Late To The Party

I had every intention of playing along with Virginia's second challenge to use stencils on our projects, but the collection closed on Friday. I missed it by thiiiiiiis much. I do like my card, however, so I'll show it to you anyway.

I mixed some Distress Spun Sugar paint into a bit of Pearlescent embossing paste, then spread it through the Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Stencil onto a piece of white card stock. It dried not-white and very shimmery. I ended up slicing off just a piece of it to use on my card, behind the die-cut flowers.

I cut three of the flowers, stuck them together for some heft, and colored them with Copics.

At first I thought this would be a sympathy card, but I changed my mind and made it a happy card instead. :)

Here's a look at the shimmer:

Even outside the glare of the light, you can see it shimmers. I really like how it turned out.

I think I need to put up the calendar I bought for my craft room and keep better track of the end dates for these challenges. Not that I need more pressure in my life, but it might be nice to be able to link up once in a while, ya know?

In other news, Bobra likes Spring. There are so many windows in this house at his eye level he wears himself out monitoring the back yard and alerting me to the neighborhood rabbits and robins. Poor dear is sleeping it off now, resting up for the evening shift. What a life.

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Cheater Card

When I make a card that is too easy, I call it a cheater card, mostly because it feels like I cheated. Nothing should be that easy, but I just did it again. I was up to my elbows in the craft room, working on a project for May, and I suddenly held in my hand the perfect piece of cheater paper for a card maker. Then I used it to make this:

This is a single piece of pretty paper from the Memory Box Minuet paper pack.  I am not good enough to make a collage like that by stamping. The only thing I did stamp was the Happy Birthday sentiment. I stuck the paper to an A2 card front and DONE!

See? Cheating.

Now I need to get back to work on that other project. Small diversions like this are fun, though. :)

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The Road To A Friend's House

As I looked through some recently posted challenges (not that I've done any of the other ones I'd planned to do ...), I came across the current Paper Players' challenge:

CAS + washi tape? Perfect. This is what I made:

I decided to break open some of my washi tape collection that was new and still in the package. I found a pack of Recollections* (moment of silence) tape with these two patterns, and I immediately thought of my A Muse sentiment about the road to a friend's house. Even though I layered the white panel onto black before I mounted it onto the card front, there is A LOT of white space there. I might be itchy.

I couldn't decide if I liked the black tape better above or below the map-ish tape, so I didn't decide; I made one of each. Here's the other one:

Do you have a preference?

I still can't decide, but then I don't have to. :)

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*Recollections is now known as a Michael's store brand, but it used to be a H U G E scrapbooking store owned by Michael's. Wall-to-wall papers and embellishments to make your heart sing. They didn't have a lot of stamps, but I was in my paper collecting phase, and I kindof wished I could live there. It was second only to getting stranded in a book store in my world. Sadly, Michael's made the decision many years ago to close the Recollections stores. I might have wept. About that time, Michael's redid some of their stores to expand the scrapbook aisles. I like that some of the Recollections products are showing up at Michael's, but it's still not the same. :(

Products used: Recollections washi tape, A Muse sentiment, SU black card stock, and the following:

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Missing You

I have a major project working in my spare bedroom, and it involves paint. Craft paint. LOTS of craft paint. I am not in love with the results of said project, so to drown my sorrows, I've been taking lots of breaks and making cards. I think I need to feel like I can actually make something that doesn't totally suk.

For this card, I combined two challenges. A color challenge from Colour Me!:

and a sketch from Unscripted Sketches:

I turned the sketch on its ear, and this is what came out:

For the colors I went with my pack of Flair paper from MME. The sketch elements should be pretty clear, but I didn't use any twine -- didn't think it looked right, so I stamped some hearts instead.

I really like this one. :)

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to glare at some paint.

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Products used: misc black brads, SU basic Black card stock, and the following:

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