Smelly Strawberry- What? winner(s)

Happy Friday! Here is what I was working on when I posted my What? post. (The winner(s) will be posted at the bottom of this post!) It is a Scratch and Sniff Strawberry! My club wanted to do a Scratch and Sniff card, so I had to come up with something that was big enough to "scratch and sniff"! So I thought of a strawberry. I looked all over for a punch art Strawberry and could not find one, so I decided I would make one up, so that is what I did and I think it came out pretty good!

The colors on my card are Basic Black, Kraft, Whisper White, Ridding Hood Red and Real Red (for the Strawberry). The background Kraft was sent through my Big Shot with the Weave texture plate. I layered a piece of Vellum card stock over the Whisper White card stock to give it a softer look. The ribbon is a mix of the Whisper White Taffeta and Black Organdy. I made the strawberry using the Wide Oval and the 5-Petal Flower punch. The punch along the bottom of the card is the Eyelet Border.


Ok, so now onto the What? winner(s). So obviously this was a really easy one, since everyone guessed a Strawberry or wanted to guess a Strawberry. So I have decided to give everyone who guessed a card this time!!! That's right, if you guessed, I will send you a card! Now all I need is for you to e-mail me (rochellelee02@yahoo.com ----the 02 part is zero, not the letter o.-----) your mailing address within 5 days, so by Tuesday June 2, and I will get your card out to you.

Now for future reference when I do the next What? post I will specify who will get the card if there are multiple correct guesses, but this time was the first time and I didn't know everyone would get it right!! So congratulations to everyone!!

Thanks for looking and checking back by!

Thanks guessers of What?

Thanks to all of you who guessed in my What? post. I will post the winner(s) tomorrow, Friday, at 8:00am mountain time. I will also post the finished product!

Be sure to stop back by to check it out.

(Because this was fun, I am going to continue doing this...stay tuned for more details!!)

Red and White Boat- Sweet Sunday Sketch #19 and Jewelry Color Inspration # 38

This week I combined Stacey and Karen's challenges to make one card. Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration this week was Real Red, Brilliant Blue and Whisper White in honor of Memorial Day. Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge was this fun sketch.

Here is what I made for the challenges. The boat is from Boat Loads of Love. I colored it using my Real Red Stampin' write marker. The brads are the jumbo white brads from SU! (I am finding myself adding these to a few cards lately!).

You can see in the close up that I paper pierced the Brilliant Blue card stock and used my big dots texture plate and big shot on the Real Red card stock to finish the card off.

Thanks for looking and I hope you
all had a great Memorial Day!

Twilight Love- Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #32

Here is a new challenge for me, it is called Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge. I have been checking in on their blog for a little while now, and decided to take the plunge this week! Every Saturday they post a new movie and then you make a card inspired by that movie (you can find out more on their blog). What a fun idea!

This week the Movie was Twilight. I am not a Twilight freak like some people I know, most of my club, (I saw the movie and I have read maybe about 1/4 of the first book...) but I decided to do the challenge anyway and then give the card away at my next club!
So here is what I came up with, a simple card with the requirements from the challenge, use red, black and some sparkle. The two hearts are chipboard hearts I covered with card stock. The red one (Bella) is Ridding Hood Red and then the sparkly one (Edward) was embossed with a Dazzling Diamonds and Clear Embossing powder mix. The words (from a couple different sets) were stamped on Basic Black card stock and then embossed with White Embossing powder.

The card base is Basic Black and then it has a panel of Whisper White and then a sheet of Vellum card stock on top of that. I think the Vellum give it a softer and more mysterious look, which I think fits Twilight.

Here is a close up of the sparkly heart. I hope you like it, I had fun with this new challenge!

Thanks for looking!

What?

What is that?

This is something I am working on. Do you know what it is? If you guess right, I will send you the finished product in the mail! You have until Thursday, May 28 at 12 noon, mountain time, to post your guesses.

Hints:
- I made it by putting a few things together
- There is a technique on it

Want to know what it is? After May 28, I will post the completed project right here on my blog, so come back and check it out!

PS. If you leave a comment, make sure I can get back to you somehow!

Fly Fishing Scene Birthday- Jewelry Color Inspiration #37

Here is Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration #37 inspiration piece. It is a cuff made from Japanese seed beads. The colors this week are Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel and Whisper White.

My husband's birthday was yesterday and I needed to make him a card, he is a fly fisherman, and I thought theses colors would probably work for that theme. So I pulled out one of my Fly Fishing stamp sets called Fly Fishing and made a card.

Here is what I cam up with. I think the colors worked very well with this scene. I stamped the image in Black Staz On onto water color paper and then water colored it using the Aqua Painter. I added the "Happy Birthday" stamp from Bitty Birthday, because it fit!
Just the other day my husband said he likes how stitching looks on cards, so I thought I would add some stitching to his card. I started off by doing something else than what you see here, but my sewing machine decided it didn't want to work for me, so I had to switch things up a bit, but I think it worked out ok.

Here is a close up of the scene. You can see all of the colors in this picture.

Thanks for looking and have a great Memorial Day weekend!

Want to play? Check out Stacey's blog for weekly color inspirations!

Fringing Ribbon (and adding it to a Graduation Cap for a Tassel)

Here is a piece of fringed ribbon. It can be used for many thing in paper crafting. A few of the things I have used it for is hair and a tassel for a Graduation Cap I made.

Things you will need are some grosgrain ribbon in the color of your choice and a pair of small scissors.

1. Cut a length of ribbon off your roll. Then cut one of the finished edges off of the whole length of the ribbon.

2. Next pull the fibers from the ribbon away from the finished edged you didn't cut off.

3. You should now have two pieces. They should look like this. You can throwaway the one on the left. The fibers (on the right) are what we will be needing.



4. Now take your fibers and tie them into a knot closer to one side.

If you are using the fringed ribbon for hair or something else besides a tassel for a Graduation cap, you are done! Just add to your project!
(I would love to see what you made, leave a comment and a link to your project and I will check it out!)




5. Now take your Graduation Cap and punch a hole in the middle for the brad. Don't poke it all the way through. Take your fringed ribbon and wrap it around your brad and then secure your brad. The brad should hold your ribbon in, just make sure you wrapped it around the brad tightly.

6. Here is what it should look like. Notice the extra fringed ribbon sticking out of the brad on top of the hat? Cut it off using some little sharp scissors.

7. Here is what it should look like as a finished product.



If you have any questions, please let me know!

How to Make a Gradutaion Cap

This owl is wearing the Graduation Cap we will be making!

Here is what you will need:

• 1 1/4" x 1/34" black card stock
• Ruler
• White gel pen
• Cutter
• Key Tag Punch
  
• Tape or glue
  
• Brad and ribbon
  

1. Mark each side of your rectangle at the half way points.



2. Draw lines connecting your half way points.

3. Cut along the lines. It should look like this now. (You can throwaway the little triangles).

4. Now punch a Key Tag out of black card stock and cut about 3/4" off one end. (You can throwaway the bigger piece).

5. Tape the two pieces together so it looks like a graduation cap.

6. You can add a brad in the center of the cap and some frayed ribbon (click here to see my tutorial) to make a tassel and you are done!

(To see the full card with this Graduating Owl on it click here.)


Thanks and if have nay questions, please let me know!

Birthday Girl Gold Fish- kwerner color inspiration #52

I saw Kristina's Color Inspiration this week and liked the colors and had time, so I decided to make a card. The colors are Baja/aqua, saffron, mustard, sand and white. I needed to make a birthday card for my husband's little cousin who is going to be 5, so I used this challenge to get it done (I know she will like this card).

I saw these colors and thought of a gold fish in the water, so I went with it and here is what I came up with.
This little girl gold fish is off to her birthday party. I made her using punches and used some ink to sponge around her to give her some more depth. The "party" is a white rub on. I used only the colors in the challenge.

In this close up you can see I used the Big Shot and the Flourish texture plate to give the Baja Breeze card stock some texture. The pebbles are made using the 3/4" and the 1/2" circle punches and again sponged to give them more depth.


I figured I better show you where she is going, so here is the inside of the card. A present is


waiting for her on a table and a Happy Birthday banner is hung all in celebration of her!

The banner was stamped in Versa Mark using the Birthday Wish stamp, from the Under $10 page, and then embossed with white embossing powder. I again used the Flourish texture plate and the Big Shot to give the Baja Breeze card stock some texture.

Thanks for looking and have a great week!

Owl Grad- Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #18

It's Sunday and you know what that means...another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge from Karen! Here is her sketch this week. Last night before I went to bed, I knew I had to make a graduation card today and was hopping that I could use Karen's sketch, and I did!


Here is what I made! I knew I wanted to have an owl on the graduation card, so I decided to make a punch art one, I think it came out cute! He even has his graduation cap on and his diploma in wing!

The owl is made using More Mustard, Sahara Sand and Whisper White card stock. I sponged around him a bit. The branch he is sitting on I cut out and then die cut some Little Leaves using the Big Shot to add to it. I used the stamp set Great Grads with Versa Mark Ink on the Bashful Blue background to make my own DSP.

The tassel on the cap is even in the appropriate colors for the grad who is receiving this card! I made the tassel by first dying some ribbon a darker green and then frayed it and mixed it with some white frayed ribbon. I hope she likes it!

Thanks for looking!



Want to see my tutorial on how to make the graduation cap and the tassel? Click on the links below!

Graduation Cap
Fringing/Fraying Ribbon

2 Cards for one Challenge- Jewelry Color Inspiration #36

I need to stop waiting till the last minute to make these cards for Stacey's Jewelry Color Inspiration #36! Well, I tried this week, but the first card I made, I didn't really like, so I had to start over...a few days later!

Here is the piece of Jewelry she got the color inspiration from. The colors are Temping Turquoise, Lavender Lace, So Saffron and Whisper White...what different colors for me!

Here is the second card I made, that I like better than the first, I think. It uses the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set, some 5/8" So Saffron ribbon and the 5/16" white Jumbo Brads.








And here is the first card I made. I got the sketch for this one from Got Sketch? It was sketch 83. I used quite a few different things on this card. They are, a flower from the pretties kit, the Top Note die cut using the Big Shot, a button die cut using the Big Shot, White Satin ribbon, DSP from my scrap pile, the Scallop edge punch, Versa Mark Ink, Basic Black Classic Ink and a few different stamp sets, one current (On Your Birthday) and one retired (Polka Dots and Paisley)...oh and some glitter glue used on the flower petals.

This picture you can see the Paisley print I stamped on the Tempting Turquoise and the Whisper White. And maybe if you look really closely the glitter glue on the flower petals (it only goes in a line on the "vein" of the leaf.)

Thanks for looking!

JUST POSTED! Stacey picked my card with the big flower on it for her pick this week...I am soo happy! Thanks again Stacey! Go check out her Weekly challenges, they are always so fun!

Grad- Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge # 17

Here is Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch this week. I needed a few Graduation cards, so that is what I went with.











Here is my card. Pretty simple this week, but it gets the job done!

I will post more details late, but I have to run..off to work and I almost forgot to upload this card!

Thanks for looking!

May's $5 Friday- Flower Frenzy

Here are the two flower-y projects that my $5 Friday group made this month!

The first one is this flower pot card. I saw Rose's Terra Cotta Flower Pot card on Splitcoast and loved it so much I knew I had to CASE it. I like how she put two different flowers together and the colors just pop off the page. The colors are Apricot Appeal, Rose Red, Old Olive and Really Rust. The ribbon is 5/8" Chocolate Chip. The center of the flowers are the 5/16" Whisper White brads.
The flowers were made using the Big Shot Daisy's #2 die layered on top of the Flower Layers die. The leaves are from the Bird's and Blooms Sizzlits die.

Here is what the card looks like when it is "open".




Here is the other card we made. You may recognize this card from an earlier post and you should, because it is what I made for Stacey's Jewelery Color Inspiration Challenge and Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge a few weeks ago.

The colors are Going Grey, Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery and Whisper White. The DSP is from the Urban Oasis paper pack. The grey ribbon I died my self using the re-inker and water method.

Thanks for looking!

Baja Backed Cameo Tulips- Mothers Day

Happy Mother's Day!

Here is another tulip card I made. It uses Baja Breeze DSP and some Whisper White card stock. The tulips are Cameo Coral and the leaves are Old Olive.






I think the eyelet border punch and the satin White ribbon give it a very girl-y feel and is perfect for Mother's Day. I made the tulips using the Key Tag punch and then cut the notches out using my scissors. The white dots around the edges of the tulips were made with my white gel pen.

Thanks for looking!