Oscar Inspired 2013

Claire over at Waltzingmouse has presented a fun challenge to create something inspired by one of the gowns on the Red Carpet from the 2013 Oscars. I used to love watching the Oscars. In fact, there was a time when I use to know most, if not all of, the movies that were nominated. Since kids I haven't gotten out as much, lol. The last few years I haven't been able to watch the Oscars, but I still love to see what was worn. I took my inspiration from the very classy Catherine Zeta-Jones. I love the tone on tone look with the gold and cream. She looked elegant as all ways.

For my card I chose to go with the classy look. On the vanilla cardbase I used PTI's Damask Designs to create a cascading effect similar to Mrs. Zeta-Jones's dress. I heat embossed the damasks in gold but then thought it would distract from the dress, soI decided to tone down the background by layering a sheet of lightweight vellum. For the dress I heat embossed the dress outline from WMS's You're Lovely in gold, cut it out, and then heat embossed the flourishes in gold as well. I was trying to achieve the same look as the Red Carpet dress here. After embossing all I could I then went over the top portion with a gold metallic pen. For the banners I simply used a banner die to cut them out from some scrap vellum. For the bottom banner I colored it with the same pen as the dress. I heat embossed the sentiment (from You're Lovely) and then used the same pen to add gold to the edges. I layered them underneath the dress and popped the dress up with foam dots. To balance the card a little more I added some cream ribbon to the top (although I think a gold one might have looked better). A classy card for a classy lady.

P.S. wouldn't this look amazing as a 50th wedding annv. card?  May have to do that next :)

A Little Leftovers Can Make Something Pretty

I'm still creating with my extras from the last Live with Prima kit. For my YMH post this week I've created this sweet little clear tag. I took a clear acylic tag I've had laying around and covered it with the Prima Damask transparency. Once the glue dried I cut around the tag to remove the extra and then used the Dots Cuttlebug folder on the blue c/s. The music sheet was created by heat embossing a music stamp from WMS and was then layered with some white lace. The senitment came from WMS as well and the flower and bling is from another Live with Prima kit I had. I think this would look great on a gift to a loved one.

Challenges used:

Papercraft Star: scraplift a project from DT Liz and her pink tag I liked the shape and layout of it as tags are hard for me to create.

Lil' Red Wagon: use lace

Crafty Creations: heat it up (I used heat embossing)
Crafty Catz: flowers

Enjoy the moment

Here's my last card for the SCS Hope challenge. Nothing like the last minute huh. I have really enjoyed creating all of these wonderful card for such a great reason and hope ya'll have enjoyed them too. I still plan on making a few more the Caring Heart Card Drive since I have until the 15th to do those. For my last card I used a Greeting Farm Anya image. I found inspiration for the colors through the last SCS Hope challenge which required us to go to the Etsy Treasury. My inspiration came from me searching for books and finding this. My card may not be all that soft and romantic (except for maybe the tissue paper flower I made) but I got my colors from there. I had so much fun making this one and evey used some hardware that I've been hording for ever and a day, lol.

The flower I made is tissue paper that I punched out, sprayed with a varity of orange glimmer mist, crinkled up, and kept it all together with a bling brad. I had to be very gentle with it as once the mist was on the paper kept wanting to tear. The flower itself is six layers. I also stamped my sentiment on som vellum so tht the background could still be seen (I am really liking that particular technique).

Anya was colored with my copics and I attempted to give her scarf some texture with the blender pen and her eyes some eye shadow (my first attempt at that). They both turned out subtle, but I think it turned out ok just something I'll need to practice more.

Challenges used:

The Beary Scrap: sketch

Cute Card Thursday: gently does it (use vellum and/or tissue paper)

One Stop Craft: embossing (I embossed the damask on the first layer)

Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle: autumn/fall

Color Me Copic: face/makeup coloring

SCS HYCCT31: The Great Escape (be inspired by a Treasury list at Esty), I was inspired by here.

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