I saw this really cool project on Patty Stamp’s blog. So I decided to hold a small class doing this project and it was lots of fun. The faux sea glass was done with shrink plastic they were colored with crystal effects and re-inker’s. One thing that I would change is that next time I would use split rings (a little more difficult to use) not jumper rings. Candice
These are the final days of the pink and brown challenge over at Verve. You have until September 5th to create your card and upload it on this site. I need a birthday card for my daughter for next week and I wanted to do a bookmark for her as she loves to read. She is a true girly girl so pink is perfect for her. I combined it with the brown as she has…
Well I have my last 2 cards to share with you. I must say I enjoyed doing the challenges and it really stretched my creative side to work within a 45 minute time frame. I also did not realize it but I found myself reaching for a lot of my old sets that I had not used in quite a while. I may even recreate some of the cards in different colors just to see…
At 8 PM were working with Harry Potter and limited supplies. We could only use 3 colors, 2 accessories (you could add a neutral as one of your accessories), no glitter or embossing powder, have 2 different images stamped on your card, a punch somewhere on the card, black somewhere on the card, and images that remind us of witches and wizards. The bonus was to use the colors of the “Houses” from the story. …
The challenge for 7PM on Saturday was to Go Get Fancy. In this challenge you were to make your fanciest card. When I think of fancy I think of elegant organdy ribbon, rhinestones, lace, and flowers. I used all of these on my card. There was a bonus to use french on your card if you could. I used the french script background and small alphabet to write Thanks My Friend in french also. The…
I’m back with more VSN cards. I hope some of you are interested in doing some of these challenges next month. If anyone would like to join me next month and work on our challenges together, let me know. It would be fun to work on them with someone else. Our next challenge was based on the children’s author Eric Carle. Since many of his books use watercolor we were to use watercoloring on our…
