Uplifting Nature at International Art & Soul

Our theme this fortnight at the International Art & Soul Challenge is Elements of nature (leaves, water, animals etc.) I went with a Cloud theme featuring "Vintage How High" digi & "A Little Lift" sentiment from TLC Creations.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Anything Goes with Create With TLC: Always Anything Goes
Cheerful Sketches Challenge Blog: July Sketch (rotated 90CW)
Inkspirational #138: Rural

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I Got the Blues Blog Hop + Cards for Men at the Crafter's Cafe

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge theme is Male Cards, and we're calling this our January Blues Challenge.  It's been 3 weeks since Santa was here, 2 weeks since we welcomed the New Year - all the hype and excitement has gone, are you feeling a bit down? So along with our normal challenge prizes, we will be 4 blog hop prizes as well to help spread a little cheer! Be sure to leave a comment on all the Design Team members blogs and mention "January Blues" to be eligible. And of course, link up your great Male Cards!


Welcome to my stop on this fun Blog Hop! Here are two cards featuring products from Angie's Cards & Digis to chase away a few winter blues.


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Hot Cocoa Gift Card

I used this fun sentiment by one of our generous sponsors, Angie's Cards & Digis. The card base was adapted from an SVG file I grabbed online years ago. It's an actual card, I just used the template to create a pocket on the front, for a packet of hot cocoa.

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Teddy Pop-up Card

For my second card, I used this cute image by one of our generous sponsors, Angie's Cards & Digis to make a 3-fold card based on this video tutorial by Frenchiestamps. The sentiment is by TLC Creations.

Thank you for visiting & hope you'll join us at The Crafter's Cafe! Be sure to leave me a comment & mention "January Blues" to qualify for the great Blog Hop prizes. Your next stop is the fabulous Fiona.


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Pilin' on the Ladies

The theme this week at Pile It On is Mother/Woman. We're sponsored by Sweet Pea Stamps so I used this Fairy Princess by Molly Harrison to make a Mother's Day card.

The sentiment is by TLC Creations. I used a Spellbinders die set & my BigShot for all the die cuts. The wood house embellishment was painted with a glittery white Wink of Stella pen.

Challenges/Inspiration:

RRR #117

Crafty Ribbons: Ribbon
Creative Corner: For Mom
Digi Sketch Challenge: Sketch
DoubleClick Skittles: For a Mom/Girl
QKR Stampede #137: Mother's Day Cards
Really Reasonable Ribbon #117: Photo Inspiration + Ribbon
Simply Create Too #84: Pretty Woman
Stuck on U Diecut Challenge: Mother + Die Cut
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #181: Anything Goes/Family Friendly

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Ribbons and/or Lace at Crafter's Cafe

The Crafter's Cafe Challenge this week is Ribbons and/or Lace. I used Box of Crayons by Angie's Digi Stamps, the sponsor for this fun challenge, along with a sentiment by TLC Creations.

The little lunchbox was made with Shrinky Dink plastic & a MoMR rubber stamp. I stamped it in black StazOn ink, baked it in my toaster oven, and colored it with a Ranger Distress Marker (Old Paper) and an American Crafts stamp marker (Sunflower). The 3D Kraft-paper butterflies are stickers from Recollections.

The notebook- and arrow-patterned papers are actually from one sheet by Pebbles Inc. that I die-cut with a Pagemaps die. The notepage is popped up slightly with foam tape. The ruler ribbon and adhesive lace are from my stash.  

I printed the image twice, once on white paper & again on kraft. I colored the crayons with Copics and pieced it into the kraft paper box piece. I added a bit of color to the box with Copics as well. I put the box of crayons on an Action Wobble:

The base of the card is double-sided patterned kraft cardstock. I used the notepage die to create a message section:

Cheerful Sketches April Challenge

Inspiration/Challenges:
Cheerful Sketches Challenge Blog: April Sketch
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper: Anything goes with Patterned Paper (2nd entry)
Dream Valley Challenges: Use Kraft
Top Tip Tuesday: 3 of Something (three butterflies)

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Beautiful Butterflies at OSAAT

SBDO October Prize Pack

This fortnight at One Stitch at a Time (OSAAT) our theme is Anything Goes with a Butterfly. StitchyBear's Digi Outlet (SBDO) has hundreds of digital products from many wonderful artists. Even if you don't use a store image, you'll still be in the drawing to win the super-duper October prize pack.

I used Fairy Flutter by Beary Dust, which is available at SBDO. Isn't she a cute little fairy?! I colored her with Copic markers. The butterflies are cut from an orange holographic plastic with an SU! Embosslits die.

The beautiful background paper is a DP from my stash. The layered sunflower was cut/embossed fomr a Core'Dinations cardstock. The sentiment, from TLC Creations, reads "You're Fairy Fabulous" and was cut with a PageMakers die.

Challenges:
Crafty Little Fairies: Use only one designer paper (2nd entry)
Emerald Faeries Challenge #60: Things with Wings
House of Cards: Punch and/or Die
Paper Shelter Challenge #178: Monsters/mythical beings (fairy)

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A Touch of Nature - TLC Progressive Challenge Day 12

Happy World Cardmaking Day! Woot, I finished the Progressive Challenge at TLC Creations by October 4th (although you still have until October 6th to join in). You can view all of my cards here.

I used the rub-on technique to transfer the image onto a paper-backed piece of large raffia ribbon. Then I trimmed two of the corners, cut it with a PageMakers die, and matted it onto a non-backed piece of raffia cut with the same die. The two patterned papers are actually a double-sided DP from Jillibean Soup.

The little leaves & branches were cut with a Tim Holtz die. I used my embossed tool to give the leaves some dimension. I trimmed down the striped paper around the branches.

The sentiment is from a Clear Art Stamps set. I stamped it with brown ink on a gren paper and used a template to create the bottom edge. The lace was hand-dyed with distress ink.

Papertake Weekly

Inspiration/Challenges:
Create with TLC World Cardmaking Day: Progressive Challenge Day 12
Bunny Zoe's Crafts September Challenge: Lace
Papertake Weekly: Sketch #95

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Apple of My Eye - TLC Progressive Challenge Day 11

Happy World Cardmaking Day! I've enjoyed celebrating with the Progressive Challenge at TLC Creations (here are my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth cards)! TLC Creations is also celebrating reaching 2,590 blog followers, so be sure to check out her exclusive freebies.

I colored the image with colored pencils by Crayola, Stampin' UP! and RoseArt. The wildly talented Dorcas has lots of tutorials on how to use colored pencils on Kraft paper, but I definitely kept it simple.

The sentiment is from Ginger's House and reads "Holy moly, me oh my, you're the apple of my eye!" I found an apple image and placed the sentiment within it. I printed it on a birght green paper and inked it with several greens. The apple paper is from Graphic 45, and I added some felt leaf ribbon and red acrylic gems.

FMS #156

Inspiration/Challenges:
Create with TLC World Cardmaking Day: Progressive Challenge Day 11
Freshly Made Sketches: Sketch
Natalie and Amy's Challenge #25: Colouring on Kraft

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Artsy Autumn - TLC Progressive Challenge Day 10

Tomorrow (October 4th) is World Cardmaking Day, and even though basically my every day is cardmaking day, I've enjoyed celebrating with the Progressive Challenge at TLC Creations (here are my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth cards)! For the tenth day, we received this lovely Woodpecker image:

The scene is a rubber stamp from Rogue Redhead Designs. I colored it stamp with stamp markers, inked it with my Versamark watermark ink pad, stamped it on white paper, and then heat-embossed it with clear powder. I added some color to the leaves and used a watermark ink pen and heat-embossed over that as well. Then I inked the background with two blues. I used the same emboss-resist technique for the TLC digi stamp.

Using my BigShot, I cut the little leaves with a Tim Holtz die and embossed the backgrounds with a Darice folder. I added some orange burlap trim.

SPDSS12

Inspiration/Challenges:
Create with TLC World Cardmaking Day: Progressive Challenge Day 10
If You Give a Crafter A Cookie...: Autumn inspiration
SugarPea Designs: Sketch

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Friends Always - TLC Progressive Challenge Day 9

I'm having fun with the Progressive Challenge at TLC Creations (here are my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth cards).

The dark woodgrain paper is from October Afternoon and the lighter woodgrain paper is from Recollections. All the other pieces are adhesive wood sheets from EKsuccess. Love this stuff! It cut so well in my BigShot, and printed fairly well. I colorized the TLC image in brown and printed it directly onto the wood sheet. The teacup dies are so fine, but they look so cool in wood! I added some Tea Dye distress ink to them. The border die from QuicKutz's Whimsy set.

I recently obtained this cute little wooden tags with the word "Toujours" on them. As far as I can tell, it is French for "Always" or "Still", so I added the word "Friends" (part of a stamp from an Amy Smyth/Inkadinkado set) to create a sort of Frenchlish sentiment!

Sketch #187

Inspiration/Challenges:
Create with TLC World Cardmaking Day: Progressive Challenge Day 9
Try Stamping On Tuesdays: Sketch #187 + optional theme: Harvest Time (Sketch only)

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Happy Unbirthday - TLC Progressive Challenge Day 8

I'm having fun with the Progressive Challenge at TLC Creations (here are my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh cards). Our freebie for the eighth day is a classic image from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland combined with a sweet sentiment.

I colorized the digi stamp to change it from black to brown, printed it on regular cardstock, cut it with a Heartfelt Creations die, and painted it with Crackle Paint.

I have a rubber stamp set of some of these classic Wonderland images, so I used the White Rabbit one to create a Shrinky Dink embellishment and I stamped Alice on the inside.

The papers are from Bo Bunny & October Afternoon. The sentiment, from Rogue Redhead Designs, was heat-embossed in gold on a piece of the opposite side of the darker, dotted paper. I cut it out with scalloped scissors.

The watch in the teacup is a wood die-cut that I heat-embossed with more gold powder. 

Sketch #74

Inspiration/Challenges:
Create with TLC World Cardmaking Day: Progressive Challenge Day 8
Seems a Little Sketchy: Sketch #74 (I altered it a bit, but was still inspired by the original sketch)

Update: I was the prize winner for Seems a Little Sketchy #74!

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School Daze - TLC Progressive Challenge Day 7

Happy October! Wow, I can't believe this is my 7th card for the Progressive Challenge at TLC Creations (here are my first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth cards).

I printed the freebie image onto Kraft paper, but all the other images are from Graphic 45 papers. The background is an actual piece of yellow, lined paper. I added a rubber band to the tag. I just got the ruler ribbon, and I couldn't wait to use it!

Francesca's Sketch

Inspiration/Challenges:
Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge: School / Office Supplies (notebook paper, rubber band)
Create with TLC World Cardmaking Day: Progressive Challenge Day 7
Sunday Sketch & Stamp Challenge #218: Francesca's Sketch + digi stamp

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