Willow & Paisley

Embellish Color Trends Challenge ~ Background Stamping

 

 

 

 

We're back with the second installment of Hero Arts sponsored challenge.  Have you ever been to their blog and website?  Such happy places to visit!

Last week it was all about using "text" and this week we are doing some background stamping.

 

 

 

 

 

I love my 2 newest large background Hero Art stamps.  I used Diagonal Dictionary Type on the card base in a very light ink.  It's subtle but the angle of the stamp adds a ton of interest.  On the small tags I used Thank You Definition Cling Large Background.  I just inked up some corners of the large stamp and randomly stamped the tags here and there.  

 

 

 

 

 

Here are the challenge details:

Sponsor: Hero Arts

Theme: Background Stamping

Colors: Kraft, Terracotta Tile, Turquoise, New Leaf

 

 

 

Hope to see you over at Embellish Magazine Blog.  These colours are great and we'd LOVE to see what you do with your background stamping! 

 

 

Scrap Card

Hey All.  The other night (Fri) I pulled a late night making cards.  Like 11:00pm~3:30am late.   I haven't done that for a while and to be honest I don't like doing it because I swear it ages me.  It's not like I even whip out a dozen cards or anything.  Nope, just 3 cards including this scrap card. 

As I was calling it a night I went to go clean up scraps of card stock near my paper cutter and remembered Jessica's 10 min scrap pile challenge.  Sure it took me a whole lot more than 10 mins and the strips are technically from what was my garbage pile but it was fun to do. 

My sentiment is from Technique Tuesday's Thanks For Everything stamp set.  Awesome stuff.

Even my button us "threaded" with little bitty strips of paper from my garbage pile.  Love that.   I'll be back Friday with my Loonie card.  It may or may not have one of my chipboard hearts on it.  Consider yourself warned.

 

 

 

 

Thank Goodness for Wireless & my 10 Minute Challenge Card(s)

Hi Hi..... 
  
Mike and I are sitting in a Motel in what seems like the middle of no where.  Hanna, Alberta.  We left home around 10:30am this morning and about 3 hours later we pulled in and decided to stay put.  A pretty hefty snow storm went through last night and while it looks decent enough out there right now the roads are terrible.

The snow drifts are deep and rough.  We saw many vehicles in the ditches ---some with people still in them.  At the gas station a tow truck driver told us the roads for the next 1.5 hours were bad and if we hit the ditch we'd likely be there for the night.  We have our little dogs with us so that's not an option for me.

Sooooo....while I'd much rather have made it to my mom and dad's today this is fine.  And Thank Goodness for wireless internet.  Or "interless wirenet" as I was calling it earlier---and Mike thought he was so funny making fun of me.  lol.

The reason we are on the road is because the demo of our kitchen reno started today.  My neighbor even emailed me today and said she saw them already throwing stuff into the dumpster.  Awesome.

While I am sitting in this motel waiting for time to pass I thought I'd go ahead and share my mini cards I made for Jessica's 10 minute scrap challenge this past weekend.  

The "petals" are actually the wings from Stampin Up's bird punch.  I had several of them cut out already as well as a few vases.  The "stem" is the branch from the same punch.  Even the little hearts were in the bottom of my scrap pile.  In order to make 4 of these mini cards I did end up punching out some more petals and vases....but all out of paper from my scrap pile.  

 I didn't time myself on how long it took to make these but they were easy and fun.  Hope you likey.

  
 Well it's around 5pm.  I think I need to send Mike out to find us some dinner before everything in this small town closes.  Oh...fun times for us!

PTI Scrap-tastic Challenge

Last night I was puttering away in my craft room, making a few cards.  {{3 cards in 4 hours....not bad for me....even if one of them was this quickie scrap card}}.   I wanted to use this polka dot paper on another card but first I had to trim off the bottom edge which had a bunch of hearts punched out along it (from when I made this card actually).  Anywho.... as soon as I cut it off I flew right in to production of this card and the other card had to wait.  Every single bit of paper is a scrap.  Even that bow was in my ribbon scraps and tied already!!!  Jessica Witty would be so proud that it really took less than 10 mins!  I am pretty sure this is one I will package up and sent to Winter for her wonderful card drive she is heading up. 

 
  

My 28~Minute~Scrap~Pile~Card

I'm back with my second go around at Jessica Witty's 10-minute-Scrap-Pile-Challenge.  Now I will say I am not in love with my cards but I am in love with using papers from that huge folder which I just throw pieces in to and never seem to go back to.  These patterned papers are so old I could never in a million years tell you who makes them.  Everything on the card is "scraps" except the brads and the card base.  I even pulled those pieces of ribbon from my "ribbon scrap pile".  Do you find yourself keeping all those little pieces of ribbon too?  I need professional help I tell ya.

I don't' have any vellum adhesive so the brads were how I attached it and once I made the holes I totally regretted the placement of that.  But the time was ticking.  Once you give yourself a time limit~~you get moving I tell ya!

Now having said that the time was ticking I have to tell you my cards too me longer than 10 mins.  In fact it was 28 minutes total and that was mostly wasted on finding the right ribbon for each card.  This mini card (sorry for the BAD pic) used the scraps cut off from my scraps and is just a 4 x 4.  Cuteness~~~and it was great to slap those on a card and use them up too.  

Thanks for the fun challenge Jessica.  See you next time!