Time Out Challenges

I'm back again with another card for Time Out Challenges where I'm guest designing!  Our inspiration comes from Karen.

Karen's card (on the right) featured a sponged stencil design so that's what I did with my card.  I used some yellow and green ink to sponge the rays of that grungy sun stencil.  Then I stamped over it in black with this long, subway-style sentiment.  I thought that it sort of echoed the theme of Karen's.

Once again, I want to send a big thank you to everyone at Time Out Challenges for inviting me to play along with them for this challenge!

And thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Going Somewhere (Tim Holtz)
Paper:  White (Spectrum Noir)
Ink:  Squeezed Lemonade, Crushed Olive (Distress); Onyx Black (Versafine)
Accessories:  Urban Insiders Square Stencil (Stencil Girl Products)

MUAH!

I got some new stamping goodies in the mail from Mama Elephant and couldn't wait to ink them up so I teamed up the colors from Color Throwdown and the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch and put one of these stamps to work.

I learned this technique of doing a heat embossed sentiment over some sponged shapes at an Online Card Class that I took a while back.  (I think this is actually called "emboss resist").  Kristina Werner demonstrated this technique and I love how it looks with this big MUAH stamp!  In the video accompanying the class, she outlined the sentiment in a gray ink to make it stand out a little bit so I did the same.  I was a little nervous doing it, sure that I was going to wreck it, but I'm happy to say that I think it looks pretty good.  The effect is subtle, but makes a big difference in how the sentiment looks.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Big Words (Mama Elephant)

Paper:  Classic White (Flourishes); Neenah Solar White; Pool Party (SU)

Ink:  Pool Party, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Smoky Slate (SU)

Accessories:  Splatters stencil (Tim Holtz); white embossing powder 

Stenciled Online Card Class Day One

I recently signed up for the Stenciled Online Card Class because I'm determined to learn and try new things this year.  Yesterday was the first class which focused on sponging and spraying colors using stencils.  For my "homework" I did a little sponging while also incorporating the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch and the colors from Color Throwdown.

I really did use Riding Hood Red ink on my card.  I just forgot that when I sponged it over Daffodil Delight I would get orange!  Silly me!  I didn't really deviate from the example in the class for this card in terms of sponging over the stencil and adding a vellum tag.  I just got lucky that I could adapt the same techniques to these two challenges.

The class is four days long and I'm excited to see what else I'll learn.  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps:  DIY (Precious Remembrance)

Paper:  Neenah Solar White; Vellum (SU)

Ink:  Daffodil Delight, Riding Hood Red, Basic Gray (SU); Versamark

Accessories:  Tag Me die (Reverse  Confetti); Honeycomb stencil (Heidi Swapp); Pewter embossing powder (American Crafts); burlap twine 

BE Inspired 41

TGIF!  Today there are two reasons to celebrate:  my vacation starts at 5:30 tonight and there's a brand new BE Inspired challenge at The Alley Way Stamps blog!

I started thinking about all those dots in the inspiration photo when I sat down to make my card.  So I rooted around in my stash of DSP until I found some polka dotted paper that almost matched the colors in the photo exactly.  I used that to paper piece the coffee mug from Breakfast Club, added the coffee sentiment and a few hearts from tag-alongs and I was done!  The colors for the flags also come from that DSP and the fun layout is the latest sketch challenge at Sunday Stamps.

If you play along with the BE Inspired challenge you can win a free stamp set!  Just use an image from The Alley Way Stamps on your project.  That's it!  And if you don't have any stamps you can find FREEBIE images here!  One lucky person will be hand picked and one person will be randomly chosen.  Both will win a free stamp set!

I hope you have a chance to play along!

Color Throwdown 209 and Friday Mashup 76

The autumn colors this week at Color Throwdown were too pretty to resist and then I saw the challenge at Friday Mashup was to do the Starburst Technique and decided to combine the two into my card today.  It's funny how I sometimes forget to do cool techniques on my cards so I love it when I stumble on a long-forgotten one and can give it a try.  Thanks to my friend Rita for reminding me of it!

  

I've got quite a bit of DSP going on here with snippets from Jolly Holiday, Merry Moments, Ski Slope, Orchard Harvest, and Patio Party making up my starburst.  I covered up the seam in the middle of the card by layering some Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon and some Old Olive ribbon from the Elementary Ribbon pack.  The PTI layered sunflower was stamped in Summer Starfruit (as close as I could get to Summer Sun) then was sponged with some Chocolate Chip to soften the edges.  I added a small Designer Naturals Button with a little baker's twine in the center.

Well, I'm off to run my Saturday errands then to do the dreaded housework.  Ugh!  Thanks for stopping by!