Tuesday Trigger - A Painterly Palette Challenge

 

 

        I created this card for the Tuesday Trigger- A Painterly Palette challenge in the Moxie Fab World.

        Using the heat-resist technique to make the circles, I stamped different doily images with Versamark watermark ink and then heat-embossed with white embossing powder onto white cardstock. Then I rubbed pigment ink pads over the top of the heat-resist doilies. I gently rubbed the ink off the embossing leaving behind my white embossing lines. I only used three colors of ink but applied more or less ink to some of the circles to create different shades. Next, I punched 1.25" and 1.50" centers from the doilies. Adhering a few circles with foam tape, I used the darker doilies at the bottom and the smaller circles in the back to give depth and movement to the card.

       I also used heat-resist on the sentiment tag. I stamped on white cardstock here as well. Then, I applied the ink, trimmed and matted the sentiment tag with white cardstock.

       That gorgeous background cardstock comes from the Chickadee Mesange Pajaro stack from DCWV.

       There is still a little time left  if you want to come play with us. Check out the details here: http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/07/tuesday-trigger-painterly-palette.html

        And, here's the great inspiration photo we had to work with:

 

 

 



DCWV June Stack-a-holic Card Sketch Challenge

    Update: My card made the TOP-10 List again at DCWV! Check out all the winners here: http://dcwvinc.blogspot.com/2013/07/june-stack-holic-template-challenge-top.html

 It is already time for another monthly challenge with DCWV! I don't know where the time goes.

          I used DCWV's Homespun Cardstock Stack for this card. I love this stack and the texture of the cardstock. I cut cupcake liners from five different colors. Don't they look just like real cupcake liners!?! Using Fiskars' cloud punch, I punched 'icing' out of the white in the stack. I added sprinkles with markers of the same colors and dotted them here and there and also sprinkled the sentiment panel. I cut the candles at an angle across the yellow cardstock that matches the card base. I added a little shiny gold to light the candle. The individual glitter squares are in this same stack too! It's a great stack!
     There is still plenty of time if you want to answer DCWV's challenge this month. Here's the template and address to get all the details http://dcwvinc.blogspot.com/2013/06/june-stack-holic-template-challenge.html

     Thanks so much for stopping by. I love sharing my cards with you.

CAS-ual Fridays' Red, White and Blue Challenge CFC102

     Thanks so much for stopping by this weekend. Hope you are all getting a long weekend and spending time with family and friends.

      In honor of Memorial Day, CAS-ual Fridays issued a challenge for a card using red, white & blue. Beginning with a white card-base (4.25x5.5), I trimmed 1/8" red and blue strips from cardstock. Then, I stamped 'Hello' in red and punched the petal shape using Fiskars extra large Petal by Petal punch. I also punched a petal in red and another in blue. As you can see, I glued them together with just a sliver of each color showing from behind the sentiment. I adhered the finished petal with foam tape and rounded the bottom corners of the card.   

     There is still plenty of time to play along with us. You can find all details here: http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2013/05/cfc102.html

CAS-ual Fridays Stamping on Designer Paper Challenge (CFC101)

   

      I have one more card to share today. I created it for this week's CAS-ual Fridays Challenge, and what a fun challenge it is - stamping on designer paper!  I really had to think about this card in a different way. I almost always stamp on plain colored paper/cardstock. As I went through my stamps, I had to imagine each one on the printed paper I picked out from DCWV Heirloom stack. The background is a sheet from the Paper Studio's Rue de Fleur collection. I inked the edges with distressing ink to give it more the feel of the old postcard stamp.

     I stamped the postcard image in black ink using Tim Holtz' Travel Collage collection. Then, I picked a sentiment from two different TPC Studio collections (Card Crafting Hello and Girlfriends). This was a fun card to make and I think you could send it to both male and female friends.

     Thanks so much for popping today. And if you would like to play along with us, you can check out the details here:  http://cas-ualfridays.blogspot.com/2013/05/cfc101.html

Feather Weather and Upcycled Packaging

     OOoooo, feathers! I hope this trend never goes away. As soon as I saw the latest Tuesday Trigger inspiration, I knew I had to use my marabou feathers on a card in some way.
     Here's the trigger:

    Gorgeous, no?
    Here's my take on the challenge and a note about upcycled packaging.

     First, I made the card base with white cardstock embossing it with Cuttlebug's Birds and Swirls folder. Then, I die cut the bird using Spellbinders' Bird Sanctuary dies.  
     I bought a new laptop a while back, and when I pulled the protective cover off the keyboard, I knew I had to upcycle the cover in some way. I used it here as a stencil to make my own patterned paper. After daubing on some color,  I trimmed the panel and matted it with matching cardstock. The stencil covers half a sheet of cardstock so I have more panels to play with. Wooohooo!


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     Does the Trigger photo spark some creativity in you? Come play with us. There's still plenty of time. You can check out all the details here: http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/05/tuesday-trigger-feather-weather.html