Those Crazy Birds! I just can't stop using them on my cards. I wanted to use one of them on this card but he didn't have a hat. Had to dig into my stash to come up with this fun hat stamp for Jenn's COOLest Card Series. I found it in an old Papertray build-a-snowman set.
Week 1 challenge was to use stencils. Thought of my "new to me" Memory Box snowflake stencil. Took me a while to figure out just what to do with it but I ended up using Wendy Vecchi's Metallic silver embossing paste to create shiny silver snowflakes. I always think of winter as black, white and gray so didn't feel the need to do anything else with the background. I die cut the Winter Wonderland from a Tim Holtz set out of black foam and added it to my card for a little more dimension. Used Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Border with lots of MS snow glitter for the finishing touch. Enjoy!
It's always fun to participate in a challenge. My friend Jenn has created a month long challenge called COOLest Card Series. She just loves snowmen and snowflake images even though she doesn't actually like cold weather. I think that is cool! So I will play along and get my creative juices flowing again. Her challenge this week is to use water color on your project.
Been dying to use this snowman image from Paper Smooches for at least a year and this non-traditionally water colored card was perfect for him to make his appearance. I white embossed the brand new Hero Arts snowflake background stamp and water colored the background with my favorite Distress Ink colors. The sentiment stamp is one I designed myself from Stamp Shoppe Stamps. I created my snow hills using Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders and a lot of the MS snow glitter.
Okay, Jenn Shurkus, I did the challenge! Have no idea how to enter for prizes but am posting a photo of the card I made. Forgot that I had this Christmas owl set and decided to use that for my card. So much fun to pull out a stamp set and actually make a card these days. I use lots of die cuts now and have left my stamps behind.
Thanks for the challenge, Jenn. If you would like to see her card look here.
Pre-class Challenge 1
Wow! I am making a post! I enrolled for the Summer Card Camp and they had a couple pre-class challenges. I wanted to join in so here is my creation. This card is so simple. Just stamped the flower image and colored it with my distress markers. Die cut the Happy Day and added layers. Now all I have to do is decide who to send it to.
I needed to use 4 of the following colors:
Guess what today is everyone? It is the start of Shark Week on the Discovery channel. A bunch of shark loving friends got together and decided to make sharky cards and post a little blog hop to celebrate. Thought a red card base would be appropriate for this one. I usually don't use red but there is someone in our group who loves red. It is always fun to play with a color or technique that is unfamiliar. Also used some washi tape and a new sentiment stamp created by Jill and sent to everyone in the blog hop group. Isn't it "jawsome"? Now hop on over to the other shark lovers and see what they created.
Jill
Jenn
Glenda
Tracy
Stacy
Cheiron
A few weeks back I sent a bottle of cherry bounce to my friend, Cheiron, and was totally surprised when she sent me a thank you card. Just look at those sparkly, shiny cherries. She really outdid herself. I don't know how she got them to look so good but I know I just want to eat one. It is such a pleasure to get a card in the mail during these days of email and text messages. So many electronic devices to master and so little time. Thank you, Cheiron, for taking the time to create something so wonderful to send to me. I would love to challenge anyone reading my blog today to create a card for a friend and send it out. You will put a smile on his or her face.
Was thinking about my friend, Tracy, and decided to make a card celebrating her new baby boy. He is such a cutie and I am sure he is the new star in her life. So I dusted off my nestibilities star set and put him front and center. Then I repurposed some washi tape that came from a package from, Jill. Love that stuff and am still getting the hang of using it. Hope she doesn't mind. Everything changes when you have a child and I just thought a little message from me would let her know that I was thinking about her and her new little star.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. But sometimes it is just too much. It's that way for Cath this year at CHA. Or should I sat NOT at CHA. You might know Cath from over on the Moxie Fab World blog. She is the fabulous lady that always kept us up to date with all things CHA and brings us so much inspiration on her blog. She is not at CHA this year because she has a nasty pain in her shoulder. Must be so hard for her to be at home when there is so much going on in Anaheim. My friend, Cheiron invited me to participate in the blog hop to cheer her up so here I am. Hope you feel better soon, Cath!
Have fun checking out all the other gals that made a card to celebrate a woman that gives so much to the paper craft world. Links are provided on Virginia's blog.
