Guest Designing for Virginia's View Challenge

Hi!  I'm excited to be guest designing for Virginia Lu's Challenge today.  The challenge this month is layers and dimension, which is right up my alley.

I thought I would pull out some new goodies I haven't had a chance to use for this card.

I'm using Papretrey Ink's Quilted: Spring stamps and dies.  For this card I wanted to put a modern/elegant spin on the quilt.

For the bottom panel, I adhered a piece of chevron vellum to some Grout Gray cardstock and then stitched them together with gold thread before adhering the entire piece to the card base.



The quilt die was cut from both vellum and gold metallic cardstock.  I stamped and embossed the quilt image on the vellum, ran it through my Xyron machine and then adhered it to the gold die cut piece to soften the color.  This was adhered to the card with foam tape.

After stamping/embossing the center negative cut piece with the sentiment, I popped that up on three layers of foam tape and adhered it to the card.  To add one more layer of dimension, the corner negative cuts were adhered just beneath the main die cut image to the card base.



I love the intricate feel from all the layers and the complexity that it adds to a card that looks relatively CAS.  All told, not including the card base, there are six layers on this card.

Thanks to Virginia for inviting me to participate this month!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Cosmo Cricket - Simple Surfaces 12x12 pad; Recollections - Gold cardstock and vellum; MFT - Sweet Tooth and Grout Gray cardstock
Stamps:  PTI - Quilted Spring Stamp Set; WPlus9 - Fresh Cut Florals
Ink:  Versamark
Other:  PTI - Quilted Spring Dies; Stampendous - White Detail Embossing Powder; Xyron - 5" Machine; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; Scotch - Foam Adhesive

Guest Designing for Virginia's View Challenge

Hey everyone!  I'm happy to one of the guest designers for Virginia's View September challenge.  As luck would have it, the new challenge is paper piecing.  I happen to love paper piecing!

For my card I used some older Little Yellow Bicycle papers.  I stamped each of the feathers (from Jane's Doodles' Wise Owl set) on four sheets of patterned paper and then fussy cut each of the feather pieces.  Then I reassembled them over feathers I stamped on white card stock.

To add some extra interest, I popped up the blue pieces.



Although piecing takes a fair amount of time, it really is quite simple to do and the results are well worth it.

I added a few patterned paper mats, slightly offset, a strip of black card stock and sentiment from Wise Owl to finish it off.

Hope you will head over to Virginia's View

to check out the challenge and see the cards from the other guest designers this month.  And please play along!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Little Yellow Bicycle - Poppy 6x6 papers; CTMH - White Daisy cardstock; PTI - True Black card stock
Stamps:  Jane's Doodles - Wise Owl
Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black
Other:  Kuretake Glue Pen; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape

Happy to know you

I made a quick card last night for this week's Make it Monday at PTI.  The challenge was to create a watercolor background and then heat emboss a sentiment.  Given my love for watercolors, this was right up my alley.

I created a watercolor panel using my Inktense pencils, trimmed it, and also created another small panel that I die cut the letters for 'happy' from.

Then I embossed the remainder of the sentiment.  The base was created using PTI's woodgrain impression plate, and a bit of May Arts burlap string finished things off.

Simple and easy.

I was also excited to see that my friend Virginia is starting up a new challenge, happily the first challenge is watercolor, so I'm going to link this up there too.

Hope you guys are having a nice weekend.  We are preparing for some more snow here.....kind of thinking we'll be home from work and school tomorrow....

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Watercolor paper from Target Kid's Craft Section; Avery Elle - White Cardstock
Stamps:  PTI - Wonderful Words Additions
Ink:  Versamark
Other:  Derwent - Inktense Pencils; PTI - Woodgrain Impression Plate; Avery Elle - Fill in the Blank Ellements Dies; May Arts - Burlap String; Stampendous - White Detail Clear Embossing Powder; Tombow - Mono Adhesive and Power Tabs