When You Wish Upon A Star

Hello Everyone,

It's time for another challenge over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends.

The theme is always - Anything Goes.

The sponsor for this challenge is 

 Lemon Shortbread

Prize - 3 images

I am showcasing the prettiest image - 

Winterfairy.

I looked at this sweet fairy and she reminded me of the song 

When You Wish Upon a Star

 and that is  the design that I came up with based on those words.

I added stars, and used a embossing folder to give me some embossed rays

 and this is the design I came up with.

Stamps:  Digital image - Lemon Shortbread - Winterfairy Paper/Card Stock: Blue shimmer CS, White CS, Dark Blue Glitter paper, Silver CS Ink: None Dies Used: Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Scalloped Ovals Accessories:Spectrum Noir  Markers, dimensional foam, Star Hand Punch, Stampendous Star Class a Peels, Wink of Stella - Gold, Sentiment - Computer generated, Sizzix Embossing Folder Rays & Retro Circles

I am submitting my card to the following challenges:

• A Gem of a Challenge  - #7 - Anything Goes  (#75)
• Colour Crazy Challenge - Wk 15 ALWAYS COLORING & ANYTHING GOES  (#11)
• Creative Fingers -  No. 162 - ANYTHING GOES   (#26)
• Simply Create Too -  No. 148 -  ANYTHING GOES + OPTION: NONE (#105)
• Crafting With An Attitude - #50 -  Always Anything Goes (#162)

I hope you let your imagination run wild when you are trying to come up with a card design. 

You never know what your end result will be.

We'd love to see your submission in the Lil Patch of Crafty Friends challenge

I will be back soon with another creation to hopefully inspire you.

They Are Not Stars

Hello Friends,

I just received a really cool stamp sentiment. It's from the stamp selection over at Verses Rubber Stamps. The verse talks of stars and heaven and love and....... well wait, just click here  and scroll down to QQ0821-F to read the verse. I know you will love this one.

Well since the card speaks of stars, I used my nested stars dies to cut out a star on the right side edge of the panel.I actually went off the edge. Then still using the dies, I cut star shapes out of transparent double sided adhesive. I attached those to the panel and peeled off the protective covering and covered that adhesive shape with a beautiful silvery glitter. Next I stamped the verse on a separate smaller panel in VersaMark, and heat embossed with a silver detail embossing powder. I layered that panel on top of a silver mirror piece of card stock and then attached the verse panel to the card panel. Then I used dimensional foam to mount this larger panel on the front of the card.

The last thing I did was to cut a star adhesive piece and nested it inside that star cutout area.It was then covered with the silvery glitter.

Here is a closer view of that star cut out area on the card.

Notice I added a star shape inside that cut out area.

It's actually attached on the card front base, underneath the card panel.

I love that dimensional effect!!

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Verses Rubber Stamps - QQ0821-F Paper/Card Stock: White CS Ink: VersaMark Dies Used: Spellbinders Layered Stars Accessories:Silver detailed embossing powder, dimensional foam, Elizabeth Crafts Transparent double sided adhesive sheet (6"X 6")

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

Inspiration Destination -  #48 Always Anything Goes  (#69)

Ruby's Rainbow -  #111 Die Cuts and Punches (#75)

Simon Says Stamp - - Anything Goes (#230)

Stampotique Designers' Challenge -  #210 Anything Goes (#51)

WordArt Wednesdays -  #198 - Anything Goes (#60)

Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#99)

Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes (#229)

Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes (#176)

Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Always Anything Goes (#184)

Crafty Cardmakers - No Patterned Paper (#66)

Well hope you get inspired by today's interesting card design. 

Thanks for stopping in and I will be seeing you soon.

Wishing on a Star

Hello Everyone,

Hope your week is going well. I am finishing up on a class I am giving this Saturday at Simply Said Rubber Stamps in Loveland Ohio.

This card is one from a prior class and uses the die set from My Favorite Things DieNamics Blueprints sets. Those sets are a wonderful tool to have on hand since they have so many dies in each set. You have a lot of designs that can be made from each set and if you own a few sets the designs really become endless.

Todays card uses set # 4. 

I used glitter paper for the big stars. The center stars were made using an EK Success border punch and I added glitter to the stars panel  to follow that theme. I used those punched out stars over to the side on the card to balance it out. 

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamp - (Unknown Mfg) Paper/Card Stock: Blue CS,White CS, DP, Glitter Paper Ink: Fresco Blue Grotto Dies Used: MFT Die-Namics Blueprints 4, ek Success Star Border punch Accessories: Glitter, Embossing Folder

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Inky Impressions -  #181 Anything goes (#39)
• Inspiration Destination -#3 Anything goes (#34)
• Penny's Paper-Crafty - #199 Anything Goes (#56)
• Party Time Tuesdays - #185 Anything Goes(#98)
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#109)
• Crafting from the Heart -- Always Anything Goes #176)
• Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Hope/Love/Encouragement theme (#29)
• House of Cards -C10 - (October) Punch and/or Die (#89)
• Love to Scrap -  (Week 2) Anything Goes (#142)
• My Craft Creations - (Week 1) Always Anything Goes (#62)

Thanks for stopping in today I will be back soon with another card design.

Hope

Hi Everyone,
Hope you all have had a great weekend. I have been busy redoing some storage in my studio for my dies. and I am almost finished. After that project is done it will be time to go thru my stamps and get some ready for a used stamp sale at Simply Said Rubber Stamps. I have so many that I can get rid of,  it's going to be hard to sell them individually, so I am going to bag them up in lots to try to move the stamps that way.

Today I took some time to make a few cards for club. Last month we were given a small bag of goodies to use on a card (or cards) of our own design to be presented at this months meeting.The bag contained a small frame of stars made from white cs, two round things that are made by Scotch and are called ribbon, wire, string tie downs, two ribbon slides in a green turquoise colored cs and a small silver charm. OK,  here are the two cards that I came up with.

On this card, those strips of white stars that appear in a line shooting out from the large silver star were originally the rectangular frame shape. I just cut them apart and attached them behind that large silver star. I used a hand punch and a Spellbinders die and added silver stars in a few other sizes, and attached them to the dark blue cs. I then added a border made up of a layered light blue piece that is cut from another Spellbinders die and underneath that is a strip that comes from a MS punch around the page punch. Finally the sentiment is stamped on white cs, using Spellbinders Labels One and the silver piece behind that label is a Spellbinders Labels Two shape, cut from silver cs.This card is a 6.25" square cut from cream cs, with a light blue cs and dark blue cs panels that are mounted askew on the main card.

Below, my second card, uses the turquoise small round plastic pieces that are called a ribbon, string, wire tie downs.   That little round tie-down made me think of a flower center. Let me show you this card:

  A few weeks or so ago, I saw some flowery looking embellishments on Desire Fourie's blog. Check these cool paper folded embellies here. She always has some awesome cards on her blog, check her blog here. I decided that those cute flower embellies made a great addition and I  felt they might work with the tie down items I had to work with. 

(The embellishment below the feathers is made the same as those on the side of the card, however, the center is a faceted brad.)

The next item on this card, used from the bag of goodies, is the square ribbon slide, and  I positioned it between the two flower embellies. The last item I had to use is that small silver metal charm with the word Hope inscribed on it and  I positioned it to hang from the ribbon slide.

Those feathers are from a template that I happened upon online a while back. I love that I can color them any color and then cut them out and use them on any project. 

Well hope you enjoyed my club challenge creations I made for my monthly club meeting. 

These cards are to be entered in the following challenges:

• Created With Love - Anything Goes
• Digi Sketch Challenge - Star Gazing
• House of Gilli  - Favorite color combo
• Make it Monday - Anything Goes
• Paper Playtime - Anything Goes
• ABC Challenge - O is for Open (Anything Goes)
• A & T Emerald Faeries - Dies Punches
• Country View Crafts' Challenge - Die Cuts
• Scrappers Delight Challenge Blog - "S" is for........

Thanks for stopping in today, I'll be back soon.