Allsorts 425 - Fancy Folds

Happy Saturday! This week it's Helene's turn to host the challenge at Allsorts and she would like to see "Fancy Folds". I decided to make  a "Joy Fold" card.

This card was really easy to make .... the base is 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 scored at 3 inches. The little card inside is 3x6 inches, scored at 3 inches. I cut designer paper to fit the card, adhered to the base and little flap, then adhered the little card in the middle of the card base. 

The image is a Mo Manning clear stamp by Stampavie, stamped onto xpress it card and colored with copics. I stamped "I miss you" on the front of the card (tiny stamp from Penny Black's Snippet set) and inside I stamped "Thinking of you and wishing you happiness  (from an older set by Whimsy Stamps.)

This is how the card opens up:

I added some striped twine to the little card and stamped flowers inside.  

Hope you come join us this week for a chance to win a fun ribbon prize package by Crafty Ribbons. 

Whimsy Stamps - 12 Days of Christmas - Day 4

Happy Wednesday!! 

Did you hear yet?? We're having a "12 Days of Christmas" Celebration over at Whimsy Stamps with new Holiday projects from the Design Team and fun prizes to win too.

 

Every day from 13th December to 24th December, a member or members of the design team will be sharing a brand new Whimsy holiday creation on the Whimsy blog.  Included in these daily posts will be a LETTER.  Visit the blog every day, make a note of each letter and keep them safe.  Once you have collected all 12 letters, you should be able to unscramble them and make a special 3 word phrase.  Email your guess to whimsystampscontests@gmail.com by 31st December 2015, and if you've guessed correctly, you will be entered into the draw to win a fantastic GRAND PRIZE! 

But that's not all!  We will also be running some fun SPOT PRIZES throughout the entire event.  The prizes could be hidden here on the Whimsy blog or on our design team members blogs, or even on some of the Whimsy artists blogs, so be sure to leave a comment here and on the other blog posts each day to be in with a chance to win!

Today it's my turn along with the very talented Vicki to post our creations to the Whimsy blog, and this is what I created. 

  I won't bore you with details how I made it, I simply followed this tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers. Then attached an easel style card to the top. 

The beautiful Snowflake Fairy Princess stamp is one of Crissy Armstrong designs for Whimsy Stamps. Snowflake sentiment is from the set Winter Letter Seals. I covered my drawer with designer paper by Bo Bunny and used some snowflakes to embellish. The hardware I used on the front is from an old SU kit.
  

Above is a closeup of the beautiful stamp. I used mainly copics for coloring, but added some shading on her hair with a Faber Castell polychromos pencil. 

 This little "drawer box card" is perfect for a little gift like jewelry or you can put $$ or a gift card inside. 

You can find the Whimsy products I used here:
Snowflake Fairy Princess
Winter Letter Seals
Snowflake border die 

Today is also the start of the new Whimsy Stamps challenge, and the theme is "Snowflakes". So if you're up for a challenge why not join us for another chance at a Whimsy prize? 

I am entering my box card to the following challenges:


2 Crafty Girls -Anything Goes 
Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party by Craftin Desert Divas- Christmas
Crafty Cardmakers - Snow
Our Crafty Corner - Anything Goes/Winter
A Snowflakes Promise - Anything Goes with a Winter or Christmas Theme (Week 1)
Creative Card Crew- Holiday Season (week 2)
Shopping Our Stash - Let It Snow
Sweet Stamps -  Anything Goes

 Unicorn Challenge - Winter Time

 

 

 Thanks so much for visiting! Hope you're enjoying our "12 Days of Christmas" event. If you missed the first 3 days of posts, just head on over to the Whimsy blog to see what the designers made and to collect your first 3 letters.

Shades of Gray and a tiny Bit of Pink

This is a little bit different from my usual creations, it was actually my first time ever coloring an image completely gray (if you don't count the pink heart). I couldn't decide what to color her, seems like I always reach for the same colors, and while trying to decide, I remembered seeing some gorgeous black and white colored images and decided to give it a try. I used several of the Neutral Gray copic markers.

The card style is a center step card. This was only my second time ever using this design. It's really quick and easy to make. You can find instructions on Splitcoast Stampers HERE.

Designer papers are all from my stash, from SU and DCWV. I used a Whimsy Stamps die for the butterfly border and embellished with some pearls and twine. 

You can find the Whimsy Stamps products here:

Holly's Kitchen

Everyday Moments

Butterfly Border Die

I am playing along here:

Crafty Calendar- June - Fancy folds
Fussy and Fancy -  Fancy Folds
Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Always Anything Goes 

Thanks so much for visiting!!

Shadowbox Card

Hello and thanks for stopping by!

Yesterday was my turn to share something on the Just For Fun Rubberstamp blog, and I decided to create a shadowbox card. I've only made a few of these in the past, but they are so much fun to make and actually really easy. And they lay flat for easy mailing. 

Sorry I don't have any step by step photos, because usually when I make a card I don't really think about the design until I have started, and by that time my desk is just a complete mess, and no room for photographing. And I don't have good lighting in my stamp corner. But here are the simple steps for those of you that would like to know how it's done.

I started out with two pieces of kraft cardstock, measuring 4.25 x 5.5 inches each. I scored these at 0.5 and 1 inches on the left and right side (shorter sides). Next I cut a window out on one of the card stocks using a nestability die, which is going to be used for my top piece. As you can see, I used a background stamp on this card stock. You can also decorate this with designer paper if you wish. 

I adhered the stamped trees onto the other piece of card stock. (I cut the image panel to fit between the scored lines.)  Next I folded along the scored lines (both pieces in the opposite direction), and added sticky tape to the sides to create this shadow box card. Added some coordinating papers and decorated with the sentiment and snowflake.

For the image on the inside, I simply stamped the trees using archival ink onto white card stock. Then I swiped the ink pad across the paper to add some color. I also added some frosted lace stickle glitter to the trees and snowy ground. I wanted a little more contrast, so I decided to use part of the glorious song sentiment here and there on my top piece of card stock. 

Product list:

Tree Line, Glorious Song, Unmounted Sentiments Sheet 1

all by JFF Rubberstamps

Card stocks by SU and Recollections

Layered Snowflake die by Whimsy Stamps

Rhinestones, stickles glitter

I am playing along here:

A Crafty Mess -  Anything Goes

 Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Anything Goes 

Fun with Shapes -  - Christmas is Soon 

Jingle Belles -  The Great Ourdoors 

Sister Act Card Challenge -  Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Whimsy Stamps - November Rubber Stamp and Die Release

Happy Monday! Already time for the November Release events at Whimsy Stamps, and once again there are going to be some amazing stamps being released on Wednesday. As always we are holding a 3-day blog hop event, showing you creations made with these new goodies. I hope you will join us each day for a chance to win some prizes.

Today the Design Team is sharing creations made with stamps by Art by Mi Ran, Time4Tea and Wee stamps. And I am so excited to be part of today's hop. (You will find the complete hop order at the bottom of this post.)

For today I decided to create a pocket card.

The sentiment "Believe in the Magic" is also going to be released on Wednesday - Winter Brackets by RED. The "sparklers" are from a set released last month -Christmas Scene Builder.

Here is the beautiful image peeking out.

Moon Goddess will be available on Wednesday in Whimsy's Art by MiRan section. It's been stamped onto copic blending card and colored using copic markers. Glitter was added to the stars and flowers. 

Stars were diecut using an older Whimsy Stamps die set - Sun Moon Star sie set. 

And this is the complete image. Isn't she gorgeous!! On the back of it I adhered a white piece of card stock, so I can either write a note or stamp a message. This will make a really cute bookmark,and I already know who will receive it :-) 

Sorry I don't have instructions on how to create this pocket card, but I started with a piece of card stock measuring 11x 4.25. Then scored at about 1" on top and folded down. Used strong adhesive down the two sides to create the pocket. Then I simply decorated it.

Here is the hopping list. Be sure to comment at each stop to be entered into the prize draw. 

Danni

Iris

Jacque

Mi Ran (GDT)

Shelby

Debbie

Louise

Ellie

Have fun, and good luck everyone! I will be back again on Wednesday for our grand release hop.

Whimsy Stamps February Release Showcase Day 6

 

Happy Monday everyone and thanks so much for stopping by!

It's day 6 of Whimsy Stamps February Rubber Stamp and Die Release!

Last Wednesday Whimsy stamps released this month's new Rubber Stamps and Stamp Sets, shapeology dies, Shape EZ by TLC templates, and designer paper packs. They are available to buy right now at the Whimsy Stamps Store.

 I hope you had a chance to hop along with us over the last few days for a chance to win some whimsy prizes. If not you still have today and tomorrow to hop along on our daily mini hops, and there are two more prizes to be won!

For today's card I used the adorable stamp Shelly, from Whimsy's Wee Stamps Collection.  I am so loving this stamp, and it was so much fun color!

I decided to make a Shadow Box card with the image. It's been a really long long time since I made one of these, back when I played in the challenges on SCS, way before I had a blog.

It is really easy to create these types of cards. I followed the tutorial on splitcoast. Here is the direct link to it for anyone who wants to give it a try. You can embellish these as little or as much as you want, I kept mine on the simpler side as I usually do.

My image has been colored using faber castell pencils and then I applied glitter. I used one of the nestabilities labels dies to cut out the "window". On the front I used one of stamps from SU's retired sets "Itty bitty backgrounds". 

I simply embellished it with some seashell embellishments which I made using old SU stamps and a shrinky dink sheet, added some cheesecloth and a little prima flower.

The sentiment is from the set Lovely Spring Sliders 2 from Whimsy Stamps. It's been cut out using the new sliders 2 die.

I don't normally add this many photos of projects, but wanted to show the 3d effect of the card, so I decided to snap a few extra pictures.

The great thing about these types of cards are, that they lay completely flat for mailing .

Here is a top view.

I would love to enter my card to the following challenges:

• A Gem of a Challenge - W - #68 Add a Bow
  
• Crafty Catz - 1E – Dies and Punches
• Pattie's Creations -  Fancy folds
• 4 Crafty Chicks -  Twine
• MilkCoffee Challenge -  Make it Cute

Don't forget to visit the rest of the Designteam and leave comments for a chance to win a whimsy prize.

Ann

Ellie

Simonne

Mariska

Michele

Sylvia

All winners from the daily hops will be announced Wednesday on the

 Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Blog. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoy your day. I will be back again on Wednesday with some more Whimsy Inspiration for the Whimsy Inspires Challenge.

Digital Tuesday Blog Hop

Hi everyone and happy tuesday!!

Today is such an exciting day!! We are celebrating our 100th challenge over at Digital Tuesday!! And what better way to celebrate than with a blog hop!

If you arrived here from the amazing Anneke's blog , you are on the right track, but if not you will want to start at the beginning of the hop at LORA'S blog.

Each DT member is featuring one of our amazing sponsors with a prize from that sponsor. To win these prizes, all you have to do is leave a comment on each of the design team members blogs.

There is also a grand prize on the challenge blog which in order to win you must enter the challenge as you normally would (remember you can use any digital element, it doesn't have to be a digital image) and then collect all the "special" letters from the DT blogs and follow the instructions on the Digital Tuesday challenge blog when you reach the end of the hop.

My blog is being sponsored by the Paper Pretties. You can visit their store by simply clicking the logo below.

One randomly chosen winner off my comments on this post will receive 3 of their adorable digis!

I was also able to choose one of their images to use for today's blog hop, and with spring and easter around the corner I decided to go with a "spring celebration" card. I just love this cute image!!

Here is the other side of the oval.

The image and sentiment have both been printed out on the computer. Both were cut out using an oval shape. I taped some silver cord on the inside of one oval and then glued the two ovals together. I cut out a larger oval from the designer paper and also the card base. Then I taped the silver cord on the inside of the card and covered that with some matting. I really like how it sort of "swings". And I thought this image would be perfect for it! Papers are from Stampin up and I embellished with a prima flower, button and silver cord, and on the other side I attached a punched out butterfly (martha stewart punch), with some sticky pearls.

Now back to the blog hop info:
The letter you need from me is E.

And the next stop on the hop is Karen's fabulous blog!

Thanks so much for joining us for our 100th challenge blog hop and please remember to leave a comment on every blog along the way for a chance to win the prizes!!

Here is a list of the hop order is case you get lost.

Lora Amy Anne-Marije Anneke Ellie Karen Lorraine Maria Michelle Natascha Sandy Sharon Shelly Digital Tuesday challenge blog

ETA 5/20 /18

To protect blog owner's privacy, I decided to delete all the blog links.

Challenges I am combining my card with:

• Clean and simple sketch
• Crafty Emma (flowers and butterflies)
• Little Claires (anything goes)
• Paper Cutz challenge (spring)
• Wags n Whiskers (punches)
• Crafty Sentiments (spring)
• Digi Doodle's shop best (dots/spots)
• Stampin Bee's (use a flower)
• Crazy Challenge (here comes spring)
• Incy Wincy (spring is in the air)
• KBcute challenge (anything goes with a digi)
• Paper Playtime (anything goes with a digi)

That is all for now! But it is a busy day here at my blog today, I have two more posts going live shortly! Hope you'll check back!

Miniature Easel Card

Happy Friday everyone and thanks so much for taking the time to visit my blog.

I had some time to play so I decided to to the challenge at All Sorts, which is "Miniature 3"".
I decided to do another easel card, my second one. I am really liking this card style. Here is the link to the tutorial I used, I just changed my card stock to 3" x 6".

My cute image is from a free clear set by Adam Pescott that was included in one of the UK paper crafting magazines that I purchased here in the US from Joann's. I haven't used the images yet, and this was my chance to get them out. So so cute!!

It's been stamped with memento tuxedo black ink on couture 80lb card stock. Then colored with my derwent coloursoft pencils and blended with baby oil. I used a circle nestabilities shape to cut it out, sponged the edges with apricot ink and then adhered it to a scallop circle nesties shape. It was then popped up to the card front with some dimensionals.

The card front was made using Martha Stewart's around the page punches (layered arches), and some retired stampin up designer paper. To make the punched square fit my 3x3 inch paper I cut it out at 3 1/4 then punched all around. It was a perfect fit.

I've embellished with some apricot ribbon, sticky tiny pearls, brads and of course some stickles glitter. I have left the sentiment off because I am not sure what or who I will use this card for, but it would make a great card to include with a gift or maybe just a cute tiny note card.I am also entering this card to a couple of other challenges:

• Cute Card Thursday (theme: dieing for a punch)
• Stampin' for the weekend (theme: anything goes)
• Papercutz challenge (theme: use some metal-I used brads)

That is all for today, I am off to do some fun design team work.
Hope you'll have a fantastic weekend!!

Digital Tuesday Challenge #14 ---- Sweet Birthdays

Hello and happy tuesday. Hope you are having a wonderful day!
We have another fun challenge over at the Digital Tuesday challenge blog. This week it is Paula's turn to host the challenge and she chose "Sweet Birthdays" as the theme. Use anything sweet with a birthday theme (cupcake image, decorated for birthday candy bar wrapper - Anything sweet goes)

This challenge was a great reason for me to buy the cupcake monkey images from Dustin Pike. They are just so cute! This was my first time making a stair step card, after seeing Paula's and Anjou's stair step cards a few challenges ago. You can see those gorgeous cards here using My Grafico Images (who is sponsoring the challenge this week). I knew I wanted to try it. I found directions here on SCS. Very simple to make, I am sure I'll be using this fold again and again.
Images were colored with copics and cut out. I adhered them to very vanilla circles. The sentiments are all computer generated. The designer papers are by SU (tempting turquoise prints and au chocolate). I added a little bit of stickles to the sprinkles and cherries.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, I hope you get a chance to create something "sweet" for this challenge. And don't forget, the sponsor this week is My Grafico. They are giving away one of their digi-sets. They have some really gorgeous sets to choose from.

Digital Tuesday Challenge #6 My Grafico

Hello and happy Tuesday!
Today we have another fun challenge for you over on the Digital Tuesday Challenge blog, and this time around it was Carisa's turn to come up with a challenge. She chose "Non-traditional folding cards or non-traditional shapes. I love this challenge and love all the samples the rest of the Design Team came up with. You have to go check them out!! We also have a new sponsor this week, MyGrafico is giving away one set of digistamps to one one lucky winner.
My grafico also generously let us designers use one of their sets, and this one was so much fun to work with.
I went with a gate fold card for the challenge. It is a pretty simple fold, I just used a 5.5 x 8.5 inches paper and scored at 2.125 on both sides. The band with the the spaceboy just slides off . I used my scallop circle punch by SU to create white clouds and I applied stickles to the edges. Images were colored with copics, the stars were stamped using craft ink. "happy birthday" sentiment is from a retired SU set, and I computer generated the inside part of the sentiment. Colors used are night of navy, real red and going gray. I embellished using ribbon and stickles.
I hope you like today's card, and I hope you will get a chance to play along this week so we can see what you all come up with.