Go Dog Go! -- Animals at International Art & Soul

This fortnight at the International Art & Soul Challenge our theme is Include an Animal.

Thank you for visiting! Hope you'll join us at International Art & Soul,

Skating Santa Gift Card Holder -- Buttons & Bows at International Art & Soul

Our theme this fortnight at the International Art & Soul Challenge is Buttons & Bows.

Santa, the sentiment, and the tree are from a Paper Magic set. The pretty blue bows came on Santa & the tree. I added blue thread to some buttons from my stash, and added them to Santa with Glossy accents. They work nicely to make him slide, too! I used a die from an Elizabeth Crafts set to make the slot on the card, and affixed skating Santa with a paper tab.

Inspiration/Challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #378: Outdoor Winter Activities
More than One Score at Scor-Pal #43: Special Gift Packaging + more than one score (gift card holder)

Update: This was chosen as one of the Top 4 for 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #378!

Update: I sold this at a local craft fair!

Thank you for visiting! Hope you'll join us at International Art & Soul,

Sketchy Transportation

I've enjoyed playing along with Taylored Expressions' Share Joy challenge over the years, so I definitely wanted to join their 9th Birthday Bash! This penny slider card features their Little Bits "Transportation" die set.

I used some papers that I've been hoarding to use with these dies. The striped paper & red "road" are from Cosmo Cricket's "Social Club" collection; the color combo is so unusual but works somehow! It goes well with the arrow-patterned paper from Pebbles, Inc., and the chalkboard "road" tape that I bought at Michaels recently. I created the circular penny slider portion with Spellbinders circle dies., and used thick cardboard to pop the raised portions. The sentiment on the truck is a Tim Holtz rub-on, the sign sentiment is fussy-cut from a patterned paper, and the small arrows are cut from a scrap of the backing paper with a Taylored Expressions die from their "Build a Scene - Calendar" set. The cars are made from thin cardboard & tin foil. I'm planning on sending this to my BFF.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Dragonfly Dreams: Patterned Paper
Share Joy Challenge: Sketch

Thanks for stopping by,

Fishy Slider -- Embossing at Crafting with Dragonflies

Our theme this fortnight at Crafting with Dragonflies is to use Embossing (wet or dry) on a card.

I used SCAL3 to create the frame with SVG Cuts' Polaroid Frame and a wave shape SVG Attic's Just Beachy set. I cut it four times; once with the small top slit and 3 layers with a wider slit to accommodate the folded-paper slider. I used all rubber stamps: the fisherman is from Art Impressions, the fish is from Recollections, and the sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

My Time to Craft #351

Inspiration/Challenges:
Fashionable Stamping #125: Gone Fishing
My Time to Craft #351: Sketch
Stinkin' Inkers: Guy Talk
Tuesday Throwdown #355: Interactive Card (slider)

Thank you for visiting & hope you'll join the fun at Crafting with Dragonflies, 

Pilin' on the Primary Sport

Our theme at Pile It On is Primary Colors and/or Something Beginning with "S". The only really rule is to be inspired by more than one papercrafting challenge. We're sponsored by KennyK Stamps, and I used their "Need For Speed" Race Car Driver digi stamp.

KennyK Stamps has closed its doors on June 30, 2017. We have had such fun working with the team here at Pile It On and loved seeing all the wonderful cards and talent by the DT and those that have entered the challenges! We wish you all the best and are happy to sponsor one last time!! If you have any questions about our closing you can read our FAQ here or email us at stamps@kennykstamps.com. Rock Your Crafts with KennyK Stamps! 

I created a Soccer-themed penny slider card, using circle dies and die-cut cardboard circles instead of actual pennies.

Inspiration/Challenges:
Crafty Gals Corner: For the Dudes
Hannah & Friends #277: Birthday + Animal/Person
Mudra Crafts Challenge: Interactive Card
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge: Always Anything Goes for DT member (Pile It On DT)
SheepSki Designs Challenge #4: Square Cardz

Thank you for visiting & inspiring my crafting! Hope you'll join us at Pile It On,

Pilin' on the Animals

The theme this month at Pile It On is Animals. The only real rule is to be inspired by more than one papercrafting challenge. We're sponsored by Kitty Bee Designs, and our team had lots of fun with their Narwhal Love digi stamp.

I made a penny slider from this fun Bella Blvd paper. I didn't have my dies, so I used punches. I colored the adorable narwhal with Copics (B91, BG70, B60, W1) & added some sparkle with a glitter pen. It's so fun to move that little guy around the punny sentiment; maybe it's slapping some fish for dinner‽




Inspiration/Challenges:
Colouring in Scrapland: Anything Goes with a hand-colored image
Crafty Animals: Anything Goes with an Animal
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Anything Goes with Patterned Paper (2nd entry)
Southern Girls: Retro Challenge #159 - Use An Actual Punch

Thank you for visiting & hope you'll join the Pile It On Challenge. The Pile It On team has lots of fun with this Narwhal digi stamp; be sure to check out the inspirational projects. 

Best,

Ice Skating Tag

The theme this week at Pile It On is "Tags", so I used the Skating Boy and Let It Snow Tag digi stamp set by Jellypark to make this penny-slider tag:

It's practically impossible to see in this photo, but the non-embossed half of the tag is covered in Glossy Accents so that he's really "ice" skating!

Inspiration/Challenges:

ABC Christmas Challenge - N is for Not A Card

Aud Sentiments Challenge #59 - TAG IT!

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - Christmas

Crafty Creations Challenge #179 - Tags
The Crafty Pad Challenge #180: Interactive

The Crazy Challenge - Christmas

Hooked on Crafts - Christmas

Jellypark Challenges - Christmas

Lollipop Crafts - Christmas

Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge #117 - Christmas

There She Goes - Christmas

Totally Stampalicious - Christmas

Update: This made the Top 5 for The Crafty Pad Challenge #180!

Thank you for visiting,

Sporty Slider Boxes

I've promised several of my friends penny-slider boxes, so the Slider/Shaker challenge at Here Come the Boys was just the incentive I needed to make a couple.

Both use paper & embellishments from Smirk for Men. The front of the Soccer box was created from the pre-colored digis from Crafty Ann's lovely Safe Pair of Hands set. That box is a penny-slider and a penny-rocker. The fisherperson on the fron of the second box is a stamp that I colored & cut out.

Hope everyone's having a great day.

Update 9/19/11: Wow! This project was chosen as one of the top 4 for this challenge. Thank you!

Dancin' and Twirlin''

I'm not sure exactly what it is I've been accomplishing, but I've been fairly busy this week. Between things, I've worked on this festive card. I really wanted to try the Scrapmaster's Paradise Combo of Perfect Plum, River Rock and Melon Mambo, or whatever version I could make with my stash paper & copics! I actually spent a fair amount of time working on flowers for this week's theme at Delightful Challenges, but I just wasn't feeling it I guess, so I ended up making very simple "bursts" with tulle. I'm not sure how much they resemble flowers, but I did make this card with that challenge in mind so I'm gonna enter it anyway.

I've wanted to make a Center Step card ever since seeing Jeannie's beautiful version, so I finally took some time and followed her link to the super instructions at Creative Moments with Sandy.

I've had lots of fun of making Penny Slider (or Spinner) cards, so I was really excited to see instructions for the even easier Penny Rocker (or Tilting) card in Quick Cards Issue #82. I found some instructions on Splitcoaststampers (of course), and you should really check out their hula skirt idea! It's not like this card needed one more thing, but this adorable digi stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil just had to move!

The red corn-husk calla lilies in the background are from Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, and I hope someday to get some for crafting.

Inspiration:
SPCC #93: Perfect Plum, River Rock, Melon Mambo
Delightful Challenges: Flowers

Digi stamp: Rosa by Mo Manning

Supplies: Brazzill and Core'dinations cardstocks, XpressPress Copic paper, Martha Stewart border punch and detailing scissors, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Concord), ZipDry glue, tulle, pop-dots, and, of course, two cents
Copics: E17, E52, E31, E33, RV21, E51, E000, E11, E50, BV00, V06, BV04, RV04, RV29

One sketch, two Birthday cards

I'm making an effort to send out more cards, so I decided to make a couple of birthday cards for friends for this week's sketch challenge at Card Positioning Systems. I should have just added "belated" to the sentiment, since one birthday was yesterday and the other is tomorrow, and neither card is in the mail!

I designed the border rectangles in SCAL, so I may use this sketch again since it's easy to cut the pieces. I was surprised at how versatile it ended up being.
The second one is a penny slider/spinner card, which was inspired by my husband. Ooh, can you make them move across the card? he said when I showed him my coloring. Like I said, this sketch is really versatile!

I whipped up some sentiments in InDesign and made matching backgrounds in SCAL (although I did hand-cut the text circles). Later that evening, I was looking online for a "Happy Birthday" sentiment stamp to replace the one stolen by the gnomes in my craft space, and much to my surprise I saw that great minds think alike: the Penny Black Flourish Birthday rubber stamp uses the exact same font as I did, Scriptina. Groovy! I think I'll save my pennies and just use my digital version for now, all things considered (it's free font too).


Update 3/26/11: Wow, I won the CPS Sketch Challenge #210. It' chosen randomly, but hey I'll take it! I think these two cards counted as one entry too. Looking forward to playing with the Ippity stamps I won...More birthday cards!

March Madness Blog Hop Day #2

It's the second day of Stampin' Dymonz Scrap Shack's Mad About Paper Blog Hop!

Here's my Day Two project: Soccer Kick Off Gift Box with penny slider top

You should have arrived here from JoAnn's blog. Tammy's blog is the next one on the line up and you can reach her blog by clicking on her name below. If you have problems with the link, her blog's URL is in parentheses after her name -- just copy/paste it into your address bar. (And if you didn't see yesterday's projects, be sure to check those out too.)

Stampin' Dymonz (www.StampinDymonz.com)

Lynetta (CraftyNetta) (craftcreationsbynetta.blogspot.com)

Cynta (cynta.blogspot.com)

Jessica (customcreationsbyjessica.blogspot.com)

JoAnn (thecreatorsworkshop.blogspot.com)

Christina (cg-says.blogspot.com) <---you data-blogger-escaped-are="" data-blogger-escaped-b="" data-blogger-escaped-here="">

Tammy (fromme2upapercrafting.blogspot.com)

NikkiP (nikkimopapercrafts.blogspot.com)
Thank you for hopping!

About the Gift Box:
I had so much fun making yesterday's project that I starting obsessing on what to make for my second project... Well, luckily Mom called me and told me about her new project: penny slider cards (also called spinner cards). Since I wanted to stick with a sports theme, I immediately imagined moving a ball across the paper, maybe making a little loop...

This was also a perfect opportunity to use the Smirk brand paper in my stash. Their For Him series includes some soccer-themed items, and the soccer ball brad fit over the penny perfectly!

I wish I could say that I drew the loop myself, but I had to design a template for it in SCAL first. I ended up manipulating the Latin Small Letter A from the Wingdings typeface. What can I say, it worked perfectly. I cut the template on my Cricut, traced it onto the decorative paper, and then cut it out with my knife. If you'd like to try this yourself (and you have SCAL), see the download link at the bottom of this post. Please let me know if you use it!

I wanted to put something in the box, so I decided to wrap some Hershey's Milk Chocolate Nuggets with the patterned paper. Well, we only had two left, but get the idea!

Decorative paper and brads: Smirk for Him
Other supplies: Core'dinations and Hammermill cardstocks, ZipDry glue, Tim Holtz scissors, Cricut & SCAL, HP copier & ink, Fiskars papercutter & finger knife, foam tape, Copic markers (100 & R59, for edging)

Slider card tutorial at Splitcoaststampers
Download penny slider loop template SCAL cut file