THAT Blue Flower!

Good Day! I'm jumping into the last few hours of Pals Paper Arts color challenge, Dark Blue, Medium Blue and Light blue. Monochromatic. And The Shabby Tea Room is musing with one of favorite designers...Andrea Ewen of "Ewen Style". Her muse card is lovely and the challenge is "Flower Power".

That Flower! That Flower! I may never make another again! My goodness that thing took me all morning to get right. Punches, cricut cuts, hot glue.......aahhhhhhhh!

My papers are from DCWV "The Tradewinds" and "Linen Closet". Spellbinders tag and rhinestone flowers and leaves, pin pearls (I made), blue and white half pearls (I love them), pop tape and machine sewing...no digital anything today. And a ribbon that is two colors of blue, but you can barely see it. I like those two pointed ribbons going upwards, I did that on my Haystack card recently.

Next I nearly destroyed my card...well after I took pictures and started pc editing...I found out my sentiment wouldn't photograph well. The font line was too thin and the computer was giving it an extra pixel look. I had to remove the label. I'm sure you've been here before. Ya know..pop tape doesn't want to come off easily. I destroyed the label. Had to start over anyway. This time in dark blue with a thicker "line" to my font. The font is named "Harrington".

Check out Ewen Style sometime. Andrea's work is incredible! Peace and Chicken.

Mint "Glass" Butterfly

Greetings! After some stops and starts I finally made this card. I love the sweet pastel colors of the Play Date Cafe Challenge and the layout from Tuesday Morning Sketches was just perfect.



I found out that my copy of SCAL 2 (Sure cuts aLot2) needs to be uninstalled from the old computer before being re-installed on to my new PC. I'll leave this to my husband, but this is what I want to get out to users.....CraftEdge (makers to SCAL I guess) have a new update version called SCAL3. And it is DEATH the cricut users. All new versions will not support cricut, AND they will not continue assist customers with Versions 1 & 2 after December 2011. Whoa! Whats going on here? If you know something please email me or comment below.


Back to the card. I hand cut the oval (OMG!) I loved the paper it came from DCWV The Linen Closet Stack. My little butterfly was a left over from when my SCAL was running. I lightly colored it with pastels and pencils before I followed the UTEE steps to make her glass like (see this post for technique on "Ruby Glass Butterfly"). I sanded, rubbed in pastels and stickeled all the edges on the top layer. The base layer was machine sewn. Again I've used my own dyed snug hug wrinkle ribbon. I made a medallion with a circle punch base, doubled sided tape and twisted ribbon. Then the buttons fit right in. The sentiment is all my hand. Little punched circles, minor artwork and covered with Glossy Accents". The top layer is then adhered to the base with lots of pop tape. I like the shadow effect around the mint butterfly. And after playing with for hours...it's done. It's cute. Really fair and pale compared to my other works. Let's call this one a different flavor. Peace and Chhicken! Victoria

Hand Drawn Haystack / Case Study 47

Well, I back. My new computer is up and running and most of my programs are working. I have windows 7 now and a lot of my really old graphic files (like Hallmark, Create a Card, PrintMaster...) can not be read. So......we're keeping the old computer, adding an internet card and I'll grab files from the old disks this way. Best yet, my 6 year old grandson, Jachob, can play his Nick games while I sit next to him playing with my computer.

This week for Case Study we have a new muse, Dawn Woleslagle, she's a graphic artist and creates stamps. I should look into making stamps from my stuff....but how? Anybody know how to go about this while not owning a stamp maker? These thoughts were running through my head as I started figuring out my card. I'm a terrible stamper and I'm not gonna buy a $100 dollars in Coptic when I have watercolors and pencils. And then I thought about an image I made for thanksgiving cards for Operation Write Home. After finding just the right sentiment, I went to work in Corel 14. I designed the sentiment and the image. While casing the DT's cards I noticed the score embossing on them. My take is a little different, but I like it and that counts for a lot. I also used a sheer butterscotch ribbon and orange string ribbon with matching buttons. The little orange ribbon strips were added last, the look just came to me. This is one of the "cleanest" simple cards I've ever made. Less is More. It looks like I may be one of the first cards entered for Case Study 47. I was just so anxious to get back after being down. Take care and peace to all.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

My card is also entered with: Stamping Sisters in Christ