More from World Cardmaking Day!

One of the activities for the day was to pick ahead of time from a list of gardening terms what you were going to make for an "anything but a card" challenge.  I was the one who came up with all of this, but when I signed up I couldn't remember what was what so I picked sphagnum moss (project), violets (embellishments) and a licorice plant (techniques); this translated into making a fat page with glitter and misting.  Here is what I came up with:

and a close-up of the fat-page itself:

I started with a white piece of cardstock which I sprayed with home made mists in pink and blue.  I then sprayed a paper doily with purple Glimmer Mist.  I cut and embossed a Spellbinder's scalloped circle and with the die still on sponged Ranger Cool Peri on it leaving a white border.  To a pink PP circle I added a dazzle topped with another circle to which I added a phrase dazzle and 2 double stick heart dazzles which I used teal glitter on.  I stamped, heat embossed and cut out 4 button stamps which I topped with gold jewel Dazzles.  I decided to make it into a wall hanging and added more double stick dazzles to the ribbon topped it with 2 large flowers I have had forever and another button stamp.  I am really happy with how it turned out.

The next challenge I did was to preselect 3 card projects - winter, patriotic and overgrown which turned into:
Winter - a purple and white Christmas card using glitter and a die cut.

Patriotic - a congratulations card using my national colors

and Overgrown - a 5x6 1/2 inch card using at least 1 piece each of the following sizes 1x3, 2x6, 3 1/2 circle and 2x2. I matted most of the pieces and am pleased with this card.  I'll save this for one of my boys since it isn't A2 size for OWH.

Thanks for stopping by!

Paper Wishes 2012 World Cardmaking Day Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Paper Wishes BLOG HOP - we are so glad you are here to help us celebrate World Card Making Day! Some card making day trivia for you:
Today, card making is a worldwide hobby, especially popular in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
1 in 6 U.S. households participates in making cards
86% of scrapbookers also create handmade cards
92% of paper crafters create cards more than any other type of project

Be sure to check out all the blogs in this blog hop, as well as visit the Paper Wishes message board as there are lots of things going on there today, all sponsored by Paper Wishes, with some great prize packages! You don’t want to miss a chance to win! 

To win a prize package of Paper Wishes products: leave a comment on ALL THE BLOGS by noon, Eastern time on Sunday, October 7 and a random drawing will be done to choose the winner.

So on with the fun – it doesn’t matter where you start the blog hop, just see where you are on the list and make sure you visit them all and leave some sweetness behind!

Participants:
Penny -----you are here!
Nancy
Michelle
Patti Prince
Robin
Jackie
Cheryl
Sam

This year's theme for the blog hop is gardening.  I chose to make a card with 2 flowers that I built up with lots of layers.  The papers are from Coordinating Florals and Patterns (an old paper pack) and Plain Pastels (another old book of paper).  Flowers came from the 20 Blossoms Template and I sprayed them with Goosebumps spray.  I've only used Goosebumps before on white cardstock that I then inked for a resist look (like I did here for last year's WCD card, but I like the look of dew on the flowers - unfortunately, I don't have a camera that takes good enough pictures to show.  I put a  Kaisercraft Pearl in the center of each one.  I cut the 2 largest and smallest of Spellbinder's Decorative Labels One to layer on the pink vellum.  A gold greetings Dazzle and a few more pearls topped it off.  I used ribbon that I bought from Really Reasonable Ribbon across the bottom of the card and I was done.  If you haven't checked out the ribbon website - do yourself a favor and do so after the blog hop, they have a wonderful selection, great customer service and quick delivery.


 Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment on all the blogs for a chance to win!  Paper Wishes provides the message board members with tremendous support and they are sponsoring all of our WCD prizes.

As always, I would love to read your comments and I hope to be back blogging on a regular basis again.

World Cardmaking Day Recap and new cards!

I was certainly busy last Saturday!  I spent the day participating in the HOTP message board festivities and got a lot of cards made!  I thought I would post a few - the vast majority of supplies on all the cards are HOTP products.  I won 2 of the activities and am (not so) patiently waiting for my goodies!

Let me know what you think of these cards!  There are some I really like and a few I'm not so happy with - but I won't tell you  which is which.

 This card was for a challenge to emboss - either kind.  I used Sizzix folder and sanded it to get a hint of the black core.

 This card was the green challenge.

This card was made to the following requirements: sympathy card, green and vellum.  The sentiment (an Outlines stamp) is on green vellum and the focal is gold vellum.

This card was the use a button challenge.  The button is a die from Ecstasy Crafts.

 This challenge was to create a mini album using bling, 2 PP, 1 CS and a mist.  I used purple glimmer mist on light blue paper and a Crafter's Companion stencil.  The 2nd PP was on the inside.

This is one of my favorites - a red, black and white card.  I am thinking, though, that I should use a bit of Stickles bling - what do you think?

This challenge was to use Dazzles.  I used double sided hearts as the focal and border.  The sentiment is from Kaisercraft and one of my favorites.

 This was use a flower and diecut.  The die is from Nellie's Dies (my new favorite!)

This challenge was to tear paper - something I'm not sure I like.  What I chose to do was pretty mild though.









So there you have it!  There were more, but that's enough for now.

I would love some feedback and thanks for stopping by!