H2H distressing challenge

Hi all, I am back with another challenge card, I finished a number of challenge cards this weekend and plan to have more posts this week.  Today's card is for the distressing challenge at H2H last week.  H2H stands for Heart 2 Heart a challenge posted on Mondays each week to make something using Close to My Heart products.  Here is the link to this challenge where you can check out many others creative ideas, distressing-challenge.

This is one of the cards that we made at my 'Cards for the men in our lives' workshop that I held this past weekend.  We used only cardstock, no patterned paper for this card, but we did make our own patterned paper with stamps and ink!  Using my favourite background stamp the splatters from the Diverse backgrounds D1508 stamp set and Chocolate and Desert Sand inks to make the background.  We stamped the boots from the A Journey A1127 stamp set in chocolate ink and then clear heat embossed the prints, stamping a splatter in Desert Sand.  The background chocolate card stock was embossed and then sanded in the Traffic Jam Cuttlebug folder, Life is a Journey using the 'A Journey stamps set in chocolate.  All edges of paper were distressed with our edge distresser.  The background cardstock behind the boot prints is desert sand.  Thank you for stopping by and having a look, I do value your comments.  Thanks again.

Mothers day card challenge at H1H

Hi all, another challenge to share, Heart 2 heart mothers day card.

This is a interlocking card that I spotted on a blog a long time ago and wanted to try to make.   First I had to get the circle spellbinders to cut the plain circles, I had the scalloped circle set already.    I made a paper flower for the center by cutting with the spellbinders a number of layers of a few sizes of scalloped circles.  Wet the circles, crumple them up into little balls and carefully open again.  Stack and pierce a hole in the center then layer together with a brad.  You can shape the different layers to get the effect you would like, then let dry.  It dries to a solid flower.

Here you can see the interlock.

And this is what I put in the center.  As you can tell I need to give my card yet, but thought I would share it here.

April showers bring May flowers

This weeks challenge on the heart2heart challenges we have to make something with flowers.  

I used all Close to my Heart products featuring the Stella paper pack and the A Blossom (A1121) stamp set.

H2H photo inspiration challenge

A few weeks back the heart2heart blog held a photo inspiration challenge with this photo:  

After looking at a lot of the other inspiration that came from this photo,  this is what I came up with:

I had to really resist using the beautiful flowers in the shower curtain, since that seemed to be what most were using as the inspiration and thought I would use the flowers on the wall instead.
All items used to create this card are Close  to my Heart:
Stamp sets used:
Love Life D1482
Pemberly WOTG
A Garden A1119
A little thanks D1444
Cardstock colours: sorbet, hollyhock and white daisy
Ribbon from green collection Z1616

magazine style card holder

I spotted a few of these on pinterest and thought I want some of those.  The thought was easier than the want :)  I tracked down the blogs they were posted from, Stampinwithblythe.com a stampin up consultants blog post from March 25, 2009.  Attempted her directions but could not follow them, found a sketch on a italian blog, (sorry can't find it again) and copied it down.  It was in metric, so I thought that could not be so hard, since we are Canadian and use metric, wrong. This is the sketch that I made from this blog:

 All my measuring tools are in imperial inches.  So I managed to make one fairly well, but the next two, when I was trying to record the directions have a few more score lines :).
Directions:
Cut a 12 x 12 inch piece of cardstock to 8 1/2 by 12,

 tape the cut off piece to the 8 1/2 inch side to make a piece of paper 8 1/2 by 15 1/2.

Score at the 2" mark on the 15 1/2" side on the short side score at 1/2" then again at 3 1/2" again at 8" again at 11".

 Fold up the 2" score and cut the lines to that fold on the shorter part.  This will be the bottom of your holder.

 Cut from the top along the first two score lines to 3 3/4 inches from fold on bottom, fold this section down inside your box.  Angle cut the two 4 1/2" sides from the top to the front of your holder.

  I used my guillotine cutter to do this.  Using double sided tape, tape the 1/2 in. flap to the other end, tape up the bottom of your box and voila you have a card holder.

Enjoy.

Stitching on the H2H blog challenge

Hi again, last weeks challenge on the Heart to Heart challenge was to use stitching in our project.  Now I briefly, very briefly contemplated using my sewing machine or even doing hand sewing, just can't wrap my head around it and did not feel like it.  So think some more, plan some more and I came up with this for one of the cards from my card workshop last weekend.

  I used the limited edition Close to my Heart Dotty for you paper pack, made 1" banners, the butterflies are 1 1/4" wide, cut out some butterflies and randomly scattered them.  Stamped Amazing in Smoothie ink from the April stamp of the  month and put crystals on the butterflies bodies.  We also edged all the banners with Grey Wool ink, after my workshop I used a Pacifica marker and  did the stitching.  I like how it turned out.   This card was scraplifted via Pinterest from Nancy Ball.  Now who should I send it to?  

Freshly made sketches

While I was looking at pinterest I spotted another blog site with card sketches, Freshly made sketches.  Decided to have  a look and  also to try to participate before the deadline, if I can.  I may make it just under the wire today.  Here is the sketch:


and here is the card I made using that sketch:

I used the new Close to my Heart dotty for you paper pack that is only available from now until May, love this pack and the brads are button brads in sunset also from Close to my Heart.  The punched edge on the medallion is with the Martha Stewart arch lattice border punch.  Enjoy.