Two more HYCCT cards

I'm home from my too-short vacation to the middle of nowhere, doing nothing. It was a blissful few days, though. I came back to some Happy Mail, so I thought I'd play a few HYCCT challenges.

Today's challenge is Courage, and we're supposed to make a card or two to inspire strength and courage to a patient. I used my new-to-me Hero Arts & Studio Calico set called Calico Borders to make this:

Lest you think I lined those up straight while stamping, I did not. I could not. Nope, I got them straight on my grid paper, then stuck them to the acrylic block together and stamped them together. I almost - almost - cut the sentiment apart, since it needs the full 5 1/2" width to fit on the card. Instead I went borderless. This time.

I colored the butterflies with Copics, punched the top with an SU punch, and added some Liquid Pearls. I like how this one came out.

Next, I did yesterday's challenge to strip. HAHAHA! No, that wouldn't be pretty. We're supposed to make a card using strips of paper behind our main image, and this is to signify how we have to strip to the waist when we have our annual mammograms. Paper strips I can do. Here's my card:

You have no idea how tempted I was to break out some Washi tape, but instead I used some paper strips from my Basic Grey Hello Luscious papers. I love Stella (from Totally Stampalicious). She speaks to me.

In other news, I'm headed to VA this evening for First Friday in Leesburg. Why not come out and see us?

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More Christmas Cards

Today I introduced my pal Bunny to heat embossing. I was sure she'd like it, and she did! Here is the card she made:

 That's all one stamp, so it was pretty easy. She stamped it in Ranger Distress Black Soot and clear-embossed it. After she added the layer, she wound some twine around it, then put it on a white base. Then she went back in to color the bows with glitter gel pens. It's so easy and fun!

Here's the one I made along with her:

 I used a blue layer and ribbon on mine. Also, I usually use a pale blue Copic to color the window panes, but I didn't bring any on this trip, so I tried coloring my light blue marker (the name escapes me at the moment) onto an acrylic block, then used a blender pen to color the panes. Bunny opted to skip this step. :D

Well, my part of Girls' Week is coming to an end, and I'm headed home this afternoon. But it was a great trip, and I'm all relaxed and everything. Amazing. I'll be back tomorrow with a few more cards.

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WOYWW 10/03/2012 + A Trip Report

[ETA: Linked to WOYWW.]

I am in the middle of nowhere for a girls' week, and we brought our respective crafts to teach each other so we can grow as women. We won't mention the Mac & Geez that we ate to fill the crafting void that also helped us grow, though in a different way. And I don't think that walk we took helped much.

So anyway, there is a huge Dining Room table here we've commandeered as our craft room, and that's what I'll show you today.

Here is the Jewelry end of the table:

See all those organized boxes of gems and beads, and the neat little pile of tools? *ahem* I made these:

Then we tried stamping. Here is the stamping station:

This is after just two cards each, too. When I couldn't decide what tools to bring, I just grabbed my tool holders and took them as they were on my desk. It was easier. HOW can I make such a mess?! Sigh.

My pal Bunny made her first two cards. Here is her first one:

 and here's the one I made along with her to show her the step-by-step:

I thought it would be easy to focus on pretty paper and the mix of patterns and color. I can tell we already have different styles!

Here is her second card:

 I wanted to show her layering and the flexibility of placement of the rectangles. And balance -- twine to go with the plainer paper to counteract the busy patterned paper.

Here's mine I made along with her:

I think she dd GREAT for her first attempt. Later we'll try washi tape and heat embossing. :)

In other news, we took a walk to check out the Fall foliage. Here is a not-so-good photo of the trees:

the ski slope in Autumn:

and poorly zoomed-in:

As a final, crushing blow, can you believe Bunny would not buy me this house:

I was sad.

But I shall drown my sorrows in some Mac & Geez plus some Jalapeno Poppers. A girl needs a balanced diet, right?

That's it for now. Thanks for stopping by!

SOS #71 - Go Green

Happy Tuesday! It's time for another Shopping Our Stash challenge. This week we ask you to GO GREEN. You can either use the color green, or you can recycle something to use on your card. Or heck - DO BOTH!  I did. :)

Here's my card:

I'm quite proud of this card, I'm not gonna lie. First, I used not one but TWO pieces of that retired SU DSP from the now-organized Heaplet, and the green layer is also from my now-organized remnant box. AND, I broke out some new-to-me goodies, too: the heart die and the banner die.

As an added bonus, I used two pieces of MFT packaging for my recycled element and die-cut some hearts to use as layers under the DSP heart.

Oh, oh, but first I MUST show you my desk, since it's almost never this clean:

LOOK AT ALL THAT ROOM! You can see the whole grid paper pad, even. You can also see the ink swatch key ring I made as part of the Kick Start Online Card Class. It's a work in progress, and yes, I have a lot of ink.

Okay, I need to focus here...

As I said, I used two pieces of the MFT packaging and cut out some hearts:

And now the packaging is gone. :) I stacked up the three hearts, then put the die-cut DSP over it. Here is a side view of the stacked pieces:

You can also see I've colored the sides of the heart - they were very WHITE. I feel obligated to share with you that there are actually two pieces of DSP hearts. That's because as I completed coloring the edge of the hearts with my Wild Wasabi marker, I slipped and colored all over the DSP. It suks being me sometimes.

The banner and sentiment are from my new stash from Simon Says Stamp. I inked the sentiment in (retired) SU Blue Bayou.

Okay, now it's YOUR turn. Go into your stash and find something green OR find something you can recycle and re-purpose to use on a card OR do both! Then make your card and come back to Shopping Our Stash to link us up so we can see what you've made.

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HYCCT1201A - Your Go-to Style

It's October 1st, and that means it's time to kick off the Splitcoast Hope You Can Cling To (HYCCT) stamping campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Each day during the month of October there will be a new challenge posted. All cards made for the challenges will be sent to the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.

There are actually three challenges on the 1st (hey, it's kick-off day!), and the first one is hosted by our fearless leader Lydia, aka: UnderstandBlue. She has asked us to make a card using our go-to style or technique.

For me, this is simple: a sketch and some irreverence. :D Here's my card:

I used the GinaK Girl Talk set, and some Basic Grey PB&J papers. The sketch I used is from Skipping Stones Design:

So if you're looking for some challenges this month, why not head over to the HYCCT challenge forum and play along?

PS: You don't even HAVE to use (gah) pink for some of them. :)
PPS: There's even a Recipe forum. We need sustenance, you know! 

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