Summer Birthday Treats~DTGD09

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a great day so far...

I am trying to complete some more of the DTGD09 challenges, so here is a card that incorporates a few more of the fabulous challenges.  This is a birthday card for a nice young man at work.  It's his birthday tomorrow, so this will actually be on time!  When I saw the sketch for this challenge DTGD09rainy I was, well, a little intimidated, but I received a package in the mail last night and one of the items I had ordered were these stamps from a new BG set that  I thought would be fun to use for a summer birthday card...voila, a little light went off and this is what I made this morning.I stamped the "embellishments" in sahara sand and coloured with Copics (the blue popsicle) qualifies for DTGD09sgtstamper to use a blue embellishment.  I used crystal effects on the three of them and some glitter on the ice cream cone (although the photo doesn't give the IRL effect) and popped them on dimensionals.  The card front is covered in a sheet of the new BG June Bug and the main panel are sheets from a pack that I purchased at JoAnn's some time ago.  I used black sparkly alpha stickers to spell out summer and that qualifies me for this challenge DTGD09Scrapnextras 

I used the SU oval punches to frame the treats and the ribbon is one that I had saved from some packaging.  The sentiment is from SU from the "It's your birthday" set.

Here is a close up of the glittered ice cream cone top and way below is a close up of the popsicle and watermelon slice.

Thanks for visiting today and thanks to all of the very sweet comments I have received.

chriss

DTGD09 a sketch, tole and a R&B&W colour challenge

Back again with a 3 challenge post inspired by the Dirty Girls!  I absolutely LOVE this sketch!  The classic colour combo lends very well to this too and I embossed the image and coloured to satisfy the "Tole" painting challenge.

Here is what I did.  ~Stamp the image in Versamark and emboss with fine detail black.

~Coloured in with Copics

~Cut out the petals and inside "stamens"

~Cut out the two circles with my Nestability dies and ran the white one through the Textile CB folder

~positioned the petals, center & added the tiny rhinestones (13 of them)

~Cut the damask dp from MM to fit 4&3/4" card

~Cut the horizontal panel and layered it with RHR

~Placed over the card front, adding the larger polka dot circle under the horizontal panel

~add the white circle panel w/ "Poinsettia" (from Magenta)

~add the sentiment

~add the poinsettia eyelets that I double mounted on dimensionals (I punched a hole through the centers of the dimensionals so that the flowers would sit better and added a small rhinestone to the center)and then made some black bases from a poinsettia looking flower from one of the smaller folders in the Petals line.  Thanks for looking!  Have a great day

Chriss

DTGD combined challenges

So, I wanted to make a card and combine some of the challenges from a few blogs mainly Sharon Johnston's Stamp Simply #97 Fruit of the Vine using the CPS sketch #126 and then some of the Dare to get Dirty 09 challenges

DeborahLynneS ~ Taken with Texture (I used a CB folder and crystal effects)

TruCarMa ~ Good Enough to Eat (I coloured the fruit to look GETEat)

Becca ~ Cut it Out I used my circle dies, small corner rounder punch AND I cut out the fruit ;)

Lauraly ~ use a ribbon or fiber (I sure hope that the embroidery floss in my buttons count!)

That's six challenges...I kinda feel like I am cheating a little, but just didn't have the time this year to make individuals...

Hope you like it, these are the steps I used to create it.

Stamp fruit in Sahara Sand ink on ultra smooth white

Colour with Copics, cover with Versa mark and clear EP, heat

Cut out the fruit, cut, cut, cut

Cut the BG "Boxer" dp to cover my vanilla card stock base

Cut out a River Rock panel and embossed with the Exotic Floral CB folder, adhere

Cut out central panels from the Boxer paper pad and used the small corner rounder on the smaller panel.  Sponge the edges with River Rock

Cut out the circular pieces with my Spellbinder circular dies, layer together

Pop up fruit on dimensionals and position over the circles and front panel

Stamp sentiment in Basic Brown, use the oval punch, sponge edges with River Rock

Add the dew drops and buttons that I knotted with embroidery floss to match the fruit colours.  That's it!  This card took about 6 minutes...

to envision in my head.  I really like how it turned out.  How's that for getting a "few" challenges done on a card!  Thanks for taking a peek!   Chriss

Holly Cupcake

Hi everyone!  Thanks for peeking in.  Today I have my submission for the Card Positioning Systems sketch, #125.  It is being sponsored this week by JustRite stamps, so there is a chance for someone to win some of the beautiful new releases from JR.  I don't have any, and I love the tiny details they put into the stamps, so I thought that selecting this Lockhart cupcake would be a great substitute.  Here goes...I stamped the cupcake in SU basic gray and coloured in with Copic markers.  I also outlined the edges of the holly leaves with a green Spica pen that I purchased from Ellen Hutson and went over the berries with a clear sparkly one that was given to me from my friend Yvonne.  You can see the detail a little better in the second photo.  The card base is a textured beautiful rich berry colour from Bazzil and on that I used some of my Papertrey Ink Vintage Holidays dots paper.  It has the same green in it that the Prima sparkly card stock is.  This was a little hard to photograph, because of the sparkle factor;)  The sentiment is from SU and I used the word window punch and hand cut some of the Bazzil cs to layer it onto.  I used my Spellbinder Labels3 die and the petite circle scallop.  The 2 red gems are from Michael's and the scalloping under the sentiment is made from an EK border punch.  Thanks for taking a look today!

Chriss

Hydrangea Thanks

Hi everyone!  I am still loving this Karen Lockhart stamp, as all of the other Lockharts I have.  They have such great detail for the florals and I so enjoy colouring them in.  This card is another purple card.  I don't really like purple, but some florals in real life are purple, and I do like colouring true to life.  I stamped the image in SU basic gray and coloured in with various Copics.  I then cut with the classic oval Nestability and mounted that onto a scalloped oval.  The dp under this is an old Laura Ashley scrap that I hunted for in my stash and I used a  Nestability Labels die to make a mat for the oval mounted image(like I said, I don't love or have a lot of the purples in anything) I also cut a larger Label shape from a green Prima CS.  I was satisfied with that lokk and number of layers and placed it on the card base that was covered in a polka dot dp (unknown) and a cut paper doily piece.  I have had these square paper doilies from SU for 5+ years!  I have finally figured out a use for them, yay!  The ribbon is from the same length that my friend Yvonne gave to me last month (she's not that crazy fond of purple either;)  Hope she likes how I have been using the goods!  The flowers are primas and the centers are gems from k & Co.

Here's a close-up of the colored image.  I have decided that you REALLY CAN'T go wrong with colours when you are using Copics.

Thanks for taking a peek,

Chriss

Playing with PaperTrey

I am having some fun with this Boards and Beams set that I have had for a few months, but just recently inked it up and made a card.  I used basic gray ink on a textured Prima card stock and coloured with some Copic markers.  Popped with dimensionals onto a Nestability Label die that I ran through the distressed lines CB embossing folder.  The trees with this Boards and Beams set were stamped with Always artichoke and coloured with a Copic marker too.  I cut them out and placed in front of the picket fence that was made using the MS punch.  I really like this punch for a more folky/country setting.   I am imagining different seasonal images I can create using the same house (pumpkins, Christmas wreaths) and hope to work on those in the near future.  The sentiment is also from the same PTI set and I really like how the fonts are mixed.  I border punched the top and bottom edges with an EK Success punch and them placed on a darker green shimmery cs, also from Prima.  The card base is covered in an SEI dp from the Dill collection pack.  Have a great day, and thanks for visiting!

Chriss

Baja deer

Hi everyone!  Hope you are having a great week-end so far.  I had some time this afternoon to have a go at the Ways to Use it challenge on Splitcoast from Thursday.  Julia issued the challenge to make a Christmas card. I wanted to make one in non-traditional colours, and this is what I came up with.  I used last weeks SFYTT from i{heart}to stamp as my layout.  Great versatile sketch!

I stamped my image in SU basic brown on ivory card stock and coloured the little deer with Copics.  I had also stamped this image onto an acrylic sheet in Stazon and cut this out as a mask.  I placed the mask over the coloured image and sponged on some Baja Breeze to give the deer a little depth.  I layered the panel onto a Baja Breeze panel and then onto a Bazzil textured brown.  This panel was placed onto another larger panel of Baja that I ran through the CB distressed stripes folder.  I used the small corner rounder on this and made a little tab out of the small and medium oval punches from SU.  I used one of my "wood" buttons from Papertrey Ink and put a little piece of twine through it.  The sentiment is also SU that I have had for a couple of years and have just got around to using and I thought the little rhinestone on the top of the tree was a nice little touch of sparkle.  The deer stamp is a Magenta cling stamp that I think is quite cute!  Thanks for taking a peek!

chriss

Mojo Birthday

Another Mojo Monday contest!  I was able to sit down last night and make a card for Julee's Mojo sketch challenge.  This is her 94th !  To make this card, I selected the papers that I wanted to work with, my much neglected SEI Black Orchid DP.  I started with the layered background panel that I put through the CB with the botanical bg that I so love.  I made my panel really easily with a rectangle that I cut from the pretty black and white floral and double mounted with the same lime green and a coral colour (both from the same SEI pack).  The sentiment is from Verve and I stamped that with Memento Tux. black and used a Label Nestability die to cut it out and then mounted that on the coral colour and hand trimmed that.  The two border panel under neath are both made with punches and layered with more coral and one has this elegant lace over it.  The flower is a Prima and the center is a black fancy brad with white floral outlines (hard to see from the photo) and I finished off with adding some clear rhinestones to some of the centers of the de-bossed background panel because, after all, this is supposed to have some Mojo going on!

Thanks for taking a peek.  Hope you all have a great week-end

chriss

Friend SC236

Hi again,

don't fall out of your chair, this is a second post and I am switching gears and kicking it up from neutral to bright!  I have had this coloured image on my desk for several weeks now and my friend Tammy generously gave me a sheet of this new SU patterned paper.  I looked at my Kiwi Kiss and Tangerine Tango and thought they matched with it quite well, even though they are no longer the current In Colours so I decided to put it all together!  This is for the sketch challenge this week on Splitcoast. (I separated the sentiment part, so I veered a little from the actual sketch!)  I am happy that I have finally done a challenge and I am feeling a little motivated now, especially because I have tomorrow off too!  The card base is Kiwi Kiss and I ran it through the CB folder that I don't know the name of, but I call it Botanical.  I placed a square of the new SU dp over that and then mounted my basket of flowers on a Spellbinders shape and then on a rectangle.  The sentiment is from SU (Longtime Friend) and the same treatment was given that.  Thanks for looking again!

chriss

Wedding "To have and to Hold"

Hi everyone,

I had the day off and was able to get a couple of cards done today!  I have been slacking a little with challenges, and this is no exception.  I made this, well, just because ;)  I like the neutrals and wanted to see how the elements I had in my head would look like on paper.  I like the end result and it's a fairly simple card, but it took me a couple of hours of just "playing" before I thought I had it right.  To make the card, I first made my card base in Sahara Sand and put it through the CB Swiss Dots folder.  I have been playing around with this MS border punch and I really like how it embosses at the same time.  I chose my white card stock and punched along both edges and then took a shorter rectangle in the Sahara colour and did the same.  I wanted to also use the beautiful lace that I purchased from Ellen Hutson (some months ago!) because it is a beautiful match to the Sahara and I think it looks really nice with the white.  On top of that layered panel I put another rectangular white that I also put through the CB strip folders and then I used the small corner rounder from SU to soften the appearance.  The flower is a Prima and I used another MS punch (I really like and use this little leaf frond a lot) to make the leaves out of Always Artichoke.  I think it brings in just the right amount of colour for this neutral card.  The buttons are from a MM packet that I got on sale at Michaels.  They too are a great match to the Sahara.  The floss in the buttons are from a clothing tag and I am re-cycling ;))  I cut out this frame and sentiment from the "To have and to Hold" set from SU  Thanks for taking a peek!

chriss

Purple Hydrangeas

Good morning everyone!  Another hydrangea card with more purples this time.  I love this little Lockhart stamp, fantastic detail in all of Karen Lockhart's florals.  I was having some fun with this card and experimenting with punches.  To start the card, I stamped the image on white with SU basic gray ink and coloured with Copics.  I cut the image out and popped it up on 2 sizes of the Labels 3 from Spellbinders and then on this fun polka dot from Papertrey Ink.  The white corners of this card are corner punched with an old SU scroll punch and then punched again with the SU curvy label.  That is all mounted on a very old Laura Ashley scrap(I liked the white it has in it) and a pretty purple ribbon (from my friend Yvonne) is tied around that.  The sentiment from Verve is stamped in SU elegant eggplant and all of the edges of the oval and the "corner" pieces are sponged in elegant eggplant as well.  The little flower is also a SU 3 flowers punch and I thought this really looked the same shape of a hydrangea flower.  I put a rhinestone from K & Co in the center to finish it off.  Thanks for taking a peek and hope that you have a great day!

chriss

~recipe~

stamps Verve sentiment, Karen Lockhart hydrangea

ink SU elegant eggplant, basic gray

paper SU elegant eggplant, PTI bitty dots, Laura Ashley patterned paper. Poppyfinch 

access. SU corner scroll punch, 3 flowers, curvy label, oval,  ribbon, rhinestone, Copics