A Creative Touch

Friday, October 5, 2018

A Halloween Hello for Freshly Made Sketches #357

Happy Friday!! I hope you are all having a fabulous day!!

Today I am popping in to post a card I created for Freshly Made Sketches #357.

The images used are from the My Favorite Things original Witch Way Candy? stamp set. I stamped and masked the images onto a page from an old book.

I then used Prismacolor pencils to color the witch and the cat. I actually am not happy with the way it came out. I couldn't shade the pencils that well on this type of paper.

Here is the sketch that I used as inspiration for my card.

The patterned paper is from a defunct company Little Yellow Bicycle. The orange cardstock is Bazzill Papaya. Instead of the sentiment strip going all the way down to the bottom, I chose to cut the bottom on an angle. This card will be sent to my daughter at college with the candy jars from yesterday's post and a bunch of Halloween decorations.

On another note, here is a card I created combining My Favorite Things Penguins in Paradise, Mama Elephant's Swinging Borders and a Celebrate sentiment by Waffle Flower.

All the coloring I did with Copic markers and then covered in Diamond Stickles. If you look closely behind the sentiment, I did make a bit of a mess with the Copics. However, I am still going to use this but will give this to family.

That is all from me today. I will be participating in World Cardmaking Day tomorrow. I don't know where there are any challenges anymore but I will be making some cards.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!

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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Lawn Fawn Fanatics Project for Challenge #38

Happy Thursday!! I know that I have been kind of absent of late, I have been crafting up a storm! Working and blogging do not go together!!

Today I created some Halloween projects. I made two candy jars-one for my daughter at college and one for her roommate.

The first jar I created using Lawn Fawn's Pick of the Patch Stamp and Die set.

I used Distress Ink on a tag I had die cut using the Lawn Fawn Tag You're It Dies.

I used the Lawn Fawn Fanatics Awesome Autumn Challenge #38 as my inspiration.

I then added some of the little critters from the Pick of the Patch that I had colored in using Copic Markers.

For my second jar, I used the bat image from the original Witch Way Candy? stamp set.

Again I used Distress Ink on a Reverse Confetti tag. I covered it with silver stars that I die cut using the CAS-ual Fridays Fun-Fetti Fri-Dies.

I used Copic markers to color in the little bat and then covered it with clear sparkle marker.

Here are the two together.

In other projects, I created these nail polish cards. They were inspired by Nichole Spohr's cards she created using Honey Bee Stamps Nail Polish Bottle die. She added some die cut sentiments on the words but I chose not to put any on right now. I will add them as I give them out for an occasion.

I created ten of these cards, using various sparkle card stocks. I used Tonic Studios Satin, Black Velvet cardstock for the tops.

I created five cards with the flat bows and fiver cards with the 3D bows.

Here is a close up of a flat bow card. The bottoms were shaded with Distress Ink and then covered with Glossy Accents.

Here is a card with the 3D bow.

Well that is all from me today. I thank you for stopping by. Have a FABULOUS day!!

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Sneak Peek for CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

Happy Wednesday everyone!! I hope you are all having a fabulous week!!

Today I am over on CAS-ual Fridays Stamps blog with a birthday card I created by mixing up my stamp sets and using scraps.

Here is a sneak peek of my card:

To see the entire card hop on over to the blog!! I thank you for stopping by!!!

Saturday, September 29, 2018

Coffee Lover's Blog Hop with CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

Happy Friday everyone!! I cannot believe that September is almost over!!

Today is National Coffee Day and I am here with a card that I created a card using CAS-ual Fridays Stamps as part of a Coffee Lover's Blog Hop at the Coffee Lovers Cardmakers Blog.

Hop on over to the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Blog for all the links to some fabulous cards and fun prizes!!

I created a card that would hold a gift card.

I started off stamping the background of a 5" by 11" piece of kraft card stock that I had folded down the middle using the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Peace, Love and Coffee Stamp set. I then used a corner rounder to round the edges. I inked up the edges using two types of brown Distress Ink.

Next I die cut a a tag using the Tag Buddies Fri-Dies and a blue coffee cup using the Coffee Cup Fri-Dies.

I used Distress Ink to blend brown around the edges of the tag, added a scalloped red piece of card stock to the edge and some ribbon at the top. I adhered the tag using foam adhesive. I stamped a sentiment on to the coffee cup in brown using the CAS-ual Fridays Hot Coffee stamp set. I adhered the cup over the tag. I opened the card up and used 1/4" score tape on either side of the card to make a pocket.

I set this aside and created a little insert for inside the pocket. I folded a piece of 3 1/2" by 8 1/2" piece of kraft card stock and stamped a background on the front of the pocket using the Peace, Love, and Coffee set. I then used the So Pretty stamp set for the sentiment.

I then inked up the edges of the entire panel with two colors of Distress Ink. I tucked a gift card inside and it was ready to slide into the pocket!!

Here are both the pocket and gift card insert side by side. This was so fun to make and I cannot wait to send it to my friend!!!

I thank you for taking the time to stop by today. Have a fabulous Friday!!