YCU Challenge #17

Hi Everyone,

Just dropping in for a quick hello and to share my card for the Young Crafters Unite Challenge #17: Something Sweet. 

I don't really have any stamps of sweet foods like ice cream or cookies, so I improvised a bit. Here's my card: 

I started by stamping the Hero Arts Snow Dots background in pumpkin pie ink (SU) and punched a hole out of the panel.  I then used a scallop die to make a frame around the circle with some patterned paper from American Crafts.  The sweet little girl and sentiment are both from Eat Cake Graphics, which has a bunch of great stamps and clever sentiments.  I thought the little girl and the sentiment would count for "something sweet."  I colored the girl with copics, cut her out, and mounted her with foam tape in the center of the circle.  I then cut out of the sentiment and also mounted it with foam.  Because I couldn't stop there, I added some stickles to her bow and socks and some glass effects gel to her shoes to look like patent leather. 

Lastly, I rounded the left top and bottom corners to help balance the card.

Thanks for visiting today.  Hope you're having a relaxing weekend! 

-Lizzy 

Christmas Shaker Card

Hello! 

Today I wanted to squeeze in one more Christmas card before the Young Crafters Unite challenge ended tonight. 

Today I made my first shaker card.  I've been wanting to try to make one for a while now, but I don't have a die cutting machine.  I know what you're thinking-- "but I've seen you use die cuts before..."  And while you're correct in that observation, I've done it by borrowing my mom's machine.  For today though, my sweet friend let me borrow her big shot for a few days... yippee!  So, naturally, I needed to make a shaker card while I had the opportunity!

This was super fun to make and, actually, not too hard either!  I used Lawn Fawn's Winter Bunny, Sweet Christmas (trees), and Let it Snow (sentiment) to make the card.  I colored the bunny with copics and added xmas red stickles to his scarf.  The trees are paper pieced.  I used patterned paper for the background and some white paper to make hills.  The hills are lined with crystal ice stickles.  See how sparkly everything is? 

Here's are some pictures of the shaker in action: 

The sentiment is stamped in gumball green ink (SU) and I used some lawn trimmings to "tie' the sentiment to the card. 

I'm also going to enter the card in the Paper Crafts December 2012 Gallery Challenge. 

Here's one last photo: 

That's it for me today!  Thanks for visiting my blog today!  

-Lizzy

Color Challenge

Hi Everyone! 

Rest assured, I'm still alive!  *whew*  In case you were wondering, it's the end of the semester and I've been quite busy finishing up course work.  Hooray for winter break!  

Todays card is for the Lawnscaping challenge: color, in which one can only use turquoise, kraft, and red on the project. 

Here's my take on it: 

I used the Lawn Fawn sets Cozy Christmas and Sweet Christmas.  The fireplace and sentiment are embossed in black and the candy cane posts are embossed in white.  I colored the inside of the candy canes with a red copic marker and a white gel pen.  The stockings are colored with copics.  Lastly, I added some red baker's twine to "tie" the sentiment to the posts.  Some cookies and a letter to Santa finish off the card!  

I'm also going to enter it into this month's young crafters unite challenge #16: Happy Holidays. 

That's it for today!  Thanks for visiting :) 

-Lizzy