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The background for this card is a textured scrapbook paper. I used it to pull colors from the striped paper and then chose the green dotted paper the same way. More matching the stripe gave me the block frame and the ribbon color.
The feature embellishment is a thick acrylic sticker with embedded papers, thread, and pressed flower. I accented with three rhinestones.
Ddd
I added a new category to the topics: Sketch Challenge. I have started participating in these for the Operation Write Home blog. This set coming up in the next few days was for sketch challenge #61 back in March.
For the background I started with a magazine illustration photo of a field of poppies. I keyed all the colors from that and then used a couple of muted patterned papers to tone it down.
I finished off with orange ribbon and rhinestones and added a chipboard diecut.
Ddd
Here's that butterfly ring again! This time I stitched in an uncommon color to link it back to the illustration I was going to use. The background cardstock was chosen to go with the picture as well. It is actually more of a buttery color than the tan it appears to be.
This was done for the alphabetical stitching swap and fulfills 'D is for Daisies'.
Ddd
One more of the flower quilt blocks left and tired of the same old sketch from the challenge, I went searching through the table scraps and came up with this face I had dry embossed with a brass stencil in the Cuttlebug.
This is a shimmery paper and I dropped it onto a brown folded card base. On the center and each of the four corner flowers I placed a champagne colored rhinestone.
Ddd
ASSIGNMENT: Whew! Last one of these sketches!
I used more of the green woodgrain paper and a cream panel as a base for this floral. The image is from a travel magazine and I cut it down to 1 inch squares.
I provided text with a clear sticker.
Ddd
ASSIGNMENT: Can you believe it - more of the same sketch!
I started with the rose which was cut from an old greeting card. I cut the illustration into 1 inch squares. I laid down a green wood-grain scrapbook paper and over that a red/yellow plaid. The rose squares are then mounted with a bit of spaceing.
I added text with a clear sticker.
Ddd
ASSIGNMENT: Still with the same sketch
I started with a set of quilt blocks, cutting them out of a larger quilt and trimming them down to 1 inch. I mounted these up on a blue background and overlaid with a vellum text panel, attaching the layers with red heart brads. These are mounted over the base layers with foam dots.
The base layers are made up of a navy folded base, a tone-on-tone cream scrapbook paper and a coral cardstock strip. The punched butterfly is mounted 3D by gluing down only the body and folding up the wings.
Ddd
ASSIGNMENT: More of the sketch
These squares are cut from another quilt photograph. Love these little dresses which I mounted together on a coral square of cardstock. This is popped up on foam over a block of blue scrapbook paper and a cantaloupe folded base.
I added a punched butterfly and a clear text sticker.
Ddd
ASSIGNMENT: Still doing the same sketch
For the background I used a different print from the Color Me papers and used a Tim Holtz distressing technique with three colors of distress inks. I cut the birds off of an old calendar and then filled in with yellow blocks from a paint chip and the brown blocks from table scraps. These are each individually popped up on foam dots.
The text is a clear sticker.
Ddd
ASSIGNMENT: Same sketch as yesterday
I used more of the flower quilt and more of the old leaf greeting card. Also used table scraps of the polkadot paper. This is all arranged over brown folded card base.
I added pen 'stitching' around the dotted paper and placed the text rubon in the open space.
Ddd
ASSIGNMENT: Sketch Challenge
The assignment was to create a 4.25 x 5.5 card with a 1.75 x 5.5 panel across the lower portion and a grid of 9 one inch squares off to the left. I used more of the floral quilt blocks, mounted on a green backing and popped up on foam.
I pulled together some prints from a mini-pad and layered them over coral cardstock. The sketch did not have an assigned place for text so I added a word 'ticket' from Tim Holtz.
Ddd
The focal element on this card is a new product I picked up from www.paperwishes.com called Color Me Papers. They have clear embossed images all over the surface that allow one to color in multiple ways and leave the pattern in stark white relief.
For this one I used Ranger Distress Inks with a foam applicator, using two colors for a little variety. I stamped with a text stamp over the top with Old Paper distress ink. After roughing the edges I attached brads for decoration only, then used adhesive to attach it to the floral panel.
A rubon provides the text and a punched butterfly is glued at the body only with wings bent up.
Ddd
Actually only the image of pussywillows is scrap - from junk mail. The background is music printed on heavy tissue paper. Over the pussywillows I attached a text block printed on vellum. This was done with copper brads.
This pictorial panel is mounted over the music with foam dots.
Ddd
What do you get when you cut up a quilt magazine, an old greeting card, and a scrap of glittery paper from your desktop?
The old greeting card is the cream background with the leaf print. It suited perfectly for the 3x3 block of quilt blocks. This was a large quilt so I was able to get 4 of these units from it and still have extra blocks so the center one could be popped up on foam. The brown shimmery paper was hanging around on the desk top and matched both other pieces well.
I selected a greenish folded card base to pull out color from one of the leaves. The text is a clear sticker.
Ddd
Last of my little button nests. I went with natural tones on this one, using yarn and stitching on the buttons which are three different styles. I chose a beige folded card base and stamped just the tips of a flowering branch along the top to create a frame.
I laid in a huge vellum sticker across the bottom edge and glued on the nest.
Ddd
For the nest on today's card I used raffia instead of yarn. I rubbed the top and edges with a black ink ink pad for dimension. I stitched on three bright blue buttons and filled the indented centers with Glossy Accents.
On a coral folded card base I added a strip of printed cardstock. Then on the bottom of the card I stamped a flowering branch three times and added the bird stamp. I used white gel pen on the flower centers and colored them with copic markers to match the printed cardstock.
I used gel pen and copics on the bird since it was mostly solid and I wanted to impart color to it.
I finished this off with a text ticket and a strip of sticker.
Ddd
More of the nests made of yarn and buttons. In this case I had three white buttons of different materials, all with shanks on the back. I colored all of them with a copic marker and, because of the materials, each took the color a little differently. I actually like the effect. They were stitched to the nest.
I created the background by stamping the flowering branch on green woodgrain paper, added a strip of striped paper to bring out the color of the 'eggs' and overlaid them with a clear text sticker. After layering on light blue folded card base I stamped the bird on the left side over the three layers.
Ddd
I have been seeing these twisted paper and twisted ribbon flowers on lots of blogs and suddenly had a brainstorm - Start with an oval instead of a circle of sticky paper and wind on yarn instead of paper or ribbon. Voila! A little nest. I had no beads to use for eggs so I chose to use buttons and actually stitched them on.
For a backdrop I wanted to make it look like the nest was resting in a branch so I stamped a flowering branch twice on the selected paper. OOPS, the paper was so dark the branch blended in too much. My solution? Color it in with gel pens. The pink worked OK, the yellow flower centers worked OK, the branches - not so much. So I used white gel pen on the branches, let them dry and colored over the gel pen with copic marker. That worked so well I did the same with white gel pen and green copic for the bud bases.
I used the green patterned paper as a background over a coral card base and added a printed ticket and a clear text sticker.
Ddd
Assignment: Make a paper embroidery card with an oriental theme
I pulled out an acrylic stamp and stamped it twice - end to end. Then I stitched over the lines, tassels and wire with various threads. The tassels and wire are stitched with gold metallic.
I added three little Kanji stamps and mounted this over GREEN paper. (There is a sheen to it that the camera freaks out over and turns it to brown.) A red card is the base and I added gold peel-off borders to the top and bottom of the green paper.
Ddd
Assignment: Make a paper embroidery card with the theme "Pond Life".
This is one of my own patterns. I stitched in coral and olive threads on light blue cardstock. These are backed with a green woodgrain print and a coral folded card base.
The text and the frog are both stickers.
Ddd
