Sew Much Flowery Fun

OK I know I am late to the sewing party and some people are more than "over it" as a trend.  I think that is why I decided to have a go at it.  I don't really worry about trends.  I do like it when I am inspired by what I see and for this card I was firstly inspirated by all the pleated medallions and I thought they would make a good flower.  I used 2 1/2 Spellbinders classic scallops circles to make the flower and folded it along the scallops.  I think the easiest way to fold was line them up and then unfold and fold another fold and after all the pleats are scored actually pleat the piece for dimension.  I wanted a lot of pleats! 

Does the stem look familiar?  It was left over from when I cut decorations for my cousin's baby shower.  I like that I was able to get such a different look from the shower decorations. 

This card was made for our auntie, she is advid knitter but enjoys handmade items and artwork.  Her eldest son is a graphic designer.  So I try not to do something that would be in the realm of graphic design when I make a card for her. 

Ingredients

Card Size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in

Cardstock - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Recollections

Paper - K & Co

Stamps - Just Rite Stampers

Ink - Memento

Accessories - white thread and sewing machine.

Ha-ay! Happy Birthday-ay!

So this was the start of a punny birthday card.  My youngest is always telling me "hay - ay" jokes... so when it came time to make a card for him I had to make it a "hay-ay" joke card.  Lots of masking and airbrushing on this card.  I think if I redid this card I might have made the "Hay-Ay" in a speech bubble and maybe add some twine to the bottom to reinforce the grounding of the scene.  Otherwise it is a pretty straight forward stamping and coloring.

What would you have done differently with this card?

Ingredients

Card Size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in

Cardstock - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White

Stamps - High Hopes Stamps, Just Rite Stampers

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Color - Copics

Accessories - Black embossing powder.

Soccer/Football - A different perspective

Just when you thought I had finished with the soccer/football cards - I put a different spin on it (get it?!)  OK I won't dwell on that I can hear the pun groan from here.

I decided I wanted the perspective of the crowd and goal.  So I stamped the crowd on my 5.5 in x 8.5 in cardstock and randomly spot colored in the crowd.  I didn't want them to be more than the background so I didn't use any loud colors just grays, blues and neutrals.

I then layered the grass green paper over the bottom 2/5ths of the card and cut the slot.  I wish I could say it was meticulous planning.. OH WAIT! With meticulous planning I realized that I could match up the front "grass" stripes with the back of the slot.

At this point I thought the "hard part" was done.  Little did I know! I have had this plastic mesh that came off some duty free for a while thinking it would make a great net.  I ran it through my Xyron... it lifted off the card.  I tried again.  It lifted again.  Thought maybe I could slightly melt it to the card with my heat gun and it started to shrivel. YIKES!  In the end good ol fashioned white glue to the rescue and an acrylic block to hold it down.

I think the rest is pretty self explanatory (or I have already said it in at least 3 of the previous 5 posts). 

Ingredients

Card size - 8.5 x 5.5 in

Cardstock- Neenah Solar White

Paper - The Paper Source pack

Stamps - Viva Las Vegastamps (crowd), GinaK (Little Tees, Sporty Accessories), Just Rite Stampers (Shirt lettering & numbers), Stampendous (Flexible Friendship Wishes)

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black, Versamark, Brilliance Victorian Violet (I think)

Color - Copics

Accessories -  White & Clear embossing powder, Pennies, Fun foam (for dimension), Foam Tape square.

A revisit less dimension sans cat, larger circle

At this point I think you could say I have this card nailed down.  Now I know a lot of people would tut tut at recreating different versions of this card for so many people.  Can I just say, do you know how hard it is to make a card that directly appeals to male interests?  I see it all the time on Splitcoaststampers.  Cries of help regarding male cards.  I also made this interactive and tactile.  Simple pleasure of rolling that ball up and down the pitch seems to bring the brightest smiles to the men in my life.  They really seemed to love it.  It is like a card version of a video game! Result!

The only major change is that I had run out of foam tape and started using fun foam from my stash and truthfully it worked better the card was much less springy.  If I make another one of these cards I will definitely be using fun foam.  I did use foam tape square with the ball

Ingredients

Card size - 8.5 x 5.5 in

Paper - The Paper Source pack

Stamps - GinaK (Little Tees, Sporty Accessories), Just Rite Stampers (Shirt lettering & numbers), Stampendous (Flexible Friendship Wishes)

Ink - Memento Danube blue Tuxedo black;  Versamark 

Color - Copics to match the Sheffield Wednesday kit.

Accessories -  Black embossing powder, Spellbinders Circle Nestabilities, Pennies, Fun foam (for dimension), Foam Tape square.

Can I get a Tilt with that Spin?

And so the football/soccer card continues to evolve... now I know you can't see that this is that much different than my first card.  Colors are now for my nephew who is an ardent Man United supporter.   I know, I know, we still love him anyway.

You can't really tell but the shirt tilts when the spinner spins!  Oh yeah now we are talking super nerdy card making skills!  Lionel Messi can't even keep up with these moves. LOL!  Thank you Splitcoastampers Resource pages (tilt and/or spinner cards).

This card also has a super save on it.  I cut the slot just a fraction too big.  Now it is pretty fiddly to get to the point of the slot so I decided to double stamp the ball and apply it to the other side of the back penny for stability and it worked like a charm.

Ingredients

Card size - 8.5 x 5.5 in

Paper - The Paper Source pack

Stamps - GinaK (Little Tees, Sporty Accessories), Just Rite Stampers (Shirt lettering & numbers), Stampendous (Flexible Friendship Wishes)

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

Color - Copics (sorry forgot the exact colors but they were in the 20s/30s range and I use Ciao).

Accessories - White embossing powder, Spellbinders Circle Nestabilities, Pennies, Foam tape 

Triple Teamed Birthday

Sorry about blurring the names but it was a bit TMI.  Still numbers of favorite players and last time England won the world cup are on this one.  This card was for the hubs.  He follows at least three different football teams (Liverpool FC, Sheffield Wednesday, and Rochdale) rather religiously.  I had already thought what can I do differently, then I decided that I could spin one of the jersey's.  Now you would think ok, that's the end of this episode. Same but different of the previous incarnation.  The real story about this card is that my hubs turns to me AFTER I have made this card and says.  "You know you should make a card with the shirt as the spinner!" So either this card is pure genius or pure "RutRoh" to quote Scooby. I'm going for great minds thinking alike and genius! LOL wouldn't you?

Ingredients

Card size - 8.5 x 5.5 in

Paper - The Paper Source pack

Stamps - GinaK (Little Tees), Just Rite Stampers (Shirt lettering & numbers), Stampendous (Flexible Friendship Wishes)

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black and Danube blue, Versamark

Color - Copics & Multiliner.

Accessories - Clear embossing powder, White embossing powder, Spellbinders Circle Nestabilities, Pennies, Foam tape

World Cardmaking Day lesson on sharing.

I love to share!  I bet just about everyone with a blog loves to share, an idea, a thought a project in progress or completed.  However, I think we should remember that not everything is ours to share.  Letting my friend borrow a stamp is completely different to widely disseminating someone else's art.

Please take a moment today and visit Mo's Digital Pencil too .  I came across a post on SplitcoastStampers and thought the best thing I could do on World Cardmaking Day is support the artists who make my little stamp creations possible.  Please think about it and I hope you will do the same.

Here's another site as well if you really want to give these artists your support.  http://stampoutstamptheft.blogspot.com/