Favorite Technique for Sparkles Monthy

 Hello there! Welcome to my little crafting blog! If you  have been here before, welcome back! When I saw the theme for our next challenge over at Sparkles Monthly, I was excited! This month, it's use your Favorite Technique! Great idea I thought and I like lots of techniques but Die Cutting would be my fav! See my card below...

Why do I like die cutting? LOOK at all those layers!! I don't color well but I can use tweezers and place teen tiny pieces together no problem! 

I shaded the center of the flowers with a blender brush to give dimension and cut lots of foliage pieces give it a full lush look. I decided to heat emboss the sentiment in metallic gold and then cut gold glitter paper leaves so the shiny gold was spread evenly across the card.

Here's a close up of all the detail. I had even though at one time to just use dies and stamp on sentiment...still might one day...bye for now...

Melissa  

 

Apples for Make My Monday

  Hello there! I just like a good challenge don't you? So when I saw the theme for the DT project for the Make My Monday challenge I was definitely up for the challenge. 

This round is use APPLES.

Well, in my well stocked items of crafting goods, I have nothing apples! So I reached out to local fellow crafters to borrow stamps, dies, punches, anything apple. Nothing. No one had apples so my next idea was to print out an apple image. But, not in typical apple colors but to bring a vintage feel to it and that's what I did. 

I am planning a retirement party for husband so my crafting time has been limited for the past several weeks so when I initially made the card to get it posted it on time, it was a little more simpler. When I went back to look at the photos, I felt I need to add a little something...anyone ever go back and add to a card, take away, add back and so on and so on???

So, I cut out an the apple image to layer on the original I just cut with a square shaped die. Than I bumped up the GWS sentiment. I aged & blended the edges of the card base to add more vintage and I splattered in copper. The same card, just a little more improved!

So don't let what you don't initially have stop you from creating...use your imagination! and most importnatly, HAVE FUN!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and having a look! I hope you will join in with us for our use APPLES challenge!

Bye for now...

Melissa

For Make My Monday Challenge 285

  Hello again! I am here with a fun new project for the Make My Monday blog. The challenge this time a round is use YELLOW, WHITE AND ANOTHER COLOR. So I chose yellow, white & gray and made my DT project a collection tag.

My tag is 2  1/2" wide by 5" long with a vellum pocket stuffed with some ephemera goodies!

I chose gray to go with the yellow and white. I do like gray with yellow. I think it's a good balance like sweet & salty treats!

I stenciled, stamped & blended the edges for the tag base. I stuffed with some goodies that can be removed for a collection style. Stay tuned to my blog as I will shifting a little away from card making to more Art/Junk art journal creations and using more of what I have like paper emphemera, magazines etc. I am not giving up cardmaking, just expanding...

Whatever type of paper art you plan on making, I hope you will join in with us so I can see how you used the colors!

Bye for now...

Melissa

For August's Sparkles Monthly

  Hello and welcome! My post is for a new challenge over at the Sparkles Monthly Challenge blog. Can you belive we are half way through August? School's are back in here and I am getting the itch to pull out my Fall decor! But, for now, it's on to the theme this challenge which is to use an ANIMAL in your design...

I chose this sweet deer and other garden themed ephemera for my card. I stenciled a little on the background and cut the base with a scalloped die for an overall soft look. The sentiment is cut from an old Hymn page that reminds us how much God loves us (John 3:16)

Thanks for stopping by, you have 30 days to think of something wonderful to make from your stash of goodies. Bye for now...

Melissa

For Make My Monday!

      Hello there! My posting today is for the fun new challenge over at Make My Monday blog. The theme for this challenge is Boardwalk/Coastal. We are almost halfway through the month and, I feel like August is late summer kinda sorta so this theme is perfect before the regular routines come back of school and the holiday season. I live in Florida so the temperature won't go down anytime soon but that doesn't stop me from decorating with Fall leaves and pumpkins soon! 

What would the Beach or Boardwalk be without pesty seagulls wanting to steal your french fries!! I love this little whismy seagull and the silly sentiment...

 

        Thanks for stopping by to check things out and I along with the rest of the Design Team look forward to seeing what you make in the gallery! Bye for now...

Melissa     

New Month New Challenge

  Hello and I'm glad you are here! My card is for the DT over at Sparkles Christmas Challenge. This months theme is Clean and Simple.  Clean and simple style by definition is more white or open space than images, embellishments, etc. Here I used a multi layered Christmas ball stencil by Spellbinders for my focal images. I like how they seem to be rolling across the front of the card

For me personally, when I do a C&S card, I like to use white as my base so the images I use will really stand out.

 The sentiment and matching die is also from Spellbinders. The arch die is a random one I found in my stash. I hand outlined the cardbase to bring a little more black to the front of the card to coordinate with the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by. Remember, this is a month long challenge so you have plenty of time to think about how you will use the Clean and Simple style. Bye for now...

Melissa 

Wedding or Love Wishes...

  Hello again and welcome back if you have been here before! This posting is for the new challenge over at the  Make My Monday Blog. I had a lot of fun making this one with some of my favorite techniques & style - layers & vintage! 

 The challenge theme this time around is "Wedding/ and or Love Wishes". I just reorganized my craft room and found products I haven't used or products and materials I have rediscovered! I used ephemera, old hymnal sheets, patterned paper, dried flowers and heat embossed in metallic gold.

I really enjoyed putting this one together. I hope you will join in for our latest challenge so I can see how you usse the Wedding/Love theme, see you in the Make My Monday gallery!

Melissa