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

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)

Fall flower

Fire Fest 2010 was fun. We saw the art work that three of my mom's kids won ribbons for and got to meet the firefighters from the calender (ok, so that was more for me then them, lol). DS #1 was slow to warm up to everything but by the end you would have thought he was into everything as he kept saying how he was going to be a firefighter when he got older. We did see some fire demostrations (at least me and my youngest as the oldest was freaked) and even got some pictures of them with some firetrucks. We'll have to go back next year for sure.

I've got another card for ya'll today, and this one came together rather quickly too. I punched 4 or 5 scallop circles out of a dictionary page to make the flower, covered them in Glimmer Mist, and crumpled them up. Once they were dry I just layered them adding a bit of glue in-between each one. I placed a pretty golden bling to the center and I was done. I paired it up with a wonderful quote from Verve's Blue Skies set sponged the edges with Scattered Straw and Dried Marigold distress ink. I love the look of the distress flower and it works so well with the distress brown frame layer as well as the crumpled up vellum (which has a nice shimmer thanks to my Iridescent Gold GM). I also went with a long skinny card as it isn't my norm and I wanted something a little different.

Challenges used:

Clean & Simple - sketch

SCS Hope You Can Cling To - add a flower

Stamp Something - use a punch

If the Shoe Fits - distress

CCEE - add a flower you made

Cute Card Thrusday - make your own embelli

Bind-it-all project 3

I'm back with my third project from the Bind-it-all class I'm taking over at My Creative Classroom. This is my fav so far as I was able to make another of my satin flowers that I've learned about. These flowers are so easy and fun to make. I added a half pearl in the center as I currently don't have any bling big enough to fight yet (something I would love to fix). The stamps on the cover came from Tim Holtz's collection Tattered Elements. The cover is 6x6 canvas cover from Zutter that I embossed the frame in clear so that it could stay the canvas color and then layerd Denim Blue and Patina Glimmer Mist as well as a homemade mist I made with water, turquoise reinker, and Perfect Pearl's Perfect Pearl. I love the color and subtle depth that it created. After it dried some I wiped over the embossed stamp image to make it pop and then when it was completely dried I dry brushed some black paint around the edges.

I left the inside pages rather simple as I like simple pages, and I plan on filling the pages with scripture and quotes that will take up most of the page and I want them to be the focal points. I might go back and add a little bling once the pages are full so that it can all blend together. I will say that I did embellish the gatefold pages with some ribbon. I thought I would try that ribbon ruffle I've been seeing on blogs...yeah, I think I still need help with that technique. The paper is from My Mind's Eye's Meadowlark collection.

What have I been up to Part 2

As promised, here is what I have been working on: pins to decorate a hat. The idea for this came from this blog post. This post is photo heavy.

Here are the pins I have so far created.

Here are some close-ups of them.

My favs are the satin flowers. I love how they can go from elegant to shabby chic. The centers in them aren't done yet as I am looking for the perfect bling for them, but I wanted to show you what I have so far. Love how these can be used for hair pieces, accessories for clothing, turned into braclets, anything really. I am so making more of these.

The blue flower from my last post is done with a satin ribbon while these flowers today where done with satin fabrics.

Also as promised, here are the sites that I got the directions from. All of them came from House of 3. LOVE this site! Video tutorial.....satin ribbon flower.....satin fabric flower

Blooming Happiness

I am trying to start using my stamps more instead of coloring all of the time. I forget how much fun it is to all use my stamps and create great artwork with them. This particular stamp set is from Hero Arts and I had gotten it last summer buy had yet to use it. In fact, I got it for an online class but never compeleted it. I thought it might be fun to use it on some of my textured cardstock and it went so well with the colors from inspiration challenge. I used my nesties for the for labels and the Martha Stewart branch like punch as well as the triple butterflies punch for some of the embellies. I've been seeing lots of people making their own flowers with scallop border punches and dies so I thought I would take a stab at it. I usually like my embellies to be rather flat so this was out of my comfort zone too. I took a thin strip of coral cardstock and punched along one edge with the scallop punch I have. Then I simply rolled the strip up while distressing the scallops. I did a tight roll first and didn't like it so then I let it loosen up some before I glued it to a random cream flower I've had forever buy never used. To give it a little sparkle I randomly painted some Magenta shimmerz paint in the flower (I also covered the small coral butterfly). The whole card "Shimmerz" since I coated the base and the coral with Shimmerz Spray in Baby's Breath. I also made the little banner (and it's my first time to use something like this on a project). I am really proud of this card.

Challenges used:

Cupcake Challenges - sparkle

If the Shoe fits - down on the farm theme (I know I didn't use farm animals but wildflowers and butterflies can be found on farms too)

Charisma Cardz - flowers

PaperPlay - flowers and sparkle

wee Memories - punch it (use punches)

Emellish Mag - color inspiration with labels

Waltzingmouse Sketch - sketch

One Stop Craft - make your own DP (I made the shimmerz paper and the embossed/shimmery coral DP)

Sentimental Sundays- new/neglected stash

St. Patty's Day CAS style

I've got a quick card for ya'll today. No stamps were used in the making of this card either. I hand wrote the sentiment and underlined it with some light green bling. Spritzed some Key Lime Pie glimmer mist spray on the card for a slpattered look and on both flowers. I love how both used the same designed and yet they turned out really different just because of the distress. When I think of St. Patty's Day, I also think of spring as the color of green just reminds me of the new growth starting.

Clean:

Distress:

Challenges used:

CAS - sketch

Paper Cutz Challenge - St. Patty's Day

Stampin' for the weekend - monochromatic

Rosie D's Challenge - spring

Pile it on - one color plus a neutral

Cute Car Thursday - lucky green

cupcake challenge - flower power (the button centered flowers I made)

Stamp with Fun - spring

Tuesday Taggers - St. Patty's Day