Create a Card magazine Submissions

Fishin' & Wishin' Boy

Background paper: Diecuts with a View 8x8 cardstock

Girl Stamp: The Angel Company wonder and joy

Ink: Martha Stewart Pigment Wasabi

Sentiment: Red Foam-backed

Colored with Bic Markers: Oceanview Blue, Misty Blue, Deep Sea Blue, Stone Grey; Prismacolor: Walnut, Cinnamon Toast, Sienna Brown; Copic: YR61

Be With Those...

Background paper: Die Cuts with a View 8x8 cardstock and The Paper Studio Antique Checkered

Girl Stamp: The Angel Company wonder and joy

Ink: embossing ink

Embossing Powder: Comotion Blue

Sentiment: Wordsworth (I think) clear stamp

Colored with Bic Markers; For-Ever Green, Lime Sorbet, Prismacolor: Peach, Burnt Ochre, Crimson Red; Copic: YR00




Happy Birthday Girl

Background paper: Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine freebie

Girl Stamp: The Angel Company wonder and joy

Ink: JoAnn Craft Essentials Pigment

Ink in black, Big and Juicy in Herb Garden

Sentiment: Stampendous Personal Notes Mini Quad Cube

Rhinestones: Studio 180

Colored with colored pencils (crayola, rose art, and some literally with no name on the side)

Sittin’ Pretty Dolly

Background paper: Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine freebie

Girl Stamp: The Angel Company wonder and joy

Phrase stamp: Hello Oriental Trading Company

Embossed with clear embossing powder by Creative Beginnings

Ink: Big and Juicy in Sweet Pea pink

Flowers: Prima Sweet N Sassy Dolly

Brads: Making Memories Flower Brad in Yellow

Colored with colored pencils (crayola, rose art, and some literally with no name on the side)

Background paper: created with Adirondack Wild Plum and Pearl inks, first on white shinny scrap then the leftover ink on the pink cardstock

Girl Stamp: The Angel Company wonder and joy

Sentiment: Best Yet by Stampin’ Up

Ink: JoAnn Craft Essentials Pigment

Ink in black

Markers: Copic YR00; Prismacolors in Peach, Dark & Light Umber, Mulberry, Orange, Spring Green, Canary, Pink Rose, cold stone; Bic; Adobe Orange and Lemon Yellow



Background paper: the Paper Studio Bella Pink Flowers

Girl Stamp: The Angel Company wonder and joy

Sentiment: Best Yet by Stampin’ Up

Glitter: Studio G Amethyst

Faux Stitches: Atyou Spica Lavender

Ink: JoAnn Craft Essentials Pigment Ink in black

Colored with Copic YR00, Prismacolor; Markers in Peach, Golden Rod & Cloud Blue; Sharpie: Dark & Light Purple, Yellowish Green, and Dark & Light Pink

Tuesday cards

I've colored Eris and his flowers with my Bic markers and the formally clear dew drops with Pearl alcohol ink. The cardstock is all scraps (I sorted thru all of them Sunday so I'm ready to use up some of those other pieces). I cuttlebugged the light green cardstock with a border embossing folder and inked it a tiny bit to help it show up. I used the same ink to stamp 'Thanks' (I used only part of the word Thanksgiving)

Challenges I combined to enter this card in:
All sorts challenge wants animals
Just us girls challenge using their sketch
I love digi challenge make a Thank You card



Now here's my Create-A-Card card



I used a flower from the Oriental Trading Company Black collection, and punched the Dragonflies from Creative Memories paper with my new Creative Memories punch that I bought at my scrapping retreat this weekend.

Challenges this card was created for...
Colour Create : Burnt Orange, Black and Cream (I'm a little darker)
Stampin' Royalty: Use Punches

SMC: May New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to another Sew Many Cards Blog hop. If you've been following our blog hops, you know that you have a chance to win just by commenting on my blog. SIMON SAYS STAMPS is our monthly sponsor again and the Prize Package is a $10 Gift Certificate to their store.

This blog hop will run from today, April 30th until May 6. On the 6th, the winner will be announced so check back here next week to see if you are a winner. Thank-you for taking the time to hop along. You should have come from Carol's blog. When you are finished hopping, why not check out the Sew Many Cards Store! There you can find the current challenge and this week's Friday Freebie.

I'd would like to also remind you of the monthly challenges we have at Sew Many Cards Challenge Blog! You can also find the blog hop list if you happen to get lost along the way. Check out the Sew Many Cards layout challenge blog on Saturday, May 1st and meet their new Design Team too.

My creation this week is more than just a card. I made a Card Holder with 4 cards all featuring Elie the Ewe.

And here's a close-up of each individual card...

Fred She Said has the challenge to Create a 3D Gift for a Loved One...This is for my Mother in Law (I've made sheep cards for her in the past). I printed Elie in 4 different sizes. I used Fun Flock in White, Yellow and Cantaloupe and watercolor markers for the nose and hooves. The cards are made from a Stampin' Up Christmas paper pack in olive and pink (I bought it at a garage sale last year then again this year so I must have liked it - LOL). I also printed out the sentiments using MS word and a bunch of different fonts. For each card, I raided various "odds & ends" (except the ribbon) for pretty and different ways for decoration. I hope you enjoy looking at my cards. Now to continue on your hopping way, please go see Karen.

Little Boy in Blue

Blue Cardstock: Paper Company Value Pack
Brown Cardstock: DCWV textured
CuttleBug Embossing folder: Ornamental Weave... sanded a little to show white core
Eyelets: Making Memories
Markers: Bic and Sharpies
Brown distressing Ink: ColorBox Cat's Eye Pigment Cocoa
Image of Boy: Sew Many Cards Owen with Flowers
Inside Sentiment: MS Word



Challenges to enter:
Dietrich Dare Sketch by Jack
Stamp TV Monday Color Challenge: Blue & Brown/Tan STVCCTG8
Quizotic challenge: Distressing
Whoopsi Daisy : For the Boys

SMC CHALLENGE #12: Anything Goes

KLM DESIGNS -- KATHRYN & SUE -- OWNERS

URL LINK -- www.klmdigistamps.com

Sponsor Prize Package: 3 digital images of winners choice from the KLM Designs Store

Sponsor Blurb: KLM Digi Stamps (KLM Designs) was started by a Mother & Daughter team. Kathryn (owner of KLM Digi Stamps) and Sue (Company’s artist) started designing digital stamps for their own creations. After much response & excitement to their designs they formed KLM Digi Stamps.

KLM carry’s a large selection of designs from clowns, which are the company’s signature design to digital sentiments. All images are delivered ZIP format. Each image file contains JPEG and PNG format files. Images can be resized, reversed and altered to your likings.

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This week at SMC, the challenge it open to do anything you'd like. Well, I had these tee-shirt my boys outgrew but I have a niece that should be able to wear them. But a plain white shirt isn't a fun gift so I decided to dress them up with the cutest images around. I have an inkjet printer, so I just printed one image that was enlarged to fit, sprayed a little water on the paper, then ironed it on the shirt.

Then I went over the black lines with black sharpie, and colored it with my sharpie and bic markers.To finished it off, I ironed it again thinking that would heat set the colors but it caused the blue patches to bleed. I guess I should have let it dry longer before I tried to heat set just to make sure that it was truly dry. (Alcohol markers...who knew they wouldn't dry quickly on cotton)

Here's the finished product and the other projects

So then I washed the shirts since I had bleeding from the ink. Ink then went over all the others in other spots! So I decided to take my markers and decorate each one differently to disguise the mistake smudge.

I like the speckles with Jovi the best.

Head on over to the Sew Many Cards Challenge blog and check out the rest of the NEW design team's projects. Then play along for a chance to win 3 digi images from KLM designs.
Come back next week for our May release blog hop. I can't wait to show you what I'm concocting.

Challenges: Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Hang in There!

Hang in There

Background paper: Jillibean soup Black Bean Choppen onion

Red cardstock: JoAnn’s Scrap pack

Girl Stamp: The Angel Company wonder and joy

Ink: JoAnn Craft Essentials Pigment

Ink in black

Sentiment: Printed with computer, Comic Sans MS font

Ribbon: No Name from Target dollar bin

Colored with colored pencils (crayola, rose art, and some literally with no name on the side)

Embellish Magazine Red,Black.White,Kraft

Play Date Cafe Black, White & splash of color

Love You!

Background paper: Jillibean soup Black Bean Choppen onion

Heart Stamp: Sew Many Cards digital stamp Heart Present

Ink: JoAnn Craft Essentials Pigment Ink in black

Sentiment: Stampendous Personal Notes Mini Quad Cube

Embossing Powder: Stampendous Midnight Black

Colored with colored pencils (crayola, rose art, and some literally with no name on the side)

Challenges:

Embellish Magazine Red,Black.White,Kraft

Play Date Cafe Black, White & splash of color

SMC CHALLENGE #11

SUNSHINE STAMPS -- CHRISTINA "SUNSHINE" and ROB -- OWNERS

STORE URL Link --http://www.yourspecialdelivery.co.uk/sunshine-stamps.html

BLOG URL LINK -- http://sunshinesstamps.blogspot.com/

SPONSOR PRIZE PACKAGE -- 3 IMAGES OF WINNERS CHOICE FROM SUNSHINE'S STAMP STORE

SPONSOR BLURB --

Sunshine’s Stamps is the brainchild of Christina {Sunshine} and Rob. Angus Argus was launched into the paper crafting world on June 27th, 2009 and the rest as they say is history! We have a wide variety of stamps in our inventory - all of which are hand drawn by either Sunshine or Rob.
We love to “sunshine” masculine vehicles and give them personality. We also have our signature image - Sunny Bunny - who will continue to be altered to celebrate all holidays and occasions. If you have a suggestion for a Sunny Bunny send us an e-mail and we will happily consider it! Whether it’s a card for your husband, boyfriend, man-cub or daughter, wife etc. we have an image that will suit your crafting needs! Our images are constantly evolving and are unique in the paper crafting world. We are very pleased to say that we respond to customer suggestion on images and sentiments. If you have an idea for an image or sentiment that you cannot find elsewhere on the web let us know. We will respond to all suggestions and let you know if its "doable". Finally,
be sure to hop to our blog http://sunshinesstamps.blogspot.com/ to check out our wonderful design team "Sunshine's Dream Team" blogs! We are so very proud of our gals! They are all rock stars and continue to create amazing cards and projects to showcase our imagesand to inspire you all to create!!

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This week Jeri has a sketch challenge going on this week and this is what I came up with!

I colored the heart pillow with colored pencils (see tutorial here) and picked more hearts for the card background from Born to Be Wild by Momenta.com (I believe I bought it at the Tuesday Morning store). The ribbon came from Oriental Trading Co.

I'm entering this card into the following challenge:

Crafty Creations: Limited Supplies (one paper, one image, one embellishment)

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Here’s another card I created.

I used the color scheme from last week’s PaperCraftPlanet challenge: Monochromatic Orange pcpcolor62 and the current Tuesday Sketch for my Create a Card group. I again colored the ink bottle (today’s Friday Freebie) with colored pencils. I didn’t have a stamp that said what I wanted to say, and I don’t have orange ink in my printer so I hand wrote the sentiment. I need to use this card for my friend in Alaska that I need to write to.

Why don't you hop on over to the Challenge blog and join in.