world. I hope you are enjoyed my masculine valentine cards. Donelda

Loonie Stamper's challenge #75

The Loonie Stamper Girls must think I've forgotten all about them. I haven't, honest. It just seems like I can't get around to getting challenges done despite it being one of my crafting resolutions! But, since my hubby is working all day today and it is cold and snowy outside so no option but to stay inside and craft, I pulled out these awesome colors and got ot work! (Note that this is last weeks' challenge not the current one...sheesh, late again!!)

The card is a mini using the envelope that Lisa Johnson used in THIS post (she shares the template).

I cute the Ripe Avocado cardstock to fit inside the envelope. I don't have Terracotta Tile cardstock yet so I used some scrap paper (Bazzill) that was already ripped like that (using scraps - resolution!!). I stamped the bird from Bird Watching (Papertrey Ink) onto a scrap of white with Spring Moss ink (I see it is not showing up very well in the photo) and cut him out! Then, I stamped the flight dots and the sentiment with Versamark ink and embossed with white! You can see that I decorated the envelope too!!

A great little card to drop on a friends desk at work!!!

Keep dropping in as I have a few other cards to post today. Maybe tomorrow I'll do the current Loonie Stampers Challenge LOL!!

Thanks for dropping in!!

Donelda

Saturday Spotlight - snowflakes

So, here is another late challenge card. Last Saturday the

Saturday Spotlight challenge was snowflakes. I could hardly bare to pull out my Snowflake set (Stampin' Up!) but I did and I love the results.

I took and painted the small snowflake with some Twinkling H2O paint, then stamped onto a scrap of white cardstock. I repeated this until I had a staggered row, stamping off for a few to get some variation of color. To see how glittery this paint really is, you can click on the smaller close-up photo! I did some tearing and added a sentiment (Remember-Papertrey Ink). Then, I adhered a bit of Teal (Stampin' Up!) cardstock that I had left over from making THIS card. A bit of black grosgrain ribbon (Papertrey Ink) and my card was finished.

Now maybe I'll pop over to Saturday Spotlight to see what the current challenge is.

Donelda