Orange Coffee Cards!!

Of all the challenges offered on Splitcoaststampers, I think I enjoy Friday's Limited Supply Challenges best!! I tend to be a bit of a "less is more" gal when I make cards anyway with few layers and very few embellishments. So the challenges are usually right up my alley!!

Today the Limited Supply Challenge #184, posted by Stampinsylvia, was to use a coffee image and the color orange!! Wow, now that is an interesting challenge. How could I not try it??!!

I only own one coffee image, this coffee cup from the retired Stampin' Up set called Sketch An

Event. I use this set a lot and this specific coffee cup stamp quite often!

And this orange paper I've had for a long time. It came in a 8x8 package of die cut letters, numbers and papers -- all orange. I've tried to use it but never think to grab it! However, I thought of it instantly when the challenge asked to use the color orange!

Supplies: Paper-Chocolate Chip, Whisper White (Stampin' Up!), orange designer paper (unknown); Stamps-Sketch an Event, Delight in Life (Stampin' Up!), Simple Little Things, Beautiful Blooms (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Black (Archivers), Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Bayou Blue, Whisper White craft (all Stampin' Up!); Other-Chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon (SU!), watercolor brush, 1 1/4" square punch, brads, coluzzle, corner rounder.

Thanks for visiting!

Donelda

Star Light Star Bright

I love Jen's Limited Supply Challenge (161). It's called Why, oh why and she has encouraged us to look through our hoard of embellishments and find the things that we bought and are now wondering why oh why did I buy that!!!

Well, over a year ago, I picked up this bottle cap. Now, what was I thinking...I'm Canadian!! It's not like I can make 4th of July card....wellm maybe I can for my Americian friends :-)

If you have some time, you should definately go visit the gallery for LSC161 -- the cards are great but the stories are hilarious!!

Supplies: Cardstock-Night of Navy, Whisper White (Stampin' Up!), Ink-Night of Navy (SU!), Stamps-Take a Bough, Text Boxed (Papertrey Ink), Accessories-bottlecap (unknown), stickers (Making Memories), glitter (unknown), corner rounder.

Thanks for visiting.

Donelda

Same Stuff, Different Cards

I made these cards for Jen's awesome Limited Supply Challenge #160!! It is an awesome challenge. Jen challenged us to use "just a few stamps and colors to create very different looks"

The rules were ...we could use a few stamps, the same patterned paper, and some cardstock!! I LOVE this kinda challenge...right up my alley.

I started out making the olive leaf card. I covered most of the card front with that cool polka dot paper from Scenic Route. Then, I stamped the leaf from Stampin' Up's Sketch an Event using Basic Black ink. I colored it in with old olive ink using a watercolor brush. I then used a dauber to sponge Close to Cocoa ink (SU!) around the edges of the main image and the designer paper. Finished it off with the sentiment.

For the second card, I really wanted to make it fun and funky. I only covered 2/3s of the card base with the same designer paper. I also stamped the leaf more horizontal than the other image and used Not Quite Navy (SU!) ink. I colored the leaves in wiht NQN ink using a watercolor brush but then finished it off with some Stickles (Waterfall). I finished off the image and designer paper panel by swiping the cardstock edge on the NQN inkpad!! I then used my watercolor brush to "smudge" some of the ink around the edges. Added the same sentiment and voila, a totally different card using the exact same materials!

Gotta say "thanks" to Jen for such a great challenge!!!!! This was so much fun!!!

Thanks for visiting.

Donelda

Flower Trio

I did another multi-challenge card today (or should I say cards!) I started out wanting to do the debossing challenge from SCS's Try a New Technique 158, and also wanted to do Jen's Limited Supply Challenge 158. It was so easy to combine the two. Then, when I had them finished, I realized that they also would work for the Arty Girlz challenge -- SPRING!!

I started out with some cardstock weighted vellum and stamped my Megenta image using StazOn black. The image is actually one stamp, but I cut them apart to make the mini cards (Jen's challenge was perfect for this). Once the ink was dry, I turned it upside down and "scratched" the vellum using my stylus. It makes white lines in the vellum and, although hard to tell in the photo, looks cool in real life. I decided that I didn't want to color in the actual flowers but decided to add color to the square behind the flower images. To color vellum, you can use oil pastels and some kind of oil, like baby oil. since I don't have any paper oil, I use my Japanese Mint Oil. Let me tell you these cards smell great (the smell dissapates over time so not to worry). You just blend in the pastels with a q-tip soaked in a bit of the oil (not much is needed).

Then, I simply matched the background colors to the cardstock and gingham prints. I mounted the images on white so the colored areas and de-bossed areas would be obvious! And added a sentiment. You should check out the little "bling" on the yellow card. It is a teeny tiny flower gem by Heidi Swapp! Can't believe I just bought them 2 days ago and actually put one on a card. I usually hoard such items for a while before using them :-)

Thanks for visiting. Enjoy your weekend!

A Flying Mouse?

Have you ever seen a flying mouse ?? Well, here's one!

This is an ATC that is made using Zindorf's brayered sky technique. Boy, if you haven't seen her cards yet, you should definately check out her gallery -- she does some amazing work!!

I am in Jessica's House Mouse swap #5 and need to figure out what technique I am going to do so I was playing around with this as an option. However, this took a ton of time and I"m not sure I could do it 10 times. So, I decided to put a hand-drawn sentiment and enter it into Jen's Limited supply challenge from today!!

Thanks for the visit!

Donelda

Limited Supply Challenge

I just love the limited supply challenges. I think it is a good exercise to use less when making a card. Sometimes I find I just keep adding more and more until the card just is a bunch of stuff. When I am doing one of the Limited Supply Challenges, it forces me to, well, limit it all!!

Cammie posted today for the challenge and her challenge was to make a card for someone who was dealing with cancer. The limitation was that we couldn't use designer paper, no hardware, and no ribbon. Here is the final product of my attempts (I'll try to post my failed attempt below)

The card is pretty straight forward. I took some whisper white and using one of the small designs from Fancy Flexible Phrases, stamped it all over in Pixie Pink. Then I stamped the sentiment from Warmest Regards onto white and cut it out, edging it in some Pixie Pink. I put this on a scallop rectangle -- Thanks Robin!! Then I put all of this onto a black card. I finished off the card with some faux ribbon, Pixie Pink, in fact.

My "oops" card was exactly the same but I used a piece of pink ribbon, one of the things I was not supposed to use for the challenge. Coincidently, I got the ribbon from one of the girls at my card club, Joanne and her sister Diane had brought ribbons for everyone and pink snacks like M&Ms and other goodies. They were very thoughtful!!

Thanks for visiting this evening.