Craft Roulette #98 Card & Video

Hello crafty friends,  

here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #98 (35th consecutive):

Here's a link to the process video for this card.  

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Craft Roulette #99 Card & Video

Hello crafty friends, 

here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #99 (36th consecutive):

Here's a link to the process video for this card.  

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Craft Roulette #97 Card & Video

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Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #97 (34th consecutive):

I used the following two digital stamps from LotvDigiShop for this 5x5 square card.  James Big Sign and Rabbit Sign 3.  I sized, position the images and added text to the signs in PSE.  Once the panel was printed and cut to size, I created my section with an alcohol proof pen.  

I used snowflake stamp for the top left section and a small flower stamp from the Honey Bee set for the bottom right section.   The top background is a blue tone-on-tone of clouds.  The bottom green,

 Here's a link to the process video for this card.  

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Craft Roulette #96 Card & Video

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Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #96 (33rd consecutive):

The parameters the craft wheel selected stumped me this week.  They weren't overly weird or hard, but they just weren't coming together in my mind.  When this happens, I focus on a specific person I want to give the card to and in doing so, my knowledge of the person helps ideas form.  

I started by picking pattern paper that met the plum parameter, then I created the explosion folding element.  I used the closed explosion element to trace the "house" shape onto white card stock, so I would have a place to stamp and decorate the inside of the card.   Tip... when you got to stamp/decorate your "house" shapes double check they are pointing in the correct direction (towards each other).  Once stamped and colored, I adhered them to the Explosion element and set it aside to work on the front of the card.

I created a flat shaker element for my "Stuffed" parameter element using the panel of pattern paper and topped it with a Spanish die cut "Feliz".  I will go back and add a "cumpleaños" stamp or die cut label to the front of the card later. Once the front was done, I sandwiched a black ribbon between the explosion element and the inside of the card base when adhering the explosion element to create a way to keep the card close.

Here's a link to the process video for this card.  

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Craft Roulette #93 Card & Video

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Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #93 (31st consecutive):

When the crafty wheel landed on rodents I cringed, because I automatically thought of mice and rats and knew I didn't have any in my stash.  Don't like them (or bugs), so I don't buy them.  But as the suggestions of different rodents started scrolling by the chat screen, I remember I had this cute guinea pig from IO in my stash and I got the idea to make the vertical line random parameter her cage door.  

Cutting out the bars the most time consuming part of the card.  I used scoreboard and T ruler to keep my lines straight and even.  Jan, has a cute pink bow, heart shape donut pillow and purple bed.  She's a Happy little thing.  

I had company (Storm) on my craft desk during the making of this card.  He's not a lap cat, but usually close to me in some way. 

Here's a link to the process video for this card.  

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Craft Roulette #92 Card

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Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #92:

Wow... I can't believe this is my 30th consecutive submission!  I've been card making for years, so I would call myself an advance card maker in the skill department.  But playing along with Craft Roulette challenges has 1) reinforced my love of card making. 2) given me a whole lot of confidence in my creativity and abilities and 3) taught me some new things. 

For my card this week I started by using the parameters selected blue, green and my plus one (red) to create a Christmas tree gatefold opens to reveal my interpretation of a close up of a Christmas tree section with a hanging ornament and branches with Christmas light bulbs.

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Craft Roulette #90 Card & Video

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #90 (28th in a row):

I actually found a FUNN fold I like... this is my first bridge card and I will definitely be making more of these babies. They are easy, quick and FUNN to make.

Since I don't have a lot of color ink pads other than my Distress Oxides and not even all of them, I used a shade of blue and green to create some mint color trees, which to me look more teal, but it is what it is. Pink, brown and black were my other main colors. I used two stencils on the background and a large die cut word to meet all the crafty wheel's parameters.

I started by cutting and scoring my card stock. I waited to fold the scores until I was done with the stenciling. The first stencil layer was the Wonky Merry Christmas Text 6x6 by Paper Rose inked in Picked Raspberry. The second stencil layer were the trees using the Evergreens 6x6 Stencil by The Crafters Workshop. Sorry, I couldn't find a link to this stencil for you, but Newton's Nook has something similar. I layered the tree stencil over the text stencil. The two stencils didn't clash, because I inked the text stencil very lightly and it faded nicely into the far background, but still added a nice extra bit of interest.

Once my background was done, I colored my reindeer by Dare 2b Artzy, which I had in my bin from last year's Christmas card leftovers. I adhered him to the center section background on foam tape for dimension. The MFT Stacked Merry die die cuts with the letters connected, but I cut some of the letters apart in order to fit them on my two outer panels. I die cut the the Pretty Picket Fence by Penny Black from black card stock and it was a prefect fit at 5.5" wide. The die cut Christmas box word came from the Christmas Stitched Words set by IO I used my Picked Raspberry distress ink pad to color the card stock before die cutting the word and adhering it to the fence. Added stickles to the reindeer's hat top as a finishing touch.

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