raiding the scrap basket

Hi friends.  Robyn posted a challenge on the OWSE facebook group that we should make a project using stuff on our desk.  Since I usually create on the kitchen table, I have to clear it off so we have a place to eat.  So I just dug in my scrap basket for stuff to use on my card. 

The background was already stamped and the leaf was die cut.  Using some scraps, I punched some tags for accents and stamped the leaf with a newspaper background.  I did a lot of sponging on all the edges and then added the sentiment and faux brads.  All stamps are Hero Arts. 

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you are a blessing

Hi friends.  Friday is the day for mixability challenges on SCS -- or mixed media.  I have intentions to do them all, but have not been very faithful.  Today's challenge was no paper.  In other words, your card base could be paper, but all other layers had to be something other than paper. 

I started with a piece of tan canvas, on which I put two coats of gesso.  I didn't want to  completely cover it, just enough to get a lighter background to work with. 

Then I got out one of my handmade stencils and used distress paints to make the flower.  I then sprayed some brown and blue spray paint (which also was DIY). 

I stamped the sentiment (alias smith & rowe) and the butterfly (hero arts) with jet black archival ink.  There were a couple of spots that didn't stamp well on the canvas, so I just used a pigma marker to fill in any missed lines.  Then I used a copic marker to color the butterfly.  I was really careful with that, because it was picking up some of the black ink, and I didn't want it to be all muddy.

I inked the edges with vintage photo distress ink. 

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play in the puddles

Hi friends.  I made a super fast card today for the OWSE challenge on facebook, which is to do a project that is weather related. 

I looked through some of my paper stash and came upon this wonderful piece with raindrops and umbrellas.  Perfect.  I simply layered a piece on a white card base, added a sentiment (darcie's) stamped on white card stock and added some faux stitching. 

It took me longer to find the stamp than to put the card together. 

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hope you can cling to day 31

Hi friends.  So here I am with the cards for the last day of challenges for breast cancer awareness on SCS.  There were three new challenges given. 

Challenge thirty-four - I *heart* you.  A heart shaped card or a card that contains hearts. 

I really wanted to make a triple heart easel card, but after about three tries, I gave up and made a simple heart shaped card.  I'm pretty sure that I can make the easel card, but I didn't want to spend any more time on it today.  

I die cut the largest scallop heart (spellbinders) on the fold for the card base.  Then I cut another heart to put on the front, as well as a slightly smaller one from some basic grey designer paper.  

I stamped the butterfly (SU papillon potpourri) on white and pink with black ink and then punched them out with the matching punch.  The sentiment (hero arts) was punched out with a heart punch.   

Challenge thirty-five - group hug.  A card that is simple in nature, but reflects a message from or to a group of people, and allows the patient to send or receive a Group Hug.

I used poppy field (rubbernecker) and stamped with bermuda bay and jet black stazon on white card stock.  The sentiment is hero arts.  I added a layer of bermuda bay card stock and used a white card base.  

For a little added interest, I glued on some narrow strips of bermuda bay card stock and some 1/8" punched circles.  

Challenge thirty-six - I can't believe it's over.  A black and white card, with just a pop of one of the colors listed below - indicating your "team."   These are somehow based on the show Breaking Bad, but since I don't watch tv, I have only a very vague idea of what the show was about. 

1) Green (Team Walt)
2) Purple (Team Marie)
3) Brown (Team Hank)
4) Pink (Team Holly)
5) Blue - (Team Skyler)
6) Yellow - (Team Jesse)

Since blue is my favorite color, that is the one I chose. 

I stamped the bluebonnet from stately flowers I (gina k designs) in tuxedo black memento, and die cut it with labels collection (SU/sizzix).  I also stamped just a partial image to use for the spotlighting technique.  I punched out a circle from the partial image and colored it with copic markers.  The I added a slightly larger circle in black and glued the colored image where it belonged on the black and white image.  I used a black marker to edge the die cut piece and then added faux piercing all around the edge. 

The background is a penny black stamp called circles and lines, which I stamped in black and then layered with black onto the white card base.  

Thanks so much for joining me this month. 

hope you can cling to day 30

Hi friends.  Today was the last day of the challenges for breast cancer awareness on SCS.  The card for yesterday's challenge just wasn't coming together, so I didn't get that one done until today.  And then, there were three new ones today.  I'm going to put those in another post. 

Challenge thirty-three -sparkling season.  A holiday card with glitter on it, and maybe pink.  

I decided to use the Tim Holtz tattered poinsettia die and elegant flourishes die.  I used all white card stock.  After die cutting a couple sets of the flowers, I pulled out my very old SU pigment inks.  Then I edged the flowers with tea dye distress ink.  I then lightly pressed the small and medium flowers onto the pretty in pink ink pad and then into irridescent ice embossing powder and heated them, so they were shimmery pink.  

The largest flower and the flourish were pressed onto both mellow moss and green galore ink, then embossing powder and heated.  I like the blotchy look on those.  I glued them all onto the card.  For the flower center, I edged it with tea dye ink and then added several layers of card stock behind it to pop it up a bit.  I put glue on the flower center and then added dazzling diamonds glitter.  

The sentiment from cardinal Christmas (SU) is stamped in black ink.  

Thank you so much for stopping by today.  

hope you can cling to day 29

Hi friends.  October is almost over and that means there are only a couple more challenges for breast cancer awareness on SCS.  Here is the card I did today. 

Challenge thirty-two - subway art with heart.  A card with text that resembles subway art.

I wasn't sure what I was going to use for this challenge.  I wasn't sure I had any appropriate stamps, but after some searching, I remembered that natural beauty - one of my all time favorite SU sets - had the perfect stamp.  I stamped it on white with black archival ink and die cut it with a postage stamp die (spellbinders).  I've had this die for months and this is the first time I've used it.  Then I sponged the edges with ballet blue ink.  Blue, black, and white has always been one of my favorite color combinations, and it didn't fail me here.  I love how the black makes the words stand out. 

I stamped the French filigree background (SU) in bashful blue on the white card base.  Then I attached the piece of black and the main image on the black. 

I stamped flowers from the same stamp set on white with tuxedo black memento ink and colored them with copic markers.  I added some white gel pen highlights in the flower centers.  After positioning the flowers on the card, I added three punched black dots as faux brads. 

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

hope you can cling to day 28

Hi friends.  Here is one more card for the breast cancer awareness challenges on SCS.

Challenge thirty-one - I clearly care.  A card that has something clear on it (acetate, plastic, glaze, etc.) as well as some pink.

I decided to make an acetate window framed with spirelli.  I die cut a circle in white card stock and used a plastic canvas circle as a guide for piercing the holes around the circle.  Then I stitched the spirelli.  Although this technique looks complicared, it really isn't.  It only takes about 10 minutes to complete the circle.  I like to use black thread, because it looks so delicate.  Then I attached a piece of plastic packaging to the back of the window.

I stamped the flowers (fabulous florets - SU) and the butterfly (flores suaves - SU) with jet black stazon and then sponged on color, using summer sun & melon mambo.  Then I cut them out.  I glued the flowers on the card base so they would show through the window and I attached the butterfly to the front of the card.

After adding the sentiment, I attached the card front to the card base with foam tape.  

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