myasperations 9-24-22

The Double D’s Challenge has been a favorite of mine for several years. The current challenge theme is “Things that Fall” and the inspiration photo provide a lot of options. I used an old wood mount leaf stamp from Embossing Arts and the upcycled front from a “Thank You” note card. I had fun creating unusual variegated leaves by sprinkling small amounts of two different embossing powders after stamping the leaves with pigment inks (gold ink with copper and gold EP. green ink with copper and green EP.) After finishing with the embossing, I fussy-cut and attached the pretty leaves.

I’m entering this card into other challenges including Colorful Options September Inspiration Board “Browns” (I wasn’t sure if the color “copper” is considered brown. So I googled it and learned that it is often referred to as reddish-brown. So hope this care fits in the challenge?)

Supplies: 

·   Leaf Stamp-Embossing Arts (no longer in business),

·   Front Sentiment- on an upcycled card front.

·   Inside Sentiment- freebie from Papercrafts Magazine/craftworld.com (No longer available

·   Pigment inks, embossing powders, and other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Double D’s Challenge- Things that fall    
Colorful Options Monthly Challenge- Beautiful Brown       
Passion for Markers Challenge- Week #659 Use a rubber or clear stamp

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday  
Digi Chooseday Crafting Challenge- Week #38 Anything Goes  

I had fun making a card using this sweet little kitty and sentiment from an All Dressed Up Digital Stamp set, plus a beautiful vintage sentiment tag (a freebie TLC Creations.)

Supplies: 

·   Cat Digi- from All Dressed Up Digital Stamp set (Boo I Can See You)

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

·   Front Sentiment- Freebie from TlcCreations (There's Mischief Brewing)

·   Inside Sentiment- from All Dressed Up Digital Stamp set (Boo I Can See You)

·   Pioneer Black Photo corners- available from several sources

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

All Dressed Up- #132 Anything Goes (September)

Outlawz Challenge- Crash Your Stash- Googly Eyes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #190 Anything Goes

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge- Happy Halloween

Outlawz Challenge- September 2022 Linky

2craftycrittercrazies challenge- #66 September 2022

Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge- Furry Thing Goes (#81 September)      

One of my favorite challenges is named Pixie's Snippets, because the sponsor and hosts are so sweet, plus I love that it encourages me to use the many scraps, i.e. snippets, that I just can’t stand to toss!  This card includes so many little bits and pieces of treasures from my stash. First, the shiny origami heart is made from a small square of upcycled wrapping paper. Although they are a little tedious to fold, I do love the results. (I did find a much easier fold that even children can make and posted links to both versions in my supplies list.)

The patterned papers on the card front and inside are all from my scrap box! The B&W swirly paper on the inside, plus the B&W striped paper, and the B&W filigree that hold a square scrap of red vellum and rhinestones are all upcycled from packaging (I like to challenge myself to try to always find at least one thing I can salvage from most packages of items that I find.) The heart is mounted on a small chipboard frame that I wrapped with the last strips of B&W washi tape. (It didn’t have quite enough to cover the entire frame, so I had to do a bit of creative wrapping. Small strips of chipboard frame showed on the side, which I colored with a permanent black Sharpie maker. Whew! You can see this repair work in the close-up photo.)  

I’m entering this card into several challenges including Outlawz Tuesday Color “B&W&One Color” (I also added stripes for the twist),

Supplies: 

·   Origami Heart folding Tutorials- Version I used HERE (and Simpler version HERE)

·   Inside Sentiment- Gingerhouse.blogspot.com 7-19-17 (Keep pressing forward)

·   Pioneer black Photo corners- available from several sources

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge- inspiration photo  

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #560-562 Anything Goes                   

Snippets- Week #437

Allsorts Challenge- Week 695: Anything Goes  (0ption-Dots and Stripes)

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- September