myasperations 4-30-24

    My first card for this post is for one of my favorite challenges names “Snippets.” I love that it encourages me to use all the lovely paper scraps that I hoard… I mean… save for later use! I found a pile of a pastel colored scraps from a paper pad I bought to make a baby gift years ago. The pages in the pad all had the same pattern in a half-dozen pastel colors. I trimmed the scraps into strips, then created a herringbone pattern using one of my often used tutorial that I found on Pinterest years ago (weblink in supplies list.) The bunny, bunch of carrots, and inside sentiment are all from a Beccy’s Place digi set. (I used a strip of fluffy white yarn to create a tail with texture. After seeing this photo, I decided it looks more like a frosted mini-cinnamon roll than a bunny tail! I’ll see if I can fluff it up a bit before I slip it into the gift bags of assorted themed cards that I’ll be giving as graduation and wedding gifts in the coming months.)

     I’m entering this card into several challenges including Park Hopping-My Happy Place (my card is inspired by Universal Studios, The Secret Lives of Pets which features a cute but also completely unpredictable rabbit named “Snowball.”

Supplies: 

·   Herringbone background- made with paper snippets cut into strips (instructions HERE)

·   Digis on card front and sentiment on inside all from a Beccys Place digi set (Easter Joy)

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

·   Pioneer Black Photo corners- available from several sources

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Snippets- Week #479  

Colorful Options Monthly Challenge: April Pastels  (optional rainbow)   

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #645-646

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Anything Goes

Park Hopping-My Happy Place (April)    Rabbit: The Secret Lives of Pets

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday (Spring is in the Air)

Beccy’s Place Challenge- April   

        Since I’m a Contributor for Beccy’s Place, I’m entering just for fun! 

   If you are a regular here at my blog, you might know that I regularly donate cards to the drug/alcohol treatment center where I work, so that our clients can keep in touch with loved ones. I often get requests for kids cards, especially princesses and dinosaurs. I recently was asked if I could make a card with turtles, specifically Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). Since I like challenges… I said I’d try.  I don’t have any TMNT stamps or digis, so decided to sketch them… with the help of a TMNT coloring book (which I’m thinking will become happy mail to one of my grandnephews/nieces in the near future!)  

     I’m entering this card into several challenges including Di’s Digi Stamps: Fantasy (Tte challenge lists several options for the challenge including “talking animals.” Although they are reptiles, since the TMN Turtles say things like “Cowabunga, dude!” I think they qualify as fantasy/pretend?!)

Supplies: 

·   Front-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- Sketched from a Nickelodeon Coloring Book     

·   Inside-Turtle image- Whimsy Stamps Clear Set (Under the Sea)

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

·   Sentiments- Computer Generated

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Crafty Catz Challenge- Anything Goes #670 (Optional twist- For a Boy )   

Outlawz- Tuesday Color Challenge- Color Wheel (Photo)  

Outlawz Challenge- April 2024 Linky

Di’s Digi Stamps- Fantasy Challenge (Mermaids, unicorns, fairies, talking animals, etc)

      This cute feline in a stamp set from Biblical Impressions named “Crazy Kitty” always makes me laugh. This time I stamped it on kraft-colored cardstock with black ink and got to work with my Spectrum Noir Coloring System alcohol markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen. The paws, which come in the set, were stamped on scrap paper, colored and fussy-cut. I then mounted them with foam tape, positioning them to look like the kitty is peeking over them. The front sentiment is a vintage wood-mount stamp from Printworks. The “Excerpt from the Diary of a Cat” on the inside is computer-generated. I found it on the internet years ago and it was love at first sight. (Since I like to give credit when I use an image or sentiment, I researched its source when I first posted a card using it in 2017. I couldn’t find the original author, but I found an article from the 1990s that mentioned it. I just checked and that site is no longer available. Currently, the funny excerpt does pop up in lots of locations on the web, one of them is a 400+ page book named “Getting Out: Excerpts from a Cat’s Diary” by John Woodcock. Since I found the earlier listing from the 1990’s and this book was published in 2009, it’s not the original source… but it might credit the original author. For that reason, I’m going to say I’ve done my due diligence it trying to follow copyright rules! (Can you tell that two jobs I’ve had in the last 50 years were at a community Carnegie Library during high school, and as a work-study librarian at the University I attended in the 70s!)

Supplies: 

·   Image- Biblical Impressions Wood-mount stamp set (Crazy Kitty) Stamp line is currently unavailable

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

·   Front Sentiment- from Printworks Stamps (no longer in business)

·   Inside Sentiment -

·   Victorian Postcard, brown ink and sponge used to stencil edge of A2 Kraft card.

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

We Craft Cards- Dogs and Cats

Allsorts Challenge- Week 778 Use Stencil  (Option AG)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #228

Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge- Anything Goes (optional: Baby Animals)