Joy in the Journey

Welcome to the new challenge from the team at Tic Tac Toe.  This week I chose Stitching - Die-cut - Summer to come up with this card.

The bicycle elements were stamped, Copic-coloured and die-cut before being assembled.  The background was die-cut from both cardstock and patterned paper.  I found a sentiment from another stamp set that worked well so stamped that in the top panel.

The Summer Splash die-cut is popped up on foam tape as is the bicycle.  I finished with some white enamel dots.

Thanks for visiting.  The DT have some gorgeous creations so please check them out.

Products used:

Stamps:  Beautiful Ride (SSS), Spectacular Adventures (Altenew)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K), Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  White, Summer Splash (MFT), X-Press It, Watercolor Wash (MFT)

Dies:  Beautiful Ride (SSS), Stitched Cover-Up Horizontal (MFT)

Accessories:  Copics, White Enamel Dots

Letterpress Hello

 

Hi and welcome to another challenge from the team at Freshly Made Sketches where our hostess this week is Judy Rozema.  Judy has a wonderful CAS sketch for us that asks for a lot of white space.  Here's what I did with the sketch:

I jumped on the Betterpress bandwagon as soon as they were available in New Zealand but hadn't really done too much with it.  I decided that big open area on the top of the sketch was perfect for this big hello so I put that through the Betterpress system using the pebble paper.  I then die-cut the panel with a curved die, which in hindsight wasn't a great idea because it flattened the letterpress effect somewhat.  I added a strip of Blueberry cardstock under the curve to match the colour of the butterflies.

The butterflies were already pressed onto porcelain paper from an earlier play, so I grabbed a couple of Prismacolor pencils and quickly coloured them up before die-cutting them.  And that's it!

Thanks so much for visiting.  The DT have some great inspiration so please check them out.

Products used:

Ink:  Betterpress Black (Spellbinders)

Cardstock:  White, Blueberry (MFT), Pebble Betterpress Paper, Porcelain Betterpress Paper (Spellbinders)

Dies:  Butterfly Swirl, Hello Betterpress plates (Spellbinders), Stitched Basic Edges (MFT)

Accessories:  Prismacolor pencils

Cheers

Karren

Hippo Birthday

 Hi!  For the first time in what seems like forever, I had time to make a card just for the fun of it and to enter in a few challenges!  I started with the sketch from MFT, then chose the colours based on the Color Throwdown challenge.  From there, I went with the CAS challenge at Krafty Chicks.

Because it was a MFT sketch, I went through my MFT stamps and found this NBUS set so I decided on the hippos because I could use gray for the CTD challenge.  After colouring the image I cut it out and then made a Polaroid frame using a square and rectangle die.  

I stamped the sentiment and adhered it all together, using foam tape to adhere it to a Fog cardbase.

As per the sketch I found some little clay hearts and coloured one of the white ones with a Copic marker and then adhered them all with liquid glue.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Products used:

Stamps:  Picture Perfect Party Animals (MFT)

Ink:  Amalgam (Gina K), Versafine Onyx Black

Cardstock:  White, Fog (SSS), X-Press It

Dies:  Pierced Square Stax, A2 Rectangle Stax (MFT)

Accessories:  Copics, Happy Hearts Shaker Mix (Paper Rose)

Cheers

Karren

Edited to Add:  This card got a shoutout at Krafty Chicks.

Christmas Wishes

  Hi all!  I'm here with my card for the lastest challenge at Freshly Made Sketches where our hostess this week is