PAPER PIECING THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOWER CARD

HEY BLOGGIES,

I am so happy to have a fun NEW kind of card for you today.  May has been a crazy month for us so far, but I just NEEDED to squeeze in a bit of FUN TIME to make some cards.

 Soft Sky and Sahara Sand are the two card stocks I used, plus very vanilla is the card stock I stamped on and colored for the flower.

 Bloom With Hope by Stampin' Up! was my stamp set of choice for this card.  I stamped it several times and colored them, then cut them into layers and popped them up to make them three dimensional.  I hope it shows up in the photo for you to see how I have the layers.

 The vellum with little stars is a piece I am recycling from something else I received a long time ago.  I knew one day I would find a place to use it.  I love to have this little "lagnappe" or special surprise when I am making cards -- recycling is a GREAT IDEA for me!!

One more look at the finished card.  It is bleak, dark and very very rainy here in Texas, and has been for AT LEAST A WEEK.  We are starting to flood all over the place and the creeks have come up over their banks from so much rain!!

I used this sketch from SKETCH FRENZY FRIDAY for my card.  Why don't you make a card too using this sketch?

Thanks for stopping by.  Come back and visit again, won't you?

SCRIBBLE DESIGNS DIGI CHALLENGE

HELLO BLOGGIES:

THANKS FOR VISITING MY BLOG TO SEE THIS ADORABLE SCRIBBLE DESIGN DIGI. SANDY GRACIOUSLY GAVE US THIS DIGI TO CREATE OUR CARD FOR THE CHALLENGE THIS WEEK, AND I MUST SAY THAT I ABSOLUTELY L.O.V.E. THIS CUTE LITTLE DOGGIE IN HIS BUBBLE BATH!!.

I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF MAKING HIM 3-D AND THEN THOUGHT I WOULD GO ONE STEP FURTHER WITH PAPER PIECING AND PUFFY TRAPUNTO. SO HERE GOES:

I PRINTED THE DIGI OUT THREE TIMES - ONCE ON NATURALS IVORY AND TWICE ON CRUMB CAKE.  I CUT OUT THE DOGGIE HEAD AND PAWS SEPARATELY BEFORE I ADDED SOME COLOR.  THE HEAD IS RUBBED FROM THE BACK TO CREATE A BOWL LIKE EFFECT AND THEN ADDED PULLED COTTON THERE TO KEEP IT PUFFY.  YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE IT BETTER IN THE CLOSEUP PHOTOS.

HERE YOU CAN SEE HOW THE PAWS HAVE BEEN POPPED UP ON TWO STAMPIN' DIMENSIONALS TO GET THEM HIGHER THAN THE HEAD AND THE BATH TUB.

I USED ALCOHOL MARKERS (SU BLENDABILITIES) AS WELL AS REGULAR SU MARKERS IN MY COLORING AND SHADING.  THEN I ADDED A PUNCHED OUT SILVER GLIMMER DOGGIE TAG POPPED UP ALSO.

I ALSO ADDED SOME FLAT BACKED MINI PEARLS ON THE BUBBLES IN PLACES BECAUSE - WELL, BECAUSE I WANTED TO!!  HEE HEE.  DON'T THEY LOOK SO FUN AS THE BUBBLES??  I LOVE HOW THEY LOOK.  THERE ARE THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT COLORS OF THEM ON THE CARD.

I ALSO USED MY GORGEOUS GRUNGE STAMP FOR THE SPLATTERS AROUND THE BATHTUB AND A LITTLE BANNER "TICKLED PINK" TO MAKE IT A CONGRATS FOR A BABY GIRL CARD.

THERE YOU HAVE IT.  HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED MY CARD I CREATED.  STOP ON OVER TO THE SCRIBBLE DESIGNS DIGI CHALLENGE TO SEE WHAT EVERYONE ELSE CREATED, WON'T YOU?  And if you use an animal of any kind on your card, you can also enter it at their ANIMAL PLANET CHALLENGE as well for two chances to win PRIZES!!

THANKS FOR VISITING.  SEE YA' LATER!!

PAPER PIECED CARD - EASTER WISHES

HEY BLOGGIES,

I am right in the middle of getting our house ready to sell so we can move.  Same area just into the country more.  SOOO because of that, I have most of my craft room all packed and stored away safely.

But how can anyone go weeks without stamping or crafting??!!  I know I can't.  I made a paper pieced card today and used the sentiment of one of the 5 that I kept from packing away.

I made this card to enter at TECHNO STAMPER MONDAY.  My second card for this week on this challenge.  Also entered at Around the World Stamping.

I used the FREE DSP from Sale-a-Bration called SWEET SORBET and I sure do L O V E that paper!!  I fussy cut out some of the printed flowers from the paper as well as stamped some Petite Petals flowers and punched them out.

 Here is the card all finished.  I added some water coloring onto the DSP for shading, coloring and emphasis to some of the flowers.

 You can see the paper pieced flower and leaves in this upper lkeft hand corner.  I then popped it up on dimensionals and used my markers and aqua painter to add shading, filling and layering of colors,  LOVE IT

 The twine is the FREE SAB SWEET SORBET ACCESSORY PACK and I am loving this thicker twine.  I used a trick I saw on the web recently - I used a bit of gesso or elmer's glue in between my fingers and rubbed it on the tails of the twine.  Then I shaped it how I wanted it to be and let it almost dry before I attached it to my card.  AWESOME how it makes such a difference with the bow all shaped and pretty.  (this is before I added the other candy dots to my card.

Now you can see my candy dots (I changed out the one on the twine bow) and the completed card with the shading and coloring.  What do you think? I really REALLY liked the process because I was so much more involved with the creation by coloring, shading, layering colors and then paper piecing and adding punches.  You will see some more of these types of cards from me again.

OOPS, I forgot to show the inside of my card:

I believe the most important part of Easter:  HE IS RISEN.

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Please stop back by again.  If you have any questions, let me know.
The colors I used are:

Soft Suede ink (for sentiment)
Crisp Cantaloupe
Pool Party
Calypso Coral
Coastal Cabana
Summer Starfruit

GUEST DESIGNER AT LATE NIGHT STAMPERS CHALLENGES

Hello Bloggies,

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT:  The hostess code from the last week has now been closed and through Random.org the winner of $50.00 worth of FREE PRODUCT is:

KAREN P.

Thanks to all who ordered from me, especially during the Texas Tax Free Weekend.  I will have another HOSTESS CODE for the rest of August and will share that code with you tomorrow.

Now, on to my NEXT ANNOUNCEMENT:

I am humbled to announce that I have been chosen as one of the GUEST DESIGNERS over at the Late Night Stampers Challenges (LNS).

There are so many amazing stampers out there that I am amazed I was chosen.  I hope I can live up to what they expect from me for these next 3 months.

This week, LNS Challenge is to use SPECIALITY PAPER.  I already submitted one card yesterday when the challenge started, but I immediately had another idea I wanted to share with you.

 I did something similar to this card last fall, but I wanted to update to the most current designer paper available from Stampin' Up!  The paper I used for the pumpkin is WITCHES BREW.  The background paper is a newsprint design, but I cannot remember which paper pack it is from.

 I made a banner with the newsprint paper and with a piece of ALWAYS ARTICHOKE card stock on top.  I stamped several times with versamark and then heat embossed with white embossing powder.  I tied a 1/8" piece of PUMPKIN PIE RIBBON at the end of the banner.

This paper pieced pumpkin idea came from my quilting that I also love to do.  This type of creating is fun with both paper AND fabric.  Applique is the name of it in quilting.

Thank you for visiting my blog.  I sincerely appreciate your support.

Hop on over to LNS to see other cards submitted for this 2 week challenge.  Why don't you submit a card of your own for this challenge?