Cards in Envy - Any Witch Way You Can

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Oct 202014

Hello, and welcome to another Monday!  Since it’s the third Monday of the month, it’s time for a new challenge at Cards in Envy.  For the next couple of weeks we’re getting into a Halloween mood by focusing on a theme of “Any Witch Way You Can”.  Cards for this challenge should show a witch, or something that easily depicts a witch (such as a witch’s hat or shoes) – and be an A2 card (4.25″ x 5.5″) and flat enough to fit in an envelope for mailing.  Your card can be scary, cute, or anything in between.

I took the cute route with my card.  I really don’t have any witch stamps, but I do have a Lawn Fawn Halloween-themed set.  The cat wearing a witch hat was my solution for this challenge.  I felt that making her appear to be riding the broom helped her look even more like a witch.  I colored the cat as close to black as I could without losing the details of her face and still providing contrast with the hat.  I pieced the background together using a few designer papers.  The stars are cut from the blue paper to show the yellow underneath.  I’ve used one of my go-to sketches from the OWH Stars & Stamps blog for the layout, but scooted the image panel toward the center of the card since I decided not to put a sentiment on it.

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This card just “might” be a sneak peek of an upcoming Hope You Can Cling To challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com, too!  I’m not at liberty yet to reveal just what the details of that challenge could be.  You’ll just have to keep checking in at SCS to see.  It also fits in with the current Lawnscaping challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today!  Now go check out what the rest of the Cards in Envy design team has made.  I’m sure they’d love it if you visit their blogs and leave a comment.  Then share your own witchy card with us at the CIE site by 7:00 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, November 2.  We’d love to have you play along with us!

Supplies:
Stamps: Critters in Costume (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Marigold Morning (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs); designer papers from Oh Baby! Boy collection (Basic Grey)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic); Landscape Trio and Starburst Cover dies (Mama Elephant)

Posted by PH in VA at 9:30 am Basic Grey, Cards, Cards in Envy, Lawn Fawn, Lawnscaping challenges, Mama Elephant, OWH Stars & Stamps sketches, Splitcoast challenges

awesome little birdies

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Oct 152014

OK, I admit it – I’m kind of addicted to cute little birdie stamps lately!  These seemed perfect for the “Heart Song” Hope You Can Cling To challenge at Splitcoaststampers.com, which asks participants to create a card using music, birds, and/or hearts along with words of encouragement.  I’ve turned the current CAS(E) this Sketch! layout on its side to create a landscape scene with the die-cut grass.  The color variations in the green and yellow designer papers are subtle, but the papers still let this card qualify as a just-before-time-expires entry for the current Lawnscaping challenge. The birds were stamped onto both the card base and the yellow paper. I colored in the beaks with a marker before fussy cutting the birds and attaching them to the card base. (I wasn’t about to attempt cutting around their tiny little legs!)

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Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you’ll consider joining in the fun of Hope You Can Cling To and using your cards to brighten the day of cancer patients.

Supplies:
Stamps: Feathered Friends for Simon Says Stamp, So Much To Say (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Soft Sky (Stampin’ Up); designer papers from Oh Baby! Boy collection (Basic Grey)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: Landscape Trio dies (Mama Elephant); marker (Copic)

Posted by PH in VA at 10:00 pm Cards, CAS(E) this Sketch!, Lawn Fawn, Lawnscaping challenges, Mama Elephant, Splitcoast challenges

cherub in the clouds

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Oct 082014

Today’s card is a relatively quick one that I made up to include in the shipment I sent to Operation Write Home yesterday.  It’s based off of this week’s sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch!; I’ve used the mirror image of the sketch because it worked better with the direction the cherub is facing.  I’ve used clouds in place of the chevrons on the sketch.  The little angel on his own cloud takes the place of the arrow element.  I used some scrap cardstock as shims underneath him, to raise him off off the background clouds a bit.  In the photo, you can see some of the shadow created by that.  The sentiment pretty well speaks for itself.  It’s a good one for OWH cards!

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Thanks for stopping by to take a closer look at my card!  🙂  All comments are read and greatly appreciated.

Supplies:
Stamps: Love From Above, In My Heart (Mama Elephant)
Cardstock: Bashful Blue (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic); Clouds & Raindrops dies (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)

Posted by PH in VA at 5:00 pm Cards, CAS(E) this Sketch!, Mama Elephant, Operation Write Home, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

OWH World Cardmaking Day Blog Hop!

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Oct 042014

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Hello! Welcome to my stop on the Operation Write Home World Card Making Day Blog Hop! Today we’re celebrating the fun and joy of making cards by sharing cards made for the purpose of sending to our military members stationed overseas, so that they may write to their family and friends back at home. Be sure to check this page of the Operation Write Home website to find out more about exactly what types/themes of cards are needed.

For today’s blog hop, we’ve been asked to create cards with a love theme.  That’s a theme that can be used in so many ways – as a card from a husband to his wife back home, or from a woman to her parents, or from a mom or dad to their child(ren).  Really, pretty much any family situation is perfect for a love-themed card!

I’ve opted to create a card that can be sent home to a child.  I think that at some point, every child wishes she or he could be a super hero.  It seems only natural that a super hero would give and receive super hugs!  I’ve also tied this card into today’s Splitcoaststampers.com Hope You Can Cling To challenge.

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Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you enjoy the hop and come back to visit my blog again, and that you’ll join me in creating cards for both of these wonderful causes!  Click on the OWH badge at the top of this post to find out where you should hop next.

Supplies used for this card:
Stamps: Super Duo (Mama Elephant for Simon Says Stamp)
Cardstock: Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Soft Sky (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic); Crusader Kids die (Mama Elephant for Simon Says Stamp); Clouds & Raindrops Dies (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps); embroidery floss (DMC); mini star brad (The Paper Studio)

Posted by PH in VA at 9:00 am Cards, Mama Elephant, Operation Write Home, Splitcoast challenges, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

CAS - Colours and Sketches #94

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Oct 022014

Happy Thursday!  It’s the beginning of a new month, and Jacqueline is our October challenge hostess at CAS – Colours and Sketches.  This week she’s come up with a color challenge for us.

I hesitated to use cute birdies on my design team sample card for this challenge because I’d used birds last week.  But in the end, I figured since this is a completely different stamp set, it really didn’t matter.  One of the challenge colors is a perfect sky color, and the other two colors worked pretty well for the birds. I’ve used a black pen to draw in the “wire” upon which the birds are perching.

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Now that October has started, so have the Hope You Can Cling To challenges at Splitcoaststampers.com!  The cards created for this month long event will be donated to cancer patients for their use.  I’m excited to be hosting one of the challenges later this month!  Because I’m a hostess, I have insider info about all of the month’s challenges… and today’s card just *might* be a sneak peek of one challenge.  😉  Go check out the Hope You Can Cling To forum if you’d like to learn more.

Now it’s your turn to join in the fun and creativity!  Link your card at the CAS – Colours & Sketches site by 1:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, October 8.  We would love to see what you make!

Supplies for today’s card:
Stamps: Love Quotes (Mama Elephant)
Cardstock: Kraft, Lost Lagoon, Soft Sky (Stampin’ Up); Solar White (Neenah)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: Love Quotes dies (Mama Elephant); markers (Copic); multiliner pen (Copic)

Posted by PH in VA at 4:00 am Cards, CAS Colours & Sketches, Mama Elephant, Splitcoast challenges, Stampin' Up!

CAS - Colours and Sketches #87

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Aug 142014

Hello again!  This week is sketch week at CAS Colours and Sketches.  I hope you’ll consider joining in the fun and creativity there by creating a card of your own with this sketch!

I couldn’t decide between making the tilted rectangular portion of the sketch into a window of sorts or more like a Polaroid photograph.  It ended up kind of a combination of both ideas.  This stamp set has been wanting to be inked, so I figured I’d make it look like the little angel is leaning on a windowsill. First I die cut the window and added designer paper to create the sky background. I stamped the angel on a scrap of cardstock, colored him, fussy cut him, and glued him to the sky so his arm slightly overlaps the die cut. The wing and the heart have a bit of glitter on them from a new-to-me product called a Wink of Stella pen.  It was super easy to use, but I’m disappointed in how easily the glitter rubs off.

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Be sure to visit the CAS – Colours and Sketches blog to see the terrific cards the rest of the design team has made.  I’m sure they’d love it if you left them comments, too.  Then show us what you can do with this sketch!  Link your card to the CAS – Colours and Sketches site by 1:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, August 20.

Supplies:
Stamps: Love From Above (Mama Elephant)
Cardstock: Naturals White (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury White (Gina K Designs); designer papers from Blitzen collection (Basic Grey)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic); Say Cheese and Critters in Costume dies (Lawn Fawn); Wink of Stella pen (Zig)

Posted by PH in VA at 4:00 am Basic Grey, Cards, CAS Colours & Sketches, Lawn Fawn, Mama Elephant

CAS - Colours and Sketches #84

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Jul 242014

Hello!  It’s time for another sketch challenge at CAS – Colours and Sketches!   As always, the sketch can be rotated or flipped or stretched – so long as we can see the basic elements of the original sketch, it’s all good!

I’ve stretched the sketch out into a rectangle and, well, you’ll see soon enough the other modifications I made to it while still keeping my card clean and simple in design.  I decided to give the current Lawnscaping challenge of watercoloring a try, too.  The quote bubble panel features a watercolor wash, and I colored the cow with watercolor pencils softened with a blender pen.  I chose the cow simply because of all my animal images, it seemed to fit best with the sketch.

 

 

 

Our curious kitten wanted in on the photo taking action, too:

Thanks for stopping by today!  Be sure to check out the CAS – Colours and Sketches blog to see what the rest of the design team has done with this sketch.  Then make your own card and link it to the challenge post.  You have until 1:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, July 30 to participate.  We hope you’ll join us!

Supplies:
Stamps: Critters on the Farm, Year Three, Hats Off to You (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Daffodil Delight, Basic Black (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: Pool Party and Soft Sky reinkers, watercolor crayons (SU); black multiliner pen (Copic); Speech Trio Creative Cuts die (Mama Elephant)

Posted by PH in VA at 4:00 am Cards, CAS Colours & Sketches, Lawn Fawn, Lawnscaping challenges, Mama Elephant, Stampin' Up!

CAS - Colours and Sketches #82

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Jul 102014

Hello!  It’s time for another sketch challenge at CAS – Colours and Sketches.  This one has some interesting small shapes that can be interpreted in a variety of ways.

I just received my first Mama Elephant stamps and wanted to put them to use right away.  Some of the images were sized perfectly for the sketch elements!  I’ve decided to keep pretty true to the sketch, other than stretching it out to a rectangle and using the mirror reverse of it.  The way the little girls were situated, I felt they looked better placed on the right side of the card than on the left.  And I ended up with another card for Operation Write Home.

Our family recently took in a kitten.  He’s about 12 weeks old now and very curious, as you might imagine.  Lyric was quite interested in the process of photographing this card:

Silly kitty.  🙂

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you’ll join us over at CAS – Colours and Sketches with your own take on this sketch!  You have until 1:00 p.m. eastern time Wednesday, July 16 to link your card at the challenge website.

Supplies:
Stamps: In My Heart (Mama Elephant)
Cardstock: Blushing Bride (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic); Soft Sky ribbon, dimensionals (SU)

Posted by PH in VA at 4:00 am Cards, CAS Colours & Sketches, Mama Elephant, Operation Write Home, Stampin' Up!
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