Since we're celebrating Holiday Lights at Gingersnap Creations this month ... it seems only fitting that the Color Challenge is Pale Yellow and White.
I decided to use EAD Designs Vintage Furniture Stickerz to stay with the *light* theme for my card with a chandellier and candle sticks.
My pale yellow paper is from Echo Park's Springtime Collection. I added an EAD Stickerz sentiment, pearls & a flower to complete this cheery design ... the Stickerz make a card come together so quickly.
This month at Rogue Redhead Designs we're Getting Griddy ... creating cards using grids of images. I love how Shar repeated one of the images from Snow Hugs in her card, so I did something similar with the cute little couple from Candy Kisses.
I pulled my colors from this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge using Echo Park's Season's Greetings papers & a sentiment Stickerz from EAD Designs.
And my inspiration from this cute little cake at the new Get Inspired Challenge.
The Sketch is this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch.
Link-up your Get Griddy Card by January 8, 2012 (you don't have to use Rogue Redhead stamps, but we love it when you do) for a chance to win a $15.00 US Voucher to the RRD Store.
This week's prompt at Jingle Belles is "It came upon a midnight CLEAR" ... to incorporate some clear elements into your card design.
My original plan was to use office supply transparency for some digital elements, but during my recent stuio reorganization, I managed to temporarily *misplace* my transparencies. So while I was on a studio treasure hunt trying to find them, I kept my eyes focused on any other clear elements I might incorporate into a card design.
When I found these acetate packaging bubbles (that formerly held tiny roses), I decided to see if I could make a shaker snowglobe. I realized when I was finished, I should have photographed the steps, but it was sort of a trial and error process ... that turned out pretty cool.
I started with a 3x3" folded white card. I used my 2 1/4" circle punch through the front. I adhered stickers to the back of the cardstock, so they would show through the opening. Next I inserted the acetate bubble and some clear bead-like pieces (the kind you find in the floral section to fill the bottom of vases) before sealing my little card shut with strong double sided tape around all four sides.
Next I created my standard-sized card front using this week's Cardabilities Sketch and Echo Park Holly Jolly papers. I then punched through the card front, slipped in my smaller card & shaker, and attached it all to a brown cardstock frame.
I finished with a felt snowflake, adhesive gem, and EAD Rub-on Sentiment ... Fa la la la la.
... not even penguin and his friend bird.
This week at Jingle Belles we're celebrating creatures ... it could be an animal, a bug, a rodent ... or even a monstah or robot ... just have fun with it.
I went with happy little creatures & papers from Echo Park's Everybody Loves Christmas. I added a wrap of red sparkling ribbon and a EAD Designs Stickerz sentiment to complete the design with October's Sketch for You to Try.
I'm also playing along with the Jingle All The Way to Christmas Challenge at The Ribbon Girl.
Can't wait to see what creatures inspire you for the holidays.
This week at Jingle Belles we're looking for cards inspired by holiday tunes. Since Christmas music and Christmas Caroling are two of my favorite things, I couldn't stick to just one holiday song ... so I went with a Christmas Mix Tape theme.
I started with Holly Jolly Christmas papers from Echo Park that Lauren & I picked-up at The Ink Pad (well actually Lauren purchased them & then shared some sheets with me ... isn't it awesome having crafty friends).
Since I loved the fun & funky color combination in the musical background paper, I decided to use those colors to create an "Oh Christmas Tree" inspired forest. When I went searching for a tree, I saw these "yet-to-be-inked" Hero Arts Friendly Flag stamps that reminded me of upside-down little trees. Then I remembered that one of the challenges at the Hero Arts Blog this month is to make a holiday card using "non-holiday" stamps ... score.
For the "star" on the top of my tree, I used the little flower from Hero Arts Sending Smiles Messages that I embellished with some tiny orange bling. The finishing touch was a From The Heart Greetings sentiment .
I am also linking-up with the fine folks at Cute Card Thursday who are also celebrating Trees this week.
The layout is this week's Freshly Made Sketch.
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This card uses images from Rogue Redhead's Beach Babes set, together with the Horizontal Sketch Challenge at the Moxie Fab World Blog.
Papers are Echo Parks's Splash Collection, and the circle element is a Summer Sticker from SRM Stickers. I added a bit of orange colored pencil to the images to help them pop against the white background and to tie them all together.
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I got a shout-out at The Paper Players last week, so I wanted to play along again this week with their Christmas in July Challenge.
When I saw June's fantastic holiday card using this week's Mojo Monday Sketch, I knew I wanted to use that sketch as my layout. I also incorporated the colors (Red, Pink & Neutral) from this week's CR84FN's Color Challenge.
I used a combination of papers, stickers and a journaling card from Echo Park's Everybody Loves Christmas collection. I always save the cover sheet that comes with the collection, because there is a tiny sample strip of each paper with a shrunk-down pattern (which is perfect for cards). You can see the regular size peppermint candy shapes on the right & the smaller size from the packaging on the left. I also used the tiny snowflakes strip.
I stamped Hero Arts Magical Background in Warm Red ink on Pink Cardstock ... Ho Ho Ho ... another holiday card done. This card would also work for the Stars *OR* Stripes Prompt at Jingle Belles ... you have until 6pm EST on Wednesday to link-up with us.
Okay, this week's Prompt name at Jingle Belles is a bit of a stretch ... but just like there were three kings ... we want to see three (or more) different pieces of patterned paper in your card design this week.
They can all be the same company ... even the same collection ... or you can totally mix-it up ... but we want to see three different patterned papers in your design.
And joining us for this week's prompt is a wonderful sponsor who specializes in fabulous designer papers ... Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker.
I started with a scrap of paper from My Mind's Eye as the base & then incorporated three more designer papers from Echo Park's Wintertime Collection for this week's CPS Sketch.
I decided to feature the coordinating cup-of-cocoa sticker wtih a little pearl flourish from Recollections (they were 40% off at Michael's this week ... love the tiny size). The sentiment is from Penny Black.
So go digging into your paper scrap stash ... or break out some new papers you haven't cut into yet ... and show us how you can create patterned paper magic.
It's been quite a while since I've had time to play along with the SCS Featured Stamper Challenge, but this week I had some time to wander through Lori's fabulous gallery (she does digi-stamps too) & chose this card from way back in March 2008 to inspire my design.
The strips of paper reminded me of the packaging that comes with Echo Park paper collections. I cut all of the little sample pieces into strips and was able to create two fantastic valentine cards from things I would normally throw away.
I attached the paper strips to a grey card base, and finished with a heart, butterfly & sentiment sticker from the Be Mine Collection for a quick and oh-so-easy card design.
For this one I added some black ribbon, punched hearts, and cardstock sentiment. I even stamped a few tiny hearts in the corner ... and I'm linking these up to Crazy 4 Challenges Valentine Challenge.
I finally cut into my beautiful Echo Park Be Mine Collection. The little journaling cards were perfect to for a glittery little valentine message.
I added a tiny bit of sponging around the Grey edges and a wrap of sheer silver ribbon for a quick valentine design.
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