PaperCrafter's Corner Magazine Monday!

PCC Inspiration

     It's Week 64 at PaperCrafter's Corner, and this one didn't require much thought.  It was a bus!  My hubby loves buses, especially red double-decker buses.  Our 45th anniversary is coming up, and we had hopes of returning to London, our favorite vacation place.  It's not going to work out right now, but I knew I could make him the perfect anniversary card. 
     I found the free graphic on the internet.  I printed it, fussy cut it and popped it up.  DH will love it.  :o)  And I love him.  
     Next up:  My craftroom re-do!

Happy 45th Anniversary, Honey!

PaperCrafter's Corner and DCVW Challenges! WooHoo!

     I was going through paper withdrawals!  I moved my craftroom from one end of the house to the other, which also meant clearing a bedroom, redressing the family room and another bedroom, a major furniture shuffle!  It took every bit of two weeks.  During that time there was no papercrafting!  Oh, the horrors, I know!  So, alas, everything has a place and everyplace is filled, not necessarily with the things that go there, but close enough!  So. . .

Another page in DGD's Page-a Month (not necessarily in order)!

Magazine Monday Week 63

      PaperCrafter's Corner had a one day extension on the Magazine Monday challenge!  Did I need that! I tried to stay with the color palette of the inspiration, the costumey look of the character and the decorated face!  LOL!  DGD's is chocolate, of course.
    I also decided to use the sketch from the DCWV Stack-a-holic challenge.  I stamped and embossed the background in order to stay with the colors from PaperCrafter's Corner.  Then I had fun layering textures.  I used the Spring Cardstock stack for the 12 x 12 and added from the Corrugated Stack, the Printed Craft Stack and a very old Mulberry Matstack.  I cut each in half to give the impression they were longer than they are.  :o)

DCVW August Stack-a-holic Challenge

It sure felt good to be playing with paper again!

PaperCrafter's Corner's Magazine Monday #61

     I love trying new techniques.  Since I only tried this once before, it's still new to me.  Perfect for Paper Crafter's Corner's weekly challenge.  My card involved using UTEE Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel, in multiple layers to get a glassy tile look.  I used clipart from a cd called Honeyville, cut it apart, inked the edges, then heat embossed them with the UTEE three times, building up a nice thick layer.  I hope I have captured the shine.  It doesn't look like paper at all.  I love techniques that do that. 

Magazine Monday Week 61

     I picked up on the colors and landscape of  the inspiration piece. Such fun!
     Now I will get back to moving my craftroom.  I hope I can get it all organized again in time for next week's challenge!
     

Paper Crafter's Corner Magazine Monday #60!

     These days it seems I have so little time for one of the things I love most, i.e., PAPERCRAFTING!!!  So when I sit down at my craft table it is great to have an immediate goal.  Paper Crafter's Corner provides that every week.  Thank you, PCC!  I love Magazine Monday challenges.  Just wish I would have found you sooner.

Magazine Monday Inspiration #60

I took my inspiration from the umbrellas, as you can see from the magazine cover.  I used a graphic I downloaded from the Graphics Fairy and added a kind of beachy background, a computer skill I had to relearn!  That became the focal point of my card.  I thought the dotted paper from DCWV resembled rain drops, and I added a few Rain Dots to those.  I hope you can see them.  Then some black layers on a kraft card, a bit of black embroidery thread and a small button.  It was just the paper therapy I needed this week.  :o)

Papercrafting Challenge: Magazine Mondays – Week 59

Magazine Monday Inspiration

     This week's challenge at PaperCrafter's Corner was indeed a challenge!  I really wanted to do a 3-D effect using a die cut.  I recently viewed a tutorial on that technique, but could not, for the life of me, find it.  Then I remembered an idea I had for using the Die-Versions Rocking Chair die.  I used the ideas of a neutral background, pops of color and a black heading from the inspiration piece.  I like the result so much I may have to make a few more to send out to some special people.  I'm thinking it could even be a birthday card with a sentiment stamped inside.  :o)

PCC's Magazine Mondays--Week 58

     Time for another challenge from PaperCrafter's Corner!
     I think the Disney movie Frozen is the biggest hit in a long time for little girls.  I hear them singing several aisles over when I go shopping.  My 4-year-old DGD (dear granddaughter) is no exception!  She knows all the songs beginning to end and thinks she doesn't have to wear shoes on a chilly evening, "because the cold doesn't bother [her] anyway!"
     Next week she is going to a Frozen themed birthday party.  She and her little friend, Ava, love princesses, dress-up and especially Elsa and Anna.  So I made a birthday card using inspiration from this week's challenge. 
     I liked the partially painted picture and mimicked that.  After I printed the picture with Sequoia's and Ava's heads, I printed it again in lightened gray-scales and added parts of that to my card layer.  The biggest problem I had was trying to splatter a little big of reinker on the second layer.  I thought Distress inks were water soluble, but I have them all over my hands, and they're not coming off!  LOL!

 

The picture is 4x6 layered on a 5x7 card.  That's just a tiny, tiny pencil from my embellishment stash.

Happy Fourth of July!

     A quiet house on a holiday!  Perfect! 
     I "accidently" found two copycat recipes for See's candies this week.  I knew I shouldn't, but I had to try them.  Delicious and super easy.  I got that out of my system and won't do them again until Christmas.  Then I'll be sure to get chocolate sprinkles to add to the top of the "Bordeaux." 
     I decided to gift a friend with a little box of chocolates (so I don't eat them all!).  I love that with the Scor-Pal, I can easily make a box or bag.  Once I decide on the dimensions, it only takes a minute to decide how large I need my cardstock and where to put the folds and cuts.

     For this one, I cut the bottom 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 and scored 1" in on each side all the way around.  I made the top 4 7/8 x 4 7/8 and again scored 1" from each side.  I die cut the star from the center and taped cellophane behind it.  A Fiskars Border Punch was used on the top piece before taping it all together.  The cardstock was double sided, so I just flipped my star over and used it for a tag. 

     I'm entering this in PaperCrafter's Corner's Magazine Monday Challenge, my new fave challenge!  Here's the inspiration for this week.   I went with the patriotic colors and, Steph, did you notice I used the negative space again?  :o)

     I've never entered the Scor-Pal challenge, but realized I could do a twofer this week.  I do love my Scor-Pals, yes, Scor-Pals, plural.  I bought the newer one with more grooves, but can't part with the original.  I'd love to have a Scor-Buddy, too, just because it's so cute.  The Scor-Pal challenge is "More Than One Score" Challenge #6 - Colors of Your Country/Patriotic."   This is a monthly challenge that runs through the end of July.
      Hopefully, my links will take you to both of these challenges.  Thanks for looking.