Virginia's View Challenge #22--All About Colors

 

Followers of Virginia's View Challenge are so excited that she's back

and running her popular challenges this summer! I'm super thrilled to be

a guest for Challenge #22--All About Colors--and I've created two cards

to share with you today.

Both cards use the same background stamp--My Favorite Things' Bundles of

Blossoms Background--colored with different coloring mediums.

 

After white embossing the stamp on watercolor card stock, I used Zig Clean Color

brush markers to brush on colors in rainbow order, then blended them with 

a water brush. After it was dried, I cut a panel with a stitched rectangle die,

and adhered it to a cream card base.

The "thanks" was die cut three times from black card stock and glued

together to form a thick sentiment. The rest of the sentiment was white

embossed and trimmed to a banner strip. The sentiment was adhered to

the panel, and the card was finished off with some clear sequins.

 

For my second card, I white embossed the stamp on water color card stock

and ink distressed in rainbow fashion, fading off towards the top.

A bit of water was spattered over the surface, and cut with a stitched

rectangle die after it was dried.

The two part sentiment was die cut three times and glued together to form 

a thicker sentiment, then adhered to the panel. Once again, the card was

finished off with some clear sequins.

You have until the end of July to enter your colorful creations and enter as
many cards as you wish! There will be a Top 10 Favorites List, and a random
winner will be chosen from the Top 10 to win a $15 Simon Says Stamp gift card!

Hope to see you in the gallery!

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Virginia's View #21--All About Glitter

If you're a follower of Virginia Lu's blog, and play along with Virginia's View
Challenges, you know that she's taking a little break at the end of the year.
A much deserved break.

I love Virginia, and I'm proud to say that I've known her for years, and I knew
that I was definitely going to join her December challenge--All About Glitter.

Since I'm not allowed to play with actual glitter (long story) I decided to use

some glittered card stock that I had on hand.

After die cutting one of MFT's stitched stars, I made it dimensional with
scoring and folding. Here are the steps.

1. Draw lines from the tip of each point to the "corner". Use a stylus to score the lines.
2. Mountain fold the points, valley fold in between.
3. Crease each fold well.

I gold embossed the sentiment on a piece of Grout Gray cardstock, then stamped
Balloon Strings Background over it with Versamark ink. I die cut the panel

with the rectangle element from Blueprints 24 and adhered it to a 

Grout Gray card base. 

I adhered the star to the panel by rolling up glue dots and placing them under

each star point and at the corners, then pressing down firmly. At the last minute, 

I decided to adhere the mini star sequins. Aren't they cute?

Sprinkle some glitter on your project(s) and link it up here by December 24th
at 11:55pm EST. Two winners will win a $25 Simon Says Stamp gift voucher.
Hope to see you in the gallery!

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CAS(E) this Sketch 118

Here's CAS(E) this Sketch 118 brought to you by Chrissy.

And here's my take on it.

I tattered up a doily with Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink and gold embossing powder.
The hybrid sentiment is from the Shimelle collection and Hero Arts and
I did some wonky layering with Studio Calico patterned papers, 
faux gold stitching and a few peach colored sequins.

And thanks to all the layering, I'm entering Virginia's View Challenge #14
which is all about LAYERS and DIMENSION.

Visit CAS(E) this Sketch to see how the rest of the design team interpreted the sketch
and join us if you can. Link up your card(s) by Thursday, April 16th
and you could be our next guest designer!

Thanks for stopping by today.
  

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Virginia's View Challenge #8--Clean and Simple

Just popping in to share my card for Challenge #8 at Virginia's View--Clean and Simple.

For my card I used Altenew's origami elephant and tried Tasnim's
no line watercoloring technique. Please don't look too closely; it looks better from afar.
And if you squint your eyes.

After stamping the sentiment, I realized it's now a sympathy card. Oops!
I'll try the technique again and use a "happier" sentiment.
The card was finished off with Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins.

You have until October 18th to link up your clean and simple project
and the prize sponsor is Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Virginia's View Challenge #4--Tags & Scraplings

I am thrilled to be guest designing on Virginia's View Challenge!
This month's challenge is TAGS & SCRAPLINGS and there's a little twist:
You must use a recycled item somewhere on your project.

A while back I was really into scraplings. I would say I had "scrapling-itis"
and there were actual challenges dedicated to scraplings. Here are a few of mine.

The term "scrapling" was coined by the creative SHARI CARROLL. She was creating
a square card from an A2 sized card and to do this, she trimmed off 1.25" from the fold.
Being the genius that she is, she picked up that little piece and a scrapling was born!

Scraplings can be used as mini cards, tags, or even bookmarks.
They can be horizontal or vertical and there are no rules when creating them.
That being said, here are mine.

I used three different sized birds from We're Expecting along with speech bubbles
from Simple Stories and a dymo label sentiment from Neat & Tangled.
Can you spot my recycled item? A coffee sleeve from Starbucks!

I used the "right" side for the scrapling in the middle and flipped it over for the other two.
I love adding texture and embellies and have items hang over the edge of the scrapling.

Please join Virginia's View Challenge with a scrapling or tag and don't forget that recycled item.
 You have until Wednesday, June 18th to link up your project(s). The Top Winner,
selected from the Top 10 Favorites, will win a $25 gift voucher to Simon Says Stamp!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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