CAS(E), CR84FN and Playing in Paradise

It's been awhile since I played along with Scrapbooker's Paradise but found the nautical challenge irresistible.

I used the colors from the current CR84FN challenge and the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch.

I double-stamped the sentiment to give it that slightly shadowed look.

Thanks for peeking!

{Supplies}

• Cardstock: Vintage Cream (Papertrey Ink)
• Patterned Paper: (Making Memories)
• Stamps: Guiding Light (Flourishes), Beautiful Butterflies (Papertrey Ink)
• Ink: Brushed Corduroy and Pumice Stone Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Ranger), Soft Stone (Papertrey Ink)
• Dies: Deckled Ovals (Spellbinders)
• Other Tools: jute twine (Papertrey Ink), Kraft and Fine Linen buttons (Papertrey Ink)

September Monochromatic Cards - Scrapbook Parade Class

With Autumn not far off, I think of the deep blue skies, the changing greens, oranges, and browns. So those are the colours I chose for the four Monochromatic Card colours of September's class.

Beautiful colours, are they not!

Let's talk about the the blue card first. Here it is.

To emboss the background on this beautiful Bazzill Bermuda Blue, I used Spellbinder's Nestabilities Splendid Circles (S4-354), every one of the circles to create the circle pattern. Then I off-set it with Hero Arts Cling Large Flower stamped twice with Tim Holtz Distress Stormy Sky ink pad and used Ranger Inkssentials Cut-n-Dry brush lip pen nibs and more Stormy Sky with Broken China to colour in the flower a bit.

I added Waterfall Stickles in the center of one of the two flowers I cut out. The top one I cut to nearly the center of the flower so that I could shape and form the petals as well as have each petal glued down on one side and popped up on the other. Hopefully you can see that in this next photo.

Net we have the changing green of fall as depicted in this next card.

For this card I dug into my bin of green paper scraps and used Cuttlebug's Fall Leaves die set to cut out a variety of leaves from the scraps. I then applied Tim Holtz Tea Dye around the card background edges and the edges of all the leaves. The sentiment stamped with Momento Rich Cocoa is Flourishes Life Lines.

The leaves are both glued and layered with Quick Dry glue and pop-dots. Maybe you can see that better in this next photo.

Now let's have a look at the orange Bazzill Tangelo card. I love the simple design of this card.

This is a simpler card where I inked the edges going more to the center with Tim Holtz Tea Dye and then just a little right on the edge with the actual ink pad of  the Walnut Stain ink pad. The stamps from Stamp'n Up French Foliage (leaves and script) are stamped using Momento Rich Cocoa as well as the "gratidue" sentiment (unknown) on the tag. The leaves were then hand cut out and a little Copper Stickles where used to draw more attention to the leaves.

 Unfortunately the blurry photo doesn't show it off, but I hope you can see some of the script stamp and leaves. on the tag I punched a small circle and then punched a circle in the center to make it look more like a real tag.

And lastly, we have our brown card. I was a little disappointed with the card, as I saw it differently in my mind's eye.

For this card I used Bazzill Carob cardstock and heat embossed with Tsukineko Copper. The edges on the card I applied some VersaMark with a VersaMark pen and covered with the embossing power, heated, and ta da!
The stamps are part of an unknown Autumn set I picked up somewhere. I just love those oak leaves and acorns! Isn't it amazing that I've had ribbon, for a couple of years now, that just happened to match the card!

Hope you enjoyed your visit with us today, and thank you for stopping by and please feel free to leave your comment or ask any questions. Happy Crafting everyone! There are lot more projects to come, and I can hardly wait to post them, ...but I have to finish them first!

August Monochromatic Cards - Scrapbook Parade Class

Barely getting these out in time for the class! August, second Saturday, is the next Monochromatic card class, and due to holidays and such, our order at the store was delayed much longer than anticipated. So the samples for the class are only now just completed once our order arrived. Thank you faithful Monochromatic Card class followers that signed up even without knowing what we are making!

So, without further ado, here are the cards.

I'll refer to the cards by the name of the Bazzill cardstock. First up is, Brocade. The name inviokes wealth and elegance. I think this colour does, too.

To blog followers this may look familiar. I created a similar card for a blog challenge not too long ago, here, and some of the customers at Scrapbook Parade requested that I include the card in a class when they saw my entry. So I made a few little changes and this is the result. I like this one much better. I couldn't help wondering if I did it a third time would it be better still? lol.

Here are a couple of detail close ups, which may be a little blurry because I got too close with the camera.

Nest in the line up, also make one think of soft luxury, Cashmere.

And more too close shots for closeups.

Next we have Aqua, a gorgeous colour. The one thing that I'm quite proud of with this card, is that I managed to make all those Liquid Pearls close in size! That is quite the undertaking. It must be all that practice I get teaching classes.

Scoring the diamond pattern turned out to be more challengingas I hadn't done that technique in quite a while.

Here are a couple of other detail shots for this card.

 So, the last card for the August Monochromatic card series is, Citrus. Another gorgeous colour.

Well that's it for the August Monochromatic Card Classes. I have September's ready too and will post them soon. Below you'll find what I used for each card. Thank you so much for stopping by to have a peek and leave your comments. Till next time! Happy crafting!

          

TOOLS & SUPPLIES

BROCADE CARD

Cardstock - Bazzill Brocade

Stamp - Flourished Medallion Motif

Ink - Versa Mark

TSUKINEKO Embossing Powder -clear & white

5/8" wide double sided satin burgandy ribbon (Michael's)

CASHMERE CARD

Cardstock - Bazzill Casmere & French Vanilla

Spellbinders - Romantic Rectangles (S5-090)

Martha Stewart Butterfly punch

Stamp - Hero Arts Clings - Old Letter

Ink - Tim Holt Distress Tea Dye & Ranger ink blending tool (used for both stamping and ink distressing)

Ranger Liqud Pearls - (on butterflies) Dark Chocolate & Copper

Ranger Stickles - Cinnamon & Copper

Webster's lace

AQUA CARD

Cardstock - Bazzill Aqua & Franch Vanilla

ScorPal

Ranger Liquid Pearls - White Opal

Stamp - Hero Arts (unknown title)

Ink - Tsukineko Momento Rich Cocoa

5/8" wide double sided satin Cream ribbon (Michael's)

Large pearl brad  ("Wedding" section at Michael's)

CITRUS CARD

Cardstock - Bazzill Citrus & Franch Vanilla

Spellbiners - Floral Ovals (S4-356), Classic Ovals large & small, Foliage (S4-328)

Stamp - Flourishes - Fanciful Flourishes

Ink - Tsukineko Momento Rich Cocoa

1" wide double sided satin Peach ribbon (Michael's)

A Happy Hello - CR84FN-58 & Freshly Made Sketches 42

I love it when when I can find a little time to participate in challenges! Especially when I get in a real creative zone! Today, I'm entering the challenges by CR84FN58 because I love the inspiring colour combo, one that challenges me, and Freshly Made Sketches 42 with their inspiring sketch.

I made this card to bring along on a visit to an elderly woman newly moved into a retirement home. She is also new to out congregation, and I wanted to give a little something when I go to see her next week. I hope she finds it to be a bright , cheerful, and happy greeting.

This card was also made up entirely out of scraps!

I would also like to mention that these beautiful carnation-like flowers I made after viewing Clare Buswell's tutorial here. Clare made it look so easy! I think that they will come together more quickly with repetition. Here is a close up of the carnations.

Thank you for popping by to have a look at my post, and hope that you have a great day. Oh, and happy crafting, too!

TOOLS & SUPPLIES


PAPER: scraps
STAMPS: Flourishes Medallion Motif (Sentiment)
INK: Memento Black Tuxedo
DIES: Splellbinders - Foliage & Tim Holtz (Sizzix) Tattered Florals

July 10, 2012  

Wow! I was chosen as the Queen of Clean today by Jen T at Freshly Made Sketches! Thank you Jen. It is always an honor when your design is chosen or mentioned at challenges. Thank you.

Dynamic Duos Challenge & Others

I just came across The Dynamic Duos Challenge blog through another blog that I follow (and I can't remember who's blog it was through) and was immediately excited with the challenge and the blog. So here I am entering a card for the first time for the Dyamic Duos Challenge 9 with the colours, Crumb Cake (I'm using Kraft), a neutral (I'm using white), and a colour of our own choice. I decided upon burgandy, or a red-violet if you choose to call it so.

Iwould also like to enter this card for the embossing challenge with Papercraft Star, and the no designer paper, also with Papercraft Star,  in celebration of beginning their third year! 

I'm also using some new stamps that arrived just a week or so before leaving for Calgary. Excitement is always there when you use something new for the first time, especially when you've been wishing for it for so long! Here is my design.

I'm a little disapointed that I adhered the burgandy strip on the left a little crooked. But these things happen and no card is perfect. I LOVE Flourishes and was so excited to use my new Flourishes Medallion Motif stamp. I stamped it with Versa Mark and heat embossed it with clear on the kraft cardstock, and with white on the burgandy cardstock. I love "fussy" cutting as my class participants call it. I used to call it detail cutting, but have adopted the new label.

The metal embellishment was find at one of the Calgary Michael's. I never came across them here in Victoria, but I haven't been there for a while and it could be something new. But my friend and I where so excited about all the new metal embellishments we found. This one goes so very well with the Medallion Motif and I just added a KaiserCraft Latte Pearl Brad in the center. And of course, as my blog followers and students of my classes know, I just love using Liquid Pearls, so this card had to have them too. I used Platinum Pearl for this card.

Here are some close-ups for more card details.

I think next, I'll try colouring this beautiful stamp. Thank you so much for stopping by to have a peek at my entry, and happy crafting to you all.

TOOLS & SUPPLIES 

Stamps: Flourishes Medallion Motif 
Ink: VersaMark
Clear & White Embossing Powder, Platinum Pearl Liquid Pearls, KaiserCraft Latte Pearl Brad, Momenta Metal Embellishments (Michael's), Ribbon (Michaels's)

Make A Wish - FMS 41

Just under the gun! I hade this made yesterday, but forgot to post it right away. I got the photo onto the blog before linking and writing with just 2 miutes to spare!! I've never been that close before.

Anyway, while in Calgary visiting with Dana and the grandchildren, we went shoppping for bedroom bedding and window coverings for Dana's room. While shopping, we both saw a bedroom set that Dana's youngest sister, my youngest daughter, would love. Dana took a photo of it right there and sent to Lerina's phone. A while later, Lerina texted us back with something like "Cool!"

With Lerina's 24th birthday on the 21st, I decided to use that bedroom set as inspiration. Lerina's favorite colour is black and then any colour that goes with it. Though I think red with black is her favorite combo.  So here is the card.

I'm a little unhapy with this photo because the flash went off. But since I had made this card yesterday, and sent it off this morning, I no longer have the card to retake photos.

I used the sketch, as closley as I could, from Freshly Made Sketches 41, and here is the image of the bedroom set I found online.

With the ribbon only being 1 1/2" wide, I was not able to keep as closely to the sketch as I wanted, because I had to use the lacing from the cushion on the card. That is something else that Lerina likes.
Here is the closeup of just the cushion.

I used white eyelets on the plaid ribbon and uses a black 1/8 inch ribbon to feed through them.

Here are closeup photos of the card below.

Thank you so much for checking in to have a peek.

TOOLS & SUPPLIES

STAMPS: Flourishes Fanciful Flourishes, Heidi Grace Winnerfred Street
INK: VersaMark, Tim Holtz Fired Brick, & Pumice,  Color Box Cranberry, & Memento Tuxedo Black
white eyelets
Crop-a-dial II Big Bite
1 1/2" Red Plaid ribbon & 1/8" black satin ribbon
Wood Button unknown