Time Out Challenges 11th Birthday

Hi crafty friends! I’m super excited to be guest designing for Time Out for such a special occasion. It’s their 11th Birthday and super happy to be celebrating with them. For this special occasion, we will be CASEing (Copy and Selectively Edit) the wonderful Donna Mikasa of Three Umbrellas. CASE is basically taking the elements you like that inspire you from a project and making it your own. It does not mean completely copying the card.

This was the beautiful card that inspired my card. For me, I was inspired by her layout and the embossing, so I started with my background first.

I used Gina K Designs’ Master Layouts 1 to die cut a white and a navy cardstock with the Large Rectangle 1 and 2 silver cardstock with the Large Rectangle 2. I die cut out 5 navy feathers with GKD’s Fancy Feathers Dies. I glued the feathers onto the navy cardstock and cut anything hanging off the sides. I embossed my white cardstock with GKD’s Swiss Dot Embossing Folder.

I measured 1-1/2″ from the opposite ends of the white and navy cardstocks and cut it with a paper cutter. I took one of each and glued it onto the silver cardstock. I did this twice, so I had 2 backgrounds.

I stamped and heat embossed GKD’s Delicate Flowers with WOW Metallic Silver embossing powder. I ink blended all the flowers and leaves with GKD Light Carnation, Medium Carnation, and Blue Denim Ink. I stamped the sentiment in Blue Denim and heat embossed in clear powder. I die cut all the pieces and arranged them on my card. Once everything was to my liking, I glued everything down and onto an A2 card. I decided to leave the leaf hanging off the card to make it a little different.

Since I still had the second background, I made a second card except I flipped the sketch. Which one do you like more?

Time Out’s Challenge is being sponsored by the wonderful Gina K Designs. The winner will get a $25.oo gift certificate to her store and an invitation to guest design for a future challenge. The challenge will run from Feb 27th to March 12th. Be sure to check out all the beautiful creations from the design team on Time Out’s Blog. Thanks for stopping by and hope you play along!

• Challenges:
  • As you like it Feminine or Masculine Theme – I love making feminine cards because I love floral and cute cards. The colors or ideas for masculine cards take forever to come to me.
  • PIP #2508 – ATG
  • Simon Says Wednesday: ATG
  • WAW #689-690 – ATG

BYSHC #54 ~ Chilly Treats

Happy Friday! I’m back with these adorable cards for BYSHC Sketch Challenge #54. Join us for a fun sketch to use up your scraps and get a chance to win a $25 gift card from a new sponsor, Club Scrap. They are offering a code BYSHC10 for a 10% OFF discount so be sure to check them out.

For this card, I used Kat Scrappiness Cuppa Christmas patterned paper. I followed the measurements of the sketch and and glued everything on to an A2 card. I copic colored my Santa cupcake from Pink & Main Chilly Treats and fussy cut it out. I used foam tape to pop it up on my card and that was it. Simple.

Here’s the new sketch for February.

I really do hope you will play along by adding your card in BYSHC’s Facebook group for a chance to win the gift card. You have until Feb. 28th to add your card in the Sketch #54 album. Check out more inspirations from the design team on BYSHC’s blog. Thank you for dropping by!

• Challenges:
  • Paper Funday #73 – ATG
  • Peace on Earth #82 – ATG Christmas
  • PIP #2507 – ATG
  • WAW #687-688 – ATG

BYSHC #54 ~Christmas Critters

Happy Friday! I’m back with these adorable cards for BYSHC Sketch Challenge #54. Join us for a fun sketch to use up your scraps and get a chance to win a $25 gift card from a new sponsor, Club Scrap. They are offering a code BYSHC10 for a 10% OFF discount so be sure to check them out.

Here’s the new sketch for February.

For these cards, I used Not 2 Shabby’s Christmas Critters’ paper pads following the sketch’s measurements. The penguins are from a Recollections’ clear stamps set I bought at Michael’s, and the adorable bear is from My Favorite Things This Hug’s for You stamp set. The sentiments are from LDRS Christmas sentiments.

Here’s a closer look at my favorite one out of these two. Which one do you prefer?

Thanks for stopping by. I really do hope you will join us by adding your card in BYSHC’s Facebook group for a chance to win the gift card. You have until Feb. 28th to add your card in the Sketch #54 album. Check out more inspirations from the design team on BYSHC’s blog.

• Challenges:
  • As you like it – Favorite Stamps: Physical (I feel like I can do different techniques with actual stamps and faster.)
  • Love Those Pretty Papers – ATG pattern paper
  • PIP #2505 – ATG
  • WAW #685 – 686 – ATG