HOC C&S Sketch 3

Well a new year has arrived and we are into a new session of House of Cards Challenges.  This month we are looking at a Sketch Challenge.

Now trying to keep this card in the Clean and Simple style may pose a challenge to you but the easiest way around the background for me was to emboss it.  This still left plenty of "white space".

 Starting with the Modern Wallpaper embossing folder I embossed the upper portion of the card only.  This gave the illusion of the darker colour on the sketch.  Then using the Apothecary Accents I die cut two of the coloured CS and one white.  The white one I stamped using the words from the French Foliage stamp set and the coloured CS was used to create a frame around the white.

Then using the Beautiful Wings sizzlet die I die cut three sets of butterflies.  The largest was used for the top and then two of the smaller ones were used as the base to create the 3D effect of the butterfly.  You can see the smaller butterflies on the picture below.

 

The butterfly was then attached to the frame and using dimensionals adhered to the card base.  

When creating a Clean and Simple card you want just that.  I would have preferred to do just stamping, but when I saw the sketch this vision immediately popped into my head.

I hope you like what I have come up with.  We have some new talented Designers with us for this next six month period and I hope that you will take the time to see what they have envisioned for this sketch.  Then once you have seen what everyone else has come up with...you guessed it, it's your turn.  Have some fun with this sketch.

Thanks for stopping by.

Nancy

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Clean & Simple to Shabby & Vintage

I have a bit of a twist for you today.  Over at House of Cards this week we are sporting our Shabby and Vintage Cards.  As you may have seen House of Cards is a month long challenge site that offers different styles of card making each week.  I am offering cards in the Clean and Simple Style which falls on the second week of each month.  This month our challenge was a colour one.

Use at least 3 colours from the above selection

This was the card that I made for the challenge.

Clean and simple allows you to leave lots of white space with basically just stamping and little to no embellishments.

Shabby and Vintage takes it to a whole new level.  This is what I have come up with for this weeks challenge. The difference is very obvious.

My version is very 3D but followed the same basic outline used for my Clean and Simple card.

By stamping out the flower from the Blooming with Kindness set four times using Red Riding Hood and Cherry Cobbler in a rock and roll method I then cut out the pieces.  After sponging the edges of the cut out pieces I started with a base and then worked on both sides of it to build up the flower.  I used two of the cut outs and cut them into quarters and layered one of them on the underside of the base flower, just outside the edge of the flower and then the other on the top of the base flower, just on the inside of the base flower.  The smallest piece I cut the centre section of the flower out and adhered it.  A simple button finished off the centre of the flower. You can see the different layers in each of the pictures.  Then simple butchers twine was added for an additional embellishment.  The card base itself was Very Vanilla.

I love this style of card as well as the Clean and Simple cards.

So as you can see it is easier than you think to take a card and CASE it to a different style.

Hope you like what I have come up with.  Drop by the House of Cards to see what the Shabby and Vintage girls have in store for you.

Thanks for stopping by.

Nancy

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A New Beginning...House of Cards

Over the past year or so I have acquired a dear friend through card making.  This person is Mynnette Kitchen.  Mynnette and I have been on other design teams together along with pay-per-use sites.  About a month or so ago Mynnette opened a new challenge to all us card makers to enter into her new venture House of Cards.  House of Cards runs on a four week (sometimes five) rotation and allows different kinds of card styles to be featured. The challenge although over a four or five week span is the same every week.  It will either be a colour challenge or a sketch challenge.  You can enter for one week or all of the weeks. 

Week 1: Fun & Cute

Week 2: Clean & Simple
Week 3: Classic & Elegant
Week 4: Shabby & Vintage
Week 5: Your Fave + Photo

I entered into the Clean & Simple style and to my surprise I was one of the lucky ones to be chosen to join the Design Team.  I do, as you can see from my blog, enjoy making other styles of cards, but I always love when I see a Clean & Simple card.  Now on to this weeks challenge and card...

Use at least 3 colours from the above colour palette

Using the rock and roll method I stamped the flower.  Then masking off the flower I added a stamped the French Foliage over it masking the areas that I did not want the letter to appear.

My three colours of choice were Bravo Burdundy, Red Riding Hood and Pacific Point.

 

Now it's your turn.  Lets see your Clean & Simple card.  Not a Clean & Simple card maker, then check out the other styles that are running this month at House of Cards.  I'm sure there is at least one style that you enjoy making and we would all love to see your card in it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Nancy

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TST #114 Happy Birthday Sherry

April seems to be my month for lots of Birthdays and this card is made for a co-worker.  The sad part about this card is I found out the day after I made the card that Sherry had resigned.  She will definitely be missed in my books.

I have used the sketch from Try Stampin on Tuesday for my inspiration on this card.

I had originally started this card in the portrait position, but once I finished it and thought that it looked much better in the landscape form so I switched it up, which didn't take much other than the sentiment inside and a slight repositioning of the centre band.

The person that is getting this card is a girly girl who loves the colour purple so purple was the obvious choice for this card.

Using purple wire, yes purple wire I threaded beads onto and through the centre piece of the pendant.

I hope you like what I have come up with, now it's your turn.  Need a little more inspiration, then hop on over to the Try Stampin site and see what the other Great Designers have in store for you.  Don't forget to post your creation for everyone to see.

Thanks for stopping by.

Nancy

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TST # 99

My oh my where does the time go.  Can you believe that we are at #99 for our sketch challenges at Try Stampin on Tuesday. 

I hope that everyone had a Very Merry Christmas and you are looking forward to the New Year.  I know we had a great Christmas here with our new Grandson opening up lots of presents, mainly for him.  As usual though the paper and boxes were more impressive than the gift at that age. 

This week I needed a Birthday card for a co-worker so that is what I decided to do for the sketch. 

When I first saw this sketch I had so many ideas in my head, but then when I started I was stuck because of the colour combination that I had picked.  You see the person this card is for is a girly-girl and I wanted it to be soft and "girly" looking.  However I didn't quite have the right shade of pink to go with the DSP that I had chosen so I had to compromise and combine red and pink together to get my balance.

Instead of a bow I went with a pin/bead embellishment and then accented the smaller circle with pearls which also mimicked the pearls on either end of the pin. 

The colours did not show up as nicely as they are in living colour but I was none the less happy with the final outcome.  

As a final note for today I would like to wish everyone the best for a Safe and Happy New Year! 

Thanks for stopping by during this hectic time of year.

Nancy

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