Jun 2, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Cards, Masculine |
Today I’m going to show you card 3 – there were 5 cards in total that I made and submitted for the Artisan Award Contest. This one was probably my least favorite – but it has a good boy/teen look to it. It also resembles a scrapbook page that I had made earlier this year.
For this one I used the Write Stuff Specialty paper – I originally didn’t think much of this paper pack but as it turned out I really like the paper designs that were in there. They work well for boy stuff – just dots and checks and stripes – no flowers. Almost every pack of our Designer Series paper has a flower somewhere in it and I want some with just stripes and geometric patterns.
The stamp sets are Sense of Time and Extreme Elements. The card base is Kraft (soon to be called Crumb Cake) and the images are stamped in Chocolate Chip. Everything is just kind of randomly stamped on top of each other. I did include the punch out for the gears.
I’m looking at this picture and trying to figure out how I got the staples in so far – I guess that was the reach of the stapler because they do go all the way through to the inside – maybe I shouldn’t have done that – it left the backs visible on the inside.
I did decorate the inside. I hope the judges saw the insides – maybe they didn’t even open up the cards. Surely they noticed the insides.
Thanks again for stopping by. Later I’ll post an update on the turtle that I found last week.
Jun 1, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Cards, Occasion Mini 2010, Pocket Silhouettes |
I hope you like my first card from my Artisan Award entries that I showed yesterday – it was one of my favorite ones. But I also really like this one
even though I don’t normally make such bright cards. This one is on a Melon Mambo Textured card stock base. I used Basic Black, Crushed Curry and Old Olive with it. The focal piece is a 3×3 square and could be used on its own for a tag or small card.
Lately I seem to enjoy adding the doodles on my projects – this time I used the black journaler to add the doodles and then also added the splatter from Itty Bitty Backgrounds – I know that stamp set has been around forever and I sure do hope it doesn’t retire. I use it a lot.
Here is a look at the inside. It is stamped and doodles to match the front. And I added a thin Basic Black strip and the Crushed Curry scallop trim edge on one side.
Thanks for checking in today and looking at my work. This was my second card out of 5 for the Artisan Award Contest.
If you would like to see the entries that other demos submitted go to this post – CLICK HERE. We are calling ourselves the Almost Artisans.
May 31, 2010 | Almost Artisan, Baroque Motifs, Cards, Embossing, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, Thank You |
It was really hard not sharing these projects earlier. Since we made them during the Sale-A-Bration and Occasions Mini Catalog sales period some of my projects use items from these. They were current at the time so they were eligible for the contest. Even though the judging occurred after they ended. I wonder if that had anything to do with the chosen winners. Between that and using what are now going to be retiring colors – that was announced after I sent my entry in and when you see one of my scrapbook pages it ended up with a bunch of retiring colors on it. Oh well…
So here is card #1 – I considered this to be my vintage card. I had actually created a scrapbook page with this idea and posted it on my blog earlier – click here to see it – and when I was creating for the Artisan contest I kept coming back to that page but knew I couldn’t enter it since it was already on my blog. My solution was to make a card using the same idea.
It is a very pretty card in person – I’m not sure the picture does it any justice. The card base is Basic Black and the stamping is done with Versamark and embossed with Clear Embossing powder. I love this look.
I used the Vintage Labels stamp set from Sale-A-Bration – too bad that one isn’t still available. The others are all still current – Charming, Tiny Tags, and Baroque Motifs.
The colors are Crushed Curry, Basic Black and Whisper White.
I had also decided to decorate the inside of each of my cards. I go in phases of doing this. And I usually always do it when the card base is dark like the Basic Black. The inside was pretty simple but matched with the front of the card.
So that is my first entry for the Artisan Award.
I hope you like it. And that you’ll come back to see the rest!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
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May 31, 2010 | Almost Artisan |
As I mentioned earlier I was not chosen as one of the winners of the Stampin’ Up! Artisan Award this year. There are lots of other demonstrators that weren’t chosen either. I can’t wait to see what did win because these are some really talented ladies that didn’t win! Some of us our posting our entries over the next few weeks – everyone created 10 projects in total. Everyone is posting on a different schedule so you will just need to check their blogs to see when. Here is the list of the blogs that are some of the Almost Artisans just like me. Check them out and make sure to leave all of us some comments to cheer us along – we need some love!
My Almost Artisan project posts are starting today – I hope you like my projects as much as I did!
For this one I used the Write Stuff Specialty paper – I originally didn’t think much of this paper pack but as it turned out I really like the paper designs that were in there. They work well for boy stuff – just dots and checks and stripes – no flowers. Almost every pack of our Designer Series paper has a flower somewhere in it and I want some with just stripes and geometric patterns.
I’m looking at this picture and trying to figure out how I got the staples in so far – I guess that was the reach of the stapler because they do go all the way through to the inside – maybe I shouldn’t have done that – it left the backs visible on the inside.
