OWH MWTD - Teal and Orange

I am a bit behind in challenges, life is getting in the way of my creativity!!

Here is my teal and orange challenge card:

The colors don't show up quite the way they should.  SU paper and washi tape. 

OWH MWTD Hexagons

This week's challenge is to make a card using a hexagon shape;  Here is mine:

American Crafts My Girl paper.  I am trying so hard to use the entire 6x6 pad, but I am struggling to use up the last bits...

OWH Mid Week Throw Down - Cards 4 Kids

This week's challenge is to create a card for a kid.  I think that cards for teenage boys are probably few and far between, so I made a few of these:

Papers from DCWV, Background layer embossed with a crocodile texture plate, tennis shoes are embedded glitter and wet embossing (passed the sweater test), sentiment form Fiskars, stash ribbon. 

ÓWH Mid Week Throw Down - Pastels

This week's challenge is to make a card using pastel colors. I didn't have enough time today to try the great background technique that Nanny from Tramp Stamps shared with us today-I hope to try it this weekend. For now, this will have to do!!

I am without my photo editing software again so this image is not the best. Stash papers.  Studio G Sentiment. The Easter Egg is a Wal Mart clearance find from last spring. 

 



OWH Mid Week Throw Down - Easter

This week's challenge is to make an Easter card.  I have not made a shaped card in a while - thought it was time!!!

DCWV paper, scrap flowers, SU! ribbon (Thanks, Seongsook!!).  Click HERE for the free SVG file to cut your own cards. 

OWH Mid Week Throw Down Color Challenge - State Flag Colors

The Mid Week Throw Down at OWH is to make a card using your state flag colors.  This was a easy one for me!  I am in Ohio, and our state flag is red, white, and blue.

My card:

Focal point from echo park 4th of July Journaling page, background paper Bo Bunny Liberty collection, embossed with Cuttlebug stars embossing folder, stamp from Fiskars. 

Ohio's flag looks like this:

OWH Mid Week Throw Down - No Sentiment

This week's Mid Week Throw Down is to make a card with no sentiment.  WHAT?!?  I am not into coloring, so I rarely use images.  I really depend on designer paper cut in fun ways.  EEK!  What to do?  OK, deep breath. 

I remembered that my sister in law gave me a beautiful sheet of K and Company butterfly and dragonfly stickers.  YES!!!

Random scraps of paper, silk moire ribbon, Cuttlebug embossing folder. I glued the body of the dragonfly to the card, and put small pop dots under both wings.  I may have to make a few more of these. 

How about one that is a little more masculine?  Well, this one didn't turn out as nice as my first card. 

Because of the mirror paper, I had to take the picture at a funny angle.  The card is OK, but not a favorite.  Maybe the silver piece is too high?  Wrenches the wrong color?  Maybe should have used black grommets?  All of the above? 

OWH Midweek Throwdown - Celebrate Friendship

I have been working on Valentine cards for Operation Write Home, thinking that everyone else is working on holiday cards!!  It fits right in with the Midweek Throwdown - Celebrate Friendship.

My final version:

This is the original, which sat in the "bad card" pile for a few weeks:

I think it really needed the lace and pearls to finish it off.   The original was too plain, even for a lover of CAS, like me. 

Am I the only one with such a "pile"?  Sometimes, I make a card, and it just doesn't seem right - maybe it is missing something, a color match isn't close enough, what ever.   I set it aside, and look at it again later on.  If I step back for a while, I find that I can take a fresh look, figure out why I didn't like it the first time around, and make adjustments. 

Rose paper from DCWV, red metallic cardstock is Recollections, sentiment from Colorbok vellum pad, ribbon from Offray, pearl lace from my stash - a very old purchase from when Frank's Nursery and Crafts went out of business, Spellbinder die cuts.  The card base is black on the outside, and white on the inside.  I buy most of my base cardstock from Hollo's Papercraft in Brunswick, Ohio.  They carry a lot of HEAVY cardstock that is light on one side, and colored on the other.  Since I make most of my cards for Operation Write Home, I want to use the highest quality materials I can afford. 

OWH Midweek Throwdown - Color Challenge!

This week's throwdown is to make a back and white card, and add a pop of color.

I like this version a lot better than I did my first attempt.

Here is my second attempt:

Here is my first attempt:

I prefer the color accent in the bling, not the ink of the sentiment.  What do you think?

Thank You sentiment from TPC Studios.  Stamp is SU Fresh Vintage.  Bling from Stash. 

OWH Mid Week Throw Down - Any Hero Thank You

This week’s Mid Week Throw Down challenge at OWH is to make an Any Hero card and use Red, White & Blue.

Over at May Arts, the challenge is for a Patriot's Day card, using this sketch from Sandy Allnock:

Here is my interpretation:

 

Not my favorite work, but I learned a lot in the proccess.  And that makes it worthwhile!!!  The red and white are ribbons, topped with red rick rack.  The red stars are heat set metals from Design By Dawn.  The card base is liight blue (doesn't show well, but my laptop with my editing software is in the computer hospital).  The other paper layers are navy.  One layer embossed with stars, the other stamped with THANKS from Fiskars.