CARDtober #14 is Monday Multiples. We make 4 cards based on a sketch she gives us. We were supposed to use 4 different sentiments, but since I needed birthday cards for family birthdays, I might have fudged slightly. They are different sentiments, just all birthday sentiments.
I used embossed card stock instead of patterned paper. The images are AI clip art from the internet that I downloaded awhile back. I'm not sure if the ones that I used are from Creative Fabrica or Etsy.
I have no die for this one, and I tried to do it with a different die, then adapt. It was a waste of card stock scraps. I finally went to my computer and thankfully had a Silhouette file for a sunburst.
The above image was my first version of this chard challenge. Perfect? Not by a long shot. It was all I felt able to do at the moment, and it was better than my first attempt. I thought it would be good enough...
That lasted a day and a half. I didn't have the energy to do any crafting yesterday, but I woke up this morning deciding the card needed more. As it was, I would never be willing to send it to anyone, so it would be a waste of paper.
This morning I adapted it a bit, and I am much happier with the final result:
It's my turn again to host the CARDtober Challenge. This challenge is to use leftover ephemera and/or other printed images made into an embellishment cluster, then add it to a card front.
I bought a card kit from the new LSS "near" me (near enough to drive to and not be gone from my DH too long, since I am his caregiver). To my surprise, once I had punched out and separated all of the kit pieces for the 8 cards, there were "leftovers." And that is what started me making embellishment clusters, and why I am on a "Leftovers" kick.
So here is the card that I made from some of the leftover ephemera:
My embellishment cluster is the circle, blue butterfly, two flowers, and two bees. The rest were added to finish the card, because the cluster was a bit too small to stand alone.
This challenge was to use a rainbow color combination. I started it right before I left town and had to finish it after I got back, so I kept it pretty simple. I used a patterned paper with mini rainbows (two are visible, but one is harder to spot than the other), colored her umbrella with 3 coordinating colors, and used foam tape to pop the little girl and the yellow banner with the sentiment. The banner is more yellow than it looks in the photo.
Glitter is my nemesis. Ever since a grandchild dumped a container of red glitter on my cream colored carpet, which I never succeeded in vacuuming completely up, I have basically banned glitter from my home. This CARDtober challenge, however, is to use glitter paper. I don't even have a lot of that, but I did have a sheet of silver glitter card stock, just not as chunky as most glitter paper. Seemed perfect. Except that paper, or maybe the intricut Spellbinders die I used, did not cut well, and the weeding was obnoxious. So I kept the card pretty simple, since it had already taken me far too long. However, it is done, and here is my card:
It is mounted on a white card base. It's a normal 5.5x4.25 inch card, with straight edges, even if they don't show here.
For this challenge, we were asked to use a velveteen or fuzzy ribbon or paper. Yes, fuzzy papers used to be a thing in scrapbooking, probably because of the tear bear craze. I'm dating myself.
I had two types. The fuzzier one was perfect for stamping baby bears on it, but the fuzzy paper didn't take the ink well. The velour type paper was white. I didn't want polar bears. Copics didn't color correctly on this paper. So I dug out my chalks, and they worked. I used an older Heartfelt Creations line called Woodsy Wonderland and the background paper is one of the papers from that line. The log is one of the stamps from the same line. The baby bears are Judikins stamps from long ago, too. The "Relax" stamp was from a Gemini stamp set, and I am going to use another stamp from that set to add "Take it Easy" on the inside of the card. I used a few Queen & Co. Foundation dies to cut the card base, and the banners.
