Use Lace or Ribbon at LTSCB

Welcome to another fun challenge over at the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog. This time around we want to see your fabulous stamping with some ribbon or lace added to your creation. Again we have some wonderful sponsors with fantastic prizes!

Stamps on Fire

Prize: 20% off website certificate to winner

All Dressed Up Stamps

Prize: 2 images of choice to winner

SLS Lines

 Prize: $10 gift certificate

I chose for this this challenge SLS image Goth Girl with Top Hat. She is colored with Copics and PrismaColor pencils. I love seeing steampunk creations, but it is not something that I am good at doing myself. Still, I like to experiment sometimes. There are some great embellishments that go with steampunk creations, but if you are like me you hate running the risk of putting all that money into something that someone will just throw away. So many people that I know just are not sentimental  and do not look at cards as the pieces of art that they are. They get them, keep them a few days and throw them away. I don’t want to spend money on something that will be thrown away.

My card is my first double gate fold. I used the tutorial over at Split Coast Stampers. The Tim Holtz paper reminds me of the tags with the sizes on them that manufacturers used to put in these kind of hats. Check out the little piece of ribbon that I used as a hat band. That took a little work lol. I had to paper piece the hat. I also used the side piece of DP as a pocket. I cut down a Doohickey tag and stuck it in. For the hat on the inside I had to draw a base so that it did not have any hair or face. I glued the image onto the base and then popped the brim with foam tape. I also used Glossy Accent on the glasses.

Anyway, here is the card that I made.

Recipe:

Papers: Black cardstock, gray cardstock, DCWV Tattered Time stack, Tim Holtz Ideaolgy Crowded
             Attic stack, and a piece of unknown script paper from my scraps.

Stamps: SLS Goth Girl with Top Hat Digi Stamp SLS Lines and "Hi There" from Hanging Around 
              set by Just Right 
Inks: Black Archival, Momento Grape Jelly, and Dusty Concorde Distress
Pencils: PrismaColor with blender and some Gamisol 
Markers: Copics E0000, E00 and E11 for skin
Dies:Magnolia Doohickey Tag, Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Frames 3, and Spellbinders Sprightly Sprockets set
Embellies: Prima Flowers (Laraine Black Tie) , Black Lace, Black Glitter Ribbon, USArt Quest                          GoldenGlitz, Large Rhinestones, Tim Holtz Memo Pin, Silver bead spray (Found in                            wedding aisle at Crafts 2000/Pat Catan's), Metal Ball Chain, Wink of Stella Clear Brush                       Pen, Gellyroll Stardust Clear pen, Sparkle and Sprinkle Embossing Powder Purple Sparkle

Hope to see your great creations! Click the link in the sidebar to join in and check out the other great creations by our fantastic DT.

I am entering:
 http://www.flonzcraft.com/vsc/  Use A Die/Dies
http://reasonableribbon.blogspot.com/search/label/challenges   Halloween (not really sure if this qualifies, but she looks Halloweeny)
http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.com/  Fairies/Angels (Do the wings qualify?)

My version of Tim's September Tag

I just love Tim Holtz’s work, don’t you? Since I don’t have internet at home except for through my phone, I cannot follow his blog the way I would like to or participate in his classes. I stumbled across his post for his September tag. I didn’t realize that he did these every month. When I saw it had a tutorial with a lot of good mediums being used I knew I wanted to try it. I had to order most of the stuff though. Scrapbook.com was having a sale on everything so it was basically like getting free shipping plus a little extra off. That was nice-and they had everything that I needed. It was SO HARD to wait for my stuff to come!

Anyway, my stuff finally arrived and I could get started. I don’t have the stamp set that he used but an idea had come to me that I wanted to try with my own stamps. I followed Tim’s tutorial but evidently did not put my alcohol inks onto the craft sheet properly. Instead of getting each individual color on my glossy paper, the colors blended to make some beautiful shades of blue. I tried it two other times and got shades of purple. I liked the blue better so I used it. I also discovered that the frosted is thick and doesn’t die cut well. I ran it through the Vagabond twice but it did not cut clear through. I had to use scissors. One other problem that I had was when I tried to ink my flowers, the black ink disappeared. I had to reink it by putting the stamp facing up and very carefully lining up the cutout with the stamp. It wasn’t too difficult. It lined up easily thank goodness. 

I love my tag! It was so much fun! The only thing I wish I would have done differently is leaving off the black soot spritz. I liked it better before I spritzed it. I still love it though! So much texture and dimension! You can see Tim's tag Here.

Here is my take on Tim’s fabulous September tag:

Here are the other two backgrounds:

Recipe:

Large Manilla Tag

Papers: Black Cardstock, Tim Holtz Frosted, Glossy Cardstock (I tried the Archival Gloss Paper but this

               worked just as well)

Sizzix/Hero Arts Stamp & Die Set 657773

Alcohol inks: Meadow, Stream, Wild Plum, Egg Plant, and Silver Mixative

Tim Holtz Ideology Flourish stencil

Ranger Texture Paste Transparent Gloss

Distress Spray Stain: Pumice Stone and Hickory Smoke

Distress Marker: Black Soot

Archival Jet Black ink

Embellishments: Tim Holtz Ideaology Word Band, Wire, Long Fasteners, Mini Prills (by USArtQuest),

                                Satin Ribbon

Tools: Heat Gun, Color Spritzer, Scissors, Palette Knife, Craft Sheet, Mini Ink Blending tool, Craft Pick, 
          water in mini mister

Adhesive: Glossy Accents

I am entering the following challenges:
http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2015-september/
http://www.ribbongirls.blogspot.co.uk/   Make a blue project
http://drsdesignsblog.blogspot.com/  Flying high (use something that flies)
http://quirkycrafts.blogspot.com/  Animals

It's Anything Goes at Love to Scrap

Hi everybody! I just finished watching the Buckeyes squeak by Northern Illinois. It’s the first game I’ve gotten to watch since I don’t have satellite or cable TV. The Buckeyes are still undefeated and have won 16 straight games. Go Bucks!!

Now onto the real fun stuff LOL. It’s another Anything Goes challenge over at the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog. The only requirement is that you must have some kind of stamping on your project. Our sponsors are:

Bugaboo Digi Stamps

Prize: 7 images to winner

DRS Designs

Prize: $10 gift certificate

Sparkle N Sprinkle

Prize: Image(s) of choice to winner up to $15 value from the SNS Exclusive Line 

I was so excited to see that Sparkle N Sprinkle was the sponsor that I get to represent. I love their glitter and embossing powders but have never worked with their images before. They have a lot of great stamps to choose from. The image I chose is called Across the Miles. It comes with an adorable image and 5 sentiments. I've used the sentiment “Missing You” for this card. I made it with thoughts of my son who is still in Virginia Beach on the Naval Base. If you are not into the male aspect of this card, they have one like it with a little girl. It is just as cute and is called Just a Little Note. I wanted to do a whole stationary set with a decorated box and lots of cards but I have been laid up with an injured ankle. I spent a week and a half on crutches and couldn’t get around well enough to do anything extensive. I didn’t have the time to do what I wanted, but I sure am pleased with my card.

I thought about incorporating SNS glitter or embossing powder into this project, but my son doesn’t really like all that girly stuff. Instead I just added a little Stickles and Scrappy Cat glitter glue to the flowers, hanky, mail flag, and hat button. I also used my Gellyroll green stardust glitter pen on the grass of the flowers. Here it is:

This is my first Latch card. I  was shocked at how easy it was. I printed the image and sentiment onto white cardstock and then printed a second image to cut out. I colored everything with my Distress Markers and ink pads. Every time I color with my Distress Markers I never like how it turns out so I have to get out my nibs and stamp pads to make it looks smoother and make lighter shades in places. Distress Markers are not really for blending, although sometimes you can pull it off.

I covered the base piece with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink using my mini blending tool. I then roughly colored the boy and flowers just in case parts of it showed through after I popped up my other image. I tried to shade and highlight the mailbox because it was not being covered. I then took the second image and colored and fussy cut the boy and flowers to pop with foam tape. (I love foam tape!) Before I popped the image though I put a picket fence and grass (Both Magnolia Doohickey dies) across the base. I placed the boy and flowers over them. I wanted a fall look so I added some leaves from a couple of sets that I had on hand. I stamped some of them in the sky and then fussy cut the ones on the ground.

My latch is cut using a small frame from the Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Frames 3 set. The plaid paper is from the DCWV Sweater Weather pack. I used my Plantin Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge and cut out a 1” envelope into which I placed a small piece of white cardstock with a heart on it.

The inside is a piece of white cardstock that I inked with distress ink and stamped with a leaf border from Fiskars.

 I really like how this card turned out. I really hope that I have inspired you to join in our challenge this time around. You have two weeks to enter. Make sure you have some kind of stamping and that you link your post back to our blog.

Happy Crafting! Can’t wait to see what you make!

I am entering:
http://lacysunshinechallengeblog.blogspot.com/   Winds of Change (show changing season)
 http://lacysunshine.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything Goes
 http://thepaperplayers.blogspot.com/  CAS Fall Scene
http://www.scrapbookblessingsclub.com/2015/09/september-challenge-anything-goes-with.html Anything Goes
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything Goes w/ Leaves
http://dragonflyjourneys.blogspot.com/  Color Challenge Orange 

Do a Double Take over at the LTSCB

Happy Labor Day to all of you who live in the United States. I will be celebrating by getting together with my family for a cookout. Our county fair kicks off tomorrow-can't wait for that yummy fair food. Before all that begins though we have a great and easy new challenge-Do a Double Take. All you have to do to enter is use two patterned papers and some kind of stamping. Easy Peasy! Here are the links to our fabulous sponsors:

Imagine That! digis by Kris

 Prize: $10 gift certificate

 A Day For Daisies

Prize: $12 gift certificate (equal to 3 images of choice) to the shop at www.adayfordaisies.com

 

 The Stamping Boutique

Prize: 2 images of choice to winner/3 images if they used a TSB image

I am working with Back to School Desk from The Stamping Boutique. Since I work at a school and school has just recently started, this is quite a fitting image for me. Here is my creation for this great challenge:

 

This is my first swing card. I had to do some adjusting to the tutorial that I found at Split Coast Stampers because my die was too small. Click here for the original tutorial. It wasn't perfect, but it turned out okay. It was a fun project. I discovered that the oval die wasn't perfectly symmetrical so it didn't line up 100% correctly, but it was close. The paper is from My Minds Eye and the charms are so old that I don't remember where they came from. I got these alphabet brads as a prize for completing my local library's summer reading program for adults. They were perfect for this. "Enjoy" was from a stamp set by Close to My Heart. The scalloped and regular oval dies are nestabilities from Spellbinders. I want to try this kind of card again with a bigger die to see what will happen.

I hope you will join in our challenge by clicking on the link on the sidebar to visit the Love To Scrap Challenge Blog. Our DT has some great inspiration. The contest begins on Sept 7th and you have two weeks to enter. Happy stamping!

I am entering:
 http://stampandcreateblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/september-challenge-back-to-school-sept.html  Back to School

Find the Hidden Treasure Blog Hop

The Love To Scrap! Challenge Blog design team is excited to bring you our "Find The Hidden Treasure" Blog Hop! We're being sponsored by Pink Gem Designs! Come hop with us for a chance to win 2 single Pink Gem Designs images!

There are three gems hidden somewhere on our blogs. As you hop, look on each design team member's blog to find a hidden gem and be sure to leave some love while you're there! Once you have found all three gems, email the locations where you found the gems (blog names and blog links) to ltscb@mail.com. All the correct guesses will be entered into the drawing for the Pink Gems Designs images!

The LTSCB designers are using gemstones on our inspiration projects. Everyone participating in the blog hop is invited to link up a project using gemstones for an EXTRA entry into the drawing! **Be sure to use the same email address to email your guesses that you use to link up your project so we can make sure you're given two entries into the drawing!**

For my creations I am using a really cute image called Dandelion Wishes. When you purchase this image you get both a black and white image and a colored image. I really like colored images. They are perfect for when you are in a hurry and don't have time to color. I actually made two cards to show versatility: a birthday card and a retirement card. I have been pressed for time this summer, so I used the colored image for both. There are clear gemstones on the dandelion and the small daisies along the bottom as well as the colored gemstones. I think that this image is so cute and you can use it for so many occasions. I printed the second image as a mirror image so that the dandelion is being blown in the other direction. I found a great stamp set on 123stitch.com for the retirement verse. I ordered them especially for my 2nd card because I didn't have anything for this kind of occasion. The "wishes for" came from a word set that I have had for a really long time. I lost the package so have no idea who made them. The DP is from My Minds Eye. I colored the small inside flowers of the 2nd card with a copic marker to match. I used a Martha Stewart border punch on the first card and my Magnolia Doohickey Tilda Lace Die on the inside of the second. Vintage Phote and Abandoned Coral Distress inks were used to ink around the different papers and to stamp the sentiments. I popped different parts of the cards with foam tape for dimension.

Here is the birthday card:

 

Here is the retirement card-I made an easel card:

 

Here are your blog hop stops:

Ann

Annette (me)

Aunty Sue

Cristina

Heather

Leslie

Tammy

Tina

We hope you are enjoying the hop and if you get lost along the way - or if you landed here in the middle of the hop and want to join in the fun - head over to the Love To Scrap!Challenge Blog to read all the details and start from the beginning!

Happy Hopping!

Its another Anything Goes challenge at LTSCB

Welcome-welcome! It's the middle of August which means back to work for me. I work at a school, so when it starts so do I LOL! I am pleased that I am able to share with you this great project for our "Anything Goes" challenge which runs from Aug. 17th to the 30th. As always you must include stamping since we are a stamping blog. We have another 3 great sponsors giving away some fantastic prizes.

 Pattie's Creations

 Prize: 3 images to winner

Kith & Kin Stamp C

 Prize: 3 images to winner

 

SLS Lines

  Prize: $10 gift certificate

For this challenge I am working with the SLS Lines image Little boy and snowman with Christmas Tree. I thought this was a really cute little scene and couldn't wait to play with it. As usual, since it is anything goes I am trying to stay away from the traditional cardmaking. I decided do a gift bag with tag instead. I started with a plain kraft gift bag and added color using Copics R27 and YG63. I sprayed the color onto the bag using a hand-held air spritzer that you squeeze. It makes my hand hurt but gives a nice covering. I then sprayed the bag with Mr. Huey Shine spritz for the white spots and overall glimmer.

Here is what the finished product looks like:

 The tag:

 

To make the double-sided tag I printed one image regular and then printed it again as a mirror image. It is the same image I just cut around the boy and snowman because I wanted it to look different than the bag.
I made the red ribbon by coloring white sheer organza ribbon with my R27 copic. I made the bows using my Bow It All v2 by Zutter. The image sheet on the bag is popped with foam squares. I cut a second image of just the boy and snowman with some of the snow and popped them as well.

Supplies:
Kraft gift bag
Paper: DCWV The Christmas Stack
Copics: R22, R24, R 27, E000, E00, E11, YG61, YG63, YG67, E71, E74, E77, G21, G29
Stamps: Digi image Little Boy and Snowman with Tree, To and From (Close to My Heart Its a Party set)
Stickles: Red and Patina for boy and Snowman, Purple, Gold, Yellow, Red for tree
Inks: Distress Tumbled Glass and Close To My Heart (can't remember the shade of green)
Misc: Martha Stewart Around the Page punch, Paper Blossom Pine Branch punch, white Flower Soft, Organza Ribbon, jute bakers twine, foam tape    

This was a fun bag. I have never taken on this kind of task before and I did enjoy it. The coloring was the most time consuming thing but I was very pleased with how everything turned out.

Please pop over to the Love to Scrap Challenge Blog and enter for a chance to win some great prizes. Be sure to visit the rest of the DT blogs and leave us all some love. We love hearing from you.

 I am entering the following:
 http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.com/2015/08/august-challenge-08m.html Anything Goes
 http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything Goes No Cards
 http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything Goes
 

Its "White on White" over at the Love To Scrap Challenge Blog

Welcome to my creation for the White on White challenge at Love to Scrap. For this challenge you can use and color any image but your base and all embellishments must be white. I don't know if I have ever attempted this before but as they say: There's a first time for everything. Here are our fabulous sponsors:

TEAM A:

Fred, She Said Designs

Prize: $10 gift certificate to winner

LemonShortbread Digi Stamps & Pages

Prize: 3 images to winner

Lacy Sunshine Stamps

Prize: 3 images of choice to winner

 I am pleased to have received the lovely Foxglove Enchantress from Lacy Sunshine to work with. She is so lovely. Here is the card that I made:

The inside:

 I used a Memory Box butterfly border die and cut it out 3 times. I separated the butterflies from two of them and used them as embellishments. I have never used this type of die before and honestly I am not really sure how to use it properly. I cut one out and then sandwiched it between the base and the DP that I used for the background. I applied Scrappy Cat clear glitter glue to all of the butterflies to dress them up so they weren't just plain white. I also used my Wink of Stella clear glitter brush pen to the outside edge of the floral oval die. I wish you could see the sparkle but it is too subtle. You can however see the glitter glue. I colored my Enchantress with copics and then added stickles for some dazzle. I used a Magnolia heart swirl die behind the flowers and added pearls to the inside of the flowers. There is a Magnolia Vintage tag behind the image, but I forgot to take a picture of it. I will have to add it later. It is a scripture quote that says "Blessed are those who persevere". I am giving this to a lady who is going through chemo treatments. She lost her husband last year and is now battling cancer. I stamped the sentiment and saying with grape Memento ink. The flowers were bought at Michaels in the floral section. I pulled them off the stems and hot glued them to the card. The image is popped with foam tape.

We hope you will join us for our "White on White" challenge. Head on over to the LTSCB for more great inspiration from our lovely DT.