Happy NSD Day!!

So today is National Scrapbook Day and for the first time in years, I did not scrapbook today. Instead, I went for a long walk with my friend, visited my father and went to Costco with Chris for our bi-weekly visit. Then I came home and finished a card set I told my friend I would make her mother for Mother's Day. Did anyone do any scrapbooking today?

I decided to share what I did create, though. Guess where most of the stuff came from? The mess on my desk!! I know, I know, I have been doing this challenge for a while but I have to say, it is whittling down all my "extras" and I am able to make some quick cards. (Okay, not really "quick" for anyone else but quick for me!!)

The first card took me all of ten minutes to create. I had created this flower using the no line watercolor technique a few nights ago. I used Distress Inks/markers in Brick Red, Festive Berries and Mowed Lawn to "paint" the flower from Jane's Doodles. I die cut the element into a square and then stamped the Hero Arts sentiment.

I then tied some Doodlebug twine around the square and tied it into a bow. Next I adhered the panel using foam adhesive over two Doodlebug Mini Doilies that I had adhered to a red top folding card.

I just noticed that I used four doilies on this project. These stick together and I didn't notice until I was looking at the card as I am posting.

Oh, and the leaves on the tulip are freehand. Not wonderful but they were kind of fun to create.

My next two cards are very similar. They will I will be including them in the card set I made for my friend's mother.

My first card I embossed and then die cut a piece of white card stock. I spritzed some Squeezed Lemonade Distress Spray and let it dry. I then layered images that I die cut and stamped from WPlus9's "Fresh Cut Florals" set.

I think this is the most versatile set of stamps that I own. I have used this for a ton of cards!

I enhanced the blue berries and the yellow flower with some Stickles in Sea Glass and Diamond. My last step was to adhere a few blue sequins. I am kind of addicted to them as of late!!

My last card is the same design but much more simple. I die cut a piece of white card stock and stamped some leaves in two different greens. Next I stamped the sympathy sentiment from PTI's ""Words of Comfort" set. Then I layered the panel over a blue top folding card.

I layered the florals over the leaves and added clear sequins to this. The Stickles were added last.

I am hoping that my friend's mother will like them.

Okay, I need to cut this short and go spend some time with the family. I also need to put my hand on ice. I burned it while cleaning up the mess my dog made while we were at dinner. I am praying he doesn't get sick as he ate a few starburst candies and twenty pixie sticks!!!

Thank you for stopping by. I really appreciate your visit.

Winnie and Walter Challenge #2: Pinspiration Challenge with Vanessa, Color Challenge and some more Copic Practice

Happy Sunday!! Once again I am sharing some of the cards I created for World Card Making day yesterday. I rarely have chunks of time like I did yesterday and I created seven cards, which is a lot for me!!  I played along with the Winnie and Walter blog. It was so much fun!

I actually was disappointed yesterday that there were not more challenges at places. There were chances to win by commenting but not a ton of public places for challenges that I saw. I am probably just viewing the wrong places, though.

The first card I am sharing was a Pinspiration Challenge by Vanessa. She picked the image below and we had to create a card inspired by that image.

I will be honest, at first I thought this was going to be rough. Then I looked through my patterned paper and had an a ha moment. Below is what I came up with.

My inspiration for the whole card was the wood paper. I was inspired to use the wood paper by the image above. I also used pinks in a geometric pattern, which was also inspired by both the paper and the photo. This card was so fun to make!!

I started by die cutting and inking the kraft paper. I then die cut the wood patterned paper into a rounded rectangle and adhered it over the card base. Next, I die cut strips of paper and overlaid onto the wood.

Once I got that far, I was kind of stumped. I dug through a bunch of stamped images that I have lying around and had another a ha moment. I decided to use a vase of flowers over the wood paper as the focal point. The colors were perfect after I inked them up a little to tone the white of the paper down. 

I know that the inked look is not for everyone but I like how this card came out. 

The third challenge was a color challenge. I thought it would be a cinch but I ran in to a few glitches. Well, it was really my fault. I looked at it quick and walked away for lunch. When I came back, I did not look at the colors but thought the challenge was to use blush, pink and gold. I had my first card almost done when I looked back and noticed it was not pink but PEACH. I was so mad at myself!! 

So I had to figure something out to save the card so I could enter the challenge. 

See the banner? That was a cover up of the pink. I actually tried to stamp over the original happy in versa mark and emboss in gold but it look HORRIBLE. I had to figure out something else. The banner was perfect. However, I had to tuck it under the die cut word, which was already glued down with glossy accents. That is why you see the little crease in the h. 

I knew I wanted this card to be clean and simple. I die cut the word happy six times out of blush card stock and glued five layers together. The snow flakes were die cut from the same color while the sentiment dried. I then stamped the word happy in PINK and adhered "holiday" to the card. When I found out it was supposed to be peach, I substituted the banner. Of course, I don't own peach so I used a melon ink instead. 

I then adhered all of the snowflakes down. Each of the snowflake centers was embellished with a peach rhinestone. 

The last step was to use gold Stickles on the bottom half of the die cut sentiment. I am going to actually put a little more on as the glitter area shrunk as it dried. 

It is different, I will give it that. 

I also made a second card as I had enough die cuts to make two. On the second one, though, I did not layer the sentiment die cut and stamped the word happy directly onto the card stock.

Instead of the gold being on the sentiment, I splattered gold mist onto the background. I then adhered all the die cuts.

I then added some clear Wink of Stella onto the die cut and dried it with a heat gun.

I have to admit that I do not like this card as well as the first but that is OK. It isn't horrible, just not my favorite. This color challenge wound up being way more difficult then I thought it would be!!

I am going to enter these cards into this months Virginia's View Challenge. The challenge is to make a clean and simple card.

For my last tidbit of the day, I will show you my the last two color sheets for my Copic marker class. Day 6 was all about coloring animals with different colors and textures. I actually had the most fun doing this homework.

My doggies are my favorite!! I like the fox but had a hard time with getting the right shades.

Day #7 of the class was the use of difficult colors. They are not lying about this!! I only colored one image on this practice sheet and it is HORRID.

I should not really get that down on myself as part of the reason it is so bad is that I did not have the right colored dark markers. I have about ten on my list that I want for Christmas, as well as about ten refills of my most used colors. Quite an expense!!!

That is all for now. I hope to post my mason jar I created for Paper Trey Ink's "Make it Monday" challenge later. I still have a bit to do on it, though. 

Thank you for stopping by.

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Pinspiration Challenge Card:

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Color Challenge Card:

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