CARDtober 11

For this challenge, we had to choose two of the following, although I assume we could do more than two (I did):

Layers
Background Paper
Embossing
Glitter (or glitter paper)
Fiber (ribbon, thread, yarn, baker's twine)
Tag

I used Enchanted Harvest BoBunny papers from the 6x6 pad, and Carta Bella stickers, all of which I had found at Tuesday Morning. I used crochet thread, and added glitter with Wink of Stella.

One of the leaves, the butterfly, and the sunflower on the post card layer may look sort of distressed in the photo, but it is actually the shine from the Wink of Stella glitter you are seeing.

CARDtober 10 with Heartfelt Creations

Today's challenge was to create a birthday card with sparkle, and an additional challenge to use the colors aqua/teal, navy blue, and silver/grey.

The stamped sentiment, car cut-out, and die-cut are from Heartfelt Creations. The car and sentiment are from their Young at Heart Collection.

It's not super obvious, but I used silver glitter Nuvo drops on the headlights and hub caps of the car cut-out, and aqua glitter Nuvo drops on some of the flowers. I used clear Wink of Stella to add ultra fine glitter to the word "classic" in the sentiment. I used it on the windshield and some of the chrome parts of the car, too.

CARDtober 09 with Heartfelt Creations Die and Stamps

This challenge was to have something from the inside of the card popping through a window cut into the front of the card.

The paper is BoBunny, from their Serendipity line. You have to look closely, but there is a bird in the patterned paper, within the cage. The bird cage and 3D flowers are Heartfelt Creations dies and stamps. The bird cage die is from their Lush Lilac collection. The 3D flowers were created with stamps from their Classic Petunia collection.

Just for clarification, there is no black border. It has a white border. I put the card on a black background to take the photo.

CARDtober 7 and 8

Challenge 7 was to make a shaker card. I couldn't find any talc or baby powder, so mine has a bit of static. I also wish I had used clear micro beads instead of gold, since clear might have looked like snow but by the time I realized that, it was too late to do anything about it.

I used Graphic 45 papers from their St. Nicholas collection. It's a 5x7 card.

You can see the micro beads clustered at the bottom, but they do shake, rattle, and roll as you tilt the card.

Challenge 8 is a monochromatic card. Although it is not obvious, the fern paper actually has a very light green behind the ferns. I used Little Yellow Bicycle (background), BoBunny (stripes), and Colorbok (fern) papers. I used one of the new Heartfelt Creations sentiment stamps in the upper right corner.

CARDtober 6

Challenge 6 involved using hexagons and use of a sketch. I had to adapt it a bit since I wanted a horizontal card instead of the vertical samples shown, but I made it work. The friends stamp is by Art Impressions. I separated the sentiment from the friend group wrapped in the quilt. They were together on one rubber stamp. The hexagon stamps are by Stampin' Up from a few years or so ago.

Cardtober Challenges 3, 4, and 5

Challenge 3 was to use vellum. I was looking for something else at the time, when I came across a printed vellum in my stash that had light green vines on it.  The vine printed vellum was a perfect compliment for a vine printed paper which I had in my stash. The stamped sentiment and flowers were made using Heartfelt Creations stamps. The sentiment is from one of their new Sentiments and Tags collection, and so is the tag. The flower stamp was from their Lush Lilacs collection.

Challenge 4 was to use something old: 2 items that had been in your stash for a long time. I went digging among the Iris bins in my craft closet, and I found some very old die cuts ("Thankful" and the pinwheel, an old paper scrap, and I also used an old button, old twine, and an old brad. Even the card base was from a pack that is more than 2 years old. The grayish border is just the table it was on when I took the photo. I usually crop out unnecessary background, but I did not think the edges of the card would show up when I posted it here.

Challenge 5 was to use black and white, so I made a Halloween card using papers from my stash. The stamped owl is a Stampendous Stamp.

Cardtober Challenges 1 & 2

The RefuPeas site is doing challenges, which is not new, but I joined this month for the first time. One of the challenge opportunities is to make a card based on a different challenge given each day. I made one the first day but did not get it posted. I started the second challenge on the 3rd day. I hope I can catch up rather than fall farther behind. At any rate, here are the two cards I have made for Cardtober so far.

Challenge #1 is based on Yosemite, using the colors blue, gray, green, and brown. I used the Heartfelt Creations Woodsy Wonderland papers for this one:

Challenge #2 was to have something popping out, like out of a frame, shape, window, whatever. I had just come across a bin of stamps a day or two before. Among them was a cute Penny Black stamp that I had bought a few years ago but never used, and it was perfect for this challenge:

It's not as obvious from the photo, but I did literally pop her out. I did this by stamping and cutting out 3 layers, and the top layer has foam tape to pop her out of the window frame. Next time I will pop out the bird, too. That is the one thing I wish I had done differently.