A bird sings not because -- Guest Designer for Crafty Boots

Monday August 22, 2016

 

I am a Guest Designer over at Crafty Boots Challenges where the challenge is Anything But A Card..

I was excited to be asked to be a guest designer and of course I loved that it's Anything But A Card.. I like those types of challenges. Thank you Crafty Boots for having me.

I hope you head over to Crafty Boots and enter your card. You could be the next Guest Designer / winner 

 

This is my Anything But A Card project. I needed another journal page for October so this was my chance to make one. When I have my journal I have the month tabs and then the calendar and more pages.. Well right on top of the month tab is where this goes. So when I go to my journal I see the inspiration - fun pages.
I finally used those Tim Holtz crazy birds. I have had them for awhile but seem to never have time to use them. I took my chance this time.  I used water color paper and laid down some inks and spritzed with water then I laid the water color paper in the inks. I dried the paper then laid it gently down in spots till I got the bright colorful background I wanted. I love doing this.. (I also love there are two sides of the paper.. the first one was a muddy mess) After I got what I wanted I dried it. I then die cut the stamped birds and colored them in copics. I was then thinking what sentiment do I want. I looked in my inspirational book (one I write in) and didn't see anything. So went to my stamps and found this sentiment from Verve Stamps. Well it was too small so I went to the computer and printed it out and then cut each word out.  I then added My Favorite Things music notes.  I layered it on some black card stock (to hide the muddy mess on the other side) and laminated the page with my Zyron. I have a hole punch that fits the binders I have so punched it and added to a journal.  I am loving this page and the way it came out.
I hope I have inspired you to make a journal page or some project that is Anything But A Card and head over to Crafty Boots Challenge and play along.
Thank you Crafty Boots

Challenges:
Share joy - color or sketch (color )
DRS designs #240 - color challenge
Craft rocket #22 - things with wings
Jo's scrap shack #152 - anything goes
Crafty catz #334 - anything goes/opt. happy birthday
A gem of a challenge #176 - summer fun
Not just cards #35 - Aug.
Digi stamps 4 joy #127 - anything goes/opt. rose
Come and get it - summertime
Craft your passion #326 - anything goes
Crafting from the heart #124 - anything goes
Melonheadz friends - dies/punches
Craftin desert divas - watercolor
The paper girls #110 - color inspiration

Wedding card #4

Sunday August 21, 2016

 

Ok this is the 4th Wedding / Congratulations card. It took awhile to make this card as every night I seemed to have something going one. I need to bring the cards to work tomorrow so my friend can chose or take all 4 of them. Now maybe if you went back and looked at the other three you could see why I had a hard time choosing which group of papers to use. I did two in cream card stock base and the flowers same cream and two with white card stock base and white flowers. I love all four.

This one is the same as others just different papers and again this one has the embossing folder strip. I love summer weddings.. it's easy to pick colors. 

I love the misti stamping tool. I've made these cards before for my friend and the congratulations wasn't stamped as strong it is on these using the misti and re stamping at least 3 times.  If you haven't bought it yet.. I highly recommend it. I just have the small one and I love the size. I like that you can also stamp your sentiment or image and then if you don't use an embossing ink you can stamp in color of choice and then when you are happy you use versa mark and re stamp again and emboss. It's perfect alignment each time you stamp.  I can see more embossing in my future.. (this is not ink embossed)  I just went through my many many embossing powders and put them in a lot smaller containers and then stamped a word on white and black and them embossed it and stuck it to the top of the lid. This way I have an idea what it looks like for future embossing projects.

 

Challenges:
Jo's scrap shack #152 - anything goes
Crafty catz #334 - anything goes/opt. happy birthday
Allsorts #377 - fabulous florals
Inkspirational #115 - pattern paper
My time to craft #327 - emboss
Not just cards #35 - Aug.
Digi stamps 4 joy #127 - anything goes/opt. rose
Pile it on #115 - die cut embellishment

Don't give me attitude - Guest Designer at Scrapping 4 fun #72

Friday August 19, 2016

 

Today I am the Guest Designer at Scrapping 4 fun.. This is challenge #72 - Anything goes.

I am so happy to be the GD and thank you for having me.

 

 

This is my card for the Anything goes challenge.  I chose to use one of the crazy birds from Tim Holtz. I found this fun sentiment at Michaels today it's by Dylusions and I just had to use this bird because she has that attitude look and I had her standing on the deflated balloon to give it more of that attitude feel.  The sentiment also came with a stencil so I stamped the lines and circles that are by Club scrap but then took the stencil and added some pink circles, gold circles with ink. In person it looks cool. I used wink of stella on the balloon and her eyes.

 

Challenges:
The pencil case wk. 26 - anything goes
Pile it on # 114 - make your own background
Come and get it - punches/dies
Amusing challenge - anything goes
AAA cards #71 - blending
Simon Monday - summer fun
CCC digi #55 - shades of blue
A bit more time to craft #26 - anything goes
Through the craft room door 8/16 - anything goes
Lemon shortbread #22 - anything goes
(Pin)spirational #172 - anything goes
Creative moments #100 - anything goes
Crafty addicts #22 - anything goes/die cuts
Word art Wednesday #244-245 - anything goes
Addicted to stamps #207 - make your mark (I created background)
Penny's paper-crafty #291 - anything goes
Simon says Wednesday - make for the border (stamped border around edges and bottom)
Fab n funky #316 - anything goes
DRS designs #240 - color challenge
Craft rocket #22 - things with wings

Happiness come through doors you didn't even know you left open - Aud Sentiments #162

Thursday August 18-30 2016

 

Welcome to a new challenge at Aud Sentiments #162

 

Our theme for this two week challenge is for men in our lives + sentiment

 

Our sponsor for this card is Bugaboo..

 

This is my card using the image Guy golfing.. I think any guy would like this card. Would of made a nice fathers day card.. hum might have to remember this for next year..  I wanted a nice encouragement sentiment so found this old one from club scrap.  I grabbed a bunch of scraps and did my scrap strip that I like to do.. I used a negative part of a border die on the left side.. I just couldn't throw that cool piece out.. I hope you play along. You have two weeks to get your card posted to the Aud Sentiments blog.. Have fun.

 

Challenges:
JO's scrap shack #151 - recycle scraps
Inkspirational #115 - pattern paper
The pencil case wk. 26 - anything goes
Simon Monday - summer fun
A bit more time to craft #26 - anything goes
Digi choosday wk. 33 - anything goes
Tuesday throwdown #307 - anything goes
(Pin)spirational #172 - anything goes
Creative moments #100 - anything goes
Word art Wednesday #244-245 - anything goes
Addicted to stamps #207  Make your mark (clouds in background)
Penny's paper-crafty #291 - anything goes
Fab n funky #316 - anything goes

Season's greetings - Inspiration Destination #99

Wednesday August 17, 2016

 

I just was adding challenges for this card and when I went back to add another POOF!! it was gone. So re-adding this card. If it shows up twice.. oh well .. I will try to stop it before hand if I can.

 

Welcome to another challenge at Inspiration Destination #99 - ALWAY ANYTHING GOES

 

Our sponsor for this card is Cute as a button

 

This is my card using the image Deck the halls.. I colored her with copics and used some snowflake sequins and used a stampin up die. I paper pieced the little pocket with the snowflake background paper.

 

Challenges:
Inkspirational - 115 - pattern paper
Glitter n sparkle #201 - anything goes
Brown sugar #211 - anything goes
Christmas card challenge #36- opt. angel
Come and get it - punches/dies
Love to scrap #84 - anything goes
Craft your passion #325 - anything goes
Crafting from the heart #123 - anything goes
A bit more time to craft #26 - anything goes
Digi choosday wk. 33 - anything goes
Tuesday throwdown #307 - anything goes
Lemon shortbread #22 - anything goes
(Pin)spirational #172 - anything goes
Creative moments #100 - anything goes
Word art Wednesday #244-245 - anything goes
Penny's paper-crafty #291 - anything goes
Fab n funky #316 - anything goes

Behind every successful woman - Inspiration Destination # 99

 

Wednesday August 17, 2016

 

Welcome to another challenge at Inspiration Destination # 99

It's always ANYTHING GOES

 

Our sponsor for this card is Fresh Brewed Designs

 

This is my card using the image called Caffinated Escape.. I think she is deep in thought and planning her next step ... but she could be mindfully escaping as she is sipping her brew... I love brown and teal together so again I used those colors for this card. I have this awesome sentiment from Verve stamps.. Why don't you grab a cup of coffee and set down to the computer and add your card to the Inspiration Destination blog.. It's always anything goes..

 

Challenges:
Creative corner  - favorite color combo and why (teal and brown - just love the happy feel those colors give off)
Sweet stampin - favorite stamp (Verve sentiment)
Inkspirational #115 - pattern paper
Scrapping 4 fun - take a break
My time to craft #327 - embossed wet/dry (sentiment is embossed)
Love to scrap #84 - anything goes
Craft your passion #325 - anything goes
Crafting from the heart #123 - anything goes
A bit more time to craft #26 - anything goes
Through the craft room door 8/16 - anything goes
Lemon shortbread #22 - anything goes
(Pin)spirational #172 - anything goes
Crafty creations #322 - words/letters on background
Word art Wednesday #244-245 - anything goes

Take a moment to remember - Creative with Stamps #5 mid month reminder

Monday August 15, 2016

 

It's mid month so a little reminder that you still have more time to enter your card.

Creative with Stamps #5 challenge. 

 

(remember you can only enter 3 different cards per month)

 

 

This is my mid month reminder card.. I have this stamp set and have not used it so thought since the challenge is Geometric these hexagons would fit the challenge.. I just chose 4 different ranger inks and stamped the hexagons around and then added the awesome Paper trey ink sentiment.

I hope you play along and if your not sure what to do head over to our blog and see what the other design team members did for their cards.. Have fun.

 

Challenges:
Creative corner - favorite color combo and why (blue/yellow/red/green - bright happy colors)
Sweet stampin - favorite stamp
Glitter n sparkle #201 - anything goes
Love to scrap #84 - anything goes
Craft your passion #325 - anything goes
Crafting from the heart #123 - anything goes
Word art Wednesday wk. 242-243 anything goes
CCC digi #55 - shades of blue
A bit more time to craft #26 - anything goes