CSAYL Challenge - Cut It Out!

Back again!!

This week's challenge over at the CSAYL blog is to Cut It Out - so use any stamp you like, but use the technique of paper piecing somewhere on your card. The prize for this week's challenge?? MacKenzie will pick one winner who will be chosen as a guest designer for one of the challenges in May!

I have chosen to use is CC Designs Santa Emma stamp and a coordinating bench image.

There are a lot of steps involved so I will list them as briefly as possible below for those who would like to know how I put this together:

1. Make base from Vintage Cream card and round bottom edges.

2. Stamp Emma and then mask and stamp the bench seat over the top. Colour with Copics.

3. Stamp Emma again onto grey cardstock and patterned paper. Cut out and adhere for her clothes.

4. Stamp snowflake image randomly in Bashful Blue ink and sprinkle glitter to centres using Quickie Glue pen as adhesive.

5. Add Quickie Glue pen to santa hat and sprinkle glitter over the top.

6. Cut two different strips of Designer Paper and one strip of Bashful Blue card, punching the bottom of one paper strip with scallop punch and adhere them underneath image.

7. Stamp sentiment on blue strip in Melon Mambo ink and wrap bakers twine around, tying in small knot.

8. Punch out large snowflake image and use heat and stick powder to adhere glitter. Thread more bakers twine through a button, tie in bow and adhere with glossy accents to snowflake. Adhere snowflake to card with Scor-Tape.

On the inside:

1. Adhere cream cardstock behind front of card to hide where Copics have shown through cardstock.

2. Cut another piece of cream cardstock with bottom corners rounded and adhere where message will go.

3. Cut two strips of Designer Paper, border punching one with scallop punch and adhere to cream layer.

4. Stamp sentiment in Melon Mambo ink.

5. Stamp snowflakes down the side with Bashful Blue ink.

Why not hop on over to the CSAYL blog, check out the other designers' creations and link yours too before midnight next Thursday for your chance to be a guest designer!

Thanks for looking,

Supplies
Stamps: Santa Emma, Sugar Plums Bench  (CC Designs); Wings of Joy (TE)
Cardstock: Vintage Cream (PTI), Bashful Blue, Retired Rose Red DP (SU); Designer Paper (Kaisercraft)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Melon Mambo, Bashful Blue, Versamark (SU)
Accessories: Heat and Stick Powder, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Scallop border punch (SU); Copics; Snowflake Punch (Marvy); Bakers Twine (MFT); Hibiscus Burst button (PTI); Quickie Glue Pen (Sakura); Glossy Accents (Ranger); Scor-Tape

A Challenge or Two

Hello!
Today I am posting a birthday card that I have created to enter into two challenges. The first Makeesha Byl's Inkspiration Sketch Challenge #48  which is a colour challenge and boy do I LOVE these colours!

The second is the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge by Karen Giron:

I had a lot of fun working on these challenges as I incorporated some handmade elements into the card also.

The card base is Kraft cardstock with a layer of Real Red matted on top. The main image uses Swiss Pixies Rosalie with Roses stamp which I stamped on Whisper White card and coloured with Copic Markers. I went over the socks and flowers with my At You Clear Glitter Pen to add some sparkle (If you click on the socks and flower images, it will be clearer). This layer was matted with Old Olive.

The square layer behind uses Kraft as a mat and a layer of Stampin Up retired paper - Ski Slope.  This paper was also used to paper piece Rosalie's dress. The vertical layer on the left of the card consists of Whisper White cardstock that has been scored at 1 inch intervals with my Scor Pal and mounted on Old Olive cardstock with one edge punched with my Lace border punch. Once these were adhered together I pierced two rows of holes down the left and cross stitched them with some red embroidery yarn.

To finish off the front I used a handmade crocheted flower using white embroidery floss. The pattern I used for this I found on Nichole Heady's blog and these are so easy to make but so effective. I then added a red button to the middle which I sewed on with green floss and the flower was then attached with Glossy Accents which is extremely adhesive.

For the inside of the card I stamped the sentiment using Blooming Button Bits stamp set from Papertrey Ink in Old Olive ink onto Whisper White cardstock and matted this onto some more Ski Slope Designer Paper.

I pierced two rows of holes along the bottom of the layers and cross stitched them again with red thread.

Its been a really busy week here as the last few weeks of term wind up for my children, and I am so glad I found the time (much to my husband's dismay!) to get these challenges completed on time. I have so much coming up with end of year dancing concerts, my youngest daughter finishing daycare as she gets ready to start prep and then just the mad Christmas rush. However I aim to be back in the next few days with another card - fingers crossed!

See you then,

Supplies

Stamps: Blooming Button Bits (PTI); Swiss Pixies Rosalie with Roses (All That Scraps)

Cardstock: Kraft, Real Red, Old Olive, Whisper White, Ski Slope Designer Paper  - Retired(SU)

Ink: Tuxedo Memento Black; Old Olive (SU)

Miscellaneous:  Copic Markers, Copic AtYou Glitter Marker - Clear; Lace Border Punch (Fiskars); Red, Green, White Embroidery Floss; 2mm Crochet Hook; Paper Piercer (Making Memories); Red Button; Scor Pal; Glossy Accents (Ranger)