Polka Dot Thank You

I find sketch challenges a fun way to pull out a bunch of supplies and put together a more layered card.  I also like referring to sketch challenges to use patterned paper.  I made this card with the layout from the current Retro Sketches Challenge.  The polka dotted paper is for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge (theme is We are going dotty).  For my card I used stamps from Studio Calico.

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Birthday Wishes Tag

  The tag made by the designer Jen Mitchell has such bright cheerful colors.  

Hello!  The card I made today was inspired by the Tag You're It! Challenge.  The tag made by the designer Jen Mitchell has such bright cheerful colors, and her design is fantastic.

For my tag I stamped images from Paper Smooches Botanicals 2 set with Versamark ink and embossed in clear.  I than sponged on Distress ink (Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral, and Mustard Seed), and flicked on some drops of Glimmer Mist.  Once this was dry I covered the tag with a clean piece of printer paper and ran a dry hot iron over it to melt off the embossing powder.  The wishes I die cut using my Silhouette.  I cut the wishes sentiment several times gluing it together to create some depth (this was a bit fiddly I used a pin to spread glue on the sentiment as it was fairly small).  The Birthday stamp (from Studio Calico)I embossed in white. 

I am also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, "Anything Goes"

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Painted Pineapple

I got caught up water-coloring the pineapple and spent way too much time on it, but it was relaxing blending the colors.  I embossed the pineapple image and used Peerless water colours to paint it.  I used items from a Studio Calico card kit to create the card.  The layout inspiration came from Retro Sketches.

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Under the Weather

I was digging around my stash of Studio Calico card kits yesterday and I came across one from last March that I never used.  I pulled out all the fun stuff in the kit but was stumped.  For some inspiration I looked at some blogs.  Yesterday's post on the Faber Castell blog features a project by DeeDee Catron.  DeeDee Catron did a technique with Gelatos that I wanted to try.  I used it to create the watery blue and grey background  on a piece of  water color card stock.  I first stamped the water colour card stock with rain drops and the sentiment.  After the piece was dry  I applied some glossy accents.  The layout of this card comes from the Deconstructed sketch.  I'm also linking this up with the NBUS challenge.

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Girly card

I'm challenging myself this year to use up some of my crafting supplies.  I love paper crafting supplies and my collection is getting a little out of hand.  Playing along with sketch challenges has helped me be inspired to use some patterned paper and embellishments.  The Deconstructed Sketch (written by Jen Shults)  has great card layouts.

I also referred to Jen Shults Prismacolor tutorial when coloring the girl on the card.  

The weather this weekend is so gloomy, awful for taking pictures. I have made a few cards I would like to link up  to a few challenges.  Sorry for the dark pictures.

Gnome Birthday Card

I haven't had much time for card making lately.  With the kids off from school I haven't had much time in my craft room. Last week I had some time and I was determined to finish a scrapbook I started awhile ago.  I'm more of a card maker but it felt good to get the scrapbook project done.

 I made some time yesterday to play with my new Studio Calico card kit I recently received.  For this card I used  sketch  #158 from Deconstructed Sketch.   I embossed the stamped gnome image and used pencil crayons to color it.  I'm finding the sketches at Deconstructed Sketch very helpful for using patterned paper.

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Kelly