- Stamps: Altenew "Ramadan Greetings"
- Inks: Archival "Jet Balck"
- Papers: The Paper Studion Value Pack "ivory"; scraps of three different green papers
- Tools: EK Success 1 3/4" circle punch
- Adhesives: Ranger Collage Glue
Over at Seven Hills Crafts, they have provided a sketch as inspiration for their September Challenge: In addition to using this sketch, the rules of this monthly challenge include using products sold by Seven Hills. I chose to use an Altenew Stamp Set: "Ramadan Greetings" and to make a card for my stash so that, when the next Ramadan rolls around, I will have a card to send to our Suadi friends. Products used in the making of this card were:
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There is a challenge over on the Seven Hills Blog which calls for the use of geometry (or more specifically, a geometric pattern) in a project that also uses one of the product lines they handle. While my geometric stamp isn't one of the lines they handle, my butterfly stamps and dies are Altenew which they do handle so I figure this card will qualify. There is another challenge over at Altenew with a photo inspiration and color palette they are calling "Flamingo" : We didn't have to use the photo literally so I interpreted a "flock" of flamingos into a "flock" of butterflies and went with three Distress Inks for the palette: "Hickory Smoke", Abandoned Coral" and "Spun Sugar"! Given that I am being overwhelmed by Creative Chemistry 103 this week, I thought I would take a legal shortcut and make one card fit both challenges. So I took the geometry from Saeven Hills and the color palette from Altenew and came up with a card... First, I stamped a harlequin background in "Hickory Smoke" Distress ink on a scrap of white card. I layered this background on black card and then on pale pink Bazzill card: I smooshed Distress Ink in three colors on a scrap of white card, stamped Altenew's Bejeweled butterflies in "Abandoned Coral " and die cut them: I added "Hickory Smoke" and "Abandoned Coral" Distress Marker highlights to the butterfly bodies and wings and stamped a sentiment from a Hero Arts complimentary set in Hickory Smoke" and layered all my pieces on a pre-folded white card base: Products used in the making of this card were:
We have use a minimum of 3 colours from one of the 3 options and We MUST USE PRODUCTS Seven Hills SELL IN THEIR STORE somewhere on the card. I chose the third option and I’m using all Hero Arts stamps. First, I stamped a background on my refolded card using a Hero Arts background stamp, “Weathered Wood” Distress Ink (which looks to me like the second color on the palette) and my MISTI to position the stamps repeatedly (I did make an error in that once, that stamp was upside down. Didn’t catch that until I was ready to photograph the card! Oops!). I stamped a set of complimentary daisy stamps from Hero arts on heavy card using Archival Inks in the three citrus colors on the left gf the palette, and I fussy cut these flowers and a few stems as well. I used Distress Markers to create drop shadows, to add a little dimension within the books, and to color the centers of the flowers and then I arranged the blooms in a “bouquet”, using collage glue: Products used in the making of this card were:
Seven Hills Crafts has posted a sketch challenge for June 2016 on their blog: we are to use the sketch as our jumping off point for our project and be sure to use at least one product sold in their store. The sketch: I started by making a series of background papers for the card, using a technique I saw in the latest issue of Craft Stamper ("A Playful Journal" by Sarah Anderson, pages 19 - 20 in the July 2016 issue). I followed her tutorial but changed out the colors and the patterns I used: I blended two colors of Distress Ink ("Mermaid Lagoon" and "Cracked Pistachio") on white card, stamped a pattern image (Heather's Stamping Heaven HSH 275 0) in both "Mermaid Lagoon" and, when dry, Versamark in a different direction. I heat embossed with detail gold embossing powder and cut this card into strips of varying widths and lengths. I blended "Tumbled Glass" Distress Ink on another scrap of white card and stamped the free stamp (copyright Elizabeth Robinson) from the same issue of Craft Stamper in Archival "Jet Black". I fussy cut the seahorse, sprayed it with Psst! Sheer Shimmer Sprittz ("Sparkle"), and used Ranger's Collage Glue Stick to adhere it to the focal panel which I had cut from my background card and layered on a scrap of light turquoise card stock. I stamped a sentiment from the Hero Arts set "Be Happy" (CL606) on the "Tumbled Glass" card scrap in Versamark and heat embossed with detail gold embossing powder. I cut the sentiment into two pieces to fit one of the strips for the sketch. I cur a sheet of Bazzill mono "blue" card and scored it to make a 5 x 7" card base. I then assembled the card using the sketch as a guide, and added some coordinating sequins for some sparkle. Products used in the making of this card were:
The May 2016 theme challenge on the Seven Hills Crafts Blog is "to feature EMBOSSING on your project. This can be heat embossing, embossing with folders or old fashioned scoring embossing with a ball tool!" Goodness knows how I almost missed it! Perhaps my "note to self" saying emboss got lost in the embossing challenges from Simon Says Stamp and others but I finally found it again yesterday and knew I just had to get out my embossing powders and Altenew Stamps and get to work! First I cut a card using a layering stencil as a template and then, using that same layering stencil, a blending tool, and Distress Inks, inked a background on my card. I trimmed a piece of white card previously colored with Ken Oliver Color Burst pigments and a sprite or two of water. After letting the card dry, I stamped (with Versamark) the two butterflies from Altenew's "Bejeweled" set. I heat embossed the butterflies with fine gold embossing powder and cur them out with the matching "Bejeweled" die set. I folded the wings up from the bodies and attached them to the card from with a thin strip of double-sided tape on the bodies of the butterflies (you can't see it in this photo but the butterfly wings are elevated). Finally, using Distress Markers, I inked a sentiment stamp from the same set in coordinating colors and stamped it on the card.. Products used in making this car were:
On the Seven Hills Craft Blog, on April 1, 2016, there is a color challenge: feature blue, using which ever of three color palettes provided and at least one product they sell in their shop: I chose the photo on the far left and a card-making tutorial by Kathy Clement on the Frilly & Funkie Blog as my inspiration. The product I used was Archival Ink... I focused on shades of delft blue card stock that matched the top two colors in the palette I chose and also added white to go with the bottom one. I layered a blue square on a black base, attached a two-tone blue ribbon and then set about finding embellishments to decorate this panel. In my stash were a die-cut window frame and flower box in white and a street lamp in black that I received with an order from The Funkie Junkie Boutique i a small packet of freebies. The window box had me thinking flowers so I searched my Prima stash for flowers in blue and white, and tinted some of the white ones with a Distress Marker ("Stormy Sky") and a water brush. More blue card backed the window and a fussy cut Abyssinian cat in Archival "Jet Black" was added "inside" the window. I added a yellow piece of card to the back of the lamp, spritzed it with shimmer spray and doodled some contours on the lamp with a gold pen. I then set about layering my pieces. Products used in making this card were:
I had this bright idea that I could enter two challenge with one card specifically designed to meet the requirements of each. While the card didn't work out exactly as I had foreseen, I think it does satisfy the requirements of both :
My first step was to fins papers/card stock that worked with the Altenew color palette and die cut a lattice from each: I then began constructing the elements in the Seven Hills sketch, first by layering the lattice pieces on an ATC card base, which, in turn was layered on a cream card scrap with the word "Paris" (from the Tim Holtz Alterations set "French Flight") stamped in Archival "Jet Black" ink, and this was layered on a piece of Bazzill White card stock: The next step was to use a bow from the Altenew "Bejeweled" stamp and die set and a single strip of white card in matching colors create the horizontal band across the lattice work. I blended "Bundled Sage" distress Ink on the white card to tie in the lattice work with the card base. Finally, I layered the card base on a pre-folded ivory card with rounded corners and, for the embellishment place at the lower right of the sketch, placed the Eiffel Tower (]from the Tim Holtz Alterations set "French Flight", stamped Archival "Jet Black" and die-cut from dark green card scrap, highlighted with a SIgno uniball white pen)): Products used in the making of this card were:
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