sketchy colorful snowmen

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Feb 072013

It took me a while to figure out what to do with this week’s sketch challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown.  I couldn’t decide what to do for the small diamond shapes.  Finally I remembered these small snowman stamps that I’d bought myself for Christmas several years ago.  (You know how that goes… your husband says something like “I don’t know what to get you for Christmas, so just go buy yourself something you like and pretend it’s from me.”  LOL)  They turned out to be just the perfect size!  I embellished the sentiment panel with some snowflakes from the same stamp set, but stamped those off once to get the lighter shade of purple.  I wanted them lighter so they wouldn’t compete with the sentiment.  The color scheme comes from this week’s CAS – Colours and Sketches challenge.  It’s weird – as hard a time I had using purple and silver a few weeks ago for a challenge, I had no problems using these colors and for snowmen, at that!  The snowflake eyelets are old; I bought them off of eBay years ago when eyelets were really popular.  They started out white, but I colored them with a Copic marker in an attempt to make them match the ivory cardstock better.  Oddly, they ended up with a bit of a purplish tint that goes along with the rest of the color scheme.

 

I’ll concede that where the CAS – Colours and Sketches challenge is concerned, my card is probably more like “clean and layered” than “clean and simple”.  But the important two things are that I had fun creating it, and that now I have another Christmas card for the stash I’m building up for Operation Write Home.

Supplies:
Stamps: Snowmen & Snowflakes (Hero Arts); Holiday Baubles (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Perfect Plum, Kraft (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Perfect Plum (SU)
Other: Snowflakes embossing folder (Sizzix); square punches (EK Success); snowflake eyelets (source unknown)

Posted by PH in VA at 10:00 pm Cards, CAS Colours & Sketches, Christmas Card Throwdown, Hero Arts, Operation Write Home, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

dynamic inspirational love letters

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Feb 062013

When I saw this week’s color combination for the Dynamic Duos challenge, I knew I was going to have a hard time with it.  I really like red, and I’m OK with pink, but I don’t always like them paired with each other.  But seeing the colors in the prompt for the current Lawnscaping challenge helped, and with the aid of some chocolate brown I pulled the red and pink together.  I also wanted to create something for this week’s CAS-ual Fridays challenge to use letters, and I knew I wanted to use this alphabet set for that.  It’s not one of my favorite cards, but I think it turned out all right.

 

 

 

Supplies:
Stamps: Quinn’s ABCs, Belinda’s Borders (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, Real Red (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Chocolate Chip (SU)
Other: markers (Copic); heart dies (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)

Posted by PH in VA at 8:00 pm Cards, CAS-ual Fridays challenges, Dynamic Duos, Lawn Fawn, Lawnscaping challenges, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

inkspirational cas-ness throwdown

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Feb 052013

I’ve combined several challenges for today’s card.  Inkspirational Challenges has an “Anything Goes” theme right now.  CAS – Colours and Sketches has provided a sketch and a monochromatic color scheme.  The OWH Midweek Throwdown presented last Wednesday called for birthday cards.  So I’ve put all of that together into one card.  I was trying to tie in the black and indigo inks together for a shadowy effect on the “Happy Birthday” sentiment; I’m not quite sure I succeeded but I guess it doesn’t look too bad.  I opted to stamp that sentiment directly onto the left bottom corner of the main image panel rather than make a smaller panel as shown in the sketch; I felt this gave a more clean and simple look to the card.

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps: Hats Off to You (Lawn Fawn); Birthday Greetings (Gina K. Designs)
Cardstock: Island Indigo (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury Ivory (GKD)
Ink: Island Indigo (SU); Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic)

Posted by PH in VA at 12:30 pm Cards, CAS Colours & Sketches, Gina K Designs, Inkspirational challenges, Lawn Fawn, OWH Midweek/Midmonth Throwdown

OWH Cards with Critters Blog Skip!

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Feb 022013

Hi everyone! Welcome to my stop on the Operation Write Home Stars and Stamps Cards with Critters Blog Skip! I’m delighted to be included in this pint-sized blog hop showcasing cards with various animals.  You should have come here from Becca’s blog, Expressions.  But if you just happened to stop by and want to find the beginning, please go to the OWH Stars and Stamps blog to get back to the start.

As soon as I saw the theme of the blog skip, I knew I would use some of my Lawn Fawn critters.  The trouble was picking which one, or ones, to use!  So I narrowed the choices down to about seven favorites and asked my friends on Facebook to help me.  Cat, rabbit and dog received the most votes, so I decided to use all three.  I’ve combined them on a birthday card that I feel is suitable to send anyone – boy or girl, man or woman, adult or child.  I stamped the hats on a scrap piece of cardstock, colored them, cut them out, and then adhered them to the image panel, so I could work them around the animals’ ears.  The layout for this card is one of the older OWH Stars and Stamps sketches.  I like it because it’s a quick and easy one to put together.

 

Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps also has a lot of really cute animal images in both clear stamp and digital stamp formats, and I wanted to use something from their product line, too.  I chose this simple Rhubarb the teddy bear image, stamped it on brown and dusky pink designer paper, and then pieced the pink stomach onto the brown bear.  I pulled some coordinating papers from the same 6″ x 6″ paper pad and used them for the background of the card and the sentiment panel.  I used last week’s Freshly Made Sketch for the layout this time; it’s another pretty simple one to put together.  This card turned out a little more pink and feminine looking than I had originally planned.  Oops.

 

One of my cardmaking goals this year is to use a lot of my older designer papers. I’ve accomplished that with both of today’s cards; these papers date back at least to 2007! Eeeeep! 😆

So there you have it – two critter cards.  I hope they inspire you to create something with an animal (or two or three!) for Operation Write Home!  Your next stop on this blog skip is Marlene’s Cubbyhole Creations. Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you’ll visit again soon.

Supplies for the birthday card:
Stamps: Critters in the ‘Burbs, Hats Off to You, A Birdie Told Me (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Petal Patch designer series paper (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic)

Supplies for the thinking of you card:
Stamps: Thoughtful Rhubarb (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pink Pirouette (Stampin’ Up); designer papers from Blush 6″ x 6″ paper pad (Basic Grey)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: scallop border die (SNSS)

Posted by PH in VA at 9:00 am Basic Grey, Cards, Lawn Fawn, Operation Write Home, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #90

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Feb 012013

Hello! Happy Friday, and happy February! Are you ready for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge?

This week’s challenge is Valentines and Love. Make a card for Valentine’s Day or simply to celebrate love in general. Just be sure you use at least one digital image for the focal point of your card. You’re not required to use a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image, but we do love it when our participants use them.

I’ve chosen to make a love themed card that could be used for Valentine’s Day or for any other time of the year.  That’s the theme of this week’s ABC Challenge, too.  (Considering the time of year, I’m willing to bet it’s the theme for a lot of challenge sites right now!)  Once again, I’ve gone to the Freshly Made Sketches challenge blog for the layout of my card.  I paper pieced Opal Owl for the “any shape” part of the layout, and I moved the sentiment panel lower down on the card so that Opal could perch on it.  I did “cheat” a bit on the paper piecing; rather than cut the beak and feet separately, I just colored them. I figured it was worth it not to fiddle with teeny tiny pieces. The design in this one patterned paper reminded me vaguely of feathers, so I used that for the background and planned the rest of my color scheme around it.

I’m also submitting this card into the current Inkspirational “Anything Goes” challenge.

 

So, now it’s your turn to show us what you create with love in mind! Link your project at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, February 7. Remember that for every project you submit throughout February, you will get one entry to be eligible for winning 3 digital images of your choice from the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps store! Be sure to play along every week, and to go visit the rest of the design teams’ blogs for more inspiration. Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Digital Images: Opal Owl, Owl Sentiments 2 (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Naturals Ivory, Pear Pizzazz, Very Vanilla, Paisley Petals designer series paper (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: printer ink
Other: River Rock ribbon, tag corner punch (SU); Orange twine (Really Reasonable Ribbon); large black eyelet (source unknown); markers (Copic)

Posted by PH in VA at 12:00 am 'ABC' Challenges, Cards, Digital images, Freshly Made Sketches, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenges, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps
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