A Botanical Collage

Well, now that I'm back, I'm playing catch up! This is my second post and I plan to post one more card after this! Told ya' I was refreshed and inspired! Hee hee.

This card is for the the Moxie Fab World challenge Fanatical about Botanicals. Cath comes up with the neatest ideas. This one is to make a card using any kind of botanical image. More than 200 excellent card crafters are participating in this challenge. It's a long shot, but the point is to have fun, right? My card features flowers and a vegetable! Yep, I squeezed in two botanical images. What could be more fun than making a card with gorgeous botanicals!?!

How about making one inspired by Papercrafts Go To Gal Betsy Veldman!?! I received the latest copy of Papercrafts Magazine and saw her gorgeous collage card. I love her work. Her collage card served as the inspiration for this card.



Here is the card:

Recipe:

Cardstock - Stampin' Up, Echo Park
Flower sticker - Echo Park
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps, TPC Studio
Ink - Memento, Copic Markers
Embellies - Button, twine, gems

Back From Vacation and Ready to Play!

Hi everyone! Did you miss me? I missed all of you out there in blogworld. I had a wonderful vacation with my family at Myrtle Beach. I love the beach. The sound of the ocean, the anticipation you get when a big wave is about to crash into you, the soft feeling of sand under your feet and the warm sun beaming on you. Ahhh ... wonderful. The beach is a great place to unwind and let the world inspire you. In fact, I came back with all sorts of inspiration and I can't wait to share it with you.

One idea that came to me while on vacation was this card below for the Moxie Fab World Trigger Target. I kept looking at the quilt. I noticed many participants were recreating all the pattern on the quilt. I wanted to do something a little different and it occurred to me "Why not focus your card on just one square instead of the entire pattern?" And that's just what I did. I used the colors of the quilt. Love the soft color palette. It reminds me of .... well, the beach!!

I die cut all the scalloped squares with my Silhouette machine. I simply created a white scalloped square then I used the inverted offset feature for the color squares, which gave the illusion of a nice white border in between the squares - kind of like the stitching on the quilt. For the center, I used a crocheted flower from Maya Road. The brad in the center is from the My Minds Eye Stella and Rose collection.

Here is the card:

Recipe:

Paper - Stampin Up' and DCWV
Flower - Maya Road
Brad - My Minds Eye
Stamps - Stampin' Up, Maya Road
Ink - Stampin' Up, Memento

Here is the Trigger Target:

Trigger Target - Squares to Cherish

Trying A New Challenge

Hi everyone. I know I said in my last post that I wouldn't be posting for awhile, but I managed to squeeze in another post. I'm trying a new challenge I recently discovered. It's at the Cards Magazine blog called Create: The challenge is to make a card using baker's twine in an innovative way.

I was trying to think of other ways to use twine than your typical tying a bow around something. I decided to make lollipops with twine. How did I do it? You know the clear plastic backing you get when you buy clear stamps or stickers? You know, the stuff you usually throw away? I have been saving them. I thought I might be able to make my own Glubers with them. I used some Zig two way glue, put a bunch of it on the backing and waited for it to dry into a re-positionable blob of glue. Starting in the center and working my way out, I just kept winding the twine around in a circle until it was the size I wanted and cut away the rest of the plastic. Then I adhered the "lollipops" onto kraft sticks, criss crossed them, tied a bow at the intersect. Here is the rest of the card recipe:

Card Stock - Stampin' Up! Whisper White, Big Top Birthday
Sentiment - Papertrey Ink
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Embellies - Buttons, ribbon, twine

Trigger Target: Perty & Flirty B-Day

Hi everyone! I am excited about today's card. It's another Moxie Fab World Trigger Tuesday card. Cath posted a gorgeous photo of a butter yellow coat against a soft rose background. I love the color of the coat!! It's my favorite color. Heck, I love the coat. I don't think I'd look good in it, but it's nice to admire from afar.

If you love this photo, you too should give this week's Tuesday Trigger a try. It's a two weeker, which gives you plenty of time to play!!

You can see that I drew my inspiration from the color palette. I used the bold yellow paper and paired it with a soft rose background stamp. In the inspiration photo, you'll notice that only a touch of black is in there. I, too, just used a little bit of black.

I also drew inspiration from the pleating on the coat. To mimic the pleating treatment, I ruched the yellow satin ribbon, which also added a soft fabric texture - just like the coat.


One of the gallery idol contestant's cards also served as inspiration. I initially found the card on Pinterest, but I after digging a little deeper, I learned it was a top 20 finalist in the Gallery Idol competition. It was create by Clare Buswell. I love the layout and used it as a sketch for my card.

I hope you enjoyed this. I probably won't be posting for awhile. I am the arts and crafts teacher for my church's VBS and then I will be vacationing in sunny Myrtle Beach with my fam!!

Card Recipe:

Paper - Stampin Up! Whisper White, Big Top Birthday
Stamps - Stampin Up! En Fracais background, So Many Scallops, Studio G
Ink - Stampin Up! Regal Red, Memento Tuexedo Black
Embellies - Yellow ribbon, baker's twine, glitter tape

Tuesday Trigger

Inspiration Card by Clare Buswell

Have a Nice Daisy

This is for my dear friend Bethany, who sent me an image on Facebook and told me she thought it would be good inspiration for a card. I told her I thought it was cute and then she said "You have thus been challenged." Hmmmm ... Okay. I'll take it!! So, Bethany, this one is for you.

Everything was made with my Silhouette die cutting machine. I used the Cuttlebug to emboss the Swiss dots on the purple cardstock.

I thought it might be fun to see if anyone else wants to take up this challenge. Ask a friend to send you an image of something that inspires them, then make a card using the inspiration, then send it to your friend. Wouldn't that be fun? I'd love to hear from any of you who do it. Leave a comment with the link to your post.

Have fun and happy crafting!!

Here is the inspiration photo:

Here is the card:

Hello!!

Hi everyone. Thanks for visiting me! I'm sure most of you got here via the Moxie Fab World blog, where Cath kindly chose to feature me as the Moxie Fabber of the Week.

I was quite humbled when I got the e-mail inviting me to participate. That's why I want to give a big shout out to Cath. She does a terrific job of making each of us feel special.  That has to be hard to do when you have thousands of moxie fabbers out there, because - as Cath says - we are all moxie fab in our own way!!

And, if it weren't for all you moxie fabbers, Moxie Fab World wouldn't exist. Yikes!! I am so grateful for this awesome community of talented and creative individuals, which is why I want to welcome you with - what else - a card!!

Recipe

Ink - Versamark chalk ink, Memento Tuxedo Black

Coloring - Copic Markers

Stamps - The Paper Company, Whimsical Birds; Lawn Fawn, Hello Friend

Paper - Recollections

Foam dimensional adhesive

Flower embellishement

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Trigger Target: Stamp It! Cards

Last week, Paper Craft Magazine published its latest edition of Stamp It! Cards. I've entered several contests to try to win a copy, but if I don't win one, I'll have to buy one. It looks gorgeous.

In celebration of the new Stamp It! Cards, Cath posted a very pretty card from the new edition and asked us to use it as inspiration for Tuesday's Trigger Target Challenge. If you've never participated in one, you should try. It's really fun. Cath posts a new challenge at noon every Tuesday.

The card is created by Tina Fussel. I went to her blog hoping to find out a little more about her creation and found a post she had written about what inspired her to create it. Tina writes, "When I made my card I was thinking of what my dream home might look like… a little retro, a little modern, and a little feminine too!"

Armed with this knowledge, I started thinking about creating a room using the stamps I have. This is the card I created. The stamps are from Lawn Fawn's Sew Lovely set. I didn't have any doilies, but I have doily stamps from Maya Road, which I used to create the table cloth. I added a little lace to make it just a tad more feminine.

My Card

Inspiration Card