TUIC March Challenge

Fellow Tangled Up In Creativity Blog Group member, Dawn, is hosting this month's challenge.  We had to create a card inspired by the saying, "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb."  Ribbon also had to be used on the card.  Here is my entry.  The lion image is by Inkadinkado and I made the charm.  The charm was made by stamping the lamb image with Stazon ink onto a piece of #6 recycled plastic (carryout container) and then when heated with the heat gun (shrinks like polyshrink).    

Here's a close up of the charm:

I've also been working on a swap:

Each member of the swap group was sent an image and had to come up with a card.  The image Michelle sent was 3 Easter eggs in a row with a hatching chick in the middle.  I colored and cut it apart.  This layout was inspired by one I had seen in a magazine.  It was fun.  

Thanks for looking!

*I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots design team.

Sunday, March 6, 2011 TUIC Challenges - Altered Notebook

Christy of Lone Pine Designs was one of our hostesses for our blog group's, Tangled Up in Creativity, challenges for the month of February.  Please visit her blog, here.  This time we were to alter a notebook.  This was a cute journal I found in Michael's $1 bin.  The original cover had a picture of a wheel barrow filled with gardening tools and plants.  I decided to make it cuter with this little gardener image.  I believe she came from an image swap.  I colored her with a combination if Bic Permanent and Copic Markers.  

Here's a close-up of the image:

*I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots design team.

TUIC Challenges - Vintage Summer

For our blog group's, Tangled Up In Creativity, second challenge Rebekka of  A Diamond in the Rough (check out her beautiful cards, here) wanted us to make a card with a vintage summer theme.  The image is actually cut out from Daisy D's Back to School scrapbook paper collection.  The sentiment is by Inkadinkado.  I used craft and blue cardstock from Michael's.  I made the flower yoyo (my new addiction) and used one of Jenni Bowlin's vintage buttons for the center.  The fiber is a crocheted chain, I'm trying to teach myself how to crochet.  It is a bit of a challenge since I am left-handed.  All the talented people who can crochet I know are right-handed and find it extremely frustrating to teach me.  Thank goodness for YouTube.  

Here are a few more close-ups:

Thanks for looking!

*I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots design team.

Creating Again

It feels good to be creating again.  My family has been sick for 3 weeks (Hubby still has pneumonia, but is getting better).  The house is starting to look like civilized people live in it (as opposed to wild animals).  I'm trying to finish the laundry, so between loads I'm working on a swap.  This is for a Coffee, Tea, Cocoa ABAC (Anything But a Card) swap.  This holder contains 4 Taster's Choice instant coffee packets.  I'm very proud to say I made the flower yo-yo myself (and the pearl pin too).  Clover (they make needle craft products) makes this template that is super easy to follow. 

I hear the dryer buzzer.  Thanks for looking!

Close-Up of Yo-Yo

Coffee inside:

Paper: scrap, (yellow cardstock is from Wal-Mart)
Stamps:  {ippity} Totally Happy (for YOU sentiment)
Ink:  Palette - Noir
Misc:  Stampin' Up Tag punches, ribbon, fabric, brads, pearl quilting pin with bead added
*I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots design team.

Party Time Tuesdays' Challenge

Fellow Tangled Up In Creativity member, Jenn, is the proud new owner of Party Time Tuesdays!  Check out all the fun details for this week's challenge, here.  

The winner will receive Regal Greetings stamp kit by {ippity} stamps.  

I've been wanting to make a steampunk style card for awhile, so here's my first attempt.  Here are a few close-ups of some of this card's elements.

The chandelier image is from {ippity}'s Regal Greetings.  I used American Crafts' Black Zing embossing powder to add a little shimmer to the image.  The blue cardstock is by Recollections (Michael's brand), and the oval is mounted on black cardstock cut with a scallop oval nestie.  The pattern paper was made by stamping the key and heart images from {ippity}'s Music of My Heart with Tim Holtz's Tea Bag distressed ink on parchment paper.  

 The clock work pieces I had (who knows why), the clock face is attached with a brad (prongs showing on the front for "hands").  

 The black lace and blue organza are scraps.  The charm is leftover from a previous project.  

Thanks for looking!

 

If you are interested in learning more about {ippity} visit my {ippity} blog, here.

*I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots design team.

Magical Monday Challenge #14 Flowers

This week's Magical Monday Challenge is "flowers."  Check here for details.  I've had these pot roses for years (probably decades).  Since they sit so high on the card, I had to make SCS's tutorial for this week "envelope gift box." Click here for tutorial.

And here they are as a set:

Thanks for looking!!

Stamps:  Sweet Pea Stamps - Blue Rose Tatoo

Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black, Copic, Bic, and Faber-Castill markers

Paper:  K & Co., DCWV Cardstock, GP 110

Misc:  scrap lace, pot roses, scrap decorative trim 

*I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots design team.

Magical Monday Challenge

This card was created for Magical Monday's Challenge, Gothic Angelz.  You are to create a card with a "dark angel."  I know this is a fairy image.  All my angel images are too wholesome.  She was fun to color and I love deep purple, so it was win-win for me.  Thanks for looking.

Paper:  DCWV (Black Currant Stack), Gray Bazzill card stock, Black American Crafts card stock

Image:  Sweet Pea Stamps (Red Heart)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers and Bic Markers (did you know they are alcohol ink?)

Misc:  Ribbon (Dollar Tree), button, rhinestone

*I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots design team.