This is my second post for today, please scroll down to see the Pearly Sparkles Guest Challenge details or click HERE.
Hello again my friends and Happy May Day to you! I think I’m so ready for May so that I can start being outside with hopefully better weather than what April gave us!
Today also brings us 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: Paper Piecing or you can always do the ‘Anything Goes” too. Here’s the card that I came up with for the challenge using the theme:
Look at this darling little gnome holding on tight to his balloons! I got this adorable stamp from Ink ‘n’ Splatter a while back, but this is the first time I’m using it. He’s called Party Gnome Celebration. *Today is also the start of this company merging back up again with Digi Doodle Studios! Dina has some cute artwork with her digital and clear stamps both! You can see some past creations I made on my blog here under the category: Digi Doodle Studios.*
I’ve stamped the party gnome, colored him and then used some pattern paper from my stash to paper piece onto the balloons. I just stamped the same image over different pattern papers, fussy cut each balloon out and glued each balloon in place.
For the background, I thought it would be fun to use some more of the pattern papers to create inchie squares and make a layout with them. I attached the squares to the card front and then I embossed over top of it with a very old “Dotted Cuttlebug” embossing folder. (If you’ve been a crafter for a while, then you know it’s old! LOL) I black heat embossed the sentiment from the Party Gnome stamp set and cut it out with the same wonky stitched rectangle die set I’ve used for the front panel and popped that and the gnome up with foam tape. I also stamped a few of the confetti image around the sentiment and then topped the card off with sequins.
I hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and I hope you find some time to create for our Mix It Up Challenge as well! Hop on over to the see the inspiration! Thanks for dropping in!
Challenges:
- Tic Tac Toe – #269 ( I used straight across middle row)
- Can You Handle the Pressure? – Anything Goes with embossing folder with optional: weather twist
- Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2517 Anything Goes
- Penny’s Paper-Crafty – #595 Anything Goes Using Paper
