Swedish Collage using Starving Artist Stamps!

Have you ever heard of a "swedish collage"? It's a style of cardmaking very popular in... you guessed it... Sweden. The style of these Swedish cards is super fun. bright and colorful, lots of layers, bold patterened paper, you get the idea. It's also common to use bold embellishments on the cards like buttons, chipboard, etc. And Starving Artist Stamps has made a challenge to make one of these cuties. All entries get put into a drawing and 1 random lucky winner gets to pick out a sheet of starving artist stamps! But hurry - the deadline is today!

Well here is my first swedish style card. It may not be as "random" as it's supposed to be. I tend to balance things out a little too much. But i till had a lot of fun making this card.



Here's some more deets to my card...

Cardstock: bazzill textured in Apricot
Patterned Paper: various patterns from Basic Grey's Baby Boy line.
Stamps: Starving Artist Urban Set (robot and rocket); star border from Close to My Heart's Shining Star
Coloring: Copic Markers
Embellishments: Button by bazzill; chipboard alphas by TLC

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Starving Artist Pumpkinhead

Well, i was going to save this post until a little later this week. But the whole idea of this card makes me giggle so i've decided to put it in front of my other creations from yesterday. If you were über excited about the jewel tone shimmer chalks... never fear, they are still coming. :)

But first....

So this is my first creation with this new stamp of mine. His name is "Pumpkinhead" and he is by Starving Artist Stamps I just love their doodlefactory stamps! Super cute and they always make me laugh! Ok - so here's the story on my card. While chatting away in the Recycling RAK thread on splitcoast stampers, my friend Dawn and I are talking about the new halloween doodlefactory creatures that are being designed! Now Dawn is as big of a starving artist fan as i. Check out her work and you are sure to find some great great great starving artist cards. But as we are talking and i mention how much i love Pumpkinhead and our other friend Mish laughs that pumpkinhead has long arms and a wonky eye. While this may be true, i still love him. So i made this card to send to her. Obviously the sentiment is handwritten. I tried to make the "font" match the style of the stamp. hehe.

Ok, so now that i bored you with the background story... onto the deets of the card itself. If you're a stampin up buyer... you may recall how they had a sale on prescored Wild Wasabi cards. I took the bait and bought them. Oh wait... they were on sale because they were scored completely wrong. haha. So i modified my scored card and cut one section off. it works. And it's great textured cardstock in one of my fav SU colors. Too bad they discontinued the color. grunt. The other cardstock is Pumpkin Pie (also by SU) and some random black i had. I punched the photocorners using the SU photo corner punch. I applied Liquid Glass by Close To My Heart on top of the photo corners just to give it added oompf. Edges are inked with Cat Eye chalk inks by Color Box. Stars on the side are from the Border Builder's set by SU. I was going to sell it... but there are so so many times i need a little star, or a little flower, etc to put in the background. So maybe i'll just keep it. Though this was the first time i've used it. hehe. Some black satin ribbon from my stash finishes off the card.

Thanks for looking! Leave a comment or email me if you have any questions!

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Starving Artist Give Away

Starving Artist Stamps is having a little BLOG CANDY

New sets have been released. Great for the fall - lots of camping and since we do lots of camping... i'd totally love to win these sets! and these bugs



are so stinkin cute!

You may remember this post of mine...
http://papermakeup.blogspot.com/2008/07/starving-artist-zot.html from the other week. That was (sadly) my FIRST starving artist card. I'm hopefully meeting up with my gal Rachel today to pick up my second order. We are horrible enablers with each other and one cant order from anywhere without the other tagging onto the order. But hey, at least it saves on shipping! Maybe if i'm lucky, i'll get to work on another card before the weekend is out and i'll have a new starving artist card for ya! :)

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Starving Artist : ZOT

So i had entirely too much fun with this guy! And i've decided i NEED all the Starving Artist Doodle Factory Creatures. You can see the rest here. They are just too hilarious.
I kept the card simple. I mostly just wanted to break in the stamp. The sentiment stamp is by inkadinkado (I think - yipes! it's not mounted and just sitting with my unmount-eds so i'm just not positive on that one). And he is colored with copics. Other than that as you can see there arent a lot of laters to the card. I used some black cardstock embossed with the distressed stripes cuddlebug folder. I off centered my mats just to make the card look messy. i also stamped some splotches to mock spilled coffee. Those stamps are from the Bo Bunny Urban set. And then i just added some very random buttons from my button jar that are faux stitched on with black thread - and viola - we have ZOT. :) And i must say i laughed the entire time i made this card. :)

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