Birthday travel

 

This is a CAS birthday card for a friend who likes planes -- hopefully he'll be able to travel soon. The central image is from Stamplorations, stamped in black on a whitish/silverish metallic snippet. It was then fussy cut and layered on a blue snipped, with the sentiment added underneath. The blue piece is matted on an orange snippet. Instead of using a piece of patterned paper, the strip below is washi that has a passport-stamp motif.

 

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Stamplorations: Things with wings

Stamplorations: Neverending Anything Goes Challenge 

Pattie'sCreations #181 --  birthday

Paper Shelter #467 -- birthday

Word Art Wednesday #489 -- anything goes

Catch the Bug -- Biweekly anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2117 -- anything goes

Tom Sawyer

I played in an inspiration challenge at SCS based on authors, and ended up making a card celebrating Tom Sawyer and Mark Twain. Not my usual style, but fun for a change.

The scene is made of a number of different bits:

• The white fence diecut that someone sent me
• The boy, which is a piece of clip art I colored and fussy cut
• The paintbrush, a stamp I fussy cut and colored
• The quote from the book, which I googled, and computer-generated
• The flowers, which are teeny-tiny embellies I've had forever and had to hunt down.
• The background, which is a piece of blue card stock with a green strip for the grassy area.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday: Add a quote

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #489: Anything goes

Crafty Sentiments: Anything Goes

Pammies Inky Pinkies #2117: anything goes

Catch the Bug: Biweekly Anything goes

A little bit of latticework

 

Hello! It looks and feels like spring here, and that makes me happy. I hope this card makes you feel happy.

Those of you who follow the Butterfly Challenge know that Mrs A. posts tutorials on a range of different folds and techniques. Her current challenge centers around the letter L, with a tutorial on amazing technique called a Lantern card. I can't wait to see what people make.

However, it looked a little very involved and time-consuming for my current circumstances, so I took an easier option in making this card. It incorporates other L elements -- lattice, lilac, lemon and lawn green (the last three as colors). 

The butterfly is a Sizzix die, and I don't know who makes the others. The sentiment, which is white-embossed, is from The Alley Way stamps.

Oh, and Stamplorations has a Things with Wings blog hop and linky party going on, and this works perfectly for that too. 

This card is for these challenges:

The Butterfly Challenge #155 -- Lattice theme and one (or more) colors

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- layer it

Word Art Wednesday #485 -- anything goes

Stamplorations Things with Wings challenge -- thing with wings

Crafts Galore Encore #86 -- anything goes

Catch the Bug Challenge -- anything goes

Happy Little Stampers -- anything with dies