Topic: A - Z challenge round 4
I made a basic egg shape and cut out several from various scrapbook papers.
Eggs in coordinating patters were arranged on white cardstock and embellished with other cutouts, stickers and embellishments.
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I made a basic egg shape and cut out several from various scrapbook papers.
Eggs in coordinating patters were arranged on white cardstock and embellished with other cutouts, stickers and embellishments.
This is the first time I have done any wire loops so they aren't perfect by any means. I made these angel dangles using a cap, dragonfly wings, a bead and a spacer, all strung on a headpin. I picked up the parts at the bead store.
I was surprised to find that I had 4 sterling silver chains in my stash from long-ago jewelry-making classes!
Sometimes I struggle so long with coming up with a way to use a theme that I'm sure I won't be able to use it. Then suddenly, while I'm doing something totally unrelated, WHAM! That was how this idea came about.
The candies are adhesive-backed acrylic circles over scrapbook papers. These are trimmed close around and then wrapped in cellophane. They are attached over printed scrapbook paper and enhanced with a text sticker with a border from the same paper as one of the candies.
The cellophane is attached to the backing with glue dots behind the candy and at each end.
I saw this idea so many years ago I can't remember where! I love the idea of using the holes in the buttons this way.
I used silicone to adhere on a backing of mulberry paper (sky) and handmade paper (snow). The noses and the hats are cut of craft foam and colored with Sharpie markers.
I used some sticky yarn to make neckscarves for each of them.
For those who find themselves in the midst of snowstorms - I'm sorry to remind you! LOL!
The butterflies are stamped onto acetate with black Staz-On and heated. Then I colored with Ranger alcohol inks on the back side using a paint brush. After dry they were cut out with a craft knife.
The pansies are vellum stickers that I arranged on printed cardstock. I creased the wings at the side of the body to make them stand up ant then attached only the body with double-stick tape.
This is a digital creation using three photos, edited and resized to match. The reference text is obvious.
Has anyone notices how much I like to use puns and plays on words in my artwork? I can't seem to help myself!
This is a digital creation. I made the same card for a friend who is graduating this year but for posting here I changed the name and made the photo of me instead.
I started with a color photo, edited out the background and converted it to B/W. I used an actual yearbook page as a template for size and placement of the photos and text. The names reflect all the titles of the recipient including nicknames, maiden name, etc.
Over the face of the page I used different 'handwriting' fonts to add greeetings from 'school chums.'
This nifty little tool has a variety of tips that can be screwed into it before plugging it in for heating. This tip is a stencil burner which I used to make my own stencil using x-ray film.
After melting the stencil I trimmed the rough edges by scraping with a craft knife. This is the Kanji character for "happiness' or 'fortune'.
I used 'cranberry' and 'espresso' adriondack ink pads and applied their colors to the origami paper through the stencil using brushes.
I punched fancy corners, layered over torn mulberry paper, and layered this onto cardstock. The text is a sticker.
For this card I stamped one of my hand-carved stamps - a window. I cut the panes out and backed it with scrapbook paper to resemble curtains.
I 'built' a windowbox from wood-grained cardstock and then added a bunch of 3D premade flowers.
The text is a sticker.
I chose to stitch this house using verigated threads to see if it gave more dimension to it. I think it does but I would do a couple of things differently in the future: 1) choose threads that are less similar for the various parts - for this I used a rose, pink, and violet. Their light tones are too similar. 2) only use the darker parts of the thread. Where these fade out to white they are almost lost and every one looks the same.
The thread used for the bushes and the stairs are both a duo-twist thread where two colors are wound together. On the bushes it looks speckled and on the stairs the strokes are so short you can't see any color variation!
I DO like the pattern though!
Little drink umbrellas can easily be snipped apart to make fans for oriental cards. for this card I used a mosaic punch to trim out the right side, added a graphic, the fans, and some gold peel-off trim.
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This Cuttlebug background was brayered over using a glue pad and then sprinkled with ultrafine glitter. After dry I applied a tag and peel-off greeting.
Serendipity squares are tiny bits of collage that are created with leftover scraps from previous projects. I take a sheet of printed cardstock and sort through saved scraps to find ones that coordinate with the background colors.
I tear the scraps into small strips and chunks and then glue them randomly over the background until the original print is almost obscured. Finally, I use my papercutter to turn it into squares of between 2 centimeters up to 1 inch.
This is the pile of squares I ended up with this session:
I select three or four of them that have a similar look to them and use them together on a card front.
This time I placed them over a heart sticker and added a couple of pre-made butterfly embellishments.
This circle background was made with the Cuttlebug and sanded to expose the white core of the cardstock. Organza ribbon creates some interest and the greeting is a sticker.
I'm sure I have mentioned how much I dislike quilling. But I challenged myself to do it so here it is. These little dresses are from a 'new store' ad that came in the mail last week. They reminded me of Easter so that's where I took the card.
I quilled the flower and the bunny and gave him a little pom-pom tail. The text is a fabric sticker.
The outside is no great shakes - just a large collage text sticker.
The inside, however, is a great multi-level pop-up designed by RobertSabuda.com
I used vanilla scented essential oil to blend colored pencils on the back of this parchment. I initially drew the arrangement free-hand with a mapping pen and white ink.
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My 'natural' began with a photo of a field of wildflowers which I mounted to a tag. The cardstock matches the flowers better than this photo would indicate. A text block and punched flowers add a bit of interest.
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This mountain photo is from a cruise brochure (Alaska) and I've mounted it on blue cardstock and banded it with border stickers.
The text block is a vellum sticker and the deer is a rub-on.
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This dragonfly is made from an old CD. I crackled it and then heated with a heat gun so I could cut the shaped out with scissors. The body is made of a knotted ribbon and I added a crescent shaped rhinestone for the head.
The smaller dragonflies are peel-off stickers, the band of flowers is a border sticker and the text is a fabric sticker.