In the scrap bin I found two strips with rhe remnants of a watercolored magnolia stamp and a text stamped background. The two halves did not match up so I separated them with a tone-on-tone golden dot paper.

I had a round pre-cut in the scrap bin, too, and decided to paper piece the same floral stamp on top of it. First I stamped the flower on the round, then stamped on a green pattern, a pink pattern and a yellow pattern. the colored portions were all cut out and layered over the round. I used old paper distress ink to tone the edges of the round.

The round and a pre-stamped sentiment with the edges toned are mounted on foam tape. Then the whole piece is mounted on a distressed pink background for framing.

Ddd

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While looking for something completely different I found a scrap in the 'backgrounds' drawer in the studio. I did not make this background and I've had it forever. Whoever made it used glossy cardstock and stamped it with layers and layers of flowers in lots of colors - purple, yellow, red, green. Then they used a teal metallic to spatter across the front.

I grabbed a chartruse dotted strip and two purple graphic strips and arranged them on a base card along with the background piece.

I used a lavender pre-stamped sentiment and cut a banner end on it. This was mounted with the straight end flat to the background and the cut end raised on foam tape.

I added a strip of lavender rhinestones down the left end of the sentiment.

Ddd

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This may be the most scraps I have used together on a card, ever!

I went through all the table scraps and pulled out every one that was composed of dots. I actually set aside a couple of them because the dots were too big.

So with all these dotted blocks I arranged them how I liked them and then took a photo with my phone so I could recreate the layout as I glued down the pieces on a background paper with some over-spray on it.

This was layered onto a two-toned yellow dot paper.

I had one round sentiment which fit well in a void on the design. To this I added a couple of cardstock text stickers to create a whole phrase.

Ddd

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I dug into the table scraps again for the card today. I started out with a block of silver and one of teal dots. I put them together to create a vertical card and then, when I dug out some embellishments and found that the layout was going to look better if turned horizontally.

I first found that some of the vellum pansy stickers had a touch of teal in them and arranged these in a spray over the stripes.

Then, one of those 3D printed stickers with teal and purple in it looked like it suited well.

This card has a very formal look, to me.

Ddd

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All of those stencil tutorial I did left me with a lot of really neat table scraps.

I started this one with the blue and puffy strips and then ran across the red from the glue pad fail experiment. I used a large heart punch on it.

Some soft dotted paper for the center made a great background for the heart which is popped up on foam tape.

I used a scallop punch on the pre-stamped sentiment.

What's with the colors lately? If you take out most of the yellow you get a better representation - true red white and blue with just a touch of cream.

Ddd

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Back to the table scraps. I started with a scrap of text and dot paper and kept pulling bits that coordinated with it - some of the diagonal plaid, some dark tone-on-tone dots, some green dots.

These were shuffled and pushed around till I found an arrangement I liked and then glued to a white card base.

I found a thick acrylic text sticker that looked wonderful over the double strips.

I pulled cardstock text stickers to turn the first sticker into a whole phrase.

The addition of a butterfly punched from the green dot paper was my finish.

Ddd

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I'd been enjoying using those 'love' papers from the 6x6 pad so I pulled out more for this card.

I love that diagonal plaid - both the colors and the design of it. I added a strip of the hearts and still had a gap, so I cut a strip of the XOXOXO paper for the side.

I tied red twine around the heart panel before sticking it down and then added a thick acrylic heart sticker.

I had some silver puffy hearts stickers so added three of them over hearts in the paper pattern.

Ddd

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I dug into some old scraps to make a scrappy valentine. Four patterned papers cut into strips were layered over a diagonal plaid and I added a patterned tag as well.

Once I had punched out the heart and bordered it with black I needed more of that so cut a black scallop with a punch and used it to back one of the strips. 

I also used black as a border for the whole card.

I popped the heart up on foam tape and added a thick acrylic heart sticker to the green heart.

Ddd

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Back to the table scraps to make some cards.

I used the red with some of the glue pad experiment on it and diecut an oval in it. The addition of a dotted scrap on the right makes it large enough for the card front.

I backed the oval with pink and then added three gold peel-off butterfly stickers.

I realized as I was placing them that some of the openings in the wings were heart shaped. I used those negative stickers around the sides of the butterflies and then colored in the spaces over the pink with red marker.

I used a fine line red marker to add XOXOXOX around the inner edge of the oval.

 Ddd

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Sometimes a sketch is not very inspiring. What would YOU do with OWH sketch 164?

I left the table scraps behind and went to a 6x6 pad of 'love' papers for a heart background. I added a couple of red blocks and then pulled out the geometric purple panel.

Even with all this pattern it was less than inspiring so I dug our some heart brads in the same colors. These I arranged in a serpentine line for some movement.

With a little open space left in the center I added a pre-stamped sentiment.

Ddd

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 Ooooh, this is a sketch I like a LOT! OWH 163:

And look at me using the sketch exactly as it is designed!

I started with the idea to use the vellum pansy stickers. I mounted them on cream cardstock and cut to the specified size. This gave me the color pallete for the rest of the card - purple and yellow.

I pulled together a bright yellow, a dark purple and a geometric purple in a lighter tone.

I used a dotted grosgrain ribbon for which I used my 'Bow-Easy' in tying. I used small brads on the inside of the loops for stablizing it on the card.

I didn't use a sentiment so this can be sent for any occasion.

Ddd

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On to OWH sketch 162

A strip of table scrap with awesome colors, a pre-stamped sentiment on a coordinating bright, a table scrap of diagonal plaid and a soft plain block to tone it all down.

I used green for the bordering to pull that out of the initial colored strip.

Three butterflies punched out of an irridescent paper brings some movement to the very static sketch.

The butterflies have loose wings so they can be raised.

Ddd

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It's a good thing sketches are made to be 'a starting point' as it allows me to do my own thing. Here's OWH sketch 161:

I started with a table scrap strip of distressed paper and keyed other parts off those colors.

These included the teal borders for the distress strip and then found the greens and golds in a diagonal plaid.

I had the oval cut from a red paper and that led to selecting the flowal diecut - which is the 'over the top' I was talking about earlier.

Too much yellow in the photo makes this look orange rather than red. :(

I added oval rhinestones in the upper right to bring that teal back into the design.

Ddd

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An over-the-top sketch is presented in OWH 160

This was a great way to use up some table scraps, though. Then the pre-stamped sentiment I chose was not large enough for the sketch so I had to add a layer, adding even more complication to the design.

I had a lot of dotted papers in the scraps and decided on black for the bordering and backing.

Because the large block was a stamped sentiment I had to do something else with that small strip on the lower right. I used a border punch and then added washi tape on the top half.

The strip was not the same size as the sketch strip but I think it works.

Ddd

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Moving right along to OWH sketch 159:

I deviated from the sketch a bit for this one, dropping one layer of background and turning the circle element into double hearts.

I've had the background hanging around since the 'stretch your stamps 2' onine class, waiting for just the right project. The hearts were punched out from some 'craft flop' paper from the glue pad experiments.

I mounted them on black cardstock and trimmed with a thin border. The back one is glued to the background and the front one is popped up on foam tape. 

The stamped sentiment was trimmed and backed in black with a thin border as well. The left is up on foam tape while the right rests directly on the heart.

The red twine tied around the background is a much closer representation of the color in this than the 'orangish' hearts. They are all actually a bright red.

Ddd

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Almost a month since I did any OWH sketches for my self-challenge. In case you're new to this, at the first of 2014 I challenged myself to use every one of the Operation Write Home sketches - in order. I has uses a few here and there and I have allowed myself to re-post those cards without making a new one for those sketches. And in 12 months, I am now up to sketch 158.

Here's the sketch

For this card I pulled out some table scraps from the desktop and a pre-stamped sentiment.

I trimmed scraps of the recent craft flop of acrylic sprays and found a stamped greeting on a coordinating color. I used a picket fence Distress Marker over the lettering to make it more readable. I added these to a tone-on-tone dot background over a white card base.

A couple of punched butterflies from table scrap papers are the finishing touch.

Ddd 

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While I was looking for a background to use with yesterday's semi-disaster I ran across this scrap trimmed from one of my stenciled cards. The same bin of scraps had these two strips of dotted green cardstock and, together, they exactly filled a card front! 

I just added some black peel off stickers - leaves, stripe and greeting - and the look was complete.

Must have been meant to be.

Ddd

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Still in the 'follow the wandering brain' mode I set out to try another odd idea. I had gotten some new spray colors in a product sampler pack and wanted to test them out through a stencil.

So I got out the So I got out the Wildflowers stencil from My Favorite Things to try it out. to try it out.

CRAFT FLOP (not all the way to a fail, but definitely not great). The problem was with the sprays themselves. I had turquoise and black. Did they mist, spritz or spray? No, they snorked, blobbed and blooped. I tried spraying farther away, but that was no help. Turns out the paints were more like an acrylic than a watercolor in viscosity and transparency.

Also, I was using glossy cardstock and they were designed for 'porous' surfaces so they sat on top and did not dry well. I finally had to hit them with the heat gun to dry.

I heard in my head the well-known quilter, Bonnie Hunter, who says (regarding fabric), "If it's still ugly, you just didn't cut it small enough!" Well, the spritzed cardstock I had in hand was obviously not cut small enough because it was hideous.

So I cut out two areas that were passable and bordered them with teal. I decided to use them both on the same card and found a scrap of 'wrinkle-free distress background' left over from a precious project. Well, look at that, it has teal in it. I can work with that!

I bordered it with teal as well and popped one of the flowers up on foam tape.

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Here we find ourselves at the end of another year in Studio 3D.

I thought I'd do a quick 'by the numbers' calculation on what's been included in 2014, so here we go: 11 pieces of doll clothes, 7 flashy nail finishes, 1 home decor sewing, 21 quilts, 9 pieces of jewelry, 6 wildlife photos, 8 gardening products, 4 cooking posts, 1 handbag, 1 field trip, 1 stamp carving, 28 paper embroidery cards, 195 cards for157 OWH sketches, 64 cards for online class homework, 22 projects for product tutorials, 9 contract kits with 72 cards, and 71 miscellaneous other cards.

From these I have selected 13 items as my favorite creations over the last 12 months.

1) This card is an over-the-top use of dry embossing and diecutting. What an elegant result:

2) Resin jewelry is awfully fun to do:

3) An original quilt designed from scratch. This was the featured quilt for a time on the Electric Quilt 7 gallery (EQ7 isa design software program)

4) This was a new technique, stamping onto wet watercolor paper

5) From a technique taught in an online class I took part in

6) Love the ombre effect over the white embossed text

7) I really like the realistic color effect on this one

8) You can't go wrong with butterflies in my opinion

9) Some great use of stencils I was sent to work with

10) A technique demonstrated on Splitcoast was the inspiration for this

11) A delft tile treatment of rubber stamping

12) A great little purse with stenciled fabric and designed on-the-fly

13) A stunning 66 x 78 Hunter's Star quilt

So those are my favorites. What are yours? Ddd

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While making the card that finally worked (posted yesterday) I wanted to try to 'rescue' the gold pigment ink left on the Scrolled Background stencil from My Favorite Things .

So, while it was still wet I flipped it over onto blue cardstock, covered it with scratch paper and burnished it with my hands. Surprisingly, it did not give full coverage as I expected, but left behind all the lines that trace the cutouts. Very delicate look.

I decided to heat emboss this with clear detail powder and the result was stunning. So much that I trimmed only enough to make it fit on the card front.

It reminded me of stained glass so I pulled out some gold peel off stickers of religious emblems and built a scene with them. This included a greeting at the top.

I used a dark yellow base card which works well with the gold stickers and embossing.

Ddd

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