Catered Crop Distress Challenge

This week's recipe swap at Catered Crop is distressing. I think I may have gone overboard on the keyword. I was tearing up a yogurt carton into our recycling bin and noticed that the corrugated layer was a "mini" type and decided to salvage it for the challenge.

I peeled off as much as I could from the paper layer and still left some of it on. I went over parts of the corrugation with a white ink pad to make the ridges stand out a bit more.

The label was also ink distressed and I added some faux stitching with a white pigment pen. The Hero Arts sentiment was cut apart to fit and everything was put together with some rayon seam binding, flowers, pearls and leaves.

Is it too distressed?

I thought I'd squeeze this into A Blog Named Hero's kraft challenge, too, since I used a Hero Arts sentiment stamp.

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White Pages Recipe Swap

My washi banner card was recently chosen as a winner over at Catered Crop. (Thank you, Linda!) As one of the winners, I was invited to be a guest designer for their next challenge.

This week, the key ingredient is white. Simply use the color white somewhere on your card.

Here are some white on white cards that I've done before. I wanted to try something different with a little more stamping involved.

I played around with some ideas and decided that my key ingredient would be the ink.  I used my very favorite white ink--Papertrey Ink's Fresh Snow. Here's my card.

I stamped the Lattice Background on kraft cardstock and stamped the Circle Lace over it. A flower was adhered to the center of the doily image, and the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. I sponged a bit of white ink around the edges and rounded the corners for a softer look.

There are many ways to interpret how to use white on your card. Join the fun this week over at Catered Crop and you could be a guest designer, too.

If I'm not too late, I'll enter this card in A Blog Named Hero's Challenge #9--Freestyle, where anything goes.

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Catered Crop--Washi's Up, Doc?

Catered Crop's latest recipe ingredient is washi tape and I couldn't resist playing along. 

After gathering my (partial) collection of washi tape for a photo shoot, I made this quick card.

I folded several strips of washi tape over some twine and trimmed them to form pennants. 

I love the transparency of washi tape and how the different widths and patterns 

make for a fun banner.

I wanted to punch out a heart on one of the flags, but the punch kept getting stuck. Plan B was to tape some pink washi tape on a piece of cardstock, punch out the heart and adhere it to the flag. Much better. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

If you have a stash of washi tape, give the challenge a go. The prize sponsor is Chickydoddle 

and you could win a gift certificate to her Etsy store...and buy more washi tape!

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Catered Crop--Rainbows

On Monday I found out that my banner card was one of the cards chosen over at Catered Crop! I was not the random winner of Torico's digis, but we get to participate in Sunday's upcoming Quick Fire along with the rest of the design team.

The theme for the recipe swap is RAINBOWS, and here is my card.

White cardstock was inked with several colors of Distress inks and overstamped with a floral background stamp for texture. I used Papertrey Ink's butterfly die and cut them out.

There's a faint screen mesh background that was stamped in Antique Linen distress ink, and I adhered the butterflies and added the Paper Smooches sentiment. Each of the butterflies was finished off with matching colored pearls.

Visit Catered Crop to enter the rainbow themed recipe swap. You could win a $15 gift certificate to use at Sassy Cheryl's Digis!





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