- Papers: Marco Papers Artist Trading Card color assortment pack
- Embellishments: Pink Fresh "Felicity" Washi Stickers (PFRC100816) and Prima flowers (640026)
- Adhesives: GInaK "Connect" glue
The More Than Words mini-challenge for May 2019 is to make a card, postcard, tag or ATC focused on the word "Life". I opted for an ATC, using Washi Stickers and Prima flowers: Products used in the making of this card were:
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The May 2019 challenge for Graphic45 is to create a project using a light color palette. I elected to make a tag, using the one collection I have of G45 papers with a "light" palette: "Imagine"! I used a self-stick chipboard tag, and attached a sheet of striped yellow paper to the adhesive side. I fussy cut pink roses and blue ribbons from another sheet of the paper and a banner sentiment from yet another sheet. I matched the fussy cut paper ribbons with a blue satin ribbon and blue enamel dots: It needed some dimension/texture so I color matched some Prima flowers to the fussy cut roses and attached them with liquid glue: Products used in the making of this tag were:
The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge for May 22, 2019 is based on the following color inspiration board: I do not tend toward bright colors in my card making so I was immediately drawn to the least "bright" of the options: the landscape in the lower left. I'm drawn to the colors of a sunset. Also, it featured the color palette I tend to use a lot for autumnal cards. I started with a scrap of bright yellow card and, using a blending tool, created a blended background with Distress Oxide Inks: I trimmed the card down and stamped a silhouette stamp using GinaK "Amalgam" ink It wasn't dark enough for me, though, so I added additional color with a black marker and trimmed the panel down to fit an A2 card: I stamped a sentiment in GinaK "Amalgam", mounted the panel on gloss black a scrap of card, and then mounted the panel on an ivory notecard: Products used in the making of the card were:
"May in the U.S. is when we celebrate Mother's Day and honor our mothers. I am challenging you to create something that is vintage or shabby chic which is inspired by your Mother or any mother figure in your life. It can be a favorite memory, something based on her style, something she said/says to you, or anything that reminds you of your mother figure. Make sure to share with us how your mother inspired your art!" This is how Suzanne Czosek of the Frilly & Funky Design Team introduced the challenge for May 22, 2019. My Mother died when I was a junior in university (over 50 years ago) and my Mother-in-Law died when we were stationed overseas (over 30 years ago), and while I loved them both dearly, I can't really make any cards for them and there are no other mother-figures in my life. So I made a "Missing You" card instead. Both when were gardeners. I remember my Mother creating her own rose garden by sticking old bouquets in the ground, straight from the vase without any special preparation It worked. She had a really green thumb (except for the chrysanthemums she tried going around the front of our house... I suspect that failure was more the result of my brothers mowing over them at the most inconcvenient time but it could have been the poor soil/yellow clay left from the excavation for building our house). My Mother-in-Law loved flowers and had a number of beautiful mixed borders, again with roses as the feature, even though, like my own Mother, poor soil quality (in this case, sand) made growing roses a real chore. So my card features roses, watercolored using Distress Markers: Products used in the making of this card were:
Simon Says Stamp Monday wants us to use a stencil or stencils in their May 19, 2019 challenge. I had just finished playing around with a set of Wendy Vecchi's coordinating stamps and stencils and decided to try another set for this challenge. The image was stamped with Versamark, and embossed with opaque white embossing powder. The stencils were then used to apply Distress Oxide Inks to the bloom, leaves and vase of the image. I masked the vase to add a lace border to the "table" on which the vase was "placed" and added a sentiment from the same set: Distress Markers were used to highlight the bloom, fill in any gaps in the vase, and complete the line on the table lace.
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"[C]hoose to do some real sewing on your project, or fake it by doodling them or using a stitched die cut!" So instructed the design team at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday on May15, 2019. Now I have a functioning sewing machine (which I hate, by the way) and four cabinets filled to overflowing with sewing, embroidery and quilting stash. Couldn't think how to use any of these without pulling out that sewing machine, fighting to get it threaded and set to the proper stitch, and doing the usual random stitching on a card unless there was something "stitchy" as the focal point of that card. And while I own several sets of "crafty" stamps and a few sets of dies which leave faux stitching in their wake, none of them were to hand today. Except... The Tim Holtz "Stitches" stamp set. Now this set actually mimics what the backs of my sewing usually look like when my sewing machine acts up and loses tension --- an all too frequent occurrence. So, without pulling the stamps from the background, I inked up the entire set and stamped with Archival Ink. I found a sentiment that worked in a Waffle Flower stamp set and added some heart enamel "dots" to complete this clean and simple card: Products used in the making of this card were:
The challenge posted on May 13,2019, by Simon Says Stamp Monday was "Happy Hour". Now this one had me flummoxed and I'm not sure I actually am following the prompt but... True Confession Time! I have never, in my entire life (and that's 76+ years) attended/hosted a happy hour! I'm not a "drinker" and find it difficult to be comfortable with a time period devoted to drinking as much as possible in that time period, while scarfing down as many bar snacks as possible to try to stay almost sober. Locations for happy hours also turn me off --- bars tend to be dark, smoky and noisy and I don't do well in that kind of atmosphere (asthma, for one thing, and hearing impaired for another). At least, that is how I define "happy hour". Perhaps I have a wrong-headed impression of what Happy Hours are, but there you are. Besides, I don't really have any "drinks" stamps either. (I couldn't find any in my stash this week, at least). So what to do? So I morphed into "happy day" and decided my drink of choice would be a hot coffee with lots of milk, or maybe a hot tea with milk and honey... and a friend to drink it with! Products used in the making of this card were:
Frilly & Funky wants to know: "How often do you create something just for you that makes your heart sing? Doesn't it feel great when you do! My challenge to you is to make a vintage or shabby chic piece of art, be it a journal page, a tag, a card, a home decor project etc, that fills you with happiness and makes you smile - don't forget to tell us why you love it so much." That is their challenge for May 8, 2019. What I love about paper crafting is the technique. I don't usually make decor items as there really isn't any place to display the in this house. And while I make a lot of cards, I rarely send any out. I make for the sake of making. What I love about the cards I make for these challenges is learning new techniques, using new materials, and watching something come together - even if it isn't exactly how i planned it in the beginning. This card is a perfect example of this. I used a new-t-me product (a Hero Arts stencil), a favorite product (Distress Oxide Inks) in my favorite colors, and a technique based on a color blocking technique I saw in a Jennifer McGuire tutorial (even though it didn't work out the way I planned!). I started by blending four shades of yellow Distress Oxide Inks through the stencil onto Neena Solar White cardstock. I did a similar thing on a second piece of cardstock using four orange Distress Oxides. First thing that went "wrong" was that the four shades weren't different enough to really show up on either piece of cardstock. So I turned to the tutorial and, using a paper trimmer, cut these backgrounds into varying sized pieces, attempting to keep them in order so that when applied to a card base they would show continuity from block to block. Trouble was, the two pieces of card weren't exactly the same size and, while cutting, I lost track of what to cut where! So...I took Mike Holmes' advice about laying tile floors and placed them randomly, because when a tile has pattern, if one doesn't match up, it looks all wrong but if all don't match, it works. I hoped this worked for paper tiles as well as floor tiles!!! It needed a sentiment to tie it together so I inked an Inkon3 sentiment in GinaK Amalgam ink on mustard cardstock, bordered it with a black pen and trimmed it before applying it to the card: I "love" this because it worked despite all the step-by-step errors! What is more, I now have an envelope full of possible color-blocking pieces for at least two more cards!
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The Simon Says stamping Wednesday Challenge, May 8, 2019, was "For a Special Lady". Now I'm not exactly sure what this means --- given that tomorrow is the US version of Mother's Day, I suppose that could be the real prompt but... My Mother is deceased, my Mother-in-Law is deceased, and I have no female siblings. And while I have five sisters-in-law (and several ex-sisters-in-law) and even a few nieces and cousins who are/were mothers, I don't really observe Mother's Day for them. So what to do? I decided on a clean-and-simple "feminine" (aka floral) card that could be used in the event of a special lady entering my life. Products used in the making of this card were:
I'm also entering this in the Frilly & Funky Challenge, May 8: "I Love it Because..." and I love this card because it is clean and simple! Simon Says Stamp Monday, May 6, 2019, challenges us to add something metallic to our project. I decided to try out a new Altenew die that arrived yesterday in the mail... Thing was, it was larger than my usual A2 card front (and MUCH larger than I had expected it to be --- just goes to show that I should read the shop descriptions more carefully before clicking "add to cart"!). That meant I had to do some alterations. I started with a scrap of shiny silver cardstock and cut the mandala. I then trimmed a scrap of matte gold card stock to 4" x 5.25" and layered the silver diecut on it. I then added the gold and silver piece to the front of an ivory A2 card and trimmed the diecut piece to fit: I stamped a sentiment in GinaK Amalgam ink on a scrap of matching ivory card, trimmed the scrap down, edged it with a silver gel pen, and applied it to the center of the card: Quick and simple (once I had poked all the bits from the silver diecut!) and VERY metallic! And I thought that sentiment went perfectly with the concept of a mandala...
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AuthorBorn in New Jersey, I grew up in Southeastern Ohio. Attended university at Bowling Green State University (B.Sci in biological science, 1964), University of Southern California (M. Sci in biological science, 1967) and University of Florida (Ph. D in zoology, 1971). Archives
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