Just a Note

Another typewriter-themed card; this time Hero Arts.

I can't help it with the pink!

I'm putting this into the Simon Says Stamp Happy Mail challenge.

{Supplies}

• Cardstock:  Soft Stone, Smokey Shadow, white (Papertrey Ink)
• Stamps: Just My Type (Hero Arts), sentiment--Just My Type (My Favorite Things)
• Ink: various

Friends

I actually made this card last week for the recent White challenge at A Blog Named Hero but didn't have a chance to photograph it in time. (I went to Arizona this weekend--LOVE the landscape and pleasant temps!--to visit with family.)

Anyway, this card also fits A Blog Named Hero's current challenge: CAS. Hooray!

Thanks for peeking!

{Supplies}

• Cardstock: Stamper's Select White (PTI)
• Stamps: Friends are Treasures (Hero Arts)
• Ink: Pure Poppy and New Leaf (PTI), Spiced Marmalade Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Ranger), Memento Dandelion, Blue Danube, Grape Jelly and Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
• Other Tools: flower (Kaisercraft), Corner Chomper (We R Memory Keepers), rhinestones/iRock (Imaginisce), sewing machine/thread

Jay Gee's Nook and A Blog Named Hero

I glimpsed the current Jay Gee's Nook challenge by accident and was immediately inspired.

I finally had an excuse to pull out my Hero Arts Chevron background! I love, love, love this! I stamped it in Soft Stone but it looks more beige-y in the photograph. I'm losing my evening photography light!

I also used the colors from the inspiration photo for the layered flowers from PTI's The Sweet Life. Not sure I aligned that last layer correctly... Will have to practice! ;)

I'm also entering this into A Blog Named Hero's current challenge: Anything Goes!

Thanks for stopping by!

{Supplies--all Papertrey Ink unless noted}

• Cardstock: Stamper's Select White
• Stamps: The Sweet Life, Fillable Frames #7, Chevron background (Hero Arts)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), Soft Stone, Smokey Shadow, Melon Berry, Berry Sorbet, Pure Poppy
• Dies: The Sweet Life, Fillable Frames #7

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)

Color Q & Freshly Made Sketches

So fun for me, because I've been able to squeeze in a couple of challenges. This is the 2nd one today - ColorQ #137 & Freshly Made Sketches #35.  I love this colour combination and will probably use it again. I would have loves to have something a little different, but because of time constraints I have to do something quick, which is a good thing to do on occasion, because I'm a person that thinks every avenue before proceeding.

Here is my card.

The green patterned paper I stamped using a stamp I picked up from a garage sale. I don't know the name of it, but I do know it is from Stampin' Up. I used white embossing powder thinking it might be fun to try to heat emboss on a patterned paper. I also heat embossed on the lavender cardstock.

Thank you for stopping by again. Have a great weekend and happy crafting!

June Monochromatic Cards - Scrapbook Parade Class

Saturday, June the 9th will be a busy day for me, as I have two classes! This will be the first of the day, followed by a Father`s Gift class.


This moth`s colours remind me of sherbets! Raspberry, orange, and lime. Mmmm... And so refreshing too. The aqua colour reminds me of the tropical waters.


Here they are.

And here they are individually.

I love the pearl glitter on this green card. FYI, this card is much more lime green in real.

So that`s the line up for the June Monochromatic card class. Wait until you see the colours for July!

Thanks so much for coming by for a visit and a peek. Love to hear about your monochromatic cards, and which was your favorite colour.

Happy Crafting!

TOOLS & SUPPLIES

PINK - SPELLBINDERS - Standard Circles Large, Labels Six

         - STAMP - HeroArts -Friendship

          - INK - Tim Holt Distress ink - Pumice Stone
          - PTI Buttons

          - 1/8"pink velvet ribbon

LIME GREEN - SPELLBINDERS _ Floral Doily Accents

                     - STAMP - HeroArts - Delicate Leaf clusters

                     - INK - Versa Magic Tea Leaves

                              -Versa Mark

                     - Stampendous Clear Embossing Powder

                     - Stampendous Pearl Glitter - Melon

                     - green apple 1/2` satin ribbon

PEACH - SPELLBINDERS - Dahlia. Beaded Circles

            - INK - Memento Potter`s Clay

            - STAMPS - Unknown (garage Sale)

            - ribbon - peach 3/8`grosgrain

AQUA - SPELLBINDERS - Fleur De Lis Squares, Lattice Pendants

           - CUTTLEBUG - Kassie`s Brocade embossing folder

           - INK - Momento London Fog, Versa Magic Turquoise Gem

           - STAMP - PTI Pretty Peonies

           - paper piercer

           - white gel pen

           - ribbon - Aqua/Turquoise 5/8`" satin

           - pearls

A Blog Named Hero and Simon Says Stamp

The perfect opportunity to break out my Hero Arts stamps came through the new A Blog Named Hero challenge! I tend to pass over my smaller collections of stamps but I still like them!

Here's what I cooked up:

The sentiment die cut is rather large for the card but oh well! Love the vintage phone and these little metallic pearl GlamRocks from Imaginisce.

I'm also entering this into the Simon Says Stamp challenge: favorite tools... I love my iRock!

{Supplies}

• Cardstock: Aqua Mist, Stamper's Select White (Papertrey Ink)
• Patterned Paper: (Fancy Pants Designs)
• Stamps: Just Saying Hi (Hero Arts)
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), Ocean Tides (Papertrey Ink)
• Dies: Labels 25 (Spellbinders)
• Other Tools: 3/4" circle punch (Marvy), sewing machine/thread, iRock/GlamRocks: Metallic Pearl (Imaginisce)