5 Cards for Thursday

I am squeaking in at the last moment with a card for WPlus9's Throwback Thursday challenge.  I used WPlus9 inks and Pretty Little Peonies and Pretty Peonies along with a sentiment from one of the Strictly Sentiment sets for my card.  I followed the basic sketch of one of Maureen's inspiration cards.

My next card is inspired by the sketch at Sweet Sunday Sketch #272 and uses the Stamping With Neutrals technique shown in Make it Monday #214.  You can see that I rotated the sketch counter clockwise 90 degrees.  

It was my first time using Brushed Blooms and Background Basics Random Stripes and I don't know why I waited so long.  My focal point is on a panel cut with MFT Pinking Edge rectangle dies, and I only had them for a couple of hours before using them on two cards, so I feel pretty good about that purchase already.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Monday For the Love of Plants.

I used the Old Rose Prints stencil from Stamplorations on my next card.  I sprayed a ton of Heidi Swapp pink color shine through the stencil and then let it dry.  IRL, it is very shimmery.  I am liking the look of pink, gold and black lately, so I paired that panel with some gold striped washi tape and a PTI die cut frame stamped with a gold border.

I am entering this card at Stamplorations June challenge:  Stamps and Washi and Stamplorations Anything Goes.

I have been really enjoying playing in the Retro Rubber challenges, as it encourages me to pull out some of my older stamps that I still love.  The challenge at A Blog Named Hero is Favorite, so I pulled out one of my very favorite Hero Arts Stamps--Birthday Gift, and used it in one of my favorite ways--stamping it multiple times in different colors, cutting them apart and then stacking them back together.

I used the same WPlus9 inks that were still out on my desk from the first card.  I sponged Little Piggy ink on the edges of my pinked layer to match the 2nd layer of my Birthday Gift image.  

The challenge at Retro Rubber #16 is tie it on, and so I cut off the stamped bow from the very top layer of the stack and replaced it with a tiny twine bow.  The stamp I used for this challenge is one of the very first wood stamps I bought when I started stamping about 5 years ago.

Last up is a very quick card I made as soon as I saw the latest CAS(E) this Sketch challenge.  I took a pretty literal interpretation of the sketch, and used a butterfly from Hero Arts Antique Engravings, embossed in white and water colored with Distress Inks.   I masked off a square on my card front and stamped it with the PTI Crackle stamp using WPlus9 Fairy Dust ink.

I am entering this card at Addicted to CAS #65 Butterfly and the Hero Arts Tic Tac Toe Challenge, where I used the diagonal 'watercolor-birthday theme-heat embossing.

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Online Class Homework, Colour Me and Bonus

I did a little homework this weekend.  First up uses a masking technique taught via picture tutorial on day 4 by our very own Kara.  It was so exciting to see Kara featured as a class instructor, and she showed us some masking tricks.  

I cut a mask out of an MFT die, and temporarily adhered it to the middle of my card front.  I used Aqua Mist, Ocean Tides, Hawaiian Shores, New Leaf and Ripe Avocado inks to stamp a pattern of leaves around the mask--partly on and partly off.  When I removed the mask, I had that beautiful white center, and I stamped a sentiment from Say it With Style using Brilliance Lightning Black ink.  You cannot see in the picture, but the ink has a bit of gold shimmer in it.

My next card uses the video tutorial by Laura Bassen--I used post it notes tape to mask off a frame around the card, stamped the center with the Crackle background stamp, added a sentiment from MFT and then thoughtfully/randomly stamped happy colored polka dots within the frame.

I had an idea to use the Text Block Birthday stamp in this week's Colour Me colors.  I ran a piece of Enchanted Evening and Canyon Clay paper through the Xyron machine and then die cut each with the Text Block die.  Then, I was able to make two cards that are mirror images of each other.

I stamped the kraft card base with Versamark and a Distressed Corduroy stamp from IO.

I impressed the kraft card base with the Woodgrain IP for the next card:

So, now I have two masculine birthday cards ready to go.

Some of the blue bits got lost somehow, as I was pulling the adhesive off the die cut, so I had to cut another blue piece to get the little pieces.  I was able to make a 3rd card with the extra blue die cut--my bonus card.  Rather than cut another piece out of red, thus perpetuating this endless loop, I just adhered the blue die cut to a piece of red, trimmed it down to size, and then adhered it with foam tape to a piece of Simple Stories plaid patterned paper.

That's it for today.  I'm looking forward to seeing what is in store in the classroom tomorrow.

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Happy Father's Day

Are you ready for Father's Day?  I am, as of now.  I've got three cards to share today, and one of them uses one of this week's Make it Monday MIM#69 sketches.

I had to take some liberties with the flowers--I used a stamp from Grunge Me instead, and made it into a background, since everything else I tried looked strange.

MIM

I finally broke out my new Chevron Dies for this next card.  I took pieces of Canyon Clay, Enchanted Evening, and Scarlet Jewel card stock and stamped them with the Crackle Background stamp.  Then, I cut then into random width chevrons, and arranged them on my card.  I got the idea to cut letters out of postage stamp die cuts from this card by Kara.

Chevron

Despite my excitement several months back over the Movers and Shakers dies, this is the first time I have used this die set to make a slider card.  It came together pretty easily, thanks to the tutorial here.

Slider

Here is a peek at the inside:

Supplies Used (PTI):
MIM
Stamps:  Alpha Blocks, Grunge Me, Movers and Shakers Sentiments
Paper:  Canyon Clay, White, Kraft, Fine Linen Pattern Pack
Other:  Alpha Blocks Die

Chevron
Stamps:  Half & Half, Movers and Shakers Sentiments, Crackle Background
Paper:  Vintage Cream, Enchanted Evening, Canyon Clay, Scarlet Jewel
Other:  Postage Die, Alphabet Die, Chevron dies

Slider
Stamps:  Movers and Shakers Sentiments, Background Basics Circles, Turning a New Leaf, Clear Dollar Father's Day sentiment
Paper:  Enchanted Evening, Soft Stone, Scarlet Jewel
Other:  Sliders Dies, Limitless Layers Ovals

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