Respite in My Craft Room

I just finished a super busy week. Wrote a federal grant report, and a state grant report, participated in a half dozen ZOOM meetings,  AND taught a day long court-diversion program for teens with underage alcohol citations. So… I didn’t get much time to stamp and create.  I made up for that today, taking the day off and spending it in my craft room. Ahhhh… heaven!

The first card I made is for the current Butterfly Challenge. I just had to stop in and say Hello to Mrs. A, because the sentiment on the inside of the card reminds me of her! For my card, I used a few sentiments from Eureka stamps, plus a wonderful butterfly stamp from Close To My Heart to create this card that has a slight vintage feeling. My card features all three of the colors (beau blue, burgundy and buttermilk- light tan in the vellum overlay and cardstock base that can be seen inside.)  

 

Supplies: 

·   Image- Close To My Heart My Acrylix Stamps (B1432 Butterfly)- Retired

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Front Sentiment- Eureka Digital Stamp (Happiness Like a Butterfly) 

      Also available in unmounted or cling mounted

·  Inside Sentiment- Eureka Digital Stamp (You’re Special) 

      Also available in unmounted or cling mounted

·  Butterfly on the inside is cut from a Eureka Digital Stamp (Butterfly Background) 

     Also available in unmounted or cling mounted

·   Background graphic- Graphics Fairy (DIY Faux Vellum Scented Labels)

Entered into:  

Butterfly Challenge- #145 B is for Bow Fronted Card   

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #452-453 Anything Goes                   

Let’s Craft and Create- Ch #162-Anything Goes

A Perfect Time to Craft 2020-Anything Goes- Aug Challenge #8-2020

My next card was created for the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge named Midsummer Blues. It features a sweet digi from All Dressed Up which I colored, fussy-cut and set aside.  I wanted to make a baby card, so I clipped the balloon from the image and set it aside for later use. I covered the background of the card front with cloudy blue sky stationery that I attached with clear photo corners. To make the balloon, I laid a scrap of a purple plastic document file folder on top of the balloon I'd clipped from the digi and traced around it with a fine-line permanent black Sharpie. (These wonderful file folders come in a pack of assorted colors and can be found in the office supply section of most stores. I really like using them on my cards because they're cheaper than colored vellum and are more translucent.  You can write on them with permanent markers, which I used to trace the balloon and the plastic is easy to fussy-cut with a nice, sharp pair of scissors.) After I finished fussy-cutting the balloon, I laid it atop the “Welcome Baby” sentiment and traced the letters with the permanent marker. I then adhered the digi and balloon to the card front I used the fine-line permanent marker to add the balloon strings and bow.

I’m entering this card into several challenges including the All Dressed Up FB Challenge- Fur, Feather and Wings (the little Panda bear holding tightly to the elephant's tail has fur!)   

  

Supplies: 

·   Digi- All Dressed Up (Hang in There)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Front Sentiment- Welcome Baby from Papercrafts magazine (no longer available)

·   Fine-line permanent black Sharpie marker.

·   A sheet of cloudy sky stationery and clear photo corners from my stash

·   A small square of a purple document file folder

Entered into:  

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Midsummer Blues                               

All Dressed Up- Anything Goes- #108 Anything Goes (August) 

All Dressed Up FB Challenge- Fur, Feather and Wings                

Lemon Shortbread Challenge- Anything Goes #126

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                

Outlawz Challenge- Inlinks Challenge

I made the final card for this posting to enter into the current Pixie’s Snippets Challenge. I love this challenge, which encourages me to use all of the little pieces of pretty papers that I just can’t throw away! Plus, the challenge host is such a sweet and generous person. (Thanks, Di!) I wanted to make a card for one of my nieces who love, Love, LOVES unicorns… so I perched this adorable Unicorn atop a “pile” of pretty scrap strips. You can’s see it in the photo, but I colored his mane and tail with a gold Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen. It lays on a nice layer of color that dries to a beautiful, sparkly sheen!  The little sentiment is a freebie that is the perfect fit for this card… and for my niece. I know she’ll love it!

 

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Bugaboo (Unicorn Set) 

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir alcohol markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Front Sentiment- Skogstokiga Blogspot Freebie (You are Awesome)

·   Scraps of patterned papers, white mulberry paper and cardstock from my stash

Entered into:  

Pixie's Snippets-Week #384                                                                     

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- August                   

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #140 Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday- Challenge #647 Bright Colors

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #82 (Exploring The Fantastical)

     Since I’m a DT for Beccy’s Place, I’m entering this challenge just for fun!