Twofer Challenge - Trees

 

I made these two cards for the Twofer Challenge to use  trees.  I used a tree stamp from a retired Stampin' Up set. The one on the left I stamped the image of the tree onto design paper. I used oxide inks and copic markers to make fall colored leaves on the tree. I die the park bench, then added a sentiment and paper doll image from Tim Holtz. The card on the right is on white cardstock, the swaps of color are from a Gina K stamp. I used the same tree stamp as the one I used on the other card. 

This challenge can be found HERE.

TicTacToe PP Challenge

 This card is for the Tic Tac Toe  Challenge on Power Poppy, I used the digital hydrangea  from Power Poppy, I used an old retired Stampin' Up stamp for the background I inked it with distress oxide ink (chipped sapphire), spritzed the stamp with water and smashed it onto my white paper. This has a brilliant blue cardstock card base. My tic tac toe items are blue, background stamp, and twine.  Check it out over HERE.

Creative Coffetti Challenge over on Power Poppy Blog

 

This is for the Creative Confetti challenge to create on colored cardstock. I printed out these Power Poppy digital poppies on red cardstock.   I colored all the leaves with white colored pencil to neutralized the bright color and then used green colored pencils to go over it. Then I added green copic marker to accent some of the veins and variation on the leaves. I used a brownish red copic marker to add a deeper red than the paper on the poppy petals that were in the shadows and folds, I lightly colored over the petals with white colored pencil to lighten the red to look like that was where the light was hitting on the petals. I used white gel pen for the center of the large poppy and a black copic marker for some of the dots in the center as well. I mounted this to red and white gingham design paper and used a black cardstock cardbase. I punched an oval out in black, added white gel pen stitches and added to the front of the card.  I have never tried printing off my digitals on colored cardstock before, but I really liked my results and I am sure I will do more of this in the future. 

You can find this challenge HERE.

Find this challenge  HERE

CCEE2038 Shaker Card

 Hi Crafty Friends,

It's Frances is here again continuing to issue the challenges for the month!

Apparently September is "Shake Month" which is a day to celebrate all things Milkshakes! 

Let's  take a look at the Shaker creations our Design Team have created this week.

Check it out on the CCEEStampers,.blogspot.com

Here's my card that I embossed with a 3D Sizzix embossing folder and then die cut the window. Put some wintery colored sequins behind the window, used acetate for the window panes. I die cut a tree and added the sentiment. All was mounted on a pool party (aqua) paper. 

Come and do a little shaking with us!! Join in on the fun!

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #168

 

This is my card for the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge this week for F is for friendship. 

I love these sassy, seasoned ladies from Art Impressions. The sentiment is from a tablet from Tim Holtz. 

I picked out some fun design papers to use for my background.  You can find the Sisterhood of Snarky

Stampers blog HERE

CCEE2037 Slimline card

 Hi Crafty Friends,

It's Frances here again with another fun challenge to share with you. Here are Frances' words:

"  Slimline Cards seem to be very popular at present, especially with a few companies have been releasing dies especially for the use of creating this style of card. I know I have become addicted to this style of card as have a few of my friends. So much so that I created a Facebook Group dedicated to Slimline Cards called Slimline Card Addicts."

  For our challenge this week create a Slimline card. The most popular sizes for Slimline Cards are either  8 ½ inches x 3 ½ inches or 4 inches x 9 inches and should fit into a standard business sized envelope.

Let's take a look at the Slimline cards our Design Team have created for the challenge this week ..

over at the blog site : CCEEStampers

Here is my card, and I have just recently started making this size card. I  found this pretty Spellbinder die cut on the mark down at one of my favorite stores, and it seemed to fit nicely with this layout. My background design paper is from Graphics 45. I also used kraft, black, ruby red, and ivory cardstock for the card. The sentiment is from Unity and I added white pearls to the centers of the flowers. 

CCEE2036 - Masculine card

It's a brand new month, so  it's time to introduce our new challenge hostess which is ... Frances Byrne.

Before we get onto our challenges for this week, we need to say farewell to Vicky Gould from our Design Team. Vicky has been with us since January 2012, thank you Vicky for all the fun cards and challenges you have created for us all over the years.

It's Father's Day down here in Australia on the 1st Sunday in September, so for our challenge this week, let's make a masculine card …. Any occasion … any age, it's up to you.

Let's take a look at what our Design Team created for us this week.

For those of us in the US, summer is grinding to a halt. So, I thought my newest Kitchen Sink Stamp set would work nicely.  I am not the master of these multi-stamps that my sister, Lynn is, but with lots more practice maybe somewhere in the far future I will improve. I also used my fabulous cloud stencil from A Colorful Life for my sky. The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs. It is done with distress oxide inks.  I am thankful for how much the MISTI makes this technique of lining up these layered stamps easier for me.  

It is hard saying goodbye to Vicky as one of our faithful contributors on CCEE. I wish you well, Vicky and hope you pop in every now and then. 

Head over the the CCEE blog and see what the team has created for this challenge:

https://cceestampers.blogspot.com/