CAS Colours and Sketches #426 - A Double Challenge

 

The past several weeks have been a whirlwind of activity in my house as well as all across the state of Florida.  Life has definitely been good, so much so that I think this is Tuesday.  Yes?  

Given that June blessed us with five Tuesdays we have a Double Challenge up at the CC&S blog.  To play along you will need to not only use our selected color trio but also incorporate the three colors into this week's sketch.  

Feel free to rotate/flip the sketch but only the colors in the palette, 

along with neutrals, may be used on your card.

I guess I'm having a phone obsession lately because here we go with yet another retro phone card.  I think they just make a fun way to say hello.  

I pulled out three shades of cardstocks which closely matched our color trio to die cut the phone. I assembled the bits and pieces in an pattern that I liked and adhered them together.  I added a bit of texture to the background using an embossing folder.  To keep my card from getting overly busy I created the tag portion from vellum, stamping and heat embossing the sentiment in black pigment ink and clear powder.  I adhered it all to a heavy weight black card base, popping up the phone's receiver with some thin foam tape.  

Supplies:

Sugar Pea Designs - Call Me stamp set

Sugar Pea Designs - Vintage Phone die set

MFT Stamps - Scallop Bookmark die

Altenew - Deck Planks embossing folder

I invite you to visit our blog and would love to see your card in our gallery!

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

CAS Colours and Sketches #425

 

Hello Tuesday!  It's time for another sketch challenge over at the CAS Colours and Sketches blog.  My life is crazy right now so I'm gonna get right to it.  

Here's our sketch.

And here's my card.

I stamped, colored and fussy cut the floral and pot images and popped them up onto a die cut white picket fence.  I used Distress Oxides to ink blend both the green rectangle behind the fence as well as the front card panel.  I finished off the card with a stamped sentiment and some clear droplets.

Supplies:

WPlus9 - New Home stamp set

Neat & Tangled - So Many Sentiments stamp set

CottageCutz - Picket Fence Border die

Copics

Distress Oxides

Trinity Stamps - clear droplets

Remember, as with all of our sketches, you are welcome to rotate and/or flip it to your liking.  Come visit our blog and upload your sketch inspired card to our gallery!

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Father's Day Cards

Another quick drive by post to share two Father's Day cards, one for hubby and one for my dad.  

My husband is a car addict who has recently turned his attention to electric vehicles.  He just test drove the VW ID.4 which is a totally electric compact SUV.  There may be one in our future but since shopping for cars is way more fun to him than actually purchasing cars it will probably be way down the road. In the meantime I made him this shiny new SUV.  :-)

The steps to making this are really simple.  The top portion of the card front was blended out with blue Distress Oxide.  I die cut and assembled the SUV from navy, black and silver cardstocks, adding a layer of glossy accents over top.  The simple sentiment was stamped below the blended line.  

My father's favorite couch time activity is monitoring the stock market. I wanted his card to reflect this but I don't have (nor am I aware of) any stock market type stamps/dies.  I did a quick internet search and came across a graphic design that I worked into his card.

I used the negative pieces from a zig zag die to create the lines in both red and green cardstock.  I adhered them to a piece of black cardstock to mimic the ups and downs of the market.  I heat embossed the sentiment in white onto the black card panel and added a narrow border of b/w diagonally lined patterned paper before adhering it to my white card base.  

Two very simple cards for two of my favorite men.  My six year old grandson is here visiting from North Carolina and together we created a card for his father (my son) which I will share later, along with two other cards he created this week.     

Supplies:

Card 1 - Cottage Cutzs Cars and Moving Truck die set

              Avery Elle - Mom and Dad stamp set

Card 2 - The Greetery - Open Basework die

               Avery Elle - Mom and Dad stamp set

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

A Special Birthday Card

Life is crazy busy in a very good way right now but I wanted to quickly pop in and share the card I created for my beautiful daughter who turns twenty today.  Her favorite decor colors right now are sage greens and blushy pinks so with that in mind, here's what I made.

I used a combination of Spun Sugar and Tattered Rose Distress Oxides for the background and Bundled Sage for the cover die and tag.  I added some spatters of water and glimmer to the background before adhering the floral piece over top.  The sentiment is a mixture of silver heat embossing and really old Thickers.  (I just can't part with them.)  I added a bow made from silver thread and some clear droplets to finish it off.  

Supplies:

Sizzix background die (name???)

Pretty Pink Posh - Stitched Essentials tag die

Colorado Craft Company - Party Time stamp set

American Crafts - Thickers

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

CAS Colours and Sketches #424

 

We're cruisin' through the month as it's time for another color challenge over at the CAS Colours and Sketches challenge blog.  Shannon has chosen a bright trio for us to play with this week.  

For our color challenges, you must use all of the stated challenge colors. You may also use neutrals 

such as white, ivory, black, brown, grey, or metallics; however, no other colors should be added to 

your card. We use Stampin' Up color names for reference, but you are welcome to use any other 

companies' products as long as you match the challenge colors as closely as possible.

I went back to one of my tried true designs for this quick card.

I stamped and die cut the telephone in pink and adhered it to the lower right corner of a card panel that was previously textured using a linen cover plate.  I brought in the yellow with the cord and heart and stamped the sentiment in black.  Using a background stamp, I heat embossed horizontal stripes in white onto an olive green card panel.  I added the narrowest of black mats to the white panel before adhering it to the green one which was then all adhered to a white card base.  I added white Nuvo drops to the phone dial and a diagonal sprinkling of clay hearts to finish off the design.  

I invite you to visit the blog and play along with the team.  We'd love to see your card in our gallery.

Pink Paisley - Switchboard stamp/die set (NBUS from 2014...*blush*)

MFT - Candy Stripes background stamp

Tonic - Nuvo drops in gloss white

  

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #187

Edna and the Sisterhood are back with another biweekly challenge.  This time we'd like you to add a bit of texture to your snark. 

Texture can be in the form of paint layers, 

texture pastes, embossing, layered die cuts, etc. 

Use your imagination and surprise us! 

I built my textural card around a sentiment that I've been wanting to use for quite a while.  I did a bit of stamp surgery to separate the sentiment for use on both the outside and the inside of my card.

Can you guess the inside based on the focal image?  

I'm hitting a new decade with my next birthday 

so I shouldn't laugh but c'mon...this is cute.  

I first started with the background.  It's difficult to see in the photo but I used a gel press, brayer and two shades of blue Distress Oxide followed by a white pigment ink to create the ocean-y background onto what was a panel of white cardstock.  This gel press method provides the look of texture without any bulk.  I die cut the sailboat in white cardstock and then ran the sails and the boat bottom through my die cutting machine using two different embossing folders. (a mosaic for the sails and a woodgrain for the bottom.)  The boat, mast, stars and flag were all colored with Distress Oxides.  I stamped the sentiment in a crisp black pigment ink and then adhered the background panel to a white card base.  I positioned the sailboat between the greeting and thought it needed a bit more sumthin' sumthin' so I finished it off with a very narrow white frame.  

I'm very happy to have another masculine card to add to my birthday stash and invite you to come check out our blog, leave some lovin' to my fellow sistahs and upload your textural card to our gallery.  Snark is much appreciated but not a requirement to play.

Supplies:

Crafters Companion - Getting Old stamp

MFT - Sailboat die

Altenew - Angled Mosaic embossing folder

Darice - woodgrain embossing folder

Altenew - Fine Frame die set

Footnote: I was thrilled to be a runner up at the most recent Let's Squash It Challenge blog with my little mice and hedgehog cards.  Thanks Gail and Jo!  I'm adding this little badge to my sidebar.

Footnote to my footnote: I also added this to the current Seize the Birthday challenge where the prompt is Nautical.  

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

Happy Little Stampers - June Anything Goes With Dies Challenge

 

It's time for a new monthly challenge over at the Happy Little Stampers blog where the only rule is to use a die on your card.

I just love being part of this design team because it's a great opportunity to pull out my dies and create "paper doll" like cards.  I find the act of paper piecing dies even more therapeutic than coloring and this challenge is perfect for that.  Mind you, any use of a die qualifies for the challenge however I like to take it to the extreme.  

As you can see, the focal point of my design is the large mailbox.  I die cut it from navy cardstock and then shadowed in some of the vertical lines with a dark blue Copic marker.  The stamp I used to adorn the mailbox is actually intended to go on the back of an envelope but I thought it would be cute here.  (Heat embossed in white.)   I added in some additional die cut envelopes and labels to finish off the box.  I embossed the white background panel to give it a bit of interest and cut it down vertically to leave a margin of navy card base showing from each side.  I white heat embossed the sentiment (again, meant for the outside of an envelope) onto a wide strip of red cardstock which I positioned horizontally on the card, adding the mailbox over top.  I finished off the card with some red hearts punched from the same red cardstock.  I think this will work as an any occasion card good for hellos, birthdays, miss you, etc.

I invite you to visit our blog for more inspiration and hope to see your card in our gallery.  Remember, the use of any die on your card qualifies.  

Supplies:

Hero Arts - US Fancy Mailbox die

The Stamp Market - Please Deliver To stamp set

Right at Home - Happy Mail 3 stamp set

American Crafts - background embossing folder (no name)

Martha Stewart - heart punches

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

CAS Colours and Sketches #423

 

It's another Sketch Tuesday over at the CAS Colours and Sketches challenge blog and our host Shannon has a fun one for us to try.

As with all of our sketches, please feel free to 

rotate and/or flip the design to fit your needs.

My immediate thoughts went straight to butterflies and/or florals but I wanted to create something a bit different.  How about toadstools?  

I want to begin with the horizontal planks.  I am just so thrilled at how they turned out!  Believe it or not, these were cut from white cardstock and colored with the chisel end of a warm grey Copic marker.  You'd swear it was patterned paper, wouldn't you?  I just kept swiping the marker across the cardstock in horizontal motions, changing the amount of pressure I put to the paper.  Following the lines of the sketch, I adhered them to a panel of light grey cardstock cut a bit smaller than A2 size.

The toadstool/mushrooms were also cut from white cardstock and colored in with Copics.  I arranged them as indicated on the sketch, added a greeting cut from the same grey cardstock as the panel and adhered the panel to a white card base.  I successfully resisted the urge to bling.  

I invite you to visit our blog for more inspiration.  We'd love to see your creation in our gallery.

Supplies:

The Greetery Toadstool Garden die

The Greetery Shiplap Builder dies

CottageCutz - Mushroom Mini dies

Taylored Expressions - Thank You die

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules 

CAS Colours and Sketches #422

June is upon us which means we have a new hostess for the month.  CAS Colours and Sketches DT member Shannon has chosen this lovely color combination for everyone to try.

For our color challenges, you must use all of the stated challenge colors. You may also use neutrals 

such as white, ivory, black, brown, grey, or metallics; however, no other colors should be added to 

your card. We use Stampin' Up color names for reference, but you are welcome to use any other 

companies' products as long as you match the challenge colors as closely as possible.

Those who know me are aware of my lack of love for the color purple.  It's my least liked color with true oranges coming in a close second.  All that to say that this was truly a CHALLENGE for me.

I kept the card very simple.  I stamped the three part butterfly with inks closely matching the challenge colors, added a sentiment and some clear droplets.  I opted to emboss the front panel of my card base to give it a bit more interest.  

I invite you to visit our blog for more inspiration.  We'd love to see your creation in our gallery.

Supplies:

MFT - Brilliant Butterflies stamp set

MFT - Well, Hello

Hero Arts - Woodgrain cover die

Trinity Stamps - clear droplets

Continue to stay safe and healthy my friends.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Thank you for visiting my little crevice of the crafty blogosphere.  Your time, comments and friendship are much appreciated.  

Happy Crafting!

Jules