613 Avenue Create November 2019-Anything Goes-Option Scrap Your Stash

Hello there!  I hope things are going well with you.  This month's optional twist at 613 Avenue Create is to Scrap Your Stash - in other words use some leftover stuff to create a project.

Here's my card:

I used a panel on which I had practiced blending Distress Oxide Inks using my makeup brushes from Amazon.  I really love blending with them.  I have more panels set aside. The birds were left over from my practicing using two colors to stamp them.  And I have a ton of little heart dies of various colors.  I decided to use a red one.

I cut out the middle of the framed die and added the leaves after coloring them with my Spectrum Noir markers.  I added a sentiment, and it was perfect for my husband.

I hope you decide to enter our challenge.  We all have crafty items hanging around that we need to use.  Look through what you have and join us.  It will be fun!



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613 Avenue Create #220-Anything Goes-Option Wedding/Anniversary

Good day, Crafty Friends!  This month at 613 Avenue Create our Anything Goes Challenge has the fun option of a wedding or anniversary card/project.  I made a card for our friends who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.  It was a lot of fun to make.

This is the front view of my card.  I had a difficult time with shadows while taking photos of the gold birds, leaves and hearts.  They are punched out of gold mirror card stock which I could just not get to photograph well.  Please excuse my lack of skill in this regard.

The roses and flowers are a die cut which I glued to the front after using a die to cut out a heart on the card front.

Here you see the birds on branches.  I die cut the sentiment using number and alpha dies, adhering them to a scalloped punch, edged with gold ink.

Below you can see that this is a tri-fold card.  There's a stamped sentiment and die cut which you can't see.  But we signed the card and included a personal message before I photographed it - my mistake.  I didn't want to show our message so I chose to show this view of the tri-fold.  Oh, well. 

I really like how the card turned out. I may make another tri-fold card in the future. It's nice to be able to include more dies and sentiments.

Thanks for visiting!

Card Stock:  Recollections 110 lb
Gold Mirror Paper:  My stash
Flower, Letter & Number Dies:  Tattered Lace
Bird Punch:  Stampin' Up
Heart Punch:  Martha Stewart

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog #338-Anniversary

Good day, crafty friends!  This time our challenge at FCCB is to create an anniverary project.  I have made a card for my sister and brother-in-law who are celebrating their anniversary this month.  As usual, I have made a clean and simple card:

I used Everyday Pop Up Cards for the rings and Artbooking for the frame around the rights.  The background paper is from my stash - a friend actually gifted me with that beautiful sparkly paper.  The sentiment is from an old Inkadinkado set which I have had for years and years.  I added clear Wink of Stella to the rings so they sparkle like the background paper.  I am quite pleased with the result.  Hopefully, my sister and her husband will like it.  It's in the mail but they don't look at my blog so it's ok that I posted it now.

Challenge #338-Anniversary
Make a project using anything Anniversary related. But there has to be a least one cut from the Cricut Library!

This Weeks Sponsor is-

And the prize is-

$10 Gift Code

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.

If it isn't a card, you will get two entries into the drawing!

We hope to see your project in the challenge.  And don't forget to see who won the previous challenge - maybe it was you!

Thanks for visiting!

It's 2018!

This is my first post of 2018.  Life just got in the way of my posting until now, so I'm wishing everyone a belated Happy New Year.  We are having bouts of extreme cold here in the South as are other regions.  Just keeping warm has practically turned into a job.  But at least today the sun is out and temperatures are reasonable for our area.  We'll see what happens tomorrow.

If you haven't already seen it, my blog buddy Darnell has put together an amazing team for a new blog challenge:  Twofer Card Challenge.  The concept is to create two separate cards using the same stamps or dies.  It's a lesson in stretching your supplies and adding to your stash all at the same time. I decided to join in and here's what I came up with:

 

I created a Valentine card and an anniversary card, which puts me ahead of the game since Valentine's Day is next month and our anniversary is in October.  I heat embossed the Valentine and stamped the anniversary card.

          

Card Stock:  Michael's Recollections 60 lb and 110 lb
Stamps:  Fresh Squeezed Stamps Tickle My Fancy (company now closed)
Valentine Card:  Sizzix Embossing Folder, Stampendous white embossing powder
Anniversary Card:  Hero Arts Tide Pool ink; enamel hearts, my stash

Challenges:
Twofer Card Challenge - January - Feathers

Valentine Card only:  CAS on Sunday#124 - Love or Valentine's Day

Anniversary Card only:  Word Art Wednesday #316-317 - Anything Goes

It now occurs to me that I perhaps should have posted separate pictures of the cards in addition to the picture of them together as required by the Twofer Challenge.  I will next time.

Thanks for visiting!

Anniversary Card

My husband and I recently celebrated our wedding anniversary.  This is the card I made him.  I tried something different, something I had never done before.  I made a background using Distress Inks.  I had everything I needed:  Distress Inks (various colors), blending tool and foam squares, and a craft mat.  Just ink up and blend, right?  Hold on, it was not as easy as the videos I had watched made it seem.  I threw away five attempts.  I wanted to evoke memories of our watching the sun set over the beach in Hawaii earlier this year.  My husband liked the card, and that's all that really matters.

I am entering these challenges:  Addicted to CAS - code word Anniversary; Simon Says Stamp Blog Monday Challenge - Got Ink; Simon Says Stamp Blog Wednesday Challenge - Keep it Clean and Simple.

I will have to try this technique again soon.  Hopefully, it won't be so hard next time.  And I do believe I need some new Distress Inks - LOL!!