Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #140 "Anything Christmas"

For our challenge this week at Stamptacular Sunday, you will create ANYTHING with a Christmas theme on it!  Let’s see what kind of NEW, DIFFERENT and EXCITING projects you come up with.  Be creative, but please don’t forget to stamp.  We are STAMPtacular after all!

Here is my design team card for some inspiration.

  Don't forget to check out the cards from the other Design Team ladies. They are AMAZING!

 Our sponsors for our challenge this week are:

MELJEN’S DESIGNS

PRIZE: Winner’s Choice of 4 Digis

and

WHIMSY STAMPS

PRIZE:

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #139 "Boy Oh Boy"

For our challenge this week at Stamptacular Sunday, you will create a card or project with a boy/man on it. How easy is that?!?  Be creative, but please don’t forget to stamp.  We are STAMPtacular after all!

Here is my design team card for some inspiration.

I ADORE A Day for Daisies images!  They are wonderful for coloring and paper piecing.  Their designs are creative and elegant, in a playful way.  I chose this adorable image, Van Gogh, to go with a bunch of different pp but used Basic Grey's Life of the Party for it's youthful feel.  I used one piece for the punched out top part of the card and another for cutting up into a pleasing border to go with the image. The bottom piece is from MME Lost & Found Two - Rosy.

After coloring the image with some primary color Copics, I positioned the embossing folder over it.  I love this folder because of the blank area inside the swirls.  It's great for sentiments too.  The swirls reminded me of the doodles I used to draw as a child!  I was going to make this a birthday card, but then remembered I had this Hero Arts stamp with the word "ART" on it and decided it would a perfect card for any occasion. 

One tip - once I had all the paper elements assembled, I sprayed with Glimmer Mist.  I use this on most of my images colored with Copics because I think it gives it a watercolor-painted feel and just makes it look finished.  I also gave the artist's pallet a few dots of Glossy Accents to make it look like oil paints.

 Don't forget to check out the cards from the other Design Team ladies. They are AMAZING!

 Our sponsors for our challenge this week are:

BUGABOO STAMPS

PRIZE: Winner’s Choice of 7 Digis

and

A DAY FOR DAISIES

PRIZE: $12 Gift Certificate

SUPPLIES:

Stamp: Hero Arts CL435 So Artsy

Image: Van Gogh by A Day for Daisies

Paper: Bazzill cardstock,  Basic Grey - Life of the Party, MME Lost & Found Two - Rosy

Inks and Markers: Memento Blue Danube ink, Copic markers

Die, Embossing Folders and Punches: Spellbinders Labels Five, Martha Stewart Around the Edge punch, Cuttlebug Swirls embossing folder

Other:  Ranger Glossy Accents, The Twinery - Denim twine, American Crafts Delights - folded circle flower, Glimmer Mist

Thanks for looking!

 

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #138 "Punch It"

For our challenge this week at Stamptacular Sunday, you will create a card or project that uses at least one punch. To help make it even easier, you are also free to use any sort of die or cutting machine, such as a Cuttlebug, Spellbinders or a Cricut, for this week’s challenge. Be creative, use any theme, but please don’t forget to stamp.  We are STAMPtacular after all!

Here is my design team card for some inspiration:

 

I haven't used my Copics a whole lot lately, so I chose this image, "Red Cardinal" by Delicious Doodles, to color for this challenge.  I knew I wanted to do a vintagey tag, so I sized my print to fit my new, favorite Spellbinders Label Twenty, for my main element. 

I started with Pine Needles Distress Ink and swiped it over a crumpled manilla tag.  A spritz of dazzling diamonds Glimmer Mist gave me a beautiful, icy look that I also used on my image.  It still needed more definition, so I brushed on a layer of a coppery Glimmer Glam. That sealed the deal for me!

I had seen Tim Holtz' Sizzix die set of twigs and pine cones, so I decided to create my own.  I used my Silhouette to cut out the pine branches.  I wanted to use the new Holiday Distress Inks, so I took the Iced Spruce and swiped it over them. I made a pine cone using a MFT Mini Rolled Rose. I used Frosted Lace Stickles on the branches and pine cone to give them that snowy, icy look.

To finish off the tag, I added pearls I painted with a cardinal colored Copic, a pair of numbers from Thickers, and a punched-out snowflake. I used corrugated cardboard sprayed with Glimmer Mist on the snowflake and finished that with a pearl.  I took a piece of silk ribbon and tied a bow to the top of the tag. 

One final note - after I took my picture of this tag, the phone rang.  We looked all over the house for the phone.  It took two days to find it.  DH finally did - it was behind the tag, propping it up for its photo!  Go figure!

Don't forget to check out the cards from the other Design Team ladies. They are AMAZING!

 Our sponsors for our challenge this week are:

MELJEN’S DESIGNS

PRIZE: Winner’s Choice of 4 Digis

and

DELICIOUS DOODLES

PRIZE: Winner’s Choice of 4 Digis

SUPPLIES:  

Paper - Bazzill, Tim Holtz manilla tag
Image - "Red Cardinal" by Delicious Doodles

Inks and Markers - Copics, Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Inks Winter 2011
Die - Spellbinders Label Twenty, MFT Tiny Rolled Rose, Martha Stewart snowflake punch, Silhouette SL
Other - Thickers numbers, Queen & Co pearls, silk ribbon, Glimmer Mist, Glimmer Glam, Stickles

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #137 "SKETCH"

For our challenge this week, you will create any card or project that incorporates the above sketch. You may flip it, flop it, twist it or turn it any way you wish, BUT…please be sure we can see the original sketch in your submission. Be creative, use any theme, but please don’t forget to stamp.  We are STAMPtacular after all! 

I'm on the countdown - FORTY EIGHT DAYS 'till Christmas!  I am on a Christmas card making roll and I have been dying to make one in a neutral palette!  How perfect for me that my new Basic Grey, Little Black Dress paper arrived in time for my design team card.

 

I picked out four different patterns from the pad.  I don't know if I ever used that many different pp on a card!  Looking at the gorgeous leopard pp, I knew I wanted to BLING this up, so I picked out some vintage black lace from my stash, some Hero Arts pearls, (I used my black Copic to alter the color) a filigree corner piece, gold embossing powder, and heirloom gold Liquid Pearls Mist.  To add texture, I dry embossed two of the pp and die cut a piece of corrugated cardboard sprayed with the mist. 

As long as I can remember, we always had white poinsettias for the holidays.  I used the Hero Arts, "Poinsettia & Berries" stamp on cream cardstock for the main image and heat embossed it in gold.  Then I sprayed that with Glimmer Mist and added the pearls.  If you look closely, you'll see the black lace mimics the shape of leaves behind the poinsettia.

For the sentiment, I used the final sheet of pp and used a "bonus" die that came with an embossing folder.  I forgot I had it!  I think it worked great with the double scallop MFT border die cut underneath it.

Our sponsors for our challenge this week are:

 SIMON SAYS STAMP

PRIZE: $20 Gift Certificate; winner MUST pay shipping!

AND

SATURATED CANARY

PRIZE: Winner’s Choice of TWO Digis!

Don't forget to check out the cards from the other Design Team ladies. They are AMAZING!

SUPPLIES: 

Stamps - Hero Arts, CG363 Poinsettia & Berries

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, Basic Grey, Little Black Dress paper pad

Inks, Markers, Mists - Copics, Ranger Heirloom Gold Liquid Pearls mist, Glimmer Mist

Die & Embossing Folders - Stampin' Up Lattice embossing folder, Sizzix die, MFT double scallop Die-namics

Other - Ticket corner punch, HA pearls, filigree corners & corrugated cardboard from the Funkie Junkie, black lace from my stash

This is being entered into the Hero Arts November 2011A Challenge.

THANKS FOR LOOKING!