Tag Archives: cardmaking

Crafters Digital Art Center – Birdhouse Teapot

  • Image – Crafters Digital Art Center by Happi Scrappin Doodles
  • Patterned paper – Basic Grey “Kissing Booth: Sweet Nothings”
  • Cardstock – Bazzill
  • Ribbon – American Crafts

This is a simple birthday card I put together with the digital image by Happi Scrappin’ Doodles at Crafters Digital Art Center for the Progressive Freebie Challenge. I know someone whose birthday is on Valentine’s Day, so this image is perfect for her card! Thanks for visiting.


CPS – 5th Anniversary Challenge – Day 13

  • Stamps – The Cat’s Pajamas “Raining Cats” and Studio G “With Love”
  • Patterned cardstock – BoBunny Dot-to-Dot
  • Embossing folder – Cuttlebug
  • Trim – Model Crafts
  • Punches – Marvy Uchida and Recollections
  • Rhinestones – Queen & Co.

This Valentine was made for the CPS 5th Anniversary celebration: Challenge 13. I used the sketch (Sketch 121) as a point of departure. This card has lots of polka dots and texture. Thanks for visiting today!

 

 


OWH – Sand & Sea: Blues & Tan

  • Stamps – Inkadinkado “Peony Print” and Hero Arts “Live Life” sentiment set
  • Border punch – EK Success
  • Die cut – Spellbinder’s Nestabilities “Big Scalloped Circles Large”
  • Embossing powder – JudiKins Azure Patina Rustique
  • Patterned cardstock – BoBunny
  • Cardstock – WorldWin
  • Kraft paper

This is another card for the OWH Virtual Cardmaking Party. I made this for the Sand & Sea VCMP Challenge #6. For this challenge we are to use blues and tan. I used some embossing powder for the heat-embossed sentiment that has sort of a sandy quality as well. Thanks for stopping by.


OWH – It’s a Party: Birthday Cards

  • Stamps – Stampendous “Icing Fluffles” and The Cat’s Pajamas “Take the Cake”
  • Die cuts – Spellbinder’s Nestabilities “Labels Fifteen”
  • Patterned paper – Doodlebug Designs “Colorwheel: Kite Strings”
  • Cardstock – Bazzill

Another card featuring “Fluffles.” He (or she?) is a favorite in our house! I made this for the OWH Virtual Cardmaking Party challenge #5: It’s a Party. We are challenged to make birthday cards in this one. This card would be nice for a Hero to send to any loved one, but particularly a child. Thanks for visiting.


OWH Challenge – Cut It Out!

  • Stamps – Stampendous “Birch Buddies” and Hero Arts “Everyday Sayings”
  • Die cuts – Spellbinder’s Nestabilities “Labels Two”
  • Border punch – EK Success
  • Patterned papers – American Crafts “Campy Trails” collection
  • Baker’s twine

I made this card for the OWH Virtual Carmaking Party going on right now. This is OWH VCMP Challenge #9: Cut It Out, which means we choose die cuts and punches to use in our card designs. There are a number of cute little furry creatures in this stamp set–hard to just pick two! I colored them with Copics and went on my way. Thanks for stopping by.


OWH Challenge – Hot Tropics

  • Patterned papers – Graphic 45 “Tropical Travelogue Collection: Island Jewel” (floral and green giraffe print) and “Botanica” (toucans)
  • Border punch – EK Success
  • Cardstock – Bazzill

Wow! I just saw that this is my 200th post (in less than a year)! Eeek. Time flies and apparently the cards are flying, too!

I created this card for the Virtual Cardmaking party that is going on over at OWH Stars and Stamps. This one is for the VCMP Challenge #1: Hot Tropics, for which we are to make a card using tropical colors. I kind of kept the whole theme tropical for this one. I also used the CPS Sketch that is featured for their Fifth Anniversary celebration: Day 11. This is a really fun sketch to work with and perfect for featuring this paper.  Thanks for visiting!


OWH – Nautical Masculine Card Challenge

  • Stamps – Darcie’s “Beach Bums” cling set (crab, beach sign and rope)
  • Die cuts – Made with Spellbinder’s Nestabilities “Labels Twenty Two”
  • Crystal stickers – Mark Richards “Mosaic” 5 mm white
  • Cardstock – WorldWin and Bazzill
  • Heavyweight Kraft paper (for card base)

We landlubbers are in the midst of a virtual cardmaking party (VCMP) while some of the other OWHers are on a cardmaking cruise. This challenge is one of the first of many: OWH VCMP Challenge #2: Nautical Masculine Card Challenge. I’ve had this stamp set for a while and hadn’t had an opportunity to use it! For some reason I had a thing for that crab! This card can be used for any occasion or just for a note home. Thanks for checking in!


OWH – Clean & Simple Blog Skip

  • Stamps – Memory Box “Tree Border” and Hero Arts “Everyday Sayings” clear stamps
  • Distress Inks – Ranger in the following colors: Everygreen Bough, Stormy Sky, Peeled Paint, Iced Spruce, and Broken China
  • Detail White Embossing Powder – Stampendous
  • Corner Punch – Marvy Uchida
  • Watercolor paper
  • Perfect Pearls Mist in Biscotti
  • Cardstock – Bazzill and BoBunny

Welcome to the last stop on today’s OWH Blog Skip! I hope you’ve enjoyed all of the clean and simple techniques we learned from the Online Card Classes “Clean and Simple” class. What a great class! I created this card in a techniques lesson about Watercolor Blocking. This technique works very well with Distress Inks and water or Perfect Pearls Mists. I first heat embossed the stamped images in Detail White and then watercolor blocked over with the Distress Inks on water-saturated ink blending foam pads. For more cards I created in the class, click on the thumbnails at the bottom of this post. Thanks so much for stopping by! Please leave a comment for a chance to win a bit of blog candy from me and a chance to win Online Card Classes or other prizes just for skipping today. Make sure you leave your email address when you leave your comment and I’ll draw a random winner on Monday! To return to OWH Stars and Stamps, Click here.

I must say that I’m really excited because I just received my first “thank you” email from an Air Force Major in Afghanastan–just as I was posting this! I’m so thrilled to have received a personal note. It makes what we do mean even more!

              

               


OWH – Die-cuts Challenge

  • Die cuts – Made from Memory Box “Valerian Flourish” and “Sofia Heart” steel craft dies
  • Stamp – Hero Arts “Live Life” clear set
  • Patterned papers – K&Company “Classic K Bailey Mat Pad

I made this card as a sample card for the February 1st Midweek Throwdown at Operation Write Home Stars & Stamps. I love the Memory Box dies that have come on the market in recent times; these have such intricate detail! The diecuts are really the centerpiece and I popped-up the sentiment and added some faux stitching around the edges to finish it off. Thanks for visiting and be sure to participate in the challenge.


OWH – Sketch #106

I used the Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps Sketch #106 to create this card. It features a digital image that is part of the current Crafter’s Digital Art Center Progressive Freebie Challenge. This particular image is from Digis by Phooka. I’ve been just waiting to use the twine on a card that I got fairly recently from the Cat’s Pajamas. Thanks for visiting!