OWH VCMP 2013 Challenge #9

Challenge #9 is a bit of a hard challenge. I use white on my cards for accent or for the sentiments but to create an all white card. Yikes! It is a scary thought for me. I mean, I'm the kind of person who can't wear white clothes as something always happens to the wonderful white. You know, red spaghetti sauce down the front of the new white blouse or the only mud puddle in the parking lot and, yep, you walk through and spatter mud on the new white pants. So, to complete an all white card with layers could be a card making nightmare. I cleaned off the table and started with clean mats on the table. I put all the ink pads away and all the glittery ribbon left over from the 3-4 Valentine's cards I had created.

Challenge 9: My theme for today is All White/Cream with 3 Layers. The challenge:   Create a card using white and/or cream card stock with the exception of the sentiment.  The sentiment (if you choose to have one) may be any color.  Also there should be layers -- at least three (3) layers of something, i.e. any combo of card stock, lace, ribbon, fabric, or some sort of fiber for texture and interest.  Any embellishment must be white or cream.

http://desertroseoutpost.blogspot.com/2013/02/owh-presidents-day-virtual-card-making.html

OK, the challenge is accepted. I have the bits and pieces cut for the 12 cards but here's the first one.

I embossed the first layer of white paper, using the Wicker Weave folder in my Cuttlebug. I told you that  little Cuttlebug got a lot of use the other night at Archiver's on Friday night. I had gotten just the Wicker Weave embossing done at Archiver's. I finished the card today when I am playing in my scrapbook room while the hubby watched the race.  I layered the cut pieces of paper from Making Memories's doily 12x12 paper on top of the embossed paper. Then I added a scalloped rectangle with a sentiment using VersaMark Dazzle and silver embossing powder and using pop dots on the scalloped piece. The sentiment is from a wedding stamp set by Inkadinkado I found on clearance at Joann's. This sentiment I used was covered up by a tag so at first I didn't realize the Happy Anniversary was even in the set.  The silver and white flowers are from the recent stop at Pat Catan's. I wish I had gotten more of the flowers but you know how it is. I used some white ruffly ribbon from my ribbon storage and, ta da, I did it. A white card! No mishaps!! 

I don't have enough of this ribbon and lace ribbon for all 12 cards. Some of them will have a butterfly lacey ribbon on them. I do hope the silver on the flowers won't disqualify my card from the all white with layers challenge but the plain one flowers I have are too big for this card.

I have 2 more challenges to do for the OWH VCMP 2013. I have paper cut for the second challenge and I'm not sure how to do Challenge #3 so that one will take some time. I have made:

Challenge #1 - 12 cards

Challenge #2 - 0 card

Challenge #3 - 0 card

Challenge #4 - 12 cards

Challenge #5 - 12 cards

Challenge #6 - 21 cards

Challenge #7 - 2 designs x12 cards = 24 cards

Challenge #8 - 12 cards

Challenge #9 - 1 card + 11 pieces for 11 more

Challenge #10 - 12 cards

Total cards so far for OWH VCMP 2013= 106 cards. 

I am getting close to my goal of 10 challenges with 12 cards per challenge but the clock is ticking loudly. Gotta go and make more cards!! Later.

Thanks for stopping by. 

OWH VCMP 2013 Challenge #8

Washi tape. Can't say it but I have a bunch of it! I like it and I can prove it. See photo below!!

I really believe that I have more but the other rolls seem hiding at the moment (or the washi tape stash is organized as in "well-hidden from hubby". I "received" the We R Memory Keepers Washi Tape Dispenser for Christmas. "Received" as in it was on my Christmas list and hubby couldn't find it so it jumped in my hands to meet my coupon at Archiver's after Christmas. wink, wink. Of course, I purchased a few rolls of Christmas tape at the after-Christmas clearance sales. The poor dispenser is really under all of the rolls, really! The We R Memory Keepers Washi Tape Dispenser should be stackable so I can keep the the Christmas rolls in one and have another level with the everyday ones. 

We R Memory Keepers Washi Tape Dispenser

OK, enough chatter about the washi tape dispenser. I almost forgot why I am talking about washi tape. 

The Challenge by Indiana Inking!!

Challenge 8:  My challenge for you is to use Washi Tape on your cards.

 http://indianainking.blogspot.com/2013/02/vcmp-challenge-8-washi-tape.html

 When I started to create the card for the Challenge #8, I didn't have the washi tape with me at Archiver's. So, of course, I had to buy some washi tape to complete the Challenge. Right?? I had had my eye on some washi tape at Archiver's for a few weeks  but I had been talking myself out of the purchase. So I finally bought 2 My Mind's Eye tubes of washi tape that had 8 rolls of 8 different designs. I bought the blue and green set and the gold and black set. Well, I needed the tape for the Challenge #8 and you get 20% off your purchases during ScrapMania, so I had to get both tubes since I couldn't decide which colors I liked best. Yes, it was a tough choice and I did leave the other 2 color combo there for now.

To complete this Challenge, I used a yellow piece from the DCWV Green Tea stack and pretty much used Indiana Inking's card for my card. The paper had a very fine grid of white on it on the yellow but you can't see that in the photo. I added the gold and black washi tape by My Mind's Eye to the paper. I ran the paper with the tape on it through the Cuttlebug. (Little Cuttlebug got a workout on Friday night!) The folder is a newer one called Baby's Breath. I really need to take little Cuttlebug to Table 7 more often as it was quite helpful and fun to use it the other night. I stamped the sentiment from a Fiskars set  (clearanced at Joann's a few weeks ago) in brown. I was having a hard time with the stamp. It didn't want to stamp clearly in the middle. I tried different ink pads/colors, trying to find a juicier pad to better cover the stamp. I tried stamping the sentiment on the paper stack to give it a bit of softness to press better. Still I had trouble with the stamp not stamping completely. I finally distressed the stamped sentiment so the misstamping wasn't as noticeable.  I punched a few hearts and added to the card. I did have a bit of trouble with one roll of washi tape as I took it off the roll, it would rip. I used 4 different rolls and only 1 roll kept tearing when I didn't want it too. The rips in the tape don't show up on the cards because of the embossing. 

I wonder if Indiana Inking will notice that my card happened to be gold and black. 

Yes, those are Purdue's colors. Not that the card is just for Purdue fans but just because I liked the color combo by My Mind's Eye. The Table 7 girls cheer for Ohio State University, whose colors are scarlet and grey. Oops, I didn't buy any of that color. : ) 

Thanks for stopping by. I have to finish 2 more Challenges before the Purdue game starts tonight and before the Feb. 25th deadline for Challenges comes. Later!

OWH VCMP 2013 Challenge #7 and Sketch #159

I actually have 2 coffee cards for this Challenge and I don't even like coffee!

Challenge 7: What better challenge for first thing in the morning then a caffeine challenge? So, find your stamps or dies related to coffee, tea, soda, or chocolate and get crafty! 

http://sparklewithin.blogspot.com/2013/02/owh-vcmp-caffeine-challenge_3834.html

My first card is one I had finished using sketch #159 and I had forgotten about it. The poor card never got its own post. : (  

I had embossed the brown cardstock with my Cuttlebug and then the pieces sat on my shelves for a bit. I thought they looked like coffee cup rings so I used it on this card. The little cup, beans, and sentiment are from a small stamp set but I don't remember the maker. The steam is actually a separate stamp too. I stamped the cup in the aqua-y blue and then ran the same color over the embossing. I probably should have used a darker brown but I liked the blue color on the cup. A bit of twine of blue and white at the bottom completes the sketch. I should have stamped the sentiment on another piece of paper and then mounted it so my card followed the sketch a bit closer. But the piece of paper I used for the cup and sentiment was precut paper and I didn't want to mess with it. 

My second coffee card is not from an OWH sketch but I just made it up while I was at Archiver's on Friday night with Table 7. I loved the shiny diamonds on the paper from DCWV Green Tea stack and I had the cup with the diamonds so I used a square and turned it for a diamond. I matted the cup on green and blue to compliment the DCVW paper. The green is that blingy, shiny paper but it is difficult to really see the foiled paper in the photo. The stamp set by TPC Studio was a bargain at Tuesday Morning from a shopping trip end of last year. I stamped the cup in lime ink and used a blue marker to color the diamonds on the cup. I stamped the sentiment in VersaMark's majestic blue and matted it on the green paper but on the plain side. I thought about adding some other embellishments but the paper has  shiny bits to it so I didn't add anything else to the card.

Thanks for stopping by. I have a few more Challenges from the OWH VCMP 2013 to post.

New Riley stamp from the blog hop

I won this new release stamp from Riley & Co.

during the new release blog hop! 

Thanks to Joy and Tanya!!!!

And it came in the mail yesterday. 

And, of course, I had to stamp the new image! 

I plan to color most of the images in red, white, and blue colors

but a few images will be black and gold for the college colors.

I do have a small stamp that says "Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness" 

that I'll put on the image too.

I am trying to decide how to get the song's lyrics on the card too

 but the lyrics might be too big. 

Maybe, I'll use the musical note embossing folder with my Cuttlebug.

Go to http://www.rileyandcompanyonline.com/___new____may_2012_release_

to see the newest Riley stamps.

Hopefully you'll check back here to my card 

in about a week or so when 

I get to use the new Parade image I have stamped already.

Here's the lyrics for the song "I Love a Parade". 

It is a snappy, happy marching song.

 It was used in an old movie and some old cartoons and maybe a kid's show or two.

 I Love A Parade

I love a parade, the tramping of feet,

I love every beat I hear of a drum.

I love a parade, when I hear a band

I just want to stand and cheer as they come.

That rat-a tat-tat, the blare of a horn.

That rat-a tat-tat, a bright uniform;

The sight of a drill will give me a thrill,

I thrill at the skill of everything military.

I love a parade, a handful of vets,

A line of cadets or any brigade,

For I love a parade. 

Lastly, I wanted to share one of my photos I took at the Retreat recently. 

It is called the purple passion flower and grows as a vine. 

I just love the lacy look of it.

It might be a card someday too.