Three Hero Arts Slimline Cards

 

Hello and happy Sunday.  This weekend, I focused on making some slimline cards.  Sometimes it is fun to mix it up a little.  Also, I wanted to participate in the Stay Crafty with Hero Arts #16 challenge, which is all about slimline holiday cards.  I am also entering all of these cards at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge to Layer It Up.

I started out by stamping, coloring and fussy cutting most of the images in Hero Arts Cozy Town.  Then I had lots of bits I could move around and experiment with.  My first card was inspired by the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #458.  I added just a bit of sponged sky over the houses and trees, and made some snow with a stencil and embossing paste.

I used more of those houses and trees for my next card.  I cut snowbanks and stacked my little neighborhoods.

Last up is a card using Distress Fired Brick and a few Distress ink blue colors.  These colors were inspired by the challenge at Color Hues #4.  I blended Fired Brick ink on a brick stencil, then created my windows.  I stamped the Hero Arts Bare Branched Tree onto a piece of card stock, then cut three windows out of the middle section.  I had the idea that you could look out the stacked windows and see how the tree was growing.  Not sure that you can actually get that it is different views of the same tree, but.... I'm OK with this card, but I also think maybe it's a little too busy for me.

I am also entering this card at A Blog Named Hero to make a card with a See Through Element (windows) and WWC294: Anything Goes Masculine.

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My Crafty Weekend

Hello and happy Sunday.  Popping in with a quick post of 4 cards I made this weekend.  

First up is a card for the current challenge at Poppystamps Challenge #72: Cards for Kids, using the colors at Color Throwdown #612 (the colors in my photo are not true to life--the mice on the left are light aqua IRL and the squirrels and fox on the right are light blue). My sentiments are from PTI The Skinny (about the only thing skinny around here these days, what with quarantine baking, etc.) and they are probably 5 years old, so I am entering this card at Retro Rubber #144: Anything Goes.  I am also playing along at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Animal Antics, AAA Birthday #17: Animals & Critters and Watercooler Wednesday #290:  All About Occasions.

I used a few of the Poppystamps Whittle dies to create 3 mini scenes on my slimline card.  The slimline dies are from Mama Elephant, and I am finding that using windows, like the ones on this filmstrip, makes it much easier to make a slimline card--otherwise the card somehow seems too big to tackle.

Next up is a card featuring the adorable new foxes from Mama Elephant--Little Fox Agenda and Winter Fox.  All those foxes, plus a few tiny snowmen and birds are making themselves at home in the snowy forest created by the PTI Winter Woods cover plate die.

I am entering this card at AAA Birthday #17: Animals & Critters, Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Animal Antics. and Watercooler Wednesday #290:  All About Occasions.

For my next card, I turned my attention to the upcoming holidays and made a Christmas card and will enter this card at the Ink to Paper Challenge.  My design was inspired by the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #454, and I am entering this card at Retro Rubber #144: Anything Goes (my stamps are from 2015), Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Animal Antics and Watercooler Wednesday #290:  All About Occasions.

Last of all today is a card inspired by the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #391, and more specifically, Michele's inspiration card here.  I am also entering this card at Watercooler Wednesday #290:  All About Occasions.  My leaves are from The Greetery Petite Eucalyptus, and the texture on my boxes come from Lil Inkers Circles & Diamonds cover plate.  Always good to have a supply of sympathy cards, especially when I don't need one.

Well, that's it for me today.  Stay safe, and keep on crafting.

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Happy Birthday and Baked with Love

Hello and happy Friday.  Well, I finally jumped into the Slimline Card fad, inspired by the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches #446.  I ordered the Mama Elephant Slim Window Dressing dies, with the idea that they might make it easier to make a slimline card, and I was right.  It was a real creative stretch to think about making a card with these different dimensions, but I am happy with my results.

Here are some additional pictures of the different sections.

All these little critters are from Mama Elephant Bookworm and Little Chickie Agenda, and I would highlight the dog reading the book outside the middle window--for Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #165: D is for Dogs and the bird, flower and stenciled background inside the windows for Seize the Birthday #196: Tic Tac Toe (bird, flower, stencil).

I am entering both this card and the next card at Watercooler Wednesday #282: Anything Goes.

I really had fun with this next card.  I was initially inspired by the challenge at Use Your Stuff #402: Family Fun.  Now that my nest is full again, with my 2 kids home from college, we have spent many evenings together watching the Great British Baking show together.  We have also started baking more, possibly inspired by the show.  My card reflects our watching baking together as well as baking together for ourselves and our neighbors and friends.  I am also entering this card at Stay Crafty with Hero #12: Friendship and A Blog Named Hero July: Embossing.

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