Card A Day Blog: Get Well and Fusion #2

It's my turn again to continue the Get Well theme at the Card A Day blog.  This is a theme card that should be always in one's stash.  But guess what it's never in mine!  I needed two cards for two friends who recently had surgery.  So this one will be used immediately and I may just duplicate it for the other friend.  Note to self:  make more Get Well cards!

I decided to use the Fusion Challenge #2 for the inspiration of my card.

When I saw this photo I immediately thought of bees!  Weird huh!  Well it works because I have an adorable bee stamp set that I was dying to use.  Let me show you my card then I'll explain more of how it came about.

I wanted to use hexagons with the bees and since the fusion sketch didn't have any hexagon shapes I sought inspiration elsewhere.  I had pinned this card by Sheri Feypel.  I loved her use of hexagons..embossing..and butterflies.  I figured bees would work just as well as butterflies so I got to creating.  I punched the hexagons using the 1 1/4 inch size.  I used Papertrey Ink's honey bees stamps and embossed the bees.  Does embossing powder get old?  I tried various inks and two different embossing powders plus different papers but the surface failed to get raised and shiny.  Eventually I ended up using Versamark ink stamping...heat embossing then stamping image over the embossing before then heat embossing again getting the raised image I wanted.  Thank goodness I was using clear stamps or that would have been impossible!  I used some fun flock on the the largest bees yellow body to make it nice and fuzzy.  The sentiment is from PTI's honey bee sentiments.  I embossed the background with a wood grain embossing folder to mimic the fusion photo then rubbed some grey ink over the embossing to bring out the details more.  I added some white sequins to mimic the flight of the bees and add movement to the card. 

Thanks for stopping by!  Please come back again..I'll have another challenge card to share soon.  It's freezing here..hope it's warm where you are!  I think I need to buy more sweaters!  Brrr!

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Fusion Card Challenge #1

I'm back again as promised.  I have another challenge card to share.  I stumbled upon the Fusion Card Challenge last week.

It's an interesting concept....you can use just the sketch or just the photo for inspiration...or go for it all and use both!  I really loved the orange/grey/white color combo but unfortunately I used most of my grey cardstock up for the previous challenge so instead I used a piece of pattern paper and pulled my colors from there.  Hmm..guess it would be best just to show you my card before I explain any more huh!

I absolutely adored design team member Betty J's card example so I decided to case hers.  I used one of my card base files to add some decorative border strips to the sides.  The butterflies are from my 3-D butterflies file.  (Both files are coming soon to my new store!).   I actually made two cards one with the embossed butterflies and one with plain butterflies.  I definitely like the texture the embossed butterflies add to the card.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink's. Happy Hexagons mini stamp set.  I was very happy to dig out my dusty/forgotten fiber to wrap around the bottom of the card.  It is hard to see in the photo but it's tiny pom poms on a string...adds a fun element to this card.  Oh and some more of those gems designed for jeans was added to the center of the butterflies.  The wings were attached with a tiny piece of foam tape allowing them to be folded slightly in the middle to give a 3-D effect.

Time to get the kids ready for bed.  I'll see you back here on the 17th for my Card a Day blog post.  Thanks for stopping by!  Enjoy the rest of your week!

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Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday Challenge

Woo Hoo!  I'm off to a grand start...for my New Year's resolution ...day two of blogging!  Hope I can continue this trend and I hope you are all doing well with your goals too!

One of my favorite challenge is Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday challenge.   As of right now there are 147 technique videos (you can see them by clicking the highlighted words ...Make it Monday).  I'm a total technique junkie and absolutely love when someone shows me a new technique so it's a thrill to come to this website and see a new one every Monday.  Hmm...maybe I should make it a New Year Resolution to try one of these techniques at least once a month in addition to participating in the challenge.

Anyway..on to my cards.  I grabbed the color scheme from Curtain Call's Smitten challenge.   Unfortunately, I didn't get the photos taken in time to enter the challenge.  Drat!  Well I'll just have to remember to participate in their new challenge on Jan. 15th.

The newest PTI MIM challenge involves stamping one stamp in multiple colors and cutting them apart and layering them for a multi-colored single image.  Love this!  Check out the video here.  I'm not positive I like these colors together but they did look great on the mitten in the curtain call inspiration photo.  I do like how the focal image turned out though..and may jusy try this in different colors sometime.  I used PTI's Mehndi Medallion mini stamp set along with some circle die cuts and some fussy cutting.  I think the bling is a great finishing touch to the medallion.  It's funny I bought these gems when JoAnn Fabrics was going out of business.  They were designed to be attached to jeans...I have not put one on my jeans but I have used a ton on cards!  I used Deconstructed sketch # 129.  It's a great sketch for making multiple cards fast.  I also stamped the background paper with stamps from the medallion set too..and added a little embossing to the strip.  It just seemed too plain without these added features.   The sentiment is from PTI's Wishes Come True stamp set.  I figured I'll stamp the sentiment on the other card when I need it...it could easily be a thank you or anniversary card too.

I have one more challenge card to share with you so come back tomorrow to see that!  Right now it's snuggle time!  Thanks for stopping by!

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Come snuggle with my teddy bear!

I made this card for a friend of mine using Wishblading Well's files. I used fluid chalk to add depth to the edges and regular chalk for the cheeks. I also added gloss paint for the eyes and nose. I hand made the little heart out of Darice wire. I hand embossed the onsie following the pattern on the Creative Memories paper. I made it look a little distressed since baby boys are far from neat! I resisted buying those little safety pins for the longest time but thought it added just the right touch for this teddy! Thanks for looking! Shelly

























inside of card. I used my own file for the scalloped heart and used the pen tool on my digital cutter with an American Crafts gel pen for the sentiment.

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