Category: Scrapbook.com

Mix It Up by Keeping it Simple!

Hello friends!  Happy November!  It seems like I was just thinking about Autumn with cooler temps…and now we’re getting REAL close to Christmas and the end of the year! Time is going so quickly!  Are you getting your Christmas cards started yet?

So let’s take a moment for ourselves and work on keeping life simple!  This brings me to a new challenge over at the Mix It Up Challenge Blog.    The challenges always run for 6 weeks so there is plenty of time to enter.  The theme given for us this time is: KIS (Keep It Simple) or you can always do the ‘Anything Goes” too.  Here’s the card that I came up with for the challenge using the theme:

I thought that “keeping it simple” for Christmas cards and getting down to the wire for making them and sending out would be a good thought for this challenge!

I pulled out this cute Scrapbook.com stamp set called “Holiday” to create a simple design with the solid bauble images and added a few heat embossed elements over two of them and then heat embossed a hook for each.  I heat embossed the sentiment in gold to match the hooks and then just stamped a couple of doo-dads around the panel and drew lines from the ornament hooks coming off the edge with a gold fine line pen.  That’s pretty much it!  I did die cut a few “Mini Bows” from Taylored Expressions for each ornament.  Then I layered the ornament panel onto gold and then onto a white A2 card base.

This would certainly be a very easy design to mass produce using the MISTI tool.

I hope you like my card and will stop by the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team has created too!  *NOTE* This is the last project that I’m making for this challenge blog as I have decided to step down from the design team.  Thank you to Tina for having me as part of the challenge team this year and keeping the blog running.  Best wishes for the coming year!

Thanks so much for dropping in today!  Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

Challenges:

  1. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  2. Crafter’s Cafe – Anything Goes with optional: Christmas
  3. ABC Christmas -‘U’ is for Uncluttered (CAS) & ‘V’ is for Vertical
  4. CRAFT – Christmas

“V” is for Vintage

Hello friends and happy Friday!  Are you looking forward to a nice weekend?  I have some crafty time in store for me, but honestly, I need to be cleaning my craft room!

Today starts a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge blog!  Please be sure to check out the challenge blog to see how to play as we go through the alphabet letters every-other week (fortnight) for each new challenge.

 

For this challenge, we are at the letter “V” for Vintage and here’s what I’ve come up with:

I love the look of vintage style cards, but I don’t make them very often, so this was a great challenge to get me motivated in making one!

I fell in love with the Simon Hurley “In the Garden” stamp set (discontinued)  last year , but never got a chance to play with it until now.  I thought the images were perfect for a “vintage vibe”.  I got that along with these gorgeous papers from Scrapbook.com called “Vintage“, of course!  The imagery went well with the stamps in the set.

I started with cutting all of the different patterns from the paper pad into a card design.  I sponged around the edges with Hickory Smoke oxide ink.  I die cut the “graph paper” panel with Taylored Expressions A2 Postage Stamp Stacklets die.  On that panel, I stamped the wording from the SH stamp set with Hickory Smoke oxide as well as a few hearts in Tattered Rose oxide ink.  I also took a music score rub-on that I got from Scrapbook.com to add in the corner and then sponged around the edges with Hickory Smoke oxide.  I layered this panel onto a piece of grey cardstock.  The second layer was also layered onto another piece of grey cardstock and then layered over another piece of the Vintage pattern paper over an A2 top folding white card base.

For the stamped images, I stamped them in black pigment ink and then clear heat embossed them.  I used Shabby Shutters, Tattered Rose and Victorian Velvet oxide inks to watercolor by smooshing the ink pads onto a surface and using a water brush for coloring.  I fussy cut out the images and popped them up over the panel with foam tape.

Before attaching this panel onto the next panel, I added some grey seam binding ribbon tied in a bow on the side and then popped it up with foam tape.  I also die cut the lettering from the Tim Holtz Script Words set in black and attached onto the  graph panel.

  • I hope you’ve enjoyed my card for you today and that you’ll stop over to the blog to play along in the challenge with us!  Wishing you a happy and productive weekend!

Challenges:

  1. Sweet Stampin’ – LOVE! (must use stamp)
  2. Allsorts – #816 Romance and/or Music
  3. Stamping Sensations – Valentines, Weddings, Romance or Anything Goes + must have stamping
  4. Aud Sentiments – Love/Anniversary/Wedding and/or Shimmer + sentiment
  5. Triple B – Birds/Butterflies/Blooms (must use at least one)
  6. Try it On Tuesday – Romance