Saw it. Had to Make It.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Hey Gullfriend!
Thursday, May 12, 2022
With Love
I am back with our latest Tic Tac Toe Challenge Board #161 (here) created by Jeanne. I recently bought the new Spellbinders Artful Tulip die set that comes with a paint brush die. When I was considering getting the set I knew I could make bouquets with my favorite flower in addition to the paint brush cards I have seen. My bouquet card style is one you have probably seen for a while online, but this is my first time making one and it was not only fun, but fairly easy! From this new board I chose the left column moving down: Layers, Bow, Floral. I am joining the challenge at Four Seasons May Spring Challenge here since my card is full of spring flowers and would be a great Mother's Day card as well as Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies here!
Products I used:
Spellbinders: Artful Tulip die set
My Favorite Things: Scalloped rectangle dies (small white one)
Sugar Pea Designs: Card Front Element Builder dies (large scalloped rectangle)
Hand cut bouquet wrap
Studio Katia: Slider Tag dies (mini tag)
Mama Elephant: Holiday Bitties (tiny sentiment)
Stampin' Up!: Patterned paper
Ranger Distress Oxide Inks
Blender brushes
Wink of Stella pen
Twine
Foam tape
I ink blended blue and green inks on white card stock, then cut my flowers and leaves where I liked the lighter and darker shades in my blended inks. I don't know if there is such a thing as blue tulips but I just felt like blue was the color of the day. There is Wink of Stella pen here and there on the flowers for shine that is better seen in person. I popped up the bouquet on the card with foam tape. That's it!
We hope you will join us this week with Jeanne's board...so many new original choices to inspire you!
-Carol
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Joy
Our May challenge at Christmas Craft Creations is Two Colors. I chose pink and white sparkle for my ornaments theme. We would love for you to join us for this round!
Products I used:
Pinkfresh Studio: Diagonal Stitched Rectangles
Stampin' Up!: Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies
The Stamp Market: Joyful die (cut down to Joy)
White glitter card stock
Pink textured card stock
Sequins
Distress Oxide ink in Kitsch Flamingo
Blender brushes
I cut the top panel with the stitched rectangle die first. Then I ink blended from the bottom up for an ombré look with Kitsch Flamingo distress oxide ink. Next I die cut the ornaments from the white sparkle card stock and layered them onto pink card stock. I ink blended on the ornament hangers using Kitsch Flamingo again and cut the sentiment from the white sparkle card stock. I adhered the long ornament to the front panel with Tacky Glue and popped up the round second ornament with foam tape. Joy was adhered with Tacky Glue as were the sequins. I popped up the completed front panel on foam tape onto an A2 white card base and my card was done!
Take a look at all the design team inspiration and play along!!
-Carol
Saturday, May 7, 2022
National Paper Clip Day
Welcome back to the (our second month!) Wacky Holidays Hop for May on Instagram. You know all those obscure things that earned themselves national/international days of recognition? We're here to celebrate them! Who says only major holidays get cards?!
You may remember we did this for April and it was so much fun we decided to make it a monthly event! Please message @claires_card_on (on Instagram) if you'd like to join the June holidays hop! Go to Nationaltoday.com to see all the wacky holidays throughout the year...you can even apply to add one!
I chose National Paper Clip Day which is celebrated this year on May 29, 2022! After looking through this month's holidays, I thought this would be one that a) I had stamps for and b) no one else might choose it for their card. I also thought that I would make something sort of symmetrical (but wacky) because paper clips do organize things, right? I will let you look up all the historical data on how paper clips came to be...but there is a story or two behind them!
- Makeshift zipper
If you have a broken zipper, simply thread a paperclip through the metal loop of your zipper, and voila! - No-fuss ornament hook
Broken ornament hooks get old really fast, so use paperclips to hang them with instead. - DIY cellphone stand
Follow that YouTube recipe on your phone by bending a large paperclip into a phone stand to prop it up. - Screwdriver for your glasses
When you find the frame of your glasses is getting a little loose, use a paperclip wire to tighten those tiny screws. - Snack bag seal
Why waste money on plastic clips (not to mention the environmental implications) when a couple of paperclips can seal your snack baggies, keeping the contents fresh?
Check out my Instagram (@sawithadtomakeit) for the the accounts that are participating in this fun hop! Live links are there for you! Our hashtag is #obscureholidaycards Happy hopping!
-Carol
You Make Me Smile
This week at Just Us Girls Challenge #631 it is Word Week: Flowers! It was time to use my new My Favorite Things Harmonious Hibiscus background stamp. I was a bit intimidated knowing I could not miss any spots when inking up such a big stamp.
We hope you will get out your flower stamps and join us this week. Check out all the great ideas that the design team came up with by clicking on their names under their pictures. I learn new techniques every week by reading their blog posts!
See you soon,
-Carol
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Happy Mother's Day
Is it ever too early to start creating for the next holiday? Here's a card I decided was for Mother's day for the Just Us Girls #630: Make a Trifold card. Like Patty asks in her post of this gorgeous card here, is it called a trifold, z-fold? (My card was from different directions. I like hers better!)
Some details on my card: I used an older Stampin' Up! sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set and that leaf/flower stamp is from their Summer Silhouettes set. The pink patterned paper on the left is also SU! as are the heart brad and ribbon! The floral paper is from American Crafts, I think. The ink I used to stamp is Archival Ink in Cobalt.
Check out all the design team's versions of the trifold card by clicking on their names and reading their blog posts!
See you back here soon,
-Carol
Thursday, April 28, 2022
For Mom
Hello friends, glad you are here for this special week! For TicTac Toe Challenge #159, I designed the board and I decided to use the diagonal row going from top left to bottom right: Anything but a card, Free, Mother's Day. I made a gift box and a "matching" tag. The box is a nice size: roughly 6" x 8" and 2" tall. (I just noticed that my project also fits the third/right column moving down: Ribbon/twine, Bright colors, Mother's Day!)
Products I used:
Sunny Studios: Loopy Letters Lower dies
Pretty Pink Posh: Crocus Flowers
Patterned Paper: JoAnn Fabrics
Glitter card stock: JoAnn Fabrics (I think it is Bazzill)
Stampin' Up!: Ribbon and silver twine, silver embossing powder
Reverse Confetti: tag die
Red Line tape (for box and lid)
We hope you will join us this week for this end of school year/spring board!
-Carol