Craft Roulette #80 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #80 (19th in a row):

I didn't let my dislike of yellow stop me for creating a super FUNN card for this week's challenge.  Since one of the parameters called for postage stamp and my favorite snail mail stamps are these Star Trek ones and they were sitting on my desk while watching the show, it just made sense to create a card inspired by one of them... the yellow background one, of course.

I started by masking off an 1/8" all around my card, so that I would have a white border.  Next I fussy cut a Starfleet logo onto a large post-it note to use as a mask in the center of my card.  I also die cut the text at the bottom of the card using an old Die-Versions font die called "A Hint of Lime" (sorry, I checked and couldn't find it available anywhere). 

Once everything was masked I used Mustard Seed Distressed Oxide ink for my yellow background. And later a little brown to mimic the real postage stamp.  I inked the Starfleet logo with black soot Distressed Oxide and using a white gel pen made dashes to mimic "warp drive" like in the real postage stamp. Lastly, I placed the spaceship onto the card.   The spaceship is from the Kindred Stamp Space Explorers stamps set. 

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

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

Craft Roulette #79 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #79 (18th in a row):

I created a tropical interpretation of "what's under the tree", which was one of the parameters the crafty wheel picked and because I was craving sand and beach, I put aside my beloved purple, red and black colors for tropical blues, pink and green. The FUNN flap is the sand, which opens from right to left to reveal a penguin on a raft with his/her cocktail relaxing. Note: the stamp has the penguin on a flap surface (towel, blanket), so I drew extra dimension on the surface to create a floatie/raft. The sand and ocean both got the crinkle Inkle affect.

The process video (link below) will show that this card took some "tweaking". I basically took it apart and redesigned how it opened, because it just was working for me.

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

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

TOB - Sept 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 all about skeletons this month, so when I found this cute clip art I knew it would make a super fun card.  I printed the skeleton to be 6.5"x3.5", so that it would fit onto a slim 8"x4" card.  I pop it up foam adhesive and added white gel pen movement lines at the head and hip area.   Added a sentiment and called the card done.  I can't help but smile when I look at this goofy skeleton.

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 #78 Card

Hi crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #78 (17th consecutive):

Getting the card base ready... I started by cutting an 8.5x11" sheet of 110 black card stock at 5", so I had a 5x8.5" piece.  Next I scored it in half to make a top fold 5x4.25" (A2) card base.  I scored the front panel at 2.25"... the bottom part of this fold would be where I attach my easel back section to.  

Creating the easel section... I started by die cutting a black panel of the Aspen & Pine Forest by IO and adhering it to another black solid piece of card stock that I inked with forest moss distress oxide ink.  I wanted to maintained a black tone-on-tone look, but add a little more visual color depth between the two layers, which were separated by black double sided adhesive foam.   The tree background is really nice, but it took forever and the die is frustrating to work with.  I've used this die on both my Big Shot and my Gemni Jr and the middle section always gives me problems.  

Once the background was done, the rest of the card came together fast.  I had most of the colored elements (Stawberry Jude Bear & Bunny) done and waiting in the stamp's storage pocket from a previous coloring session (LOVE when that happens).  All I had to do was tweaked them a little and added attach the ones I wanted on the card.  In the end, I only had to stamp and color the guy with the lantern.   My finishing touch was to add premade black enamel dots to the background to act as stars and add another tone-on-tone element.

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

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

Craft Roulette #77 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #77 ( 16th in a row):

Kelly (our guest crafter) wasn't feeling these colors, but I didn't mind them and was actually looking forward to using them.  I wanted to used flowers, so I could refer the "starts with B" parameter element as Birthday Blossoms.  Since I had all the new goodies I purchased at the Expo two weeks prior in a bin on my desk.  I selected the Rose Blossoms Layering Stencil by The Ton, because I knew it would be super easy to color the two main flowers with inks. 

I used two shades of Red (Candied Apple and Barn Door) for my first stencil flower.  For the second flower I used Mustard Seed (Yellow) and Candied Apple.  Once stenciled, I fussy cut the flowers and set them aside when I inked blended my card front.   The random parameter called for an Ombre inking technique, but my attempted at it is very heavy handed and therefore somewhat subtle.  It is definitely, more visible in person.   The tag and "bday" I used were die cut using a retired die set from My Creative Time.  The "happy" die is from a longer die sentiment by Lawn Fawn.

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

Bonus card... I create a second card just for FUNN using the same parameters and a beautiful stamp set by The Ton called Holiday Trio.  This time I used yellow for my background ombre.  I colored my gift boxes with my Tri-blend makers, but paper pieced the ribbons and bows with pattern papers.  

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

TOB - September 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!

For my card this month I was inspired by the skull candle sticks on the mood board below.  I used the skull and rose stamps from the Stampendous Sugar Skull (CLD03) set and the base from a free line drawing candle stick to create  my three skull candles in varying heights.  The green spiderweb background is a sheet of washi tape paper from the DCSV Halloween Washi Tape 6x6 pad.

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.