Ai Floral Frenzy Week Two

I was reading my various blogs subscriptions and read about Art Impressions' Floral Frenzy Week Two Challenge. http://artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/2013/07/challenge-113-floral-frenzy-week-two.html   I have many of the girlfriends stamp sets and I had colored a few of them while watching TV. But I hadn't used many of the images.

I used girlfriends at the Movies set with Graphic 45's cinema themed papers for my first card. I love the cinema papers and items. I got them at Tuesday Morning, buying several double-sided papers and the paper with the die cuts too. I added jewels and pearls as necklaces and earrings to the girlfriends. The Challenge was Floral so I had to have at least 5 flowers on the card. I added the  glittery, jeweled flowers along the bottom of the card and one to one of the girlfriends' hat.

My second Challenge card used this birthday set. I used DCWV papers from a 4x6" stack and from a 6x6" stack. The black numbered paper seemed too dark so I matted the image on some pink and purple papers, the colors of the girlfriends' dresses. I like the other sentiment that came with the set "Could I borrow some Weight Watchers points?" I added some rhinestone flowers and a bit of glaze pen around the candle flame. I used colored pencils to color the image. 

Now I check off an item on my summer list - entering a challenge. I haven't entered many challenges before other than adding my card for OWH Sunday sketches. 

Have a great Summer.

Sketch #170

Sketch #170

I had to use my film strip punch with this stamp - Riley as a flying money. I used some more Graphic 45 paper from Tuesday Morning spree. The sentiment is from Impression Obsession's Oz Collection that I purchased at Archiver's one night at Table 7. I added green ribbon and green oval jewels to complete the sketch. I used colored pencils by American Crafts to color the Riley.

Sketch #176

Sketch #176

Another sketch I completed at the early June quilt retreat. My sister and her best friend are the event planner and I help out some. I am usually the only scrapbooker there and I don't know much about quilting and don't go on the shop hop so the retreat can be a great time to get lots of cards done. 

I used Graphic 45 papers for this sketch's cards. I think I used 3 different papers from the Circus theme and some scrap yellow cardstock. I added flowers to the cards for the brads in the sketch. The blue flowers are paper embellishments by Graphic 45. I purchased the Graphic 45 paper at Tuesday Morning and still have a lot of the paper left. I used Paper Smooches stamps.

National Craft Month - March 19 - Graphic 45

I .. Have...to ...stop...going...to ......Tuesday......Morning!!

Yup, I stopped by today and found more Graphic 45 double-sized paper. The 3 papers I purchased on Tuesday are shown below. The middle paper is Wizard of Oz paper. It has munchkins on one side and the other side is words about Wizard of Oz.

The other two papers are actually punch-out tags with a pattern on the backs of the tags. The circus tags has red stars which is the same pattern as green paper I purchased a few weeks ago. The black tags are the cinema themed paper.

I have had this Graphic 45 Wizard of Oz stamp set by Hampton Art for a bit and have stamped the shoes (embossed in red) and the home saying but then I didn't have any cool paper for the images. Now I can complete the design, using this companion Graphic 45 paper. 

Yeah!!!

National Craft Month - March 18 - Love Art Impressions!

I LOOOOOOVE Art Impressions' stamps. I have a bunch of the Girlfriends set. The Girlfriends remind me of my friends at Table 7 - not looks but the love and friendship we have for each other. The Ai Girlfriends make me giggle as Table 7 does too. 

I purchased the Show the Love stamp set at Archiver's a few weeks ago. I had stamped and embossed a bunch of the images. I have been coloring them while Hubby flips around the TV channels, trying to find to find something to watch. (That drives me crazy! I get interested in a show, it goes to commercials, he flips to another show, and he forgets what show we were watching. Plus Hubby watches too much Pawn Stars, American Pickers, the trucks in ice, and such.) 

I colored the images with Tim Holtz Distress Markers. I like the brush ends but I'm hard on them. I left the Girlfriend in the paper white because I can't find a good skin color. If anyone has a favorite skin color, PLEASE let me know!! And I think that all markers are darker than the lid's color. I didn't use a sketch so I could fit all my pieces on the card. I used a piece of Graphic 45 paper - the black floral - and the pink patterned paper from the Dear Jane stack by DCWV and a dotted Swiss pink from Archiver's. I did most of the images' cards like this one but I made a few scrappy ones too. 

I matted the sentiments on scraps and added a few sticker hearts.

Show the Love stamp set -- Art Impressions (6101984)

I have more Girlfriends to stamp and color so I'll see you later.

National Craft Month March 3 - Kid Rocket Card

 I created a card for a kiddo at school the other day and finally got all the signatures on it to give it away today so I can post it at last.

I used a piece of white 8.5 x 11 cardstock and folded it in half. I trimmed about 1/2" on one long and one short side. This way it fit inside the first piece without  the edges peeking out. I used my long armed stapler to staple the 2 pieces together.

I used lots of  BoBunny and other rocket stickers. I used a couple of the Graphic 45 double-sided papers from Tuesday Morning. I punched blue bling paper (Archiver's) stars, using a small Marvy punch and randomly added them on the card's front. I pop-dotted some of them and some are glued to the card. I added 4 navy mosaic squares to the front too.

I added a thin strip to the top of the middle card. I cut a second thin strip and folded it to make a square when the card is open. I'm not explaining it very well. I pierced holes in the hanging strip and in the little decorations. I used fishing line to string the decorations so they could hang on the strip.

The blue rectangle of  bling paper from Archiver's on the last page now has a little saying on it.

Our report from the Captain is;

The Crew misses You!

Your Mission is:

To feel better.

Please Report to:

School

as soon as possible.

The Captain and Crew will

keep you in their thoughts

Till your return.

From: 

Captain and the Crew 

of elementary school.

With 4 pages for signatures, the card filled up quickly. Unfortunately, I didn't have an envelope for the card so I slid the card in the clear packaging from the sticker set. The teacher showed the card to the class before they sent it to the kiddo.

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OWH VCMP 2013 Challenge # 6

 Challenge #6 is things with wheels. I had 2 cute papers with trucks on it that I had originally thought I would use for this Challenge. Then I had got to Tuesday Morning and found a bunch of Graphic 45 paper. Tuesday Morning usually has packages of 25 sheets of paper for sale and it is not unusual to find Graphic 45 paper there. The 25 sheet-packages have gone up in price lately but still a good deal as the paper is about 16 cents/ sheet. I usually share the 25 sheets with Table 7 or make a lot of cards. The Graphic 45 paper is nice weight and double-sided, which is why I had to buy 5 packages of this paper line Le Cirque Collection. They had flowers for sale too and I can always use flowers, right??

To get back to the Challenge!!

Challenge 6:  "Things With Wheels".  My card (loosely based upon OWH Sketch 153)

 http://linda-creepinalong.blogspot.com/2013/02/owh-presidents-day-vcmp-things-with.html

My card used paper from 3 of the packages I purchased and I used both sides of 1 paper. The elephants on wheels has red striped on the back, the circus stamps has the green stars on the back which I used a bit of the stars as a border, and the print paper has circus ads on the back. I loved the stars and plan to use it again for a kid birthday card. If you notice in the Challenge on CreepinAlong's blog, she used a different sketch than I did. I used Sketch#72 from the OWH list, one I haven't used before. I used two strips of 2 circus stamps for the 2 strips in the sketch #72. I left enough of the black edging on the stamps so I didn't mat the strips before mounting them. Archiver's used EK Success 3 tickets punch for the prize drawings. I used the little punch above the ticket size to stamp the one word sentiment. Actually, I punched the tickets for the night and they let keep the little ones because you can't punch just the large ticket one by itself. I added a few Making Memories star brads (from Ollie's Bargain Store) on the stamps. I was proud of myself that I found my cool tool - a paper piercer- to make the holes for the brads. The great tool is the one that retracts so you don't poke yourself while you are looking for it.  : )  My friend Linnea gave it to me at Table 7 one day.

Thanks for stopping by. More later.

OWH VCMP 2013 Challenge #5

I loved this Challenge #5 as for me, it was easy!! I usually make multiples of my cards so I can send some to OWH and keep some! And the Challenge had a sketch for me to use and it was an economical one too. I cut the 6 cards and could use the strip leftover on the cards too. And I hadn't done this sketch #63 yet so I could check it off my list of OWH Sketches to do.

Challenge 5: So my challenge for this VCMP is to take OWH sketch #63:

and use one entire piece of 12x12 paper. You should get a minimum of six A2 cards from one 12x12. http://thecrookedstamper.blogspot.com/2013/02/disappearing-act-with-sketch-63.html

I had purchased a bunch of paper at Tuesday Morning the other day. It was all from Graphic 45 and I got 25 sheets per package so I'll be using it a lot. I loved this blue paper Extravaganza from Graphic 45's Le Cirque Collection. It sorta doesn't go with the rest of the Le Cirque papers which are elephants, clowns, and such but the collection is fun vintage.

I cut 6 bases and then cut the strips for the bases. Unfortunately I cut the 2 sheets (for 12 cards) differently which I didn't notice till I was adding the striped strips to the bases. One strip is horizontal and the other is vertical. I cut the scallop of some sheets of doily-like paper. I had typed the sentiment on my computer for a different card about a year so I thought I could use it again on this mostly blue card. I added a few jeweled flowers of various blues and whites to complete the sketch.

Thanks for stopping by. I have a few more Challenge cards to post so see you soon.

Sketch # 129

Sketch #129

I got the three papers by Graphic 45 at Big Lots. I scallop-punched the girl and pop-dotted it on the  paper. I had a song going through my head so I used that for the sentiment. Under the boardwalk.

Sketch 115

I finally made it to Table 7 and just in time. A big storm came through and was blowing so hard. The stoplights were all out for a long while but I was safe in Archiver's. Several people came in after the storm moved on. My hubby even stopped by for a bit as our house didn't have power from about 5 PM till 3 AM. During the storm, I sat at Table 7, where you can't see the windows and crafted several cards.

Here's Sketch #115.

Here's my card using the Sketch #115. I made a blue/green version and a pink/brown one. The jewel really just jumped on the image and I can't remove it without tearing the paper. Some of the other girls cards did get some pearls but along the bottom under the image. 

I got the Stampendous! stamp set at Tuesday Morning for $1.99 on our road trip to Florida. 

I think I will be using this cute set a lot.

 I also purchased at Tuesday Morning 5 packages of paper. Each package has 25 sheets of the same design and they cost $2.99 or $3.99 each. I won't use all the paper but I'll share with my GFs at Table 7. Three of packages were Graphic 45 paper. All the papers are double-sided. It will be fun to get them opened soon.

I got another design done at Table 7 last night. I had purchased the Note to Self 6x6 pad at Archiver's and used the 2 musical papers to make a bunch of cards. I used a sentiment from a Fiskars stamp set and the black/red/white twine by Queen and Co. I used a small Fiskars punch for the hearts, borrowing it from Archiver's for a bit.

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