Fun fold

 

I saw a cute fun fold that I wanted to try, and this is the result. (the instructions are here.) The adorable penguin image is from Conie Fong. 

For the card, I cut a regular sized sheet of card stock in half lengthwise. The white panels (there is another one under the image panel so you have a place to write inside the card) and patterned papers were snippets.  I used a couple half gems to fill in some empty space.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Pixie's Snippet Playground #452  -- use snippets 

Pattie's Creations #205 -- anything goes

Word Art Wedneday #593 -- anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #110 -- anything goes

A new spring in my step

 I've been kind of quiet in the craft department for the past few months. I broke my foot about two months ago and spent a long time in a support boot. Even without the boot, I can't move as well as I should. Since getting to my craft space requires going down stairs (still difficult), I'm still not crafting much. However, I do miss it, so I've pushed myself to battle the stairs a few times to play with my crafty supplies. Here's my most recent project.

The central die-cut is a lovely branch of spring flowers, which I watercolored in shades of mint and a heathery lavender.  For a sentiment, I die-cut the world "happy" (Stamplorations die) and combined it with white-embossed "birthday" on a small brown panel.  Everythng is mounted on a white panel embossed with a dot pattern, which in turn is on a brown card. The butterfly in the corner is painted with the same colors as the flowers.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Die-Cut Divas -- watercolor

Butterfly Challenge #180 (colors heather and highland)

Can You Handle the Pressure -- pressure embossing

Pattie's Creations #205 -- anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #110 -- anything goes

Creative Inspiration -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2314 -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #591 -- anything goes

Merci

 I have an Eiffel Tower stamp that is just a tad too big to fit on an A2 card, so I used it for this mini-slimline card.  The tower is black-embossed onto a patterned paper with a very discrete gray design on it. Along the right edge, the word "Merci" was repeatedly printed. Down the left is a fascinating bit of trim that sort of looks like the open ironwork on the tower; the trim is silver and blue and adds a little simmer to the card.  The gray paper is mounted on a shimmery blue mat, which is on a white card with a very narrow reveal around the edges of the blue.  Another piece of shimmery blue was die-cut as a round tag. There's something that sort of looks like a Fleur de Lis black-embossed on the tag. (I keep thinking I have a fleur de lis stamp, but I cannot find it and decided this would have to do). 

This card is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday - emboss it

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- slimline

Word Art Wednesday #585 -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2309 -- anything goes

Pattie's Creations #204 -- must use an image

Crafts Galore Encore #109 -- anything goes

 

Flowery van

 

I have had this digi image of a VW van (It's by Bird) for a long time and I've always wanted to try paper-piecing on it. I found this wonderful retro-looking flower pattern to do the piecing with. The parts that aren't pieced are colored with pencils with some silver gel pen on the details that would be chrome or metal.

The sentiment is computer generated.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday -- Things With Wheels

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2307 -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #583 -- anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #108 -- anything goes

Creative Inspirations -- anything goes

Pattie's Creations #203 -- anything goes

 

 

Partridge and pear

 

 I don't know how many millions of times I've heard "a partridge in a pear tree," but I had no idea what a partridge looked like until starting this card. They are an interesting and colorful bird, based on the photos in Google image. I took cues from a couple of photos when coloring this partridge, but they tend to be brown and a blueish-gray, sometimes have a black and white band around the neck, and sometimes have colorful feathers on their head.

The image I used is a digi from The Alley Way Stamps.  The sentiment came with it, but I cut it into two sections for a more interesting layout. The images are colored with pencils, with a little wink of Stella on the pears. The image and sentiment were stamped on a white snippet, cut with a Sizzix die, and mounted on a red snippet. The sentiment panels are mounted on more of that same red snippet. The tiny die-cut pear on the sentiment (from the Frantic Stamper) was cut from a ridiculously small snippet, that was essentially a bit I of paper that I had left on my desk rather than cleaning up.

 

This card is for these challenges:

ABC Christmas -- A is for anything Christmas

Christmas Crafts All Year Round -- a partridge in a pear tree

Christmas Craft Creations -- January theme Snippets

Rudolph Days for January -- Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday -- anything goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #230 -- anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #579 -- anything goes

 

LIght up my life

 When I hear "You Light Up My Life" I think of my college roommate who absolutely loved that song. She played it SO MUCH...I couldn't stand hearing it for a while.

I'm calling today's card a masculine valentine -- no girly hearts and lace. Instead, it's got electronics!

It features a Bugaboo image, which I divided into thirds and mounted on black card stock. The image is colored with pencils, yellow highlighter marker, and silver gel pen. 

This card is entered in these challenges:

CRAFT #664 -- Song

Time Out #230 -- inspired by quote

Word ARt Wednesday #579 -- anything goes

Pattie's Creations #202 -- anything featuring an image

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2302-- anything goes

Birthday flowers

 

I remember when this flower pot design was all the rage, and I'm revisiting it. It's basically a simple fold to create a pocket to hold a tag decorated with flowers. When the tag is fully in the pocket, all you see is the flowers, so it looks like a pot of flowers.

My flower pot has a birthday theme, with a sparkly tag that says "Celebrate" and a Happy Birthday sentiment on the tag.Aside from the pocket itself I used a lot of snippets for this card, including an assortments of blues and prints for the flowers. For added texture, I embossed a matching piece  of card stock with a baskety-looking pattern to put over the body of the pot.  I also embossed all the flowers with a Sizzix EF to make them look more interesting.

This card is entered in these challenges:

Double D -- Birthday

Can you Handle the Pressure -- use an EF folder

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2301 -- aything goes

Word Art Wednesday #577 -- anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore #107 --  anything goes