about a boy (CFC, SCS, Moxie Fab)

Saw a popper card that Julie E. made over at Ellen Hutson's Classroom and wanted to give it a try.  I concocted my own and what fun it was!

HYCCT#1201B challenges you to make a card for a kid - often we forget about the kids of cancer patients.    
And CASual Fridays #77 is all about making a card for a boy.  So I created a card which I can imagine a  mom giving to her son.  "U R my rock star".

I knew I wanted to do the "U" "R" thing on the front.  I have these cool brown glitter letters - cool, but like when can you use them?!?!?  I pulled out some Making Memories "Just Chillin" PP with a teenage boy theme and brown in the patterns and went from there.  Crafted the popper mechanism and the star and sentiment to go on it.  TIP:  Don't make them too big or you may have difficulties getting the card to open/close properly.  Ask me how I know...  Used a Kim Hughes set from CHF to stamp stars on the front panel and inside as well as the sentiment and guitar on the star.  Added some eyelets and triangles to the front cuz it seemed appropriate.  Distress inked the edges.

Also hooking up to the Moxie Fab World where there is a challenge to use alphabet stickers.  Got lots.  Two less now!

Appreciate your visit.

Supplies for U R my rock star:

Paper: cardbase Papermania,  PP making memories

Stamps: CHF

Ink : Distress Ink,

Tools: star die Sizzix, circle die MFT

Other: embossing powder Zing, eyelets, letter stickers making memories

it's your CAS day (SCS)

Had a not-yet-used beauty from Heartfelt Creations rubber stamps.  Inked it up with markers, spritzed with water and stamped.  Spritzed and stamped again and this was the result.

Added the lovely PTI sentiment cuz HYCCT#1228 is a CAS challenge with focus on the sentiment.  I think this works.

Happy day.

Supplies It's your day:

Paper: CS Papertrey 

Stamps: Heartfelt Creations, sentiment PTI

Ink : markers, Versafine

Tools: corner rounder EKS

Other: bling

them there hills (WMS, SCS)

You know... "the best laid plans of mice and men...".
This is the sketch at Waltzingmouse Sketch Challege:

I knew I wanted to combine this sketch with HYCCT#1212 "Start Spreading the News."  Can you guess what the challenge is?  Make a card based on a show tune.  Can you guess what movie tune I had in mind?

Do I hear Julie Andrews singing somewhere?  Somewhere in the "hills"?

Yep, them there hills are alive with the sound of music.  One minor detail... no sheet music worked in here as originally planned.  This one just flowed.  Tried a new-for-me-approach.  Pulled out my WMS stamp sets (although you can now enter their challenges even if you don't use WMS stamps!) and had my die cut hills and just went from there.  Fun!

Die cut and stamped the hills.  Masked off the spot for the sun.  Stamped the sky.  Stamped the sun with pigment ink and embossed with clear.  Stamped the label, embossed with white and fussy cut.  Die cut and stamped the little house.  Stamped the sentiment on the cardbase and part of the "Y" on the hill piece for interest.  And then it was dark and I had to take a photo inside :(

Can you find ""Nordic Winter", "Large Doily", "Pic-Nic patterns", "Around Christmastime", "Heirloom Patterns" and "French Country"?  They're all there.  I used all six sets!  This was super fun to make - if I hadn't been interrupted five times in the process!

Thanks for visiting.

Supplies for You:

Paper: cardbase Papermania, CS Coredinations, PP recycled

Stamps: WMS

Ink : Distress Ink, Cat's Eye to emboss, Versafine

Tools:die Memory Box, PTI

Other: vellum, embossing powder (clear and white)

piglet or pooh - which are you? (Retro, SCS)

Another post with a very literal interpretation of the for-a-couple-more-hours current Retro Sketch for Challenge #35.  Literal,  because I also made the card for the HYCCT#1231 "A Walk in the Woods".

Granted, no woods around here look like this cute and fun card.  Actually, we hardly have woods around here - just the lone walnut trees in the midst of the vineyards...  But I wasn't in the mood for an artsy fartsy card at the moment.

When I found this quote from A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh", I knew I had to use it - for the HYCCT campaign.  Cuz it is basically about how you see the world.  Dealing with cancer is definitely not a fun thing.  But I can only imagine it may be easier to do if you are capable of seeing the glass half-full instead of half-empty.  Although in my heart I think I am an optimist, I do tend to be like Piglet in my daily life, always seeing the negative.  I need to take some lessons from  gentle Pooh Bear.

Definitely hard to get this sentiment onto a card like this.  This one won't win any prizes, but I felt compelled to make it.  Found this digi freebie stamp from Dawn and printed it on four pieces of CS.  Added a die cut wonky border, some clouds faintly in the BG and the eyelet/floss like the sketch.

Thanks for visiting - possibly for the second time today!

Supplies Pooh:

Paper: cardbase Buttinette, CS Coredinations, PP Basic Grey and Penny Black

Stamps: digi Dawn Moore, clouds Sassafras

Ink : Distress Ink

Tools:die Memory Box, decorative edge scissors, eyelet setter

Other: eyelets, PC, embroidery floss 

(g)rays of hope (Paper Smooches, SCS)

An oldie but a goodie, this little Mocha Chica stamp set which Kim Hughes designed for Cornish Heritage Farms.  Perfect for what I hoped to create for this Paper Smooches Sparks Picture Perfect challenge:

Don't ya just love that gray/yellow combo.  And the graphic nature of it.  I love just about every picture they come up with over there.  And the DT is switching out, so I needed to play along this last time.  (They didn't want me for their DT.  Blow to the ego, but I survived ;)  Maybe Mr. Random likes me better!

 Perched fussy cut Chica with a tuft of feathers on her head on a die cut twiggy tree grounded with some gingham PP.  Stamped the cheery sentiment and added some stitching.  CAS.

This is also for Beate J.'s HYCCT#1201C "Rays of Hope" challenge to use grays with a splash of color.

Have a great weekend.  Is it weekend again already? Time sure flies when you're having fun, eh?

Supplies hello:

Paper: cardbase Buttinette, CS American Crafts, PP Pink Petticoat

Stamps: CHF

Ink :Versafine

Tools:die Memory Box, decorative edge scissors, sewing machine, corner rounder EKS

Other: embroidery floss

kraft, cork and polka dots (CFC, SCS, Moxie)

Here I am under the wire for CASual Fridays again, but had to give the kraft challenge a go.  Tore up a cardboard box to source my kraft.

Cork.  I already knew it was good for wine bottles ;)  I've even seen the trees they harvest cork from growing in Portugal.  So I die cut some cork I finally broke down and bought.  Like butter.  Wow.  What a great "Naturprodukt"!

Went with a kinda trendy layout.  Panel with washi strips.  Focal image the red/white polka dot flower combined with cork, reminiscent of my fave 'shrooms the "Fliegenpilz".  Used Penny Black PP that I got in a prize package from Simon Says Stamp.  Great patterns and primary colors.

Playing here:

And at the Moxie Fab "Canvas, Cork and Burlap" challenge.  As well as HYCCT#1230.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies hello:

Paper: cardbase Papermania, recycled cardboard, PP Penny Black

Stamps: Hero Arts

Ink : Memento

Tools:die PTI, punch ?

Other: cork, twine, washi

two takes on songbirds (SCS)

I've made two more cards for HYCCT over at Splitcoast Stampers.  The first is for #1213 "Hope is the Thing".  As in "with feathers."

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all.

Flashback to my days as an English major...Thank you Emily Dickinson.  

Feathers + perches = bird on a branch from Sizzix.  Die cut it from two different PPs and adhered over a splash of sky created with misted Distress Ink on an acrylic block.  Just added one of PTI's wonderful sentiments.  I think this card really reflects hope.

The second challenge, #1221 is called "Clearly Hopeful."  Clear = acetate.

I've done this before.  This time it's a sunrise sky.  Love this birdie from Tim Holtz.  Paired with alcohol inky goodness, a bit of texture and distresssing, and a die cut frame.  Just a notecard this time.

Thanks for looking.  Have you checked out HYCCT yet?

Supplies :
Paper: CS American Crafts, PP K&Co., recycled packaging
Stamps: Tim Holtz
Ink: alcohol inks, Memento
Tools: die Spellbinders
Other: button twine