Playing along with CASEstudy--You're Loved/Love You

Hi, today I am sharing two cards that I made for CASEstudy challenge #189. I was SO EXCITED when I saw this weeks Muse. It's none other than the talented, sweet, funny Wida Miller. I adore this girl to pieces. Not only is she an amazing person she is an incredibly talented gal!!!

This was the inspiration piece they chose:

I was instantly drawn to the colors and the cutout. I made this card first:

I used my Silhouette and a nested heart file to cut out 3 hearts from cardstock scraps (it's a great way to use those bigger scraps) and then I cut a heart from the Simon Says Stamp woodgrain paper.  I layered them all together. I then die cut the "you" from a Simon Says Stamp die and inked it with Heidi Swap Teal ink. I stamped the word "love" from the Simon Says Stamp "love this" set.  I added some Lawn Fawn sequins to top it off.

I also stamped the inside of the card with a Hero Arts Sentiment:

The whole card came together really quickly.  When I was done I had 4 really pretty hearts sitting on my desk so I decided to use them to make another quick card.

This time I stitched some pretty light teal paper to a piece of white Neenah Cardstock, I then used the Simon Says Stamp Falling Hearts stencil and some white embossing paste to add texture. I wasn't super careful about laying it down and I love the distressed look of the left side of the card. 

I then layered all the hearts and pop dotted them. I stamped a Hero Arts sentiment on some vellum and heat embossed it and wrapped the vellum around the back and adhered it.  Super fast and simple.

That's all for today. See you soon.

Michelle

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Trick or Treat

Hello bloggers!  Today I am playing with a  "new to me" Challenge Blog....Curtain Call and also combining it with this weeks Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge blog. I don't think I have ever combined a challenge before. ;)

Simon Says Stamp challenge this week is Polka Dots and for Curtain Call they give an inspiration piece.

Here is this weeks inspiration piece:

And this is my card:

Coming from the Halloween Capital of the world I better know how to create a spooky scene!  I see more weird stuff in the month of October than I care to admit.  It gets pretty freaky around here!  So Halloween stuff is right up my alley.

I started with a Hero Arts spider web and a spider cut from my Silhouette. I stamped the web in Versamark and then covered it in Perfect Pearl.  Love the shimmery effect on it.  For the jar I stamped the Hero Arts Love Jar and then filled it with Simon Says Stamps new Lots of Dots set...this set makes PERFECT eyeballs!  lol I started by stamping the outer part of the eye onto masking paper and cutting them out, layering them and then covering the entire jar in Distress ink in Mowed Lawn, Then I stamped the eyeballs, each one of those eyes is layers of stamping. I love how versatile this Lots of Dots set is. When I was done I used my Wink of Stella clear glitter pen to give it some sparkle in the green goo.

I layered it onto some Teresa Collins 6x6 Halloween paper from last years line Haunted Hallows.  I die cut the title out of more paper and then added it onto the top.

Here's a close -up of the layers of stamping and the shimmer from the Wink of Stella.

Thanks for stopping by. I have lots of cards coming soon. I have done 5 cards since WCMD.  Did you make any?

Til next time....

Michelle

Supplies used:

InLinkz.com

Love you

Hi everyone. I am back today with another negative space card for this month's Trends Challenge at Scrpamaster's Paradise.

This was created using letter dies. SP & Co sells two different alphabet dies and I love BOTH of them. I used this one here Timeless Typewriter any alphabet die would work or you can use your electronic die cutting machine to get the same effect.

I started by  cutting a piece of paper down to 4 1/8 x  5 3/8 and making my card 4.25x5.50, I then die cut the speech bubble in my Silhouette software out of the 4. 1/8x5 3/8 paper. Then line up your dies and die cut them. Don't forget to reverse them.

I took a scrap piece of paper and laid my die cut paper over it so that I could get the size I would need for the rainbow strip. I put tick marks above and below the "i love you" and then I colored a rainbow on the strip with colored pencils. I then attached it to the back of the die cut paper.

I added lots of pop dots to the back of it.. I spritzed the little heart with some Tattered Angels spritz and taped it to the back of the speech bubble and then pop dotted all of that.

It was a very fast, very fun card to make. I hope you will join us in the Trends Challenge and show us what you do with negative space! There is a $25 Gift Certificate to the SP & Co store up for grabs for one lucky entrant!

The Funniest Story Ever

Hi everyone!  I am here today with a layout for the color challenge over at The Memory Nest. I was SUPER excited when I saw these colors. I knew instantly what I wanted to use for this challenge...Echo Parks "All About a Boy" designed by Lori Whitlock. It's no secret I am a HUGE fan of Lori's and these papers just make me swoon. I actually think I need to go buy another paper pack...and if you know me...I usually use a line once and get bored with it. Not this one! It's just too fun!

Here are the colors:

I had no idea what I was going to scrapbook and then Wednesday night the best and funniest thing happened while I was out for all of 30 minutes. My boys recounted the story to me and dh when we got in and I have been laughing about it ever since. I even used some quotes from the voice mails I received from my panic stricken son.

While I captured some of the story with the journaling quotes I still needed to tell the whole story. It's a long story and I didn't want to go to 2 pages. The easiest way to do this is to hide the journaling. I trick I learned a long time ago and utitilize it ofen.

That panel on the front with the subway word art is the perfect spot to hide journaling. it lets you get a lot in there. I have two 4x10 journaling spaces in there. I used some old hinges from Making Memories that I had to hold it all together.

The cover of the journaling needed decoration so I used this really cool patterned paper from the kit and cut the design out of my Silhouette. I cut it again out of gray and mounted them together using spray adhesive and then attached it to the front after everything was done.  The gray paper gives it nice dimension and a shadow effect.

 The title for the page was also cut out of some of the patterned paper. I created the title myself in my Silhouette software. I welded it together, cut it out and then edged it with a white gel pen. I also cut it out of gray like the subway art above.  Some of the letter stickers from the kit made a nice finish to the title. I love that hexagon shape.

A close up of that tag strip. the tags are from the Silhouette store. They too are by Echo Park. I just can't get enough of their stuff!  The hahaha is a print and cut from the Silhouette store also. I printed them on photo paper and I use Soft Gloss so they have a nice little sheen to them.

I used border stickers from the kit (starts), I die cut the notebook paper (Kerri Bradford) and used a Lori Whitlock tag that i added a gear sticker to the hole and added another print and cut to that.  The book mark is also cut from my Silhouette and I used a Technique Tuesday stamp with Colorbox White Frost on it. I kind of smeared it so I traced over it with my white gel pen. I like how it looks shadowed.

The date stamp here is from Studio Calico and the arrow is part of the sticker kit. I stamped a Hero Arts telephone on the tag that had the voice mail quote in Soft Stone.  The orange dot paper is Bo Bunny.

I pop dotted some of the tags but not all of them. I also layered each one on gray cardstock like I did all the lettering.

 journaling

journaling

Thanks for stopping by. Be sure to check out what the other girls did over at The Memory Nest. I hope you choose to play along. You don't have to scrapbook...you can make cards too. In fact, I am off to make some boy cards with this paper line.  Have fun!