Color and Sketches

I just wait for KWernerDesign.com to put up a new color challenge!!! And this color combo for Inspiration #52 was no exception for just looking fun and so summery.

My very first thought was this Whitewashed Core'dinations paper. I knew it was the perfect place to start.

I used this Picket Fence color and ran one piece of it through my Cuttlebug with an embossing plate. Sanding that piece exposed the core color.

I used some other colors of Core'dinations. The blue circle was scored with the Scor-pal and then sanded and the flowers were punched from other colors of Core'dinations cardstock.

I sanded all of the outside edges of my card too and you can see that exposed core in the above photo.

I also needed to play with the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch for this week. It is Laura's Sketch #26.

I pulled out this collection of papers I have had for awhile from Scenic Route. I love collections so that all of my patterns go together so well.

My stamp is a $1 stamp from Michaels. I stamped it with brown ink and embossed that. Then I colored in the cupcake paper with Copic markers and accented that with White Slick 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip.

I used a piece of Core'dinations for my card base and sanded the edges so that the core was exposed.

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THANK YOU card
Materials:
Cardstock –Picket Fence/Whitewash/Core’dinations (both sides)
Embossing plate – Cuttlebug
Sand paper
Machine sewing
Mini brads – Making Memories
Scallop circle and circle punches – Marvy
Apron Lace border punch – Fiskars
Flower punch - Papershapers/EK Success
Scor-Pal
Thank You stamp – Kim Hughes collection/Cornish Heritage Farms

HAPPY card
Materials:
Cardstock –Core’dinations
Patterned paper, die cut and sticker letters – Loveland/Scenic Route
$1 stamp – Michaels
Brown Colorbox stamp pad – Clearsnap
Detail clear embossing powder – Stamp n Stuff
Flowers – Prima
Glitter brad – Doodlebug
Scallop border punch – Fiskars
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
White Slick 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Machine sewing
Sandpaper

Pulling out an unused tool and Core'dinations

I wanted to use that last weeks Kazan's #26 2 Sketches 4 You sketch. I am a bit late, the new one will go up in the morning, but I still created a card with it. I just loved how different and clever it was.

Now there are a couple unique things about this card. One is this amazing piece of Core'dinations cardstock. It is BLACK MAGIC, Whammy. What that means is it is black on one side and purple on the other. AND...because it is Core'dinations cardstock, it has a core that is going to show through with embossing and sanding. And, to make it even better, the outside of the card is black but the inside is purple! How does it get better?

The 2 Sketches 4 You sketch had this adorable scallop design to the top of the card and so I punched rows of lacey borders with a Fiskars border punch. This purple is the reverse side of the black piece that I used for the main card and so that means it matches perfectly. I sanded the punched edge a bit to distress it a little so that the lacey edges stood up a bit.

Here is a close up look at the embossing. Here is another unique element of this card and that is what I used to create the embossed design. Some time ago, I picked up a rubber-type plate that is designed to be used with Sculpey clay. I ran it through my Cuttlebug with the Tan Spellbinder mats for embossing. Once embossed, all that is required is that you take a piece of sandpaper and sand until you like how much of the purple core shows through. I like to use my "pick up" eraser to pick up the resulting dust. You can also see that I sanded the edges of the card so that the purple core shows.

Here is a photo of the supplies that I used, the plate with the design on it by Sculpey and the piece of Core'dinations. You can see the black side and I am also showing the reverse, purple side.
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Materials:

Core'dinations cardstock, Black Magic/Whammy

Sculpey Texture Maker

Fiskars Border punch

Cuttlebug machine

Sandpaper

Label - Jenni Bowlin

Celebrate stamp - Technique Tuesday/Ali Edwards

My Own Accents - hand cut circles

I wanted a layout where I could use several of the photos from this day. I also wanted to convey the feeling how quickly our youngest grandson was crawling this way and that and so the other accents needed to be simple.

SO.... I picked up this one piece of patterned paper by Scenic Route that I just love and I cut out one big circle. I wanted it to be uneven and out of shape. I then just starting cutting circles out of that biggest circle. Because the paper is two sided, I could use whichever side I wanted and it looks like I used two different papers. I simply kept cutting circles out of the biggest circle and kept putting them around my layout.

I love the look of journaling paper so I used this journal paper from Scenic Route and used my Stampin' Up journal hole punch to make it look like I had torn it out of a notebook. The Tonic paper distresser and a quick rub with a brown stamp pad gives it a bit of a distressed look.

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CRUISIN’ layout

Materials: Cardstock
Patterned paper – Background Worn Lines paper and Parkman Road/Garland Collection/Scenic route
Stampin’ Up hole punch
Making Memories chipboard letters
Art Warehouse rub-on phrases and arrows
Powder Puff chalk inks – Quick Quotes
Tonic Paper Distresser
Brads – Making Memories
(hand cut circles)

Make a Background of It

I have mentioned before how much I have loved finding VERVE stamps so I wanted to use them again.

Most often an image like butterflies are the main focus of a card but here I wanted to create a background of them. These butterflies come in two sizes so I stamped both sizes on my white paper using white ink and white embossing powder. The white embossed images will now act as a resist to the colors that I want to add.

First of all I rubbed over the stamped butterflies with a yellow stamp pad. I rubbed and rubbed the color into all of the paper and in and around all of the details of the butterflies. I then sprayed my piece with an orange Memories Mist spray. You can see the dots in the spray which means the background isn't really a solid color which I like. The greeting is also VERVE and I stamped it on my white paper with red ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder to make the letters more intense. I gave this a quick spray of a yellow Memories Mists so that this piece tied into the rest of my card.

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SIMPLY FABULOUS card
Materials:
Cardstock
Stamps – Butterflies and Greeting/Verve stamps
White stamp pad – Joann and White embossing powder
Apron Lace border punch – Fiskars
Circle and scallop circle punches – Papershapers/EK success
Mustard stamp pad – Marvy
Memories Mist spray – Stewart Superior
Rhinestones – Me & My Big Ideas

Some New Stash and Some Old Stash

One of my most recent purchases is this adorable, girly paper from the Alissa collection by Bo Bunny Press and I just knew that was what I wanted to use on my Card Positioning Systems card for this week.

When I started to use this pink patterned paper, I knew I had to throw a whole bunch of "girly" accents with it. So out also came another brand new purchase, some lacey paper by SEI. The lacey paper comes as one whole piece with rows of different designs of lace and so I cut out one of the rows. I did a little extra accent of a punched row of Apron lace.

The flowers are stickers that go with this Alissa collection of papers. I used them to fit the sketch and made an additional accent with a punched circles of paper and a circle of rhinestones.

This card represents an older piece of paper that was sittting on my desk. I am not even sure why I had it out, but I sat down at my desk to work on a completely different project and as I looked at this paper that I was never all that sure what that print was supposed to be, I saw a layered and fun flower! The print has these circles on it and they are in different sizes so I just cut out three of the sizes. I used a Tonic paper distresser to distress my edges and crumpled the pieces a little bit.

To further the color scheme I used this wonderful red shade of Core'dinations paper. These papers just love the Cuttlebug so I used a swirl embossing plate on it. The card base is another Core'dinations paper that is brown on one side and green on the other. I used the green to mat the red and then sanded the edges of the brown card so you could see the green core, making all of my colors fit together.

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SKETCH 115 – PINK FLOWERS card
Materials:
Cardstock
Patterned paper and flower sticker – Kissable and Twirls/Alissa Collection/Bo Bunny Press
Circle punch – Marvy
Rhinestone circle – Heidi Swapp
Lace paper border – SEI
Fiskars Apron Lace border punchTonic Paper Distresser

HAPPY DREAMS card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Roxbury/Dearbome Street/Scenic Route
Swirl embossing plate – Cuttlebug
Tonic Paper Distresser and sand paper
Machine sewing
Jewel brad – Recollections
Rub-on greetings – Making Memories

Have to share some CUTENESS

I didn't really start these layouts to be a 2-page set but after I worked out my idea for the first layout showing off this adorable photo of some cute, chubby legs, I knew I wanted to also use so many photos from this day of play. I used this simple patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket to try them together. They all showed what our grandson was typically doing at this age, so I printed out a bunch of small photos and created a second page. The good news is I got to use a whole ton of cute photos and we can now remember this time in his life because he has already grown so much and everything changes so quickly.

For the first page, I used a layout at 2 peas as my inspiration. The title was printed on the kraft colored paper and then the rest of the elements were added around that.

(You can click on the layouts to make them larger)

For this second one, I printed out 6, 3" x 5" photos. The title was again printed from the computer first and then the photos and the scraps of papers were added around that. I used little strips of printed out words to help describe some of the photos for the things we will want to remember.

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CPS and Sweet n' Sassy Digi stamps

Sweet n' Sassy digital stamps was the sponsor this week for Card Postioning Systems blog. AND, if you are like me, you had to say, what is a digi stamp??? It is kind of a cool concept. You purchase the ability to download the image, the cost is minimal and once you have downloaded it, you can print it out as many times as you want, on whatever paper you want and here is probably the coolest part, in the SIZE you want! One time you might want it small, another time larger. I am going to show you two versions of Timmy Turtle so that you can get an idea of that versatity.

For my first card that goes with the CPS sketch for this week, I printed Timmy Turtle out on white cardstock and I choose the 2" x 3" size, like I was going to print out a photograph.

From here, it was simple to color him in with the Copic Markers. You can see that I coated each of the dots with the Aleene's Paper Glaze for an epoxy look and that just adds so much character to Timmy.

I wanted to give a little close up of the details along the bottom edge of the card. It was fun to use these punched circles and brads to match the sketch.

I wanted to print Timmy out a little larger so you could see the difference and I also thought he could make a cute shaped card this way. I printed him out using the 5" x 7" size this time. I printed him on green Core'dinations cardstock and what is neat aboug that is that it is brown on the other side so the inside of the card is different then the outside. I printed him out again on the striped paper and cut just the shell out. The dots were colored with a Copic marker and coated with the Aleene's Paper Glaze. His are also coated with the Paper Glaze.

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SKETCH 114 – TIMMY TURTLE card
Materials:
Cardstock
Digital stamp – Courtesy of Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps
Patterned paper – October Afternoon
Copic Markers
Circle and scallop circle punch – Marvy
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Swiss dot Cuttlebug embossing plate – Provo Craft
Ribbon
Brads – Bazzill
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®