One Color Card: Blue

Here's a close up of the speckles I created and the Friday Sketcher's sketch that I used:

I used my Stampin' Up color sprizter and the same blue marker that I colored the balloon with to add the speckles. Isn't the mouse just darling? And the sketch was really fun to use.

This is my 4th One-Color-Card, so I'm exactly half-way through the basic rainbow. It's definitely going to be an all Penny Black set, but I might start on Whiff of Joy next, since this is so much fun. Have YOU ever tried a One-Color-Card? I'd love to see, even if it's not a new card.

Materials:
Penny Black: "Hugs" clear set
Close-to-my-Heart papers
black brads
Whisper markers
Stampin' Up color spritzer

Father's day cards and video

Here's a video of me making this cool Father's Day card.



Here are the other two I made this month. Hope you can get some inspiration for other men's cards from these.

New Year... new card

A new card for the new year. I'm so far into January that it's already the Chinese or Lunar new year as well. So... happy new year!

I had a lot of fun coloring in this dragon using my SU color spritzer and the masking technique.

The card was created using a sketch from Sketch Saturday.

The fun dragon is from Elusive Images - 'Here be dragons' set. (View it at Graphicus.co.uk)

P.S. Now that December and January are over I should go back to feeling like my crafty self again. Sorry about the lack of posts.

This week...

I've been making scrapbook layouts!
For the rest of September, my favorite scrapbook site (www.myscrapbooknook.com) is having a really fun challenge called "Nook University." All the challenges are school related. You'll see what I mean when I show the three layouts I made for this week.
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This one was for "Math" class. The challenge was to have lots of multiples of three.
Doing threes was easy but having 6,9, or more was difficult. So I have:

9 materials:
Fiskars Kimberly Poloson Patterned paper
Prima ivory felt ribbon
Quickutz Paige and Paige mini alphabets
Stampin' Up Scallop Circle Punch
Making Memories Journaling Pages
Antique brads by Buttons Galore
Tim Holtz distress ink - antique linen
Corner Rounder
Misc. Ribbon

3 photos, 3 patterned paper, 6 brads, 3 scallop circles, 6 scallop edges total, 9 inches felt ribbon, 33 cm brown ribbon, 9 cm teal ribbon, 3 ribbons total, and 15 QK die-cut letters

This is my brother. He's in Australia right now, if you can't guess.
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The next LO I did for "Intro to Art." The challenge was to choose a choose a piece of artwork and use it to inspire a LO.

I LOVE art nouveau.
I chose Alphonse Mucha's 'Moon.'

I just want to show these other two, because they show the curved lines and circles typical to art nouveau.

So here's my attempt at an art nouveau layout:

Materials:
Tinkering Ink patterned papers
Inque boutique chipboard - 'Bee' and swirls
American Crafts thickers - 'bumble'
blue/purple cardstock
SU Scallop punch (punched twice to make the smaller scallops/spikey circles)
1.5" circle punch
Purple and dark blue inkpads
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And my last LO for this week was for "English" class. The challenge was to make a LO about reading, including a photo of myself reading a book and at least 50 words of journaling.

Please forgive the night-time photo. (It makes the photo have glare - it looks like scratches.)

Journaling reads:
"I love reading. As I was growing up there were always books in our house.
When my sister, Leah, was in first grade, she loved reading so much she tried to teach me at age 2! I didn't take to it then, but her love of reading has definitely influenced mine.
I was a big reader in school and even now I'm always on the lookout for a new author or series.
Here I'm reading one recommended by Leah: Stephanie Meyer's Twilight.
September 2008"

Materials:
Prima papers, and flowers ('Tea & Silk')
Prima journaling sheets ('whisper')
Imaginisce Crystals (inked black with Sta-On)
crystal brads
May Arts black ribbon
twined thread ribbon
Studio g alphabet stamps

My First Video!

My very first video. :) Boy, am I going to mess up a lot!
I'm making a card using rubber stamps.

1st technique: dual color stamping.
2nd technique: making a frame with L-shaped stamps.
3rd technique: distressing with ink and sponges
4th technique: cutting with decorative scissors

Materials:
Inque Boutique stamp (from the Boho Frames set)
Happy Anniversary! stamp
Hobbycraft inkpads
Hobbycraft decorative scissors
Prima patterned paper
WHSmith flowers
black ribbon

Music by Queen:
Don't stop me now
Somebody to Love
Crazy little thing called love

Thanks for watching!