FYI – Aspen Birthday

Posted on May 16, 2013 by kth

It is time for another For Your Inspiration challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> FYI46.

This photo makes me happy – I’m pretty sure it’s the yellow. I definitely wanted my card to feel happy too.

It was hard to get what was in my head onto paper. At first I tried embossing the trees with white powder onto colored cardstock, but that just wasn’t working. I decided to try stamping the trees with a pale grey – while not the normal color for an aspen, it allowed me to get the leaves to pop.

The card base is impressed with the woodgrain plate (hard to see in the photo).

Thanks for stopping by!

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Debbie
Michelle
Mynnette
Rochelle
Rudlis
Sara
Steph
Vicki

I hope you join us at For Your Inspiration!

A Little About the Challenge: The For Your Inspiration challenge is posted the first and third Thursday of every month; each challenge is open for two weeks. To play, use the photo to inspire you and create a card – very simple! Make sure you tell us in your blog post how you were inspired!

Happy Birthday

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Through the Trees, sentiment from Enjoy the Ride, dot from Around About Sentiments;
Ink/Card Stock: White, Harvest Gold, Soft Stone, Smokey Shadow;
Other: Woodgrain impression plate;

Rose Wreath

Posted on May 16, 2013 by kth

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> #25 – colors.

And here is my take:

Typical for me, a pink color with a green color makes me see flowers. I did change the green to Pear instead of Certainly Celery (I prefer the slightly darker green with the darker cajun…and celery is being retired).

For the watercoloring, I used Coral for the background and Cajun for the flowers.

I used the embossing strip to carry along the dotted background of the stamped image.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Kylie
Louise
Sandie

I hope you join us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Happiest Birthday

All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Apothecary Art;
Ink/Card Stock: Pear Pizzazz, Cajun Craze, Calypso Coral;
Other: Adorning Accents embossing folder, Labels Collection die;
Technique: machine stitching, watercoloring;

For Social Studies/History Teachers

Posted on May 14, 2013 by kth

I have another teacher card done. I made two as both my girls have a social studies or history teacher.

The globe image is watercolored. The banner sentiment is popped up with dimensionals.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Thank You

Stamps: Back to School (GinaK); Itty Bitty Banners (SU);
Ink/Card Stock: Marina Mist, Garden Green, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron (SU); Black (Memento); White (PTI);
Other: Itty Bitty Banner die, Woodgrain embossing folder (SU); Stitched Square Mat die (Lil Inkers);
Technique: watercoloring;

Chocolate Wishes

Posted on May 9, 2013 by kth

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> #24 – sketch.

And here is my take:

I decided that the oval portion of the sketch should be a vertical sentiment – leaving the circles to hold accent images.

I don’t really have a lot of vertical sentiments, but I do have this fun one about chocolate – and who doesn’t like chocolate??

To accent the sentiment, I used out an old favorite – Oh So Sweet. The little truffles are inked with markers.

The striped paper is normally oriented up and down. To get the angle, I had to cut the paper at an angle. I thought I’d just be able to rotate the paper to get the stripes going the other direction (see how the left-side start down end up and it is opposite for the right-side?). But apparently that isn’t how stripes work, lol. If the same stripey pattern was on the back, I could have flipped the paper, but rotating doesn’t do the job – guess I need another geometry lesson! So to get my stripes I trimmed one corner on an angle, then I rotated the original pattern piece to the next corner and trimmed that at an angle – voila different direction stripes.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Kylie
Louise
Sandie

I hope you join us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Wishing You All the Good Things

Stamps: sentiment (Stampendous); Oh So Sweet (Stampin Up);
Ink/Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze, Raspberry Ripple (SU);
Other: Chocolate Chip pattern paper (SU); circle die (Spellbinders);

Mother’s Day Hydrangea

Posted on May 7, 2013 by kth

Well, I made it – 3 cards done and mailed today! Here is the first one:

This card is for my mother-in-law. I gave my hubby a few sets to chose from and he liked the hydrangea.

I inked the hydrangea with Lavender Moon & Pear Pizzazz and stamped it on the die cut. Then I went back and accented the flower centers with a Copic marker.

I think I’m addicted to the stitched rectangle mat dies – love those things!!

My herringbone impression plate finally saw some use. I think it adds just the right amount of texture to the card.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Mother’s Day

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Happy Hydrangea;
Ink/Card Stock: Blueberry Sky, White, Lavender Moon; Pear Pizzazz (SU);
Other: Herringbone impression plate, Happy Hydrangea die; R85 marker (Copic); Stitched Rectangle mat die (Lil Inkers);

You are Wonderful

Posted on May 6, 2013 by kth

I created this card for Mom’s stamp camp this week. The theme of the camp is retiring products. Everything I used for this card is retiring!! (Well, except the white paper, lol.)

The hummingbird is fussy cut and popped-up.

So, I need to get three Mother’s Day cards in the mail tomorrow…and I don’t have any made!! Eek! Hopefully I will be forgiven for late cards!

Thanks for taking a peek!

You Are Simply Wonderful

All supplies Stampin Up unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Elements of Style, Friendly Phrases;
Ink/Card Stock: Baja Breeze, White, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery;
Other: Elegant Lines embossing folder;

Thanks, Teacher

Posted on May 5, 2013 by kth

I’m squeaking in a card for the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge – Anything Goes!

To do the chevron strip, I masked off my card base and repeatedly stamped the image. The apple is paper pieced and popped up.

The seeds on the apple are the brush tip from a Copic marker.

This is the last month of school and this week is teacher appreciation. Both my girls have multiple teachers so I need lots of cards this year (at least 10). I won’t get them done in time for this week, but I will have them done by the end of the month.

Thanks for taking a peek!

thanks

Stamps: Falling for You, GeoGraphic, Sentiment Sampler (Paper Smooches);
Ink/Card Stock: Kraft, Rustic White, Black (PTI);
Other: assorted pattern paper; marker (Copic-E59);
Technique: Paper Piecing, Masking;

Graphic Birthday

Posted on May 2, 2013 by kth

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> #23 – colors.

And here is my take:

My first thought for these colors was a sports-themed card, but I don’t need any such card right now. So I did what I do when I have colors but no theme – graphic design.

This time I broke out the new Sketched Shapes by Maile Belles (for Papertrey Ink). This girl knows how to make clean and simple graphic cards! I am always in awe of her projects. I tried to channel a little of Maile’s style when I made this card.

I did change the So Saffron to Crushed Curry because I wanted the yellow to show up on the white background.

The card is a little narrower than a normal A2. The card base is 4 x 5.5. My original intent was to place the white panel against one side and let the blue peek around 3 edges, but this configuration looked much better.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Kylie
Louise
Sandie

I hope you join us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Happy Birthday

Stamps: Sketched Shapes (PTI);
Ink/Card Stock: Midnight Madness, Tangerine Tango, Crushed Curry (SU); White (PTI);

Rainbow Chevrons

Posted on April 25, 2013 by kth

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> #22 – sketch.

And here is my take:

Of course it had to have a rainbow 😉

I was a little stumped at first with this sketch, but I stretched my brain and decided that chevrons would make a great substitute for the tag/pennant areas on the sketch. Since the right-side one starts lower than the left in the sketch, I decided to make my chevrons go in the opposite direction and stop just above the sentiment frame.

And, just in case you think I have an impossibly good eye, I’ll show you how I cheated!

Usually I figure stuff out as I go – so normally I would have stamped the background and then chosen my sentiment frame. But knowing I had limited space to get all my rainbow in, I decided I needed to cheat.

I picked out my sentiment frame immediately and then partially inked it (i.e., I used a marker and inked just the “inside” of the frame – so it wouldn’t show underneath when I was done) and stamped it first. Then I was able to mask my panel to stamp the chevrons (no way was I going to attempt a one layer with this – and good thing as it took a couple tries) and still see where the frame would be.

As you can see, I did leave a bit of a gap in my stamping to ensure that all my colors showed.

Make sure you check out the other design team members:
Jacqueline
Kylie
Louise
Paula
Sandie

I hope you join us at CAS Colours & Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by!

A Little About the Challenge: Posted every Thursday, the challenges alternate between color and sketch (if there is a 5th week you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Happy Birthday

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Background Basics: Chevrons, Fillable Frames Additions 1, Birthday Bash Sentiments;
Ink/Card Stock: Soft Stone, White, Black, Pure Poppy, Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Harvest Gold, Spring Moss, Spring Rain, Blueberry Sky, Winter Wisteria, Plum Pudding; Landscape (Palette);
Other: Fillable Frames 1 die; Rhinestones (Hero Arts);

A Round of Smiles

Posted on April 23, 2013 by kth

I found another CAS challenge!! This one is CAS on Sunday. Their challenge this week is Round & Round.

I made a one-layer card!

I knew I wanted to use a non-white color for my base, so I chose Sweet Blush. Before I picked my other colors, I took a scrap piece of Sweet Blush and stamped some colors on it to see how they would show up. I was surprised that they didn’t really change all that much.

The starburst images and the sentiment are embossed with silver. I added one large rhinestone to the center of the large flower because it needed something.

Thanks for taking a peek!

A Laugh is a Smile that Bursts

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Funky Florals;
Ink/Card Stock: Sweet Blush, Hibiscus Burst, Hawaiian Shores, Winter Wisteria, Harvest Gold;
Other: silver embossing powder (Filigree); Versamark (Tsukineko), Rhinestone (Hero Arts);

Carefree Creations

papercrafts by karen h

Tag Archives: mailable

FYI – Aspen Birthday

Rose Wreath

For Social Studies/History Teachers

Chocolate Wishes

Mother’s Day Hydrangea

You are Wonderful

Thanks, Teacher

Graphic Birthday

Rainbow Chevrons

A Round of Smiles