Easter Daffodils with Pink Gem Designs at Pile It On

Our theme this week at the Pile It On Challenge is "Easter Joys," so I made this Joy Fold card featuring Daffodil Vase by Pink Gem Designs:

I colored the Daffodil Vase with Copics, and the center flower is popped up with foam tape. The vase was pieced with a shiny white paper, colored with Sakura glaze pens, and coated with Ranger crackle paint.

The "Happy Easter" sentiment is from a Fiskars rubber stamp set, and is heat-embossed onto white silk ribbon from MayArts (this was the very last of this spool of ribbon...must get more!) The ribbon is finished with some liquid pearls. The green mesh is recycled from a bag of avocados!

The Joy Fold card is one of my favorite techniques, but I haven't made one in ages (see my past Joy Fold cards here). It opens up to reveal a sentiment from a Hero Arts rubber stamp, heat-embossed in two green Stampendous powders:

The leafy background was made with a K&Company clear stamp set and the same two colors of embossing powders. I added some Liquid Pearl accents in the corners. I used a Cuttelbug folder to deboss some of the white pieces, and backed everything with a bright green, textured Core'Dinations cardstock.

Inspiration/Challenges:

1. Card A Day Blog: Baby, Spring, Congratulations or Easter
2. Charisma Cardz #5: Something Not for Crafting (mesh from bag of avocados)
3. Crafty Boots: Green
4. Crazy 4 Challenges: Be Sentimental
5. Created With Love Challenges: Think Spring
6. Emergency Crafters: Flowers
7. Love to Scrap: Create your own Background
8. MarkerPOP Challenge: Lucky Green
9. Really Reasonable Ribbon #90: Show me the Green & Ribbon
10. Sweet Stamps #151: Fun Folds

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On the Road! - Shaped Cards at Crafting with Dragonflies

It's time for a new challenge at Crafting with Dragonflies! We're focusing on Shaped Cards, so I made this fun road-trip card featuring an image from one of our sponsors, MilkCoffee:

The MilkCoffee digi stamp was colored with Copics and paper-pieced. It's on an Action Wobble, so it bounces down the road!

My parents are going on a trip to South Africa next month, so I wanted the road sign to reflect that. The sign, road, and card bases were designed in SCAL and cut on my Silhouette. I embossed and sanded the road.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Catered Crop: Safe Travels
Die Cut Divas: Let's Emboss it + die cut
Glitter n Sparkle: Add a Sentiment
MilkCoffee Challenge: Embossing
Through the Purple Haze: Use a Digi

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Just Sayin...Anything Goes at OSAAT

This week at One Stitch at a Time (OSAAT), our theme is Anything Goes. StitchyBear's Digi Outlet has hundreds of digital products from many wonderful artists, and if you use one of our products you'll be entered to win the super-duper main prize of 7 images! If you don't use a store image, you'll still be in the drawing to win a $3 gift certificate. 

I had lots of fun with this Cutie by Beary Dust Stamps:

This image has bold shadowing, so I decided to use paper piecing rather than coloring. I did color her skin with Copics. I used some tulle to give her a fishnet top! I stamped the sentiment (Hero Arts, I think) in Broken China distress ink. The notebook edging on top was cut with a Pagemaps die. I edged it with Tea Dye and Antique Linen distress inks.

The text-patterened papers are from a Bazzill set. I cut one sheet with a die from the same Pagemaps set. The background paper was sprayed with a blue Tattered Angels glimmer mist.

I painted some Prima wood shapes with white acrylic paint, and stamped the sentiment (Rogue Redheads Designs) with more Broken China ink.


Inspiration/Challenges:

• Artistic Inspirations: Anything Goes/For the Kids
• As You Like it Challenge: Favorite 3D Texture & Why (Tulle: it's easy to adhere and cut, so it's fun to use as part of paper piecing projects)
• Aud Sentiments Challenge: Any sentiment for a girl
• Card Mania: Use a Sentiment
• Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge #165: Texture
• Crafty Catz #220: Anything Goes
• The East Wind #2: Use a Digi

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Thinking of You with Pile It On

This week at Pile It On, we want to see "Thinking of You" cards/projects. I used All Wrapped Up by our sponsor, All Dressed Up Stamps:

I colored the image with Copics, fussy-cutting the girl to give it just a hint of dimension. I used the Blender Texture technique for the background, and cut it with a Spellbinders die in my BigShot.

I colored the hair last, because I couldn't decide on the color...so I asked my husband, because he always poses me with an agreeable challenge. He suggested "Light blonde...with blue streaks. A strong blue." I just love the result.

I found two stitching-and-flowers-themed papers in my stash, and edged them on my sewing machine. The yellow mesh is recycled potato packaging. The sentiment is a Starform outline sticker, colored with the same blue Copic I used for the hair.

The leaves are cut from scrap Aida (cross stitch) fabric with a Sizzix die. I cut it along with a piece of scrap cardstock for support. I then coated the pieces with Tacky white glue so that they didn't fall apart. I colored two of the leaves with a green Copic. I finished the card with a shell button, a white plastic button, and some twine.

All Dressed Up Challenge #9

Inspiration/Challenges:
All Dressed Up Challenge #9: Sketch
Cuttin & Stampin Challenges: Spring is Here
Cuttlebug Mania: Add Texture
Feeling Crafty Challenge #25: Dies and/or Punches
Love to Scrap: Anything Goes
MarkerPOP Challenge: Anything Goes
Oldie But A Goodie Challenge: Buttons + Stash item (buttons, papers)
STAMPlorations February Challenge: Stamps + Stitches
The Squirrel & the Fox Challenge #64: Something spooled
Top Tip Tuesday #121: Stitching


Update: This won the Texture Challenge at Cuttlebug Mania!

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Crafting with Dragonflies - Card + freebie image

We have a really fun challenge theme for you at Crafting with Dragonflies for the next 2 weeks: Make a card using a Freebie digi stamp. Not only is this a chance to play with that freebie you've been waiting to use, it's a great way to learn about different companies and sample their images for yourself!

I've been meaning to use this Space Invaders in Disguise freebie from Wonderstrange for some time, as there a lot of gamers in my life. I printed it on Lunchbag Kraft paper from the Kraft Outlet and colored it with pencils.

I made the sentiment myself, using the fonts ArcadeClassic and Caflisch Script Pro. I printed it on a shiny silver paper and heat-embossed it in a shiny blue (see my tutorial for this technique here.) The tag was made with a die and stamp from a Doodlebug/Sizzix set; the frame stamp was heat-embossed in a green.

The Space Invader paper is from SMIRK, and the green/kraft cardstock is from a Recollections set. I inked the right-hand piece with several yellow and green inks; the edges of everything are inked with either Peeled Paint or Tea Die distress inks. The "messy stitching" was done on my sewing machine.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Aud Sentiments Challenge #100: Bingo (2-word sentiment, 3D items, Something shiny)
Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet: Use a Die Cut + Kraft
Sketch N’ Dies: Sketch #1 + Dies

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