My Crafty Weekend

 

Hello crafty friends.  Let's start at the beach today, with sunshine and sparkling blue waters.  I used my new PTI Better at the Beach stamps and dies for this first card, and I am playing along with The Great Cover-Up challenge to use pigment inks.  I am also linking this card up at Addicted to Stamps and More #409: Any Occasion (birthday) and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Hello Sunshine.

While I had my stamps out, I stamped another fun summer scene.  This scene reminds me of the park near my house.

I am entering this card at CAS on Sunday #209: Sunshine and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Hello Sunshine.

I went way, way back into my PTI time machine to put together this next card, inspired by the sketch at  What Do I Do With This to make a birthday card, the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #493, AAA Birthday #27: Use an embossing folder (large polka dots), Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Fun and Quirky, and  Addicted to Stamps and More #409: Any Occasion (birthday).

And, last up for today, I am playing along with numerous challenges that have a Christmas in July theme:  Less is More #447, Addicted to CAS #201, Just Add Ink #562: Photo Inspiration (green and red holiday theme), The Male Room #152, ABC Christmas 'O' is for Off to One Side and Shopping Our Stash #449.

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Time Out #91...reminder...Happy Birthday to You

There is still time to play along with our current challenge at Time Out.  Our challenge this time is a CASE challenge, and we have this stunner from Beverly Brown to inspire us.

I was inspired by the colorful stripes and the simple black stamped design.  I used a stamp from Watercolor Wonder to created stripes in colors similar to the inspiration card.  Then, I stamped one of my favorite ME happy birthday images right on top.  This card was quick and easy, but I tried several other things that didn't work in the end before settling on this design.

Please head over to Time Out to see more inspiration from our Design Team and Guest Designer. Our Guest Designer this week is Lucie, so please stop by her blog to see what she has created for this challenge.  Uniko is our sponsor for this challenge.  Details for the prize are on the Time Out Challenge Blog.

This challenge will run another week.  I hope you will take some Time Out of your busy schedule to play along with us.

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Happy Birthday to You

Hello everyone.  I had a bit of time earlier in the week to make something for this week's Make it Monday #224, and if you have not had a chance to watch it, I really encourage you to check it out. It's such a fun look and not that hard to do.

I made my first version of this card using the Center Stage Cover plate, but it was not a good fit with the sentiment I chose--too busy, so it went into the trash.  I ended up just using a solid piece of black card stock and slicing it into 1/2 inch pieces.  I used Luxe Gold paper for my Sketched Stars.

I was left with every other strip of black card stock, so made another card that is the exact mirror image of the first.  I embellished this card with Beautiful Blooms II flowers in Summer Sunrise, Berry Sorbet and Hawaiian Shores--some of my very favorite PTI colors.  I am entering this card at Just Add Ink #281:  Add Your Three Favorite Colors.

I am also entering these cards at Simon Says Monday Stamptember:  Use a Stamp and Simon Says Wednesday: No Designer Paper.

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Weekend Recap

I have two cards to share today.  My first card is a(nother) redo of my sponged/sprayed/ghosted birthday card from yesterday.  I took Loll's advice, and pulled the stencil off right after spraying the water, and also changed my design to feature more white space.  The stencil I used was a Chevron Mask by Studio Calico.

I am happy to report that Loll was right, and I got much better ghosting by removing my stencil immediately.  So, if you are ever lucky enough to receiving any stamping tips from Loll, you should definitely take them.

I am entering this card at Happy Little Stampers June CAS challenge Sprays/Mist challenge, Less is More #227 Sunset Colors, Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop and Seize the Birthday without Toppings.

This next card is for the bus driver from my daughter's school.  Getting my girls to school safely every day while saving me hours in the car--that is what I am grateful for.  I used lots of different die cuts to make my little scene.

I am entering this card at Paper Players #248 Masculine, Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Masculine, and Simply Create Too #87 Masculine.

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Three Cards for Saturday

Happy Saturday.  I have three cards to share today.  I bought Paper Smooches Perpetual Bliss used the other day, and wanted to make a quick card with it in time to enter this week's Paper Smooches Sparks Anything Goes challenge.

I used Copic markers to color the clocks, using the colors from this week's ColourQ 292.  I also colored a little pattern for the left side of the card.  I am entering this card at Addicted to Stamps and More Make Your Mark.

I was inspired by the second card on this post of Kara's for my next card.  I loved the look of those black lined images overlapping her big polka dots.  I used Distress Inks and a Simon Says stencil to sponge my polka dots.  I used lots of post its to mask off all the dots around the dot I was sponging each time.  When that was done and dried, I stamped some butterflies and other images from one of my oldest PTI sets--Butterfly Kisses, then embossed with the Picnic Plaid impression plate.

I am entering this card at Addicted to CAS where the code word is Butterfly.

Last up is a card that should have been so simple, but took 3 attempts.  I saw this card on Loll's blog and loved the ghost images on her background.  After watching this video, getting hints from Loll, and throwing out a few misted muddy messes, I finally managed to create this.

Here is what I ended up doing:  I heat embossed my sentiment in black onto a piece of water color paper.  Then, I sponged and blended color over the entire piece using Distress inks in sunset colors to play along with Less is More.  I placed my stencil (Bold Florals from ARTplorations) on top and spritzed with lots of water--waited 20 seconds or so and lifted up the stencil, blotting dry and then using my heat tool.  In person, you can see the bold flowers ghosted images a little better.  My final step was to spray the entire card with Frost Shimmer Spritz.  Very quick and easy, when I finally did all of the steps right without messing up.

I am also entering this card at Happy Little Stampers CAS June challenge sprays/mists, Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop, Stamplorations Anything Goes, and Seize the Birthday without toppings.

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