Mix It Up Challenge for July - August

Hard to believe it's already July - this year is going quickly!  It's time for a new challenge at Mix It Up Challenges Mix It Up Challenges and this one is a doozy!  For this challenge, you are to use veggie stamping - yes, you read that right - stamping with some type of vegetable instead of your rubber stamps.

This one had me stymied for a bit.  The only veggie stamping I'd ever done was many years ago, when you learned how to cut an image out of a potato and use it to stamp.  This time, though, I switched from potatoes to peppers for my stamping.  

I buy small sweet peppers for salads, so I cut the top stem portion off one of the peppers and dabbed it onto some ink pads.  This made the splotchy, wonky circle images.  The I dabbed the edge of the pepper top in another color and rolled it onto the paper.  This made some curvy line images.  Here are the cards I made from some of the stamped pieces above:

The images on the peach and green card were stamped, colored and diecut, while the image on the blue green card was stamped directly over the background stamping, and then colored in with gel tints. I don't think anyone would guess that the backgrounds were stamped with peppers, do you?  😄

We look forward to the creative ways you use vegetables in your stamping projects this month!  You have until August 15th to join in the fun.  

CAS on Friday - challenge #285 - Embossing

 The current challenge at CAS on Friday CAS on Friday is to use embossing on your project.  Here's my card for the challenge:

I used a Gina K lattice embossing folder with some teal cardstock, then lightly swiped a white ink pad over the raised edges.  I cut some strips from the embossed panel and adhered them diagonally onto the card front.  The ephemera piece was adhered with some foam tape and I added three tiny crystals to the flower centers for a touch of sparkle.  Very simple, and can be used for many different occasions.

Jingle Belles Tree Skirt Tic-Tac-Toe challenge

  Jingle Belles has a tic-tac-toe challenge going on right now.  Here is the challenge board:

I used the bottom horizontal row for my card:  silver, diecut and trees.  

The trees were diecut from metallic silver paper using two Tim Holtz/Sizzix dies.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in silver and then used silver metallic ink for the splatters.  I just love the dark blue and silver combination.

AAA Card Challenge #265

  Congratulations to AAA Card Challenges for celebrating their 10th birthday!  To go along with that, their challenge is to create a birthday card.  Here's my card for the challenge:

I used some techniques learned from a recent make-n-take with Paper Artsy, which involved stenciling and stamping with paints and gel tints in a collage style.  Collage is way out of my comfort zone, but I really do like the end result, and it makes a nice card for a teen or adult.

TicTacToe Challenge #247

 Here is the current challenge board at Tic Tac Toe Challenges:

I chose the diagonal row from top LH corner to bottom RH corner:  dry embossing, stenciling and embellished envelope.  Here's my card for the challenge:  

The kraft card front was dry embossed with a leafy pattern.  I used a Tim Holtz stripe stencil, turned on the diagonal both ways, to create the plaid.  The stamps on the card and envelope are from Newton's Nook.  I colored the image on the card with Olo markers and the image on the envelope with colored pencils.  I don't normally embellish envelopes, but it adds a really fun touch!

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - May Color Challenge

 Here is the May color challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown:

I'll admit that this one was a challenge, but I really wanted to figure out how to use these colors on a Christmas card.  I ended up going with a snowy theme.

I diecut the snowflake frame and then stamped some snowflakes around the frame in peach and gray ink.  The snow people were stamped and colored in gray and peach and I used gray and white polka dot paper behind them.  This turned out pretty good for a non-traditional color holiday card!

Sparkles Christmas Challenge #160 - ribbon or twine

 The new challenge at Sparkles Christmas Challenge is to use ribbon or twine on your project.  Here's my card for the challenge:

The stamps are all from Gina K's Winter Whimsey stamp set.  I ink blended the background, then stamped the trees and stamped and fussy cut the houses.  The snow is made from torn white mulberry paper, with some chunky glitter added.  I tied a little white twine bow around the scalloped edge card front.