My Crafty Weekend

Hello, hello.  This post is going to be heavy on photos and light on the chit chat.  As you will see, I had some BIG FUN in my craft room this week.

First up is a card using some fabulous CASual Fridays stamps gifted to me by Tracey when I went to see her in Canada earlier this month.  They are called Floating, and I don't know how she knew that this stamp set had been on my wish list for so long.  I pulled out my Inktense Water Color pencils for the first time in forever, to color some of the flowers in the challenge color scheme.  I am entering this card at CAS-ual Fridays 198: April Showers bring May Flowers, Calling All Sistahs #12 and Addicted to Stamps and More #289: CAS.

I stamped the Concord &9th floral image while I was at Tracey's and colored it with Copics at home yesterday, and I am entering this next card at Where Creativity Meets C9 #20: Spring.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Monday: Flower Power.

My next card is inspired by the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #334 and the challenge at CAS on Friday #131: Black, White & Pink.

Next up is a pretty literal interpretation of the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #269, using the leaves from PTI Meadow Green.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes.

This week's Make it Monday #320 is all about Spot Color Die Cut Words, and I used Folk Art Floral and a Happy die for my card.  I won't say anything about this card other than I did my best to use the technique.

I did not have to look far to find a card I wanted to do over for this week's PTI Transformation Tuesday.  It is the card above.  I wanted to try to play around again with die cut words and colors, and came up with something else that I think works better on my next card.

I think that the die cut word I used for the MIM card was too small, and it was getting lost in the busyness of the image.  I played around with the idea, and ended up using Doodlie Do to stamp an all over background pattern, then inlaid a solid die cut word into the pattern, and used a Copic marker to color all of the non-stamped area.  I am much happier with how this second card looks.

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My Crafty Weekend

I fell in love with this card by Betsy during the PTI release, and so decided to CASE it for the PTI Play Along With Us challenge.  I used Doodlie Do stamps heat embossed in white on Dark Indigo card stock.

The toppings at Seize the Birthday are presents, and I used PTI Gifts of the Season for my next card.

I spent the most time playing with the sweet mice from PTI Christmas Critters.  I have been pretending that these mice are actually rats--many people do not know that (domesticated) rats make great pets--they are very sweet and cuddly, too.

The rats (mice) on the next three cards are colored to look like the 2 rats we had as pets.  Ivy is the grey one and Ace is the tan one.

Here we see Ivy on a card that I am entering at CAS on Sunday #96 where the challenge is pets, Simon Says Wednesday where the challenge is Christmas Critters, and The Paper Players #322 where the challenge is Clean and Simple Christmas.

This next card stars Ace and uses the sketch at the Fusion Challenge, and I am also linking up at  Simon Says Wednesday where the challenge is Christmas Critters, and The Paper Players #322 where the challenge is Clean and Simple Christmas.

And finally, we have Ace and Ivy (brothers) celebrating their birthday.  I am linking this one up at Seize the Birthday with the topping of presents.

That's it for me today.  I am off to take my current pet, Sherlock, to the dog park for a romp with his friends.  I think he may be a bit peeved with me for showcasing the pet rats and not him on my pet cards today.  I hope to have some time later this week to dive into my many dog stamps to make a card that features a canine.

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Weekend Recap

 

I have had a massively creative couple of days, and I thought I'd better get everything posted before some challenges end.

First up is a card mostly inspired by the photo at Fusion: Orchid Occasions.  I was inspired by the two lovely aqua vases with pink orchids.

I was inspired to pull out a very old PTI stamp, Gracious Vases for my card.  I colored the flowers with my Zigs and a water brush, and stamped and fussy cut one of the vases and then coated it with Crackle Accents.  As Gracious Vases is old as the hills in stamping time (5 years or so), I'm entering this card at Retro Rubber #35: Anything Goes.

I am also entering this card at Addicted to Stamps and More #187: Make your Mark.

The challenge at Less is More #270 is White Space but not White.  That gave me the inspiration to try something I have had in the back of my mind for a while.

I stamped Ellen Hutson Mondo Magnolia in Versamark and then white embossed it.  I fussy cut a sentiment from the same set stamped in black on white.

I feel like I saw something like this eons ago, but am not sure.  If this is based on your card, please let me know and I will give credit.  I am also entering this card at CAS on Sunday #80: Flowers.

How about some birthday cakes?   I broke out my new PTI Just Desserts stamps and dies for two cards.  This first one went to my husband for his birthday.  His favorite birthday tradition is a particular birthday cake that looks just like this one--and as he was out of town for his birthday, I made him this cake on a card to tide him over until he can have the real thing.  

I used a PTI stencil for the background, and will enter this card at AAA Cards #61: Stencil and Seize the Birthday (without toppings).

I used Freshly Made Sketches #230 to inspire my next birthday cake creation.

I used a column of randomly sized score lines in the front middle of my card to represent one of the slements of the sketch.  I am also entering this card at Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes.

Last up is a card inspired by the colors at Color Throwdown #386 and the scoring techniques taught at Make it Monday #244.

I created a frame on my card front with score lines.

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