Craft Roulette #76 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #76 (15th in a row):

Even though one of this week's parameter includes sports, once I settled on this stamps set, the card came together fairly well. Anyone that knows me, knows that I'm not at all sports minded, but I have to say it was fun coloring up these cute guys in their golfing knickers.

I colored my stamped images with greens, tans and grays and fussy cut them. On my front card panel, I used the Tim Holtz Harlequin Stencil using the two Distress Inks shown in the picture above. In an attempt to get the look of argyle for my "weave" parameter, I used a white gel pen to make dash lines across the diamonds. I think this worked better than expected, because I love how it used out. Once my backgound was done, I turned the circle windows into shakers and adhered my stamped imaged onto the cards. On the inside I stamped a small sentiment from the small stamp set.

Sorry, the stamp set doesn't have a name and it looks like the company (Storage Units Ink and More) is no longer in business. I couldn't even find a picture of the stamp set online. The copy right date on the back of the packaging is 2008.

Here's my process video for this card. 

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

Craft Roulette #75 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #75 (14th in a row):

Unlike this week's special guest  Jess McAfee, I love red, so I was excited to work with it.  Fruit and In the corner were my head scratchers this time, so I gave myself a little time to think about my card.  I finally took direction from the Refreshing Cooler F20319 stamp by IO that was sitting on my desk.  

I used Technique Tuesday Luscious Grapes a base for my window opening that shows my red wine cooler.  I'm not sure what brand the die I used to die cut my window was.  I keep it along with my most used foundation dies in a clear drawer without it's packaging and over the years I have forgot who makes what.  But I looked up similar dies and found two options:  FS Semi Circle Element and SS Semi Circle Frames. I used the Small Brick Wall Stencil by MFT for my background along with Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink.  

I started by stamping, coloring and fussing cutting my two images.  Next,  I die cut my window. You can do this before or after stenciling the background, it ended up not really mattering.  I didn't want the brick background going the whole width of the card, so I position my stencil accordingly and masked the area I didn't want ink on.  I adhered  the grape cluster around the bottom window opening using double sided tape. I used faint pencil marks to get the placement for my wine cooler on the card's inside.  I stamped the grapes with gray ink right over the pencil marks for a subtle look and placed my wine cooler over it (the pencil marks were almost not visible).   

Looking at the card as I type this up, the only thing I would change is to tone down all the white by adding some aging around the edges... maybe Distress inking with old paper.  

The video below shows how I assembled this card: 

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

Craft Roulette #74 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #74, my 13th in a row on Friday the 13th, WOW!  Maybe that's why I had such a hard time coming up with an idea that included a map.   

As you can see, my "map" is a globe of the world, but it's not the one I started out looking for and didn't find.  The patterned paper I used has whites, tans and teals subtle horizontal brush stokes.  Since the die cuts out the land, when stenciling I used green and brown inks.  I allowed the die cut words to read white against the first flap. On the inside of the card I stenciled the words.   Once I knew the direction my card was going it came together really fast.  The finished card measures 3.75"x5", an 11"x5" size card stock is scored at the 3.75" and 7.5" marks.  

Here a short process video for this card:

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

TOB - August 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!

I'm using the Halloween cupcake photo as my inspiration for this month's reminder post project.  I created two cards using the same products.  The Baker's Dozen stamp and die set from Papertrey Ink and the Halloween Web die from IO. 

On card one above, I used the larger of my MFT Wonky Stitched Frames to die cut a window into my mini card, which is basically a slim card panel folded in half (4"x8").  I inked the card front and the middle of the inside. Spayed it with Pearl Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels and glued the black die cut web over the window opening.   I added the little cupcake on foam square and added a few black die cut bats.  

On card two above, I used the web to create my window, but in order to keep the web in place, I backed the front panel with acetate, so that I could glue the web onto something.  I was going for a Halloween mandala look and feel with the web as the center element and the cupcakes and bats as the outer elements with this card, but being an A2 size card I didn't have the right dimensions... should have gone w/a square base.     

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 #73 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #73 (my 11th in a row):

Since the Random parameter called for using something from my messy desk, I looked though my bin of stamped and colored images that I keep on my desk and pulled our this panel previously created with the Lavinia's Hill Border Large Flower stamp.  

I really liked that bold look of this rainbow flower panel and didn't want to cover it up, so I went with a big greeting on the front of the card.  The "HI" I used is Jumbo Letter HI by Waffle Flower.  I'm so glad I finally got to use this die and remember why I fell in love with it in the first place.  In order for the die cut to stand out, I added dimension, but die cutting two layers from 110lb white card stock and adding them to them panel layer.  For the thin middle section of the letters, I reversed the combination and used the white card stock at the top for added interest.  

 

As a finishing touch I added Nuvo drops to some of the centers of the bigger flowers and shimmer to the "HI".  I created a process video on the assembly of this card.

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

TOB - August 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!

I must have been craving sweets when working on this month's cards, because I went crazy looking for cupcakes in my stash.  I was stocked to find I only have one set of small cupcake stamps and coordinating dies.  The Baker's Dozen set from Papertrey Ink, which I didn't use on this card, but you'll see it on my mid-month cards.   Since I didn't have a large physical cupcake to work with and I had my mind set on it, I look on Esty for a digital one and I found at great one for only 58 cents here.  

Making the card was super simple, I coved my card front with pattern paper, inked the edges with black ink.  I cut the tip of the "icing" off the cupcake and glued the Halloween Web from IO over it and onto the card.  Note... before die cutting the Halloween Web, I backed the black card stock with double sided tape to make gluing it down easier.  Once the tip of the "icing" and the Halloween Web were positioned on the card, I positioned the rest of the cupcake arranging it so that Halloween Web looked like it was "inserted" into the "icing".  I added Nuvo drops to finish the card.

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.