Sparkle Blends and Stampendous Blog Hop

Hi everybody!

Its been a little while since I've posted and I am so happy to be back for a blog hop for a collaboration with Stampendous for Doodles Paper Playground! I have two winter projects for you today: a card and a snowflake ornament.

The first project is a card featuring an adorable little snowman. We just had our first snowstorm which left about 9 inches of snow the day after I finished this card (coincidence?) so this little guy definitely knows his stuff, lol. I colored the snowman with copics inspired by Vixen Sparkle Blend and then used sequins from the blend as snowflakes around him. I mounted the white panel on an A2 top folding turquoise card.

The second project I have is a super shiny snowflake ornament. The snowflake is from Stampendous’ Windowrama Snowflake Chipboard kit. I wanted to turn this into a white sparkly snowflake so I started by using a white pigment ink all over. This gave a pretty white color but not sparkly so after it was dry I added white mica fintec watercolor on top. Then I outlined the edges with a pale blue felt tip pen and finished it off with beautiful sparkles from the Pawsome Pets Sparkle Blend and a blue/white string.

There is a great sale at White Rose Crafts, 30% Off Sparkle Blends during the Collab Hop (Fri-Sun) with Code SPLURGE30 plus a free gift with every order.


Below is the links for the blog hop. If you haven’t checked all of the links yet, please do so.

FRIDAY:
Doodles Paper Playground
Stampendous 
Fawn Kuehne
Alison Heikkila
Jamie Martin
Annie Collins
Meghan Kennihan
EK Gorman
Cheryl Schoeman <-- You are here

SATURDAY:
Doodles Paper Playground
Alison Heikkila
Kathi Rarek

SUNDAY:
Doodles Paper Playground
Kathi Rerek


Thank you so much for stopping by!!

AAA #136 - One Image

Hello! There is a new challenge at AAA Cards.



My card uses the image of a little girl from MFT.

I stamped and colored the little girl with copics. For the background matting, I colored the edges with a pink copic and used a white gel pen to add a pattern.

This challenge is being sponsored by Craftyscrappers. Hope you can play along :) Thanks for stopping by.

AAA Cards #134 - One corner + Music

Hi everyone. It is a new challenge at AAA Cards and this challenge is sponsored by Uniko.

 

For my card, I used cute little chicks playing instruments.

To start my card, I stamped and colored the chicks with copics. Then I used the matching dies to cut them out. After stamping the sentiment in the corner, I place the chicks around them using some foam tape to prop up the one in the middle. I stamped little music notes in light gray around the chicks.

Hope you can join us for this challenge :)

AAA #133 One Layer + Love

Hello! Today is the beginning of another challenge at AAA Cards. This is a one layer card challenge with an option of using the theme of love.

 

Here is my take for the challenge.

My husband and I don't really celebrate Valentine's day but I still like to make a card for him and for my kids. For this one, I stamped the fishies on a top folding A2 card and colored it in with colored pencils. Then I stamped the sentiment above in a gray ink. Do you like doing one layer cards? I find when all I want to do is color, they work really well :)

Supplies:

Stamps: Whipper Snapper - Tropical love; Hero Arts - Celebrate Everyday

Inks: Lawn Fawn - Manatee; Prismacolor pencils

 The challenge this week is sponsored by STAMPlorations. Hope to see what you create!

AAA Cards #132 - Up to One Third

Hello! It is time for a new challenge at AAA Cards - Use up to One Third of the card. This challenge is one of my favorites because it makes it really easy to keep to a CAS design.

For my card, I used both the challenge and the optional twist of masking.

I love to read so when I saw this stamp set I knew I wanted it. To start my card, I stamped the bunny in the top corner and the pile of books in the lower corner and colored them in with copics. Then I stamped the sentiment in the middle. In retrospect, I should have waited to stamp the sentiment until after I added my diagonal strip to make sure it was centered. To mask my stamped areas, I fussy cut post it notes to cover my images.

I measured out the sides of my panel into thirds and used masking tape to cover the outer corners so I could blend distress inks over the inside.  Once I finished that, I realized my sentiment was a little off center. There is a really cute little heart stamp in the set so I added a few around the words to fill in some of the empty space. I trimmed down the sides slightly and added it to brown cardstock and then added the whole to a A2 card.

Our sponsor for this challenge is CAS-ual Fridays and they are offering a $25 gift certificate to the winner. I hope you can join us :)

I would like to share this card in:

Addicted to stamps & more #324 - CAS

 

a2z scrapbooking - anything goes

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.

AAA Cards #131 - Sketch

Hi everyone. I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are enjoying the start of the new year :)

It is time for a new challenge at AAA Cards and starting with this challenge the themes will have an optional twist. This challenge is a sketch with an optional twist of pastel colors.

 

 Here is my card using the below sketch and pastel colors.

This is a great CAS sketch! I started by taking a top folding A2 white card and using my misti I stamped the paint swipe in the three colors. On the middle stripe I switched the direction of the paint swipe. Then I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in the middle.

Supplies:

Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Sweet Sentiments Plus; Simon Says Stamp - Brush Stroke Message

Inks: Hero Arts - Soft Canteloupe; Lawn Fawn - Celery Stick, Mermaid 

I hope you get inspired by the design team's cards and join us for this challenge. Thanks for stopping by!