Masculine Kids Card

Just when I figured out how to combine "paper crafting time"  and "work hours".....my scheduled hours at my job, got changed...Grrrrrrr. Back to the drawing board, I suppose it will take a few weeks to get into the "swing" of the new work schedule.

I combined two challenges for this card because I thought it would be easy...Who was I kidding?? The Dynamic Duo Challenge uses two colors...pacific point and basic black, with the dessert option of making a 'kid themed card'.  Ann, the hostess for The Paper Players is challenging us to make a 'CAS masculine' card. Well boys are 'kids' and they are also 'masculine'.....easy peasy you say....well this was not the case. When you add that elusive 'CAS' to the mixture, it became a little more difficult for me. Three days later I finally completed this card. Keep in mind that last Wednesday I completed a card in 5 minutes and 15 seconds. Boy oh boy what a difference a week makes!

The paper pieced image from MFT was colored with Copic markers and Prisma colored pencils. I even added a few brush burns on the arms, cuz my kids always got bruises where ever the protective pads weren't!! lol

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Hawaiian Floral Sketch

No vacation would be complete with out bringing back souvenirs and if you are a paper crafter, the best souvenirs are stamps, embellishments and papers. I brought back some beautiful stamps, papers and embellishments from Island Paperie, located on Maui.

Three different stamp sets were used on this card (Lots of Aloha, Nesting Retro Plumerias, and Tropical Flowers A). The vertical strip of paper was created by stamping the solid Plumeria stamp and the outline stamp. Both images were stamped with Distress Inks (stamped off once for a softer effect). The Bird of Paradise flower was colored with the same distress inks and highlighted with Copic markers.

This is the wonderful Paper Players  sketch that was used to design this card.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Playing in Paradise

After vacationing in Paradise, it is only appropriate that I try a "Playing in Paradise" sketch challenge.

DP from Heidi Grace, die cuts are Sizzix, birthday stamp Art Impressions, embossing powder (on leaf die cuts) is from Stampendous, floral stamp from the Long Stem Silhouette's set by Sweet 'n Sassy.

This is the sketch that was used to design this card. Nothing has changed....I'm still rotating my sketches :-)

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.

Monochromatic Duos

***This card won Honorable Mention***

This is monochromatic week at Dynamic Duos.  Lesley is also hosting a Tic Tac Toe challenge at The Paper Players. I combined both challenges.

The floral stamp is from Bo Bunny, the papers are from K and Co and Fancy Pants. The punches are from Hanko, ovals from SB, Cream Pearl Pen from Viva and ribbon from JoAnn's.

For this card I followed the bottom row across for Tic Tac Toe....Floral, Ribbon and Punches.

Back to creating cards in my Butterfly Garden.