Mojo Monday Week 125

This is my card entery for the Mojo Monday Card challenge for Week 125. This is also one of my first entries for the Hero Arts Flickr group for the second half of the challenge for February 2010. Making this card was unusual for me because I am usually using the distress technique most of the time. Doing bright, bold colors is something that I don't nornally do. But, sometimes you just have to try something different for a change of pace. I have been wanting to work on this card all week, but didn't get the chance to do so until this afternoon.

Mojo Monday Challenge 124

Here is my card for the Mojo Monday Challenge 124. The cake stamp was perfect for this sketch. This was the perfect opportunity to use this Hero Arts cake stamp. I did not have anyone in particular in mindto give this to, just decided to use a wedding/anniversary theme. The base card looks like it is brown in the picture, but in real life it is dark burgundy.

Daisies -- CPS Sketch 152

This is my card that I made for The CPS Sketch. The camera does not do this card justice; the colors are actually brighter in real life. The daisies were stamped and colored with Copic Markers and then I spread a light coat of Diamond Glaze to give them the shiny appearance. I will be mailing this card to my friend who has been sick all this week with Strep throat. I hope that it makes her feel better and a little bit more cheerful.

Caardvarks Color and Heart Challenge

This is my design for the current Caardvark Challenge. There isn't a card sketch this time and the guidelines for this challenge is to make something red and to incoraporate hearts. All the stamps that I used were Hero Arts and the ink was distress ink by Ranger. The heart was cut from my "Wild Card" cartridge using my Cricuit Esspression. After I cut the heart (started with white paper), I distressed it with fired red and then stamped it with a flower border stamp and distressed some more. Each squar that the hear sits on is stamped with more flower border stamps and destressed with the same color ink. This was an enjoyable and fun card to make. Thanks for stopping by.

Mojo Monday Challenge 123

This is my version of the Mojo Monday Challenge for this week. I had lots of fun working on these cards. I used the same inks and stamps; the stamps are Hero Arts and the inks are distressing inks by Ranger. The Mojo Monday Blog gave an option of making one or the other or making two cards. I thought that it would be fun to make two cards. Thanks for stopping by.

Everything but the Kitchen Sink challenge

This is my take on this challenge. My potted plant Hero Art stamp was perfect for this card. Everything else about this card sort of fell into place. Usually when I am working on a card it takes me most of the evening to finish what I started. The problem that I have is figuring out what color and type of paper to use. Once I know what I want, it doesn't take me long to assemble a card. Most of the time I do manage to get at least one card made a day.

Mojo Monday Challenge Week 122

This is the card that I made for the Mojo Monday challenge for week 122. The stamps that I used are as follows: Design block Butterfly S5041, Leaf Branch Border H5229, Old letter writing S4878, Dots & flowers S5213, and Clear Design Small Variety Alphabet CL137.
In order to get all the elements to fit on the card, I had to cut the card base to 4 1/4" x 6".

I stamped the Dots and Flowers stamp onto a creme colored paper (3" x 5 1/2"). I destressed the edges and mounted it on a 3 1/4" x 4 2/4" piece of green bazzil paper. The panel with the ribbon was actually stamped four time. The first layer of stamping was done with the Design Block Butterfly in clear embossing ink. When the clear embossing ink was dry, I lightly rubbed antiqued linen destress ink over the image. Then I stamped the leaf branch border stamp in an antique olive ink that was first stamped off on scratch paper. Then I destressed the panel with dusty rose destress ink. The last step that I did was stamp over the entire image with a very light rose chalk ink with the old letter writing stamp. For the heart, I destressed it with dusty rose destress ink and then embossed it with the dot embossing folder by cuttlebug. Then I placed a smaller heart inside the larger heart and assembled it.