Summer Butterfly

The challenge this week at Joan's Garden was to create using: Butterfly, yellow and green, 3 layers, something from nature.  See the challenge details on her blog:  http://www.atjoansgardens.com/2012/07/this-weeks-challenge_19.html
Yellow and green are not colors I usually reach for, so this was a fun challenge.  Does it count that the butterfly is cream based with green coloring? My "from nature" are the flowers I made.
Supplies used on this care are:
Stamp: Inky Antics
Dies: Spellbinders, Memory Box
Embossing folder: Sizzex
Flowers: handmade from American Greeting Base petals
Ink: Watermark, Copics, Distress
Embossing Powder: Zing
Misc: brads and gems

Ice Cream Cones

Challenge 90 over at http://www.myshericrafts.blogspot.com salutes National Ice Cream month.  What a fun theme for a challenge!  With the temps around here at more than 100 degrees a cool drippy popsicle or icecream cone is a child favorite.  A few layers of paper, several ink pad colors plu a couple of special touches and this card is ready to share with a friend.  The background paper is a piece of tissue paper I "converted" to cardstock.
Supplies:
Stamps: Wiff of Joy, Technique Tuesday
Paper: Tissue, Glitter, various
Inks: Memento, Copic Markers
Misc: Stickles, Flower Soft
Technique: Fussy Cut (Ice cream cones)

Tag, You're It!

"Tag, You're It" is the theme of Challenge #077 at JustRite.  Tags are definitely not my "thing"... I didn't really even know where to begin.  So, I took an old blue cardstock card and cut it to a tag shape.  Then I just started...a little bit of this...a little bit of that and my garden inspired theme just sort of happened.
Wouldn't this work well for a "can you find" game?  So, can you find where I used:
 JustRite Butterfly Garden stamped image?
 JustRite Quiet Moments stamped images?
 Spellbinders Label 18, circle, Itty Bitty Blossoms
 Where  used Copic Markers?
  Bazzill Fiber Scraps
  Memory Box Flourish
  Cherry Lynn Butterfly
  Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch
 Marth Stewart Branch Punch
 Mulberry Paper
 Cuttlebug Emgossing Folder, Script
Paper Doily
 May Arts Lace Ribbon?
 White Sparkle Brad? Pearls? Twine? Silver Foil strip from Flowersoft? A bit of Stickles?

If you found  everything,you found almost everything I used to make this tag. I did also use White embossing Powder, Distress Inks, and Memento Inks.  What can I say...a little bit of everything and a couple cups of coffee and this tag is done!

Cornish Birthday

I'm so happy...Cornish Heritage Farms is back and will continue with Thomas Kinkade stamps.  Their blog's challenge was make a Happy Birthday card or tag. It was going to be a yellow rose or maybe a pink one...but once I'd stamped it with black, I just loved the depth that was created with all the shades of black.  So instead...I ended up with a black and white.  If you look very closely you will see the white is embossed.
Supplies:
Cardstock: black, white, grey card base
Ink: Memento
Stamps: Cornish Heritage Farms
 Dies: Spellbinder Ovals
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug ? (swirls with little birds)  (don't you wish they printed the name on the folder?)

Challenge: http://www.cornishheritagefarms.blogspot.com/

Ivory Flowers

As an enrollee in the online "Stretch Your Stamps" class, I find I am incorporating many of the tips and ideas that have been shared.  Those (use of sentiments/shadow stamping) are evidenced in this card I made for this weeks Ivory and Green card challenge at http://www.atjoansgardens.com .  Joan's challenge was to make a 4 layered card using ivory and green colors and a sentiment.  What! no ribbon? no bling?  Okay....  ....   ....   So, I decided to emboss the floral stamp in white on the green background.  First mistake....I grabbed the clear embossing powder instead of the white.  (Don't they look the same in the jar???) Turning the lemon into lemonade, I stamped again just offset from the original and this time I got the right jar of powder!  Here it is...4 layers, ivory and green, with a sentiment that is finished on the inside of the card.  The complete sentiment is: Flowers Say Hello from the Heart".  Now that this card is finished, I'm thinking it doesn't need ribbon or bling lol!
Supplies:
Paper: Ivory and Green cardstock
Stamps: Stampin Up (floral), Hero Arts (Sentiment)
Die: Cherry Lynn, Spellbinders
Misc: Zing Embossing Powder (clear, white)

Alphabet 4U

Day 3 of Stretch your Stamps online card class was to    s-t-r-e-t-c-h usage of that genre of stamps.  I pulled out a set I had never used (why did I buy it I wonder) and began to play.  From previous class idea, I white embossed the alphabet on white cardstock.  Then took colors of Distress Ink which I stamped on my work mat, then spritzed with water and painted over the embossed letters.  a ribbon, flourish, flower, pearl, and "alphabet" sentiment on a tag completed this alphabet card.   The hardest part of the card was getting the letters off their plastic card.  Several of them tore, but I was able to smoosh them together.  Apparently not using them for a couple of years did not help them much lol!









Supplies: 
Paper: Various Card Stocks
Ink: Distress Inks
Stamp: My Sentiment Exactly
Die: Memory Box, Paper Studio punch, Martha Stewart punch
Ribbon: May Arts

Happy Birthday in Toile

The Stretch Your Stamps online card class today was a fun combination of technique and stamp usage.  One technique that caught my eye was taking a stamp and embossing it in white on white cardstock.   The white embossing "pops" when you then take an ink and apply it all over the card.  Taking a tissue and wiping of excess ink can then brighten the white. (ooops, I forgot to do that on this card).  I absolutely love this Toile background stamp from Unity Stamps!  I decided I wanted the background to be the focal point of the card.  I mounted it on a piece of cardstock, added a strip of ribbon, used a fancy label die, and embossed a Happy Birthday.  A couple of large brads provide the pop of color.  I confess I saw using the bows on each side of a stamped image on a card made by Sharon Johnson and thought it  a perfect design detail for this card.

Supplies

Paper: Cardstocks

Stamps: Unity, JustRite Just a Note Set

Ink: Distress Iced Spruce, Versamark

Embossing Powder: Zing Charcoal

Ribbon:  May Arts

Misc: Brads from ?