Daily Archives: February 2, 2014

February 2, 2014

OWH Sketch #210: Lucky Stars

By Yvonne

Stamps – from Hero Arts “Year Round Sentiments”
Patterned papers – Echo Park “Happy Camper” and “Call of the Wild” and Pebbles “Lakeside: Canoe”

This is another entry in the CardBowl challenges at Operation Write Home (OWH) Stars and Stamps this weekend. This card was based on OWH Sketch #210 and has kind of a star theme. I used constellation paper and stamped stars from the Hero Arts OWH set from a couple of years ago. It also follows an outdoor theme, so it fits well with the challenge at Shopping Our Stash Cabin Fever Challenge #136 for an outdoors-y card. I dug around in my patterned papers for this one! Thanks for visiting.

1 Comment | tags: clean and simple stamping, echo park, Hero Arts, stamping | posted in Challenges, OWH, Shopping Our Stash

February 2, 2014

OWH – Our Daily Bread February Challenge

By Yvonne

Stamp – Hero Arts “A Very Special Birthday”
Die – Spellbinders Nestabilities “Deckled Rectangles Large”
Patterned papers – Canvas Corp. “Chocolate & Kraft Diamonds” and “Chocolate and Kraft Mini Dot”
Cardstock – Bazzill

This is an Operation Write Home card for the Our Daily Bread February Challenge. The challenge was to make a masculine card featuring the color brown. This is a very clean and simple card with some distress ink on the sentiment. Thanks for visiting.

1 Comment | tags: die cuts, Hero Arts, spellbinders | posted in Birthday, Challenges, Distress Techniques, OWH

February 2, 2014

Butterflies with Dimensional Stenciled Background

By Yvonne

Stencil – Memory Box “Cressida”
Die Cuts – made from Memory Box dies: Darla Butterfly, Vivienne Butterfly, Moonlight Butterfly, Kaleidoscope Butterfly, Valerian Flourish
Bling – KaiserCraft and Mark Richards
Sentiment – Stamp by My Favorite Things “Pretty Poppies” set and die cut from Spellbinders Nestabilities from the Blossom Tag and Accents set
Golden Modeling Paste
Ranger Alcohol Ink – Sail Boat Blue
Faber Castell Gelatos
Cardstock – Bazzill

This was a fun card with lots of different media at work. I started out making the background with inspiration from the latest Online Card Classes class: Stenciled. I mixed a few drops of alcohol ink with some modeling paste to make a nice light blue. I then smeared it through my new (gorgeous) stencil from Memory Box. For the butterflies, I scribbled some Gelatos in blue and green on some watercolor paper and spritzed the color with some water to blend the colors together. Once the Gelatos had dried, I die cut the butterflies and the accompanying detailed butterflies from solid cardstock and glued them together. I added the flourish die cuts to the background and then placed the butterflies and the sentiment on top and applied rhinestones to the flourishes and heads of the butterflies. Lots of texture on this card! Thanks for visiting.

1 Comment | tags: alcohol inks, butterflies, die cuts, memory box, Ranger, stamping, stencils | posted in Miss You, Online Card Classes

February 2, 2014

Stenciled Fern – Seahawks colors!

By Yvonne

Stencil – The Crafter’s Workshop “Mini Ferns”
Stamp – Simon Says Stamp “Square Sayings”
Patterned paper – Echo Park “For the Record 2”
Ranger Dylusions Ink Sprays – Fresh Lime, Vibrant Turquoise and London Blue
Golden Molding Paste
Cardstock – Bazzill

I made this card based on a lesson from the Online Card Classes Stenciled class. I tried my hand at using molding paste with a stencil. My variation was to mist the cardstock with ink sprays prior to adding the molding paste and it actually incorporated some of the color into the stenciled image. Kind of a happy accident! I’ve included a close-up here to try to show it in a little more detail.

My color scheme reflects the colors of the Seattle Seahawks, who will soon be playing in the Super Bowl. The Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps CardBowl is this weekend, and one of the challenges is to use something that reflects one of the teams playing in your card design. Living in the northwest, it seemed only appropriate to select the Seattle team, so I picked the team colors! Thanks for stopping by today.