Masculine Birthday Wishes

Posted on July 18, 2013 by kth

It is time for another CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. Check out the latest challenge: #34 – colors.

And here is my take:

My hubby’s birthday is in a few weeks. I thought this week’s color challenge paired with a moose image would make a great card for him. I did use a sketch from dahlhouse blog.

After doing a watercolor wash with Summer Starfruit in the background, I decided that the panel was a bit plain, so I used some old Smooch Spritz and the Spritzer tool to add some splots of the dark brown color.

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

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 in the month you get the double dose of color & sketch).

Birthday Wishes

All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Walk in the Wild, Four You;
Ink/Card Stock: Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Summer Starfruit;
Other: Woodgrain embossing folder; Spritzer tool; Smooch Spritz; Watercolor paper (art store);
Technique: watercoloring

Select A Sentiment

Posted on July 1, 2013 by kth

** CREDIT INFO: I originally saw the “all-in-one card stamp” idea recently via a website I subscribe to (link via my pin), but I think Ji Lee is the originator. **

As soon as I saw the image I knew I had to make a card like it for my brother! He has a wicked sense of humor and I know he’ll get a kick out of receiving this.

Besides the whole “I don’t have enough time to make a proper card” feeling of the concept, I loved the “Go to Hell” sentiment. I did change some of the other sentiments and then alphabetized the listing (mostly so that Happy Birthday would be in the middle).

I adhered the panel to the card base with staples because I felt that went with the “I don’t have enough time” feeling.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Happy Birthday

Ink/Card Stock: White (PTI); Island Indigo (SU);
Other: staples; font (Casablanca Antique);

Grunge-y Hello

Posted on June 7, 2013 by kth

Playing with my new StampinUp sets. I was so happy to see a couple grunge options in the new catalog! The only thing I wish I could get was a good masculine-font sentiment set (especially since Best Dad Ever retired).

My colors came from the ColourQ challenge #192.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Hello

All supplies StampinUp unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Off the Grid, Gorgeous Grunge, Basic Label, Four You;
Ink/Card Stock: Soft Sky, White, Smokey Slate, Island Indigo, Pear Pizzazz;
Other: Apothecary Accent die, brads;

Thanks to the Gym Teacher

Posted on June 1, 2013 by kth

For this card, I used a Fall-to-Layout from the Clean & Simple Stamping blog.

I wanted to do a reprise of a card I did a couple years ago (here), but I wanted it different. That is where the sketch came in – it was perfect!

There are 10 spots on the card and filling them was tricky. I used a font for the volleyball. I repeated a couple of the balls. And one spot was covered by the banner. Footballs should be round 😉

Oh, and in case you are wondering – the red spot is a kick ball, and the black spot is a hockey puck!

Thanks for taking a peek!

#1 Teacher

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: All Star Team, Have a Ball, Teacher’s Apple;
Ink/Card Stock: Kraft, Rustic White, Black, Orange Zest, Ocean Tides, Harvest Gold; Ruby Red (SU);
Other: circle dies (Spellbinders); Sport Relief font for Volleyball dingbat (internet);

Congrats Grad

Posted on May 18, 2013 by kth

I have a nephew graduating this year. Here’s the card I made:

I’m not sure I can even begin to describe how I got here. This card looks NOTHING like the picture in my head!

The card base is a cream color and I stamped a grid on the front. The grid was stamped with Hero Arts shadow ink – Baby Blue. The cube I have is ancient so I don’t know how true to color it is any more, but it was just what I wanted for this.

I used a die to create a file folder edge. Originally my layout was vertical, but the die-cut letters did not look good stacked on top of each other because the M is so much wider than the S and it looked like an inverted pyramid…not what I was going for.

The apple is the school symbol.

I wish I had a “stamp of approval” type image to use, but I don’t, so I created my own. I used the postal cancellation waves and a circle sentiment (stamped with SU Sahara Sand).

The stripe paper is on the inside of the card – just enough to peek out. There is also a thin strip of red card stock to separate the pattern paper from the writing area.

So does anyone else have this problem? I have a really hard time mixing products from different manufacturers. It isn’t that I can’t, it is more like I feel disloyal. I mean, I know if I’m making a card for a challenge by that manufacturer, I should stay with their stamps if I can….but when it is a card just because, then I really shouldn’t care if I mix and match – but dang it is hard for me! But then I know I’m a little weird!

Thanks for taking a peek!

MHS – Congratulations

All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Off Beat Backgrounds (Waltzing Mouse); For the Graduate, School Time Additions, Around About Sentiments, Postmarks, Simple Alphabet;
Ink/Card Stock: Vintage Cream, New Leaf, Pure Poppy, Dark Chocolate, Harvest Gold; Sahara Sand (SU); Baby Blue (Hero Arts Shadow); Black (Versafine);
Other: Pure Poppy Patterns paper, Christmas Prints pattern paper, Block Alphabet die, Teacher’s Apple die, Edgers #5 die;

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;

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);

FYI – Brighten My World

Posted on April 18, 2013 by kth

It is time for another For Your Inspiration challenge. Check out the latest challenge -> FYI44.

I love the striking contrast of the sunset colors sandwiched between the silhouetted land and grey clouds. And here is how I used that:

The yellow panel is sponge-brayered with yellow and orange. I tried to brayer black triangles onto the panel, but it just didn’t look right and seemed too flat. To add depth, I made the triangles with paper and overlapped them – sorta like a curtain.

The lamp is heat embossed with silver and fussy-cut. I attached it with dimensionals – one under the bulb (tucked into the corner where the black triangles meet) and one at the tippy top attaching it to the card base.

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!

Brighten My World

Stamps: Bright Ideas (Technique Tuesday);
Ink/Card Stock: Summer Sunrise, Black (PTI); Daffodil Delight, White (SU);
Other: silver embossing (Filigree); sponge brayer;

CASology Word

Posted on April 16, 2013 by kth

I’m so happy – I was asked to be a guest designer for CAS-ology! And this week’s cue was so fun to work with!

I actually made a couple cards for the challenge. But first up is the one I chose to have on the challenge blog:

There are so many directions you can go with the cue “word”, but my first thought was the phrase “word up” (there’s an old 80s song). Of course that phrase also makes me think of Word Girl (I have two girls that love PBS Kids), but I wasn’t sure what kind of card I could create that would incorporate our favorite Lexicon superhero.

Using the original phrase, I wanted an urban feel to the card. I created a conversation and added a bit of brick texture to anchor the die cuts.

The brick background is a full-size image. To get just a partial inking, I broke out my sponges – that way it has a nice fade to the edges.

Another thought that came to mind for the cue “word” was the phrase “what’s the word, bird”. I actually have a sentiment stamp that says that, so I had to use it! I paired it with a cute little bird and added color with pattern paper.

Since the pattern paper was so bold and colorful, I left my stamping black and white – enabling it to pull the focus.

I hope you play along too!

Thanks for stopping by!

Word Up

Stamps: Say What (My Favorite Things); alphabet (Studio G); Brickwall (Cornish Heritage Farms);
Ink/Card Stock: Limeade Ice, White, Black (PTI); Going Grey (SU);
Other: Say What dies (MFT);

What’s the Word, Bird

Stamps: Bird Assortment (Inkadinkadoo); My Peeps (Paper Smooches);
Ink/Card Stock: White, Black (PTI);
Other: Sunshine & Sprinkles DSP, Pool Party SAB ribbon (SU);

Carefree Creations

papercrafts by karen h

Tag Archives: masculine

Masculine Birthday Wishes

Select A Sentiment

Grunge-y Hello

Thanks to the Gym Teacher

Congrats Grad

For Social Studies/History Teachers

Thanks, Teacher

Graphic Birthday

FYI – Brighten My World

CASology Word