New Sketch Challenge at Playing in Paradise!

Hi everyone!

We have a new Sketch Challenge up for you at Playing in Paradise! 

Just a refresher, our challenges run for 3 weeks and then a new one is posted on the 2nd Friday of every month, so entries for this challenge will need to be in by November 29th.  Everyone is invited to play.  The only rules are to have fun and play fair!!

I got out my Copics and had some fun coloring for this challenge.  (Don't you find coloring is very relaxing?)

 

 

I used the beautiful Christmas collection "Christmas Collection" by Kaisercraft, and picked the colors of my Copics from that.  Colours used were: E7,9,17,18,21,43,44,47,49    YG93,95,97,99     YR24,27    R27,29.

The stamp set I used was "Home for the Holidays" by Flourishes.  Once I was done colouring, I die cut it with "Majestic Labels #2 Framelits" by Sizzix. 

For the inside, I used the same Framelits set and one of the sentiments from "Home for the Holidays".  (I love the sentiments to this set!)  All paper edges were inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.  The green pointsettia - strange but pretty LOL - came from the Christmas Collection sticker sheet, and  the poinsettia chipboard on the front are Pink Paislee "Snow Village".

I hope this has inspired you to start some Christmas cards!  We would love to see them entered over at Playing in Paradise.  Show us what YOUR favorites in stamps or paper, is this year!

Take care,

 

Linda

Supplies used:

Kaisercraft - Christmas Collection
Copic markers
Flourishes - Home for the Holidays stamp set
Sizzix Framelits Majestic Labels #2
Pink Paislee - Snow Village chipboard

 

PPC111 Playing in Paradise Challenge

Hello everyone!  It's Friday and time for another challenge at Playing in Paradise!  Jessie is hosting this week and has asked us to create something that incorporates embossing - wet, dry or both.

I wanted to practise with my Copic markers, so I pulled this little girl stamp from my stash and used her for the focal of my card.

I embossed the pink mat with a Cuttlebug Polka Dots embossing folder.  The lace butterfly was from my stash and I inked it with Copic marker RV14 Begonia Pink and added a little Prima pearl swirl.

For the green mat, I just used my Scor-Pal and scored lines every 1/2" in both directions.  The little piece of doily that you can see peeking out above the "love" die cut, was made using a piece of Kaisercraft paper and the "Distressed Doily" On the Edge Die by Tim Holtz.

I made the green flower using the same Kaisercraft paper and dabbed it with "Lettuce" paint to make it a little greener.  I used my favorite Spellbinders die "Bitty Blossoms" to cut it out and form it.  Some pink Stickles was dabbed on the flowers to make them sparkle a little, and I made the flower cluster from bits and pieces of flowers and chippies that I had left over from other projects.

I really hope you will try some embossing for our challenge this week.  It is a very simple way to add texture to a card or layout. The rules can be found here, and they are very simple.  I love seeing the beautiful work that everyone comes up with, and visiting your blogs!

After you're done checking out the rules, be sure and visit the rest of the design team's blogs (just "click" on their names) - they have done some wonderful work this week.

The prize to be won this week is:  The Sweetest Thing stickers, brads, enamel dots, doilies and layered stickers.  This awesome package is worth $25 and you get a chance to win it just by linking your project to the challenge!

Have fun crafting!

Linda

Supplies used were:

Copic markers	Dots Embossing Folder	Prima Mini Swirls	Scor-Pal
Distressed Doily On the Edge Die	Stickles	Cardstock	Green cardstock
Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms

PPC106 Playing in Paradise Challenge

"Top Of the Morning to You!"  It's Friday ... it's March 1st ... and we have another challenge 

for you over at Scrapbookers Paradise!

Jessi is the hostess this week and she is challenging us to use the colour green.  It can be something to do with St. Patrick's Day, but it doesn't have to, just make something with green as the focal colour!

In our family, we are always reminded of our Irish roots on            St. Patrick's Day.  My Great-grandfather came from Ireland and worked as a blacksmith, a trade which my Grandfather also loved and worked in for most of his life.  So of course, I wanted to make something to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.  I didn't have to look far, I still have some Graphic 45 "Place in Time" on hand, and the March page had some perfect images for making a card.  I decided to make an easel card that can sit on the counter as a pretty little decoration during the month of March.

Making a 6"x6" easel card is quite simple.  Start with a piece of cardstock that is  12" x 6" and score it at 3" and 6".  Cut another piece of cardstock 6" x 6".  This will be the piece you decorate for the front of your card.  You glue it to the top of the scored cardstock as shown below.

The last little piece you need to make, is to glue some sort of decoration at the base of the card to give it a "lip" to sit against in order that it doesn't slide down.  On my card, the stick pin is holding the top in place.

One last little thing I did on this card was to alter the flower at the bottom.  I felt the flower needed a little more depth, so I took a Copic pen and lightly shaded around the center.  You can see in the pictures below, where I started shading the flower, and the second one shows it completed.

So now I'm ready for St. Patrick's Day!  I really hope you will join us in the Playing In Paradise Challenge this week.  Click here for details on how to enter your project, and be sure and check out the projects that have been created by the rest of the design team!

Supplies used that can be purchased at Scrapbooking in Paradise:

     

I leave you with this Irish blessing:

May you always walk in sunshine.

May you never want for more.

May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.

Till next week,

Linda