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Bo Bunny – Flower Card Challenge

I’ve entered a few of Bo Bunny’s card challenges, and it’s always fun to work with the product and come up with something cute that matches the theme of the challenge!

The challenge I’m entering is to create a card with Bo Bunny products…and flowers! (Click here for the contest details.)

The paper I used for this challenge is not one of their more recent lines; it’s from the “Unforgettable” line from around Winter 09. I’ve been saving the paper for some time, and I thought it would be great to use for this card! I think this could work as an anniversary card, or the sentiment could be changed for a wedding card.

Everything I used to make this card is by Bo Bunny, with the exception of the foam pop-up squares, and the Stardust and Glaze pens I used to color in the letters and accent the flowers. I didn’t have the color of letters that I wanted to use for the card, so I stuck the letter stickers on the paper I wanted to use, cut them out, and recolored them to match. I used a black Glaze pen to accent leaves and flower details. I fussy cut a few of the flowers and popped them up with foam squares.
Papers: Double Dot Almond, “Unforgettable” and “Unforgettable Kiss”.
Thanks for looking!

I’m a colourQueen!

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There was a three-way tie this week at the colourQ for the most recent challenge (#30), and I am one of the winners! There were so many fabulous entries this week (just like every week)!

As one of the winners, I get a sweet badge and get to be a future guest designer at colourQ!

If you’d like to check out all of the gorgeous entries, click here.

TOO COOL!!!!

Curtain Call #28

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This is my first entry to a Curtain Call challenge! I’ve followed the competition for a while, and have always been wowed by the ladies who submit cards each week!

Here’s the latest challenge on Stacey’s Stamping Stage (click here to check out the details):

Here’s the card that I made for the challenge. Using the Kraft and white colors was easy; it was a bit more challenging to work in the Rose Red and Not Quite Navy, but I’m happy with my card!
The patterned papers are from Pink Paislee, and the cardstock is from Bazzill. I also used hemp twine, Soft Suede ink and a stamp from the Puns from the Past collection by Stampin’ Up! The ribbon is from American Crafts. I used a Fiskars border punch to thread the ribbon through the paper.
The flowers were made with various sizes of punched circles. I folded the circles into fourths, and then cut a heart shape into each folded circle. Then I opened up the folded pieces and stacked them on top of each other and glued a rhinestone to the center.
Thanks for looking!

Paper Crafts Gallery Idol 2010

Paper Crafts Magazine is hosting another Gallery Idol competition for 2010. The first round of cards is due by May 24 to a Flickr gallery, which you can reach by clicking HERE.

The theme for the first round of competition is “Thank You” cards, and here’s what I submitted:

The card base is Bazzill cardstock. The patterned papers are from Pink Paislee (black & white) and Basic Grey. I used two stamps from Stampin’ Up!’s Chic Boutique set. The Eiffel Tower stamp was stamped on a transparency using Staz-On ink. I also used Staz-On to customize the twill ribbon with Technique Tuesday stamps. I glued a lighter pink cardstock to the inside of the card to help the transparency image stand out more.
This is the second card I’m submitting. The card base is Bazzill cardstock, and the papers are “Buttons a la Mode” and “Bona Fide” from Graphic 45’s Fashionista and Renaissance Faire collections. The stamp is from Stampin’ Up!’s “Very Thankful” set. The pearl brad is from American Crafts. I am not sure of the manufacturer for the ribbon or the paper flowers.
If you’d like more information on the Gallery Idol competition, click HERE.
As always, thanks for visiting and looking at my cards!

CPS #165

The card that I made for this week’s Card Positioning Systems (CPS) Challenge features Cosmo Cricket’s Material Girl collection. The stamp I used is from Stampin’ Up!’s Puns from the Past collection.

Here’s this week’s CPS sketch:

I rotated the sketch for my card, and here’s what I made!
I fan-folded the flowers from strips of the measuring tape paper. After fan-folding each flower, I glued the ends together and stuck them to the card with a large glue dot. Then, I glue-dotted a button to the flower’s center. I saw the original flower idea in a recent edition of Paper Crafts magazine.
Thanks for looking!

Stampin’ Royalty : Use Your Punches

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This week’s challenge over at Stampin’ Royalty was to create a project using your paper punches. I don’t have a big supply of punches to choose from; most of my punches are border punches with a few basic shapes.

The punches I used for this card are: an embossing border punch and a balloon shape punch from Martha Stewart Crafts, my Crop-a-Dile, a 1-3/4″ Stampin’ Up circle punch, and the small paper punch for the i-Top brad making tool.

To make the lace border, I punched the first border strip, then measured the length of the design. Then I cut off the excess and border punched the opposite side of the paper. The flowers were made with the small i-Top punch, and are folded in fourths. The flower vase is made from the balloon punch. I cut one end off of the balloon shape to make it flat on the bottom. I used the circle punch to create the peek-a-boo window on the card.

Other supplies: Ribbon from Michael’s, Bazzill cardstock and Dotted Swiss cardstock, butterfly and sentiment stamps from Stampin’ Up’s “Dreams du Jour” set. Chocolate Chip and Soft Suede Stampin’ Up inks were also used. I added hand-drawn details with a Stardust pen and Staedler fine line pens.

Thanks for looking!

PageMaps: American Crafts Letterbox Card Contest

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Whenever PageMaps has a card contest, I try my best to enter it because I use PageMaps and CardMaps often when I’m working on a layout!

This is the inspiration for the contest, and the goodies up for grabs:

This is the card I came up with! I tried to use as much American Crafts product on my card as possible. I have several papers and elements from their Blue Skies collection, and since the theme of the contest is Spring, I thought that collection would work well with the card and the sketch.
I rotated the sketch, and took out the lower left square to make room for my sentiment. Instead of a separate focal point that’s shown on the sketch, I put a pop-up element in the middle of the four top squares. Everything I used on the card (except for the cardstock base) is from American Crafts.
Thanks for looking!

colourQ #30

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This week’s colourQ featured some colors I don’t normally use…all in the same challenge! Lucky for me, I had some new Stampin’ Up! stamps to use for my card this week.

Here’s the inspiration for this week’s challenge…

The white, burgundy and coral were pretty easy to work in, but I had trouble with the artichoke and sage. Overall, I’m very happy with how my card came out!
The stamps are from Stampin’ Up!’s “Chic Boutique” set.
I stamped the dressform three times onto cardstock and colored in the stands with my Stardust pen. I used crystal Stickles to accent the beadwork. Then I stamped three times on the three different colors of cardstock and cut the dressforms out to pop up on top of the original stamped image.
I selected the background paper from Pink Paislee’s Bayberry Cottage Collection.
I stamped the sentiment on white cardstock, double matted it with the two shades of green, punched holes on the left side and threaded some twill ribbon through the tag.
Other supplies I used: Creative Impressions ribbon, Martha Stewart border punch. The inks I used are Stampin’ Up!, staples.
Thanks for looking!

Get Sketchy #36

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This week’s challenge on the Get Sketchy blog had me thinking “old school”… Here’s the sketch we played with…

To me, the sketch looked like a cassette tape… “old school,” right? Here’s the card I made!
The supplies that I used:
Cardstock: Bazzill, Stampin Up! and Bo Bunny Double Dot (for the card base)
Letters: Thickers by American Crafts and Making Memories Rub-ons
Stamp: Imaginisce
Other: Ribbon, Black Foam Dots, silver colored pencil
The hardest part of this card for me was making the cassette tape look real. I had some plastic leftover from a package, which I used to make the tape “window.” The details on the tape were drawn in by hand with the mini tape on the robot stamp for a guide. I punched the holes with my Crop-a-dile.
Thanks for looking! 🙂