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Two Cards with a Few Challenges

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Here are two cards I finished up yesterday and today.

The first card was made for two challenges: All That Scraps Weekly Wednesday Challenge #26 and Anyone for Anya Sketch #9. The ATS challenge was to use sewing on your card. I’ve never used sewing on my card because a) my sewing machine is in Jessica’s closet and I usually crafty during her naptime and b) punching holes and then sewing seems time consuming. And yes, it was a little time consuming, but not too bad. However, I ended up punching twice as many holes as I needed. Oh well, I kinda like how it turned out. I ended up flipping the sketch on its side to work with the image and shrinking it so it could be an A2 card, the preferred size for Operation Write Home. I’m not completely sold on the sentiment I chose, but hopefully the soldier finds it perfect for his recipient.

Anyone for Anya Sketch #9

Take Care of Yourself Card

Stamps: C.C. Designs Coffee Kiki La Rue; Stampin’ Up Sweet Little Sentiments
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Barely Banana
Designer Paper:
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Wild Wasabi
Accessories: DMS floss 469; Inkessentials Glossy Accents (on mug)
Tools: colored pencils; Fiskars All A-Fleur Embossing Border Punch

The second card (actually the card I started first, but finished second) was made for the Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge #12. I had to modify it a little to fit in a sentiment. I’m not completely satisfied with how the embossing powder made the wings look, although it might be more from the Versamark marker muddying up the colored pencil.

Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge #12

Heart to Heart, Hand in Hand

Stamps: C.C. Designs Swiss Pixies Heidi Among the Flowers; Stampin’ Up Sweet Little Sentiments
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Ballet Blue
Designer Paper:
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Stampin’ Up Wild Wasabi
Accessories: A*Muse grosgrain stitched ribbon Popsicle Pink; Stampin’ Up Iridescent Ice embossing powder (wings, flower centers)
Tools: colored pencils; Nestabilites Standard Circles Large, Classic Scalloped Circles Large

I’ve now got another eight cards ready to go for OWH, bringing me up to 14 for the year. They currently have a challenge going on to ship anytime cards. I’m going to try to get a few more cards made by the end of week before I ship them off.

Monogram Cards

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My friend Patricia just turned 30. As part of her gift, I made her a set of A2 monogram cards using her favorite color red. I think they turned out very elegant and hopefully she can use them to send little notes. They meet the Our Creative Corner challenge to use blossoms.

Monogrammed Card for Patricia

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Floral (background); JustRite Special Occasions Font
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Real Red
Ink: Stampin’ Up Real Red
Tools: Nestabilites Standard Circles Large, Classic Scalloped Circles Large

Pirate Cards

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I got together with my friend Lori on Sunday. One of the things I worked on was a birthday card for Jacey, Jennika‘s little boy. Jennika is the friend who made Jessica the adorable little knited hat with flower, which I just realized I never shared with you. Isn’t that hat adorable? You can get your own at Beany Bling (Jessica is a model there).

Model Jessica, 3/22/10

Anyway, Jacey and Lillie’s carnival birthday party is this coming weekend. Jacey likes blue and green and I know that his bedroom is getting a pirate make-over, so I borrowed this stamp set from Lori. I made this card for this week’s Stamp Something Challenge, to make something layered. To qualify for layers (outside of the matted map), I used a technique to give the little pirate boy dimension. I ran him through my Xyron 5″ Creative Station three times. The first two times I adhered him to white cardstock. This made him three layers of cardstock thick. In addition to dimension, this technique provided stability. After the third run through the Xyron, I stuck him to the card. I thought it might be safer for the pirate boy this way once he made it into the hands of soon-to-be three-year-old Jacey.

Jacey's Birthday Card

Stamps: Stampin’ Up  Ahoy Matey, Matey’s Map (wheel), On Your Birthday (sentiment); A*Muse Waves
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Kraft, Pacific Point, Wild Wasabi
Ink: Stazon Jet Black; Versamark (waves)
Markers: Blush Blossom, Close to Cocoa, Garden Green, Brilliant Blue, Basic Black, Going Gray
Tools: colored pencils; Xyron 5″ Creative Station

I ended up making some extra cards, but changed the sentiment. One or more of the extras will go to Operation Write Home.

First Additional Pirate Card

Second Additional Pirate Card

Third Additional Pirate Card

Additional Stamps: Starving Artistamps DoodleFactory Tropic Sentiments

I’m really digging these Tropic sentiments. I bought the tropic set and the 2 coordinating sentiments quite a while back and I finally got around to mounting them on EZ foam so I can use them.

Motivet Blog Candy

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I don’t have any Motivet stamps yet, but I’ve been eyeing them for a while. They’re super cute. She’s having some blog candy to celebrate her baby girl turning 1 month old. To enter, you just have to spread the word. I would love to win.

Check out the Motivet inspiration blog where you can see beautiful cards made with Motivet stamps. Click on the below blog candy picture to go directly to the post with the blog candy info.

Check out the Motivet store where you can currently buy 4 image stamps get the 5th free.

Prairie Fairy Design Team Entry

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I first found out about Prairie Fairy Digital Stamps a few weeks ago through Free Digital Stamps. Shortly thereafter, I found out about their design team call. For a week, I agonized over if I should try for it or not. In the end, I decided I might as well try.

To enter, you are supposed to make a card with an image Roberta provided. I decided to print out a number of the image in different sizes (one of the best things about digital stamps) and color them and then decide on a card. I ended up making two.

The first card uses Mojo Monday Sketch 134. I was especially inspired by Janette Olen’s take on the sketch. I decided the A2 card was pretty enough by itself and opted not to included a sentiment on the front.

Mojo Card

Stamps: Prairie Fairy DT Fairy
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Cameo Coral
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Pink Flamingo
Ink: Dell printer
Accessories: Stickles Gold; gold ribbon; yellow glitter brad
Tools: colored pencils; Stampin’ Up Blush Blossom, Cameo Coral (along punched flower edges) markers; EK Success flower punch

The second one is an 5.5-inch square easel card. I will add the sentiment on the flat part of the easel when I decide who to give the card.

Easel Card

Stamps: Prairie Fairy DT Fairy
Cardstock: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Elegant Eggplant, Pretty in Pink
Designer Paper: Stampin’ Up Tea Party
Ink: Dell printer
Accessories: Stickles Frosted Lace, Lavender; purple glitter brads; white sparkly ribbon
Tools: colored pencils, Stampin’ Up Blush Blossom marker

The image also would be perfect with some of my pictures of Jessica at the Wildflower Center, but I haven’t scrapped it yet.