Greetings! February is drawing to a close and looking back, I guess I am kind of glad. My stepfather had a heart attack and open heart surgery this month, my dear husband began a new and somewhat frightening chemo agent, my PC crashed, and the set up of my new PC was difficult to say the least! However, that said, there is much for which to be grateful. And so, without further ado, I am posting my tag for February for the Tim Hotlz 12 Tags of 2013 by the skin of my teeth.
Here is a photo of Tim's tag. This is my first year trying Tim's challenge. In January, I had a fair amount of the supplies that Tim worked with, which was good I guess as it gave me confidence. For February, I had very little. I decided to splurge and purchase several shades of red Distress Stain but otherwise, worked with what I had. I used an image from Artistic Outpost for my focal image. The black portion at the bottom of my tag was a piece of black card stock, embossed, torn, and sanded. I enjoyed making the tissue tape ribbon tag topper as described by Tim. Not sure about the distressing my tag with Distress Stain. It doesn't look as nice as Tim's. Perhaps it is the card stock I used. It may not have absorbed as well as a manila tag. In the end, I am rose to the challenge and so I am happy. Thanks for dropping by. Yvonne
Just got my new PC back, so fingers crossed! I apologize for posting multiple times, but I am trying to not miss deadlines for projects I have already completed. The project above is for the current Alpha Challenge of "H" over at The Craft Barn. I chose the word "Heart" from my dictionary. I stamped the beautiful heart by Crafty Individuals in the upper left corner, water colored it with Distress Markers, added a portion of an image by Gecko Galz and accented the heart with liquid pearls by Ranger. The small scattering of hearts is by Studio G as is the alphabet stamp I used to spell the word heart on an Idea-ology sticker. A puffy heart with ChitChat Stickers completes my page. Thanks so much for dropping by. Hugs, Yvonne
Greetings! There's a new challenge over at Make My Monday. This week, it's a color challenge of pink and black. I began with a black card base, wrapped pink lace around the bottom, tore bits of card stock that sopped up distress inks from my craft mat from a previous project. The focal image is a digital image from Gecko Galz. The sentiment on a scrap of digital background paper, also from GG, is from Art Declassified. Finishing touches include Tissue Tape from Idea-ology, and vintage seam binding and buttons. Hopefully, this will work, as I am doing this with a mobile device. Thanks for dropping by. Yvonne
Greetings! Trying to stay cheerful. I picked up my new PC last Friday and quickly realized it was not set up properly. It is back in the shop for the third time since Sunday! Working from a mobile device with no means of printing so work requiring Digis is currently at a standstill. Even attaching photos is hit and miss. They appear to display and then disappear by the time I try to link them up to a challenge site. This will all pass, but in the meantime I may have very spotty contributions. My post today is for our newest challenge at Inkspirational.
The focal point of my card is a clip art image from Crafty Individuals. The panel of paper is from Gecko Galz, as is the torn heart. The sentiment is from The Stampsmith. I hope you will check out the gorgeous designs from the rest of the Design Team and then wow us with your own creation. Fingers crossed that this post works. Hugs, Yvonne
Greetings! It is time for another Word Wednesday at 365 Cards! Our word this week is "Friends." I began by searching for my focal image. I decided on this clip art image of two brothers by Crafty Individuals. Using a white card stock panel, I smooshed various distress inks onto my craft mat, spritzed with water and sopped up the inkiness in an effort to create a background that complimented the background of the focal image. The edges were distressed with a tool and then Vintage Photo Distress Ink was blended around the edges. Various stamp images by Sam Poole inked with black StazOn Ink and applied to the background panel. The focal image was matted with black paper and then a frayed burlap strip and mounted to the panel. Black paper string by Idea-ology was wrapped around the prepared panel and the panel was then added to a black card blank. Finishing touches include some metal sprockets and kraft ChitChat Stickers Idea-ology and black Liquid Pearls. We look forward to seeing how you create your own "Friend" themed project. This card is also for the current challenge of "Friendship" at Bloggers Challenge and the challenge of "Masculine" at Eclectic Ellapu. Thanks for stopping by. Yvonne
Greetings! Well here I am using my new PC. All is not perfect as they "forgot" to load all the photos used on my blog, so I'll be carting my PC back to the store again soon. I am also learning to navigate Windows 8... enough said. I am pleased to be able to share with you a post for the latest challenge at Fashionable Stamping Challenge where the theme is "Red, Black and Brown." I must admit, my first thought was one of concern as I don't often use brown and black together in card making, but now that I have worked with the colors, I really like the combination. For my card, I worked with a beautiful plate of images from Stampsmith. The focal image was inked with Rich Cocoa Memento Ink and matted with red card stock and snippets of corrugated cardboard. The background, white card stock, was stamped repeatedly with shoes in Black StazOn Ink. Sentiments were added to the top and bottom of the card with Red StazOn Ink. The background and focal image were distressed with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress Ink to create a vintage appearance. The panel was layered onto red glitter card stock and then onto a Kraft card base. A larger pair of shoes were stamped onto red glitter card stock, trimmed and mounted to the card front with foam dots. Burlap string was wrapped around the card front and the card was finished off with black Liquid Pearls. I hope you will stop over at FSC and see the gorgeous inspirational pieces my Design Team Sisters have created for you and I truly hope you will share your own project with us for a chance at a great prize. Full details can be found at FSC. Hope to see you then. This post is also for the Photo Inspiration Challenge at The Stampsmith. Take care. Best wishes, Yvonne
Hello! Well the weeks just keep flying by. We are up to Challenge #8 over at Inspirational where the CASE challenge for this week is shown below.
I am admittedly new to CASE and feeling my way but it is great to stretch yourself in new directions. For my card, I chose this adorable bird stamp by Studio G. The sentiment is by A Muse Stamps. Vintage buttons, a snippet of burlap string and a feather from my stash complete my card. I hope will check out the gorgeous samples of my Design Team Sisters and then submit a piece of your own. Please see Inkspirational for full details on submitting and prize offerings. Take care, Yvonne
