My card for the 2nd round of the Spellbinders DT contest!

I thought I had shared my 2nd round project for the Spellbinders Design Team contest.  Looking back at my blog posts, I see I never posted it! 

This is the card I created for the 2nd round of the Spellbinders DT contest.  I was free to choose an altered item, scrapbook page or a card for the first round.  I chose "altered" and created the butterfly journal posted earlier.   For the 2nd round, I was asked to create a card.  I was thrilled!  I love to create cards!  So I put together a card.  It was nice but it didn't have any "wow!" appeal.  I couldn't seem to come up with a different idea.  It came down to the last day to get the entry submitted.  I was ready to send the photo of the not so exciting card!  But wait I had several hours yet!!! That's when this card came to be! 

Stamping the birds and rose, coloring with Copics and cutting it out took me the longest.  The rose has lots of little pieces.  The birds are shaped and popped up over the original image.  I chose this collage stamp from Artistic Ouptost's Bluebird set.  I also used a lacey branch from Artistic Outpost's Serenity on the dark red mat.
The open book was cut with Spellbinders S4-231 Labels Seven.  I used 2 sizes to cut a frame of gold craft foil that was glued to card stock.  I used a styllus to emboss lines to simulate book pages along the edges. Then I curled the pages to look like an open book.  I glued the birds and music background page to the back of the book, shaping it, too.  Once I had the book page put together, the card came together quickly.

There's a piece of text paper stamped with music behind the book (music stamp from Artistic Outpost Ephemeral Backgrounds).  I've distressed it and curled the corners which you see curling around the book edges.  I added silk ribbon and gold cord to simulate a book mark.

I used a piece of lace over the card front.  That's a thrift store find!  Several yards for $1.00!  I love bargains like that!   I used my heat gun to melt the eges a little.  The lace was white to which I added Distress inks to age it.

Some more ribbon and gold cord, a dark red stamped backround with gold mat and a cream card front with Vintage Photo ink rubbed over the edges completes the card.  I got it photographed and submitted.......a card with "Wow!".  It got me to Round 3 and the Design Team!

This is one of my all time favorite creations!  I love the vintage feel of it!

I hope you've enjoyed it, too!
-judy

Card Blues

.........times two.

Today, I created 2 cards for Artistic Outpost using the Bluebird stamp set. The image on both cards is stamped on a background created with alcohol inks on white glossy paper. I used Denim, Stonewashed, Stream, Silver mixative & Extender on my craft sheet. I laid the glossy paper on the inks & twisted & slid the paper off the mat. I repeated this step until I had most of the white covered with color. I used Ranger Archival black ink to stamp the images.

I chose to accent the bluish-purple color of the background on this card. I added a lace edge using a MS punch. The ribbon is very irridescent (couldn't capture the shine very well in the photo) and actually has a purple tint. The pearls are from Hero Arts.

I used blue paper scraps for this card. The texture was created with QuicKutz Gooosebumpz embossing dies. I rubbed Ranger Ocean Aqua over it. I used a Spellbinders Oval Tag to cut "thinking of you". It's mounted with foam dots. The white card is ribbed but it didn't show up well in this photo. The little black pearls are also from Hero Arts.

Supplies:

Ranger Alcohol inks: Denim, Stonewashed, Silver, Stream
Ranger Archival Black Ink
White Glossy cardstock

Martha Stewart punch

Hero Arts Pearls

Ranger Lights Ocean Aqua

QuicKutz Goosebumpz Swirl

Ribbons

Thanks for visiting! I hope you enjoyed your stay!

Come again soon!

-judy

Guest Designer for Artistic Outpost!

This is the moment I've been waiting for.......

Today, I was named a Guest Designer for Artistic Outpost for 2009!

Wow! I'm so excited!


I applied at the beginning of November. I found out I made the team about a week ago. I had to keep it a secret.........how hard was that! I wanted to shout it to the world!

I'll be designing several projects for one of the new stamp plates scheduled to be released in mid December. I hope to receive the stamps this week........ Then, let the creativity begin! Once the stamps are released, I'll post projects here. That is once I get the go ahead from Artistic Outpost.



I created this tag with the Artistic Outpost Bluebird plate for my application for Guest Designer.

I used Distress inks......of course, what else is there?

To create the swallows highlight, I stamped them on white paper with black Versafine ink. I used Adirondack markers, Denim & Butterscotch & Caramel, over the swallows to give them color. The background blue is Broken China rubbed on with Cut N Dry foam. I applied Glossy Accents to a Tim Holtz Fragment (clear acrylic shape) & glued it over the swallows. Once it was dry, I trimmed the paper around the edges. I'm super pleased with how it turned out!

I even distressed the ribbon so it would match. I rubbed Broken China over this wonderful new ribbon from May Arts.......I say new because it's new to Fond Memories, my favorite stamp store in Walnut Grove, Minnesota.

I'm flyin' high tonight......soo excited!

-judy

Bluebirds

Bluebirds to send thoughts to someone special.......


I created this card using an Artistic Outpost set appropriately called "Bluebird". There are 8 stamps in the set including the "thinking of you" verse, bluebirds, & a nest that I used on this card. I colored the image with Distress inks: Scattered Straw, Broken China, Aged Mahogany, Vintage Photo & Antique Linen.

Distress inks seem to be my favorite coloring medium right now.......

The pattern on the yellow mat was created by repeatedly stamping the nest using Scattered Straw ink. A gold satin ribbon holds a Spellbinders ribbon slide for the verse.

Enjoy!
-judy