Woven Christmas card

 Hi

Today's card was inspired by this card that Karen Dunbrook posted on her blog. She used scraps of paper she stenciled, but since I can't part with even the smallest snippet of Christmas paper, I decided to try the technique with those.

I trimmed the pieces to random widths (normally if it's less than an inch wide, I throw it away -- I do have some standards!), then arranged them in a pleasing pattern. It was surprising how quickly the weaving was big enough to fill a card.

To finish it, I stamped a Stamplorations sentiment and added a couple of red sequins.

Easy-peasy, quick and I think it's an interesting look.

This card is entered in these challenges

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Card Challenge #556 -- anything Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

Pixie's Snippet Playground #410 -- use snippets

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday # 506 --anuything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies # 2134 -- anything goes

Stamplorations Never-ending anything goes challenge -- use Stamploration products (sentiment)

Something different

 Spritzed and splattered isn't generally my style, but I went ahead and tried a technique with lots of spritz and splatters. Here's the result.

This card is made from four colors of Distress Inks. Press on craft sheet, sprintz, pick up the color with watercolor paper, let dry. Add ink splatters. Ink image (it's a tomato plant from Impression Obsession), spritz, stamp. Let dry, then paint with Distress Inks.  Add script or other filler stamps.  Splatter with white paint. Add sentiment (I think that the sentiment is an I-O stamp, too.).

As I said, lots of spritz and splatters. It was fun.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday: Spritz and Splatter

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: add a sentiment

Double D Challenge: Fruits and Veggies

Word Art Wednesday #506: anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2134:  anything goes

Pining for fun

 

I was looking through embossing folders a few weeks and and found a stamp set I'd never used hidden among the EFs. (The pineapple stamps and die also included a tiny -- like 1-inch wide -- EF that I guess is supposed to look like pineapple bark. It's pretty similar to the Sizzix EF I used here, only way smaller. The set is called Totally Tropical, and I think it might have been a prize from one of Hazel's challenges.). 

 When I saw this sketch on SCS, I thought of that set and found the perfect patterned paper to go with it. The pineapple is colored with pencils, and the sentiment is white-embossed. The pineapple, sentiment panel and angled panel are all made from snippets selected to match the patterned paper.

This card is for these challenges:

Double D -- Fruits and vegetables

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- add a sentiment

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- dry embossing,

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

Word Art Wednesday #505 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2133  -- anything goes

 

Rocking it

 Hi there!

Once again, Mrs. A has enticed me to try a different kind of card for the Butterfly Challenge. This time around, the challenge is to make a rocker card, and she has instructions for at least 4 different versions on her blog. I started here with the basic one, but I've bookmarked the page to go back and try some more advanced versions (which usually have side steps).

I traced around a 6-inch bowl to create the base circle and kept the height so that it will fit in what used to be known as a "small business envelope," which is something like 6.5 x 3.5 inches.

The base is made from a rather large snippet of sage card stock, and on top of that I used a snippet of a fun print that shows a flower garden. I heat-embossed a Hello sentiment to make it more visible than regular stamping and added a butterfly made from stacked die-cuts (more snippets) with a little pearl embellie.

This card is for these challenges:

Butterfly Challenge #160 (level 2 -- using the color sage/Russian green, rocker card, and butterfly)

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- heat embossing

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2132 -- anything goes

Crafts Galore #90 --- anything goes

Word ARt Wednesday #504 -- anything goes

Pixie's Snippet Playground #409 -- use snippets

Craftyhazelnut's patterned paper challenge -- use patterned paper. 

3-panel Christmas

 In my last post, I shared a three-panel card I made for a swap with a  3-panel theme. I decided to try the technique for a Christmas card, since I have tons of snippets of Christmas patterned paper. Here's the result.

The panels all measure 1.5 by 3.5 inches. They are snippets from different patterned paper mats, and they even have different background colors, but I think they work together quite nicely. I ran all the edges of the three panels along a red ink pad to give them a little definition, mounted them on a light green panel, then on a red snippet (it has an oval die cut out of it, but with a couple layers on top, no one will know. Shhh, don't tell!). All mounted on a white tent-fold card.

I feel like the words on the panels provide enough of a sentiment on front, so I just added some ribbon and a lovely silk poinsettia.

This card is entered in these challenges.

Rudolph Days, July -- Christmas

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #552 -- ribbon

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge-- patterned paper

Pixie's Snippet Playground #408 -- use snippets

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2130 -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #501 -- anything goes

Fun in the Sun

 This is a quick and easy card using three panels of patterned paper. I went with a summer theme -- I was humming Beach Boys songs while working on it. The sentiment is from Purple Onion Designs, and the papers have been in my stash for quite a while.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- Lazy Days of Summer

Word Art Wednesday #499 -- anything goes

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge -- use patterned paper

More ice cream

 A few days ago, I made a white-on-white ice cream card. Today, I'm back with a "ice cream colors" pastel version. The cone stamp and EF are a set from Michaels, the sentiment is from Purple Onion. The cone is stamped in SU creamy caramel (as is the sentiment) and colored with pencils. Coordinating baker's twine for the bow.

Question for fellow bloggers:  Do you ever monitor your site stats and see weird upticks in viewership? Since I'm not monetizing anything, I glance at the stats just out of curiosity. On a typical day, I might get a dozen visitors, more if I've one of my cards won a challenge or made a Top 3, but not gobs of viewers. Yesterday, it was nearly 1,000 views. I know a couple of my designs have been Pinned alot, but I don't know how to measure that. I'd be happytohear anyone's insights.

The ice cream care is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday: Lazy Days of Summer

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday:  emboss it

The Paper Shelter #478 -- girly

Word Art Wednesday #499 -- anything goes

Catch the Bug -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2128 -- anything goes