Summer Card Camp, week 3

If you’ve guessed, “Gina, the card camp is the only thing that has you crafting right now, isn’t it?”…well, you would have hit the proverbial nail on the head.  It’s just life with little ones and I embrace it. I have to or I go crazy.
So, here’s the color scheme for card camp this week:
It is my favorite color scheme so far; but, the one that took me the longest to come up with a card idea! I was sitting at the table today while Elizabeth was taking her math test and “bingo!” it struck. So, this is the first card idea I came up with. After I stamped it, I realized, “Uh-oh. I added green to this card. Bad Gina!” Oh well, here it is anyway:

You can’t really see it in this photo, but I scored the fence every half-inch to make it look a little more “fence-ish” (yes, I just made up a word. Work with me!) 

And then that prompted me to do this one…no green…obey the color scheme! Obey it! And it also prompted me to go through my stamp pads and find some decent inks…yikes, not thrilled about the tree above. Or the bird.

Not super thrilled about this bird, either, but I think that may just be part of stamping on kraft-colored paper.  I think a darker red might have made me a little happier. 
Recipes as follows:

Hi
Brown Cardstock: Bazzil
White Cardstock: Georgia-Pacific
Stamps: PTI Merry Little Christmas
Punch: Martha Stewart Lattice Arch
Stickers: K & Company
Ink: Jenni Bowlin Studios (Seed Packet), Studio G (brown, red, light green)
Other: Martha Stewart Scoring Board

Shining Star 
Brown Cardstock: Bazzil
White Cardstock: Georgia-Pacific
Stamps: PTI Merry Little Christmas & Botanical Silhouettes
Ink:  Tim Holtz Distress inks (Walnut Stain, Tea Dye, Worn Lipstick); Versamark
Other: Embossing powder from Michael’s

Thanks for stopping by!

Summer Card Camp–Week 2

This is week 2 of the Online Summer Card Camp. We got our color scheme for the week today and, unlike last week when I struggled, I’ve already come up with a card!  I was stamping with the PTI Botanical Silhouettes set earlier today when I realized I had the perfect sentiment for the dandelion puffs in the Fillable Frames 6 set. I almost squealed.  I grabbed my Pink Paislee Hometown Summer paper pack and got everything together so I could make the card. 

Our color scheme this week is a great one:

And here’s my take on the scheme:

My main frustration is when I cut the alpha patterned paper, I glued down the wrong strip.  The F-K strip had the yellow and orange, both greens plus a bit of red that would’ve tied it all together. Right now I feel like there’s nothing tying the orange and yellow to the rest of the card. And I think my yellow needs some stitching around it…it’s not quite “finished” feeling to me.  But the dandelion puffs with the “make a wish” sentiment? I love! 

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek.

Sketch: Kristina Werner Online Summer Card Camp, week 1
Cardstock: Creative Memories from my ancient stash
Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee “Hometown Summer”
Stamps:  PTI: Botanical Silhouettes, Fillable Frames 6
Ink: Versamark; Jenni Bowlin Seed Packet; Versafine Onyx Black
Embossing Powder: Michael’s
Other: Xacto scallop edge scissors

Online Summer Card Camp, Week 1

I was lucky enough to win a spot in the Online Summer Card Camp from Joy’s blog a week or so ago. Joy is a guest designer and was allowed to give away some spots in the class. I was thrilled to have been one of the names she drew out of the digital hat.

So, anyway, this week we’ve been presented with a color scheme that was a little outside my comfort zone:

I’ve spent the past couple of days literally dreaming about the colors, combed through my stash, found some paper that would work, hated it, couldn’t find a sketch, started looking through saved files on my computer and I ran across this from the Jan/Feb 2011 issue of Paper Crafts Magazine…Alison Anderson is the designer

I love this card and I’ve always wanted to CASE it.  And then…it happened….“Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today.”  (if your kids…or you…watch Phineas and Ferb…I do!…then you know where I’m coming from)

So, of course mine isn’t as drop dead awesome as the one above, but I’m pleased with it. I don’t think it’s perfect by any stretch of the imagination. But I do know I’ll be making it again and likely with many different colors of ribbon because that’s what is so much fun about this card.  Oh, so you want to see my version?  Just don’t look too closely, okay?  Here it is…

The woman wearing “my dress” is at a beach party (I kept humming “The Girl from Ipanema" when I was making it) so, she’s wearing a diamond pendant rather than her diamond collar. {giggle}

I really like the Cuttlebug embossing folder with this little dress template. If I didn’t need to have all the other colors, I’d have left the ribbons off and had just a swirly white dress. It’s seriously that cute (the template and that folder…not my work!).

Phew! There’s my card for week one.  I may or may not do others, it’s just going to depend on how things go around these parts tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by!

Template: PaperCrafts Magazine
Paper: Georgia Pacific
Embossing Folder: ProvoCraft for Cuttlebug (D’Vine Swirls)
Ribbon & Rhinestone: Michael’s