Happy Friday!!!

Yes it's Friday and I have neglected my blog for a Week! Sorry, I wish I could say it's because I started a new job but no, not yet!

Here is a card I did this week with one of my favorite new Hero Art's stamps!!! (Part of my Fab 5 winnings :-)

For this card I used Distress "STAINS". Wild Honey, Faded Jeans and Peeled Paint.  Such a quick and easy card.

And here is a picture of the fun stamps I got to choose from Hero Arts. (4 stamps and 2 packs of layering papers)

Sorry the picture isn't better...lighting at night isn't great. I just couldn't wait to ink these up!

I hope you all have a fab weekend!! Thanks for stopping by...TTFN



Hero Arts Challenge

This month's challenge over on the Hero Arts Flicker group is "Creatures and Kids Cards" and the technique is "making a scene". These are 2 things I rarely do. So here is the card I labored over for the better part of a day, lol!

The timing was perfect as my nephew's Birthday is coming up next month.

So here's what I did. First off I'm on a bit of a tight budget so I found this darling Hero Art's Monster Digi over at 2Peas for only $6. I uploaded it to my Silhouette and converted it into a print & cut. (I know I'm doing that alot lately). Next I used my Photo Shop Elements to place the words and also uploaded that to my Silhouette. I laid it all out on the screen before I cut anything. Once I had it sized the way I wanted I broke the pieces out and used the print & cut function to cut the monsters, the party hats and the balloons. I stamped the cloud background (HA S5215) using distress ink, tumbled glass. Then I ran it through my printer to print the sentiment on the top. I ran a piece of patterned paper through my printer for the bottom half of the sentiment. I used Copic's to color the monsters, balloons, and party hats. On the teal hat I stamped the Magical (HA CG211) background in white. I used embroidery floss to tie off the balloons, that was the final straw, oh I mean step, hahahaha. I used pop dot's for the Red monster (my nephew's favorite color) and for the balloons. Whew! I can't believe I did it. Thanks Hero Arts for stretching me ....Fun challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs!

This weeks CAS-ual Friday

Challenge:

For this Clean and Simple card I used Hero Arts CG311, Small Sweet Petals and a Hero Arts, Silhouette Digital image, tall_vases_C01015_23067.

I stamped and embossed the flowers in white on clear vellum. I colored the back to each flower using Distress Stains, Broken China and Spun Sugar. For the vase I converted the image to a print and cut and then used my Copic's to color it in and then added some black and white enamel accents. This one is off in the mail today for my Mother-in-Law's Birthday.

Thanks for stopping by!

TTFN

Another PDC Challenge

Wow I can't believe almost a week has gone by since my last post! Luckily I have these blog challenges to keep me focused, right :-)...

PDC Challenge #92

I love this photo collage. So much inspiration here. I hope you can see the pieces that inspired my card.

I started off by using the sketch pen function on my Silhouette. The Love was sketched using the Gold Metallic pen. Next I traced an outline of the "Love" and cut it out to use it as a mask. I blended Tattered Rose Distress ink for the background of the "Love" panel. I used the Hero Arts Digi Butterfly kit to create the butterflies. I again used my silhouette to do the butterflies as "print & cuts" then colored them in with Copic R32. The pink in the Love was done with Copic R81. I will tell you the nib on my marker didn't do well with the metallic ink from the Silhouette pen. (luckily I can replace the nib). I used Copi Y28, Lionet Gold to color the pearls, a Martha Stewart Border punch and the Hero Arts Old Letter Writing for the Card base background. It's hard to see but I wanted a soft text for the background and stamped in Antique Linen.  

Thanks for stopping by, I have another card that I will try to blog later....job hunting is keeping me busy.

TTFN!

Karen

Play Date Cafe Challenge

#91

I feel like it's been weeks since I've participated over at the PDC! I love the splash of color challenges but since I didn't have much time I decided to do a real quick and simple card. So easy and fun to do. You could create these for every color of the rainbow.

Well I'm off to spruce up my Resume. I have an appointment with an agency tomorrow. I hope I will find something soon!! Wish me luck. It will be hard not being in the Paper Crafting industry anymore, but I have to do what I have to do!  If anyone out there knows of any opportunity's please let me know. I'm open..... 

TTFN! 

Hero Arts Scramble

Well today over on the Hero Arts Flicker group Natalie hosted a 90 minute scramble. For anyone who doesn't know what that is, you sign in on the given date and time and a challenge is posted. Then you have 90 minutes to create, photograph and upload your card to the group.

Today's challenge was "Christmas in July" with a twist. To use non-traditional colors, no Red or Green. Or you could create a card not Christmas related using Red & Green as the main colors.

Here is my card:

I received so many lovely comments from my flicker friends and I decided to share with you how this card came about.

Do you ever have an idea in your head and then as you create it all goes south... and you even mess the whole thing up, hahah. Well that is how this started. I started off stamping the Big Pine Bough (Hero Arts Stamp) across a 4 x 5.25 panel. Then I stamped some snowflakes below, planning to make them look like ornaments hanging down. I drew a white line up to the pine bough and hated it! This is when I decided I really need an ornament stamp, I can't believe I don't have one, lol. So I tossed it a side thinking what to try next...the clock was ticking. Well I kept looking at it and not wanting to give up I grabbed it out of the trash and cut off the part I didn't like, and cut it into thirds. From there it just came together so quick, I couldn't believe it!

So there you have it, from the garbage to the group and then here to the blog. If you're not familiar with the Hero Arts flicker group you should check it out! The ladies there are incredible. Go Here to be inspired and join all the fun.

Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments here and over at the flicker group. I appreciate your inspiration and friendship!

Hugs!

The final week of ...

Summer Card Camp. I can't believe 4 weeks flew by so fast. What a fun and inspiring month it was! I'm sure I will refer back to my daily handouts often and continue to be inspired.

For today's card I used the last color combo from the last week of camp. I started off with the sea horse...it just happened to be sitting on my desk top, all plain & white. So I threw some ink down onto my craft sheet spritzed it with water and laid the sea horse into it. I used tumbled glass & shabby shutter and also sprayed some pearl glimmer mist over the top. For the background I used the HA Sweet Threads Ledger. I inked it up with Crushed Olive and Rusty Hinge then spritzed it with water. 

Thanks again to Jennifer, Kristina, & Melanie for a wonderful class. You ladies ROCK!

TTFN!