YCU Challenge #3

It's my favorite time of the month — time for another challenge from Young Crafters Unite!

This month the goal is to create a masculine card, which was a little less tricky than I thought.

I don't typically create "boyish" cards, but it was fun to stretch my crafty muscles and avoid my usual fallbacks of gemstones and pearls! I kept it pretty simple and did some layered paper piecing on the trees. 

Head over to the YCU Blog to check out the rest of the Design Team's take on this fun challenge!  And be sure to make one for yourself so you can have a chance to win a gift card from our fabulous sponsor — Simon Says Stamp!  :-) 

Have a great and relaxing Sunday!

Glue Dots fun!

I'm back with my very first post as a Glue Dots Design Team member!

This month our challenge was to make Halloween related items which is so easy to do this time of year.

First, I decided to put together a little Halloween card set.  You could give this as a gift, or distribute them to your favorite spooky friends!

I used a combination of inking, stamping, and of course embellishing to create these cards.

I loved using the Pop-Up Glue Dots to adhere all of my embellishments.  These provide that 3D effect and give my peace of mind that everything will stay in place when I am mailing them!

Spooky!

Boo!

Trick or Treat!

Picture overload!  Here are some more detailed instructions if you want to try your hand at making a set of your own!

1. Begin with three blank 4x4 cards made from Kraft cardstock

2. Add piece of patterned paper cut to 3.75''x3.75''

3. Embellish!  Add stickers, stamping, brads, letter stickers — use your spooktacular imagination!

Supplies used on Halloween Card Set:

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Not pictured: Out of Print Cardstock Alpha Stickers by Basic Grey, Apothecary Elements Stickers

Next, I switched gears and created a more elegant Halloween card. This one is for your fancy friends!

The subtle leaves in the background are my favorite. I love the tone on tone stamping look. They just blend into the background.

Here's the deets on this one:

1. Start with a standard A2 Sized card base

2. Emboss the base with a woodgrain embossing folder

3. Stamp leaves onto kraft card front

4. Add ribbon onto card front using Glue Dots Glue Lines

5. Adhere card front onto card base using Pop Up Glue Dots

6. Adhere center stamped focal point using Glue Dots

7. Embellish with gems or pearls!

Thanks for stopping by everyone! Have a happy Thursday! :-)

Almost Friday! :-)

What's that you say?!  There is only one more day until the weekend?!  YAY!  Thanks for all the sweet birthday wishes yesterday.  You guys are sweet. 

Today's card is brought to you by the new love of my crafting life — washi tape.  This stuff is versatile, adorable and cheap.  Love it. Also, this card is a little more clean and simple, then I'm accustomed to and it's not even that clean or simple. It was all I could do not to ink the edges!

Also, would you believe I own three separate camera stamps?  I realized it the other night, so I thought it was time they all got together for a little reunion. 

I will be back bright and early tomorrow and I'm hoping to get a video up this weekend.  We are doing a little kitchen renovation (new floors, counters and backsplash!), so I will be busy, but I know I can sneak a little time away! :-)

xoxo,
Jess

Supplies used on this project:

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Make•a wish

 I am loving the Studio Calico Mr. Huey's mists!! They are so fun to use and you really can't go wrong.  I whipped up this bad boy in about 5 minutes.

This messy look is not for everyone, but I could see this making a gorgeous set of cards using different mist colors.  What is it with me and sets lately?  I love them.

Also, I'm pretty jazzed today, because it's my BIRTHDAY tomorrow!  It really doesn't feel like it this year. I guess that's the bummer of getting older — ha! I plan on going to work (deadlines don't go away — even on your birthday) and then spending the night in the craft room.  Matt has volleyball tomorrow, so it will just be me and the sweet sweet smell of the Staz-On.  :-)

Supplies used on this project:

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The day after...

My craft studio looks like a small bomb exploded...if that bomb was made of paper and inks and adhesive squares. :-) Before I start to clean up the wreckage, I wanted to pop in and share a quick card I put together yesterday.  I think this would be a fun one to make into a set using the different shades of layering paper.  In fact, maybe I will do that right after I clean!

This one is entirely made of Hero Arts goodness. I embossed the envelope background with clear powder for a tone on tone look.

This flower was stamped and cut using the new Hero Arts + Sizzix set.  It makes cutting those images out a breeze.

There are also a LOT of great challenges going on this weekend, so I made sure to enter this card in the Simon Says Stamp "Anything Goes" Challenge and I will link it over at the Hero Arts blog as well.

That's all for me today!  I hope everyone is having a great Sunday.  Lots of fun stuff to share this week — a new Show & Tell, halloween cards and more! :-)

Supplies used on this project:

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