The Challenge at Joan's Gardens this week is a green, white and purple card, with purple flowers added, on a leaves background and using a sentiment.
The background white cardstock is embossed with Sizzix 657139 which is a scattering of holly leaves. I used two colors of green cardstock and cut leaves using the Marianne Creatables LR0156 die and then superimposed those cut-work leaves over the holly detail. Those I then brushed with two colors of chalk by Pebbles. I used Elizabeth craft designs black poppy peel off design, stuck to shimmer purple cardstock by Tim Holtz. I created leaves for the poppies using Cheery Lynn Borders Die, Build a Flower 1 (B181). These are edged with the black Glaze pen by Sakura, so they mimic the black sticker outline of the Elizabeth Crafts sticker The sentiment is a SU stamp edged in a silver holographic line, and placed on the smallest of Romantic Rectangles die by Spellbinders S5-090. Feathers tucked into the design, a pearl and little bees finish this Birthday card. I wasn't sure where this card was going when I started,---but this is how it ended.
It really is a lttle wild, and I thinnk the idea of lightly chalked cutout leaves would be pretty if they wree white. Almost all of the products I used came from at Joan's Gardens.
The challenge this week At Joan's Gardens is a purple, white and green card, with leaf background, purple flowers, and a sentiment. This card uses vellum flowers cut out of Spellbinders beautiful dimensional Embosabilities Folder E3D-03 Delightful Daisies pressed with my E-Bosser. A purple flower from my stash forms the center of the vellum daisy. The centers, brushed with both Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Victorian Velvet) and purple chalk, are then touched with liquid pearls (Ranger platinum pearls) The leaf background is a cascade of autumn leaves that are embossed with Sweet Stamps Embossing Powder (Fine Detail White). I then watercolor-washed over the embossing with Distress ink by Tim Holtz. Silk leaves were living at the bottom of my flower canister and some purple rhinestones finish this. The purple base cardstock and sentiment are by SU. Most of these products came from At Joan's Gardens.
A friend's birthday is coming up, and I made her this card using my new Sizzix Poppy Die (658416) from Susan Tierney's garden, and following her tutorial. I used a dab of flower soft on the inner stamen, and brushed the petals with Tim Holtz Distressing ink (Soot). Rhinestone flourishes are by Jolene, and sticker sentiment vertical Happy Birthday is (from pop-ups-etc). The Border punch is an EK punch and the Birthday embossing folder is by Cuttlebug. Almost all of these supplies are also available At Joan's Gardens.
I made this white and blue card for a friend who had open heart surgery today. Get Well Soon, Don, our thoughts and prayers are with you as you recover. This is for At Joan's Garden Challenge where we are to use blue and white, multiple layers, then and post the basic card, then embellish or accent it and repost it. I used papers by Bazzil and MME (Moments paper pad). The dies I used, available at Joan's Gardens, are Classic Petal Edgeabilities (Spellbinders ES006) stacked up and popped up, and Spellbinders Large Labels (S4-168.) The Sentiment, four-leaf Good Luck clovers, and holographic narrow lines are Starform Stickers. Navy organza ribbon is by Offray, and little brads frame the sentiment.
This thank you for your kindness card is created for At Joan's Gardens Challenge this week where we are to build a card using yellow and white, include at least two butterflies, use polka dots and a flourish/swirl.
There are several butterflies on the card. Some can be seen only from the back, and are created with Butterfly Migration, (656982 Sizzix Embossing Folder) Another is die cut from Spellbinders Shapeabilities dies Les Papillions 2--(#395). The Polka Dot and Flourish that you see on the sentiment side of this flip it card is Sizzix 656980 Flourish and Dots Embossing Folder, and that sits on die cut scalloped ovals Spellbinders S4-113 Classic Scalloped Ovals. The butterfly embossing folder, and the Scalloped ovals are among my very first purchases with Joan, several years ago. All the dies and EFs are available from her store. I used the scalloped ovals die to create a custom flip-it card.from 2 sided-decorator paper. You will see a tutorial for creating custom flip it cards, (without using the Sizzix Flip-its) in a future edition of Papers and Pixels Magazine that I have written for the magazine. Pearls, some gold foil pen edging and star glitter gelpen completes the pretty Jolenes commrecial embellishment of the vellum sunflowers (Walmart) on this card. Sentiment stamp is SU Blooming with Kindness, and Thank you sticker is from Pop-Ups Etc.
The final meeting of the Spring for the Sun City Mesquite Papers N Pixels Club was May 16th, where members made Flip-it Cards. Using Sizzix Flip-It dies and Movers and Shapers die cuts, too, beautiful cards were created. And members called for another workshop to do some more! President Kathy Legan announced Summer Special Interest Groups (SIGS) for June and July and plans for members through the summer that in include Christmas in July, flower making, paper making and other activities for members who stay in Mesquite all summer. The Club members always finish projects and share them.... that are inspired by the Papers and Pixels Magazine.
It's Just around the Corner, and DGD has JUST about finished Middle School! The 12th of June is Graduation Day---and here is a card I might send to her. This is inspired by Wendy Hall's adorable Flower Power Daisy Graduate, and Wendy's Design team member Leslie Strickland's cute tutorial. The embossing folder I used was Tim Holtz Alterations Embossing Folder
This Yellow Rose of Texas birthday card is a challenge submission for At Joan's Gardens this week. The Challenge rules are to make a card using a yellow and white theme, swirls, polka dots, and at least two butterflies. The swirls and polka dots are found on the exquisite die/embossing folder by Marianne Designs (DS0908) that I got at Joan's Gardens. The deep embossing and cutouts are lightly sponged with pale yellow ink. The butterflies are Sizzix SU embosslits Beautiful Wings, (also polka dot paper spritzed with gold Tusukineko Shimmer. The Rose is a sticker by Starform that has been adhered to watercolor paper and finished with Tim Holtz Distress Markers (also available at Joan's Gardens). The Happy Birthday sentiment is a sticker. and the card front is adhered to Ranger (Tim Holtz) Core-dinations sandable paper
This card follows a tutorial written by Laura Boetto for a double zig-zag card that is in the May edition of the Papers and Pixels Magazine. (page 32) The products I used to make this card include a Martha Stewart lacy scalloped edge punch, Gold Foil Rose stickers by Starform that I get at Pop-Ups Etc, Transfer sheets and double-stick sheets for working with microfine glitter. The double stick paper is by Kool Tak and I am not having the best success with the adhesives on that film. The microfine glitter I used is by Elizabeth Crafts called Warm Diamond, and that is colored with Copic and Distress markers. The inside rose sticker is pressed onto watercolor paper and the rose worked with Tim Holtz Distress Markers. The sentiment stamp is a Just Rite Stamp from the Large Fancy Sentiments collection. Most of the the products I used are available from the At Joan's Gardens store.
