Inspired Designs

A Crackled Cardinal Christmas

Today's Ways to Use it challenge on SCS was to have some kind of crackled element in your card.  I decided to use the cracked glass technique.  I haven't started making any Christmas cards yet so I thought I should begin with this challenge today.

I stamped my cardinal image in basic black ink on very vanilla cardstock.  I used an aquapainter and a few colors to color in my image.  I used a sponge to pull riding hood red ink off the edges of this mat and then did the cracked glass technique on it.  For the cracked glass technique, you can find an excellent tutorial on the SCS site.  Here is a link to it.

I had to use sticky strip to adhere my cracked glass image to the old olive mat because it was heavy and bent from the technique.  I adhered those two mats to a larger riding hood red mat. 

I used the crafter's tool kit to pierce a design on the large piece of ski slope designer paper and then matted it on a larger piece of riding hood red cardstock.  I tied a piece of riding hood red taffeta ribbon around these mats and used dimensionals to pop them off the old olive cardbase.  The smaller cracked glass mat was adhered with dimensionals to the large mats.

I stamped the "Merry Christmas" sentiment in basic black ink on very vanilla cardstock.  I punched it out with the large oval punch and then adhered it on a piece of riding hood red cardstock and used my scissors to cut an oval mat around it.  I used a piece of sticky strip to adhere this mat to my cardfront.

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Stamps:  A Cardinal Christmas

Ink: Basic black, so saffron, riding hood red, old olive, versamark

CS: Very vanilla, riding hood red, old olive, ski slope dp

Accessories: Crafter's tool kit, glassy glaze enamel, heat tool, dimensionals, sponge, sticky strip, large oval punch, riding hood red taffeta ribbon

Frankie's Halloween Wishes

I loved the layout for SCS's sketch challenge and I decided to do a Halloween theme based card using it.

I inked the Frankie stamp from the Batty for You set with kiwi kiss ink and then colored the circular sentiment with a basic black marker.  I huffed on the image and stamped it on scrap whisper white cardstock.  I used the 1 1/4" square punch to punch the image out.  I matted this image on larger pumpkin pie and basic black mats.  I repeated this step two more times to get three separate matted images.

I adhered a piece of striped, yum sentiment designer paper from the Ghostly Greetings dp set on a kiwi kiss mat and tied black organdy and pumpkin pie ribbon around this mat.  I adhered the matted Frankie images along the right side of this mat.

The layered "Happy Halloween" sentiment was created using various SU! punches.  It was adhered in the lower left corner of the cardfront.  The kiwi kiss and dp mats were attached to the basic black card using dimensionals.   

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Stamps: Batty for You, All Holidays

Ink: Kiwi kiss, basic black, basic black marker

CS: Basic black, whisper white, pumpkin pie, kiwi kiss, ghostly greetings dp

Accessories: 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches, 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" square punches, designer label punch, large oval punch, pumpkin pie grosgrain ribbon, black organdy ribbon, dimensionals

Batty For You Box in Bag

Since Halloween is almost upon us I thought I would share a Halloween themed box in bag that I made with my technique groups. 

You can find awesome instructions for creating this cute box in bag here.  I was amazed at how easy they are to make and the end result is fantastic.

I used some Ghostly Greetings design paper for the body of my bag.  The box base is made from basic black cardstock.  I added a scalloped edge border around the base of the bag and a basic black tab closurer on the top.  Striped pumpkin pie ribbon was tied through the cropadile punched holes in the tabs to close my bag.

The layered bat image was created from various circle punches.  I stamped the bat image from the Batty for You set in basic black ink on whisper white cardstock.  I punched the image out with the 1" circle punch.  I stamped the same image on pumpkin pie cardstock and punched it out using the 1 1/4" circle punch.  I pulled basic black ink off the edges of this larger circle and then matted both of the circles on a large basic black scalloped circle.   This layered image was attached to the front of my box bag with dimensionals.

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Stamps: Batty for You

Ink: Basic black

CS: Basic black, whisper white, pumpkin pie, ghostly greetings dp

Accessories: 1" and 1 1/4" circle punches, scallop edge punch, scallop circle punch, cropadile, sticky strip, tab punch, striped pumpkin pie ribbon, dimensionals

Peaceful Angel

I'm feeling a bit under the weather but I really wanted to do the SCS challenge today.  For today's Ways to Use It challenge we were only to use a one word sentiment on our cards.  I bought the Holy Triptych set this month and I have been really wanting to use it.  I paired it with a stamp from the All Holidays set and just used a marker to capture the "Peace" sentiment on my card.

I embossed the angel figure from the Holy Triptych set on vellum cardstock with black embossing powder and then created a stained glass effect by coloring the back of the image with SU! makers.  I added star dust stickles on the front of the image, to the angel's wings to make them really sparkly.  I really love the effect it adds.  Once the stickles dried I used black brads to attach the vellum mat the larger whisper white, pretty in pink and basic black mats.

I created a stamped background on the large pretty in pink mat by stamping the flourish image from the Baroque Motifs set in pretty in pink ink.  I used a basic black marker to color in the "Peace" sentiment from the "Peace, Love, Joy" image from the All Holidays set.  I placed this image in the lower right corner of my pretty in pink mat.

I adhered strips of whisper white, pretty in pink and basic black together and added some pierced elements along the left side of these mats.  I adhere this strip of cardstock to the left side of the large pretty in pink mat and then tied pieces of 7/8 black grosgrain and pretty in pink taffeta ribbon around it.  I used dimensionals to pop this mat off the basic black card.  Dimensionals were also used to pop the matted angel image off the cardfront.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thursday!  Thanks for checking out my blog.

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Stamps: Holy Triptych, All Holidays, Baroque Motifs

Ink: Versamark, basic black, pretty in pink

CS: Whisper white, basic black, pretty in pink

Accessories: Heat tool, black embossing powder, crafter's tool kit, 7/8 black organdy ribbon, pretty in pink taffeta ribbon, dimensionals, vintage brads, star dust stickles, markers - pretty in pink, basic black, close to cocoa

Beautiful Blooms for You

Today's SCS color challenge was to use kiwi kiss, pink pirouette, and choclate chip in our cards.  I haven't used any of my new pink pirouette dp so I wanted to incorporate it into my design.  I used the tools from the crafter's tool kit to pierce a design in each corner of the the pink pirouette dp.  I tied a piece of chocolate chip taffeta ribbon around it and popped it off the chocolate chip cardbase using dimensionals. 

I stamped the image in basic black ink and watercolored it with kiwi kiss and pink pirouette.  I adhered the stamped whisper white mat to the pink piruouette mat and then to the chocolate chip mat.  I used the paper piercer, the foam mat and the template to pierce a design in the upper left corner and the lower right corner.  I stamped the "for you" senitment in basic black ink the lower left corner of the whisper white mat.  I punched two 1/8" circles to facilitate the ribbon placement.  I used dimensionals to pop this mat off the dp.

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Stamps: Bloomin' Beautiful, All Holidays

Ink:  Basic black, pink pirouette, kiwi kiss

CS:  Whisper white, pink pirouette, chocolate chip,  pink pirouette dp

Accessories: Crafter's tool kit, dimensionals, chocolate chip taffeta ribbon, 1/8" circle punch 

Halloween Batty For You Card

Erin (ink-e) was the featured stamper for today's challenge on SCS.   She has a gallery full of great cards but I decided to CASE and modify her Triple Blintz card. 

I rarely make these longer, skinny cards so I decided I had to utilize the same card fold.  I kept the layout the same but changed everything else.  I used a different stamp set, changed the colors, the dp and the color of grosgrain ribbon. 

The bat image from the "Batty for You" set was stamped with basic black ink on whisper white cardstock and then punched out with the 1" circle punch.  I stamped the same image on pumpkin pie cardstock and then punched it out with the 1 1/4" circle punch.  It is hard to tell from the picture but the bat and circle sentiments are popped up on dimensionals, off the scalloped black circles.

The base of my card is made out of basic black cardstock.  I added a block of whisper white cardstock to the bottom of the card and stamped the "Happy Halloween" sentiment in basic black ink in the lower right corner.  I loved the scalloped border on Erin's card and I thought it really complimented my scalloped circle medallions.  I adhered the medallions on a piece of ghostly greetings dp.  I tied a piece of basic black grosgrain ribbon around lower portion of my card.  

I think the twins will probably want to give this card to their teacher on Halloween.  I am going to let them write on the inside of the card with a white gel pen.    

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Stamps: Batty for You, All Holidays

Ink: Basic black

CS: Basic black, whisper white, pumpkin pie, ghostly greetings dp

Accessories: Scallop circle punch, 1" and 1 1/4" circle punches, scallope edge punch, dimensionals, basic black grosgrain ribbon 

A Simple Tangerine Thanks

Stef had some beautiful works of art by Joom to get our creativity flowing for the inspiration challenge today.  I choose this pillow for my inspiration.  I decided to use my Upsy Daisy set because it is such a beautiful flower image.  I added the element of faux embossing to the image because I wanted to create a 3-D effect for my flowers.  Luckily I didn't even have to use my stamp-a-mi-jig to create the effect.  That certainly isn't related to skill, it was just good luck! LOL

My layered mat was created with the Big Shot and the Top Note BigZ die.  I am so happy I ordered this die after seeing all the wonderful things that other stampers were creating with it.  I added a tangerine tango grosgrain ribbon accent to the mat and used dimensional to pop this mat off my large piece of whisper white cardstock.  I stamped the "Thank You..." sentiment from the Upsy Daisy set in tangerine tango ink in the lower right corner of the large mat and ticket corner punched each corner.  I adhered this mat to the tangerine tango cardbase with dimensionals and added white gel-a-tin dots to each corner of my card.

Thanks for checking out my blog and have a great weekend!

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Stamps: Upsy Daisy

Ink: Tangerine tango

CS: Whisper white, tangerine tango

Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note BigZ die, ticket corner punch, tangerine tango grosgrain ribbon, gel-a-tins, dimensionals

  

Blast Off Birthday Wishes

I really love the fold that Lynn challenged us to use on SCS today.  It is called a stair step fold and it was such a fun fold to design a card around.  You can find the instructions for this card fold here.

The base of my card is going grey cardstock.  I really wish SU! hadn't retired this cardstock.  I love working with it.  I dry embossed it with the Big Shot and the cuttlebug spots/dots embossing folder to create a moon-like landscape.

I stamped the images from Lizzie Ann Designs - Out of this World set in Palette noir ink.  I colored each image with copic markers and then cut them out.  I attached them to the various peaks of my step fold card.  I added a layered punched star image behind the landed space ship on the last peak and I adhered three small punched stars to the front fold of my card.

Thanks for having a peek at my blog and I hope you all had a wonderful, safe Thanksgiving.

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Stamps: Out of this World - Lizzie Anne Designs

CS: Whisper white, going grey, summer sun

Ink: Palette noir, copic markers

Accessories: Large and small star punches, Big shot, Cuttlebug spots/dots ef, bone folder, fiskars cutter

Snowbursting Monogram S

Monograms are something that I rarely utilize when I am making a card so this was a great challenge for me. 

Since we have had such rainy, cold fall weather lately I felt like making a snow inspired card today.  I traced a stamped monogram S on baja breeze cardstock and cut it out.  I stamped various snowflakes from the Snow Burst stamp set in baja breeze ink randomly on the S.  I tied a piece of white tafetta ribbon around the upper part of the S and then added a layered white and baja breeze felt snowflake to the lower part of the S.  I added a sugar coated white brad to the center of the snowflakes to make them stand out more.

The small whisper white mat was embossed with the CB snowflake embossing folder.  I ticket corner punched each corner and matted it on a baja breeze mat.  I added sugar coated white brads to each corner.  I adhered these two mats to a larger whisper white mat and then used dimensionals to attach them to the baja breeze cardfront.

This was a pretty simple card to make but I loved the way it turned out.  This was the first time I have worked with the little felt flurries and I will definitely be using them again.  They are a great embellishment for snow themed cards.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and have a great Thursday!

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Stamps: Snow Bursts, Monogram S

Ink: Baja breeze

CS: Whisper white, baja breeze

Accessories: Big Shot, CB snowflake ef, doodlebug sugar coated brads, white tafetta ribbon, dimensionals, ticket corner punch

The Colors of an Autumn Harvest

Today's color challenge was to use chocolate chip, tangerine tango and kiwi kiss in your card.  These colors remind me of fall so I used them to color in my Harvest Home image.  I just love this image - so many possibilities to add depth with shading.  I used varying strength of the three colors to achieve the colors and shading that I wanted throughout this image.  I found inspiration for my card from this card by Denise Marzec (peanutbee on SCS).

The card definitely needed some kind of embellishment so I decided to add the faux stitching technique.  I don't utilize this technique enough but it sure can add the perfect touch to a card. 

I wanted to add some kind of patterned dp to my card so I pulled out the Hawaii papaya dp because that is the only tangerine tango colored dp that I own right now.  I added some faux stitching accents to this layer as well.

The autumn sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's First Fruit's set.  I stamped the image in chocolate chip ink and then punched it out using the small oval punch.  I adhered this to a larger chocolate chip mat and then added some chocolate chip twill ribbon.  

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Stamps: Harvest Home - SU!, First Fruits - PTI

CS: Chocolate chip, tangerine tango, whisper white, hawaii papaya dp

Ink: Basic black, chocolate chip, tangerine tango, kiwi kiss

Accessories: Small and large oval punches, crafter's tool kit, ruler, chocolate chip marker, dimensionals, chocolate chip poly twill ribbon