Magazine Mondays, Week 49

     PaperCrafter's Corner has a fun weekly challenge.  I'm still new to it, but enjoying it so much.  I never thought about magazine covers as a source of inspiration.  I love a new way to look at things. 
     I received the Doodlebug Design/Sizzix "Welcome Home" stamp and die set in the mail the same day the challenge came out.  That made the creative process a little easier. 
    

      I used DCWV's beautiful Shimmer Cardstock Stack for the sky and Canvas Matstack for the grassy part.  I loved unraveling the edges!  I went to my Roy G. Biv scrap bin and paper-pieced the houses, a relaxing way to spend the afternoon!
     Thanks for looking.

Inside of A2 card

Papercrafting Challenge: Magazine Mondays – Week Forty-Eight

I always have such big plans to blog, but time is not on my side.  Not having my much loved fiskateers.com as a playground anymore, I am looking around for new places to play.  This looked like a fun challenge:  Magazine Monday, Week 48, from PaperCrafter's Corner.com.

The inspiration was the busy city of New York, but anyone who knows me knows that I am a big anglophile!  It's all about England!  I took the idea of city icons to London!

I used my a-muse studio stamps, British Invasion, to make a card for my DH remembering our Christmas holiday in London.  The background is a piece of aluminum foil adhered to cardstock and embossed with a cuttlebug folder.  I stamped and fussy cut the London icons and popped them up with homemade dimensionals made with fun foam and my trusty little Xyron X.

Thank you PaperCraftersCorner.com!  I hope I can play along more often!

DCWV August Stackaholic Card Challenge

A quick he!!o to get my card entered for the DCWV Stackaholic Challenge.  I'm loving hexagons at the moment.  So I decided to carry the ones from the paper in the top part of the card into the tied tags.  They are popped with adhesive foam so they don't really dangle.  The sentiment is heat embossed and popped, too.  The white cardstock is from scraps.  The rest, the pretty stuff, is from DCWV's Fun in the Sun Summer Glitter Stack.  I did get a Fiskars punch in there, too.  See it? 

DCWV July Stackaholic Challenge

     Antigoglin:  lopsided or at an angle.  I learned a new word!  (Thank you, Heather and Margit!) 
     I have a degree in natural science.  I've always been very left-brained, analytical, never artistic.  Somehow, I have found, or turned on, the right-side.  No one is more surprised than I that I can actually come up with some pretty creative cards and scrapbook pages!  But it has definitely been a process.
      At first everything had to be ever-so-straight and symmetrical.  My friend Pat drove me crazy with her lop-sided art!  I think she did it just to torture me.  Now that I'm getting older and my brain power is diminishing, maybe the left brain is fading faster allowing my right brain to flourish.  Oh, there I go. . .trying to figure it all out again!  Anyway, now I like lopsided!   Here's my entry for this month's stackaholic challenge.  I used DCWV's So-So Sweet matstack.    
     It is pretty CAS (Clean and Simple, for my non-crafting friends).  But it's more complicated than it looks.  I stamped the image three different times, fussy-cut and paper-pieced.  I sewed around the different layers, inked around the image, layered and popped it.  And it's antigoglin! 

DCWV July Stackaholics Scrapbook Sketch Challenge

     This is actually a 2-page layout.  I used the DCWV sketch for the first page and made a second complimentary page for Fiskateers' Stars and Stripes Challenge.   I used DCWV Summer Dream Premium Stack on both pages.  I love embossing and sanding the white core paper for added texture, pattern and dimension.  I also love red, white and blue!
     If you're gonna see Gramma's house, you need to meet Gramma's boy!  This was taken when DGS Tiger was about 2 1/2.  He's now 15.  He probably wouldn't appreciate me posting this on the 'net, so I'm not going to tell him.  :o) 

And here's the two pages side-by-side.  This IS the way our grandchildren will remember Gramma and Papa's house.  No doubt!

DCWV June Stackaholic Scrapbook Sketch Challenge

I made this page using DCWV Kidlet Stack!  I love this stack for the grandkids!  This is our Andrew before he was ours.  He is our daughter's stepson and is 12-years-old now.  We didn't get to know him as a baby, but are enjoying him now!  He just came to live with his dad, so we are looking forward to more fun times with him, Tiger and Sequoia, as Papa would say, "Our favorite grandkids living in Salinas!"

DCWV June Scrapaholics Sketch Challenge

I think sketch challenges are among my favorite.  I so enjoy seeing how others interpret the same sketch.  DCWV has a monthly Stackaholics challenge that I have entered several times.  I decided to give it a go again, but actually use my long-ignored blog to post.  Maybe I can make a habit of that.  :o)  This is for the June card sketch, using DCWV Fun in the Sun Summer Glitter Stack. 

I love the way it turned out so much, I decided to use the same sketch to make a second card with some red, white and blue scraps.  #Fiskateers shape challenge for June is pinwheels.  I'm sure that's where the original idea in my head came from.  I die-cut the slightly wonky squares for the DCWV card, but used my Fiskars trimmer to cut squares for the red, white and blue.  Almost the same exact card, but so different with the different colors and patterns.  Such fun!  I do love paper and scissors and glue!