The Card Concept 111

Hey Friends, Welcome to The Card Concept Challenge #111. I love shells and all things beachy! I did buy a new-to-me stamp and die set from Avery Elle called The Reef. 

I started with a piece of bristol card stock for distress inking of the background. I use Tumbled Glass, Vintage Photo and Antique linen. After sponging I used clean water and watered down distress inks for flicking. 

I stamped the coral shapes on the background and stamped more shell shapes which were die cut out. 

With a Pretty Pink Posh Scalloped frame die I cut out 5 frames and stacked them with a piece of acetate under the top one. I put the die cut shells and some sequins inside and adhered down.  The sentiment is from the same set. 

My mind is getting ready to think about the beach again. Winter is so long in New England but warm weather will be here eventually! Come play with us and visit the blog too!

Thanks for visiting!

Kim

The Card Concept 100 Elegant Fall

Hey Friends, Welcome to our 100th challenge for The Card Concept! 

I have used a retired Flourishes stamp set. If you'd like something similar, head over to the Power Poppy store. I stamped my image in light ink and colored it with Prisma Colored Pencils. I then heat embossed the sentiment with white powder and cut it into a tag shape. I popped that up on foam tape onto my prepared card base. I added gold sequins and bakers twine.

We'd love to have you join us for this challenge and help us celebrate 100 challenges! 

I have listed my guest below. Please check out her card and the rest of the guests and team members.

Thank you for joining us!

I have invited my Guest Danielle Vincent of D's Crafty Creations to celebrate with us! You can find a link to her blog by clicking on her name. Here's her Clean and Graphic card.

Thanks for visiting!

Kim

Inspired by all the little things #81

Hey Friends, It's that time again. This week at Inspired by all the little things we have a pretty photo with lots of neutrals. I chose to focus on the labels and flowers. I found this great piece of patterned paper with labels on it in my stash.

 Then I grabbed a Penny Black (or Hero Arts) set for the Queen Anne's Lace flower. I heat embossed it in white and stitched in on my panel. For a nod to the glass bottles I tied a clear greenish blue button on some gold twine. No sentiment, I plan to use as a note card. 

While making this card I discovered that I do not own any shell stamps! The horror! This beach lovin girl has got to get some. :)

Kelly Lunceford is our guest for the month. Come on by and see her card as well as the wonderful design team cards. 

Kim

Other challenge links below.

Simon Says Stamp Wed. Challenge Anything goes (Simon graphic is in side bar)

Inspired by all the little things 80

Hi Friends, Inspired by all the little things #80 is now open. What a pretty color palette! 

I was drawn to the gold Hello word and the pink and aqua colors. 

I started with a Simon Says Stamp set, Hello Beautiful! and I embossed with gold EP. I cut it out with a SSS stitched circle die and layered it on top of a bunch of pretty patterned paper. The gold mat is a paper from Recollections. I added a few sequins and some twine. 

Dana Seymour is our guest for the month. Come on by and submit a card. It's just too pretty NOT to!

Kim

Other challenge links below

4 Crafty Chicks Lots of Layers

Creative Knockouts Anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Add a die cut

The House that stamps built Tic tac toe, I used pastel colors, p.paper, die cut

Inspired by all the little Things #64

Hi Friends, Welcome to #64 of Inspired by all the little Things. I was a little bit challenged by the inspiration photo so I went pretty literal. I love the colors tho! I broke out my Lawn Fawn Jar stamps and dies to create the jars. I added copper embossing powder to look like the photo. 

For the flowers I used Wplus9 stamps and dies, called Southern Summer Florals 2 for the flowers stamped with Momento Pear Tart. The background was ink-smooshed with Peacock Feathers distress ink. The sentiments are from SSS. 

Our guest this week is Shannon Jaramillo. Being on this design team allows me to meet crafters I would not have known and I love that!

Come on over to the blog and see what else we're sharing this week!

Kim

Inspired by all the little Things 62

Hi Friends, Since it's full on summer now, I chose to use a beach umbrella for my card instead of a rain umbrella! Also these ladies are doing what I want to do, hang out at the beach and get some sun! 

You can interpret the Inspired by all the little things inspiration any way you would like! 

I used a wood mounted Art Impressions "Lets be fabulous" stamp for this. I received it as a grab bag gift from my LCC. I don't know what kind of paper I stamped it on but it wouldn't blend very well. I made the best of it. I cut it out and set it on a prepared panel. I just got the new MFT cloud stencil and used it for my sky, then sponged on distress ink for sand. The sentiment comes from a Art Impressions/Hampton arts set from Michaels. 

Our guest this week is Amy Kolling. Please come on by the blog and join us too!

P.S. We're taking July and August off so we'll see you the first Saturday in September!

Hugs, Kim

Inspired by all the little things #61

Hey there, Welcome to Inspired by all the little things 61! Summer's coming and I sometimes see violets around the neighborhood if I'm lucky! They are so delicate and pretty. 

I was a little stumped on this week's inspiration and I didn't have any window stamps or dies so I had to dig up something older. This stamp is retired Flourishes colored with Copic Markers. See that dark shadow? And by shadow I mean blob which came out of my marker! I don't mind it and didn't want to start over. Sigh... 

I used my WPlus9 Sunshine Layers Dies to cut out the scalloped panel and the white inner panel, added a sentiment and some enamel dots. 

Our guest this week is Sue Berkley! Come by and see the design team cards and joins us, won't you?

Kim

Inspired by all the little things #56

Hey Friends. It's Challenge 56 already at Inspired by all the little things! Bicycles and flowers, a sure sign that warm weather is coming, even tho we're having a cold week in Connecticut! 

Good thing I had this cute set by Simon says Stamp with a bicycle. I colored with Copics and die cut all the images with the coordinating dies. Then using Mojo Monday Sketch 496 as a guide I made my focal panel using a cloud embossing folder on white CS cut with a LF Stitched Rectangle die. I layered that onto colored card stock as shown in the sketch. Glossy accents was used on the doggie's nose and flower centers. See, it's still cloudy cuz it's wet! 

Michele Henderson is our guest this week, Come on by and visit, better yet join us with a card!

Thanks, 

Kim

Mojo Monday 496

Inspired by all the little Things 40

Hi Friends, Time for another fabulous inspiration from Inspired by all the little Things! 

I was a little stumped at first but I'm happy with my card. I started out being inspired by the white flower which I made come to life with a Simon Says Stamp set named Ranunculus.  I used the berry-like branches to imitate the photo and used this lilac/pink shade of card stock for the background. I used Distress ink for the background, Milled Lavender.

A Hero Arts sentiment embossed on vellum and some sparkling clear sequins finish it off. 

Our guest, Donna Rudy and the design team have some great cards to share with you so stop on by!

Kim

Other challenge link below 

Playing in a challenge:

Winter Wonderland -Spring Fever, Flowers, etc.

Inspired by all the little Things #19

Hi Friends, Jeanne chose a gorgeous water color photo with purples and greens to inspire us this week at Inspired by all the little Things #19. I had an older wood mounted Inkadinkado Hydrangea stamp hidden in my stash so I dug it out for this card. (Love using older supplies so not to waste the money I spent!) 

I stamped the images on water color paper with distress inks and lightly spritzed them to let the ink run slightly. If you put too much water the flowers turn into blobs! Hahaha.

I then die cut the paper into a tag with SSS tag dies. I die cut a SSS hello die from black card stock and black fun foam intending to layer them but I ended up just using the foam cut. It looks cool and different for a change. I mounted the tag on a piece of grey patterned paper and added twine and sequins.

I hope you play along with us this week! Thanks for visiting!

Kim

Lilac.Beauty

Hi all, I'm back with another Flourishes Challenge! This one is a month long challenge so there is still time to play if you want. It's call the Beauty of Bling. Just include Bling and follow the posted guidelines, easy peasy!

Guess what? My Grandmother is 100 years old tomorrow!

Can you imagine? I made this card with her in mind but I'm not sure I can part with it! It took hours (mainly because I couldn't decide which of the pretty "Pink Paisley" papers to use) and is so pretty IRL....
I used the Lilac set which I won in the scavenger hunt on the Flourish Blog months ago and I hadn't inked it up yet. Love it! I colored it with the Copics below, cut it with an oval spellbinder. I loosely followed a mojo monday sketch from 2010.  I hacked up carefully trimmed a recollections bling swirl from Michaels to fit on the bottom of the card. It's sooooo yummy set off of the the black paper.

Question for you, for all that have one, do you think the Copic Air Brush System is worth having?  I got one for Xmas but I may return it. It seems like alot of trouble. What do you think? I sponged the ink on the above oval. I think you would have to mask every image you color to airbrush it but not sure.

I'm also entering this is a few challenges.

C4C118- Something New

Papercraftstar challenge-78-winter-I'm using the color in the photo
Flourishes The-beauty-of-bling

Tootles! Kim

Sassy.Movie.Challenge

Hi all, I know, I know, LOL! Your thinking where in the heck did I come up with this movie as an inspiration!!!! Some of you are too young to remember Elvis movies but I loved them as a kid. The Sassy Studio Design image, Lollipop girl, reminded me of when people would go to a big fair or amusement park and walk around with one of these giant lollipops! Also I got the idea to add penants and that reminded me of a fair. It's a stretch, I know! I only have about 5 SSD images to work with! Hope you like it.

Paper-DCWV, Sweet Stack 8x8

CS-DCWV

Rubber Alphabet stamps-unknown (Michaels)

Penants-Hand cut triangles

Cord, silver pearl bling, my stash
Stamp-Sassy Studio Design Digi image.

http://sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.com/2010/06/dare-to-be-sassy-26.html

Mojo#124.Just.for.you.kitty

I'm on a card making roll this week. I love this sketch and this digital kitty stamp. Problem is, I don't know where I got it so if anyone recognizes it, please tell me. I think it was free but not sure. My coloring came out good on this card. I'm getting the hang of the light source more and more. I left the inside blank so I can decide later if it will be a birthday card or some other occasion.

Products used:
Paper-Basic Grey,Green at heart 6x6
Bazzil CS
Ribbon-Michaels
Pearls-Kiesercraft
Cat Digi Stamp-?
Sentiment stamp-MSE
Sewing machine


Thanks for looking!

Summer.Card.Sassy.Pile it on

Hi Blog friends,

I made this card for a few challenges. One was the Sassy Thursday challenge to create a summer themed card. I chose to use the Magazine Margie image and have her laying in the grass with a bright summer sky. Pile it on #24 challenge was to use stickers. I used the flip flops from my stash. Maybe Jolees. Happy Summer everyone!!

Next week my photos should be better because I'll be using my new portable photo studio with a white box. DH gave it to me for birthday! but it came with a defective light so I have to wait for a replacement.

Recipe for the card:

DCWV,Bazzil cardstock

K&Co designer paper

Stamp-Sassy Studio Design Digi stamp

and Hero Arts Clouds (Large rubber)

Ink-Momento teardrop-summer sky

Prisma pencils, OMS

Punch-Martha Stewart butterflies

Ribbon and pearls from my stash

Challenges for this card
Sassy#25

TPE66.Yellow.Card

Hi all, I was so thrilled to see The Pink Elephant challenge and the Cupcake Craft challenge this week because I had JUST finished a card for my stash that fits the bill! Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet but I love how it came out.

SO...the challenge was use Yellow, Buttons and Designer Paper.

I used Basic Grey, the green stripe and the yellow floral from the Nook and Pantry 6x6 paper pack.

Stamps-Stampin Up!

CS-DCWV or Bazzill

Ribbon,-Micheals

Button, either Basic Grey or unknown

Cricut Cart.-TBBMore-for the little tag.

Pearls

TFL, Kim

Man Card, Distressed

I made this card for a few challenges. The Just Buggin Challenge was to do a masculine card and Stamp Something's challenge was to distress something.
This was the first time I distressed the edges of the paper with scissors. I looked at all my local craft stores and couldn't find a distress tool. But it worked well with scissors, then I inked the edges with distress ink. I need to get more confident with distressing. I'm afraid of ruining the card.
I used Life's a Beach for the lighthouse, and wild card for the grasses and cat tails. I ripped the paper for the sand and water. I punched a 1" circle for the sun and inked it. I stitched around the perimeter and tied on some raffia. I sponged the background paper with blue ink. I tried to make a sunset with ink but it didn't work. All in all, I like how it turned out! I will write, you're my beacon or you light up my life on the inside and give to my husband for our anniversary. :)

BBTB SYI Flourish cut. challenge & 2sketches4U.48

Hi all,

I have been busy and haven't been able to play for the weekly BBTB challenge but this week I FINALLY could. I also used 2S4U#48 sketch challenge. The colors on this card really do match! The photo doesn't show the colors acurately! It couldn't possibly be from my photography skills! Not! I need to read the instuction manual. The pp is basic grey, the green paper is Bo Bunny, the opposite side of the dot cardstock. I used "hint of pesto" ink (momento) to stamp the birdhouse. I used cream ribbon and prima tiny rose flowers. The flourishes are cut with "stretch your imagination cricut cartridge. The butterfly is a martha stewart punch. I really enjoyed making this card and am learning what my style is. I like alot of layers and embellishments. Thanks for visiting! Happy almost spring......

The Greeting Farm.Mer.Ian

The Greeting Farm has a digital image challenge that I'm playing along with. The first image

they gave away is this cute Merman named Ian. He is so cute! I cut the sea weed and starfish

with the "life's a beach cricut cartridge. I used navy and green cardstock.

The designer paper has beach images. I used rain dots to look like bubbles under water.

I added a basic grey button and some sheer ribbon. I just love these colors, they are like sea glass! I can't wait to get the next image from The Greeting Farm for this 5 day challenge.

Kim :)