CARDtober 14 and 15

CARDtober challenge 14 was to make a card using a sports theme. Camping and hiking are as sporty as we get. I hiked with my dad when I was younger, and we love nature. Everything was cut from patterned papers.

CARDtober challenge 15 was to use the colors of your flag. I'm American, so I did red, white, and blue. The die cut shield tag is by Heartfelt Creations. The stamped sayings are Heartfelt Creations. I just hand cut the banners. I added some red rhinestones, and blue & white twine. The paper is old. Really old. I have no idea who the manufacturer was. I will probably send this one to a friend of mine who is a relatively recent military widow. She is having a hard time.

CARDtober 12 and 13

Both of these challenges were based on sketches. I don't use sketches, so it was a bit more of a challenge for me.

Challenge 12 had a sketch with papers cut on the diagonal, a cluster, and a sentiment. I used older papers, older cut-out shapes, and a stamped mummy I had made awhile ago, but never used. I prefer cute to creepy Halloween anything, so this is how it turned out:

The Challenge 12 sketch used angled rectangles, a border on the side of one of the rectangles, and a circle with a scalloped mat. I definitely adapted a little because I wanted to focus on the word "Dream" that was part of the patterned paper. It seemed a shame to cover it up. I added a die-cut that I split into two separate shapes. The papers are by BoBunny. I don't know who the die-cut was by, but it was either an older Heartfelt Creations die or Spellbinders.

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.