Playing with Pearls

Perfect Pearls that is. Two more cards for you today for the SCS Hope challenges. The first one is another CAS card (although I think some ribbon and a charm would be really cute with it...maybe I'll go back and add them). The music background is from WMS and the sentiment is from Verve. The gold music is doen with versamark and gold perfect pearls.

Challenges used:

SCS HYCCT20: dance theme sketch

Allsorts Challenges: gold, cream, and red

One Stop Craft Challenge: anything goes

EtsyInspired: my inspiration

My second card uses another silk flower I make as my embellisment that also doubles as a gift as I turned it into a pin. The center is three white half pearls. I used PTI's Damask Designs stamps for the background and sentiment. The background on the pink was stamped in versamark and then brushed with Perfect Pearl's Perfect Pearl for a subtle shimmer. I added some tiny rhinestones under the sentiment too. These are easy flowers to make and make a great double useage of cards.

Challenges used:

SCS HYCCT21: make an embellishment

JUGS: make fabric flower

Creative Inspriation: Glitter, Glammour, Girlie

CardPatterns: sketch

Anyone up for some pink?

Keeping this short for ya'll tonight. I've got two more cards for th SCS Hope challenges. The first one up is a simple one. I used PTI's Damask Designs for the image and sentiment. The SCS Hope challenge was to use pink, aqua, and olive. The sketch came from CPS. This also works with Moxie Fab World Cahllenge to use Damask.

This second card is my fav of the two and I'm not normally a pink card kind of gal. The flower and sentiment is from PTI's Freinds 'Til The End. I colored the flower with my copics (R81, R83, R85 and the center was Y32, Y35, Y38, W3, W5). The center was then covered with glitter as well as the edge of the circle. I stamped the background with the smaller flower and embossed with Iridescent Ice. The DP I used is from Basic Grey's Bittersweet collection.


Challenges used:

SCS HYCT19: Pink card and think glitter too

Sketch Saturday: sketch

Paper Cutz: card for Breast Cancer awareness

Stamp Something: pink

Jazzy Paper Design: inspiration

Where Dreams May Go

My dream has been prayed over and is tucked away awaiting the proper time to be set free. It is this dream that keeps me going some days. It is one that I wish I could share, but for now it must stay within my family.


Another speacial cause for my Your Memories Here post. I've been working chipping away at the daily challenges for SCS's Hope You Can Cling To month long cancer support fest and today I"ve got another card for those challenges. I used some Prima Paper from the Just Us collection that I distressed as well as some Prima bling and flower. I did lightly spray the flower with Tiger Lily Glimmer Mist (GM) to match everything a little better. The frame is from Tattered Angles framed fonts Tattered Traveler set and sprayed it with Tiger Lily, Dragonfly, and Iridescent Gold GM. The sentiment is from Verve's Blue Skies.


Challenges used:

SCS's HYCC: Sentiments Only

Winter Ornament

A quick post tonight as I am trying to work on some more cards for the SCS HYCCT challenges. I really want to finish all of the challenges and I am way behind again. Two challenges are left to be posted and then I will have 13 (a baker's dozen) to complete by November 7th. That gives me 7 days to complete them. That's something like 2 a day right? Yeah, I teach literature not math, lol. After that I wanted to make more cards for the other card drive I've been working with (that ends November 15th). I know I should stop, but it's hard to say no to a really good cause.


My card tonight is inspired from this card. The only thing I would do differently is added some copic shading to the ground to give it some depth. I stamped the snowflakes on some transparency and taped it to the back of the navy cardstock that was outlined with a silver paint pen. I sponged with sky with some grey and two shades of blue. The image is Lovely As A Tree from SU!

Tag, You're It!

I finally have been able to get this idea for a Christmas tag down. It's not exactly like I had planned, but I really like the end result none-the-less. I'm entering this for the Waltzingmouse Christmas tag challenge. I used the Seasons of Love - Tags stamp for the star and sentiment. I've been wanting to play since Claire first posted this Challenge but have only know had the courage to play along. I was limited on supplies and really wanted to do her stamp set justice. I keep thinking I could have added a little more but then as I start thinking about the night sky I remeber that God made it simple and sparkly bright and if that is good enough for Him then it should be good enough for me. I stamped the star twice: once with versamark on clear accetate and embossed with Iridescent Ice and then again on vellum embossing it in white. I kept the center it them so that the person's name that this will go to could be written. Then I stamped the sentiment on vellum with versmark and embossed it in white as well. I loke how the background cand subtly be seen behind it. The frame for the sentiment is an old piece I have from SU!. The flourish image on the top and bottom is from Tim Holtz's Fabulous Flourishes while the script is from PTIs Text Style (since I don't have WMS's text background yet). The flourishes are embossed in Iridescent Ice like the star while the words were stamped in Faded Jeans Distress Ink. I sponged Faded Jeans and Broken China for the background base color. The top and bottom of the card are swiped with some pearl paint (a technique I picked up from the great Tim Holtz). I used some sivler cord to hang the star as well as for the bows that I combined with some white sheer ribbon. I had lots of fun making this tag and it'll be hard to give it away....so maybe I'll just keep it for myself, lol.



Challenges used:

WMS Christmas Tag

Pixie Cottage: sketch and/or metal (I choose the metal)

Papertake Weekly: sparkly and bright

Cute Card Thursday: transparent (my star and the sentiment)

Card for Logan

Another card for another great cause. Giovana is hosting a great card drive for two wonderful kids with Spina Bifida. This card for for a sweet little boy named Logan. I used one of my new favorite stamp sets called Half Pint Heros from Waltzingmouse Stamps. Since this is for a little boy, I kept the card rather simple. After sponging the colors on the background, I flicked water drops on it to give it a little distress. The clouds (a die from PTI) were punched out of white cardstock and covered with white flock. I also covered the car with Glossy Accents after coloring it with copics.

Challenges used:

Sweet Sunday sketch

Cards for Men: anything goes as long as it's for a male

Card for Bekah

Another card for another great cause. Giovana is hosting a great card drive for two wonderful kids with Spina Bifida. This card for for a sweet little girl named Bekah. I used an Autumn feel Anya from The Greeting Farm. The swirls were clear embossed and then I sponged some Summer Sun around the edges. I also sponged some Black Soot distress ink around the edges of the base as well as the orange. To finish it off I used some black thread for a knot. The sentiment is from Verve's Dare to Be set.

Challenges used:

Curtain Call Color Challenge:

Shabby Tea Room: consider it CASED I was inspired for the layout

I've been busy

**Be sure you read the post below to learn about the Caring Hearts Card Drive and the hop**

CRAFTING! It's been fun and DH has been sweet about letting me. The cards I've got for you tonight are for the SCS Card Drive Challenge. I am now only 5 challenges behind and hope to catch up some more tomorrow. So much to do and so little time, but then again, isn't that always the problem. Oh if only I could get paid doing this :)

First up is a simple birthday card. The cupcake is an old SU! set called Treat Yourself. I also used a text background from PTI on the green as well as the sentiment.

Challenges used:
SCS HYCC12: birthday card w/paper piecing
Unscripted Sketches: sketch

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My second card is an any time card. It's a little scene I've been wanting to create for a while now. Not really what I had in mind, but I like it non the less. The emboss on the yellow is a texture plate from the Tim Holtz line. The balloons and cloud is from PTI's Up UP and Away. I also used the matching balloon and cloud die. For the ground I added some felt and the clouds on the blue stip where punched out and layered on white felt. To achieve the blue I wanted I used some glimmer mist as I don't own an airbrushing system.

Challenges used:
SCS HYCC16: use felt in project
Sweet Sunday Sketches

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My last card is my try at meshing Vintage with Clean and Simple (CAS). The music background is from WMS Musical Background and the foliage is from Flutterby Friend. I layered some vellum over the top of the music background to soften it and distress the yellow. I like to think I got close at least, lol.

Challenges used:
SCS HYCC18: Vintage
Charisma Cards: Vintage
Creative Inspiration: Fall
Easy Craft Projects: Autumn
Waltzingmouse Sketch: sketch
Embellish: Vinage with color challenge of rust, green, yellow

What does a bike and a penquin have in common?

Nothing except that I used them on my two cards tonight and the fact that they are part of the SCS Hopy You Can Cling To month long challenge. The first one is a pink card (something I don't do all that often). It is a square 4.25 x 4.25 size and the image and sentiment is from PTI's Everyday Button Bits. I'm not sure what the pink is turning out so bright but they are the shades from the color inspiration, I promise.

Challenges used:

SCS HYCCT09: square card, pink, min of four squares

Colour Q:
Little red wagon: hearts (I used them in the corners)

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Now for the second card. This one is a winter theme. I used some pre-printed vellum and the "snow" hill is covered in Glimmer Glam Chandelier while the igloo is coated in glossy accents. The stamped images are from Unity's Jolly Little Winter set.


Challenges used:
Get Sketchy:
Copic Creations: use the blender pen (I used it on the ear muffs and the black part of the little fella'
Lollipop Creations: winter play
My Partner in Crafting Crime: sparkle and shine
Fussy and Fancy: winter wonderland
Totally Gorjuss: sparkle
Southern Girls: glitter it up
SCS HYCCT17: pop out/up an image (part of the igloo is popped up as is the penguin although it's really hard to tell

Non-Traditional Fall Butterfly

**Please scroll down a couple of posts to find my Waltzingmouse Blog Hop**

I'm back with another card, and this time I'll let ya'll know more about the SCS Hope You Can Cling To challenges that I'm trying to play along with this month. Splitcoaststampers is proud to partner with the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center for a month long card drive to benefit those affected by breast cancer. They are encouraging papercrafters across the globe to put their talents to work creating beautiful handmade cards to send to patients and their families at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and, in the process, turn their gallery pink! The cards can be sent blank for the patients and their families to use or can be sent with a little message for them. You can send them as you make them or save them up till the end and send them at the beginning of November (this is what I'll be doing). SCS would like to have the cards posted to their gallery (if you want to) no later than November 4th. Please package all challenge entries with an envelope, protected with a clear cellophane bag or clear envelope per entry and mail them to our partner at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center to benefit patients being treated for breast cancer and their family.

The Department of Volunteer Services – Unit 115
Attn: Maggi Suttles
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Houston, TX 77030

When I heard about this I knew I wanted to play along and help. My MIL had leukemia, my uncle is recovering from a form of leukemia, my aunt just got diagnosed with lung cancer (and she is not a smoker), my DH's uncle just passed away from cancer of the intestine, and a friend was just diagnosed with breast cancer. I am doing this in their honor and memory.

I took a different take on the traditional autumn/fall colors (granted these are still the colors I see where I live right now). The idea for this came from a challenge I saw but now can't find, lol. I used my new glimmer mist from YMH to create the background as well as the new frame (which is from Tattered Angels). The scripture is from Verve and has been a reminder that even in our darkest hour our Father in Heaven will be with us and with him there we can be happy. The butterfly is a die from Cuttlebug that I've had for over a year and have used maybe one other time, and the vellum one was then embossed in a matching folder from CB. I used some liqued pearl to create the body of the butterfly and the ribbon as a divider between the two colors on the cardstock.

Challenges used:

Flutterby Wed: butterfly with a fall theme

All sorts a challenge: bingo (pearl, liquid; mist/stickles; ribbon)

Clean and Simple: sketch

SCS HYCCT: Somekinda Hope - use something old (butterfly die) and something new (mist and frame)

Nothing but Flowers

**Please go down a post to see the WMS blog hop post**

I made two really different flowers using the same technique. I just love making these flowers. These are also for the SCS HYCCT challenges.

The first card is a really simple one as it is just the flower on a card base. Since the flower was so big and the card little (the biggest scallop circle nestie I have) it didn't really need anything else. The flower is made from vellum paper and each layer was sprayed with Glimmer Mist (Red Velvet, Golden Terracotta, Tiger Lily, Peach Delight, Iridescent Gold) and Banana Pudding Chalkboard GM. I only wish you could really see all of the glitter goodness.

The second flower card I used is what I call the Spooky flower card. The flower was a combo of cardstock and vellum paper. I use several Glimmer Mists again and I used a make your own brad for the center. Instead of using some designer paper I just punched some black cardstock and ended up loving the look of it. I embossed the card base with the brick embossing folder and lightly washed white ink over it. The second layer is made up of the circles that were punched and distressed. The third and fourth layer is the black square from and the white center that holds the flower. To add to the embellishments I added some black bling flourishs. Perfect for a non-traditional Halloween card or even for that person who isn't all about traditions in general.

Challenges used:

Our Creative Corner: bring on the embellies

Unscripted Sketches: Sketch

SCS HYCCT: Four by Four (4 layers and 4 different embellies)

WMS Blog Hop

Welcome to another month of the WMS blog hop. The theme this month is Autumn/Harvest and I made two cards for ya'll. I just got an order from WMS and of course had to play with them for this hop. I used Musical Backgrounds, Season of Love Tags, and Very Vintage Labels No. 1. Can't wait to order some more.

I created the first card for the SCS Hope You Can Cling To challenge. I kept it rather simple (maybe too simple) so that the frame and saying could be the focus. I really love the colors for an elegant Thanksgiving card. I used the music as the background but kept it rather sutble to give it a kinda aged feel.

Challenges used:

WMS Sketch Challenge: sketch

...Wee Memories: celebrate good times (what's better than giving thanks)

My second card is keeping with the simple feel and the music background. I also used my Banana Pudding Chalkboard Glimmer Mist on the star and ribbon. My biggest issue with this one is that I REALLY don't like my handwriting and I had to write the saying on the card. This card is also going to be used for another card drive over at Ling's Design Studio. She is collecting cards with messages already written in for those who live in nursing homes, care centers, and assisted living. My goal with this one is to create at least 26 cards and have some of my students write messages for these people. Just a little something to brighten someone's day.

Challenges used:

WMS Sketch Challenge: sketch