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cards, Challenges, Personal Ramblings, Techniques

BUTTERFLY FOR FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES #257

October 7, 2016October 7, 2016 Jenny Hayward

Today I indulged and made a card just because I wanted to. Well it was my birthday so I thought I could …..

I saw the Freshly Made Sketches for this week so wanted to try something out for that. Firstly here is the sketch.

Here is my card.

Let me tell you how I made it:

Butterfly – To create the butterfly I firstly washed over some Shimmery White card with the Aquapainter and water. Then using the Aquapainter I picked up some ink from the ink pad and brushed over the card in patches. The first colour was Watermelon Wonder. Here it is to show you.

Wipe off your Aquapainter on scrap paper before picking up the next colour and brush over in patches again. I have used Cucumber Crush. The third colour was Delightful Dijon. You can fill in areas at the end with any of the colours or go over some. See how it looks. Well what you have at the end really is …… a mess!!! It is pretty ugly isn’t it? But don’t despair. Something beautiful will emerge. 🙂

From this I cut the large Butterfly Thinlits.

Just as an aside; When I cut the butterfly and rolled over the back of the die with the Die Brush, this is what was left when I lifted the die. I thought it looked really pretty. Just had to show you. 🙂

This was the finished butterfly. See persevere with the ugly mess and it is pretty.

Now for the card: On a piece of the Moroccan DSP I stamped the fern leaf from the Butterfly Basics set and the “splodges” are from Timeless Textures. I sponged around the edges of the paper. This piece was adhered to some Copper Foil sheet and adhered to a Crumb Cake base. What you might not be able to see in the photo is the sparkle from the Wink of Stella. It does sparkle really!

The sentiment is from Badges and Banners. I finished off the card with some pearls.

That was lengthy. Sorry about that. Thanks for visiting though. You can visit the Freshly Made Sketches blog HERE and play along.

See you again soon,

Jenny

cards, Challenges, Stampin' Up!

A COLOUR CHALLENGE AND FMS SKETCH CHALLENGE!

July 24, 2016July 24, 2016 Jenny Hayward

I had some ‘ME’ time stamping today. It’s not often I do that as I am always preparing for classes or making cards for others. So I indulged!!! 🙂

I really like joining in on challenges. It extends your creativity and makes you think a bit. I saw the Freshly Made Sketches the other day and thought I wanted to have a go at it. Then I saw the new Colour Challenge on Pootles. So I knew that they were my starting point.

I will show you my card, then I will go through some of the thought processes behind it.

So for Sam’s Colour Challenge this week it was Sweet Sugarplum, Soft Sky and So Saffron. Lovely subtle colours but I would never have thought to put them together. Thanks Sam! That’s what a challenge is for right. 😉

Here is the Sketch for Freshly Made Sketches #246.

This was the card I created.

Let me tell you how I got to this point.

I already had the colours to use (sometimes that is half the battle!) and I had a sketch. Sketches really give you a plan to work with. From there I went through my stamps to see what might work with these colours. They were nice pastel colours so I thought flowers or butterflies. I pulled out some of those sets and then found my Badges and Banners set. I wondered if this might work??

I then pulled out the cardstock for these colours and pulled out the DSP, ribbon and other embellishments I had. I loved the Sweet Sugarplum paper in the Playful Palette DSP. I inked up the birdcage image in the stamp set in So Saffron. I wiped off the ink on the bird with the Blender Pen and then coloured it with the Soft Sky inkpad using the Blender Pen again. It wasn’t as bright as I would have liked after I stamped it. I did go over it with the Soft Sky marker to lift it up. I punched it out with the Best Badge punch.

The sentiment was stamped in Memento on Soft sky and punched with the Duet Banner punch. The big question was what to make the tag shape behind the images from the sketch?? I pulled out a few of my Framelits and sized them up but they just weren’t working. Then I saw the Starburst Thinlits. Why not think outside of the box – or the shape?? I cut the starburst shape from the So Saffron. It was a little big for what was needed. I used the Layering Square Framelits. I used my largest straight square and lined it up over the Starburst to get the right position. When I cut it I just rolled it through in the Big Shot to just before the end of the frame, then rolled it back so it wouldn’t cut the end. Then I turned the Framelit and card piece. Lined the card with the Square Framelit again and rolled it through stopping before it came to the end again. Then I had a rectangular shape.

It was a very quick case of just sticking it together. I finished the card off with a bow from White Baker’s Twine and an Adhesive Rhinestone. So these colours could work together. 🙂

If you want to have a go at these challenges. You can see the Freshly Made Sketch #246 HERE and go to Sam’s blog at Pootles HERE for the Colour Challenge (check out her other amazing creations while you are there!).

Thanks for visiting me,

Jenny

cards, Challenges, Classes, Stampin' Up!

FLAMINGO FOR FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES #226!

March 6, 2016March 6, 2016 Jenny Hayward

I saw this idea on Pinterest a few weeks ago to make a flamingo with the ‘Balloon Builders’ stamp set. I had only just started using this set after receiving it at Stampin’ Up! Onstage last November. I thought this flamingo was kinda cool though. So I stamped it up but then I didn’t know how to put it on a card – until I saw the Freshly Made Sketches sketch this week. So I finally added it to a card – and it is done before the time of the sketch challenge to end! Here is the sketch and then my card.

The card base is Melon Mambo and the paper is from the ‘It’s My Party’ Paper Stack. I matted this piece on to some Silver Foil. (Just a tip: Cut a rectangle from the centre of your Silver Foil piece then you can use that piece for another project). The sentiment is from ‘Remembering Your Birthday’ and I cut a little silver piece from the ‘Itty Bitty Banners’. I added a Paper Lace Doily and some Melon Mambo dots from the ‘It’s My Party’ Enamel Dots.

I have used a number of the balloons from the ‘Balloon Builders’ set and drew the legs freehand. This is a fun set and you can create so many cute things with it. Here is the set if you haven’t noticed it in the catalogue.

This is on p. 14 of the catalogue. It is a photopolymer stamp and is $28. Great value for 19 stamps!

The original Flamingo card can be found HERE. Go and check the link out though because Ruth has lots of clever ideas with this set.

Thanks for stopping by. Have yourself a great day where ever you are. 🙂

Jenny

cards, Challenges, Masculine

A TEAM COLOUR CHALLENGE!

November 9, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Another project I wanted to try on our stamping weekend was our team colour challenge. I hadn’t had a chance to make it before the weekend. To be honest I haven’t had a chance to join in another one since. That’s OK right?? 🙂 Anyway, to the colour challenge. The colours were Cucumber Crush, Crushed Curry and Tip Top Taupe. What do you make of those colours?? They are really hard to work with I have to say. My immediate thoughts were a masculine card. When I thought about it too I realised that those colours can be found in the ‘Cherry on Top’ Paper Stack. Could I incorporate the papers someway??

I needed to make a card for one of my Great Nephews and chose the set ‘Boys Will Be Boys’. I then found the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #207 that I had pinned on Pinterest so I thought that would work well with this set. That’s what I thought but I will say it did take some working and it nearly ended up being scrapped all together. 🙂

Here is the sketch and then the finished card. I just realised that I have lost a black rhinestone too!

The paper is from the ‘Cherry on Top’ stack. I stamped the images on White card and then again on white card and cut parts of them out. You can see a close-up here. I had done a little watercolouring to blur the lines a little.

I still thought it was plain so I looped around some Silver Thread which you can see in the photo of the full card. Then I coloured some Rhinestones with a black Sharpie and added them onto the Cucumber Crush paper. Job done – That was it!!!! Do you like it???

Thanks for visiting. I hope where ever you are in the world that your day is awesome.

See you again soon,

Jenny

cards, Challenges

FRESHLY MADE ‘PETAL PARADE’

March 21, 2014 Jenny Hayward

It has been such a long time since I have done a challenge. That is one thing I want to do more of this year. So this week I have made a card for the ‘Freshly Made’ Sketch Challenge. Here is the sketch and you can check all the details on their site here.

This is the card I have created for it.

I wanted to use the arrows from the set ‘Petal Parade’ as there is only just over one week left of Sale-A-Bration for me to use this set. I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest.

The arrows were stamped in Tangerine Tango, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight and Rich Razzleberry. One bonus of using clear stamps is you can see where you are stamping them to line them up. It doesn’t matter if you go a bit of course!! I mounted this piece on a piece of Tangerine Tango and wrapped around some Whisper White Bakers Twine. Then this was layered on to a Smoky Slate card base.

I wanted to play around with the ‘Just Sayin’ set too. I stamped and cut the “Hey There” with the Word Bubble Framelits. I wanted a “Happy Birthday” saying though. So, I used a Black Marker to colour one of the other Framelits and then used the Marker to colour part of the greeting from a stamp in ‘Remembering Your Birthday’ set. I could carefully stamp inside the bubble. I then cut it out using the Framelit. I was quite pleased with the end result. These were raised up off the card with Dimensionals.

I think this is quite a versatile sketch to work with so why not have a play yourself.

See you next time,

Jenny