Card Camp Week 3

Hey everybody it's week 3 of the Summer Card Camp. This week we are working with these colors. A nice neutral palette, with a pop of red. 

Here is what I've created so far. A cute little airplane and clouds from the Lawn Fawn Bon Voyage set. The clock background stamp is from Hero Arts. Isn't it great? I typed the saying on the computer, stamped the clouds around them and cut them out. I'm not sure where the ribbon is from. The paper is Bazzill and from JoAnn's. The graph paper is from Basic Grey.

The next card is a pretty butterfly from Hero Arts. I stamped it with a VersaMark stamp pad and embossed it with white Zing powder from American Crafts. I used the finger inking technique from Jennifer McGuire's video using the fired brick and vintage photo Tim Holtz Distress Ink stamp pads. The brown and red shapes were cut from the Elegant Shapes Cricut cartridge. The sentiment stamp is from Papertrey Ink. The background paper is from Basic Grey and I also used Bazzill cardstock. Oh and the pearls are from Hero Arts too.

Wonder how many more cards I can make this week?

June Socks - Flutter

The Skacel 20 Years of Trekking contest is over (or will be on July 15). It was lots of fun. I learned some new toe and heel construction and knit some interesting patterns.

I think the June pattern is one of my favorites. There are sweet little butterflies fluttering all over them. I made these for my sister, but I think I am going to make a full sized pair for myself. 

I have lots of projects on needles, so I hope to finish some of them before the summer is over. Right now I'm working on a Central Park Hoodie in a cream color. After that, there are several pairs of socks and a scarf that need finishing. I'll keep you posted on my progress.

Summer Card Camp Week Two

Wow, week two of the Summer Card Camp is over. I didn't get as many cards made this week. In fact, I only got one finished. I am going to try to get a couple more finished today if possible.

This week the color palette reminds me of melons; watermelon and cantaloupe.  So did I use either of those in my card? No. My card is one of the Hero Arts Peeking Posies stamps. I colored it with colored pencils. I like the way it turned out.

Supplies used:

Hero Arts Peeking Posies Stamp

Papertrey Ink sentiment stamp

Jenni Bowlin Fountain Pen stamp pad

October Afternoon paper

Bazzill Paper

Mark Richards gems

Hopefully I'll get more cards made next week.

Day Four

It's me again. I bet you are all shocked, since I have never posted this often :-)

On day four of Card Camp, Kristina Werner taught us all about balance. She has some really great card sketches and I'm going to try the others later. The sketch I picked was radial balance. As soon as I saw it, I knew what I was going to do. The doily card and circle sentiment are from the Wild Card Cricut cartridge. The paper is from Bazzill and Basic Grey. The flowers and ribbon are some that I've had in my stash for quite awhile. The brad is from Making Memories.

See you tomorrow with another card.

Today's Card

Hi - it is day three of the Summer Card Camp. Today several guest designers showed off their wonderful cards using the color palette for this week.


Here is my card. I thought I would keep it simple. 


See you tomorrow with another card.

Papers: Bella Boulevard (orange) and unknown (blues), Bazzill

Ribbon: Target Dollar Spot

Button: JoAnn's 

Bakers Twine: We R Memory Keepers

Punches: EK Success

Summer Card Camp 2011 Day Two

It is day 2 of the Summer Card Camp. Today's class was a window card based on a video from Jennifer McGuire. She showed us lots of new techniques to create our cards.


After a slow start, I think my recycling bag is full of my rejected ideas, I came up with this card. Jennifer's card had a large stamped flower that she colored with markers. Well, I have small flower stamps and my markers didn't work very well (I guess I need some new ones).  So I had to come up with another idea.


Here is what I did: I stamped my little flowers with a VersaMark Watermark stamp pad and then embossed them with Zing embossing powder. I hung them inside the window with thread and then backed them with a piece of transparency so they wouldn't flip around. I drew dots around the window with my Signo pen and added some bakers twine to the sentiment. 

The papers are from Basic Grey and Bazzill. The stamps are from Lawn Fawn.

I can't wait to see what tomorrow's class will bring.

July Cricut Class

In the better late than never category... here are the cards for the July Cricut Classes at Craft Fancy.

I decided to go with a summery theme this month. Hopefully we will be getting some summer weather soon!

First up is a bowl of strawberries from the Simply Charmed cartridge. Don't they look good enough to eat? Other cartridges used on this card are Lacy Labels and Plantin Schoolbook.

This beautiful bird is from the Florals Embellished card. All of the images on this cartridge have multiple layers and are so pretty.  The green background was cut using Lacy Labels.

How about a trip to the beach? Our beachy scene is made with the Summer Fun, Simply Charmed and Everyday Pop Up Cards cartridges.

Next up we have some colorful butterflies. While I like all the layers on the other cards, sometimes a simple, colorful card is just the thing for a Thank You card.

Craft Fancy is celebrating Christmas in July, so this last card is a holiday one. The cute little birdhouse is from the Winter Frolic cartridge.

Hope to see you in one of the classes in July!

Edited to Add:

I forgot to tell you about a give away I'm having for my students in July and August.  I have an extra Mickey and Friends cartridge and would like to give it to one of my student. So if you are in one of my classes in July and August, you have a chance to win this cartridge.  Good luck!