Two-minute card - truly!

Just as there are times when you want to spend a few hours learning a technique and creating a fabulous card, there are also times when you want a really quick card. This is one of those times. I needed a bunch of little thank you notes to pop in the order bags from a recent workshop and this fit the bill. These actually fit last week's limited supply challenge too! (That challenge was to make a card smaller than 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 using quick tools and paper scraps.)

This is a 3x3 note, with a scrap of Almost Amethyst designer prints paper. The main image is several layers: 1" circle stamped in Wild Wasabi, a 1 1/4" circle punched from a wasabi scrap, a 1 3/8" circle punched from an amethyst scrap and a scalloped circle punched from a celery scrap. A few zips of the snail later and this card is assembled. If only sorting and packing orders was as quick! I've made a few variations on this them, with different colours depending on the scrap pile. To pick the colours I just find a scrap of designer paper and use the colours that are in that - that makes it super easy and it all coordinates. For this one I went with the classic combination of purple and green.

Now I'm off to prep for tomorrow's class. If any of you are interested, I'm teaching two cards using the emboss-resist technique at Heather's Stamping Haven. If you'd like to join us, give the store a call and see if there's any room. Last I heard there were a couple of spots left.

Thanks for stopping by.

All supplies Stampin' Up: Stamp: Circle of Friendship; Ink: Wild Wasabi; Paper: Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst, Almost Amethyst designer series prints; Other: punches: scallop, 1", 1 1/4", 1 3/8" circles.

Bible Verse Challenge - March 2008

I came across this challenge on splitcoast to make an aide memoire for Bible verses each month. I have a ringed photo frame from Ikea that I've been meaning to use so this seemed like the perfect way to use it. I'll add a new 5x7" page each month and when I'm done, I'll have a beautiful inspiration piece to go on my desk. I plan to add pictures to the back of each page so it will be a photo album on one side and scripture verses on the other. This is my page for March (I need to catch up on January and February).

The Bible Verse Challenge also coincided with this week's Ways to Use It challenge, which was to use a computer-generated element in the project.

For this page, I printed the verse on vellum in dark blue and layered it over two pieces of patterned paper from the Periphery line (Basic Grey), one of which I scalloped with the corner rounder. I also inked the edges of my scalloped piece with some light blue chalk ink. I added some flowers to coordinate and put the whole thing on a piece of patterned paper (Barefoot "Birthday" Floral/Turquoise from MME's Bohemia). The flowers are Primas and from the Pretties kit, tinted artichoke with my inkpad. I I stamped From the Garden in Prussian Blue chalk ink on the background for some interest and texture. I'm pleased with the result and am looking forward to catching up on Jan and Feb for this challenge.

Supplies: Stamps: From the Garden - Stampin' Up; Paper: Bohemia - MME, Periphery - BasicGrey; Ink: Prussian Blue colorbox fluid chalk ink; Other: Pretties kit flower (dyed always artichoke with inkpad), Prima flower, always artichoke brads, 5/16" corner rounder - Stampin' Up, 1/4" circle punch.

Height of Fashion Challenge Card

Today's Ways To Use It challenge on splitcoast was to make a card using fashion as the inspiration. Since I got *brand new rubbah* today {grin}, I wanted to use my new Riot of Petals stamp. I love those frondy blooms and they instantly made me think of those colourful, graphic designs by Pucci. I found some great inspiration on the Pucci website, but it was this caftan in blue that inspired this card.





I loved the colours in this blouse and the bold swirling lines. I thought the Riot of Petals echoed this feeling and I used my Tombow markers to colour the image (after embossing it in black) to get that same intensity of colour. The only embellishment I used was some ivory organdy ribbon, gold cord and a 1" circle sentiment. I tried lots of different things, but they all seemed to compete with the flowers. This embellishment seemed to suit though it didn't scan well. I might try to get a better picture of it if it's sunny tomorrow. (I keep telling myself I don't need one of those fancy set-ups that the serious bloggers use, but I'm getting a bit frustrated with my current system of going from real-card to digital-card.)





This was a great challenge and I had a wonderful time playing this one. And it's as close as I'll probably ever come to having something Pucci in my house ;-)

Supplies: Stamps: Riot of Petals, Circle of Friendship - Stampin' Up!; Ink: versamark, river rock; Paper: watercolour, basic black, brilliant blue, Papertrey Ink white; Accessories: ivory organdy ribbon, gold cord, Tombow markers, aquapainter