This months AAA Birthday Challenge is all about backgrounds. I made this background this weekend with my GelliArts Press and some stencils.
I thought it paired perfectly with this Echo Park Spooktacular Journaling Card (that I turned into a tag and added an Impress Birthday Sentiment) for the Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog.
I finished by attaching my two tags together with an Eyelet Outlet Bat Brad before attaching them to my rockin' background using foam tape.
At Jingle Belles, we're still CASEing (Copy And Selectively Editing) cards from the Jingle Belles (Lauren and me).
I chose to CASE Lauren's card from the Man with the Bag Challenge in June 2022.
First of all, my card has no stitching because I don't have Lauren's fabulous paper-sewing skills. Secondly, I swapped the horizontal oval for a vertical one (I did use oval die cuts from Gina K. Designs that have faux stitching). I swapped Lauren's Doodlebug Santa for the Doodlebug Doodle-Pops Sugarplum Street 3-D stickers.
I finished with some holly berries on the house roof to pull in a bit more green and a sticker sentiment positioned to ground my stickers.
We hope you'll find one of our cards to inspire your creations this week.
Another week of skipping through blogland:
Have a tremendous Thursday!
It's been a while since I joined the AlteNew September Inspiration Challenge, so I had to get inky when these colors and flowers really sparked my creativity.
I stamped the AlteNew Striking Flowers on light pink cardstock, die cut them, and then blended the darker pink ink to add contrast.
I attached the flowers to a piece of alcohol ink designer paper and finished with a sentiment from AlteNew With Deepest Sympathy and some darker pink bling.
And since both of these stamp sets were un-inked in my stash, I'm also linking-up at the NBUS Challenge. Additionally, I'm joining the Sympathy Challenge at Little Red Wagon.
I spent several hours yesterday morning slowly wandering through my local papercrafting store Scrapmania (if you like to take road trips to a shop, this one is worth it).
I picked-up some fun new Halloween papers and used one from Echo Park's Spooktacular Halloween to make this card for this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch. I trimmed one of the journaling cards into a tag and attached it to a second larger black cardstock tag using an Eyelet Outlet Bat Brad.
I created my background cutting 3/8" paper strips from two different scraps of two-sided coordinating orange and black papers.
Let the Halloween card making commence (PS we just finished binge-watching KAOS on Netflix this weekend, and we loved it ... finally all of those hours studying Greek Mythology were put to good use).
For the Labor Day Weekend, Katie Pertiet had a half-off birthday sale in her Shop, so I did a little shopping. I was thrilled when I stumbled across her Chinese New Year Stamp Pack (I also grabbed this adorable Dragon Trainer set for a future card).
I combined it with some of her printable solids paper and some of her digital stitching to make a card for the Lunar New Year Challenge.
I used the Barn Door Distress Watercolor Crayon to do a very loose watercolor for the dragon image.
When it dried, I matted it with a thin later of gold glitter paper before adding a red mat and attaching it all to a black card base. I finished with some gold embellishments.
The newest theme at the TGIF Challenges is Let's Go Shopping.
Anyone that knows me, knows that other than craft supplies, the thing I shop for the most are shoes. I love having just the right color and style of shoe for each outfit. So of course, my shopping card features some uniquely colored shoes (or boots in this case) in a just me color palette.
I die cut the Concord & 9th Bootcut Dies twice to make my pair of boots and used foam tape to attach the front boot of the pair
I embellished my boots with tiny epoxy hearts before attaching them to my designer paper panel. I used a sentiment from the Concord & 9th Bootcut Stamp Set.
I've spent most of last weekend and this morning trying to reassemble my studio. Last weekend I got the bright idea to replace some broken plastic storage with a vintage dresser that I found for half-price at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, however I'm currently in that interim phase where everything is worse before it gets better.
Hopefully by the end of the three-day weekend, I'll have everything much better than when I began. With 20+ years of paper crafting supplies, it can be very hard to make those purging decisions that need to happen over time.
During the sorting and purging process, I found these fun vintage Flower Child Stickers by Jen Hadfield for American Crafts. I thought they would be perfect to use for the Retro Challenge at Seize the Birthday (since unfortunately at my age, my childhood qualifies as Retro). I paired them with a crafty feeling paper from Simple Stories Hey, Crafty Girl collection.
I used one sticker sentiment and a vintage stamped sentiment from A Muse to finish the design together with a rotated sketch from Just Add Ink. I have so many happy memories of all of those retro elements.
The theme at Jingle Belles this week is Loves Labor Day Lost. Since September 2nd will be Labor Day in the United States, we've decided to celebrate by giving you a bit of a head start with this week's card design.
We're asking that you CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit) any of the cards that Lauren or I have made for any of the previous Jingle Belles prompts (yep, you've got 13 1/2 years of cards to choose from). Make sure you link to the card that inspired you and share your selective edits.
For my inspiration, I chose this Masculine Card Lauren made in May 2022.
Another week of skipping through blogland:
Have a tremendous Thursday!
