Thanksgiving Card

We've got a new card sketch up today over at the Atlantic Hearts Sketches Blog. We have a new sketch every Monday and on Wednesday we show all the DT members examples and announce the winners from the week before. We'd love it if you'd come play along with us!

Here's my example

Here's the sketch

When I saw the sketch I knew I'd just have to do a fall card. I love fall so much and really enjoy working with fall colors. I started with a rusty orange cardstock for the card base. I embossed some cream cardstock with a chicken wire embossing folder and dragged some Rusty Hinge Distress Ink over it. I die cut the leaves and then used watercolors to make them look fallish. I mounted them on more cream cardstock and edged it with some more of the Rusty Hinge Distress Ink and mounted all of them on some Kraft cardstock. The sentiment is from Altenew and was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and mounted on two stitched oval die cuts from Tutti Designs.

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Bubbles

 I've got a challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. This month's theme is all things round. It's a great month to use your imagination and really think outside the box. Today's challenge is about bubbles. I went with my granddaughters blowing bubbles but when you think about it bubbles are everywhere....like in ocean waves, drinks, bathtime, even washing your car or dog. What can you come up with???

I've got bubbles everywhere on here. I used a stencil with ink and added some and then cut some vellum out on my Cricut and added them around the page. I also decided to use polka dot paper.

I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Happy Scrapping!

1st Dance

We've got a new sketch up over at Sketches in Thyme today. Every day a DT member will reveal their take on this weeks sketch. I hope you'll come play along with us!

Here's the sketch

This is a great sketch that came together very quickly for me. I knew I was going to use pink as that is my granddaughters favorite color. So I dug through my scraps and pulled out several different pink scraps that I layered behind the photo and added the doily behind everything. The fabulous card is really for pocket pages but I thought it worked well here. I just added another pocket card behind it to make it the same size as the photo. The title was cut with my Cricut and then I just added some washi tape and some black Nuvo Drops.

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Happy Halloween

We've got a new card sketch up at the Atlantic Hearts Sketches Blog today. This week's sketch is so versatile and it got me to thinking about making some kind of a holiday card. After going through my stamps I decided I wanted to make a Halloween card. So come play along with us and be sure to check out the blog on Wednesday, that's when all the DT members cards will be published for this weeks sketch.

Here's the sketch

I got these stamps last year and had never used them. When I stamped the coffin it took forever to get good coverage and it still has some spots that didn't take the ink real well. I cleaned it several times and tried all different kinds of inks. I finally decided it would be ok since it was for Halloween. Anyway, I used a black card base and layered the orange and black plaid paper on top and then after stamping the coffin and crow I mounted them on black paper and tore around the edges. I found a caterpillar in my sticker stash for the crow and couldn't resist giving the crow a red eye. The sentiment was stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with white embossing powder.

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Loving Life

There's a new challenge up today over at Cookin' Up Creations. This month's theme is all things circular. So, I put my thinking cap on and came up with something different. I was holding an empty toilet paper roll and wondering what I could do with it as far as scrapping goes. I thought about dipping the ends in ink or paint and using it as a stamp or inking up the sides of it and rolling it across some paper but then it came to me. How about standing it on end and spraying some mist down the center of it. So I played around with it using different brands of mist and even tried a paper towel roll. I liked the paper towel roll with Dylusions mists the best. One little tip for you, after you spray down the center of the roll, hold the roll in place for a few seconds to let all the mist droplets hit the paper. If you don't, you may get a little overspray as you lift the roll. 

I really had fun with this technique and I hope you'll give it a try.

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On The Boardwalk

 I've got a new challenge up today over at Cookin' Up Creations. This months theme is focusing on all things circular....the possibilities are endless when you stop and think about it. For my challenge I chose a table place setting using a charger, dinner plate, salad plate and bread plate as my circles.

 

I started by cutting out 4 different sized circles of different papers on my Cricut and then layered them off-center. I also cut out some hibiscus flowers on my Cricut and put them on opposite corners of the layout. I then added the flowers to one corner and cut out the curved title on my Cricut. 

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September Card Challenge

 Every month we have a card challenge over at Cookin' Up Creations. It can be a sketch, tutorial or a specific kind of card like Christmas, Birthday, etc. For the month of September I decided the challenge would be to make a fall theme and you must have leaves on your card. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us.

Here's my example

The leaves were cut from Lawn Fawn's Stitched Leaves dies and then I used watercolor paint to color them. The background was done by inking some watercolor paper and then spritzing it with water. I then inked the edges and added some Nuvo Drops.

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