Sukkersött # 44

I tried to get out of my comfort zone and made a blue card for Sukkersött #44 challenge, where the subject is "flowers".





Recipe
Stamp - Sketching Stamper (digital), Scrappy Cat flowers
Ink - Distress Ink Faded Jeans
Papers - Purple colored card stock
Coloring - Watercolor pencils (dry)

The Next Level + Stampin' for the Weekend

The Next Level first challenge called for a card with an aperture and a lollipop flower, and Stampin' for the Weekend first challenge gave the theme "From Dusk to Dawn", ie. purple and yellow as color theme.




Recipe
Stamp - Scrappy Cat flourishes, The Greeting Farm Wild Things (Soar high -sentiment)
Ink - Distress Ink Vintage Photo, StazOn Jet Black
Papers - Light purple card stock, Basic Gray Urban Prairie (yellow paper), digital Midnight Milly by Tinker & Co (purple papers)
Coloring - bird stamp has 2 shades of yellow watercolor pencil
Other - yellow brads

Simon Says Let's stamp with Tim!

Simon Says Challenge this week was inspired by Tim Holtz.

Here's my take, and of this I am much happier than the previous post :) All coloring is made with Distress inks on cream colored card stock.



Recipe
Stamp - KH Design: Collage tankefull, Scrappy Cat flourishes
Ink - Distress Ink Vintage Photo, Peeled Paint and Fired Brick
Papers - Cream colored card stock
Other - Basic Gray Urban Prarie Brad

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #4

MMSC just keeps getting better, check out their latest prize of money!

Anyway, here's my take on the weekly challenge. I'm not 100% satisfied - I think I should have put one more layer of patterned paper under everything, it looks a bit bland like this. Oh well, too late now!

I made the frame from Fimo polyclay and stamped it over with Distress ink Vintage Photo before baking it - then after baking I coated it with glossy varnish. The flowers also have some Vintage Photo on them + glossy varnish. The photo in the frame is a vintage piece printed from the computer. The background is made with Distress inks, Fired Brick and Vintage Photo, over a cream colored card, sprinkled with water and stamped over with water moistened acrylic stamp.




Recipe
Papers: Cream colored card stock
Images: Vintage photo printed from the computer, Scrappy Cat flourishes
Ink: printer ink, Distress Ink Vintage Photo and Fired Brick
Other: Fimo polyclay, flovers, brads

2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card Showdown #2

2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card Showdown #2, week 1


My second card is vintage inspired, and I really like how it turned out! The image is vintage photo printed from the computer, metal brads are again from Denise and the purple band is recycled gift wrapping ribbon. I continued the sketch inside the card too.





Recipe
Stamp: Scrappy Cat flourishes
Ink: Distress ink Vintage Photo, VersaColor Burgundy
Coloring: Marvy Le Plume II no. 64 Plum
Other: Recycled gift ribbon, metal brads, pattern scissors
Paper: 12x12 scrapbooking paperstock from a local dollar-store, vanilla colored card stock

2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card Showdown #1

2 Sketches 4 You Ultimate Card Showdown #1, week 1


I made two cards for this challenge, and here's the first.

This is a very plain card material wise - I used no fancy papers. The purple paper is origami paper, and white inlay is plain watercolor paper. I sponged the edges and the patterned strip with purple acrylic paint - oh and can you notice I picked up a pair of pattern scissors? The two layers I stitched together by hand, bookbinding type thing. I am planning to write to the inlay, so that's why it is mostly just plain white. The brads I used were from Denise's blog candy lot and the sentiment means "For a friend" in Finnish, handwritten.




Recipe
Papers: purple colored card stock, purple origami paper
Images: Scrappy Cat flourishes, Basic Gray: EVA - Whisper Bitsy Clear Stamps
Ink: VersaColor Burgundy
Coloring: Marvy Le Plume II no. 64 Plum
Other: purple bling brads

Swirly

Allsorts Challenge Blog called for "curly swirly"... What can I say, I LOVE swirls and curls, and have to restrain myself not to use them too much. This is a purely monochrome card, as the stamped image and the swirls themselves are beautiful without any colorful additions.





Recipe
Papers: white aquarel paper, cream colored card stock
Images: Scrappy Cat flourishes, Paperbag Studios "Be Happy"
Ink: Distress Vintage Photo
Coloring: Marvy Le Plume II (rosewood)

Black Bird

Double challenge entry again.

The layout sketch is from Polka Doodle challenge blog

and the theme ("sad flowers") from Corrosive Challenge blog.




As I don't have a proper ink pad for dark backgrounds, I diluted a bit of white acrylic paint to stamp the images :)

Recipe
Papers: black generic card stock, Dovecraft Hint of Pink 8x8 paper stock
Images: Scrappy Cat flourishes
Coloring: white acrylic paint, Sakura gel pen

ROAR!

For Simon Says Challenge the subject was "Animals!". This week I received my The Greeting Farm's Wild Things set - which I had to get just because of that wonderful lion and the "Roar"... Isn't she just the cutest thing... I stamped her twice and layered her hair.




Recipe
Papers: cream colored card stock, scrap papers
Images: The Greeting Farm Wild Thing -set, Scrappy Cat flourishes, La*di*dah Clear Labels
Ink: Distress Vintage Photo
Coloring: watercolor pencils
Other: sequins

More Challenges...

A double challenge card again (am I economical or what ;), Little Paper Shop Blog and Polka Doodle.

This color palette is from Little Paper Shop Blog's challenge (pale pink and 2 shades of plum). The layout is from Polka Doodle sketch challenge.




The birdie I colored with Marvy Le Plume II pens, first painting the color on an acrylic block, then dipping my small watercolor brush into water and taking up the color from the block.

Recipe
Papers: 180g white paper, digital downloads
Images: Scrappy Cat stamps from 2 different sets
Coloring: Made solely with Marvy Le Plume II colors 81 pale mauve, 67 bubble gum pink and 64 plum.
Other: tiny craft buttons

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #3 + Creative Card Crew 12

Double challenge today, for Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #3 and Creative Card Crew 12 ("Pretty flowers")





Recipe
Papers: cream colored card stock, digital downloads
Images: Scrappy Cat stamps, vintage printed photo
Ink: Distress Fired Brick
Other: Purple velvet fabric (leftovers from a skirt I made a few years back :) and a purple/metal floral enamel charm.

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #1

There's a new challenge blog around called C.R.A.F.T. Challenge and their first challenge calls for "NEW" -things. Check the picture at the end of this post, they're giving out some nice prizes for the winner of this round ^_^

So, to the "NEW":

I needed to make a baby card to go with the knitted baby stuff I posted earlier. As I do not know the gender of the forthcoming individual, I tried for a neutral card, but it ended up being kinda boyish in coloring - let's keep our fingers crossed. I did my first iris folding card here, and messed up a bit - you notice how the second round is not right (or rather I made the third round wrong and then continued right). It irks me a tad bit but since the sequence of the papers is the same, and I used permanent tape, I left it as it is. No one will ever know I didn't mean it to shift, right ;)





Stamp: Flourishes from Basic Gray: EVA - Whisper Bitsy Clear Stamps, unknown butterfly rubber stamp, La*di*dah clear stamps Clear Labels, Scrappy Cat alphabets
Ink: Distress ink Vintage Photo and Peeled Paint
Paper: digital download papers

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #1 prize:

Music of the soul

StampARTic's second May challenge calls for "Music". Here is my interpretation:



Materials:
Stamp - KH Design: Collage tankefull, Scrappy Cat Alphabet
Ink - Staz-On Jet Black, Distress Ink Vintage Photo & Peeled Paint
Colouring - Marvy LePlume II NO. 96 jungle green
Papers - Cream colored card stock, digital download papers
Other - Petaloo Florra Doodles foam flower, sequin, "of the soul" text printed from the computer on font "Jane Austen".