Celebrate Paper Piecing!

I recently just found some of the color challenges out there and I am loving them.  I am finding new combinations of colors, that I wouldn't normally think to put together.  Just like this weeks Color Q challenge:

 I love how those colors look together.  I took those colors and this weeks sketch at CPS - 

 

To make this card -

I used Balloon Kaylee from Some Odd Girl for their paper peicing challenge.  Here's a close up of the paper peicing of her clothes.  This is one of SOG's digital images so I printed the image on the different papers for peicing.  I also printed it on a sheet of glossy paper for the balloons (it's hard to tell in the picture, but there's a little shine to the balloons.when you see the actual card).  I colored her skin, eyes, and hair with Copics.

I finished it off with some SU! brads to match the card base, some thread for the balloons (the thread is actually from my last purchase from Lawn Fawn - their stamps come neatly tied together with this blue thread that matched perfectly for this card!), rounded the cornders, and embossed a Paper Smooches sentiment along the bottom.

--Angie

SUPPLIES -
Stamps: Some Odd Girl - Balloon Kaylee
             Paper Smooches - Sentiments Sampler
Ink - Versamark; SU! Old Olive
Paper - SU! Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie Designer Pattern Paper;
            SU! Island Indigo; the yellow patter is from Studio Calico
Other - White Embossing Powder; SU! Island Indigo Designer Brads; Copics; thread, corner rounder

Different Looks with Same Concept

I'm playing along with a few challenges today and decided to keep the layout and basic idea the same but change the colors up.

Using the sketch from CPS as my layout and the colors from two color challenges, I came up with -

I started with the ColorQ colors - I like how the bright colors look against the black tickets - 

Then I changed the colors to match those of the Color Throwdown and ended up with this more masculine looking version - 

Since I didn't frame the front of this card with different papers, I round three of the four corners to add a little interest.

And here are the challenges I played along with - 

CPS #230

Color Throwdown #154

 

--Angie

SUPPLIES

Stamps - Stampin' Up! Triple treat Flower; Lawn Fawn Sophie's Sentiments

Ink - all from Stampin' Up! - Pool Party, Old Olive, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Pink Passion

Other - White embossing powder, 5 Petal Flower Punch (by SU!), Flower Punch (by SU!), Ticket Punch from EK Success

Amazing Butterfly

I'm still playing with some of my new toys from the Valley Forge CK Scrapbooking Convention. While there, I found a new stamp company that I love - The Stamps of Life. They've been around for a couple of years now, but this was the first that I had heard of them, so of course I bought a few of their sets AND became a club member (who doesn't want a set of stamps delivered to their home monthly??).  My first set came this past week, so I put it to good use with another set that I had already bought - 

The butterfly, its flight trail, and the sentiment are from the butterfly2build set.  

The flowers, stems and leaves are just a sampling from the branches4flowers set.  

I love the style of the butterfly and wanted to color it in with a little glitter to make it "amazing" like the sentiment says, so I stamped it on some acetate with StazOn and filled it in on the back side with different colors of glitter... I love how sparkly it turned out!

Since I ended up using a myriad of colors on it, I decided to enter it in the Wee Memories Dare to Color Challenge - 

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

Paper - Pool Party by Stampin' Up!

Ink - Island Indigo, Wisteria Wonder, Lucky Limeade, Calypso Coral, Basic Black all by Stampin' Up!; Black StazOn

Glitter - from PK Glitz

Stamps - Buttersflies2Build and Branches4Flowers from The {Stamps} of Life
Other - Yellow and Purple Stickles, White Enamel Accents, Acetate Sheet

Coloring with my new Copics

While I was at the Creating Keepsakes Convention in Valley Forge last week, I bought a few more Copics and today, I finally got around to playing with them!  I was inspired by the latest Color Throwdown Challenge:

I love the color combination and it just so happens that some of my new Copics fall in those color ranges, so I HAD to play along.  Here's the card I came up with:

After coloring the image with my Copics, I cut her out, glittered her ipod, and added white enamel accents to her belt and shoes. 

While the glitter and enamel accents dried, I stamped the main card base and the white squares with a background stamp from Stampin' Up! (it's a retired stamp, but I love the texture it adds).  I used the Tonic distress tool to distress the edges of all of the squares and the main card base.  Then inked all of the edges.

Finally, I put all of the squares on dimensional adhesive, then put Dancing Mae over the squares.  I finished it off with a hand written Gracias in some white gel ink on a scrap of Crumb Cake then punched it out with the word label punch and added it to the card with two white brads.

This card will be playing along in the following challenges:

1. Color Throwdown #153

2. iCopic Weekly Challenge #41 - Skin Tones

3. Wee Memories #63 - Dare to Color

4. Some Odd Girl Thank You Challenge

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

Images - Dancing Mae digital image from Some Odd Girl

             Sanded Background Stamp by Stampin' Up!

Ink - Crumb Cake Classic Stamp Pad from Stampin' Up!

Paper - Crumb Cake and Whisper White card stock from Stampin' Up!

Copics - Hair:E29, E35, E37; Skin: E35, E50, E51; Clothes: BG0000, BG 49, BG72, G82, G94

Other - White Enamel Accents, Glitter, Brads, 1" square punch, word label punch

Hey There...

I'm not sure why, but I've been itching to make an easel card.  And since I wanted to use my Paper Smooches Chubby Chums set I thought I'd use one of their color schemes and enter it the:

I decided to try the color combo in the third column:

white, sunshine, baby pink, grey

Once I had my colors decided on, I figured I would use CPS sketch #227 for the layout:

The card is 4" by 4".  For the front, I used some Stampin' Up! Designer Patterned Paper.  I cut the Spellbinders Labels Five die using some scraps of pink and gray that I had laying around.















The "hey there" is from Paper Smooches Sampler Sentiment.  I drew the speech bubble using a Memento Tuxedo Black Marker.  The cats are colored in using some of my Copics - Y38, YR16, W3, R32, and 100.  I put a few dabs of Glossy Accents on their eyes.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the "Let's Play" sentiment from Chubby Chums and repeated the paw print from the same set up the side of the card.  I drew in the two little mice.  Then made a little ball of yarn out of some Blossom twine from the Twinery.

So when is all is said and done, I got my easel card while getting play with twine and Chubby Chums... what a great Friday!!

CAS Many Thanks

Today is my last day off before heading back to work.  It was nice having a little vacation to play in my craft space.  I just have a quick card today, nothing too fancy, to go along with Wee Memories CAS challenge...

I found a stash of circle cards that I must have bought from AC Moore or Michael's at some point and knew I wanted to use one of them.  The stamps are from Lawn Fawn.  I've ordered a few things from them and each time there's a little extra thank you stamp in with my purchase.  

I used Stampin' Up!'s Rich Razzleberry ink for the "Many Thanks" and added a strip of Rich Razzleberry Paper that I punched using the Large Lace Ribbon Border Punch.  Over the center of the punch, I added a piece of Rich Razzleberry Ribbon.  I love purple and this is one of my favorite shades!

To finish it off I added three rhinestones along the edge.  

One for Mom

I had off work today.  The end of a long week - working both last weekend and the holiday -  and the start of what I hope to be a long vacation (why do the days fly by so fast when I'm not at work??).  I got an email from my mom today who asked why there was no blog entry today since I was home ALL day.  So after doing some laundry, grocery shopping, and just plain crashing on the couch, I finally made it to my craft space and thought I'd do one just for my mom today :-)

I decided to use one of my new Gorjuss stamps - My Own Universe and follow some guidlines set up by three challenges the card will be entered in:

1. Lawnscaping Challenge #13 - Don't forget the inside
2. iCopic Challenge #37 - Red, white, and blue
3. CPS #225 sketch
          

Here's the final product - 

 I started by coloring using Copic markers:

Ciao markers used were 0, YR00, and E37

I filled her crown in with Liquid Pearls and added some Diamond Stickles to the stars.  I rounded the corners of all of my papers.  I layered the image on a piece of Stampin' Up! Real Red Designer Pattern Paper and layered that onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock that I distressed with the Tim Holtz/Tonic Paper Distresser.  I wrapped a piece of Maraschino baker's twine from the Twinery around that piece before added the piece with the image on dimensionals.  That was all layered on two pieces of Tempting Turquoise Designer Pattern Paper, which were adhered to the Real Red card base.

Unforgotten Inside

 For the inside of the card, I stamped the image off the bottom right corner of the white card stock in Real Red, then layered it on the same papers I used for the card front.  It keeps the inside flat and simple enough that when a sentiment gets added, it won't get lost.

Stampin' Up! to a Challenge

I recently ordered some of the new Stampin' Up! supplies and they arrived last week.  Since I'm a demonstrator, I get a shot at buying some things early and I absolutely took advantage of it. It finally showed up last week and I just got around to playing with it all today. To get even more inspired then I already was by the new In Colors for 2011-2013, I pulled up the sketch from CPS #224:

I started by stamping Delicate Doilies on a piece of Whisper White card stock in three of the the new In Colors - Calypso Coral, Pool Party, and Wisteria Wonder.  I punched out the Lace Ribbon Border from a piece of the Pool Party card stock.  I stamped the sentiment in Pool Party, inked the edges slightly and adhered that to a solid piece of the Pool Party.  I cut a 3/4" strip out of the bottom of my doily created background to place the punched lace ribbon over the card background.  I round the corners of all of the pieces, then I adhered all of the layers to a card made from Calypso Coral card stock.  To finish it off, I added three rhinestones.  Here it is - 

There are five In Colors total and I love how they all work together.  They're beautiful colors!  The new catalog begins on Friday and there's lots of great items.

One Card... Three Ways!!

I've been itching to make a card that is one layer, but I couldn't stop there :-)  I decided to make a one layer invitation for the Wee Memories party challenge, but make it three ways - improving it each time.  Here are my three cards:

First, I created the one layer card I've been wanting to create:

I used the sketch at CPS this week for the layout of the card.  I grabbed a piece of kraft colored card stock and masked all but the border.  I inked the border with Stampin' Up! Early Espresso Ink.  Then I masked pieces of the card to achieve the look I was going for.  All of it being stamped in the Early Espresso.  After all was stamped, I thought it was missing a little definition, so I added the white dash lines which added just a dash of color.  

After seeing the white color pop on the kraft card stock, I decided to try coloring in the images.  So I repeated the process and instead of adding the white dash lines, I pulled out the Copics and went to town coloring in the images:

This was also for the challenge over at iCopic this week - color on non-white.  I love how the colors look on the kraft background. I opted to outline it in black this time to not draw too much away from the coloring.  Seeing the lovely colors on this version of the one layer, I decided to go one step farther... 

I re-masked everything and re-stamped it all, as well as stamping on scraps of colored papers so I could paper piece some of the images.  And since it technically was no longer a one layer card, I went ahead and popped up the main image and let some of the paper piecing hang off of the edge.  I also decided to Stickle the dragonfly for just a little bit of shimmer.

In the end it was fun to challenge myself with the one layer card, but seeing the third card makes me remember why I rarely do it - It's much more fun with the different layers!

SUPPLIES - 

Lawn Fawn Stamps - Fly Free, Critters in the Forest, Sophie's Sentiments

Hero Arts Stamps - Clouds, Blooming Heart
Stampin' Up! - Woodgrain Background Stamp, Early Espresso Ink
Lavender Stickles and Liquid Pearls in Pewter (for the Dragonfly in version 3)
Copics (for version 2) - R32, R37, R59, B02, V06, V12, YR68, E29, E35, E37, 100

Brown Hair

I decided to play along with the iCopic Weekly Challenge this week.  The challenge was brown hair.  I'm new to copics, but am having so much fun using them.  Here is the card I created with brown hair.

I can see the highlights, but I can definitely use some more practice ;-)

SUPPLIES - 

Basic Gray Kioshi Paper Pack

Stampin' Up Sizzix Top Note Die

Lawn Fawn Sophie's Sentiments

C.C. Designs Swiss Pixies - Heidi Among the Flower

Lilac Twine from the Twinery

Copics - E35, E29, E37, E50, E51, YR00, R32, V12, V06, and Y38

Simple Birthday Card

The Lawnscaping Challenge this week is Clean and Simple, which is great because it meant I could do a simple card in less time than I normal spend working on projects.  I pulled out a pack of Cupcake Dazzlers by Petaloo that I bought months ago and have been dying to find a project to use them on.  This was the perfect opportunity!!  So here it is:

Cute and simple!!

SUPPLIES - 

Petaloo Cupcake Dazzlers

A Word for You Stamp Set from Stampin' Up!

Ribbon

White Embossing Powder

And since anything goes over at Wee Memories Challenge #59,  I'm submitting this card there as well.

Wee Memories #56 and Lily Pad Embossing Challenges

Today I created a card that can be used in two challenges - Wee Memories #56 and Lily Pad Cards Embossing Challenge.  I've been dying to try the dry embossed frame that I saw on Kristina Werner's Make a Card Monday video and finally had a reason to do it!!  It turned out much better than I expected.  I added some heat embossing and a Dazzles stacked rose for the final card:

SUPPLIES - 

Stacked Roses Dazzles stickers

Stampin' Up A Word for You

Glaze pens

Silver Embossing Powder

Stylus

Two Challenges! (continued)

PART TWO - 

The next card I came up with, I had my sister-in-law in mind.  Her birthday is next Monday and I wanted to make a cute card for her.  She studies crows on an island in the Pacific so I had to do something with crows.  I saw the pop-up card idea on a you tube video which I can't seem to find now (if someone knows where it is let me know so I can give credit!).

card front

card inside

SUPPLIES:

Stamps - Stampin' Up! Party Hearty and So Happy for You

Ink - Distress Inks by Ranger in Dusty Concord, Broken China, Dried Marigold, Fired Brick,

        Wild Honey, and Shabby Shutters

Other - Bakers Twine from the Twinery

           Stampin' Up! Two Step Owl Punch

           Tim Holtz's Tiny Attacher

           Glossy Accents

           Orange Glaze Pen

Two Challenges!

PART ONE -

This week I found two challenges that I couldn't wait to take part in.  The first is a paper piecing challenge over at Wee Memories and the other is a party themed challenge at Lawnscaping.

For the paper Wee Memories paper piecing challenge, I created a little snapshot of a sneaky little racoon.  The racoon, log, cupcake, and picture frame have all been paper pieced.

SUPPLIES:

Stamps - Lawn Fawn Critters in the Forest and Say Cheese

             Stamping Bella Cupcakabella

             Stampin' Up! Party Hearty

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper - Kioshi Paper Pad by Basic Grey

           Hey Birdie by Kaiser Kraft

Other - Bakers Twine from the Twinery

           Buttons

           Brads

           Diamond Stickles

           Red Stickles

           Copics 

Check out my next post for part two of "Two Challenges!"