This card is for these challenges:
Rudolph Days -- Christmas
Die Cut Divas -- Holidays
Simon Says Stamp Monday -- Tree
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #623 -- anything goes
Pattie's Creations #212 -- use an image
Rubber stamping, stamping, papercrafting and other projects from a writer by trade, stamper by passion.
This card is for these challenges:
Rudolph Days -- Christmas
Die Cut Divas -- Holidays
Simon Says Stamp Monday -- Tree
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #623 -- anything goes
Pattie's Creations #212 -- use an image
I also used the last bit of that darker blue snippet for the Thinking of You Sentiment (a stamp which I came across by accident; it's part of a set I haven't used in ages.)
I punched out the butterfly and realized the snippet I'd used had failed heat embossing on the other side, but I liked how the white sort of breaks up the colors and chose to use it as it.
This card is entered in these challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- Thinking of you
Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2345 -- anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #621 -- anything goes
This card is entered in these Challenges:
Die-Cut Divas -- Holiday cards
Double-Trouble #152 -- coffee/cocoa (met challenges 1 and 2)
Coffee Lovers blog hop -- cocoa theme
Word Art Wednesday #621 -- anything goes
Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2344 -- anything goes
Jingles Belles -- Hard Candy Christmas/Christmas treats
I love joy fold cards, but I rarely remember to do them because I forget how easy they are. Luckily, Mrs. A. asked us to make a joy fold for the current Butterfly Challenge, and I got reacquainted with this simple but lovely technique.
My butterfly mage is actually a used postage stamp. I used to collect stamps off all the mail I got and recently looked at what I have stashed away. This stamp really stood out. I squared off the edges of the bit of envelope I'd saved and matted that on a small dark blue snippet. There's lace tape along the edge, and the sentiment "thinking of you" is stamped in navy.
This card is for these challenges:
Butterfly Challenge #188 (monochromatic blue, joy fold, lace)
Simon Says Stamp Monday -- thinking of you
Double Trouble #191-- something/anything (Thing 1 and thing 3, circles on lace)
Snippets Playground #466 -- use snippets
CRAFT #696 -- anything goes
Crafts Galore Encore #117-- anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #619 --anything goes
This card is entered in these challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #619 -- anything goes
Stencil fun -- use stencils
Double Trouble #150 -- (no patterned paper, flower,, garden insect; plus entered at partner site)
Crafter's Cafe #302 -- flowers
Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2342 -- anything goes
This card is entered n these challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- Christmas
ABC Christmas -- U for Use it Up (stickers)
Jingle Belles -- pink Christmas
CRAFT #694 -- nontraditional Christmas colors
Word Art Wednesday #617 -- anything goes
Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2340 -- anything goes
I am the guest designer for the C.R.A,F.T challenge this week, thanks to having been named a top pick for a previous challenge earlier this year.
This week's C.R.A.F.T. Challenge, #692, has a theme of wedding/anniversary. The sponosr is All Dressed Up, which offers some really cute digi stamps -- including this one, called Just Married. The winner of the random draw for this challenge gets two images of their choice from All Dressed Up.
Entries via the linky on the C.R.A. F.T. Challenge blog page are due by 6 p.m. GMT Wednesday, Oct 4. Hope you can play along.
For my card, I colored the All Dressed up image with simple colored pencils and framed it with a silver stitched frame. The sentiment is silver-embossed of vellum, and a few heart-shaped sequins finish the piece.
Making faux postage stamps was popular early in my stamping career but at the time you needed patience and probably special scissors to get ...