Craft Roulette #85 Card

Hello crafty friends,

Here's my submission to Craft Roulette Challenge, Episode #85 (24th in a row):

When the wheel landed on the shopping parameter I knew I wanted to use one of the store stamps by Stacey Yacula.  The Book Store was at the top of the list, because of my love for books and reading, even though these days I'm 99.9% audiobooks, because they put less stain on my eyes.  

I stamped and colored my image, using my allotted three colors (green, gold yellow, red).  I used lite grey on the glass windows.  Fussy cut the image and added double side foam tape.  Next I google and found a free line drawing book background, which I printed and cut to 6.50"x4.50".  I used a black marker on the edge of this panel, so that it would stand out against the white card front.  Forget to mention, that I also added a small text box to the book background in Elements to read as a "shopping list" and I reduced the opacity of both the background and the text to 80%, so that the black outlines of the image would be subtle.   The "paper strips" parameter are represented by the little flags or "bookmarks" I inserted into the printed background before adhering it to the card front.  

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

TOB - May 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!

This month's mood board (see down below) is full of pumpkins and animals, so this reached for this large unmounted cling stamp from Purple Onion Designs by Stacey Yacula titled Pumpkin Charm.  I love Stacey's stamps and can offend be found with a desk full of them working on scene cards with all her critters.  The little bird w/pumpkin is titled Little Boo.  

I stamped the image off center and colored it with my Spectrum Noir TriBlend Markers. I used Distress inks to color the background.  I tried dabbing a damp paper towel over the blue "sky" area to create clouds. On the inside of the card I stamped the Happy Pumkpins and the Happy Halloween sentiment that came with the Pumpkin Charm stamp.  

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.

Scrapy Land - Challenge 130

Hello crafty friends,

I used the Lawn Fawn Mini Picture Frames to create the two cards I'm featuring in this post.

My blue card is a slim one 8x4 with a distress inked background and a combination of negative and positive die cut snowflakes from the Elizabeth Craft Designs Winter Sweater die set.   The cute animals stamped onto the centers of the picture frames are from Purple Onion Designs by Stacey Yacula.  I kept both the frame and the center of the frames together with a little tape on the back, but colored the centers with the same distress ink.  I love purple, so added a pop of it to each stamped cutie.  A few purple nuvo drops finished this card.

My purple card is slightly bigger than an A2 card.  I once again distressed inked the background and the centers of the die cut frames.  This time I used all four of the mini picture frame die cuts and I pop up the outer frames with foam tape.  The stamped cuties on this card are from the Hello Bluebird Snowball Flight stamp set.

Both card backgrounds were sprayed with Tattered Angels Pearl Glimmer Mist after distress inked.

As always, thanks for stopping bye.... I hope you'll join us for this challenge.  One winner... selected randomly will receive a $15 gift code to Scrapy Land.  Top three and honorable mentions will be selected by the Designers.  Until next time... take care