"let them eat cake" (10 min Craft Dash, Neat and Tangled)

Have you seen all the hoopla at the 10 Minute Craft Dash and Neat and Tangled blogs?  It's a big old

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY 

for both of them.  I just love the whimsical nature of N&T stamps and I would love to become good at creating a card in 10 minutes.  So with a (nearly) perfect plan in hand I set off to create a birthday card.  In ten  minutes.  Or less.  The idea?  I couldn't help myself but when I saw the great free digi stamp at N&T all I could think of was the supposed "Let them eat cake" from Marie Antoinette.  Um, was she even a queen?  Oh well.  Hold that thought.

The goods.

 The card.

The time.

I can't believe I really did it.  Just over 9 minutes.  Even retying my bow two times.  This 10 minute stuff usually kills me.  And although I gathered all my stuff (including the already printed out digi stamp, hope that's allowed) I still scrambled when I decided I needed an additional touch of gray (the heart border from my scrap box) and the twine at the top (luckily I knew where to find it.)

OK, so I guess it's really all in the planning.  Give it a whirl.  And check out all the fun sequin cards over at N&T too.  Loads of inspiration.

Thanks for looking. Think I need a nap.

Supplies for eat cake:

Paper: cardbase Papermania

Stamps: Crafty Secrets, sentiment American Crafts, digi sentiment Neat and Tangled

Ink : amuse, Hero Arts 

Tools: border die PTI

Other: crochet thread, washi, pearl

teenage motivation #1 (10min craft dash)

I did it again - the 10-minute Craft Dash.  And I made it before my timer went off.  Barely.  12 seconds left!  And I had to go back and glue some blooms on better with stronger-than-Glossy-Accents glue cuz I guess it doesn't work between fabric and paper, but I'm not counting that.

Needed gifts for kids I tutor who made their confirmation. Wanted to include a motivational quote and  personalize store-bought journals for each of them.  When I saw the Craft Dash colors I decided to challenge myself on this girly one. I had the sentiment ready to go and  I pulled the papers and my flower punches as well as the tiny alpha stickers ahead of time.  Keeping with the notecard theme I included some washi but probably shouldn't have.  In glueing down the flowers I aimed to put pink across from pink and blue across from blue but I probably could have done a better job.  Oh well.  Time pressure stinks, but it gets things done much quicker I must admit. Could probably have spent 10 minutes just re-arranging blooms!

Give the Craft Dash a go if you haven't before.  It's definitely challenging but you feel good when you're done.  And there's always a great prize.

Thanks for visiting.

Supplies journal - Strength:

Paper: notecard, PP K& Co.

Stamps: sentiment PC generated

Ink: 

Tools: punches

Other: washi, letter stickers KI Memories, journal Aldi, glue

10-minute craft dashing again (10 min Craft Dash, LIM)

How do you overcome a phobia?  You face your fears...  10-minute-Craft-Dash #10 here I come again.

Took an idea from a previous card, an old Retro sketch and 10:11 minutes.  Oh, and a glass of red wine at dinner before my crafting session.  This is what happened.

Did ya catch the pink liquid pearls for the lips and the "i"s?  OK, I'll 'fess up.  I had the idea to add the pink twine after a night's sleep ;)

Also playing at Less is More - Week 103 Friends.

Thanks for looking.

Supplies for It's a girl thing:

Paper: Cardbase Neenah, PP scraps

Stamps: Inkadinkado, sentiment Rubbernecker

Ink : Hero Arts

Tools: 

Other:  nail decals, liquid pearls, twine

10-min-craft-dashophobia (10 min Craft Dash, PC, SSS)

I was ready to go.  I had the idea and the colors at 10 minute Craft Dash gave me my colors.  Had a plan.  Had my supplies out.  Even cheated by planning/spacing my PC-generated sentiment ahead of time.  What could go wrong?

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7:36 later (including my through-the-house-reverberating scream) this is what I had in my hand.  A tear in my embossed-with-a-homemade-frame card front.......Too much pressure in my Big Shot sandwich.  Forgot to do a trial run as part of my planning!

A phobia for this challenge I'm tellin' ya.  But, I really, really, really would love to win some WPlus9 stamps.  I've got it bad.  I've even started a wish list over there!  So I figured I would try again.

Two tutoring sessions later when I re-entered my cave ready to face my phobia once again, el cheapo me was wondering what I was going to do with the torn card.  Ta da!

Now, I didn't even turn my stopwatch on, but I swear this took me less than two minutes.  The square dies were out and I knew I had those two washi colors - right where they belonged even!  Die cut.  Taped.  Done.

I love this card.  This is my actual card for BFF.  She's one year ahead of me so I always figure I can make snotty remarks.  Love how the snottiness is disguised in the feminine, soft style of the card.  HA!!!!!!!!!

Packaged up the card set I'm sending her is a cute glassine bag my Neat & Tangled stamps came in.  How sweet is that!  Wanna see the finished product?

Hooking up at:
10 min Craft Dash - Challenge #10
Simon Says Stamp - Use Washi (ya don't have to ask me twice)
Paper Crafts Connection - January 2013 gallery

THANKS for sticking with me!

Supplies for 20/30:

Paper: cardbase Buttinette

Stamps: We R Memory Makers, sentiment PC generated

Ink : Cat's Eyes

Tools: square die Sizzix

Other: green washi Target, pink washi Freckled Fawni

a little goes a long way (10 min Craft Dash, SSS, Dream Valley)

Nothing like a little stress to help a card along.  Promised DD I would make a Christmas card for her riding instructor.  Forgot.  Today she has riding lessons.  So I peel out from the dining table, head to my craft room and make a card.  And I did it in 8 minutes and 43 seconds.  Unbelievable!

OK, so I had the idea in my head all along.

And the embossing supplies were already out thanks to yesterday's tag.  When I had seen the 10-Minute-Craft-Dash challenge to use red I knew the sentiment would be heat embossed red goodness - thus the "a little goes a long way" title of my post.  Even made the decision to round the corner at the last minute - just did it without standing there contemplating it first ;)  Would have liked to add red glitter glue to the berries but didn't have time to go hunting for it and DD wouldn't have waited for it to dry.  She nearly killed me when I said I wanted to take a quick photo before she could leave... the joys of having a Mom with a blog, eh?

Also joining:
Simon Says Stamp - What's your Favorite?  (I love that Hero Arts branch stamp)
Dream Valley #47 - Christmas
Cupcake Craft Challenge #222 - Merry Christmas (that was my room number freshman year in college!)

Go make a card in 10 minutes or less.  You'll be pretty proud of yourself!  I have to go clean up my kitchen.

Supplies for Merry Christmas:

Paper: PTI

Stamps: branch Hero Arts, berries WMS, horse Artemio, sentiment 7 Gypsies

Ink : Versamagic, Versamark

Tools: corner rounder EKS

Other: embossing powder 

a CAS(E)ing dash (CAS(E), 10min Craft Dash)

I knew this would be tough.  I 'm not even couting  the "idea" time-  which was basically the time between looking at Sketch #5 at CAS(E) this Sketch, taking a shower and then making the card.  And still... 14:40.  Geez.

I'm blaming it on the alpha die that I had to break apart to get my letters.  And putting drops of glue on those die cut letters.  May I say it again.  Geez.

Needed a congrats card for DD who just attended some weekend workshops to become a certified trainer's helper for little girls' gymnastics.  But ideas just weren't happening.  So actually, after my venting above, let me say that this was actually a great success.  14:40 rarely happens in my cardmaking world!

The colors from 10 minute Craft Dash- easy - Distress Inks and masking with post-it notes.  What to do with those three circles in the sketch.  How appropriate that  DD's name can be shortened to three letters.  Inlaid die cuts (a la JJ).  Forgot to pull out my sentiment stamp before starting and that actually caused a backup cuz I thought I would use a CHF rubber stamp but then panicked that I couldn't line it up properly so opted for a Stampendous clear stamp.

All in all, I'm happy.  Hope you're having a happy weekend too.

Supplies for congratulations:

Paper:CS Neenah, recycled packaging

Stamps: Stampendous

Ink : Distress Ink, Versafine

Tools: die Memory Box

Other: