Shades of Spring Frosted Designs kit

We have our first kit challenge over on the Frosted Designs blog. With everyone buying our gorgeous kits we have decided it's time to reward the kit buyers with a special challenge all for them!

It's a recipe challenge:

(Remember, you only have to use THREE or more... not all of them!!!!)

White Gel Pen (GREAT for faux stitching!)

At least ONE of the Distress Inks (Lemon and Raspberry included!)

At least ONE of the wood veneer pieces

The color PINK

At least ONE sticker (Full sheet included!)

I started out with an old scented tag.

Which I covered with the pattern paper on one side and added all my wonderful embellishments that came with the Shades of Spring kit. ( The heart bead and paper streamers did not come in the kit, but it's so cute and was just a perfect addition. )

I added some water to the KaiserCraft flower and then just touched the tips of the wet petals to the Distress ink and let it wick into the paper. After it was dry I added glue to the tips of the petals and dunked it into the jar of ( Distress glitter, from the Love is in the Air kit )

I covered the veneer bird with the Picked Rasberry Distress ink and a little bit of white paint. The parts of the Basic Grey Enjoy sticker that hangs over the edge have baby powder on it to keep it from being sticky. I also outlined the sticker with one of my Sakura Magna drawing pens.

I covered the back side with the Ranger Juniper Dauber and then a layer of Crackle paint. The To and From were stamped on using a Fiskars stamp set.

I really love Crackle Paint! The texture is amazing!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Have a heart

Try it on Tuesday - Fancy Edges

 Fancy Edges 

 -must see 3 different edges punched or die cut or even fancy scissors

I think this is a fun challenge, to get out those border punches, decorative edged scissors or even to cut a border with your die cutting machine...or maybe tear an edge! Mix and match them and have fun, that's the important part of making anything, isn't it?

 I layered all 3 of my edges together with a running stitch along the top piece.

Cricut - Paper Trimmings. p. 53

Bug Bites - sentiment

Martha Stewart - drippy edge punch

Fiskar - waterfall punch

S.E.I - paper and border

Faber Castell - PITT pen

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a little excerpt from vacation :)

http://www.bubblews.com/news/1016847-odonata

Kubrickian: adjective

From Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) American
Think: irony, emotional aloofness, deliberate pacing.

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Die Cuttin Divas - Challenge #124 ~ Ice Cream

Bitten by the Bug - Celebrate National Ice Cream Month

Craftin Desert Diva's - Summer Linky Party #10

It was one of those crafting moments, when either your creation gets "filed" in the oh crap bin or you push on and make lemonade. So here I am, assembling my layers and I put the glue on the wrong side of the ice cream...:/.....what to do? Well, I smoothed out the glue and added glitter, lol I made 'glitterade' out of my mistake. Or as Charles Shultz said, I took a lick!

Cricut - Doodlecharms p. 107
Really Reasonable Ribbon
Viva Decor - Pearl pen
Ranger - stickles, Glossy Accents
Sakura - glaze pen
Fiskar - embossing plate
Big Shot

requite: verb

to make return for : repay 

 to make retaliation for : avenge

 to make suitable return to for a benefit or service or for an injury

pronunciation
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Pixie's Crafty Workshop - Snippets Playground #172

Challenges 4 Everybody - #20 Anything Goes ( 1st entry )
Sparkles Monthly Challenge - #44 Monochromatic ( 1st entry )

Well, some of you might remember that I am working on using up the Gelli prints sheets from the other day. This one is created from one of the run off sheets. 2 different ones to be exact but I think they make a lovely combination together.

I embossed the background with my wood grain embossing plate, topped off with a little bit of ink to help bring out the texture.

 My favorites are the leaves which I fussy cut out after embossing!

Big Shot

Fiskars - wood grain embossing plate

Sheena  - leaves embossing folder

AMM - ink pad

American Classic - font

Faber Castell - PITT pen

decussate: verb

to intersect or cross

pronunciation

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 Paper Smooches store

Paper Smooches Trend Watch Challenge - Nautical

to be inspired by this picture:

And here is my card: 

( I used one of the Paper Smooch free digi stamps. )

Added a cute little Pirate hat sticker which I embellished with some stickles. Added a gem to his eye and doodled on the digi design. He is colored in with distress stain.

I used the embossing folder and rubbed it where the pier piling is for some texture. I also added french knots where it's knees are.

Ranger - stickles, Distress Stain

Fiskars - wood grain embossing plate

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Mrs. Grossman - sticker

*new font alert...lol*

Gothic Ultra Trendy

which I think hope has a nautical look to it

And entering in:

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Things with Wings ( 2nd entry )

ceorl: noun

a freeman of the lowest rank in Anglo-Saxon England

pronunciation
( OK  so the word of the day isn't one that will find it's way into any conversation soon, which is good, because I couldn't pronounce it either...not without a couple glasses of wine anyway! )

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Cute Card Thursday - #266 Can't stop the Rain

Scrap it with a Song - "Foolish Games" by Jewel

I used the first line to her song for my inspiration:

You took your coat off and stood in the rain,
You're always crazy like that.

I don't know about you, but I love the rain. Love listening to it. Love sleeping while it's raining. On warm days, I even love to walk in it. When I was a youngster my favorite thing was taking my dad's huge golf umbrella and making a "tent" out in the rain ( sometimes more than one umbrella was involved! )...accompanied by my troll dolls. Now as an adult, I'll settle for the covered balcony ;) Although I do have a healthy collection of umbreallas ♥

When staging this photo I have to admit I had a giggle because it's shot right in front of my Fushia plant....and I kill Fushia plants. I love them but have the hardest time keeping them alive...so in a way...this card is for my plant! lol 

Fiskar - Rain embossing plate

Big Shot

Our Daily Bread - stamp ( sentiment )

Ranger - stickles, Glossy accents

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Hero Arts - stamp ( bird )

Reminisce - white pen

persnickety: adjective

 fussy about small details : fastidious 

 having the characteristics of a snob

requiring great precision

pronunciation

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Hi everyone, here's some Monday Inspiration for you for our current challenge. 

Our DT member Brenshevia designed a sketch for us this time. 

You need to use a doily and let the sketch inspire you. 

 I took the lay out sketch and made it into a card.

entering this in Electric Paperie - Flowers

 Ranger - Distress paint, distress marker,stickles, liquid pearls

Maya Road - chipboard hearts, butterfly pin

Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine, lace

Autumn Leaves - stamp

Martha Stewart - doily

Faber Castell - gelato

Play along with us and you have a chance to win a fabulous prize from

Vintage Street Market

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and

A New Challenge over at Paper Playtime!!

Ch#9 Emboss (dry or wet)

Begins: Mon, Apr 29

Ends: Sun, May 12

Winner announced in the WINNERS Page Tab

Prize sponsored by TSQ Royal Castle Shoppe
"The Royal Garden" stamp set

(must have a USA address)

Here's what I created for this challenge:
( using a letter-press technique for the background)

Background: Fiskars Bamboo Embossing plate is first rubbed with Faber Castell Gold Metallic Gelto, and then run Kraft paper through the Big Shot. This is the letter - press technique part.

Heart: Cuttlebug Music Embossing folder used on heart cut from the Cricut Paisley cartridge, p. 60 and then edged in the metallic gelato.

 Sentiment printed on paper and then cut into a banner shape lifted up with Helmar's Liquid Scrapdots. Twine bow and charm added along with a small brad inserted through Maya Roads felt flower and all components adhered with Helmar 450.

entering this in:

Sparkles Monthly challenge - #43 Hearts ( 3rd entry )

Word quiz :)

What member of the "claudere" family can refer to a monastery or convent?

( answer at bottom of the post )

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My card was deigned around the sketch from:

Inkspirational challenge #17

I began with my background first using a sheet of wax paper that has been inside the bottom of my spray box. To get the background on my card I simply sprayed the surface of the wax paper and then pressed my paper down onto it. I really love this technique!

I then applied the paints to my stamp and then misted it with water to emulate a watercolor effect.

 After stamping my flower with Ranger's Distress Paints ( broken china and spiced marmalade ), I used my Fiskar's fingertip knife to cut around one of the flower petals so that I could slide the banner stamped with CARDZTV sentiment under it. I love "sinking" one image behind another, almost as much as I love adding dimension with Helmar's Liquid Scrapdots.

Also entering this in: 

Moxie Fab - The Wonder of Watercolor challenge  ( 2nd entry )

and

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes ( 1st entry )

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Did you get it right? 

¹clois·ter

 noun \ˈklȯi-stər\

1

a : a monastic establishment

b : an area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are normally restricted

c : monastic life

Anyone else thinking of the TV show The Flying Nun?

The misadventures of a nun who can fly and her convent and neighbors. Sister Bertrille could be relied upon to solve any problem that came her way by her ability to catch a passing breeze and fly.

Wouldn't it be lovely is life was this simple again?

xenophobia: noun

 fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
pronunciation
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Cute Card Thursday - #265 Cakewalk
CARDZ TV - #28 Cute as a Button

Do you think a sticker has to stay in the way it was made? Or do you like to alter them? I buy sticker sheets for usually about ½ of them, and then have leftovers that use to drive me crazy because I felt I wasn't getting my moneys worth...now I love the left over stickers because I can play with them, change them up, alter them and it's fun!

 

Tip 'o the Day!

 Here, I had used half of this sweet little glittered flower border and had a portion left over so I used my hole punch to remove those flowers and put them on the cupcake as sprinkles. And if you look at the tag itself, those cute little bees were all cute out from the sticker sheet. ( I do recommend placing the stickers on a piece of paper before cutting, makes it very easy then. ) That big Happy Birthday sticker is another one I changed up, it was too big for the tag so I removed an element and then ran a line of stickles around it to hide where it was cut off.

So, alter..or leave in your scrap pile in case you might need it one day...which way do you roll?

 

Viva - Pearl Pen

Little Yellow Bicycle - striped paper, bees, sticker sentiment

Ranger - stickles

candy buzz - font

Cricut - Rock Princess, p. 77 ( cupcake )

Stretch Your Imagination, p. (tag )

Zig - marker
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Fantabulous Cricut - #156 April Showers
Chocolate,Coffee, & Cards - #37 Download

Sketch as is on left, and flipped on right

 

As you can tell I chose to flip the sketch over;

The umbrella was cut out of chipboard and then the handle was cut off so I could lift the canopy up for some dimension using Liquid Scrap Dots. Added some faux stitching to the canopy.

Cricut - Everyday Paperdolls, p. 42

My Little Shoebox- pink cloud

American Crafts - felt flowers

felt flower brads - misc.

Copic

Zig Writer

Assorted sprays

Fiskar - embossing plate

Petunia Bounce - font

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots, Gemstone Adhesive

convalesce: verb

 to recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness

pronunciation

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Spring has sprung Challenge

 something that moves on your card/project!

 

I love a little movement on a card, especially for children's card since they like to have interactive toys...errr....cards.

I used the Cricut cartridge, Doodlecharms to create the shapes. I cut the house apart so that the Gift Card can be slid into it.

 

Here is a close up shot of the Action Wobble:

( I did have to trim the wobble a bit to fit the shape of his head! )

And here you can see that the gift card holder is all on the front of the card. The card itself opens up so that you can write your greetings inside it.

I can't wait to see what you come up with for this challenge, I am always looking for new ways to create movement, I know some people make those slider cards, which look so darn cute! Or maybe a butterfly whose wings have movement? So many possibilities, I hope you hop over to the Try it on Tuesday blog to get inspired by what the DT has come up with and play along with us!

Big Shot

Fiskars - wood embossing plate

Ranger - Distress Ink, Distress Stain

border stamp, ribbon - misc.

Faber Castell PITT pen

American Crafts - Slick Writer

 

 Sponsor

$25 Gift certificate  ( WOW, right? )

 

Love her wooden shapes, be on the look out for a huge project of mine starting May 10th which will feature the wooden bird shape!!

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Some things are simpatico, aren't they? I was commissioned to do a rooster get well card and then Brenshevia showed this awesome tutorial on making sunbursts. I mean..roosters = sunrise...right? Or am I right? lol So after cutting my rooster out in the Cricut Craft Room, Animal Antics; I set about making my sunrise. Go HERE for the tutorial over at Frosted Designs :)

entering this card in:

Sister Act card Challenge - #1 Anything Goes

 

I hand stitched along the sun and glued down the same floss along the creases of the sun rays. Now when you add a die cut on top of that texture you may have a tiny problem. If your die cut is glued flat, it will crease or bend if you pop dot up the die cut then you have issues with those tiny parts like the tail father and feet where the pop dots would show.....

you have Helmar's Liquid Scrapdots...to dah...problem fixed. So not only can you elevate your die cut to match the height of the thread but you protect all those tiny areas and it cannot be seen!! I truly do believe it's why my cards and signs sell so well, no visible pop dots!! And to think I use to pop dot everything...now it's all about the LSD, man! lol ( Drug pun not entirely intended )

Faber Castell - PITT pen

 

Oh, an another reason to love making sunbursts...great usage of those scraps of paper.

No 12x12 sheet was harmed in the making of this card! ♥

 

paltry: adjective

inferior, trashy

 

 mean, despicable

 

  trivial

 

meager, measly

pronunciation

 

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( Click on the picture to take you to TH tutorial )

So here is my take on Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2013 as a 6x12" wall hanging.

The only question I have .... 

Is this feminine grunge?

 

I cut my label from the Cricut, French Manor cartridge, p. 54 at 7 x 4.361" ( took it to the Cricut Craft Room to remove the extra cuts so that I had one solid cut ), if I had the proper bunny silhouette cut I would have used the CCR to layer my cuts and would have been done, ( much like TH showed using the mover and shaker die and the bunny die ) but since I didn't; I had to print out and cut a clip art bunny shape, use a tiny bit of double sided tape to it and laid it on top of the label and then used my Fiskars Finger Tip knife to cut the image out. Inked the edges with Antique Linen ( but note to self, make sure mat is clean as other inks will transfer, which is why I have a rosy tint to outside edge of the label )...sigh

How many of you held your breath when applying the heat gun to your tinsel?
I know I did!

 

  I found this great sentiment on the Internet by Gene Audrey and thought it fit the sweet retro feel to my sign. I used Traveling Typewriter font and embossed it since the nice shiny DCWV helps the ink from the printer stay nice and wet longer. I love the Blue Moon Beads hummingbird charm :)

 

My grass was cut from the Cricut cartridge, Country Life, p. 73. Since I didn't own any of the kraft core paper, I cut my image twice. One in matte shade of green ( 2.5" RDS ) and the other in a shiny green ( 2." RDS - flipped ) I flipped the image so that the grasses would not line up and give a similar effect to offsetting the cuts like TH did. Then, I inked the edges of the grass using Antique Linen with my blending tool.

The most fun was had when I finally broke open my stash of Distress Paints, ( and yes, I am the proud owner of every single color.) I was giddy with excitement....OK...not really giddy but darn happy! I wanted to make some Easter eggs to along the bottom and thought I'd try a Tye dye egg or 2...or 3. I used the broken china, spun sugar and mowed lawn...yum! ( I did learn that poor spun sugar can be quite overwhelmed by her sister colors so ended up putting extra spun sugar on top of the other colors after they dried. ) Eggs cut from Cricut's, Stretch Your Imagination, p. 67 ( used in CCR to remove the paintbrush )

other products used:

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Helmar - 450

basket weave paper - ( who knows? it's oooooollllldd...and I hooooaaarrrdddd iiiiiit!  And if you know Ron White, the comedian from Blue Collar Comedy, channel his voice when you read that, lol)

Prima - leaves and flowers

 

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#15 -  Mother's Day card

 

Kinda came about unintentionally, while looking for a green card stock I found this negative cut that I must have done ages ago. I placed a piece of my sprayed tissue underneath it,
 and then accidently smudged a bit of gesso on it.....darn.....
that's what I get for working on more than one project at a time!

 

 I sat there and looked at it for a moment and then thought, what the heck. Got out more gesso and lightly spread it onto the card, lol Thanks for the Mixed Media Monday gals for helping me pick out a button :)

entering this in Moxie Fab's challenge: Emphasize on the Negative