CAS card class - thanks a ton.

Hi all!

Today's class challenged us to use stamps in different ways - to use a background stamp in the foreground, or to find a smaller stamp and fill the background of a card with it.

I used the small elephant from PTI's "tiny treats: birthday" to create a couple of 1-layer thank you cards.

I started out by drawing a straight line where I wanted my sentiment to go.  Once I had the sentiment stamped, I stamped the rest of that row with elephants, and then built from there.  

I think that by coloring a few random elephants, and leaving the rest outlined, it added interest to a very flat card.

The "thanks" sentiment is from a lawn fawn set, and "tons" was created using a lawn fawn's "smitty's abcs."

Thanks a ton for popping by!

CAS card class.

Can you tell I'm feeling much better?  2nd post of the day!

I started an online card class on Monday, and I'm playing catch-up.  I've just had time to watch the day 1 video and was inspired to create my version of Kristina's card:

I started with a textured piece of SU's sahara sand cardstock.  Once scored, I placed a die-cut of a mat-stack 1 shape in the middle (cut out of masking paper so it sticks down completely!)  I then stamped the entire card-front with Marketstreet's vintage wallpaper background in a light grey ink.  When I removed the mask, I was able to stamp the frame from PTI's mat stack 1 set right into the opening.  I like how there is some space between the frame and where the design starts, but if I didn't like that, I simply had to cut out my mat stack 1 image (instead of using the die-cut, which is slightly bigger.)  I think I like my way better because it saves cutting time :)

I sponged around the entire card-front in the same light grey ink, and then stamped the greeting (from Happy Trails) into the focal frame.  The swirl and ink blot are images from the same set.

I stamped the same vintage wallpaper background on a sheet of white paper in a yellow ink, and the die-cut 3 tiny hearts (from PTI's heart prints dies).  They were popped up on foam squares.

Thanks for looking!

eggggggg-cellent.

Hello there!

I've missed a few posting days... one-by-one, we all dropped like flies into a gross flu-bucket-of-a-home.  Right now I feel like Gilbert Blythe, the part where he comes to see Anne after his illness, but he's walking so stiffly... like a penguin... 

But I did manage to create a card when the nice mailman dropped off my copy of lawn fawn's "love 'n breakfast."  And just in time for the current lawnscaping challenge.

I started out by paper-piecing the adorable frying pan, and added some eggs and bacon to the mix.  The sentiment is a bit of a mish-mash.  I created my own "have an" with smitty's abcs, added the "egg-cellent" from the new set, and "birthday" from bake me a cake.

I then grabbed a sheet of paper from My Mind's Eye's "lost and found Christmas" pack (let's use up that holiday paper!) and cut a mat stack 1 shape into it.  The layerz size, I think.  The patterned paper was popped up on foam squares.  A juicy black button and some black/white twine complete the card.

Hope you like it!

all pink party pack!

I know you couldn't wait to see what I was doing with all of those pink papers I made :)

It just so happens, that a pretty little lady will be turning 3, and her parents enlisted my help to make sure she was celebrated in style.

Can you pick out the papers from yesterday's post?  Once I stamped everything, it was all a matter of die-cutting and piecing together my little party pack.  But what I love is that everything is tied together with that beautiful rose (from PTI's "rosie posie"), and *of course* all that pink.

The big signs at the back - "the candy shoppe" and "the ice-cream parlor" are 8x10 prints which will be framed to announce the function of those tables.

To the very left, I created a few signs with the party girl's name, "Maya," on them - those will be adhered to popsicle sticks and plunged into vases full of jelly-beans or other sweeties.

Water-bottle labels, ready for the sticking.

Food labels, for every kind of ice-cream topping and candy imaginable!  Do you see the stack I have going there?  I so wish I was invited to this party!

And, finally, thank you tags.  Instead of the regular "thank you," I stamped "xoxo" from Lawn Fawn's new "love 'n breakfast" set.  The birthday girl will sign her name (or maybe her mommy will, after the first few.)

Thanks for looking!

PTI princess challenge: make your own background paper.

It's finally my turn to host our PTI princess challenge!

My challenge to you is to create your own patterned paper.  Bonus points for creating more than one, and extra bonus points for using them on a project :)

I couldn't find a patterned paper that:
1.  I could get my hands on fast enough
2.  Only had pinks in it

So, in 1 afternoon, I created these (so sorry for the poor picture quality - I sweated over this one!):

and here are close-ups of some of my favorites:

For all of them, I used the same principles:
1.  start with the larger images
2.  add medium and then smaller images to fill in the gaps
3.  add a layer of a background stamp over-top to tie everything together.

ETA: I used PTI white, SU pretty in pink, and melon mambo papers.  The inks I used are all SU: blush blossom, pink pirouette, pretty in pink, melon mambo, and versamark.

I'm also linking this post back to this week's MIM challenge.  I used Nichole's MIM #39 tutorial for my papers.

Tomorrow, I'll show you what I used them all for!

houndstooth & damask card set.

I was totally blown away by *this card* on Ashley's blog.  And since I needed to whip up a quick card set for a last-minute gift, I cased her design, rather than start from scratch creating my own.  Sometimes it's just like that.

The set came together so quickly, except for cutting out all of the flowers by hand.  That'll teach me to not buy the matching dies *wink.*

Thanks for peeking!

you make my world go 'round.

This is my second entry into the lawn fawn CHA challenge!  Click *here* to see my first card.  I have to admit, I'm crazy for this one :)

I featured "admit one" and used - what else - "schoolhouse backdrops" in a supporting role...  that little set is getting a run for its money over here...  I first white-embossed the ferris wheel, cut it out, and stuck it to my die-cut shape with foam squares.  The tickets were stamped in a row onto pool party cardstock (SU), and cut out.  I stapled them onto the kraft mat, beneath the ferris wheel. 

The card base was stamped with the notebook paper image from "schoolhouse backdrops."

The strip on the side was the after-thought that made me fall in love with this card!  I stamped images from "admit one" and then used the solid line from "schoolhouse backdrops" to divide them.  

I kept this card simple and fun, and I hope you like it as much as I do!

Thanks for peeking!