Lower Cholesterol

I ran across a new (to me) challenge site today called CPS (Card Positioning System) followed the sketch and made this card to enter for CPS #206. I’m going to enter it in the Use It Tuesday’s challenge USE002 also, because this is a lot prettier dp than the other card I submitted, and I can also submit it to Party Time Tuesday's PTT #4 cause it's anything goes this week.

The main image is an American Art Stamp called High Heels. You can’t clearly read the sentiment because of the card holder, it says : THE DOCTOR TOLD ME TO LOWER MY CHOLESTEROL…SO NO MORE HIGH HEELS! The image was stamped on white with onyx black versafine. I colored the skin with prismacolored pencils and goo gone, the rest of the image was colored with cheap gel pens and a waterbrush, sprayed hairspray on it, then cut it out with a nesties rectangle. I like this technique because it makes the image shimmer. I have a close-up picture below. I just wanted a little frame around it so I trimmed up a piece of the light blue cardstock just to peek out around it. The next layer is a piece of patterned paper, it may not show up in the picture, but it has very light squares on it, cut with a circle nestie, with a light blue layer cut with a scalloped circle nestie, then I used a different patterned paper for the next layer, backed by a piece of red. Both of the patterned paper is from a DCWV Spring Stack. After, I put the layers together,  I did the sewing with three different stitches, then attached the layers to the light blue base card.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I do not have a lot of patience. I bought a Singer Pixie Plus sewing machine a couple of years ago, because I like the looks of some of those cards out there with sewing on them. I finally got it out of the box and managed to make a card back on the 3^rd of this month. Since the third it has mainly been sitting in the floor of my craft room, because the needle came unthreaded, and I broke my needle threader trying to rethread it. I finally got it threaded, and the thread messed up and unthreaded it again, in the middle of making a card, so back in the floor it went until today. I figured I’d give it another try. I’m sure if someone out there had a video camera they could win prizes from America’s Funniest Video, videotaping me with the sewing machine. Because I had fooled around so much with it before, I had to change the thread and bobbin, so I would have thread to work with, had to drag out the book for this, maybe I should have paid more attention to sewing in school, I think I failed this part of home economics which I believe I did mention in another post.  I used three different stitches on this card, as you can see, I need plenty of practice!!  I have yet to figure out how it punches the holes, but skips putting thread in them, as I am sewing along. The good news is, it didn’t come unthreaded and the thread didn’t get all tangled up again. With a little practice, I might get this down somedayJ

As promised here is a close-up of the shimmer that using cheap gel pens and a waterbrush creates.

Thanks for looking, and I’d love to hear your comments.

Mom's Spit

I guess I have completely lost my mind!! My dh left this morning for the other house, to check on things and pick up the mail, so I am home alone with all my toys. I can stamp until my heart’s content, I didn’t have to stop playing for lunch and won’t have to stop playing to make sure supper is on the table……..YEAH!!. Of course I’ll have to stop when I want something to eat, or to run outside and put wood in our outdoor furnace, but I can stay up as long as I please, and not have to worry about being quiet.

For my first home alone project I decided to use a stamp I just had to have  when I saw it. Back in the day, I remember my Mother doing this and that is why I just had to have the stamp. I’m sure there is more than a few of you out there. that has had this done to them by their Mom's too. I bought the stamp back in 2008 and have only used it once before, on the inside of a Mother’s Day card, so with my warped sense of humor, I just love funny cards, decided to use it for the Stamp TV color challenge. It wasn’t until it was completely finished, and I was ready to take a picture of it, that I realized I had not only used the color challenge, but had done this week’s sketch challenge as well.  I guess between my stamping addiction and being home alone it’s really getting to me. Since I was thinking color challenge in the beginning, color challenge is just what it will be.

The stamp is from American Art Stamps called With Your Spit, I just checked, and they still carry it. It was stamped on white cardstock with onyx black versafine, cut out, and embossed with oval nesties. It really needed something else to fill in the spaces, so I stamped some of the flowers from Purrr-fectly Delightful, colored them with a plain red gel pen (not metallic) and watercolor brush, cut them out and glued them to the oval. I was also thinking about doing that new technique for pressed flowers, but changed my mind since I had embossed the oval. The black layer behind was cut with a nestie scalloped oval, they were placed on dp from my scrap pile, behind the dp is a black layer and the base card is white. I stamped the sentiment from a SU stamp set Teeny Tiny Wishes in onyx black versafine, and cut it out with a fancy tag die, then decided to run the red ink pen around the edge before removing die. After that, I went back and ran a red ring inside the oval, skipping where I had glued the bottom flower. The tag is attached with two black mini brads. The ribbon is some kind of wrapping paper ribbon. Thanks for stopping by and please be sure to leave a comment.

Sound Familiar?

Here is the new sketch challenge at Stamp TV for this week.

Today’s card is using that sketch with an American Art Stamp called Out of Money, that I have had for a while. Out of money sound familiar? It does to me.

I was getting tired of using the same GKD sets over and over. There should be a different set for me to use in my mailbox, but since I haven't been home to get it, I'll have to wait, and since I don't have money to spend on buying new ones, I can only hope to win some more.

The main image was stamped on white cardstock using jet black stazon ink. I drug out my watercolor pencils for a change to color with. The image and the yellowish orange oval were cut out with oval nesties. For the border across the top, I used a cuttlebug die, that I have had forever, don’t know the name, as I discarded the package when I bought pages to put the dies in. I used a strip of brown as a layer under the die piece, and under the sentiment. The sentiment is from a SU set Teeny Tiny Wishes. Two gold brads were used on the brown strip under the sentiment. The dp is from my scrap pile, also layered on yellowish orange. The base card is brown. 

Thanks for stopping by and would love to hear your comments.