A New Challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations Challenge Blog-Challenge #586

Hey Friends!!

There is a new challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations Challenge Blog today. Challenge #586 is a THEME challenge. It is to use the theme of FAIRY TALES to create a project.

This was a tough one for me. I am not a "princess" type of person and hadn't a clue on what I was going to create for this card. I decided to go with the flower aspect of Fairy Tales for my card design.

In many Fairy Tales, flowers have a presence in the story. Roses are theme in both Sleeping Beauty and in the story of Beauty and The Beast. In Sleeping Beauty, Beauty is referred to as Briar Rose. I decided to go with that. 

Below is the badge for Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #586:

For my card, I used the stamp set Paint-A-Flower: Rosa Floribunda to create my card. First I heat embossed it in white. I then used a combination of Distress Inks and Zig Watercolor Markers to color it in.

I distressed the edges of the panel and then layered it over a dry embossed, pink cardstock panel.

I used a sentiment stamp from Your Next Stamp for the sentiment.

Want to join us this week at Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #586? Hop on over to the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge Blog for more information. I cannot wait to see what you create!!

That is all from me. Thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a FABULOUS day!!!

Nora

Char is now a Senior and a Father's Day Card for Freshly Made Sketches

Happy Father's Day!! It is Sunday and though the weather could be better, I am enjoying listening to my husband playing video games to relax. He works so hard and has traveled A LOT this last month that it is nice to know that he can enjoy himself doing whatever he wants today.

Last night we celebrated Father's Day with my Dad. We went to dinner with my sister and family. I created a card for him using Freshly Made Sketches #292 as my inspiration.

I used Kuretake Gansai watercolor for my blue background and used scraps of blue paper from my scrap drawer to die cut the circles. The sketch below was my inspiration.

I also stamped and die cut images from Altenew's "Best Dad" set for the focal point. This set made it easy to make this masculine card!!

My nephew cracked me up last night asking why I hadn't posted it on instagram yet!!! It is nice to know I have at least one fan!!

To follow me on IG, my name is hobbitnoll. You have to request to follow me, which is kind of a pain, but since I work in a high school I have to be careful. We have a social media policy and students are not supposed to be your "friends" until they graduate.

In other news, I am OFFICIALLY on vacation. Whoot! Whoot!! Charlotte is also now officially a SENIOR and I have to tell you, it is killing me!!

This kid is my shopping partner, my television pal, and the one that I can get to laugh at me when I need it!! It scares me to think that this year will be her last year of high school. How did that happen?

She takes her driving test in a couple weeks and yesterday she drove Chris and I to the Father's Day dinner. (She turned sixteen in December.)

I sat in the back biting my nails the whole time!! Okay, not really but I played on my phone so I didn't pay attention. Chris is the coach in this area. I have no desire to be a driving instructor!!

That is all for today. I am hoping to be blogging more often now that it is summer. I also have BIG plans for learning to do videos. There is a pile of stuff just itching to be used!!

Thank you for stopping by and have a FABULOUS day!!

Paper Trey Ink August 2015 Blog Hop Challenge

Hello!! I hope you are all enjoying your last week of August. I am back to work. Cannot say that I do not miss summer already, though.

Today I am sharing the card I created for the Paper Trey Ink August 2015 Blog Hop Challenge.

It was to use the photo below as inspiration to create a card.

(Original Photo Source)

I chose to use the colors as my inspiration, and mostly the yellow, orange and brown colors. If you look at the photo on an angle, you almost can see "stripes." This was the inspiration for my striped background on my card.

I chose to use Paper Trey Ink's "Watercolor Wonder" stamp set to stamp the background stripes. I used PTI ink in Lemon Tart, Harvest Gold, Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest, Canyon Clay and Terra-cotta Tile. I chose to stamp on Fabriano hot press watercolor paper. It is thinner and smoother then cold press. I chose to use watercolor paper because after I inked the stamp, I spritzed it with water so the stripes would be a bit drippy looking. I did not want the paper to warp. The hot press paper dried flat, which does not always happen with cold press.

While the paper was drying, I die cut and stamped Paper Trey Ink's "Simple Sunflower" stamps. First I stamped the flower in Harvest Gold and then stamped over it in Summer Sunrise. I then used a water brush to go over the flowers with a little bit of Vintage Photo Distress ink.

I wanted to bring some of the fiber from the photo into the card so I used some Bazzill Jute as an anchor under my flowers. I layered the flowers over the jute using glue dots. 

I then stamped and embossed a sentiment using Paper Trey Ink's "Year Round Puns" stamp set and adhered it to the card using foam adhesive. The last step was to adhere a few "rainstones" on the front.

I thank you for stopping by my blog. Have a wonderful day!!

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Throwback Back Thursday

Yesterday felt like a Thursday so today was a disappointment to me!! Not really but it was LOONNNGGG. I am so ready for school to be out and summer to kick in.

Chris was away until last night so I watched the Kurt Cobain documentary "Montage of Heck" on Monday night. It was really interesting but disturbing at the same time. It was an intimate portrait of the MAN Kurt was and how he got there. As I was listening to his parents speak of his childhood and the things that went on, all I could think of was why did they not get him some professional help? He so needed some guidance and maybe his drug use or his tragic death could have been prevented. It was very clear that his parents did not know what to do. It was just so sad and I have been thinking about it for the last two days. I do not usually ruminate on things like this either. I just hate drug use, and heroin in particular. No matter how crappy life is, taking drugs does not make the crap go away. In fact, it makes it worse. The stuff is still there when you come down. Perhaps it is because I am a control freak and being "high" has never really appealed to me that I feel this way. The whole movie just made me sad.

On that lovely note, today I am sharing a card I created using an extremely OLD Stampin Up! stamp set called "Spring Bouquet." I made this card to go into the set of cards my friend bought for her mother.

I used watercolors to color the image in and then die cut it into a square. I mounted the square onto a "Soft Stone" background and then used strips of colored card stock on the top and bottom.

The whole design was really simple. I often have a hard time when I color images like these to know what to do with the panels. I rarely make a one layer card when I watercolor because I always make a mistake and do not want to have to throw the whole thing out.

That is all for now. I thank you for taking the time to stop by. Have a great day!1