Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Masculine Themed Challenge at My Creative Time

There is a fun challenge at My Creative Time...The rules are as follows:


~With Father’s Day this month,today’s challenge is to make a MASCULINE THEMED card, layout, tag OR a 3-D item. Anything “guyish” – manly color palette, favorite sport, dad’s favorite chair, etc


Today I am posting a card that I have made for the challenge.  I started with a white card stock and inked up the sky and sand with the Build a Scripty & Watercolor Background using distress inks.  I stamped the birds with the Lost At Sea stamps.  The anchor and chain were cut with the new Anchor & Heart Dies.  I then cut the "you are" from Speech Bubble Sentiments in black card stock and added the "my anchor" from the Hey Sailor! stamp set.




On the inside I cut the sides of white card stock with the Make A Splash Die.  The sentiments are from Here's Lookin' At You and It's All About You  stamp sets.  I added the smaller anchor from the Anchors & Heart Dies, tied with Timeless Twine in Firecracker.




My Creative Time Supplies used:

Anchors & Heart Dies
Build a Scripty & Watercolor Background
Here's Lookin' At You
Hey Sailor!
It's All About You
Lost At Sea
Make A Splash Die
Speech Bubble Sentiments

other supplies are misc. papers and inks
Timeless Twine-Firecracker

Thank You for dropping by and taking a look!

Janet




Tuesday, May 27, 2014

MCT May Challenge


Today I am posting a card that I made for the color challenge at My Creative Time.  I was playing with water color paints and the Hexy Background stamp and got the idea it looked almost tie died.  So I thought the card should say Far Out and to use the Label Font.  After the card was done I was not sure I liked the card base color or should have layered a frame color around the watercolor or what color I should use.  I guess I need to think on what would be better looking.  Just not enough contrast around the water color.




The supplies I used are
My Creative Time:
Hexy Background
Label Font
Surprise Pop-Out Card Die-for the label
Stitched Pretty Flowers & Leaves Dies
Fun Stitched Edges Dies
Wow So Many Candles

Other items
PTI card stock
GooseBumpz Classic Embossing Folder

I had a lot of fun playing with the water colors and playing along with the challenge!  Thank You for dropping by and taking a look!

Janet


Monday, May 12, 2014

#2 Mother's Day Challenge at My Creative Time

Today I have another Mother's Day Card that I will enter in the challenge at http://www.creativetimeforme.com/
I really liked the box cards so many people have been making and thought it would be fun to make for my Mom.  It was quite easy to put together and I found it was easier to decorate or stamp, the outside of the box first, before closing or adhering it into a box shape.  This was so fun to make with lots of flowers from
the Stitched Pretty Flowers & Leaves Dies from My Creative Time.  I was hand delivering this one so I could put the Scallop & Stitched Circle up higher.

Card closed

 A view of the front

 A view from the side.  I like the dimension!
 My Creative Time Products:
Stitched Pretty Flowers & Leaves Dies
Pretty Spring Wreaths-sentiments
All Around Everything-sentiment
Stitched Curly Label Die
Curly Label Die
Scallop & Stitched Circle Die
Stitched Grass Die
Stitched Sweetheart & XOXO-heart

Spellbinders Shapeabilities Foliage Two, was used for vines and leaves that I attached the flowers to.  I think next time I will make them 2 layers thick for a little more sturdiness.

I had a lot of fun playing with the flower die cuts, mixing and matching all of the shapes, sizes and cuts.  I watched quite a few videos and found some measurements to use to make my card.  I plan to make more of these box cards.  So great you can fold these flat and mail them in an A2 envelope.  Thank you for taking a look.  I do hope you will give this type of card a try.

Janet


Friday, May 9, 2014

Mother's Day Challenge at My Creative Time

Today I have a card I made for Mother's Day and will be entering in the challenge at http://www.creativetimeforme.com/2014/05/designer-challenge-mothers-day.html
There is still time to join in on this fun challenge.

For my card I used the newly released Pretty Spring Wreaths stamp set and Stitched Pretty Flowers & Leaves Dies.  I also used the Fun Size Scallop Stitched Bow Die for the pretty bow.  I was inspired by a card made by Miss Cheryl at http://dragonflydesigns58.blogspot.com/2014/05/springtime-wreath.html
I just love the pretty sentiments in this stamp set.  It has 3 wreaths that can stand alone or be decorated with many flowers, leaves and other add on stamps.  It is such a fun set to use!  The new Stitched Pretty Flowers & Leaves Dies can be used to create a multitude of fun beautiful flowers and arrangements.  Here is what I came up with.





I used the inlay technique for the XOXO's and Heart on the inside of my Mom's card.  This is so fun to do...I plan to do much more of this technique.


My Creative Time products used:

Pretty Spring Wreaths
Stitched Pretty Flowers & Leaves Dies
Fun Size Scallop Stitched Bow Die
Stitched Sweetheart & XOXO Dies
Fun Stitched Edges Dies

Other products used are:
Paper Trey Ink for the colored papers
Stampin' Up inks
Georgia Pacific white card
Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink


I hope you enjoyed my Mother's Day Card for this fun challenge.  Thank You for taking a look!

Janet





Saturday, May 3, 2014

Two Cute! Baby Shower Card

Today I just wanted to share a special card I made for my Niece who is expecting twins very soon.  Today was her Babies Shower and the theme was Thing #1 and Thing #2 from Dr. Seuss.  How fun was this to make a card using those two rascals?  I thought it would be cute to use the Stork & Baby cutting file from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons and use the Things in a Dr. Seuss sort of way.  On the inside I used a card idea I had seen that looks like 3-D baby blocks.  I inked up the edges to make them look more block like.  I stamped a number of cute small stamps from My Creative Time's (http://www.creativetimeforme.com/) All Around Everything Accessories.  They fit the one inch blocks perfectly.  The letters clouds and sentiments were also from My Creative Time.  The sun, ball, bat and drink were from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons at http://prettypaperprettyribbons.blogspot.com/

Here is the front of my card

 The inside
 The boy side
 The girl side

This was a lot of fun to make...I hope you enjoy seeing it!  The card was a large 8.5" x 8.5"

Products used:
Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons cutting files
Cool Sun
Baseball & Bat
Stork & Baby

My Creative Time Stamps & Dies
All Around Everything Accessories
Lowercase Fun Dies
Fly Away With Me Dies
All Star Baby

The ballerina is a Lettering Delight cutting file with a Peachy Keen face from Princess Faces.

Thank You for taking a look!
Janet

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Happy 93rd Birthday Mom!

A quick post today with a Birthday card that I made for my sweet Mother-in-Law!  I am planning on entering it in the current My Creative Time Challenge.  The challenge is to use no patterned paper! You can make your own pattern paper by using any of My Creative Time's stamps OR dies,  but no store bought patterned paper allowed for the challenge.


Monday, February 17, 2014

My Creative Time 8 Product Challenge

My Creative time posted a fun challenge.  The challenge was to use 8 My Creative Time  products on a project.  It was such fun to create for this challenge.  This is what I came up with.


 The front of my card is a bit of a joke for the person who will be getting this card.  The sentiment was created on the Silhouette Cameo, printed and then cut with the Vintage Stitched Label Die from My Creative Time.  The card was cut using the Surprise Pop-Out Card Die and decorated with a Happy Birthday embossing folder, the Flower Petal Dies, Stitched Leaves Die and Spring Chicken Background that was stamped with a watermark resist.


The inside was decorated with the Stitched Doily Die, Celebrate Good Times ice cream cone, sentiment from It's All About You and a fluffy Timeless Twine bow using Firecracker.

Materials Used:
MCT Surprise Pop-Out Card Die
MCT Celebrate Good Times
MCT Vintage Stitched Label Dies
MCT Stitched Leaves Dies
MCT Flower Petal Dies
MCT Stitched Doily Die
MCT Spring Chicken Backgrounds
MCT It's All About You stamp set
Cricut Happy Birthday Embossing Folder
Ranger Watermark Resist ink
Timeless Twine bow in Firecracker

There is still time to join the fun for this challenge!  Go check out what the Design Team has created at http://www.creativetimeforme.com/