Our Daily Bread does a monthly challenge for Operation Write Home - for every 25 cards submitted, they pay to ship one box of cards to our Heros overseas - up to two boxes. The OWH Sketch #141 is just what was needed. Both of these cards use Hero Arts stamps, but they are really ancient.
The Nestabilities Heart Circles die, cut in half, made two cards. I had a plain white card background, and it was way too plain. So I pulled off the layers, and stamped in Spun Sugar Distressed Ink using an Irish Blessing script background stamp.
I posted these first without the purple mat under the floral print paper, but just had to repost them once I added the mat. Much improved.
The StampTV Oldies but Goodies challenge is to use at least two of these colors: black, orange, purple, green, so I used them all. The owl and sentiment are from Gina K Designs "Framed Friends" set. The owl is paper-pieced - originally intended for the Cute Card Thursday challenge, but I didn't get it finished and posted in time.
I used the Viva le Verve sketch #3 for October, and made another card for the StampTV Mix-it-Up Monday challenge: Make a winter card with three layers or more and add some flourishes. I hope flourishes on the background paper count. This one also works for the latest Cute Card TCute Card Thursday challenge - Got Glitter! The swirl-y flourishes on the background were made with a Stampin'Up! Jumbo roller, are embossed with a clear/iridescent powder, and it sparkles really well.
Here's another shot at the JUGS challenge to do the emboss resist technique. I'm also entering it in the StampTV Mix-it-up-Monday challenge to make a winter-themed card having three or more layers, and with a flourish. I don't have any flourish stamps, so I printed a digital one, mounted it on medium blue, and used the exact-o knife to 'open up' the flourish ends.
The stamps used are the snowflake from Light of the Season, and the sentiment from Merry & Bright. The embossing is in clear iridescent powder, and the ink used for the resist is from the Blue Breeze Kalidacolor rainbow pad.
I've combined the third Vive la Verve sketch for October, with the Hero Arts' October contest , and the Just Us Girls 158 technique challenge (to do emboss resist) in this card.
The emboss resist was done with Barn Door Distress Ink on white embossing (on a cream card stock). Then I used Peeled Paint Distress Ink (for a "red and
green" look) to do the edges of the card and the blue mat. Not crazy
about the way the distressing looks, but oh, well.
I really like the Hero Arts stamp, which comes with it's matching die for easy cut-out. Very fun image to color.
Our Daily Bread does a monthly challenge for Operation Write Home - for every 25 cards submitted, they pay to ship one box of cards to our Heros overseas - up to two boxes. The OWH Sketch #141 is just what was needed. Both of these cards use Hero Arts stamps, but they are really ancient.
The Nestabilities Heart Circles die, cut in half, made two cards. I had a plain white card background, and it was way too plain. So I pulled off the layers, and stamped in Spun Sugar Distressed Ink using an Irish Blessing script background stamp.
