Lions and tigers and ............

This is my card for today's sketch challenge over on Split Coast - I needed to make some Halloween cards and this sketch worked out perfectly!

There is no stamping on these cards (accept I stamped Happy Halloween on the inside!)

I have had these randomly sized chipboard black and white letters for eons (which is more than forever!!) in a drawer and recently found them when I was looking for something else! And they are perfect spooky Halloween letters I think! There was enough variety to make all these fun spooky words to go with the pictures on the designer papers that I used.

These wonderful DP's are by Flairdesigns Inc - the Spellbound Collection that I just got here. I cuttled all the dp panels - the two in the back I used Forest Branches on and for the narrow panel I used Swiss dots - just to give the card a little dimension.

Thanks for coming by and checking out my offerings today!!

Be sure to check the Artful Inkables Limited Supplies challenge in my post below - and come play along too!!

Stamps: none!
Paper: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie - SU, DP - Flairdesigns Inc - Spellbound collection
Ink: none
Accessories: chipboard alphabet - Lil Davis Designs, glue dots, cuttlebug - swiss dots & forest branches folders

Artful Inkables - Wednesday Challenge! Please join in!

Here is my card for this weeks Artful Inkables Design Team Challenge. Kim is our hostess this time and it is a Limited Supplies challenge.

We'd love to have you join in - see the details of how to do that at the end of my post.

These are the Limited Supplies rules:

1. Only use 2 layers in addition to the card base.
2. Only one kind of embellishment allowed (ie - ribbon OR brad)
3. You may use one sentiment
4. No designer paper (!)
5. Your card must be any size of a square.


My card is a 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" square. I used two Cuttlebug folders to emboss the card and one panel. I pierced the edges around the dove and sponged both panels. The image and sentiment are up on foam dimensioinals. I added the ribbon under the panel - cut a piece for a knot and attached it to the ribbon with a glue dot. This pretty Dove is from the newly released Olive You set by Artful Inkables.


I colored my image lightly with Prismacolor markers - filling in the olive branch and just outlining the dove.

So I think this proves that - Yes - you can make a card without Designer paper! Fun Challenge Kim.

We'd love to have you join in on this limited supplies challenge! Just load your card on your SCS gallery and use the key word ARTINK so we can all see what wonders you create!!

If you don't have an SCS gallery then just link your card to the Artful Inkables blog in a comment here.

We're excited to see what you can come up with!

Please check out the other Ink Girls Challenge cards:

Beth

Jenn

Kim

Pam

Kristin

Thanks so much for coming by today!

Stamps: Olive You - Artful Inkables
Paper: White & Aqua Mist - PTI
Ink: Onyx Black Versafine, Aqua Mist - PTI
Supplies: paper piercer, Cuttlebug, Forest branches & Script folders, foam dimensionals, glue dot, ribbon - Aqua Mist PTI, Prismacolro markerw - mint cream, cinnamon toast, sunburst yellow

An Announcement and a Dreaming Fairy

First - I'm so excited to tell you that as of Sept 1st I am officially on the Design Team for H & M stamps for the next 6 months!!! (you may have noticed the logo on my right side bar?) And starting Monday - I'll be posting a card highlighting a new stamp or set each day for 4 days in a row. So please be sure to come by and check them out - you won't want to miss these!

But - back to the present....... my card today covers two challenges - the color challenge on Split Coast to use Rose Red, Kraft and Black - and the Double Dog Dare challenge I do each Tues with a group of SCS friends. This weeks Double Dare hostess - Joanne (sleepyinseattle) sent us two Stamping Bella Fairy images to chose from to use on a card - we also had to add some glitter - it is a fairy after all!!!

I don't know why - but I don't have many fairy images and I rarely use them - so it was fun playing with this image today! I watercolored her dress using my Rose Red ink pad and my aquapainter and colored the rest with Copics. I outlined it all with a grey Prismacolor marker.

I added the gemstones around her dress and on her flower - and circled her wrists with pearls! (Every girl has to have a string of pearls right?!?!)

I punched the designer paper with my new Fiskars scallop punch which I love ! I'd been trying to get it and I finally found it in stock at All that Scraps. I added the punched butterflies to give some dimension to the card. The kraft card stock is kind of opposite in feeling to a glittery light fairy so I tried to soften it by dry embossing it with the Leafy Branch Cuttlebug folder.

You can check out the other Double Dare cards here to see how they used their fairies on a card!

Oh and before I forget! Tomorrow is the Artful Inkables Design Team Challenge - and it's a Limited Supplies challenge given to us by Ink Girl Kim this week.

So come and check it out and you can also play along!! - see all the deets on my blog first thing tomorrow morning! It'll be posted here at 7 am EST!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Stamps: Stamping Bella Fairy, dream: Text Boxed - PTI
Paper: Rose Red, Kraft, basic black: SU, DP - my minds eye - 29th st, beautiful blossoms
Ink: Rose Red - SU, Onyx black versafine
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Leafy branch folder, oval punches, foam dimensionals, gemstones, pearl stickers, butterfly punch - Martha Stewart, aquapainter, Copics, Prismacolor marker, Fiskars scallop punch

Halloween Treat Bag With A New Technique

Here is my project for the Try a new Technique challenge on Split Coast- Faux Embossing. See the instructions for Faux Embossing here. The basics are - you stamp a silhouette style stamp using White Chalk Ink - then over stamp it with a color - but stamp the color slightly off to the right so it makes the image look 3D or embossed!For the faux embossing technique - I stamped the house and moon with white chalk ink - then overstamped it with Pumpkin Pie - shifting the stamp over to the right just a bit to give the embossed look ( I used my Stamp a ma jig for placement) - It's very subtle on the black but I hope you can see it. It shows up best on the moon in the picture. I stamped the witch and trees just in chalk white for contrast.

I cut the ovals and sentiment with my nestabilities.

This little treat container is called a Diaper Fold or Origami Fold. See the tutorial for it here. It's easy peasy to make - it takes one sheet of 12 x 12 double sided designer paper and folds up in just a minute.

I'm going to sell these on my stamping table at our town's Founders Day in early September. I think they'll be a hit for Halloween treats - don't you?

thanks so much for stopping by today!

Stamps: Home is where the haunt is - SU, Happy Halloween - Picture Show
Paper: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, DP - all SU
Ink: White Craft, Pumpkin Pie - All SU
Accessories: nestability petite ovals, long rectangle, Stamp a ma jig, red tacky tape

A Turtle Parade!

I'm SO Excited - my SCS friend Patricia is Featured Stamper over on SCS today - Congrats Patricia!!! She has a super gallery! I chose this card to CASE. (Copy and share with edits)

I changed the size (mine is 3 1/4 x 6 1/2) and stamps but used the line of animals and zig zag stitch and rainbow ink pad. I just swiped the ink pad over the white card stock several times you could also use a brayer for this. The zig zag 'stitching' is done with a stamp by Hero Arts - I had white thread in my machine and didn't want to take the time to switch to black!! (I know -lazy, lazy!!!)

The cute turtle is from Pond Friends by Artful Inkables look how you can see his sweet feet swimming under the water - and what a great little face!! I punched two flowers and layered them together for the sentiment.

Please forgive the short post tonight! I have to go watch the closing ceremony of the Olympics!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Stamps: Pond Friends - Artful Inkables, zig zag - Hero Arts
Paper: lavendar lace, certainly celery - SU, white - PTI
Ink: Colorbox rainbow Atlantis, onyx black versafine
Accessories: twine, flower punch, foam dimensionals, prismacolor markers

An Inspired Martini !

Sounds good to me! (an appletini that is!) This weeks inspiration challenge over at Split Coast was pretty designer umbrellas - I chose this one: I knew I'd use this great designer paper from Papertrey for it and I also used the Floral Fantasy and Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folders. I used the Swiss Dots folder right over the DP.The martini and sentiment are from a new set from Artful Inkables called Olive You. I have started sewing a lot on my cards lately and since I have my machine out - I sewed the edges here. This is a large 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 card! This design is from Fridays Sketchers challenge blog.

I colored the martini image with my Copics markers and outlined it with a grey Prismacolor marker.

I cut my sentiment with a rectangle Nestability and added a couple of gem stones for sparkle!

Just a reminder that Kristin at Arful Inkables is offering free shipping through August (just a few more days!) on orders over $35.00 and she also has some cute new charms (dragon, fairy, frog, motor cycle, mushroom and wedding couple) and acrylic blocks on her site. So if you've been thinking of getting something now's the time to hop over there!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today - leave a comment so I can come visit your blog too!

Stamps: Olive You - Artful Inkables
Paper: White, Summer Sunrise, SPring Moss, DP - Bitty Babby Blessings Collection all Papertrey Ink
Ink: Onyx Black Versafine, Spring Moss - PTI
Accessories: nestability rectangles, gem stones - Hero Arts, dotted sheer ribbon - Michaels, sewing maching, cuttlebug, Floral Fantasy & Swiss dots folders, sponge, copic markers

A Mimosa in an Apron - A Tutorial

My project today is this cute little apron card with a recipe tucked inside the pocket. I have seen these in several places but they have been a larger size - I redesigned mine so that it will fit inside a regular size envelope (4 1/4 x 5 1/2) so I could easily mail it if I wanted to. (It might take an extra stamp because of the knotted ribbon.)I used parts of two of the new sets from Artful Inkables - Orange You Sweet (the drink and 'sweet') and Paradise Island (From My Hut to Yours)

Supplies:

5"x7"card stock for apron - I used Summer Sunrise by PTI

3 7/8" x 1 3/8" Designer paper - I used Bitty Baby Blessing collection by PTI

3"x5" white for recipe card

3 1/2 x 5 1/2 to layer behind recipe - I used Lavender Moon by PTI

white, Summer Sunrise and Lavender Moon scraps for sentiment, oval and scalloped circle.

Tab punch - SU

Scalloped Circle Punch - SU

Oval punch - SU

White gel pen

2 large eyelets

Cropadile

8" of ribbon - I used Lavender Moon Twill by PTI

Scor Pal or other scoring tool

red tacky tape

Coluzzle oval - cutting blade and mat (or you can just cut free hand - see below)

decorations and stamps as desired

Ok - so now that we have everything we need - lets get cracking!

1. Take your 5 x 7 piece of cardstock for your apron.

2. Score at 1/2 inch on each side of the 5" end. 3. Turn your paper and score 1 1/2 inch in on one side only
4. Cut off the 1/2 inch pieces up to the 1 1/2" score line on both sides.
5. Cut the tab corners at an angle.

6. Fold in the tabs on the score lines. Put tacky tape on the edges but don't seal it yet.

7. Move your apron to your coluzzle mat if you have one. Line up the oval on the apron as I show here - the lavender is there just so you can see the oval and how it's placed. If you don't have a coluzzle you could line up a plastic lid or any oval shape to trace here.

8. Cut away the piece.

9. Move the coluzzle oval to the left side and cut away the piece on this side.

10. Your apron should now look like this.

11. Remove the red line and fold up the pocket. Attach the 3 7/8 x 1 3/8 piece of designer paper on the pocket. Attach your eyelets to the top corners as shown. Put the ribbon through the eyelets tying a knot in the back on each end.
Decorate the pocket as desired. Make your recipe card by layering the 3"x5" card onto the 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" card. Attach the tab to the top. I printed my Mimosa recipe from my computer on an Avery Label and attached it to the card. I stamped my drink image on a scrap - colored it with Prismacolor markers - cut it out and attached it to the recipe card. I added gems to the tab and on the drink and the orange to give it a little sparkle.

And the recipe card fits nicely inside the apron for mailing.

Please let me know if you have any problems with the tutorial and I'll try and clarify it.

Thanks so much for coming by my blog today!