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Handmade Cards Blog Hop

* For my CAS-ual Fridays post just scroll down*

Hi again, friends! Today I get to help celebrating the newest Paper Craft Magazine special issue: Handmade Cards. Look at this pretty cover...

 

You don't want to miss this one! It's jam packed with ideas for using your stash of supplies! Because let's admit it: we crafters tend to have quite a little bit of supplies. What? You don't? Then, head on to the Fru-Gal magazine web, because you probably landed here by accident *wink*

Ok, so I am lucky enough to be blog hopping with a bunch of talented designers. We have created cards using a limited number of supplies: 3, 5, 7 or 9. I liked number 5, and here's what I did with my allowed number of supplies:

 

 

I used cardstock, stamps, ink, an acetate stencil and a tiny embellishment. Hope you like it :)

Time to keep on hopping because there's still a lot more to see! You should have arrived from the lovely and talented Lucy Abrams blog (for Godness sake, how does she sew so perfectly on her cards???) and your next stop is stamper extraordinaire Sarah J. Moerman.

Here's the complete list:

    Ashley Marcu

·         Chan Vuong

·         Lucy Abrams

·         Lorena Cantó Lavería <--- you are here

·         Sarah J. Moerman

·         Vera Wirianta Yates

·         Vanessa Menhorn

·         Emily Branch

 

Aaaaand... of course, there has to be a giveaway, right? Leave me a comment telling me about your favorite supply for your chance to win a copy of Handmade Cards courtesy of Paper Crafts Magazine. You have until Tuesday, September 24. Best of lucks and thanks so much for hopping by!

CFC115: Fall colors & a leaf

Hi and welcome to our new CAS-ual Fridays Challenge! We are welcoming Autumn, so the deet is to create a clean and simple project that uses fall colors and incorporates at least one leaf.

 

This challenge will run for two weeks and we have Simon Says Stamp as sponsor! Check out here more info about the fabulous prize up for grabs.

I didn't use one leaf in my card. No. I actually stamped a grand total of 53 leaves. Oh, and also a sentiment banner :)

 

The leaves and baner are from this SSS set by Kelly Purkey.

Go ahead and join us! And check all the fall beauties created by the Girl Fridays to inspire you!

Striped embossing, take 2

Happy Sunday, friends! I'm back with another go at the striped embossing technique. You can find the first card I made here. For this card I made exactly the same (scor-tape + die cut word), plus a stamped background using Watercolor Wonder by PTI.

 

Here's a little shiny detail. I combined gold, silver and light pink embossing powders.

 

Oh, and do you know about the latest and greatest challenge at the Moxie Fab World? Gold, gold, gold!!! So of course I'm linking this card to the challenge :)

Thanks for visiting!

Striped embossing

Hello! Have you seen the latest genious technique by Betsy Veldman? Striped embossing! Super cool, right? So obviously, I had to try it. But because I wanted to do diagonal lines, I had to come up with a different way to do it, or it would have taken ages. So instead of a stamp and Versamark, I used a die cut word and scor-tape.

 

What do you think? Here's the complete card. I added the detail pic first because in the whole card one the bursts stamped with Perfect Pearls don't show.

 

To make the striped embossing, I adhered stripes of scor-tape diagonally on to a piece of cardstock and die cut the word from there. Then, I applied the embossing powder one color at a time. The card was finished with an ampersand (Laura Bassen and Laurie Willison were my inspiration for jumping on the ampersand wagon. Just look at the beauties they made!). The die cut is this one from PTI and the alphabet is this one from Lawn Fawn. The bursts are from a special PTI set, but I just can't remember the name.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Triangle tags

Hi there! I have a quick post today featuring how to use leftovers from other projects. I'm using Avery Elle Simply Tags: Everyday set and dies by the lovely Nina Yang.

Ok, so for the card in this post I die cut a lot of triangles (with this die), and I had the negative die cuts left, as well as lots of tiny triangles. So here's what I did with them:

 

I die cut the tags from white cardstock, layered the negative die cuts on them, and then adhered the positive triangles. Finally, I trimmed the excess that overhanged the edges. No place for a sentiment? No worries :) I die cut the smaller tags and the reinforcement ring, adhered those together and heat embossed the sentiment. Then I tied everything together with bakers twine.

And there you have it! Graphic tags made with leftovers :)

Thanks for visiting!

10 Minute Craft Dash 25

Hello! There was a time when I used to make lots of "fun and cute" cards. It was my go-to style. Hey, I even won my first Moxie Fab World challenge with a fun and cute card! And then, I don't know why, I stopped. So when I saw the current 10 Minute Craft Dash, I thought I could give it a go again. 

So this card is a success and a fail at the same time. A success because I love it, and I think it's cute. A fail because I could't finish in in 10 minutes. Dang! That fussy cutting with the porcupines took me longer than expected... But I'm linking it anyway, just for fun :)

Almost everything I used is Lawn Fawn. The background is a journaling card from this adorable collection, the porcupine comes from this set, and the sentiment was built with this and this alphabet sets (I obviously can't put that Milo's ABC's set down).

And that's it! Thanks for visiting!

CFC114: Back to School

Hi friends! September arrived and it's Back To School time at CAS-ual Fridays Challenge too! So there's your homework, ha! Create a clean and simple Back to School project :)

 

This challenge will run for two weeks and our sponsor is Ellen Hutson with a fantastic prize, as always. Here are the details.

I decided to give a try to the chalkboard tecnhique with a CAS twist ;)

 

The sentiment was stamped with this Lawn Fawn set that I just can't put down, and the smiley face and addition are from this PTI one. I die cut the big bubble speech with the Cameo.

Oh, and the four new Girl Fridays Amy, Wida, Emilie and Mayuri are debuting today! What a talented bunch, right?  Don't forget to leave them some love, their creations are simply amazing :)

Ric #43

Hi there! A super quick post with my entry for the current Runway Inspired Challenge. Another great and inspiring outfit...

 

And the card it inspired me:

 

I started by die cutting the Simon Says Stamp grid border die from acetate and used it as a mask to sponge the background with black ink. By die cutting it from acetate I can reuse it again and again :)

Then, I made a panel for the sentiment. Again, I used another mask to sponge yellow ink. The sentiment is a combination of two stamps. I masked the "be" from the word "beyond" that comes in this PTI set, and the "bright" is from this Christmas Technique Tuesday set. I love that I could use it from something other than Christmas projects :)

And that's it! Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

Happy, happy

Hello! I really loved the inspiration Cath provided for last week's Tuesday Trigger. Thankfully, it is a two weeker, and I was able to create a card :)

 

Last weekend I decided to try and make my own stencils with the Cameo and some acetate sheets. I made a ton of them! And I also die cut this "happy" word (an Amy Tan design) from acetate. Lots of strategically placed washi tape, masking and sponging later this is what I had...

 

I also used some creative masking to create the sentiment without having to cut the stamp (it is originally a stacked sentiment and I wanted to stamp it on a single line).

Here's a closer pic of the panel. I blended three ink colors, but I'm not sure if it shows above.

 

Thanks for visiting!