Category: Beccy’s Place

Tricorn Fold Cuteness

Hello friends!  I hope that you’re having a wonderful week so far!  We have officially started Spring over my way and now I’m just waiting for the weather to warm up to match it.  I’m looking forward to being outside with the flowers!

Speaking of flowers, I saw this really cute image over at Beccy’s Place and wanted to play along, so I printed it out and colored it, but didn’t quite know what I wanted to do with it until I saw Beccy’s tutorial – Tricorn Fold Card: (click name for her tutorial)

Isn’t this so fun!?  I thought it was such a unique design that stands up, but also folds flat for a 4×6 card size.  I usually make an A2 (5.5″x4.25″) card size, but I can also easily create my own envelope for any size too.  It was a bit tricky at first and I messed it up because I put the scores going in the opposite direction, so I had to start over.  I wasn’t confident enough to figure out the mat layers of all the angles, so I just added some pattern papers to the largest two panels and then placed blank white on the back of the card for a message.

I also found a stitched hexagon layering die in my stash that worked out for the design which is what I used to cut out my colored mouse and layer behind him.  I found a sentiment that worked well for the space I had on my card and then finished it with a couple of teal rhinestones I had laying on my table.  It was fun to create, and it will also be great to send out too!

Here’s a closer view of the colored image that I’ve done using Copic markers.  I did add a few white dots to his cheeks with a white gel pen as well as the center of his eyes.

I have my card lying flat so you can see that it will fit inside an envelope for mailing.  It does spring back up, but I think that’s what will be great for a recipient to pull out of the envelope to see that the card stands up by itself.

Thanks for dropping in today and I hope you’ve enjoyed my card!

Challenges:

  1. Beccy’s Place – March Monthly Challenge optional Bingo (Not sure if the flowers in the image qualify, but if it does then I used the center across row)
  2. Crafty Catz – Anything Goes #667
  3. Crafty Animals – Anything Goes + animal #81
  4. Critter Crazy – Anything Goes featuring animal #84
  5. Creative Creases – Anything Goes with Fun Fold #78
  6. Creative Inspirations – Anything Goes
  7. The Crafty Addicts – Anything Goes #11
  8. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes #226
  9. Crafty Calendar – More Than One Fold

Bugging Out With Sketches

Hello friends!  I hope you’re having a good week so far and staying safe wherever you are in the world.  Sending hugs to all experiencing a troubled time.  I hope that my post can bring a smile to you today.

I needed to create some get well type of cards and so I thought I’d try to incorporate some challenges while working on them which helps me to concentrate more in what I’m doing and maybe think outside the box a bit.

My first card is made with the Beccy’s Place Challenge freebie this month and she also challenged us with a sketch which I’ve decided to use for my card. (see sketch below)  I was really happy to use up some more pattern papers with it and I also decided to add a tiny dragonfly at the top to enter another challenge and to adhere to my “bug” theme today!

I printed the image in black and white and colored with Copics.  The dragonfly and the center pink strip were stamps that I cut out and added to the design.  The rest is pattern paper from my stash except the scalloped kraft border in the center that I cut out with a die.  I stamped the sentiment and cut it out to go with my twine around it. *You will notice in ALL of these cards that I’ve used some sparkly gems.  I wasn’t aware until posting them!  I must be on a kick of wanting to use them!*

Challenges for 1st card:

  1. Beccy’s Place – August challenge + sketch
  2. Paper Dragonfly Creative – Anything Flies (Goes) or Party
  3. Kreativ-Tanten – Anything Goes
  4. The Crafty Addicts – Anything Goes
  5. Crafty Calendar – Anything Goes
  6. Dragonfly Dreams – Dragonflies

And for this next card, I’ve played with a large bug:

Around my area this time of year, you can hear the sound of these cicada bugs with their distinct noise throughout the trees.  My husband likes the sound when a bird catches one! EEW!  This bug is a cute one from Inky Stamper called Cicada and I’ve colored it up with pencils this time.  Hard to see, but I’ve also added some shimmer with a glitter pen on his wings.

I’ve used the Picket Fence Tree Bark stencil over kraft on the background and then splattered it with brown and white paint. The leaves under the bug and the accent came from the Lisa Horton Variegated Leaf EF+die that I cut over light green cardstock.  I used some metallic green wax to go over the details in them.  I also used some gel pens to make some doodles around the strip, the circle and under the sentiment along with following a sketch. (details below) You will also notice more sparkly gems!  I’m also entering this in the Inky Stamper FB challenge this month which is using an IS bug image.

Challenges for card #2

  1. Sketch Saturday – #732 sketch + twist: add a doodle
  2. Creative Knockouts – #501 Anything Goes
  3. We Love Stamping – Masculine
  4. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
  5. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – Anything Goes
  6. A Place to Start – Anything Goes optional: leaves/trees
  7. The Corrosive – Anything Goes

For my last card I decided to keep this one simple’ish’:

So, I know these aren’t real bugs because I’m not squealing, but these guys are too cute! They’re popping up out of the dirt for a special greeting!  I mixed in both a new and older stamp set from Lawn Fawn on this one. I’ve used another sketch for this one and decided to keep it very simple.  The hardest part of this was the coloring which honestly wasn’t all that difficult either because they’re small images.  I’ve also added some shimmer with a glitter pen on the wings and of course, there’s those sparkly gems again!

Challenges for card #3

  1. Sunday Stamps – SSC316 in the corner sketch
  2. The Paper Players – CAS using any Bug
  3. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Clean and Simple
  4. Krafty Chicks – CAS (Clean and Simple)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I appreciate your time and thoughts!  I’ll be seeing you again on Saturday with another AJ page!

Margarita and a Rainbow

Hello friends!  I hope you’re having a great week so far and that you’re able to keep cool as I know it seems to be pretty warm for many of us in the U.S.  It’s a great time to do some crafting, so I thought I’d share a few cards that I made that I needed. (Scroll down in this post to see the ‘rainbow’ card.)

I think a margarita sounds pretty refreshing in this heat!  Newton here seems to be enjoying it anyway!  All of the stamps I’ve used are from Newton’s Nook and I’ve made this card for a special person’s birthday.  This person I’m making this card for had gotten me hooked on mango margaritas and I wanted to represent that in the card.  (Note the salt rim on the glass.)  The color is more a strawberry color, but I wanted to go with the colors for the Inky Paws Challenge. (See below in the challenge list.)

I stamped the “happy birthday” sentiment (retired set from Newton’s Nook) repeatedly in the background on the pink panel and then I splattered it with white Copic and water with a brush.  The panel was cut from the Newton’s Nook Framework die set and layered with colors that match with the challenge.  The blue card base was repeated stamped with the taco and I stamped, colored and cut one out to place behind Newton with the margarita.  I took a strip of Doodlebug green polka-dot paper and white heat embossed the sentiment.  I cut a tiny strip off and turned it over to glue at the top of the strip.  I used foam tape to add the margarita kitty, finished it off with white twine and sequins with a spot of Stickles in the centers.

Challenges for margarita card:

  1. Inky Paws – #203 color challengeIPC203
  2. Country View – 4 legged friend
  3. The Diva’s That Cut Paper – Birthday theme
  4. NBUS – #52 July (Never Before Used Schtuff!)  New Newton’s Nook products!
  5. Crazy for Cats – Anything ‘CAT’ goes optional: festive
  6. Daring Cardmakers – summer drinkscover
  7. Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes

Here’s another card I wanted to make for Beccy’s Place challenge using the free image that was provided this month and I thought it would make a great card for encouragement to send for a special cause I’m donating for:

I’ve used the non-colored version of this image and before printing it out, I’ve added a sentiment at the bottom from the Seasonal Window digital set from Beccy’s Place.  (There are quite a few uplifting quotes in that one.)  I colored the image with Copics and added a bit of shimmer on the sun with a glitter pen.

I think I’ve made this popped up frame around the image more complicated than what it needed to be, but I cut out the scallop frame twice for thickness, and also printed out a piece of the rainbow looking papers that was also a part of this month’s Beccy’s Place Challenge free image.  I cut it out with the scalloped frame and attached it to my double thick frame layers.  The image was placed over a black cardstock and the popped-out rainbow frame was placed over the image keeping a portion of the black frame showing.  These layers were mounted over a 4 1/2″ square white card base.

Hope that you’ve enjoyed my cards today!  Thank you for stopping in and I’ll be seeing you Saturday for another Art Journal Page!

Challenges for ‘rainbow’ card:

  1. Beccy’s Place Challenge – July Anything Goes using Beccy’s Place image optional: animal(s)
  2. Crafts Galore Encore – Anything Goes
  3. The Corrosive – Anything Goes
  4. The Crafty Addicts – Anything Goes
  5. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – Anything Goes
  6. Love to Scrap – Anything Goes
  7. Love to Craft – Anything Goes

Rainbow Chicken

Hello friends!  Hope you’re enjoying your week so far.  We’ve been having some really hot and dry days lately, so I’m trying to get some motivation going and have some play time for crafting!

I have not played along before, but I decided to grab this fun digital freebie from the Beccy’s Place Challenge and have a go at it because it really made me laugh when I saw it!

Isn’t this such a fun image?!  There was an option of different pre-colored images, but I decided to print out the lined image to color in.  I colored the chicken in rainbow and then added a pair of die cut glasses in silver mirror cardstock that I had on hand.  (I already had the glasses cut out from another card I made that was laying out on my desk, so when coloring this image, I thought it would be fun to add!)

The layout came from a sketch challenge that she’s also sponsoring. (see challenge list below) I thought that I was going to leave it as just black and white to make the rainbow chicken stand out, but I found some fun rainbow papers and decided to add one panel to go with the chicken.  I came up with and typed out the sentiment underneath the image and printed them both together.

For another part of Beccy’s challenge, there is an optional theme she included which was “doodling”.  So I took a white gel pen and added some lines for highlights on the chicken.  I’ve also taken a black marker pen to make some squiggle lines around the image panel too.  I blended some grey ink around the edges and then used a distress tool for the distressed edges.

After adding the glasses, I covered the eyeballs with some crystal effects for shine. 

And this one has been sent off to hopefully make someone smile!  I hope you like it too! 

Thanks so much for dropping in and I’ll see you again on Saturday for another AJ page!

Challenges:

  1. Beccy’s Place Challenges – June Challenge using Beccy’s Place image with optional doodling
  2. Cheerful Sketches – June sketchSketch
  3. The Diva’s That Cut..Paper! – Use a Critter
  4. The Corrosive – Anything Goes
  5. Crafter’s Cafe – Humorous
  6. Crafty Catz – Anything Goes optional: FUN
  7. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
  8. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – Anything Goes