Another composite (Comic Book) card

So I'm on a roll! After making the card featuring the stamp set "Everyday Heroes" earlier in the day, I used the same layout to making another card.  I just love making these composite cards and using a stamp positioner really helps.

Stamps: Vertical Greetings, Kinda Eclectic, Sitting Here
Inks: Black Memento, Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Cajun Craze, Perfect Plum, Soft Suede, Bermuda Bay
Papers: Whisper White, Basic Black, Blooms & Bliss DSP (Butterfly)
Accessories: Blender Pen, Dazzling Details, Itty Bitty Blooms, Pearls, glue dots, stamp positioner, Small butterfly punch

Life Begins in the Garden - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #265

As well as a sketch challenge with Try Stampin' on Tuesday, there was an optional theme to include: " spring is here."
What better place to celebrate Spring then in the garden, which by the way I am itching to get into.

To better suit my image, I turned the sketch on its side.

The base card is Old Olive, layered with Whisper White.  In the upper left hand corner, I stamped the image of the sun from "Kinda Eclectic"  Then I built the rest of the card.

The image of the little girl gardening was stamped with Black Memento, and coloured with copic markers.  Some Marina Mist was sponged lightly on the sky, after which I stamped some insects from "In the Meadow"

Two 2 3/4" circles were die cut using the Circles framlets.  The DSP are both from Pretty Petals DSP.  They were attached and layered as indicated in the sketch.

The image was then adhered to part of the circles using dimensionals.

A 1/2 by 3 3/4" strip of Night of Navy was placed at right angles to the image.  The sentiment was embossed with white embossing powder.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: An All Night Media stamp, Kinda Eclectic, In the Meadow
Inks: Black Memento, copic markers, Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight, Versa Mark
Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Circles Framelits, dimensionals, Wink of Stella clear glitter

Father's Day Double Side Step Card

It took me a while to figure this card fold out, but the tutorial by Dana and Sabrina was very helpful.  I decided to make this double side step card into a Father's Day card, and use one of the stamp sets "Walk in the Wild" that is retiring.

The basic cardstock is Soft Suede which I cut and scored as directed in the tutorial.
The images were stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock, matted with Basic Black.  The edges of all Very Vanilla cardstock were sponged with Soft Suede ink.

On the left panel, the image of the goose from "Wetlands" was stamped with Memento ink, and then masked the goose to stamp the sea grass in Old Olive behind it.  At the bottom I stamped the multi circle edge stamp in soft Suede.  I coloured the goose with blendabilities.
At the upper left corner, the sun, from "Kinda Eclectic" was stamped with Hello Honey.
Then with a sponge, I lightly sponged the sky with Marina Mist ink.

The first think I did on the right panel to use a stamp from "Work of Art" in Soft Suede ink in two places.  Above that another stamp from the same stamp set was stamped in Marina Mist ink.  Then the sandpipers from "Wetlands" was stamped in Early Espresso ink.  I also stamped the same edge stamp on the bottom of this panel.
Using a sponge, the sky was first coloured with Marina Mist ink, and then Blushing Bride.

The Moose, from "Walk in the Wild" was stamped with Memento ink on Very Vanilla on the middle panel.  The leaf from "Kinda Eclectic" was stamped using Pear Pizzaz twice on the upper left, after which the sky was lightly sponged with Marina Mist.  The image and grass were coloured with blendabilities.
A butterfly from "Kinda Eclectic" was stamped in Marina Mist ink and punched with the Itty Butterfly punch, attached to the panel with a glue dot and rhinestones adhered to its middle.  I drew two antennae using a fine black pen.

Both sentiments are  from "Best Dad Ever".

The embellishment is a clay button made using SU clay and the button clay mold.  I coloured it with a Soft Suede marker and adhered a bow made with Early Espresso baker's twine.

Supplies Used:

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A Serving Tray with Inserts Using Sheltered Tree

At Christmas time I bought a serving tray that had spaces where you can put photographs in.  Of course when I saw this tray I wasn't thinking photos - I was thinking stamping.  So, I bought the tray (at a very reasonable price), but unfortunately I had no time to do anything with it.  So it sat there taunting me.
Finally I have some time to just play and create.
So, after working with the blendabilities background technique I decided to make the panels for the inserts for this tray.
I decided to use the Sheltering Tree stamp set, and since there were 4 panels, I made each panel represent a different season.

Unfortunately, after I finished the tray, as I was putting it back together, the glass insert broke in half.  Talk about heart break!

I think I know where I can get a piece of glass cut to size.

Anyway, here is the tray:

This is the side view.
Now to show each panel one at a time.

Winter:  BRRRR!!  Looks like it feels here - minus 33 degrees C.  The clouds in the sky were made by adhering 2 scallop circles together and sponging with Marina Mist.  The Evergreen trees are non SU.  What you can't see is the Dazzling details on the branches of the tree.

Spring:  This season can't come soon enough....... Unfortunately, there's the crack in the glass.
After the trees were stamped, I stamped the blossoms using Pink Pirouette and then Melon Mambo.  Pear Pizzazz was used for the grass as spring grass is a gentler colour than Old Olive.  The sun image is from the stamp set Kinda Eclectic.

Summer:  Ah!! The season we all wait for and does not last nearly long enough.  Old Olive was used fro the tree leaves and for the grass.  The butterfly was stamped with Perfect Plum; the sun with Crushed Curry.

Fall:  If only winter didn't come after fall, fall would be my favourite season. I used the following colours for the leaves:  Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango, and Cajun Craze.

Here is the list of supplies:

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Decorated Note Pad - Can You Case It #55

I can't say that I've noticed the site "Can You Case It" before, but now that I've found it I thought I would do the sketch challenge located here
But, rather than make a card, I thought I'd do something a little different with the sketch.
Every 2 weeks I set up a craft table at a local hospital and sell to hospital visitors, patients, and staff.  One of the items on my table is a decorated note pad.
The cover of today's note pad is decorated using the sketch with Can You Case It.

 

 The main cover is Old Olive cardstock, lined with a DSP that is now retired.

In the middle there is a panel of Whisper White cardstock that is 7 by 4", matted with Old Olive cardstock 7 1/4 by 4 1/4".

Two stamp sets are used to create the scene - Sheltering Tree, and Kinda Eclectic.

Here is a list of the supplies used:

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Scallop Top Tag Punch Card 3 - Trifold Card

This is the 3rd card made in class this week.  It is a trifold scallop top card made using the Scallop top tag punch.

 

• Start with a piece of  Blackberry Bliss card stock 8 1/2 by 8 1/2"

• Score at 2 7/8" and 5 7/8"
• Fan fold
• Measure 1 1/2" in from the side on the front side.  Made a mark with a pencil.
• Follow the directions on my previous 2 posts here.  Insert the front of the card with the mark unpside down into the punch

• Fold the front over the middle portion and insert both upside down into the punch, and match the scallops on the first part. Punch.  Remove from punch.  You now have the front and middle sections with a scallop top.

• Now take the back portion of the card and fold it over the middle.  Insert both of them into the punch and follow the same directions as the front and middle. Punch.  Remove from punch and your card now has 3 scallops on it.

 Remove the unpunched portions and finish your card
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