Quick card share

Hey everyone!  I've been busy with the October Neat & Tangled release this week (release week is next week and if you don't follow me on IG, you might want to (@mprantner) because I've been sharing sneaks there) but thought I would pop in to share another bonus card from my Craftsy class.

This is from the stencils section, and is a riff on this card that I created ages ago.  It's one of my most popular cards, but it took literally AGES to create.  So instead of a full panel, I just went with a sliver, and I think it's just as effective.

The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

Hope your week is going well!  We're doing well here.  The hubby (who broke his leg just before school started) is down to just one crutch and DRIVING!!!! and he'll be tooling around in just a boot starting next week with PT the next couple weeks.  It's definitely been a challenge, but the end is in sight!

Happy Thursday!

Happy Fall

So I have once again been unable to fully take advantage of World Card Making Day.  I was only able to get this one card done yesterday.  Just too much other running around/chauffering of kids to be done.  Thankfully there are a bunch of different challenges open over the course of the next week, so I'm hoping to be able to get some more cards done for those.

I got a happy little package from Dreamweaver's Stencils in the mail yesterday, including this Tree Line die.  I have the Tree Line stencil, it's one of my favorites from Dreamweaver's so I was thrilled that they came out with a die and I wanted to use it right away.

I die cut a piece of watercolor paper and then proceeded to paint the die with watercolors.  I did this one section at a time, dividing the panel into roughly three sections.  I first wet the area I wanted to work with and then proceeded to add color by just dabbing dots/splotches starting with yellow, moving to golds, oranges, and then red.  It's extremely unscientific, but you get a great variegated result.  Then I painted the tree limbs with a mixture of two shades of brown.  

The back sky panel is another piece of watercolor paper that I wet and added a wash to using several blues.

Once everything was dry, I stamped a sentiment from the Ellen Hutson Autumn Acorns set, and then adhered everything to the card.  I added a woodgrain cardstock panel for some extra texture and to really make that die cut pop.  The sky panel was adhered directly to the woodgrain piece and then the die cut itself was popped up with foam adhesive.  

I'm going to link this up over at Studio Calico for the watercolors/stamps challenge and at Butterfly Reflections for their WCMD challenges.  This is also getting linked up at Dreamweaver's for their monthly challenge. 

Hope you guys had a great WCMD and were able to get more than just one card done.  And don't forget that there is still plenty of time to complete the Ellen Hutsons Exclusive hop - just scroll down for that.

Supplies Used

Paper/Cardstock:  Canson - Watercolor paper; Avery Elle - White and Woodgrain cardstock

Stamps:  Ellen Hutson - Autumn Acorns

Ink:  CTMH - Chocolate

Other:  Dreamweavers - Tree Line Die; Kuretake - Gansai Watercolors; Recollections - Foam Adhesive; CTMH - Bonding Memories Adhesive; Tombow - Mono Adhesive

SC CHA Challenges

There are some CHA challenges going on over at Studio Calico, although they close today, so you need to hurry if you want to play along.

My first project is for the card sketch.


I used the BG Clippings 6x6 pad.  The main panel is a piece of very thin striped paper that I laid a Dreamweavers stencil over and lightly sponged.  Since I really love that stencil image, I wanted the panels in the card to be very subtle.  I cut three pieces of vellum, ran them through my Xyron and adhere them over top of the stenciled paper.



I used a bold color for the pennant pice in the back and kept it square because I think that fits this CAS card a bit better.  Another sheet of patterned paper as a mat and some sequins/patterned and vellum circles finished this off.  Sitting those pearl sequins inside the larger ones adds a bit of interest and adds just a touch of color as opposed to if the entire larger colored sequin was showing.

I'm going to link this card up over at Dreamweaver's also, they have a CAS challenge this month.

Next a layout.  This challenge was more for Project Lifer's, to use a photo taken with their phone, but since I don't do PL, I just went with a traditional layout, hopefully that counts.  



These photos were taken with my iPhone back in March when we were visiting Andrew's family.  Andrew ran track in college, so we stopped by to check out the new facility.  The girls of course had a great time trying it out and Ellie had to lay down in Lane 5 (as she was five at the time for a photo op).  Ellie says she wants to run when she gets to high school (Andrew is a coach), she also says she wants him to be her Social Studies teacher and that they will ride to school together everyday.  I need to record these things....

Anyway, this is a mishmash of BG papers (there's some Carte Postale, RSVP, and Persimmon), a little vellum, and some Elle's Studio.  For the tabbed paper I just traced an Elle's tab tag and cut it out.  really easy.  I kept this one really CAS.  I thought about stitching, but my bobbin is almost out of thread, and for some reason I hate to be bothered winding bobbins, so when that happens I tend to avoid my sewing machine.

OK, that's all for today.  Have a wonderful day!

Supplies Used

Card
Paper/Cardstock:  BG - Clippings 6x6 Pad; Avery Elle - Silver Fox Cardstock; Recollections - Vellum
Stamps:  Mama Elephant - Filigree
Ink:  Versafine - Smokey Gray; CTMH - Juniper
Other:  Dreamweaver's - Tree Line Stencil; Lawn Fawn - Into the Woods Sequins; CTMH - Liquid Glass; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; EKSuccess - Dimensional Adhesive

Paper/Cardstock:  BG - Persimmon, Carte Postale, and RSVP collections; Recollections - Vellum
Other:  Elle's Studio - Penelope Frames; BC - Carte Postale 12x12 Collection Pack Alpha sheet; AC - Amy Tangerine Hello Thickers, 08 Black Journaling Pen

Dreamweavers CAS Challenge

I was excited to see that this month's Dreamweaver's challenge was a CAS one, I can definitely do CAS!

For whatever reason when it comes to Dreamweaver's stencils I tend to gravitate towards the backgrounds.  I really love how intricate they are, but sometimes you don't want to cover your entire piece with a stencil.

For this card I cut a 3x3 piece of mixed media paper and painted it with a Distress Paint.  Once dry, I placed the Waves background over the panel and applied paste.  So easy!  I painted a second slightly larger square to serve as a mat, and used a Verve Plain Jane for the sentiment.  I kind of love the combination of the waves and the verse as it reminds me of when Jesus commanded the storm to be still.



A little bit of jute cord finished this off.

This is one of those cards that was just a joy to put together.  Hope that you love it too!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Strathmore - Mixed Media Pad; PTI - Kraft Cardstock
Stamps:  Verve - Psalm 46:10 Plain Jane
Ink:  CTMH - Outdoor Denim
Other:  Dreamweavers - Wave Stencil; Liquitex - Modeling Paste; Ranger - Chipped Sapphire Distress Paint; Canvas Corp - Natural Jute; Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape; Tombow - Mono Adhesive

Everything will be okay - RCC80 - Showers and Flowers

 

Hey everyone!  I'm excited to be sharing my first Ribbon Carousel Challenge post today.  This month's theme is Showers and Flowers, and here is my card:

I used the Dreamweavers Umbrella stencil.  I first used a rubber brayer to add black ink to the stencil and then pressed my cardstock directly on the stencil to create the outlines.  I had expected the color to be more even, but the ink kind of beads up on the stencil, which turned out to be a really neat effect. 

The entire piece was then sprayed with Plum Poppy Mister Huey's mist, concentrating the mist in the lower right corner.  I like that it does give the effect of rain as you move away from that bottom corner. 

For the trim, I added started with black grosgrain ribbon.  Grosgrain is one of my favorites, it's kind of that all purpose ribbon that works for almost everything.  A little trick, grosgrain is a great buy even if you don't particularly like the pattern, you can always turn it over and use the solid side, like I did here.  I layered two pieces of sheer ribbon over the grosgrain, overlapping them to get a second layer of color/depth.

The sentiment is one of my favorite Verve Plain Janes, and I finished it off with some My Mind's Eye All is Bright gems.

I'm also going to be linking this card up at Dreamweaver's for their April challenge:  clouds, showers, and mists as well as The Paper Girls Challenge:  April Showers Bring May Flowers.

Be sure to head over to the RCC Blog to check out some more great projects, and link up one of your own - there's a Ribbon Carousel at stake!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  CTMH - White Daisy and Black
Stamps:  Verve - Everything is going to be Okay Plain Jane
Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black; CTMH - Black
Other:  Dreamweavers - Umbrella stencil; Speedball - Rubber Brayer; Studio Calico Mister Huey's - Plum Poppy; Teresa Collins - Welcome Home Trim Pack; American Crafts - Sheer Ribbon; Tombow - Mono and Vellum Adhesive; My Mind's Eye - Merry and Bright Faceted Gems

Something new and different

I stayed up WAY too late to work on this card, but I got inspired and had to see it through.

This is for several challenges:  Runway Inspired Challenge, Dreamweaver's January Challenge, and Simon Says Stamp New Something challenge.

I was inspired by the colors and the pattern on the fabric of this image from Runway Inspired Challenge.



I thought that this stencil that I won a while back from Dreamweavers Stencils (did you know that they give a stencil away EVERY Thursday on the Papercraft Planet blog?) would be perfect.  The image is of tree silhouettes, but I think the treatment really makes it more abstract, and almost like stained glass.

To create the image, I taped the stencil down and then added color using Distress inks.  Then I went through and traced (yes it took a while) each of the compartments using a very fine pen.  Finally, I went back and randomly colored some of the areas using a Faber Castell Pitt gold pen as well as a black pen.



I kind of love how it turned out...this was a new technique for me, but I definitely want to do it again.  I loved the image so much I decided to leave the card sentiment free so the focus is solely on the image.

Hope you like it....now I HAVE to go to bed!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Bazzill - Card Shoppe Licorice; CTMH - White Daisy cardstock
Ink:  Dreamweavers Stencils:  Bare Trees; Tim Holtz:  Evergreen Bough, Mowed Lawn, and Salty Ocean Distress Inks and Blending Tool; Faber Castell Pitt gold artist pen; American Crafts:  Black Precision Pens 01 and 08; Tombow - Mono Adhesive

Dreamweavers Stencils May Challenge

Two posts in one day, crazy I know, but I always take my birthday off of work, so I have a little extra time today. (To enter my birthday/blogaversary giveaway scroll down.)

Anyway, I received some Dreamweaver stencils last month and finally got the chance to experiment with them today. For this card I ran the stencil through my Vagabond, but I used one of the little foam pieces that comes with all CTMH stamp sets underneath the paper for some cushion. This gave the embossing a little more definition. The other neat thing about doing this is that it actually gives the paper a linen like texture. I tried to take a picture to show it, but it's really hard to see.



Once I had my cardstock embossed with the stencil image, I put the stencil over the embossed side as a mask and added a little color using Garden Green ink and a sponge.

I added a little distressing on the edges of the cardstock and voila, a simple card.

It was fun to try something new, and I've got a lot of other techniques that I want to try with these stencils, so stay tuned.

Supplies Used:
Paper/Cardstock: Black and White Daisy cardstock
Stamps: Say it in Style
Ink: Black and Garden Green
Other: Dreamweaver fern stencil; Vagabond; Tombow Adhesive; Edge Distresser