Tuesday, February 25, 2014

SOS #140: Heavy Metal

It's Tuesday, and time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash. This week's theme is Heavy Metal, and we ask you to use something metallic on your project, either bought or hand-made.

My idea for the metal on my card came about as I was unpacking a few boxes last week. Along the way, I was either giving things to a friend who was over, or I was putting the box contents away. Well, maybe I should say I was putting the contents in the vicinity of where the various objects would eventually live.

One of those objects was a small, unopened container of photo brad ... thingies. These:


The container landed on my desk, to be used for today's challenge. There were 10 of the little buggers in there, and I used 5 of them before I went a bit nuts. I put the remaining ones away.

I went in search of some paper with most of these colors in them, and decided upon my Basic Grey What's Up 6x6 pad. I selected a now-expired sketch from Retro Sketches:


and I got to work. Here is the first card I made:


There was a lot of stash-diving happening here. First, the brad thingies. But wait - there's more! That twine was also in one of the boxes I unpacked, and I used up most of it. yay!

Also, that sentiment? Back in the day before every company had their own thin dies, and Spellbinders was the only game in town, I collected Spellbinders. Then stamp companies started to come out with stamps that coordinated with various Spellbinders dies, and who was I to pass up an opportunity to collect something?!?!?! This set is from Stamping Scrapping, and it coordinates with the Spellbinders Ribbon Tag Trio dies (or so it says) S-4234. It's been so long, I just believe them at this point.

I didn't use the dies, but I did use the frame from the set. I decided to use the script "you" from the Simon Says Stamp You set, even though it slopped out of the frame a bit. I tried to clean off the ends of the image and stamp it just inside the frame, but that was a disaster, so I gave up.  The rest of the sentiment is from the same You stamp set.

Now, about that heart. I cut it from one of the What's Up papers, then about 8 times out of scrap cream card stock, then stacked them all up until it was about as tall as the sentiment that's popped up on dimensional adhesive. I even colored the edges, it was so thick:


(wow, almost in focus, even. almost. okay, no, it's not.)
I made 4 more cards to use up the other 4 colors of brads:

Oh, look, the heart on the bottom left card decided to tip over. Lovely.

The top two are like the first one I made, just with different papers. For the bottom two, I was getting a little stabby about the size of the paper piece: 3.75 x 3.5. You see, you can only get one of these from a piece of 6x6 paper, which kindof defeated my purpose, so the paper on these two is only 3" wide. You see a lot more of the card base, but I'm really quite okay with that.

So, do you have some metal laying around the ole craft room that needs to disappear? I think you should play along with us over at Shopping Our Stash: Heavy Metal. :)

Thanks for stopping by!


Products used: misc brads; misc twine; Basic Grey What's Up 6x6 paper pack; stamped frame from a set I got through Stamping Scrapping, but they don't seem to have as many Spellbinder coordinating sets any more; hole punch that might be older than I am; misc cream card stock for the heart layering effort; and the following:




10 comments:

  1. I have some of those thingies too! Somewhere. Your cards rock! Love your take on that sketch and the stacked hearts element!

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  2. Nice job on the card, love your used of the metal thingies. I had two out to use and forgot, probably didn't have room anyway. Great take on the sketch too.

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  3. Good use of the brad thingies. I have some of those somewhere, too, and never could do anything with them.

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  4. Ohhhhhhh I love those photo brad thingies! I am pretty sure I MUST have some somewhere!

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  5. I'm sure I have some metal lying around somewhere and you are absolutely right that it needs to disappear. I don't tend to you metal things on my cards because of the bulk and the weight, but I do realized (now seeing your card) that it doesn't all have to be big and bulky and lots of it (like Alica's card although I think that is fabulous, can you image how much it weighs?!). I like your fun little bunch of cards.

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  6. Oh my gosh you're making me laugh! Photo brad…thingies….I would so say that! It's been so long I just believe them at this point…that's funny!! These are great cards! Fabulous job!
    Blessings,
    Michelle

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  7. Great thingy management, and nice used of the sketch.

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  8. I love how they look like they're hanging with the twine! And omg, I had to laugh at the tipped heart. That one's just the alcoholic uncle of the bunch :)

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  9. AWESOME use of the photo brad thingies!!! (which i think i HAVE some of, and have no idea how i got them; i've also never known what to do with them, but i do NOW, ta v much!!!) :)

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  10. Great set of cards, and a fabulous way to use all those metal ribbon tabs! Gotta love all the time and trouble you went to for that great heart embellishment too!

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