Take 3 Challenge - Large Butterfly Beauty - Take 2

Welcome back to the second day of my Take 3 Challenge.  I introduce to you my Take 2 card:

This time, I decided to try a monochromatic card ... in purple of all colours.  If you drop by at all you will know that I rarely use purple!  What an impact, that bright white butterfly on all that purple!!

Well, one more card to go for this week's Take 3 challenge.  Like always, I've saved my favourite for last. 

See you all tomorrow!

Donelda

Hero Arts - Antique Engravings #2

Here is the second card I made using this amazing set, Antique Engravings.

I LOVE this set especially because of the three shell images in it. Growing up on the east coast we spent every summer at the beach in our cottage. Good memories. So these shells totally take me back to those days.

I kept this card pretty clean and simply. And made it a masculine card. Again, keeping to one of my New Years resolutions - to make more masculine cards. Yeah!!

The Vanilla rectangles were cut with my Nestabilities and then the bottom of 2 were sponged lightly with Close to Cocoa ink. I stamped 3 of these little shells onto some scrap Vanilla paper and sponged them. I also took a toothbrush and puddles of Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, and More Mustard ink and "splattered" it onto the shells (if you click on the image to make it bigger you might be able to see this wonderful effect). I cut them out and adhered them onto 2 of the rectangles. The third holds the sentiment which if from Birthday Basics (Papertrey Ink). These are all popped up on a panel of Chocolate Chip carstock that was clear embossed with one of the background images from Background Basics: Retro (Papertrey Ink) - one of my favs. A bit of hemp was all that was needed to finish the card.

Well, that is card 2. Drop back in tomorrow for another card from images from this set!

Till then,

Donelda

Challenged to use Kraft

A few weeks ago, Susan and Mary Dawn had a fun time using Kraft in making Clean and Simple cards. It was a lot of fun watching Mary Dawn stretch Susan out of her comfort zone. And the results were amazing!! I loved Susan's first challenge card - masculine - so I had to make my own card using it as inspiration!!

Here is the end results.

The main card base has been 'spattered' with Chocolate Chip. All stamps are from Papertrey Ink.

Gotta love Kraft cardstock!! Have you made anything with it lately??

Donelda

smART Word Challenge March - Monochromatic

For the month of March, it was Dina's turn to pick the Word for the smART Word Challenge and her choice was - MONOCHROMATIC. I love monochromatic cards but rarely think to make them.

I was playing around with this new to me Noah's Ark (smARTworks) set trying to find something to do with it that was different than just coloring it in with my pencil crayons or watercoloring. I decided to see what it would look like in various shades of brown. I liked what I saw and realized that it would fit Dina's word!!

I added a brown scallop edge using my new Fisker's Treading Water edge punch ** love it ** and a bit of brown on the other side with some piercing along it. I added a simple sentiment taken from one of the larger sentiments in the Fun Stuff set (smARTworks).

So, what color are you going to pick for your MONOCHROMATIC card?? Remember, you can use whatever supplies you have on hand but if you do use smARTworks stamps you will earn a smART Buck!! Bonus!!!

Thanks for dropping in. I look forward to seeing your creation over on Mr. Linky!!

Donelda

smARTworks Masculine Celebration

I have decided that I need to be more purposeful in creating masculine cards. I am going to add it to my resolutions for the year ... use what I have, participate in challenges, and make more masculine cards.

Of the stamp companies that I use (mostly Papertrey Ink, smARTworks, Stampin' Up!, and Hero Arts), the company that I think has the best masculine images is smARTworks!!

This fleur de lis is an excellent example! It is perfect for a guy card!! Overall, the card is very clean and simple (CAS) but do you see that dark brown mat??!! I made that by taking a piece of Kraft cardstock and dragging my Chocolate Chip ink across it until it was colored to my liking. I love the bits of kraft showing through....kinda looks like wood!!

Tip for making masculine cards --> start with a masculine stamp and then use masculine colors, browns are an excellent choice!!

Supplies: Stamps - Lock & Key (smARTworks), Mixed Messages (Papertrey Ink); Paper - Kraft (SU!); Ink - Chocolate Chip (SU!); Other - hemp, dimensionals.

Thanks for dropping in!!

Donelda

Kurtis' Sketch Challenge card

Hi all. I was browsing through some blogs today and saw that Kurtis had a sketch challenge going on and was giving away a little blog candy. Getting free stuff is always exciting (better than recieving only bills in the mail!) so I decided to play.

Last night I had found some fantastic Anna Griffin designer paper and realized that it matched perfectly with River Rock!! Yeah, Rock on baby!! So I decided to go with it!!

The card is pretty simple. You can't really see it in the picture but there is some Very Vanilla Craft ink swiped around the edges of the card.

Supplies: Paper-River Rock & Very Vanilla (SU), Anna Griffin designer paper; Ink- River Rock, Very Vanilla craft (SU); Stamps-Petal Prints, Everyday Flexible Phrases (SU), Build Your Own Flourish (Gel a tins), Accessories-Double stitched ribbon in River Rock (SU).

Thanks for visiting!

Monochromatic Rub-On

The Caardvarks challenge is to make a card using rub-ons! I've had some beautiful rub-ons from Fancy Pants and was happy to use them! Just look at that beautiful frame and flowers!!! The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's Green Thumb set stamped with Caramel ink. The cardstock is a piece from K&Company and it coordinted perfectly with the Caramel carstock card base. I finished off the card with some Close to Cocoa ink sponed around the edges and a bit of organdy brown ribbon. Sorry, not sure the company as it was a gift from a friend!!

I do like how this card turned out. I have been visiting Sharon's blog No Time to Stamp a lot lately and she has been commenting on how nice cards are easy if you use beautiful things. That is so true with this card - it was so easy but I think it has a simplistic beauty to it!!

If you have made a card using rub-ons post a link, I'd love to see it!!

Thanks for visiting.