90 MINUTE SCRAMBLE

This week Cindy revived a fun challenge on the Hero Arts Flickr group - make a card, photograph and post all within 90 minutes.  Our challenge was to make a long card.  I was so used to making top folding cards, I couldn't figure out how to make a long top fold card - duh!!!  So I made a 3"x6" card from a 12" piece of cardstock.  After I was all finished I realized I could have easily done a side fold card and made it long and narrow - math has never been my forte!!!!  Anyway, here's my card.

The gold frame was cut with my new Hero Arts Infinity Wood Frame die.   I die cut the flower from watercolor paper, put water on it, dabbed some pink watercolor in the center and just let it flow.  Used my heat gun to get it dry quickly.  Tied a little gold thread on it, added the sentiment and done in 65 minutes.  Now to find an envelope to fit my card.

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PRAYERS

Have another card for A Blog Named Hero that can be used for sympathy or for anyone who is going through a tough time.

The flower garden fancy die was mounted on light gray cardstock.    Die cut the "prayers" twice and offset them a bit and added the rest of sentiment.  Finally some Nuvo dream drops were added to the centers of the flower.  A very quick and easy card to make.

A new challenge begins tomorrow on A Blog Named Hero so be sure to stop by and check it out. 

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RETIREMENT CARD

A friend asked me to make a retirement card for her family doctor who is retiring - and she wanted something about him being such a classy dresser!  

I found a video on how to make a shirt card, dug through all my patterned paper and came up with this card.  Had to do the sentiment on my computer.  I think it turned out pretty cute and wasn't very difficult to do - did a little practicing with some copy paper first.  Photographed this quickly so that's why the card base looks crooked - just a shadow on the left.

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THANKS A MELON

When I saw the Color Throwdown challenge for this week, I knew I wanted to make a card with stamps I've had for at least twenty years!  Probably haven't used them in that long either!!  So am just getting in under the wire today with my card.

 

 

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MORE HOMEWORK

I'm finally getting around to posting the rest of my homework from Therese's 3D Floral Focus class from Altenew Academy. 

Day 2 - Monochromatic

Just alternated the layers of this peony to create this monochromatic look.  Added some stitched borders for some texture.

Day 3 - Inlay Die Cut

I had a terrible time doing this - I don't think my brain works in reverse!!!  But finally figured it out to some degree.  The dotted vellum is overlaid onto some dark blue/gray cardstock.

Day 5 - Design Paper & Washi

An extra card for day 5.  Used the same design as I did for my card the other day.  The black and white tape is actually packing tape that I adhered to a piece of white cardstock.

Day 6 -  Combining Stamps and Dies

I love how this turned out with the pale blue leaves in the background of the layered flowers.  Will decide later what kind of sentiment will be used.

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FLORAL, BIRTHDAY, WOOD + FANCY FOLD

A few weeks ago, Jennifer Mcguire did a video on how to make a bridge card - have been itching to have a go at it and along came Just Us Girls "fancy fold" challenge - perfect timing!!  Paper Players has a tic-tac-toe challenge going also so combined wood, floral and birthday along with my fancy fold.  Am also adding this to the Double D "tropical" challenge and the Altenew photo challenge for July.

To make my flowers I smooshed a variety of inks onto watercolour paper until I was happy with the results.  Then I used the dies from Altenew's Hibiscus Garden to die cut the layered flowers and leaves.  Made the base for my card with wood grained cardstock from Hero Arts (very nice and heavy and makes the card stand up perfectly).  Die cut an oval for my bridge, arranged the flowers, added the tiny sentiment and done.  I'm loving it!!

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COVER THE CARD

Just getting in under the wire with a card for the current Seize the Birthday challenge - added topping is "cover the card".  I have the Concord & 9th Floral Fill-In papers and stencils (discontinued) and haven't used them in quite awhile - but found they were perfect for this challenge.

I used Altenew's pink pearl and coral bliss for stenciling in the flowers.  Cut down my background to 4.25x5.5 and used the happy die from The Ton and mounted it on a black card base. Stamped the tiny sentiment in Versamark and white embossed it.  Added a drop of Nuvo black to the centers of the flowers and done.

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THINKING OF YOU

In keeping with our "sympathy" challenge theme this month at A Blog Named Hero, I created a card using one of my favorite color combos - pink and gold with kraft.

I began by stamping the magnolias on sand cardstock in each corner with Versamark and embossing in gold. I watercolored just the flowers starting with a white base and then adding in the pink.  Made a mask for each of the flowers and spattered the background with some gold and added this piece to a white card base.  Stamped and embossed the sentiment in gold on black cardstock and matted on gold. Added a few gold sequins and done.

Be sure to enter your sympathy card at A Blog Named Hero by 10 July for a chance to win a gift certificate from Hero Arts.

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A LITTLE HOMEWORK

I am taking another Altenew class this week - 3D Floral Focus with Therese Calvird - and loving it.  Am somewhat behind on making the cards, but have managed to get two of them done.

On Day 1 Therese just did a general overview and some very basic layering.  Her card had a textured background so I used that for my card also.

I used a stencil from Taylored Expressions and some texture paste for my background.  I die cut my hibiscus flowers and leaves from some paper that I had watercolored.

In today's class, Therese used patterned paper and washi tape on her card.  I used both on my card - on the base is gold string washi tape and the rest of the flower and the leaves were cut from Reflection paper.  To carry through the gold, I used a glue pen and added little foil bits to the flower and leaves.  I thought that the washi tape needed more emphasis so added a strip down the side along with a narrow gold strip.  I used coral bliss ink sponged on the background along with some gold metallic spatters.  No sentiment - just a pretty card.

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BLUE FLORAL FANTASY

My card today fits several challenges - CAS Watercolour (something blue) and Just Us Girls (three tones of a color).  Will also enter it in Virginia's Show and Share.

 

I began by smooshing a piece of watercolor paper with three shades of watercolors which were on my glass mat.  I just kept going until it looked like I wanted.  Also did the same with some gray and silver colors.  Die cut these with Altenew's Fantasy Floral dies.  The base of my card was stenciled in a tweed pattern with white texture paste.  Put it all together with a few sequins and done.  Another "any occasion" card for my stash.

 

 

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NASTURIUMS

Have an "any occasion" card for you today which I designed using the new Hero Arts floral nasturtiums stamp and die.

The background was stamped repeatedly in a light gray ink, cut to 4x5.25 and mounted on a pale gray card base.  Over that is a piece of 3.75x5 vellum.  I did a Google search of nasturtiums to get an idea of colors for my flowers and leaves and used copics to color them.  

A new challenge begins tomorrow on A Blog Named Hero so be sure to check it out and enter your card for a chance to win a gift certificate from Hero Arts. 

I am entering my card at Time Out Challenge where the theme is "Nature".

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LAYERED OMBRE LEAVES

The challenge this month at CAS Mix-Up is ombre.  Have been wanting to try out my new Pixie Spray with some stencils so this was the perfect opportunity.   I must say it worked really well, although it did leave some residue on the card - easily removed with an adhesive eraser - stencil cleaned up great with soap and water.  Anyway, on about my card.

I began by blending iced spruce distress oxide using a blending brush on my white card front.  Then stenciled on the leaves - again going from dark to light.  After die cutting the matching leaves, I lightly added ink keeping it all very subtle.  Attached the die cut with glue only on the stem.  After giving it all a little splatter with water, I added the sentiment and some silver Nuvo "berries" to the leaves and done!  The stencil and die are very old Memory Box called "garden friends".  Wish I could have shown the pretty blue from the iced spruce ink in my photo - really hard to capture that color.

Besides the ombre requirement - which I think I covered from top down on the card base and from bottom up with the three layers, I used stamping, stenciling, ink blending with a brush, splatter and die cutting.

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MORE ALCOHOL INK

I've kind of been obsessed with making alcohol ink backgrounds lately (and having lots of fun!!) and then creating cards with them.

All are on regular yupo paper and I used pearl alcohol inks on the one with the black flower.  The pink card uses the layered floral die from Altenew.  I'll put a sentiment on it when I need it.  A friend loaned me the die for the black flower and she didn't know where it was from.  The vellum flower was embossed with white and fussy cut.  I put double sided adhesive on the back. 

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ALTENEW CHALLENGE

Altenew has a lovely, soft inspiration photo for the May challenge.  I'm too late to put it in the challenge, but here it is anyway.

For my take on it, I started by stamping the leaves onto some patterned paper.  I used forest glades ink and stamped several times using my MISTI.  Next I stamped over the images with Versamark and clear embossed.  Using some industrial diamond ink, I blended over the upper corner.  Stamped the sentiment also in industrial diamond.  Matted it with a darker shade of gray and mounted all on a light gray card base. Added a few rosewater Nuvo drops and done.  The paper and the Nuvo drops both pick up the pink from the inspiration photo.

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