Saturday, March 8, 2014

I'm Still Crafting




I've had lots of crafty time lately--yesterday because my girls got a ride home from school and today because I was keeping my oldest company while she did her homework and studied for her ACT.  I had to take a pause to clean up my mess and post what I have done so far.








First up is a little number for CAS-ual Fridays CFC129:  Shades of Gray.  I used Soft Stone and Smokey Shadow, and am also linking to Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge where the theme is Tick Tock.  My dies are from PTI Hands of Time, and the sentiment is from 2012 Birthday Tags--that ink is Heidi Swapp Teal, on sale for 40% off at Michaels.  It's a really bright peacock blue and matches the enamel dots I had in my stash.  I added the blue and red to brighten the card up a little.










My next card is for this week's CAS(E) this Sketch CTS#67 and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Tag It.   I got this Jane's Doodles set, Home Sweet Home, a while ago, but had not had a chance to ink it up yet.  I decided to paper piece everything with some SU paper, and used the Lil Inkers Love Tags for my focal point.  I impressed my card front with the Lil Inker Circles and Diamonds Cover Plate because I thought it looked like a homey quilt.













My next card is for ColourQ cQc #231, Little Tangles #32: Inside of the Card and Stamplorations Sketch #7.    It is my second time playing along with this sketch, but this time, I actually have Stamplorations stamps--Retro Mod Shapes.  My sentiment and card inside are from Neat & Tangled Party Dots.










I have two cards for this week's Make it Monday #154:  Color and Texture Tips for One Layer Cards.  My first card uses Stitches and Swirls and the Solid additions.  I embossed my Stitches stamps in gold, and then stamped over using the solids in Berry Sorbet, Summer Sunrise, Limeade Ice and Pure Poppy.  My sentiment was stamped in black, but apparently wasn't dry when I was embossing, because the gold stuck, and so my sentiment is gold too.





My next card was really quick to make.  I wanted to pull out some stamps I hadn't used in a while, and I used the Gallon/Quart/Pint rule for color, and stamped everything on top of something else.   Another sympathy card for my stash.







I think my favorite of the day are these next two.  I forgot that I had bought the Text Block Birthday die until I saw this card that Tracey posted this morning for Seize the Birthday.  I cased this card by Laura Bassen from the PTI release last month.  Laura used Copics, but I wanted to use water colors.  I took a 3X4 piece of cardstock and scribbled a few different shades of every color of the rainbow in stripes down the paper using Inktense Water Color Pencils.  Then, I wiped my water brush across the stripes.  After that dried, I ran it through my Xyron Machine (thanks, Kim) and then cut it with the Text Block Birthday Die.  I also cut a plain white piece of card stock after running it through the Xyron.  I adhered the white die cut to a white card base, and filled in the spaces from the colored sheet.  I'm entering these into the new challenge at Virginia's View #1 as well as Seize the Birthday.





I was left with a rainbow colored die cut, so I adhered that to another white card base, and had a super quick second card.




Here they are together.  I can't decide which I like best--but I do think that they are my favorite thing out of all I made today.




As you can imagine, I have another giant mess to clean up.  



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41 comments :

  1. Wow x 6! Your were busy busy busy. No favourites, love them all. Fun how your sentiment turned our gold too! ;) Love how you did your Tect die watercolour cards, great use of the negatives! Thank you so much for sharing with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  2. Joyce, these are all wonderful! Your last card has me thinking I need a xyron machine. I hand-glued this die cut down just in the last couple of days and was thinking that there must be a better way, lol!

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  3. Wow Joyce, what an amazing range of cards! Cathy x

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  4. Joyce you are on a roll girl!! These are all fantastic, each one special in it's own way. I love the little house on your tag with the patterened clouds, so cute!!

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  5. A Whole LOTZA gorgeousness here MISS Joyce!! Lovely Lovely!!!!

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  6. You rainbow-colored card with the diecut are absolutely FABULOUS, Joyce! So glad that you link it up to Virginia's View Challenge!

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  7. WOW!! I agree with Tracey! All of these are fabulous and your last card for Seize the Birthday is the BEST that I have seen using that die!! Love it Joyce!

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  8. WOW, so many great cards!! I love your STAMPlorations card -the colors you chose go really well with the Retro Mod Shapes and your stamped border is really funky. Thanks for joining us again at STAMPlorations!

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  9. WOW!!!! Gorgeous projects Joyce <3 Love them :)

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  10. What an amazing day you had, Joyce ... and what amazing cards! Each is wonderful ... the Stitches and Swirls one looks like a rich tapestry with all the yummy gold! My faves are the same as yours ... the last two rainbow text block ones ... simply delicious! Anita :)

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  11. Lots of beauties here, but I'm loving the rainbow colored birthday cards! Thanks for joining us at Seize the Birthday!

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  12. Oh how I envy your craft time in the past row days . You have made some amazing and adorable cards. Love the way your stitches and swirls turned out . Your tag card is too stinking cute and I love the birthday block ....it's great for a fast birthday card foe me .

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  13. So many beauties...and I love each and every one of them! It really is hard to find of favorite but I do love your sweet little tag card using your Jane's Doodles stamps and your paper piecing if perfection! Your clouds are so fun, really who would have thought to use red patterned paper to make clouds???? They look like they come from the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (one of my favorite books to read at school). I just love it! Your water color text birthday is gorgeous! I love it and so happy to hear you used your xyron too, I love mine! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with for Sunday...

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  14. Your tag/card is gorgeous Joyce, a fabulous design and I love the elements with the colour and papers used!!

    Thanks so much for joining Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.
    hugs
    Heather xx

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  15. Wow another sumptuous treat from you, love the bright n colorful creations, I love the card with the greens a lot, it just blew me away :) love those pattern paper clouds too !!

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  16. really pretty! love the watercolor card and those little red clouds:)!

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  17. such adorable cards, I really like your Simon Says Stamp Tag It card, the house is sweeet!

    sparkle & shine *~*

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  18. It's amazing how much you get done. I might get a number of cards made but I post one a day. You post them all on one day and then turn around and post a bunch the next day. And every single one is a beauty to behold.

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  19. Lucky you to have so much crafting time. I haven't had time to make anything new for a couple of days. that tag card is so sweet. Love all the paper piecing on it.Love that green card too. I had wanted to buy the birthday cover plate but in the end didn't put it in my cart since there were so manyother goodies I wanted.

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  20. Seriously, Joyce. You can't keep doing this! But you do, so I've devised a sort of chin strap that I tie at the top of my head (think old cartoons when you had a toothache) before I open one of your posts. It doesn't solve the problem of keeping me in my chair, but it does keep me from bruising my chin when my jaw drops open as it invariably does!

    My favorites are the last two, too! I couldn't quite follow how you did it, but I sure love it!! I've bookmarked this post to come back and read again when I get the top of my head back. Hugs, Darnell

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  21. Fabulous post - the last two are my favorites - I really LOVE the rainbow diecut on the white base - so crisp, fresh & fun. Have to give a special shout-out to the sympathy card - so hard to make these on demand, but this is a perfect design to CASE.

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  22. Every one is wonderful--love them all! The tag card is so sweet--adore the little house and your fun clouds. The last two are amazing. Love the watercolored background with the die cuts. It's so great that you used the negative as well.

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  23. Love your green birthday card, Joyce! Thanks for playing with us at the colourQ.

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  24. So many wonderful cards!!! Love the colours and designs. Great idea to make one card using the positive and one the negative. Thank you so much for sharing with us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog!!

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  25. One day, maybe you could show us your stack of cards in your inventory ... or perhaps you keep them in a storage unit?!? I don't know how you do it!! They are all wonderful, Joyce. Love that you made a second card with your rainbow scrap right away. I have a tendency to put those things in a pile, where they never see the light of day again.

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  26. These are some great cards! I really love the last two! :) Thanks so much for playing along with us over at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  27. Oh, wow, these all look fantastic, Joyce! I especially love your take on the CTS sketch -- it's so sweet!

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  28. Hi, Joyce! Let me guess..."Prolific" is your middle name? Awesome cards you made -- they all look so delicious! Great techniques and I learned a lot! Can't remember the last time I read a post that has way too many good stuff in it! Not complaining...but saying "I want more!" ;o)

    ~Shery

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  29. I'm so amazed by your ability to make so many different cards with so many different feelings and all of them be so well designed! Love the pops of colour on your grey card - thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  30. Ditto to what Ardyth said! You rock so many styles techniques! These are all fabulous but I especially love the fabulously paper pieced Jane's Doodles house and the cool pattern you created on the edge of the third card.
    (Thanks for playing along with CAS(E) This Sketch this week!)

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  31. Hi Joyce - wow, so many cards - one better than the next! I love how you used that funky Retro Mod set from STAMPlorations - such a cool border you created! The colors fit perfectly! Thanks for playing with us at STAMPlorations - hope to see you here soon again. Hugs, Cornelia STAMPlorations-DT

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  32. Wonderful cards Joyce! Thanks for playing along with Little Tangles.

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  33. Wow, you have been busy! All of your cards are gorgeous! Thanks for playing along this week at Seize The Birthday :)

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  34. These are awesome!

    Thanks for playing along with the CAS-ual Fridays challenge!

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  35. Fantastic cards Joyce! Love all the dry embossing you did. Brings such a finished look to a CAS card.

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  36. WOW, Joyce! I love all of these very unique and creative cards ~ especially how you used the positive and negative of the Birthday Block die!

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  37. Wow, you HAVE been busy! I thoroughly enjoyed looking at all your cards! I have to tell you that the ColourQ card was quite creative--thanks for using our colors!

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  38. These are all gorgeous! I especially love the one for Little Tangles ;) You carried your design to the inside of the card perfectly!

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  39. What a wonderful creation! Thanks for playing along with the Little Tangles Challenge!

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  40. So many lovely cards. Thanks for playing along with us in the Little Tangels challenge and CAS(E this sketch and hope to see you again.

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  41. Finally getting caught up...congrats on being a ColourQ Courtiers, this is one amazing card!

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