Broken Glass Cat, PSC70 & PDCC83

POP-UP! A new card for Paper Sundays Challenge PSC70. My first card was pop-up bobble head Christopher Walken. This POP-UP is a best of luck card. I have lots of pop-up going on. I even used three different pop-up tapes and dots. Everything is raised from the background.

COLOR SPLASH! Play Date Cafe Challenge is saying goodbye to a founding member and is honoring her with her favorite challenge style...a color splash. Black and white with a splash of green. PDCC 83

My special touch today is the lovely kitty done in the broken glass technique. I sized and printed kitty from all-free-download.com. I taped a craftstick to the back so I don't burn my fingers and can quickly reload the UTEE powder. It really helps ALOT to have the UTEE in a tupperware container with a spoon handy. I start with versamark to hold the embossing powder and apply a hotgun until all is melted. Next you'll repeat the versamark, when the UTEE melts - quickly re-dip (or spoon over) more UTEE. Keep it up, wiggle your craftstick to keep the plastic flowing around and not pooling badly from the hotgun. You may end up covering with UTEE for 3 to 6 layers. The UTEE can't handle this heavy hotgunning and turns a bit yellow. If you are not careful it will burn and brown. Stop when you think it's thick enough. Cooling down is needed now. The embellishment is kinda rubbery for a little while. When it feels almost cool (but not cold) test crack the piece. You'll know when it it's ready to crack all over or not. If it becomes too cool...the glass will chip off of the project. It's like Goldilocks, it has to be "just right". I ran my finger over black pastel and rubbed the dust into the cracks to bring them out more.
I like my pussycat.

Recipe:
Background Paper - DCWV The Glitter Stack
Card Body & Elements - White Bristol Vellum
Spellbinders "lacey circles",
Marvy 3" Scallop Punch and 2.5" circle punch
Flowers - Oriental Traders; petals, glass pearls, pearl strand
Ribbon - Hug Snug, homemade green crinkle
Glitter - Clear, Martha Stewart
Labels - Labels by me
"Glass" - UTEE (who makes that?)
Tools Used - Table cutter, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders, hotgun, printer, Flat foam tape, pop-up foam tape, 3-d dots, craftstick

This was fun. Try the broken glass technique sometime. Thanks for the visit!

Walken On Sunshine Bobblehead Card & PSC70

"Walken On Sunshine", having fun with Christopher Walken. I found a challenge site that was challenging us to create a pop-up card. Another cute place, Paper Sundaes Challenge blog. Lovely cards and great examples. Mine is not lovely.....but it is a laugh riot! And it IS a pop-up card. I know I'm pushing it here, and it's a crazy card for my first visit to Paper Sundaes. I make lovely cards too, I also like to have a good laugh. I sent a few to friends and family on the East Coast.

I saw a flat card around Christmas having fun with a Walken image. I felt I could step it up a bit, so mine is a Bobble Head. This card, placed where there is an air flow is just so funny with Christopher's head shaking.



I created my file with Corel 13. I searched the internet for just the right photo with sun rays. I flipped it make him stand in the clouds. I searched a good photo of Mr. Walken's head and the jacket is from a catalog selling very fancy mens suits. The verse is printed on the background. The only thing I wanted raised was Christopher. First I cut out the head and secured a homemade spring with tape. And it is placed first on the card (after testing where the jacket will go down). The jacket is doubled taped flat to the bottom of the card and with pop tape I pinched his shoulders to add depth and give the spring room to bobble around. You can wiggle the spring a bit to get it into the best spot.

I won't be selling this card, I have no license for Mr Walken products. But I do have a PDF file of my card and I can share it.

Thanks for the visit! Keep Smiling!

Card Challenge, Jingle Belles 21 & Pals Paper Arts 94

Christmas in May! I really needed to do a more toned down card this time, so I went to Pals Paper Arts for a sketch and found a Christmas challenge while visiting Three Trees. The Christmas site is Jingle Belles. I just loved their color suggestion! Cute site too!

Card Body - Cream Granite Cardstock, Fox River
Embossed Background - Cream Granite Bond, Fox River / Cuttlebug embossed
Ribbon - Lilac, Joanns Fabric's
Snowflakes & Rhinestones - Greenbacks Dollar Store
Ink - Lilac, Oriental Trading (house brand)
Pearl Sprigs - Oriental Trading

The snowflakes are inked and hot gun dried. They were also sprayed with adhesive and covered with Martha Stewart Clear/Fine Glitter.

Thanks for the visit..."Peace and Chicken"
(look it up under the Simpsons)

Card Challenge, Case Study 40

Case Study # 40 a lovely cade made by Sarah Martina Parker


And this is my study card, ala Vicki!

"Case Study Challenge" is a delightful site. I love to look back at older challenges. I took a break from cards last week, now I'm fresh and ready for this new challenge. I will also enter into "The Play Date Cafe, challenge #82" as they have provided my color scheme this week.

Craft card body. Scrap paper as background. Ivory lace and blue ribbon from S.A.S. Fabrics. Flowers assembled from items purchased from "Oriental Traders" (Petals, beads, pearl picks, butterfly, pearl headpin, button, hemp) Two lacey circles from Spellbinders and a handmade medallion.

My label, as often is, was created with Corel and printed. I used versamark, UTEE and a hot gun on my labels. This gives me the old but shiny effect I'm after.

For a new twist I used curled hemp cord beaded with Play Date Challenge colors to "study" the flourish from the card Sarah Martina Parker made.

I surely had fun and I think I'll re-label the card because it would make a nice Father's Day card for my very sweet husband. "Peace and chicken!" (Homer Simpson)

Case Study Challenge 38

This is my card inspired by the Case Study Challenge :)





Weeeee! another quickly made card for an up coming deadline. I've been admiring the cards done by "Ewen Style". She's really got some fantastic cards! I noticed the challenge for Case Study while visiting "Ewen Style". What a lovely card to study and gain idea's from. I've been wanting to create a fancy medallion since seeing the one's sold st Michael's under the brand "Bravissimo". They look so cool....but I'll make my own. Also I been wanting to use a print from Lilly Pulitzer. The one I found is called "Tiger Lily". So there's a lot of blue going on in my card, but it's all in honor of Lilly.

First, I printed the paper myself. The card is meant to be used as a refrigerator magnet. So it's extra stiff with two business card sized magnets on back. I sewed a pre-gathered ribbon into a medallion and accented with blue loops. The sentiment is also printed from my files and every thing is glued and popped-up. It took a while to dry. My flowers are from a crazy place called S.A.S. Fabrics. It's a discount fabric store, the place is just a riot!

I'm still surprised how quickly I got it together for this card. It's my birthday, and my husband is outta town. Still a lovely day.

I'm going to continue to visit Case Study Challenge, I hope you do too. Thanks for the visit!

Card Challenge, PPA92 & PDC80

Today my card is a color challenge from Pals Paper Arts (PPA92). I had to hurry up too. It's due tomorrow, May 10th (my birthday.) And since the colors are very close to Play Date Cafe's colors, I'm also going enter my card with that happy site. Play Date Cafe is a HUGE challenge each week. PDC colors are White, Poppy and Harvest Gold. So Green is my neutral here, and white is my neutral for PPA.
I knew I wanted to make a card for our pastor, he has decided to move on with his life. So I think I've made a nice one. I'm expecting my husband to write a lovely message.

I cut for a six inch square card with lots of background layers from the colors selected by PPA. The colors were Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait and Poppy Parade! I tried to keep as close to colors as I could. The Peach color is looking more orange than it should...I'll just blame that on a digital something or other.



Three circles for the label. A 2.5" round punch, 3" scallop punch and Spellbinders largest "Lacy Circle". Rust and Brown Colorbox Chalk for a little shading and lots of pop up tape. All of the papers come from various DCWV paperstacks.

All of the embellishments come from Oriental Trading. I glued together layers of the white flowers and glued pearls to the centers. A Beaded stick pin (with a drop of glue) is threaded through the Butterfly spring. The pearl string is taped down, and the flowers are applied with pop up tape. The little Butterflies stick into the pop up tape.

I'm quite happy with this card and I thank you for the visit.