Market Day Card Event

 I participated in an online card class last weekend, run by Scrapbook and Cards. If you are ever wanting to take a paper crafting class - cards, scrapbooks, mixed products - check them out! Here is the link to their site: Scrapbook and Cards Today. Their events are open to anyone worldwide!

I received an extensive package of stamps, dies (TONS of dies), stencils and cardstock. There were three classes, some with bonus cards. I completed all of them - and was exhausted at the end of the day! 

There is such a great variety of cards from this event - and I have the products to create more!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Set of Cards - Gina K Style

 I work on sets of cards at crops and I finished 4 sets of 8 of these cards (32 cards in total). There are eight colour schemes. The cards are 5x7 and there was a ton of die cutting for each. I love how they turned out!

Which colour is your favourite? 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Postage Collage Animal Cards

 These two cards are for the ABC Alphabet Soup Challenge for the Papercrafter's Workshop store. These are my C and D cards for the month of February. 

C is for cats... I embossed blue cardstock with a paw print pattern and ink blended some postage shapes with an ombre blue blend. The images were embossed in black and I used a white gel pen to add details. I arranged them on the front and added a small stamped sentiment under one of the images. 

D is for dogs... I kept the postage collage frame intact and ink blended a blue and purple background. The dog images were die cut and arranged on the front. I used a white gel pen to add details and I heat embossed two sentiments as well. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Side Pleat Card

 I purchased a paper pack a while ago - it's single sided but the patterns are gorgeous. I used one of the sheets for this card. 

The left side is pleat folded five times and over the last pleat line, I placed a thin ribbon. The pleated panel was adhered to a gold mat and then a teal card base. I have some ephemera from this kit and I used both an image and a sentiment on this card. I added some gold thread under the sentiment and placed a few gold gems around the image. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

AH 668 - Square Florals

Welcome to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 668!

The sketch is shown below. 

I love this sketch - the concept of rotating the same image for the tiny squares and using the same (or a similar) image for the larger section is neat!

I chose a floral stamp and I stamped the same image on all eight small squares. They were coloured using shades of pink and green. A larger images from the same set was stamped in the biggest opening and coloured. I used a black marker to draw around the edges of the smaller pieces and arranged them as per the sketch The sentiment was embossed on black and added across the larger image. I used a black pen to draw dots around some of the flowers and leaves. 

Come and join us at Atlantic Hearts and show us how you interpret this challenge.

You have until Sunday evening to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Bee Mine

 This card was created for a year long challenge run by The Papercrafter's Workshop, a scrapbooking store. Every month, they post at least two letters from the alphabet and the projects must be focused around elements that begin with that letter. There are prizes each month and also a grand prize at the end of the year. 

January (although it was a late start) is A and B. We have until the end of February to complete the January projects as well as the two for February (C and D). This is my "B" project.

The focal "B" events on my card are bees, the colour blue and ink blending. 

I ink blended a background and splattered it with water. The flower and the bees were stamped, coloured and die cut and I added heart trails behind each of the bees. I used clear Stickles on the bees' wings and on the centres of the flowers. The sentiment was placed at the bottom and I added the front to white cardstock and then a blue card base. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Amazing Butterfly Shaker

 I like to do the Sketchy Saturday challenge that is posted by a friend of mine. The sketch is shown below. 

I stayed true to the sketch as there were so many layers. I chose a teal, purple and light green colour scheme. The third layer was stencilled and I turned the small rectangles into shakers and inked a purple butterfly to go on top. The sentiment was placed across the butterfly. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

FQCC February - Peace on Earth Scene

 Welcome to FarmQuest Country Christmas and our February challenge!

This is always a Christmas challenge with an outdoor theme. 

I used a set of stencils from Altenew to create the background. I wanted to stencil the trees but even my darkest green ink allowed the darker grey to show through so I did the stencilling on a separate sheet of white cardstock and fussy cut the trees. The church image was die cut and assembled and I placed that image on the trail. I added clear Stickles on various parts of the snow and coloured in the light on the lamp post. A white gel pen was used to add stars in the sky and the sentiment was placed at the top. I also added red and gold Stickles to the trees for some decoration. 

The same set of stencils (different parts) were used to create a second card, this one with winter trees. I created the layers in various shades of blue and stencilled the trees and added glitter paste on top. The house images were die cut, inked and assembled. I placed them along the trail and stamped the sentiment at the top. The hills were lined with clear Stickles. 

Come and join us at FQCC and show us how you interpret this challenge. 

You have until March 5 to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Cut It Up 349 - You are Amazing

 Welcome to Cut It Up Challenge 349!

The theme for this challenge is "this makes me happy". 

I love florals - and I also love sending unexpected cards to others, just to brighten their day. Both of those things make me happy!

I used a set of stencils to create the floral image, blending a mix of pink, yellow and orange for the flowers. I cut that piece with a stitched rectangle die and die cut a second, larger rectangle from black cardstock. The sentiment was stamped at the bottom and I added a die cut "you" just above that. The front was adhered to the mat layer with thin foam tape and the last layer was adhered to a white card base. Easy! 

Come and join us at Cut It Up and show us how you interpret this challenge.

You have until Monday, February 16 to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy,

Alyson

Arch Extended Gatefold Card

 I posted a card like this one a while ago. This is the one that I taught in my group and I used nested arch dies.

The front has a coverplate die that was sliced in half to put a piece on each side. The deer were added to the front and I used a single deer on the inside of the card. The background for the inside was ink blended and it shows through all the arches. I added white glitter paper to each arch to simulate snowbanks. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson