Playing the Odds 365 Cards Challenge

Hi Everyone!

I am submitting today's card to the "Playing the Odds" challenge from 365 Cards.  The purpose of this challenge is to "create a card that has an odd number of each type of element.  You can use as little or as much as you want of anything, as long as it adds up to an odd number".

I found a piece of patterned paper in my stash that reminds me of ocean waves.  I used some paper punches to punch sea creatures in that patterned paper and then I adhered the paper to a blank card.  I used scraps from my stash to punch each of the sea creatures again.  I adhered them to my card with foam tape and tried to create a shadowed effect. 

You can see that I have
1 sea star
1 crab
3 fish
7 sea horses

There are 3 heart shaped fins on the 3 fish and they each have one wiggly eye for a total of 3.  They are each blowing 3 blue rhinestone air bubbles for a total of 9.  The 7 sea horses each have a tiny blue rhinestone eye and the 1 crab has 2 tiny blue rhinestone eyes which makes a total of 9 tiny blue rhinestones. 

And that's my card for this challenge!

Have a nice night.
Carol

CAS-ual Fridays Back in Black Challenge

Hi Everyone!


This week's CAS-ual Friday challenge is to create a Clean and Simple card using a black card base.  I need a birthday card and decided to create one that I can submit to the challenge.  I used a scalloped oval Nestability die to cut some "frosting".  I adhered the frosting to my black card base. 

I cut some candles from scraps and spread Glossy Accents all over them to make them look like waxy candles.  I am disappointed that you cannot see how shiny they look.  When the Glossy Accents dried I used foam tape to attach the candles to the card.  I added rhinestone "flames" and rhinestone dots.  Then I wrapped some twine around the edge of the card and tied it in a bow.  The sentiment was created with a Stampabilities wooden rubber stamp.


That's all for today!
Carol

Flying by to say hi Part 2

Hi Everyone!

I'm back today to share some of the other cards that I created for my own personal "Flying by to say hi" challenge. 

I  almost didn't purchase the Lockhart "3 balloons" wooden rubber stamp that I used on today's first card.  I have several other balloon stamps, a couple of balloon dies, and a balloons paper punch.  But something drew me to the Lockhart stamp and it has quickly become one of my go to stamps.

The papers I used on the card are shades of blue, not gray as they appear in the photograph.  I pulled out scraps and just kept layering them on my card.  I am happy with the results.  Janet, thanks again for those cloud dies.  As you can see I've been putting them to good use.

I used a "Butterfly Delights" die from Memory Box and a Martha Stewart "Classic Butterfly" paper punch to help me create the next card. 

I stacked 3 of the paper punched butterflies on top of each other to add dimension to the card.  There's a tiny piece of foam tape between each wing. 

I'll be able to use buildings from the Hero Arts "Newspaper Skyline" wooden rubber stamp for along time.  The stamp is a large one that has 6 buildings on it.  I stamped them over and over again in different colors and then fussy cut some of them for my card.

The airplane is from The Alley Way Stamps "Priceless Joy" clear stamp set.  Not sure that you can tell by the photograph, but the 4 buildings that are in the foreground are adhered to the card with foam tape.

That's it for today.  I need to finish up the literacy kits I have been creating and plan and prepare for a 5 hour Math training for preschool and kindergarten teachers.

Have a great day and a nice weekend!
Carol

Flying by to say hi

Hi Everyone!

I've been playing around with a little challenge that I gave to myself.  My "flying by to say hi" stamp from Lawn Fawn's "Flying By" clear stamp set has been sitting on my desk and I decided to use it to create a variety of cards.  I looked through my stamp collection and pulled out the ones that had an image of something that can fly.

A while ago Teri Anderson shared a card on her blog that used Lawn Fawn's paper airplane from her "Flying By" clear stamp set.  She used handwriting paper as the layering paper for her card and I thought that was brilliant...and told her so.  While I was looking through some of My Mind's Eye 6" x 6" paper pads, I discovered some card size handwriting paper in one of them.  I stamped my paper airplanes onto it and fussy cut them.  Here's the card.

I decided to create a card with birds flying on it and Lawn Fawn had exactly what I wanted in her "Gnome Sweet Gnome" clear stamp set.  The grass, bird bath, and birds on my card are from that set.

PaperTrey Ink has the image for a hot air balloon in their "Everyday Button Bits" clear stamp set.  I used that image on my next card.

My sweet friend Janet gave me a set of Memory Box cloud dies.  I used them on some of my "Flying by" cards including this next one.  I don't have a kite stamp in my stash, but I found a paper piecing pattern for one on the Scrapbooks, ETC. site. 

I learned how to stiffen my baker's twine while I was watching a video from an online class.   I dipped the twine in Glossy Accents. 

That's all I am going to share today, but I do have other "flying by" cards to share with you tomorrow. 

It's finally going to be a good sleeping night...NO HUMIDITY!

Talk to you tomorrow!
Carol

Die Cuts on Cards

Hi Everyone!

I recently realized that online card classes are the perfect fit for me.  Once I sign up for a class I can take it anytime, any place I want.  I can stop in the middle of a video to swap off loads of laundry or check on the dinner I am cooking.  Once I sign up for a class I have access to it for the rest of my life!  I have already revisited some of the videos several times. 

Last night I watched a couple of the videos from Part One of the online class, "A Cut Above".  The class is about using die cuts on your cards.  What I especially like about the videos is over and over again the instructors encourage you to use the supplies that you already own.  While I was watching Jennifer McGuire use a lattice die for one of her cards I realized that I had a similar die that I had never used tucked in a drawer.  I pulled it out and used it to cut 4 lattice strips.  Then I stamped and cut a flower from the Hero Arts/Sizzix Garden Flowers stamp and die set and a sentiment from the Hero Arts/Sizzix Floral stamp and die set.  I used my copic markers to add color to the flower.  Here's the card.

I used a set of 2 Cloud dies from PaperTrey Ink and a sentiment from Lawn Fawn's
Partly Cloudy clear stamp set to create my second card.

Neither card was difficult to make and I learned the techniques on both of them from the Cut Above Part One class.  Check out the classes at this link. 

Have a nice day!

Carol

Triangles

Hi Everyone!

As you have probably noticed lately I have been using challenges as the inspiration for my cards.  I was drawn to this image for the current Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger.

If you study the image as I did you will see that each vertical row is created with pieces of triangles.  I used a triangle theme as the inspiration for my card.

There are lots of triangles and pieces of triangles on my card.  My waves were created with a Martha Stewart border punch that has parts of a triangle on it.  I used a triangle paper punch to create the bottoms and the sails on my boats.  The patterned papers on my sails have triangles on them.  The sun's rays are triangles too. 

Look at the star bling on the sailboats.  Stars have triangles too.

This card is also being used for the "Roll the Dice" challenge at 365 cards.  I grabbed a pair of dice from the Head Start kits I am working on, tossed them, and got a 7.  5 on one die and 2 on the other.  Look closely and you will find 7 rhinestones, one on each of the sailboats and 5 on the sun. 

Hanging out with my friend Diane today and then we're celebrating Jeanne's birthday at dinnertime.

That's all for now. 
Carol

365 Days Color Scheme Challenge

Hi Everyone!

It's another hot and humid day here in Massachusetts.  Tomorrow and Wednesday are supposed to be even worse.  Yikes!

Friday's challenge at 365 Days was to create a card using this color scheme.

So I dug through my paper stash and found the closest colors I could find and created this card.

I used a Sizzix folder for the embossing.  Balloons were created with a Lockhart stamp and the sentiment is from an Inky Antics stamp. 

Have a great day!

Carol