TSOT 644 - Sunflower Thinking of You

 Welcome to Try a Sketch on Tuesday Challenge 644!

The sunflower drove the colours for my card. I used a purple hot foiled background and die cut a rounded rectangle from purple cardstock. The green panel was embossed with a floral embossing folder. The sunflower image was placed at the bottom of the small rectangle and I added some gold metallic thread underneath. A hot foiled sentiment was placed across the sunflower and I added some gold gems to finish off this card. 

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

You have two weeks to link up your project.

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy,

Alyson

DT 163 - Change the World

 Welcome to Double Trouble Challenge 163!

Kraft and blue - the small graphic is below. Please visit the Double Trouble Challenge Blog for detailed information. 

We are pairing with The Inspiration Station Challenge - this is their inspiration photo.

As soon as I saw the inspiration picture, I knew which stamp I wanted to use. This beautiful world stamp with flowers at the top was perfect. I stamped the image and coloured it before die cutting it. I also stamped a sentiment for the bottom. The Kraft paper was embossed with a 3D embossing folder and I added a thin strip of glitter paper along each side before adhering that piece to the card base. I added various colours of Stickles to the centres of the flowers to finish off the card. 

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

You have two weeks to link up your project. 

I am also linking up my card with the challenge at The Inspiration Station (the globe was my inspiration). 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy,

Alyson 

Special Friend Hedgehog

 I just love this little hedgehog image - had to use it to create a card! 

The background was embossed and I added a gold frame on top. The hedgehog was stamped and coloured and I lightly blended yellow ink around the image. The sentiment was gold heat embossed (top line) and then stamped with dark brown ink. Both those pieces were die cut using oval dies and adhered to the card. Some gold metallic thread and gold gems finished off this cute card. 

Enjoy,

Alyson

Woven Floral Card

 My friend, Monica, posts a sketch every Saturday. Some are scrapbook sketches and others are card sketches. This one is actually a scrapbook sketch but I turned it into a card instead. 

The background was inked with Distress Oxide inks and splattered with water. I cut several strips of patterned paper from the same pack and arranged them according to the sketch. The main panel was used for the flowers and I added a sentiment on the left side to accommodate the journal piece shown on the sketch. The card front was placed on a blue mat and then a white card base. There are some extra flowers on the inside of the card as well. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

MTTCC 83 - SNOW!

 Welcome to My Time to Craft Christmas Challenge 83!

The theme for this challenge is snowmen.

I knew right away what I wanted to do for this challenge. I embossed a piece of white cardstock with a snowflake embossing folder and added a white glitter "ground" piece at the bottom. The letters were die cut x3 and one of each letter was lightly inked with grey and green ink. The letters were stacked and I stamped, coloured and die cut the snowman image. That was stacked x3 as well. The snowman forms the letter O in the word SNOW. I added some clear Stickles to several of the snowflakes and adhered the card front to the base using craft foam. 

Come and join us at MTTCC and show us how you interpret this week's theme. 

You have two weeks to link up your project. 

We can't wait to see what you create!

Enjoy,

Alyson

Special Birthday Card

 A friend of mine asked me to create a card for her grand-daughter's birthday. I used a stamp and layering stencil to colour the floral image and added a strip of patterned paper along the side. The front was spattered with black paint and I fussy cut around the words. There is a birthday message inside the card. 

Enjoy,

Alyson

Art Journal

 I have several friends who do art journaling and it is something I have wanted to do for a while - honestly, I had NO IDEA where to begin. 

I watched a few videos designed for beginners. I understand that it is more a place to do anything and everything without a definitive guide and that is extremely difficult for me. I like organization whether that comes from a sketch, a given theme, a specific design and colours, etc. "Winging it" stresses me out something awful. It's like using a lot of mixed media on a project - I don't know how it will turn out and I have a hard time not being able to control that!

So here is my first foray into this new form of art. Much of was still controlled - that's just me. I ink blended a double page panel and splattered it with water. I used a stencil and gold paste to add some colour to the two corner areas. The flowers were fussy cut and added and I used a text stamp to stamp randomly (as random as I could manage) over the flowers, although I missed sections. I stamped a sentiment to cover some of the empty space and then splattered the entire page with black paint. Do I like it? Kind of... I realize I have to be able to let go for this process. 

Back to more experimenting... 

Enjoy,

Alyson

Hummingbird Box Card

This sweet fun fold card design has been around forever - this is my take on it. 

I used several Distress Oxide inks to blend a sunburst background and adhered that to the inside of the box (before it was assembled). The flower and hummingbird were stamped (layering stamps), die cut and added inside the box to appear like they are floating. An opening was die cut from the front of the card, allowing the bird and flower to be visible thought that opening. A small sentiment was placed at the side and I added a panel on the back to write a message. 

Enjoy, 

Alyson

AH 570 - Friend Flowers

Welcome to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 570! 

I opted to create a vertical card with this sketch. 

The background was lightly stencilled in a dot pattern and I added a strip of light purple glitter paper down each side. The flowers were stamped, stencilled and die cut and I placed a piece of black cardstock between the two floral sections. The "friend" sentiment was die cut and I used the die cut mask to place the letters evenly. The smaller sentiment was heat embossed - AFTER I had assembled the rest of the card. That's a risk - luckily it worked out for me. 

Come and join us at Atlantic Hearts and show us how you interpret this week's sketch. 

You have until Sunday evening to link up your project.

We can’t wait to see what you create!

Enjoy, 

Alyson

Postage Collage Roses

 I am loving the postage collage series - these two cards were made using the rose stencil that goes with that set. 

For both cards, I lightly inked a background in each of the sections. The rose stencil was applied and I created two different colours - one in yellow and the second in turquoise. The last stencil added the little diamonds so I used gold paste for the yellow card and turquoise glitter gel for the other. I also stamped several of the postage images on each of the card fronts. Black splatter was added to both cards and a small bow was tied near the bottom and the sentiments were placed accordingly. 

Enjoy,

Alyson