November 15th and Time for a New Challenge at A Tiny Craft (ATC)

 November is here and it's getting much colder, brrrr but you expect it when you live in Canada. With Armistice Day just over A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge wanted to honour the Poppy with a challenge. 

On the 11th I listened to the service on the radio and heard the Harvard planes do their fly-over 

Poppies make beautiful ATCs, I am hoping that my great-grand children will enjoy a sport card holder page with each of my atcs I make for this challenge, so far there has been a monthly theme that co-ordinates with the time of year. Here is what I made for my Poppy ATC.

There is definitely a story here, My plan started out with using a Hero Arts Clear Poppy stamp, but it was not in any of the obvious places, so I decided it's in that "safe" place we all have. Then I found a Poppy embossing folder from Stampin'up, not even sure I have ever used it well 3 attempts with using the folder were a fail. then I went to my 2004 "real flowers" stamps from Hero Arts. I bought them back when I first started stamping.  I then decided to stress myself even more by digging up a technique I have done in eons. Cracked Glass. Layered on black added some gold stickers and called it a day.

Here is a closer look at the cracks, I didn't follow through with the last step of rubbing a dark ink over the image for it to seep into the cracks then buff with a soft cloth, the jury is still out on this step.  There is a great tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers for the technique. 

Another closer look at one of the better "cracked" ATCs. Adding the dark ink would emphasize the cracks better. 

I am adding this to:

ATC's with Heart ~~ Everything Goes

Thanks for stopping by to check out the new challenge at A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge and don't forget to head over to the MAIN BLOG and see the gorgeous poppy cards the design team and guest designer have made for your inspiration, then make your own Poppy ATC card or coin for us to ooh and ahh over it.  Remember the fail? one of them was not too sad looking so I might just play around and finish it, so stay tuned.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill

Naughty or NIce?

 Hello readers I hope all is well in your part of the country, I hope you are staying in and crafting and staying safe.  Since I missed the last SoSS challenge (life got in the way of crafting)  all my craft supplies are home from the cottage but not in there proper places so it really takes me three times as long to make a a card as it usually would. For the next two weeks the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge is 

N is for Naughty

Here is what I made for the challenge.

I used a digi image from Dr. Digi to make my scene, The sentiment was die cut out of a sample shiny red cardstock sample,  I then added an Eyelet Outlet wreath brad, wood floor was a scrap of crumb cake cardstock stamped with Versa fine sepia ink with Stampin'up woodgrain stamp.

Here is the naughty list, that is Linsey's name at the bottom they Y is missing. 

I used an appropriate Stampendous cling mount stamp for the inside 

I'm entering this in;

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge ~~ #268

Alphabet Challenge ~~ P is for Patterned paper 

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the rest of the Naughty cards on the 

MAIN BLOG

It's Ornamental, My Dear Watson....

It's a new challenge at the Jingle Belles and since my hair appointment was rescheduled I had s bit of free time to make a card for the challenge and get it done before the linky closed, well surprise I'm early, wow, it doesn't end until next Wednesday. 

I was inspired by a teamie's sunset scene you will find it HERE although I think I was a little more heavy handed when blending. I uses Gently Falling embossing folder for the background on navy stardream cardstock the ornament is silver and I layered it with two heavy cardstock layers, The Merry also cut out of Silver posterboard and 3 additional layers were cut to elevate it .

Since I kput Merry on the front with no room for Christmas I added "and bright" ancient rub on from Stampin'up and a sentiment from Stampendous.

I'm adding this to:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Ornamental My Dear Watson

Just Us Girls ~~ #609 Word Week Merry

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies

Thanks for stopping by today and there is still time to make more ornament cards. 

Let It Snow!!!

 Hello and welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash, it's #458 and a Tic/Tac/Toe Board. How much fun is that. So many choices. 

So many choices and the one I planned on doing didn't work out at all, but using the same 3 yo stamp I make made card using the center line, embossing folder, Stamps over 3 years old and a Slim line card, I made a mini slimline as it suited the snowman stamp I used. I did some searching as the stamp doesn't have a date on it and the first time I used it was in 2016. The embossing folder is Gently Falling from Stampin;up. 

Let it Snow is from Elizableth Craft Designs and was die cut out of silver posterboar, some scraps of white for the snow hills and the tree is out of my "parts" box. 

As I said I was going for another "line" which involved smooshing so I still used the smooshed background. You can see the embossing and the gorgeous silver sentiment.

More trees from the "parts" box and the sentiment is from Stampabilities 2005, it qualifies for over 4 years old too. 

I'm entering this in:

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~  Christmas Snippits.

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ W is for Whimsical 

Pixie's Snippits Playground ~~ the trees, snowbanks, front and inside as well. 

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to have a peek at what the rest of the design team have made. 

November and a New Challenge!!

 It's November and time for a new challenge at the Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Anything Goes + optional Make a Scene. 

I love making scenes for cards, I mae halloween ones this year and I have a few stamps to make into scenes but for this one I use a very old favourite of mine from Penny Black, I use it at least once every Christmas season and this is the time.

I have been working on this card for weeks it seems, the houses die cut in my "parts" box, I cut three light standards to glue together and the image stamped then the transition from cottage to home happened.  Time to get everything together, where are my light die cuts? can't find them cut 3 more next morning I sit to craft nd what is sitting in a basket on my rolly cart? the dies, well now I have spares. I cloured some vellum to put between two of the layers of lights. Made the sunset background, cloured the penguins with spica glitter pens, fussy cut and popped them up. Layerd it on a piece of metallic posterboard (dollar tree) then added that to a 3 1/4 X 6 1/4 base to make a Mini Slimline Card. 

Close up of the super cute carollers.

For the inside I used a strip of the blue metallic posterboard and a Stampendous Cling mount sentiment.

Couple of Challenges I'm entering this in:

Christmas Kickstart ~~ Christmas Snippits (die cut houses and vellum strip from parts box)

Addictted to Stamps and More ~~ $417 Christmas

Want to ramp up your Christmas Card stash please join us at Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge Anything goes Optional make a scene. Looking forward to seeing your creations.

It's Halloween all Year Long.......

 There is a great challenge Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge and you can make and add Halloween cards all year and enter, if there are 50 entries there is a draw. Quite often I'm scrambling to get my Halloween cards made, it would be less stressful to make one  or two a month then when October arrives you are prepared and can mail the out of town ones early.  I was gifted this gorgeous Stampendous Halloween kitty witch and it's the first time I've inked her up. (NBUS)

The stamp is from Stampendous and it fits an A2 card I did add the spider (left over from another project)  I do need to work on the colouring of the kitty though. 

Closer look at the spider. I did elevate him a bit. 

I found a scrap of a blended background and die cut the Happy Halloween and added a vellum shadow diecut. along with a scrap of spider web.

I would like to add this to:

Two Old Bats Halloween Chalenge ~~ November Anything Goes.

NBUS ~~ #32 November.

Thanks for stopping by today  and stay safe stay healthy. 

Fluffles Strikes Again.

 When I saw the new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge I knew I had to dig out Fluffles again. The prompt is W is for Whimsical and I think this fills the bill.

The current sketch challenge at Sketch Saturday is pick a sketch from the archimves and I picked #509 from 2018. It worked well with my image. The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

Close up, the baubles and star were coloured with spica glitter pens

Finished the indside with some scraps of patterned paper and a favourtie vertical sentiment from Stampabilities.

I am adding this to:

ABCChristmas Challenge ~~ W is for Whimsical

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Not a Creature was Stirring

Sketch Saturday ~~ 2018 Sketch # 509

Thanks for stopping by today and have as great week.