Come Sail Away

 

Sharing a card I made awhile back for my husbands birthday.  The sailboat is

an old set from Sizzizz, Simply Defined: Be Inspired, Moments. Patterned

papers are from Hackney & Co.: Sea & Shore. Colored with Copics.

Clouds stenciled with a Close to my Heart stencil. Brown/rust  strip 

embossed with  StampinUp Subtle Dynamic Texture embossing folder

 and Sizziz oval die cuts.

 

Hope you are enjoying your weekend and finding some crafty time! 

 

A few fun challenges:

A Cut Above- Die Cut  4/1 

CYHTP-dry embossing ATG (sewing twist) 3/26 

The Male Room #208  4/1

 

 

Things with wings

   Challenge time at Allsorts. Lynne has picked Things With Wings and as always

Anything Goes is accepted.  

 

I went with several Taylored Expression stamps and dies for the main focus of my

scene featuring sea gulls and filled in with a few other supplies. A day at the

beach sounds delightful and I could just picture it while making my card. 

 

I  have reconnected with my cousin in Rhode Island, she 

likes going to the beach and recently got 20" of snow  so I thought

she would enjoy a beach scene. 

 

Supplies:

 Taylored Expressions:  Striped Background,  A Day In Paradise stamp set and

Build a Scene-Underwater dies

Cloud dies by Amuse

A Colorful Life Cloud Stencil  

 Positively Pawsome Cross stitch Flat Bottom Circle 

 

 Hop on over to Allsorts blog to see what my teammates have created and

to enter for a chance to win a guest design spot or: 

Prize of $30 gift card from Taylored Expressions and extra prize of an A4 stamp set. 

 

A few fun challenges: 

A Cut Above March  4/1 

Die Cut Diva's  - Spring is Coming 4/1 

Mix It Up Challenge Blog #82 -Die cuts  4/1 

Stamping Sensations March ATG 4/1 

The Paper Funday #85 March- twist: feathers on the seagulls 4/1

We Love to Stamp- Wildlife March  4/1 

Word Art Wednesday 742-743 3/18 

St. Patrick's Day tags

 Time to start on those St. Patrick's day makes! When  all you have left

in your St.Patrick's Day paper pad is snippets you can make tags!

 

    

 

 I cut strips of 1/2 inch from the snippets, traced the tag die on snippets of white

card stock and layered the strips diagonally before die cutting.   I then got

playing with gold embossing powder, I added it to the shamrocks, tag edges,

and my dry embossed bottom tag.  A bit of twine and I called it good.

I thought these turned out nice. 

Second tag:

 

 

My snippets: 

      

 Supplies:

Hero Arts Infinity Tag dies

Lawn Fawn Lucky Clover dies

Embossing folders: StampinUp Splatters, Cuttlebug polka dot

Authentique Dublin patterned paper pad snippets 

 

A few fun challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure-ATG (twist sympathy) 3/12 

Die Cut Diva's March-Spring is coming  4/1 

Double D Challenge - Bookmark  3/16 

Just Us Girls #813 3/12

 

Tag-Along (and ATC 's)  March-ATG   4/1

Snippets Playground #527  4/1

Stamping Sensations -March (spring or ATG)  4/1

We Love Stamping-March (wildlife or ATG) 4/1 

 

 

Ribbon or bows

 Allsorts has a new challenge: Add a ribbon or bow chosen by Sarah, 

anything goes is also an option. 

 I went with Penny Black Good Wish Bouquet stamp set, did some coloring

with Copic markers, die cut some arches, and added used Pretty Petite bow die.

No sentiment until I have a recipient for this spring card. 

 Another view: 

  

Supplies: 

Penny Black Good Wish Bouquet stamp set

Spellbinders Perfect Arches & Tag die

Scrapbook.com Pretty Petite bow die

 

Join in the fun for a chance to be a guest designer or Prize of A5 stamp set, stencil 

and ribbons and £10 digital download from Polkadoodles at Allsorts challenge.

 

 

A few fun challenges:

A Cut Above -Feb  3/1 

Beautiful Blossoms #38  3/15 

Die Cut Divas: Pink  3/1 

Passion for Markers -week 826-spring flowers 3/2 

Penny Black Saturday Challenge ATG,option romance  3/7 

The Paper Funday #84-Pastels 

 

Hello

   I was inspired today by the sketch on Try it on Tuesday.

 

 

 I was inspired by the sketch on Try A Sketch On Tuesday challenge, it was

simple and striking at the same time.  It was fun going through my

snippets (scraps) and pairing them up, I used a old Kaiser Kraft paper

pad and an old partial background which I used for color inspiration.

After pairing the papers I picked a few more snippets from the

pack for the Pinkfresh Studio Hello die and broke out a new butterfly die

from IO. This may become my go to sketch to use up some of my

patterned paper packs! 

 

 Snippets:

 

 A few fun challenges:

Cardz4gals- #270-buterflies 3/4

NBUS:  butterfly dies 3/1

 

Try A Sketch On Tuesday  3/2

 

Snippets Playground   3/2

 

 

 

 

 

Embossing

 Time for a new challenge at Allsorts, Val has chosen the fun theme of embossing,

heat or dry, anything goes is also accepted.

 

I went with dry embossing on Valentine cards: 

 

I picked out masculine and feminine papers for this, did some dry embossing,

 layering and added ink to the dry embossing on the first card to make the

hearts stand out more.  

 

Supplies:

Embossing Folder: Darice Heart 

Stamp-retired Close to my Heart

Heart dies: Elizabeth Craft Designs Scalloped Hearts

Patterned papers from my stash 

 

 Join us for the fun at Allsorts to see design team inspirations and a

chance to win: 

 

Lisa Horton Rambling Woodgrain Rose embossing folder and coordinating stencils.

 

 

 

A few fun challenges for the first card-re/pink:

 Can You Handle the Pressure  - Twist of die cuts  2/26

Just Us Girls #810 -Valentine 2/19

 

The Diva's That Cut Paper -red/pink  3/1 

The Paper Funday Challenge #84-ATG   3/4

Time Out Challenge #306 I chose: pink, red and heart for Valentines Day 

 

 Word Art Wednesday Weeks 738-739 2/18

 

 

Valentine's

  A couple Valentine's Day cards to share:

 

I needed some quick  and pretty cards for ChemoAngels special mailing for

Valentine's day so  I dug through my background stash of snippets and die 

cut them with  scalloped hearts from Elizabeth Craft designs.  I paired 

 themwith another larger heart with the same die and stamped Stampin Up's

Happy Valentine's Day on them. Patterned paper on some, just varied 

them all a little.  

 

A few fun challenges:

Top card:

The Paper Funday Challenge  #84-pastel colors  3/1 

The Diva's That Cut Paper: February -Red or pink primary colors  3/1 

We Love Stamping: Hearts  3/1 

Stamping Sensations: Feb- anything goes (or favorite stamp) 3/1 

Snippets Playground #525  2/18