Coffee Lover

I've got a card up today over at Creative Inspiration. Every Sunday we have a DT layout and card sketch reveal challenge.

Here's my card

Here's the sketch

When I saw this sketch I immediately thought of coffee rings and luckily I had just received the Scrapping For Less January Card Kit and the theme was coffee. What a perfect match!

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Masculine Birthday Card

I've got a masculine birthday card up on the Dies R Us Blog today. I don't know about you but I find it hard to come up with masculine cards. So here's a quick and easy one using a fun die that I just love from Memory Box. I'll post the link below.

I started with a navy blue base and a piece of white cardstock. I then rounded all the edges and got out my Distress Oxides and went to work on the white piece applying the inks from darkest to lightest. Then just sprinkled some water on the ink. The circle die was cut from a piece of ombre paper and the sentiment was cut from a piece of black glitter paper. I put it all together using some ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever with the small no-clog writing tip.

Here are the links for the products I used

Memory Box Large Ringlets                             Impression Obsession Greeting Set

  

Distress Oxide - Cracked Pistachio                        Distress Oxide - Faded Jeans

ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever                         ScraPerfect Small Non-Clog Writing Tip

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STORE

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Oh Happy Day!

We've got a new sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Blog today. We have a new sketch every Monday and then on Wednesday we have a DT reveal and announce the winners from the previous week. This weeks sketch has so many possibilities!

Here's the sketch

Here's my take on  it

I took an embossing folder and used it as a letter press. I inked one side of the folder with some Distress Oxide Ink in cracked pistachio and then colored in the yellow parts of the leaves with some alcohol markers. I then ran the panel through my die cut machine with a wonky stitched rectangle die and added the sentiment and ribbon.

I hope you'll stop by and play along!

Have a scrappy day!

Watercolor Card

I've got a card up today over at Creative Inspiration. We have a DT layout and card sketch reveal every Sunday.

Here's my card

Here's the sketch

I started with a piece of watercolor paper and then just brushed several different colors of watercolor paint randomly around the paper. For the green flourish I used modeling paste mixed with a green gelato and used a stencil to apply it. I then dug through my stash and added the flowers. I couldn't decide what kind of sentiment to use so I just didn't add one......maybe later!

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Hello!

We've got a new card sketch up today over at the Atlantic Heart Sketch Challenge Blog. Every Monday we have a new card sketch up and on Wednesday's we have the DT reveal of that sketch.

Here's my take on this weeks sketch

Here's the sketch for this week

I'll hope you'll stop by and play along with these fun sketches!

Have a scrappy day!

We Have Each Other

I've got a sketch reveal up today over at Sketches In Thyme. We have a new sketch every week and each day of that week  a DT member reveals their take on the sketch. And we love it when you play along with us!

Here's the sketch

This photo of my granddaughters is from a fall fair but there weren't really any fall colors in the photo. So I decided to work with the colors of their clothes, blue and red. 

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Thinking of You

I've got a card up today over at Dies R Us. The bright green color makes this a pretty cheerful Thinking of You card made using all Impression Obsession dies.

I first cut the floral background out in the lime green and mounted it on some very pale blue/green cardstock. I held it up to the purple card base and wow did that make the green pop! I wanted to keep the rest of the card fairly simple so I die cut only two of the Abstract Flowers, the smallest and the middle sized ones in plain white cardstock and added some black nailheads to the centers. And to really anchor the whole card I die cut the sentiment in black cardstock.  Someone once told me to always use something black when your designing anything because your eyes need a place to rest.  It really does seem to work!

Supplies Used:

Impression Obsession Greeting Set

 

Impression Obsession Abstract Flowers

Impression Obsession Floral Background

ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever

ScraPerfect No Clog Writing Cap-Small

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Don't forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog. There's a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store. For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below.

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Go Mama

I've got an Anything Goes Challenge up at Creative Inspiration today. I decided to try something a little different and have everyone play a game of Tic Tac Toe to complete their project.

Here's the Tic Tac Toe Grid to use

Washi Tape	Torn Edges	Ink
Flowers	Texture Paste	Stickers
Bling	Ribbon	Paint

You can choose to go horizontally, vertically or diagonally but you must use all 3 items on your project. For my layout, I chose to go diagonally and used Washi Tape, Texture Paste and Paint.

The Washi Tape is the black chevrons behind the photos, the texture paste was used to make the white stars and for the paint I used blue and green watercolor behind the photos.

I hope you'll stop by and play along with us over at Creative Inspiration!

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Layered Die Cuts

I've got a layered heart die cut Valentine's Day Card up today at the Dies R Us Blog.

To start I cut out multiple layers of the heart die cut. I also cut out the center of the silver paper using the same die cut.

Even that wasn't enough layers. I went and cut at least 2 more layers since I really wanted the die cut to have some height. I then glued them together using some ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever with the small no clog writing tip. It really works well on all this glitter paper. Here's a side view of the card so you can see all the layers of the heart die cut. I love how all the layers add so much to the card.

Supplies Used:

Cheapo Dies Heart Frame

 ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever

ScraPerfect No Clog Writing Tip small

Thanks for stopping by!

Don't forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog. There's a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store. For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below.

click below for:

STORE

CHALLENGE BLOG

FACEBOOK

INSPIRATION BLOG

FRIENDS OF DIES R US PINTEREST PAGE

Purrfect

I've got a technique challenge up at Creative Inspiration today. I always like to find new ways to use my scrappy supplies so I was excited to try this Stacking Stencil technique I found at Splitcoast Scrappers.
Here's a link to the tutorial: https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/stackedstencils/

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