February Stamp Club - Theme Card. - Shaped Card

Hello everyone

Well we are almost half thru with February. Spring is not far away. (Can you tell - I'm not a fan of cold weather - LOL)

We just had our February stamp club meeting and the theme card is a shaped card. Now, IMHO that means not a rectangle or square card.

A little back story on my card -Many years ago I bought a plain (bigger) chipboard puzzle piece and decorated it. However I never gave it away. Glad I didn't, because, I traced that puzzle shape onto white CS  and made a new creation. The puzzle piece is roughly 6 3/4" square including those 2 pieces that stick out on the two sides, but it really doesn't look that large.

Here is my card I made for stamp club

(I loved the way this turned out so much, I made another but used a cute digital image and I used it for a friends birthday card and she loved  it.)

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Rubber Stamps - Art Gone Wild - Catherine Scanlon - Words of Wisdom 2; Heartfelt Creations - Calla Lily (Leaf) Paper/Card Stock: DP, White CS Ink: Ranger Tim Holtz -Distress Ink; Tsukineko VersaFine Clair - Nocturne Dies Used: Heartfelt Creations - Calla Lily (Leaf) Accessories: Distress inks; Spectrum Noir - Alcohol Inks; dimensional foam; Heartfelt Creations - Calla Lily (Leaf) Shaping Mold; Flat Backed Pearls

I am submitting my card to the following challenges:

• AAA Birthday  FEBRUARY - #10 - CUTE  (#30)
• Artsystamper Challenge - #9 FLOWERS (Week 2) (#39)
• Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges   #2006 ANYTHING GOES (#12)
• The Paper Girls  #193 BIRTHDAY  (#32)
• The Corrosive Challenges -  Always Anything Goes (#50)
• A Bit More Time to Craft  Always Anything Goes (#145)
• A Perfect Time To Craft  Always Anything Goes (#144)
• Crafts Galore Encore  Always Anything Goes (94)
• Love to Craft #43 - Anything Goes (#132)
• Sweet Stampers  #41 - Hearts and/or Flowers (#13)

Well, I hope my card will inspire you to think outside of the box. 

You never know what odd pieces/shapes will  come your way 
and could wind up making a great card.

Thanks for stopping by

I will be back soon

With Thanks

Welcome to the first Tuesday of May.

Time for inspiration Tuesday over at Craft-Dee BowZ. 

The May challenge at CDB has started and runs thru the end of the month. 

We hope you enter and you could be the next winner. 

The theme is always Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow. 

The May sponsor is Cute As A Button and the prize is 2 black and white images. 

On April 30,  I posted about a card using acrylic, printable acrylic.

 I printed a digital image onto the printable acrylic. 

That image was pre-colored and it turned out great. 

Check out that post here.

Well for this card, I decided to use a stamped image instead of a digital image.

 I also wanted to test out the alcohol markers and regular markers in coloring the image.

I think it really turned out great.

The image had a lot of open areas that needed to be colored. Perfect for my test. 

I stamped the image on the rough side, using black Staz-On, the side you would print on. I also colored the image on that rough side, I used alcohol markers and some distress markers. 

Both worked great.

Once done with the  coloring, I attached some glitter film to the back of that acetate, 

making sure I attached the glitter to the rough side. 

Next I added a white cardstock piece to the back so the image and the glitter really show up.

I added some gold strips to the sides and a bow and I mounted that on a creamy yellow card base. 

And my card is finished.

I really love working with the printable acrylic sheets.

Hope you will try using them as well.

That bow - Made it using my Craft-Dee BowZ

Made a single loop bow. Perfect for this 5X7 card.

SUPPLIES I USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Art Gone Wild - Catherine Scanlon - Daisies Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Creamy Yellow CS, Gold CS Ink: Staz-On Black Accessories: Ribbon, Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, Spectrum Noir alcohol Markers, Tim Holtz  Distress Markers, Glitter Sheets (Stamp on It), Printable Acrylic Sheets (Staples)

I am submitting my card to the following challenges:

• Addicted to Stamps  - #174 Flowers (#19)
• Dare 2B Artzy Challenges -  (May) Flowers (#5)
• Penny Black and More –  (May) Feminine with Anything Goes option (#14)
• Stamping Sensations - (May) English Country Garden (#9)
• Colouring in Scrapland  ANYTHING GOES OR FLOWERS  (#1)
• Crafting from the Heart  #242 ANYTHING GOES (WEEK 3) (#142)
• Get Creative Challenges  #80 ANYTHING GOES/NO TWIST (#8)
• A Gem of a Challenge   - #8 - Anything Goes  (#127)
• Colour Crazy Challenge -Wk 17 (Wk1 of 2) -  ALWAYS COLORING & ANYTHING GOES  WEEKLY CHALLENGES RUN FOR 2 WEEKS.  (#46)
• Creative Fingers -  No. 162 - ANYTHING GOES  (#67)
• Jo's Scrap Shack  - No. 279 - ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES (#54)

Hope you are inspired by my card. 

Have a great week. 

I will be back soon.

Frustration is Part of Success

Hi Everyone and Welcome Back,

Here is a card that I made a while back and it's been sitting waiting to be posted. So I thought I share this now, before we get really far into the Christmas season.

Do you like things, cards, that are outside the norm?? I know I do especially if they are easy to do.

Well I was looking at Pinterest the other day and spied a card that was a little different so you know it caught my eye.

I decided to change it a tad and make it mine, so to speak.

Here is the card that I came up with

And here it is opened

I love this design, It has a front that gets opened but that card front is just a portion of the card. Just a little different but easy to do and you can use some leftover paper if need be. This would make a darling Christmas card design as well, hmmm.... I have the coolest tree that would fit perfectly on the card front. I may have to make one and show you in a post later this week.

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps: Art Gone Wild - Whimsical Floral Background CSCS-2748 Paper/Card Stock: Orange CS, White CS, DP Ink: India Ink Accessories: Dimensional Foam, Markers, Flat Back Pearls

I am submitting this card in the following challenges:

• Crafting-With-Friends - Always Anything Goes (#52)
• Creative Fingers -   No.98 -   Always Anything Goes  (#58)
• PDE Linky Party -  - Anything Goes (#20)
• Simply Papercraft - 2W, E3 - No. 17 (W1 of 2) - Always Anything Goes (#43)
• Stempelsonnen Challenge - stamp as main focus - No.153 - Always Anything Goes (#26)
• Craft Rocket Challenges  #3 Pearls & Gems (W1 of 2) (#14)
• Crafting with an Attitude -  #9 Anything Goes (#66)
• Crafty Girls Creations  - Always Anything Goes (#76)
• Digital Delights by Louby Loo -  #4 Anything Goes (#34)

This is a quick and easy card and a little different but a lot of fun.

Have a great week