Traveling by Train

Hello!  I made this card using some of my older masculine stamps with a bit of trash...metal trash that is,  to enter into some challenges with a sketch,  colors,  and use of metal request.  I pulled out a GKD stamp set Life is Good that I have had since 2010 and stamped the Train on White CS with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copics.  I added a sentiment from the same set.  I attached this to a Dark Gray card base and then added striped DCWV pattern paper with my embellishment made with Orange seam binding tape and metal tabs from soda cans.  I thought metal tabs went well with the metal feel of the locomotive.

Challenge:
Retro Rubber: Challenge 37 Feeling Sketchy. The copyright of this stamp is 2009 and I have had since at least 2010. See sketch below.
Stamp TV: Mix It Up Monday Challenge is Let's Get Trashy
Simon Monday Challenge: Show Us Your Metal
613 Avenue Create Challenge: Anything Goes with Optional Twist-Orange and Blue plus 2 Neutral Colors.  I have Orange and Blue with browns and grays.
Always Playing With Paper Challenge: #70 Masculine Photo Inspiration. I was inspired by the grays and the feel of metal and transportation in the photo.

 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Raining Flowers

What began as a tag also ended up as a card!  I was toying with ideas for an April Shower theme and decided to cut an umbrella on my Cameo using a Silhouette file.  I cut all the pieces in white CS and used  as patterns to cut layers in Yellow Vellum and Floral Pattern paper.  I colored the handle and tip with Copics before assembling the umbrella.  I thought using the vellum as the top layer gave a glossy look to the umbrella and I loved how the floral colors showed through.  I cut the tag from Ivory CS and matted in Turquoise CS.  The sentiment from Creative Vision  What's Shaking? was stamped in Memento Teal Zeal.  I filled the umbrella with flowers that I fussy cut from another coordinating pattern and added the bow of Seam Binding tape to a punched hole on the tag.  I love using patterned papers.....they make a design come to life.

Playing with a challenge from Tuesday Morning Sketches (below), I simply turned my tag into a card by using a panel of the same floral Pattern Paper as a layer that I embossed with Darice EF Flower Frenzy and attached it to a card base of the Turquoise CS.  I also completed the inside with another pattern paper edged and stamped with Memento Potter's Clay ink using the verse that completed the verse on the front. Pattern Papers are from MME Collectable pad.

Challenges:

Tag You're It! Challenge: #44 by Nancy Penir

Tuesday Morning Sketches: #345 by Jessi Fogan

Really Reasonable Ribbon:  Challenge #138 Flowers plus use of ribbon, trim, or lace.

Die Cut Diva's: April challenge is to make a project you associate with April. That would be April Showers and Flowers

Simon Monday Challenge: We can see clearly. Use acetate, vellum,  or anything you can think of that is a little transparent. I used yellow vellum om my umbrella. Floral paper shows through.

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says anything goes.

Crafty Ribbons Challenge: #147 Tag It! Make a handmade tag with ribbon. 
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Use patterned papers
Craft-Dee Bow Z: April challenge is Anything Goes with a Handmade bow.

 

 

 Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

 

A Try at Mixed Media

Another challenge at SCS for the Hope That You Can Cling To Campaign is to create a card using Mixed Media. I had to do research on just what that is considered ....I read that mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media - a work that combines paint, ink, and other materials such as paper, metal. wood, shells, fabrics, and "found objects"-  a combination of two or more primary artistic mediums combined in a single piece of artwork or a card in this case. For my card I "mixed" a printed image, distress inks, versamark, embossing powder,  a button ( matched the design in feathers), some seam binding, and a piece of mesh (found objects).  I used distress inks to create the background on which I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then double sponged on a darker ink. To make this more vintage, I distressed edges of image with ink and used distress tool on the mat.  This may not be as complicated and layered with textures as most mixed media items but think it will pass as a mixed media card.
Challenges:
 Sugar Creek Hollow: Theme Birds of a Feather.  I may have missed having a nest on my card since I was concentrating on the birds.

Supplies:
Digi: Graphics Fairy
Stamps: MFP Sentiment, Annabelle Stamps Love
Inks: Distress Inks Crushed Olive, Broken China, Aged Mahogany, Tea Dye, Antique Linen, Versamark
Papers: Slate Blue, White CS
Clear EP
Distressing Tool
From Stash: Antique Metal Button, Mesh Scrap, Seam Binding Tape

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Flourishes Color Challenge

Hello!  My card today is for Flourishes August Release challenge to use the colors shown above. Details here. I interpreted these to be a teal, rust and gray.  I stamped  the Flourishes' Anemones image on white cs using Memento Gray Flannel and colored with Copics BV 15, 27 and YR12,14,18.  My card base is Gray CS layered with a mat of teal and mat of rust.  I darkened the teal cs with Distress Ink Blue to make even darker. Attached a seam binding tape to the image and adhered to the card. Finished with a sentiment from the same set and used the gray ink on scallop diecut.  I really like the way that I captured the colors and stayed with them throughout.
Looking forward to the new release from Flourishes.

I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa