FTTC40, OCCC & MMSC26 - Vintage Santa

This card is for three different challenges!! This week's FTTC40 to use a image that is colored, and then mat with all neutral colors and to add some texture! OCCC - to create a vintage card, and MMSC26 for the wonderful sketch!!

I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this vintage Santa image from Flourishes called Santa, I Believe! I decided to try the sepia technique that I saw in the latest Technique Junkies news letter. This is such a fun and easy technique and just perfect for that vintage touch! I lightly colored my image with some chalks, and highlighted his hair by watercoloring with some craft white inks.

Thanks so much for visiting today!! Hope you have a wonderful day!

Connie

Card Details:

Images: Santa, I Believe - Flourishes

Paper: Deja View - Timeless DP, Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa

Inks: Walnut stain and Tea Dye Distress inks, craft white ink

Accessories: Chalks, CB folder, sponge daubers, water color brush, chocolate twill ribbon, caramel satin ribbon.

FTTC19 - Kick Back and Relax!!

Today's Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge #19 is hosted by Cindy Haffner. Cindy is challenging us to us designer paper! There is a lot that you can do with designer papers...you can stamp on them, use border punches, color them, paper piece, die cut shapes, cut out images to use as a focal point, or just to enhance the look of your card. Whichever option you choose to do, we would love to see what you create.

I LOVE designer paper, and one of my most favorite technique to us DP with is paper piecing! What better Flourishes new image to paper piece then one from the A Man's View set! I started by stamping my image on a white piece of paper. I then took a number of different DSPs from one of SU's 6" x 6" paper packages and pieced the image together. The chair, lamp shade, carpet, his shirt and pants are all paper pieced. The remainder of the image was colored with Copics (except for the "walls". which were sponged with baja breeze ink).

The sketch I used for my card is this week's challenge over on the Our Creative Corner Challenge blog. I really liked this sketch, and decided it would look great flipped on it's side with this image! This sketch also gave me another chance to display even more DSP!

Be sure to check out the other Friends of Flourishes Blog team designers to see what they created for you this week.

Silke Ledlow
Cindy Haffner
Kimberly Crawford
Betty Wright

Dee Jackson

Thanks so much for visiting today! Have a great day!

Connie

Card Details:

Images: A Man's View - Flourishes

Paper: Real Red, Kraft, Not Quite Navy; all card stock and DSP

Inks: Palette Black ink

Accessories: Creamy Caramel grosgrain ribbon

MOJO83, OCCC, CT0409 - I Love Recycling!!

This card was made for a combination of challenges. First the sketch is this week's Mojo Monday sketch. Next both this week's OCC challenge and this months Dare to be Dirty challenges are to use "earth friendly" recycled products on your card. Also, this week's OCCC is sponsored by Innovative Stamp Creations!! If you play along you get a chance to win the set I used on my card today called Natures Silhouette II! How fun is that! Oh, and as I posted below, you can save 10% on your ISC purchases by using code apr09 - good through this Friday, April 24, 2009!!

I was brainstorming this morning on what I could as my recycled product on my card, and as I poured out the last bit of my crispy rice cereal, and went to go recycle the box, I thought "duh", use the box as all the kraft colored layers on a card! So....that is exactly what I did! You can see a picture of the back side of all the layers I used as kraft, and also the beautiful bird that is popped up on the main panel!

The bird was stamped in craft black ink directly on the kraft side of the cereal box, and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The sentiment was also heat embossed, and flower silhouette was stamped around the sentiment in not quite navy.

I absolutely LOVE this weeks Mojo Monday sketch!! It is great for showing off some beautiful DSP...for my card I used some SU Bella Bleu paper. For my scalloped edge I used SU's eyelet border punch. I then finished off the embellishments with some kraft colored taffeta ribbon also from SU!

Connie

Card Details:

Images: Nature Silhouette II - ISC

Paper: Vanilla, Not Quite Navy, Cereal Box, Bella Bleu DSP

Inks: Craft Black, Not Quite Navy

Accessories: Kraft Taffeta Ribbon, SU scalloped edge punch, clear EP