Patterned Papered Dreams

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge

Hi everyone! My summer holidays started yesterday, woohooo!!! A whole month of family, relax, beach, some traveling... pure happiness :) And a good way to celebrate is jumping into a new challenge:

 

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So this is another Christmas in July card. I used one of the color combos (red, black, fawn, kiwi) and combined two PS sets: Folkal points (stitches, sentiment) and Hang Ups (green sprig, Christmas lights, rectangle). The tree was drawn by hand and completely covered in sprigs. I then traced the garland, stamped the lights,  colored them with a Copic marker and a copper gel pen, and I finished them with Glossy Accents. I absolutely adore that little stitches image, it's super versatile!

Thanks for visiting and have a fabulous weekend!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Paper Smooches; Ink: Versafine, Memento; Other: copper gel pen, Glossy Accents, Copic marker.

Easter colors

Good morning! Just one more day and I'll be on holiday!! Yeeehaawww!!! I should probably bring a summer card today, but no. I have an Easter one instead ;)

I made it for the Paper Crafts Color Inspiration Challenge #7. The colors said Easter to me and I just had this Cornish Heritage stamps from the Kim Hugues collection that were asking for some ink. I used an Echo Park journaling card, painted the top blue with a paint dabber and once dry I heat embossed the sentiment. The bow in the Easter egg was paper pieced and embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and the pearl was colored with a Copic marker. And that's it!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson, American Crafts; Stamps: CHF Kim Hugues; Ink: Versamark, Memento; Paper: Echo Park; Acrylic paint: Ranger; Embossing folder: Cuttlebug; Embossing powder: Ranger; Other: Pearl, Copic Marker, Corner Chomper.

Rub ons!

Yep, I did it. I was brave enough to use an alpha rub on sheet to add the sentiment to a card. So thank you Cas-ual Fridays crew for making me stretch and use my hoarded supplies! You can find all the deets for this challenge here.

I heavily paper pieced the carrousel from this Lawn Fawn set (Admit One), and I was able to color on the rub on with Copics! It took a bit of patience but it worked! Not a lot more to say about this card, it's pretty obvious :) Oh yeah, papers are Echo Park.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Lawn Fawn; Ink: Memento; Paper: Echo Park Dots and Stripes; Other: rub on letters, Copic markers, rhinestones, Uniball Signo white gel pen.

Back to CAS

Hi everyone! Ok, so after yesterday's layering overdose, I'm back to my real self (hello, self!). One of my latest loves is PTI's Mehndi Medallions set. Five bucks of pure awesomeness and versatility.

Super quick post because we're heading to the countryside for the day, but I think the little card is pretty self explanatory :) And I'm entering it in the current A Passion for Papertrey Challenge, which is dedicated to Summer. Phewww, barely in time!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: PTI; Ink: Memento (blue), PTI (yellow), Versafine (black); Other: Fiskars circle punch.

Out of my comfort zone

Good afternoon! I hope you're having a great weekend. Today, I ventured out of my clean/simple/cute/graphic comfort zone and once again it was because of a Moxie Fab reason: the Fanatical about Botanical challenge (all deets here, go go go!). After a bit of struggling and lots of experimenting I finished with this:

I am not a layering person, so that background is certainly a miracle! The color combo is from one of the adittional options at Summer Card Camp. I started by stamping the leaf cluster all over, and then I added the subtle script backgound and inked the edges. Then I stamped the dogwoods, fussy cut them and adhered. The butterfly was heat embossed on vellum using gold powder, and so was the sentiment. Oh, and I was also brave ebough to add some diluted Liquid Pearls (Bisque) to the centre of the flowers ;) Something different for me!

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a fantastic Sunday!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson, Coredinations; Stamps: Hero Arts; Ink: Memento, Jenni Bowlin, Versamark; Embossing powder: Ranger; Liquid Pearls: Ranger.

More Summer Card Camp

And boy, did I struggle with this color combo! I love it, but I had quite a mental block when it came to bring it to life... Anyhow, here's what I came up with:

The vases and flowers are from two different PTI sets (Gracious Vases and Mehndi Medallions), the sentiment is Hero Arts and as you can see I played around a bit with my new Liquid Pearls to decorate the vases.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Papertrey Ink, Hero Arts; Ink: Versamagic, Versafine, Memento and Colorbox; Embossing folder: Cuttlebug; Other; Ranger Liquid Pearls.

Hi, sweetness

Hello there! Thanks so much for the sweet comments about the strawberry basket and the puppies. I have a sad update though. From the 5 that were born, only two survived. The rest were too weak and although we tried, we could do nothing for them. The poor things were unable to eat no matter how we tried. Oh, well, I guess nature rules here :( Ok, so after this sad news, let's focus on something brighter:

I made this card for the CASual Fridays challenge Sweets & Treats. I used this cutie Paper Smooches set and a sentiment from My favorite Things. Lots of paper piecing, as you can see, and some green baker's twine too.

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Paper Smooches, MFT; Paper: October Afternoon, Echo Park, My MInd's Eye, Basic Grey; Ink: Memento, Versafine; Twine: The Twinery.

So fresh!

Good morning! Today I bring you a sweet summer treat... a basket full of strawberries! It was really fun to put together this card and I love so much the result than I'm probably going to frame it for the kitchen.

I started by cutting the basket from kraft (you will just need a pencil and a ruler to trace this basic shape). I cut it by hand and embossed it with a Sizzix folder. Then I cut the doily border with a punch, sponged it with white ink and adhered to the basket edge. For the strawberries the main ingredient is patience ;) I started with a red cardstock piece where I stamped this subtle Hero Arts background with this Jenni Bowlin ink. Next, I stamped the strawberries from this set, and stamped them again on green patterned paper. The only thing left is fussy cutting, assembling and adhering to the basket and the card base. Oh, and don't forget to add the stems before! I used jute cord to go with the rustic feeling. This time I left it with it's natural color, but I'm sure you could also color it with distress ink to match the green. The rest is pretty self explanatory: die cut tag, stamp background, stamp sentiment, tie twine.

Thanks for visiting and have a fantastic Sunday! Look what we have here since yesterday morning... Frida had 5 puppies!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Hero Arts; Ink; Memento (black), Jenny Bowlin; Paper: Basic Grey; Embossing folder: Sizzix; Border Punch: Martha Stewart; Tag die: Spellbinders; Rustic twine: May Arts; Other: Jute string.

 

Pink, yellow and black

Morning! Have you seen this week's Tuesday Trigger at the Moxie Fab World? I could use this color combo forever! As soon as I saw the pic...

I knew I wanted to use the Paper Smooches matrioshka included in the Folkal Points set. The sentiment is PS too.

I paper pieced it from some pretty papers from my stash (Basic Grey) and made a bit of coloring too. Black rhinestones were perfect for what I wanted! I think this could also pass for a Mother's Day card :)

Thanks for visiting and have a fantastic weekend! I'll be working but I hope I can squeeze some crafty time too.

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Paper Smooches; Ink: Versafine black; Patterned paper: Basic Grey; Other: Copic and Tombo markers, Basic Grey rhinestones, pink stickles.

 

 

Joy's Life DT Thursday

Hi and welcome to a new edition of Joy's Life Design Team Thursday! Or maybe I should say ahoy matey! ;) My card for today uses You're so Punny stamp set. Check it here, so much possibilities! This card would be perfect for a pirate themed birthday, don't you think?

I started with a rectangular card base which I covered with patterned paper. For the pirate flag I stamped the skull and bones image on patterned paper, fussy cut and accented it with markers. A googly eye and a party hat dress her up ;) The flag shape was drawn by hand, cut, embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and sponged with white ink. Then I adhered the skull and glued a toothpick to the back.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to visit the rest of the DT here!

Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Joy's Life You're So Punny, Pink Paislee (skull); Ink: Memento (black), PTI (white); Patterned Paper: Basic Grey; Embossing folder: Cuttlebug; Other: Copics, googly eye, toothpick.