Black & White

The challenge at CAS-ualfridays is black and white  with a splash of color of choice. I just about always go with red when I think of black and white. I learned this really cool technique with rubberbands, acrylic block, and stamp ink. I tried it and am loving it so much I stamped several pieces while I had the messy rubber bands. So I am totally casing Brian's idea. See it here. Brian always has cool techniques and tips on his blog.

 I used the rubber band technique with black SU ink. The red flower is from a package I picked up at Michael's dollar rack. It is secured with a black brad. I scrunched up the flower for some depth but that doesn't show very well. I'm thinking maybe I'll go back and use some shimmer spray or glitter glue to perk up that flower a little. 



 

Paper Craft Star Girly Card

This week's challenge at Paper Craft Star is "girly" cards. As I have 2 granddaughters age 5 & 8, I have some experience in "girly" things so really enjoyed this challenge.
The front:

The inside:

 

The card base is white. DPs are The Paper Studio for the words & My Mind's Eye for the stripe. The girl stamp and the pink daisy strip are from the dollar bin at Michael's. Love those bargains!! What would a girly card be without bling? There are pink rhinestones at the center of each daisy and I used a pink star gel pen to trace over the word girl. The Happy Birthday and the inside sentiment are SU. On the inside, I anchored each corner with a daisy cut from the strip. I think every girl--young or older would like a "spoil yourself" day. I know I am certainly ready for a spa day!!

 



 

Retro Sketch 25

This is Retrosketches challenge for this week:



And here is my take on it:

This is on a whitecardstock base. The pink is a scrap from the cuts my granddaughters made with all of my pink and purple papers. The background circles are a cheapie from Michael's stamped with SU Cherry Cobbler. The Celebrate sentiment is SU. The adorable piggy is from some quilting fabric scraps my neighbor gave me. I cut it with my Creative Memories shape cutters. The ribbon is from my stash. I did an inside sentiment of "Happy Birthday. Go Hog Wild."



Sweet Treat

Well, it is Saturday and I am finally getting around to the challege from this weeks Tuesday Throwdown. It is to make something "sweet".
I have been helping my neighbor get started in this great cardmaking craft. She has been a quilter most of her life and has tons of scrap fabric. She gave me a bunch. One had cute cupcakes printed on it. I think it is a perfect sweet treat. I cut it out and pasted it to white Nesties label and then attached that to the next size Nesties label in a pink.  The background dotted DP reminds me of sprinkles on the icing. The sentiment is from SU and done on a Spellbinder die. The white banner did not show well alone so I did a matching one in the same blue as the background and offset it to the top for emphasis. I traced around the embossed sections of the banner with a silver star gel pen.

Hope you enjoy this yummy card.

Craft Dash

Paulina at Pretty Pink Posh is starting a new challenge

I have never actually timed myself when making a card but do know that sometimes it seems to take forever because I can't decide on whether it looks exactly right. So this time I went with first option on everything. I took me 6 min 24 sec. for this card.



I have had my granddaughters for 2 weeks and they loved playing in my craft room. They left a bunch of scrap cuts so I just opened my scrap file and pulled out some papers. The green is reversible DP from SU. The butterfly strip if from "Butterflies and Blossoms" pack. The butterflies are actually orange and match the orange strip. Don't know why that color doesn't show better. Tied around is green/white twine.  The scallop cut is an EK border punch. Sentiment is SU also. The scallop is cut from the front edge and the polka-dots are on the inside bottom. It also has a butterfly strip border.Here is the inside so you can see how that was done.

I am definitely bookmarking Paulina's site and look forward to more of her challenges.



pink & purple

I  had my granddaughters ages 5 & 8 visiting last week. We had so much fun. They love, love, love, plalying in Nana's craft room. I think they probably cut into every piece of pink and purple papers that I have. And left me with a bunch of scraps. So I decided to use mojo monday sketch and use up a few of the pink and purples. Oh, they also loved playing with the Big Shot so I have several of those pink and purples with different designs and shapes. And I have a bunch of ribbon scraps.

I did have to cut a new piece of white cardstock for the base. Everything else is from the scrap file. The IP on the pink is Cuttlebug. The sentiment is from TAC. The flower is from a package I picked up in the dollar bin at Michael's. The shape die is Spellbinders. I punched our 3 little flowers for the lower left accent.
I think all little girls favorite colors are pink and purple so any little girl who is sick will love getting this card.

Retrosketch

I think this sentiment and stamp by Fiskar make such a sweet thank you card..

The green cardstock and the scrap of pink are from SU. The polkadot is from my scrap box. The eyelet punch is Martha Stewart. The button brad is also SU.

I used this sketch from retrosketches for the design:

CAS Friday

This is for cas-ualfridays challenge to use navy, lime, aqua.  Cardstock is Midnight Muse from SU. The butterflies are punched out of aqua dotted paper with punch from SU. Three little rhinestones on each one add a little bling. The sentiment is TAC. And a lime ribbon from my scrap ribbon box.
Sorry about the poor picture. Since I had to have my computer rebuilt, the camera program is not getting me to the edit page that was there before. I have such a LOVE/HATE relationship with all things techie!!

Summer

Nothing says summer like water and flip flops in a tropical paradise. This card is for 2 challenges. Paper Craft Star (water) and Tuesday Throwdown (tropical paradise)

I used a white card base. Polka dot DP from SU. This aqua sparkly rick rack reminds me of waves washing into the "sand" (scrap of tan). Flip flop is from Lockhart Stamp Co. and colored with star gel pens. Then I decided the upper part needed something so stamped the sentiment from TAC on a white scrap and punched a cloud with Fiskar punch. It is so hot here in Indiana, I think I could use water, flip flops and tropical breezes about now.

MoJo

Here is a masculine card for the MoJo sketch this week:

In making cards for Care & Concern committee at church, I easily do ones for women but struggle with masculine cards. This one went together really quickly thanks to MoJo Monday sketch.This is a real combination of companies for supplies. Starfruit DP from SU for base. IPs from Cuttlebug. Ticket is Tim Holtz. Sentiment is Lawn Fawn. Anchor is ?--label is missing. Lots of textures going on here.