Mini Calendar Gift...

This card was created for the "Anything Goes" or optional twist 
"Create a  Calendar" Challenge at 613 Ave C.

A Day For Daisies graciously provided images for the Design Team to use for inspiration - and I chose "Fairy Bird #1".  I already had "Fairy Bird #2" in my collection and I jumped at the chance to use them together!

You can see all the Design Team's versions of the theme 

and the challenge rules HERE.

A Day For Daisies

I am in love with so many of the A Day For Daisies images - and these "Fairy Birds" are among my favorites!  I am hoping to make several of these Easel Cards to give as gifts.

TECHNIQUE

Base card is 5.5 x 5.25 size with a basic Easel Card construction.  Papers from two different companies were found in my color palette [as always, specific information on supplies will be found below] and all the inside and front DPs were inked along the edges with Distress Inks.  Layered on top are the die cut branches from Tim Holtz - cut from the leftover deep brown paper used for the base card.  The Fairy Bird images were both printed out twice, colored with Copics, fussy cut, both sculpted from the back to round them and finally each layer is mounted on foam tape to maintain their depth and shape.  These were mounted above the branches & off the page.

The inside reveals the 2014 Calendar - each mounted on foam tape to provide the Easel stop.  A space above the stop has been created for a personal message but will not be seen once the Easel is in place.

This card should be eligible for the following

CHALLENGES:

Pile it On #48 – P is for... [pretty, precious, perpetual, paper]
Paper Crafting Journey – It's Christmas Time
Crafting from the Heart – A/G

LEJ Designs #82 – Christmas is Coming
Through the Craft Room Door – A/G

Papertake Weekly – A/G w/ optional CAS card

Sisterhood of Crafters –Handmade [Paper sculpted images]

Divas by Design – Feeling Festive

Delicious Doodles #65 – Christmas/ New Year

Basic Grey #109 – Happy Christmas

Beyond Grey #44 – 3D Gift Challenge [Birds have been sculpted with 3 layers for this calendar gift designed to stand up on a desk]  TOP THREE

ABC Challenge –A for Almost Christmas

Clear it Out – A/G + stash A/G

Paula Holifield Crafts (ALBC) – Christmas Cheer

One Sweet Challenge – A Gift in Itself

SUPPLIES

IMAGES:  The focal image is from A Day for Daisies; Christmas sentiment is a 1994 release by Annette Allen Watkins; 2014 is computer generated.

PAPER:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80# Cover Wt. used for the images; DP is from Basic Grey's "Sweet Threads" & Studio Calico's "Heyday Collection";  base CS is stash.

EMBELLISHMENTS: Tim Holtz' Die Cut bare branches; Judikens "Rustique Patina Azure" EP used to embellish the wings and feelers.

INKS: "Old Paper" & "Tea Dye" Distress Inks were used to ink the edges of all the papers; the image was printed on a Canon PIXMA printer & colored with Copics:

May you color with abandon, create wildly and always make what amuses you!

~ginny

Say it with a Flower...

Mo's Challenge Blog's current theme is "Say it with Flowers".  I decided to make a card for a young man in my family, and I thought ONE flower would be manly enough to pass the macho code.  So colors, DP, and embellishments were all duded out, and the only bright color is the single flower in the Giraffe's mouth.

Below you see the tag coming out of the envelope.

TECHNIQUE
I used double sided DP with a design that is reminiscent of a Giraffe's spots.  This was folded in an envelope shape to hold a tag cut to fit.  I used Copics to color the images and Distress Inks were used around the edges.  Punches were used for the vines (a 2nd one in black was punched for a shadow), the fence, the sentiment square and mat and the scalloped plants in front of the fence are from deckle edge scissors.

Sentiment was stamped on a circle tag with a metal edge that swings free from a ring.  A black ribbon and bow were tied on that ring.

This card should be eligible for the following

CHALLENGES:

Mo' Challenge Blog - Say it with Flower(s)
One Sweet Challenge - fall Colors (see Copic chart below)

Sisterhood of Crafters - Divine Digis
OSAAT #181 - Autumn (see Copic chart colors below)

Beyond Grey - Fall colors (see Copic chart colors below) TOP THREE

Digi Darla #80 - Anything Goes
Clear it Out - Let's Hear it for the Boys (plus punches)
Crafty Sentiment - Fall Colors (see Copic chart colors below)
Fab and Funky #185 - Leaves
Crafty Ribbon #62 - Anything Goes with Ribbon
Fussy and Fancy #98 - Punches and Dies


SUPPLIES

IMAGES:  The focal image is by Mo Manning at Digital Pencil Too; Sentiment is from a Hero Arts sentiment collection.

PAPER:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80# Cover Wt. used for the images; DP is from stash; base CS is Georgia Pacific

EMBELLISHMENTS: Punches were from Martha Stewart and Marvy Uchida.
INKS: "Crushed Olive" & "Pumice Stone" Distress Inks were used to edge the tag; the sentiment was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black; the digital image was printed using a Canon PIXMA printer & colored with Copics:

May you color with abandon, create wildly and always make what amuses you!

~ginny

Summer Breeze...

It is Monday and time for the weekly challenge at Craft Your Passion.  This one is called "Haberdashery Items" and requires stitches, buttons, ribbons - things from your sewing box.  This is my take on the theme.  Rules for the challenge and more inspiration from the Design Team can be found (HERE)!

Tim Holtz happens to have some papers in his "Ideology" stack that has wonderful images perfect for this theme... button cards, needle books, safety pin and eye and hook cards - of course all in vintage colors.  From those papers I chose the colors I would use on my - less than vintage - focal image -  I wanted her to really pop off the darker, vintage colors on the page.  She is called "Summer Breeze" from Crafty Sentiments  and my mental image of the tie in was that she has just finished making her new Summer dress (hey, works for me!)

The image was printed out twice, colored with Copics, fussy cut, sculpted from the back and then reconstructed using foam tape for dimension.  I used the Holtz papers for the background and then cut our the specific images from the rest of the DP, layered them at angles.  Buttons were sewn on the button card, a small safety pin added to that card and like wise a small hook added.  a small tag was created for the sentiment - "Sew Sweet".

Left over papers were re-cycled on the inside.

This card should be eligible for the following 
CHALLENGES:
Divas by Design - Tie a Ribbon (green ribbon used on tag)
Crafty Ribbon #46 - Anything Goes with Ribbon (green ribbon on front and brown ribbon {hemming tape} on inside)
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Anything Goes
Totally Papercrafts #169 - Anything Goes
ALBC - Something Sweet ("Sew Sweet" sentiment)
ABC Challenge - O is for Open (Anything Goes)
OSAAT #166 - Anything Goes
Robyn's Fetish - Use a Digi
Sentimental Sunday #157 - Summer Colors
Beyond Grey Challenge #32 - Accessorize  TOP THREE

SUPPLIES & TECHNIQUES:
IMAGES:  Focal image is "Summer Breeze" from Crafty Sentiments; sentiment is hand lettered.
PAPERS:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80# Cover Wt. used for the image;  DP is from Tim Holtz "Ideology" stack; base CS is from stash
EMBELLISHMENTS: pin, hook, buttons, crocheted doily and green ribbon are all from stash;  tag is handmade.
INKS:  the image was printed on a Canon PIXMA printer & colored with Copics:

May you color with abandon, create wildly and always make what amuses you!

~ginny