Ridiculously Red

Hello All,

For today I am playing along with Crafty Gals Corner, Creative with Stamps, Watercooler Wednesday Challenge, Tuesday Throwdown and Addicted to Stamps and More. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

This red love card has lots of elements and textures. Examples of this would be glittery 'love' to the layered die-cut and the designer paper in the background.

This monochromatic card has brown as its dividing color. The scallops on the heart would be one example. The shadow from the patterned paper on the background would be another.

I layered the diecut with the outermost die being a reflective red color. I stamped the heart and heat embossed brown. The sentiment is from a scrap piece of red adhesive glitter in which I inlaid a tiny brown die-cut heart.

Challenges Entered:

Crafty Gals Corner: Challenge #204- Add a Heart!
Creative with Stamps: CWS #47: Red
Addicted to Stamps and More!: Challenge #378- Holiday
Watercooler Wednesday Challenge: WWC260- All About Occasions
Tuesday Throwdown: #451- Use Your Favorite Color


  

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. I hope you all have a fantastic day and lots of good crafting vibes headed your way.

All the best,

Scarf

Hello Crafters,

Ok so for today I am playing along with The Time Out Challenge and Creative with Stamps. I had to really think of a creative way to create a card that centers on the scarf. Well, today while at the dentist, I figured it out! I thought I would take a portion of the scarf and zoom in on the item. So that is what you will see today, enjoy!

So here it is, my version of a scarf, close up! It is the end of the scarf. It features fringes, binding, and a button. The cloth then folds on the top of the card.

Coming from the Eastcoast and now Midwest of the U.S. I can attest that I have at least six plaid scarves in my wardrobe. I actually have one that is red plaid in my stash. 

Firstly, I started with a white sentiment that visually shot off the card. I then thought kraft paper would be perfect for this design. The little fringes were done using a pair of fringe scissors. A tool I don't use often, but when I need fringe for grass or fringe of any kind this is the go-to tool!

Here is a link to what I used.

Challenges Entered:

Time Out Challenges: Challenge #153- Wardrobe

Creative with Stamps: Challenge #46- Scarf

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. I hope you all have a fantastic day and lots of good crafting vibes headed your way.

All the best,

Plaid Trees

Hello All,

For today I am entering challenges from Creative with Stamps and Addicted to Stamps and More, Challenge Up your Life, and Merry Little Christmas Challenge. I said it before and I'll say it again; Christmas is just a heartbeat away, so I better get into high gear. Here is my card for today. Enjoy!

A clean fast card is always refreshing to see.
I chose the sentiment because the check pattern reminds me of soft, cozy, and warm fleece.

I think I am going to mass produce these for this year's Christmas card.

I diecut this pattern twice. Once for the check pattern and once for an exact fit from the black frame. I wanted to save the positive image from the black but I know it will sit on my table till Easter.

Challenges Entered:
Creative with Stamps: Challenge #43- Tree
Addicted to Stamps and More!: Challenge #364- CAS
Merry Little Christmas Challenge: MLCCB #14
Challenge Up Your Life: Challenge #116- Frame

   

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. I hope you all have a fantastic day and lots of good crafting vibes headed your way.

 

Conversation Hearts

Hello Everyone,

For today I will be playing along with a host of blogs. It seems that love is in the air in Blogland. I will be entering INKspirational, PINspirational, Double D Challenges and Creative with Stamps. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

The conversation hearts background stamp by Peddlers Pack is just adorable.
Coloring the hearts was so fun. It got tedious when I colored the background a light shade of gray.
Because as we all know, conversation hearts have red words.

The sentiment 'Let's' is from another stamp set. It says 'Let's Party', so naturally I only stamped the 'Let's' part of the sentiment on black paper and heat embossed in white.

I have sequin hearts in my stash and thought I would never use them. So, I kept them just in case.
Well, here we are using sequins hearts, who would have known. I also added iridescent sequins for a bit of variety.

 Challenges Entered:
Double D Challenges: Month of Hearts
Inkspirational: Challenge #180- Text
PINspirational: Challenge #232
Creative with Stamps: Challenge #35- Love

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. I hope you all have a fantastic day and lots of good crafting vibes headed your way.

Mittens

Hello there fellow Crafters,

For tonight I am playing along with Creative with Stamps. I am not a fan of getting a EUREKA moment one hour before the challenge closes, but here I am again; last-minute Joe! Anyway, here is my card for your visual enjoyment.

The mitten was hand drawn on heavy cardstock then traced on the patterned paper.
After the mittens were cut out I stamped the sentiments horizontally to match the direction of the paper.

I do enjoy the black background of the card. It allows the colors of the mittens to pop! 

I am probably dating myself, but I remember my mittens being attached to each other by a not so strong braided yarn. You then wrapped the braid around your coat from the inside and your mitten stuck out of the armholes of the coat. The mittens were then attached by a not so strong braided yarn. This kept you from losing your mittens. Oh, those were the days.

Challenges Entered:

Creative with Stamps: #34- Mittens

Thank you so much for stopping by and do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. I hope you all have a fantastic day and lots of good crafting vibes headed your way.

Stacks of Leaves

Hello Y'all,

For today I will be playing along with Fusion and Creative with Stamps. Fall is in the air and fall is what I am celebrating. Here is my card for today; enjoy!

Outline of the leaves was done using two materials. One is Yupo paper and alcohol inks. I was testing some colors and thought these would create a nice texture. (Reference bottom leaf). Second, some of the die cuts were cut out of metallic sheen gold paper. Very fall, very festive.

The sentiment was heat embossed using gold metallic powder.
I stamped the perfect Autumn sentiment on the exact paper as the card base.

A detailed picture of the gold sheen on all the leaves. Notice not all the leaves have the color behind the outline. The leaves that were created using the Yupo paper were left with the outline. They were beautiful just the way they stood.

Challenges Entered:

Fusion: Pastel Halloween- I used just the sketch.

Creative with Stamps: Challenge #31- Halloween or Leaves- I used the leaves

Okay, that should do it for me!! Thank you so much for stopping by and do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. I hope you all have a fantastic day and lots of good crafting vibes headed your way.

Pumpkin Flowers

Hello Y'all,

The twenty-third of this month marks the first day of fall! And I must say, Blogland in Cardland is blowing up with fall-inspired challenges. Well, I am here to say, sign me up! For today I will be playing along with Time Out Challenges, Creative with Stamps, and Freshly Made Sketches. That is a lot of challenges to pack into one card. Here we go, enjoy!

The bowl bouquet was partially stamped using Memento Espresso Ink.
I say partially because I masked off the bowl part of the bouquet (see below) and then free-handed the remaining pedals. I also added two leaves to the sides of the bouquet for balance.

Stampendous Bowl Bouquet cling mount

The pumpkin was drawn freehand and the entire image was colored using Prismacolor colored pencils. After all the coloring was finished I sponged Tattered Rose Distress Ink around the perimeter of the card. I also bumped up some of the line weights around the bouquet to coordinate with the pumpkin. The pumpkin needed some grounding so I scribbled in a shadow.

I am in love with fall colors!
I worked to make the shadows realistic. Not too bad considering I'm a novice.
They make me smile and I am sure the recipient will feel the same way. 

Out of all the design choices finding a sentiment and its correct placement was the most challenging. After tearing through practically all my word dies I settled on 'Hello Friend'. I die cut dark brown CS three times and stacked them together for a bit of lift.

Challenges Entered:
Freshly Made Sketches: FM559
Creative with Stamps: Challenge #30- Pumpkins
Time Out Challenges: Challenge #118



Well, that should do it for me!! Thank you so much for stopping by and do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. I hope you all have a fantastic day and lots of good crafting vibes headed your way.