Scraplings

Have you heard of Scraplings? These are basically tiny leftover pieces of cardstock that you turn into little bitty cards, thus..... "scrap"-lings. This particular scrap of real red cardstock is 1.75" x 11". You could make a scrapling from something as small as 1.5" x 8" up to 2" x 12". The whole idea is to use up your scraps.

So in keeping with that idea, I found some leftover white rub-ons from last year's Stampin Up! SAB package. Remember those? I bet you still have some in your stash. Pull them out and use em up! The only thing on my card is rub-ons, white grosgrain ribbon, and cardstock. No stamping at all. The longest part of making this card - for me - was finding the scrapling cardstock.

I challenge you to make a scrapling this weekend. They are cute and fun! And the best part is that you are using up some of those cardstock scraps. :-)

Stamps: none
Ink: none
CS: Real Red, Basic Black
Other: white grosgrain ribbon, white rub-ons

Belli Challenge #50 - Soul in the Sky

This week's Belli Challenge is to find your old stamps, dust them off, and ink them up again. Since last week we inked up our new stamps, this week we are playing with our beloved yet neglected stamps.

I looked through some of my older stamps, and this hummingbird image cried out to me. It's been a long time since I played with this one from Cornish Heritage Farms. I simply colored it with copic markers and cut it out, then adhered it to some nestability scalloped ovals. The centers of the flowers have a tiny bit of Yellow Stickles in there. This is a nice flat card that will be perfect for mailing to a special someone. Could that be you? Leave a comment on this posting and I will pick a name on Sunday, January 18!! Good luck!!

Play in our challenge this week and use keyword CBC50 if you upload to SCS or PCP. Here's a little more inspiration for you from the other Belli Girls:

Shelly Koskinen
Jennifer Greco
Chris Dickinson
Ceal Pritchett
Christi Thorsen
Danita Hollander
Joan Ervin
Karen Gibson
Debby McGillivray


Stamps: Bird Sampler, Vintage Butterflies (both from Cornish Heritage Farms)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Cameo Coral
CS: Cameo Coral, White, River Rock, Ginger Blossom dsp
Other: copic markers, sponge, nestabilities, Yellow Stickles

CBCC #21 - Inspiration

This week's CBCC challenge is to find inspiration from your favorite CD. "What music do you listen to while you stamp?" Courtney said to use that CD cover as inspiration for this week's card or project. Wellllll......... little does Courtney know that I don't listen to music. So, I changed it around a bit and found some inspiration from my latest DVD movie.



Can you guess what movie this might have been inspired by??? Hee hee heeeeeeee!




The Fairy Dust sentiment comes from Rubbernecker. I went on a buying spree last year when I met the Rubbernecker gang at a convention in San Antonio. I'm so glad I had a chance to use this stamp. It's such a cute and whimsical saying.

Look closely and you will see that all the papers are shimmery. The dark blue cardstock is Night Sky from PaperTrey Ink, and the cream paper is Poison Ivory shimmery cardstock. I wanted the green to shimmer also, so I found my old bottle of hairspray and silver Pearl Ex, shook it up, and sprayed the green cardstock.

For the sentiment, I stamped it first with Brilliance Pearlescent Chocolate ink, let it dry, and then centered it inside a nestabilities die. After I cut it out, I sent it back through with the tan embossing mat to give me a raised edge. I used that raised edge as a guide for applying some Star Dust Stickles around it to sort of frame the sentiment. I used the swirls from the Beautiful set at Cornish Heritage Farms and stamped with with Vintage Cream ink (PTI). After that dried, I went over some of the larger swirls with Star Dust Stickles (my favorite!).

Well, I couldn't just leave it at that. So I Stickled some silver star brads and waited several hours for that to dry. In the meantime, I found some irridescent ribbon, and that provided a great finishing touch for this card. It turned out to be a shimmery and sparkly card in honor of Tinkerbell! :-)

Play along with us, and use keyword CBCC21 if you upload to SCS or PCP. Please check out what the rest of the Challenge Chicks have created:

Courtney Fowler
Chris Dickinson
Maria Fiscella
Lorie Ames
Danielle Marcus
Sarah Anderson
Sparkle Smith
Maria Gurnsey
Kim


Stamps: Fairy Dust (Rubbernecker), Beautiful (Cornish Heritage Farms)
Ink: Vintage Cream (PTI), Brilliance Pearlescent Chocolate
CS: Poison Ivory, Night Sky (PTI), Garden Green
Other: irridescent ribbon, Star Dust Stickles, star brads, nestabilities, hairspray & silver Pearl Ex

Smiles and Laughter

Three of us got together tonight to stamp, and Danita challenged us to work on this week's Basic Grey challenge. I had been gone all day so I didn't have much mojo flowing tonight. I kept mine super simple, painting crackle paint on the chipboard and stamping on some Basic Grey paper that matched the colors in the dsp that I chose (Urban Prairie). The Ranger distress crackle paint in Broken China is a very good match for the blue in this Urban Prairie paper.

After I finished this card, Danita and Chris said that it might have looked better with a solid black ribbon. Possibly so, but I'm too tired to go back and change it. LOL Nighty night!

Stamps: Hero Arts
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
CS: Kiwi Kiss, Basic Black, Urban Prairie Basic Grey dsp
Other: Paper Studio chipboard, dotted black ribbon, Broken China distress crackle paint, pinking shears

Belli Challenge #49

This week's Belli Challenge is to create a card with NEW stamps or with a TIME theme. I combined these on both of the cards above. I used new stamps and managed to weave a time theme into each card.

For the orange card with the clock, I used the sketch from MOJO61. But in order to keep it a masculine card, I didn't add the scalloped edge above the sentiment. I sponged around the edges of the orange cardstock and then distressed the edges of the main image. Both the clock image and the sentiment are new stamps that had never seen ink before.

On the Time to Reflect card, I used the Aged Tiles technique from the Technique Junkies newsletter. Again, I did more sponging, and I added some twill and aged copper brads. The sentiment and the Bird Watching image are new and uninked stamps.

All the stamps on both cards are from Cornish Heritage Farms.

Play along with us and create your own Belli card. If you upload your card to SCS or PCP, please use keyword CBC49. For more inspiration, please look at what the Belli Girls have done:

Shelly Koskinen
Jennifer Greco
Chris Dickinson
Christi Thorsen
Ceal Pritchett
Lorie Ames
Courtney Fowler
Danita Hollander
Joan Ervin
Sarah Anderson
Karen Gibson


Orange clock card:
Stamps: CHF Time to Stamp
Ink: Walnut Stain distress ink
CS: Tangerine Tango, Archaic Basic Grey
Other: sponge, Making Memories brads, distressing tool

Bird Watching card:
Stamps: CHF Time to Stamp & Bird Watching
Ink: Walnut Stain distress ink
CS: Kraft, Ruby Red, Baja Breeze, Vanilla
Other: twill, aged copper brads

Feeding my Dolly

Sweet N Sassy Stamps is hosting this week's CPS sketch, so I thought I'd play along. I actually rotated the sketch around to fit my stamped image (Sarah Kay line by Stampavie), so it may look a wee bit different to you.

I colored the image with Copic Markers (getting better at the blending thing), and I used some designer papers from the Basic Grey Eva collection. I picked my marker colors according to what I could match up in the designer papers. The buttons are adhered with bits of pop up glue dots after being tied with linen thread through their holes.

Can't chat too long, since I still have to clean the kitchen and get ready for work again tomorrow. Have a great night!

Guess What??

I have some exciting news. I was asked to become a member of Courtney's Challenge Chicks design team!!! I'm so excited!

For my first CBCC posting (not to be confused with the CBC which is the Belli Challenge), we were asked to "reduce, reuse, and recycle." I found my little stash of scraps, and picked a few things from there to play with.




Can you see what I picked out from my scrap stash for this card below?




I used the white designer label punched cardstock piece, the black photo corner piece, and the little pieces of ribbon. By choosing these items, my colors were already decided for me - white, black, and riding red hood. This ended up being a very bold and striking card. How's this for my first Challenge Chick card? :-)

Come play with us, and create a work of art from your pile of scraps. For more inspiration, please check out what the other Challenge Chicks have done:

Courtney Fowler
Chris Dickinson
Maria Fiscella
Lorie Ames
Danielle Marcus
Sarah Anderson
Sparkle Smith
Maria Gurnsey


Stamps: SU Upsy Daisy, CHF Nature Silhouettes
Ink: Basic Black, Riding Hood Red
CS: White, Basic Black, Riding Hood Red
Other: black gingham ribbon, riding hood red tafetta ribbon, photo corner punch, designer label punch, circle punches