Lots To Share

Happy Sunday!  Are you watching the game??  I've been watching it in my scrap room.  Best of both worlds right?  I wanted to share a couple of cards I made last night.  I was kind of on a roll.  lol

 



The first one I made for a color challenge on Sketches4all and for the #5 sketch challenge on the  Sketchy Friday Challenge blog.  I went with a Valentines theme and used my heart edge punch yet again.  I love that punch! 

 



The next card I made was for the sketch challenge on The Craft's Meow.  I went pretty clean and simple.  I pulled out my Crafter's Companion Toreads - Comge stamp set and stamped out "love" in the center of the die cut heart and heat embossed it.  I have found myself pulling out that stamp set multiple times this week while making cards!!

 



For my next card I was inspired by the Clean and Simple Cardmaking 2 class I am taking at Onlinecardclasses.com.  I pulled out my Sheena - A Little Bit Scenic - Flying Colors stamp set and grabbed the swirl stamp.  I stamped the image with Memento - Paris Dusk ink twice onto my white card base.  After stamping the image, I used a paint brush and water and very lightly went over the lines.  This kind of made it look like it was painted with water colors.  While I had my ink and paint brush out, I grabbed a little bit of the wet ink from inside the lid and splattered it randomly on my card by lightly hitting the brush against my other hand.

Next I grabbed my new Stamp It Imagine - Sentiment Swirls stamp set.  I stamped the "thinking of you" stamp on green Pearlescent paper with Versamark ink and then used opaque white embossing powder to heat emboss the image.  Then I trimmed it into a little banner shape and adhered it to the card.  To finish I added some green skittles on top of a few of the swirls.

 



The last thing I made last night was a tag for the tag challenge on Sketches4all.  I inked the Kraft tag base with ink from a couple of Ranger Distress ink pads - Worn Lipstick and Brushed Corduroy.  I splattered some water on the tag to cause some water spots.  Then I stamped out the butterflies and the sentiment -"Imagine" from the Stamp It Imagine - Time to Dream stamp set.

I used the same inks to distress some white eyelet lace and then layered the lace on the bottom of the tag.  I colored a clear gem with my Spectrum Noir markers to coordinate and finished with some raffia tied with pink bakers twine.

I think that is enough for tonight don't you? lol  Be sure and stop back by tomorrow.  Crafter's Companion U.S. and UK are combining for an international blog hop!  You won't want to miss that.

Until next time...happy scrapping!

Stacy

"Love" Is In The Air Challenge at Crafter's Companion

Happy Saturday!!  How is your weekend going?  Any big Super Bowl Party plans??  I don't have any big plans.  I did make a point to get some good snack type food and stuff to make chili so that is my big plan tomorrow...eat!  LOL  I hesitate to even say that I have no idea who is even playing in the Super Bowl!  (gasp! lol)

 



I've been more interested in scrapping in my scrap room this weekend.  I'm here to share a CAS card that I just made.  I am taking a Clean and Simple Card Making 2 class at Onlinecardclasses.com.  And I was inspired to make this card by our bonus class taught today by J.J. Bolton.

It was fun and actually easy to make!!  The hardest part was deciding which colors to use.  I made it using Spellbinder square dies to cut my "arrow".  The Crafter's Companion February Challenge is "Love Is In The Air" so I decided to make a Valentine's Day card and picked the colors red, dark pink and light pink and cut 1 two inch strip of paper from each.

After die cutting them out with my eBosser, I pulled out the Crafter's Companion Toread - Comge stamp set.  The Love stamp was perfect for this card and.

I cut out my card base from Luxury Centura Pearl 8.5" x 11" Printable Snow White Cardstock.  I just love the beautiful sparkle of this paper.  I stamped out "Love" in Versamark Ink and then poured Silver Tinsel embossing powder over it and then heat embossed it. 

I learned the best way for me to put my "arrow" together was to lay down a strip of Crafter's Companion EZRelease Tape.  Then I took each piece and laid it face down on the tape in the order I wanted it to be on the card.  This helps keep all the piece in place until you can get the adhesive you want to use on the back. 

 



The adhesive I used was double sided adhesive squares.  I cut them into strips and adhered them to the back of each V.  After adding the adhesive to the back of each piece and taking off the backing paper from the other side.  I positioned the arrow on the card and pressed down.  The EZRelease Tape comes off easily and leaves no residue behind.

I had so much fun making the first card that I whipped out a second one!!  This time I used a red embossing powder for my heat embossing.  And I ran the "arrow" horizontally across the card. I'm going to enter it in the Red, White and Pink challenge on the 2 Sisters Challenge Blog.

 



And there you go they are all done!  I hope you enjoyed looking and I hope to see your projects in the February Crafter's Companion "Love is in the Air" Challenge!!  You could be the lucky winner of a $30 voucher to the Crafter's Companion Online Store!

Until next time...happy scrapping!!

Stacy