Earlier this week, I received a mystery box in the mail from a nice lady on Instagram. Included were two sets of Cuttlebug Confetti dies, which formed the background and XOXO accents for this card. The layout was based on a Wednesday Sketch Challenge. It was also a good day to bake doughnuts. The Rodelle Vanilla Bean Doughnut recipe turned out well, and we had pink frosting in the freezer (from a recent ballerina birthday cake) just waiting to be melted for the topping.
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I do not usually make shaker cards or fussy cut images, but somehow this card ended up with both. It also qualified for two challenges: MFT #500 (double the winners, double the prize, double the miniscule chance of me winning) and Stay Crafty with Hero #12. Once I had found a home for this pair, the other puppies on the page demanded attention. Fortunately, there were only eight doggies on the page, so everyone is satisfied. We'll ignore the minor detail that there was a second identical sheet in the pack for now. . .
Having examined the MFT sketch of the week, I rifled through a collection of circles from the 12x12 Gold Glam paper pad akin to the one that has been used up. This rose looked like a good place to start, but by the time the card was complete, the rose had been fussy-cut, shedding its circular frame and an annoying leaf that seemed to be rotated the wrong way, and the two circles had mutated into two hearts. I quite like gold foil on cards, but it never looks as good in photographs, at least the quick snaps that usually end up on this blog. Still, it was a good mental exercise to make a card so different from my usual symmetrical style.
Things that I liked about today's card design: 1. It looks like stained glass. This was the original goal, but things do not always go according to plan. This time, it worked! 2. The inlay technique was surprisingly Zen…like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I had never made anything quite like this before, and it was good to try something new. (gluing the intricate black die cut onto blue paper really expedited the process) 3. All three cards were created with scraps from other projects. It felt good to use some of the flotsam, rather than cutting large sheets of paper and having lots left over. 4. The focal point in the Christmas Window card was created with the same die, but it looks so very different here!
The last time I went to Michaels, back when browsing through craft stores was a normal thing to do, there was a beautiful Martha Stewart paper pad on the clearance shelf. Despite the long-standing injunction on paper purchases, I bought it, in addition to the little photo album which was ostensibly the purpose of the expedition. The gold foil paper on this card is from that collection.
Hero Arts challenged everyone to make cards inspired by something around the house, so I made some lovely mixer cards! Baking is one of the best stay-at-home activities ever. I made six of these and used up an entire 12x12 sheet of fancy patterned paper, beside some small pieces of grey and colored paper for the mixers, which have a little added glitter.
. . .from the 6x6 paper pad I was trying to use up. All that remains are small fragments which will probably be layered under other elements, so this is the official end of my first use-it-up challenge! How does one celebrate the completion of this sort of project? Perhaps a nap or a slice of cake would be the best choices!
This week's MFT sketch was a bit of a puzzle until I remembered these little doggies. A little fussy cutting and some coordinating paper later, here are Pugs and Kisses.
Planet Money and Make Me Smart were both talking about robots this week, so here are two cards with a similar theme. They used more of the triangle paper, but my favorite aspect is how fancy the rainbow paper looks with the dark brown mat.
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