Craft Roulette #72 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #72 (my 10th in a row):

For my "window" component, I used a banner die by Momenta, which I adhered to an inked blended card on thin strips of foam.  I used Distress inks in shades of blue, green, purple and red on the background following the arch of the banners. I used the same inks on the gift boxes and stacked them in the bottom right corner. I also brushed them with clear shimmer.

In an attempt to clean the dust my YouTube channel has been gathering,  I created a process video for this card. 

Thanks for stopping bye.  Until next time, take care. 

Craft Roulette #71 Card

Hello craft friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #71 (my 9th in a row):

Having my stamps organized by theme made it super easy to take the "food & drink" bin to my desk and look the "tasty treat" I wanted to feature on my card.   I pushed aside all the Hot Chocolate related stamps (there are lots of them), because I wanted something summery.  When I reached the spirits stamps, I pull and played with a few until I settled on this one, which is part of a sheet of drink glass stamps from Rubbernecker stamps that I got many many many years ago at a stamp show. I couldn't find the whole sheet on their site, but here's a link to the Margarita Glass I used.

I used Distress inks in shades of yellow, green and orange, plus a coating of Wink of Stella for shimmer on the orange slices and Stickles on the "salty rim" of the Margarita glass. .

I started by going though my stash of stamped and colored images, because I knew I had this glass stamped and colored from a card I didn't finish last summer.  Sure enough I found the image and the circle frame element, so I decided to use it.  Using squeezed lemonade and a little mustard seed I inked the inside of the circle and stenciled the outside with a snow stencil for my "polka dots".   I stamped and inked (carved pumpkin) the orange slices and created the Happy Birthday banner with a stamp from Heffy Doddle.  I attached the stitched die cut card front panel to a 4"x8" slim white card base.

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Craft Roulette #70 Card

Hello craft friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #70 (my 8th in a row):

As you can tell I went with T for Toad (doesn't he just make you smile... he's just such a happy guy), He's a die by IO called Frog DIE788-V. The tall grass is also an IO die called Grass DIE038-J. The sentiment is CTMH's Punny Pals Operation Smile D1751, I think this stamp set is retire, because I couldn't find it on the CTMH site.

I used Distress inks in shades of greens and tans, plus a coating of Wink of Stella for shimmer. The lily pad I hand drew, fussy cut & painted with green glitter ink by Bree Reese.

The lily pad and the pattern paper under it is the "stopper" for the easel. Under that section of pattern paper there's a layer of foam tape.

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TOB - July Mid Month Challenge Reminder

 Hello crafty friends,

Welcome to this month's challenge reminder post.  Have you started working on a card?  If yes, GREAT!  If no, WHAT are you waiting for?  We want to see your Halloween creations.   Remember  the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, runs from the 2nd to the 28th of the month and the theme is always Halloween... ANYTHING related to Halloween!

This cute Halloween cat is a digital stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil titled Bat Cat.  I've had him for years and thought it was time to print and color him up again.  I did very simple coloring and placed him onto a card front covered with a black bats.  To tone down the pattern paper a bit, I added a panel of vellum die cut the same size of the pattern paper. The digi is adhered on foam and the vellum with tape runner behind the digi.  The purple you see on the edge of the card was done w/the same marker I used for the bat mask on the cat. 

Here's this month's mood board for additional inspiration... Hope to see your card soon. 

Challenge ends on the 28th, winner will be announced on the 1st on the month before the start on the new challenge.  For a full list of all the rules please visit Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge home page.  unit next time... take care.

Craft Roulette #69 Card

Hello craft friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, episode #69 (my 7th in a row):

My cats make me HAPPY and boxes with crumple paper makes them HAPPY, so I created a card with a cat in a box full of crumple tissue paper.

I started by stenciling a brick pattern on my card front using MFT's Small Brick Wall Stencil and Distress ink. Next I made a "wood" floor and attached it to the bottom of the 4.25" squared card. I ended up having to pulled the "floor" up a bit later to slide the "do more of what makes you happy" sentiment from darkroom door, which I also attached over the top side of the front card. Now that my background was done, I started working on my box and cat elements. The box is from the Mama Elephant All Prettied Up die set. I die cut it from brown card stock and inked the edges a bit. I used vellum for the tissue paper, which I crumple up before gluing/taping it down. I tend to collect cat stamps and dies… I reached for this kitty (Hero Arts Kit Tea), because of his positioning. I stamped him and fussy cut him, since I only needed part of the stamped image. I attached him and his box to the card on foam for added dimension and interest.

Thanks for stopping bye.  Until next time, take care. 

TOB - July Challenge

 Hello crafty friends,

Welcome to a new month at the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, which runs from the 2nd to the 28th of the month and the theme is always Halloween... ANYTHING related to Halloween!

Since this month's mood board included a cat among pumpkins I felt compiled to use this digital stamp from Lili of the Valley (LOTV) titled Halloween Cats.  The finished card size is 4.75"x7".  The black frame is part of the digital stamp and I colored it black to recreate the look of a mat.  In addition to the tri-blend makers shown in the pictures I also used a white gel pen,  black Nuvo dots and Wink Of Stella maker. 

Here's this month's mood board for additional inspiration... Hope to see your card soon. 

Challenge ends on the 28th, winner will be announced on the 1st on the month before the start on the new challenge.  For a full list of all the rules please visit Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge home page.  unit next time... take care.