Vintage Santa

Good evening my crafty friends!

 

 

I am here to share a card I made for FF's challenge. The challenge(FFC10) is about creating any vintage holiday projects.

 

 

Oh! ladies, "vintage" is not so close to my craft style.

I haven't been familiar with any vintage themes since I was aware of my cardmaking style as either Clean And Simple or Clean and Graphical.

 

So it is...tough for me for this time but I came up with this card anyway.

I tried to keep the look as simple as possible sticking around my CAS style but not to lose some points of vintage mood. What are those points?
 

 

To give vintage effect, I chose a vintage Santa stamp from Paper Artsy and stamped it on  a aged look pattern paper. Then I colored the image with some brown copic markers. I trimmed the patterned paper into a panel and glued it to a textured brown cardbase. As a finishing touch, I used the technique "inking the edge" with a gold DecoColor Paint Maker. 

I brushed the tip randomly around the brown cardbase and the panel. It looked amazing and seemed to add more interest to my card.     

Can I say that I would add one more style in my cardmaking, which is SAV: simple and vintage? What do you think? 

 

Thanks for visiting my blog.

 

Sophia.   

 

Peace, Hope, Love

* This card was featured as SHOUT OUTS from the challenge blog Festive Friday.

Hello, my crafty blogging friends.

 

 

Did you have a good day?

 I certainly had a good time making another Christmas card for this week's color challenge over at Festive Friday. 

Another Christmas card? Yes!

I can't stop my love for Christmas cards and it seems that my enthusiasm for making Christmas card has revived. Thanks to FF design teams for such an inspiration.

 

 

Here is my last and the third entry to the challenge. 

 

 

For covering the entire white base, I used gina k's stamp set, Festive Frame. The set has one big frame image that includes oval frame and beautiful poinsettia/pine cones/leaves one on the upper left corner and the other on the lower right corner. It also has some Christmas sentiments that fit in the inside of the oval frame.

 (photo credit: gina k. designs)

 

Since the stamp set had every images I needed for Christmas card in one big frame, it made my next step much easier. After stamped the frame with memento black ink, I just filled the white space with copic markers.  

I colored the frame, flowers, pine cones, and leaves with red, brown, and green. Then, I would like to give highlight on the pine cones with gold glitters. The other point of highlight I made was gold pearl stickers in the center of each poinsettia.    

That's it for tonight. Thanks for stopping by my blog.

 

" May the spirit of
Christmas bring you
Peace, 
The gladness of 
Christmas give you
Hope,
  The warmth of 
Christmas grant you 
 Love."
   

Sophia.
 

FFC09: Sending Holiday Joy

Good evening.

 

It is unusual that I am free from the work on Monday evening. My Monday evenings were usually occupied with consulting clients or joining a class that taught psychology. But I have no schedule this evening and that means I am able to ink up my hands and make a super simple card. Yay!

 

This time again I played along with the color challenge FFC09: red, green, and gold over at Festive Friday.

 

 

 

I came up with a really simple and clean card using Jolee's boutique sticker and PTI's Christmas sentiment and light wire image.

 

Hope it would be acceptable that I added a color blue. 
 

Thanks for visiting my blog and enjoy your Monday evening.

 

Sophia.

 

  

Happy Birthday to EWE

 

I have one more card to go with the CASology's Furry challenge. 

 

This card is for a baby boy who just turned one.

 When the birthday boy receives the card I can imagine that he would like to touch the sheep's body and it makes him feel soft and fluffy.

 

For sheep's body, I punched out the body part with Marvy Uchida's scallop oval punch. Then I filled the inside with some cotton balls and covered the entire body with tissue paper. To give wrinkled texture to the tissue paper I crumpled the paper before covered cotton balls.  
     

 

 

Supplies I used for the card,

 *stamp: papertrey ink my punny valentine, year round puns mini stamp set.

*ink: dark brown (forgot company's name)

*paper: bazzill textured cardstock

*embelishments: white brads, cotton balls, tissue paper 

That's it for today, thanks for stopping by my blog.

Hope you stay cool in these hot days.

Sophia.



 

 



Furry...Christmas in June.

Hello crafters there.

It is a very nice Saturday here in New Jersey, well actually it's very hot but good enough to enjoy being outside.   

 

 

I have two cards that I made for the challenge over at CASology.

 

 

The cue word "FURRY" is very challenging to me because I am not a big fan of animal images (even cute dogs and cats) and I think I don't have any of them in my stamp collections. So I almost give up for this time but fortunately enough I rememebered that I made several Christmas cards with this one.

 

 

Anyone miss fluffle, a wiked cute fluffy cat from Stampendous? (link google images)

 

 

 

I played with a fluffle hanging on the Chritmas tree instead "deck the hall." She is so ready to be tangled up with the decorated branch in next few seconds. 

How do I know?  

Look at her curious eyes toward red ornament ball. :D

She must think something fun.

 

 

 

I would like to share one more card that I made using the same stamp but I did not enter this card to the challenge since It wasn't fit for CAS style.   

But this is OK for anything goes challenge over at Simon Says Stamp so I'd give it a go.
 I also entered this card to the Festive Friday's challenge: FFC09.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog. I appreciate your comments.

Hope you have a good weekend.

 

Sophia.

 

 

 

 

 

CAS 43: U and I, the special day

 

This card is my second attempt to the Hexagon challenge over at CASology.

 

 

 

"Thinking out of the box" is one of my goals as a crafter for this year.

 Whenever I made a card I reminded myself of that phrase and tried to apply it to the process of cardmaking. It is unable to be creative all the time but I know it is important to implant a seed of creative mind in each step of making a card.

 

 So a creative seed in me is telling me not to use hexagon die or stamp but to use other shapes that could possibly make hexagon. Do I have to use a triangle stamp? I tried several times with some stamps of triangle shapes but didn't get any satifactory results.

 

 

I ended up with this card.

 It didn't give me satisfaction either.

But I would like to give me a credit to the point that I tried to think out of the box.

 

 

The stamp set I used here is "Today Was" from Sweet Stamp shop.

When I saw a photo frame stamp with grid lines in it, my thought immediately went to draw a line to shape a hexagon. I was also thinking that the hexagon I created with hand drawing would be good for presenting a simple word like "U and I."   

 

As you see It is not a perfect shape because it's hand drawn hexagons over the grid lines.

It has some squiggly lines but the hexagons are good enough to celebrate our(U & I) "the" special day. :D

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog. 

Hope you have a good weekend. 

 

Sophia.     

   

     

CAS 43: Hexagon and Christmas

Happy Saturday!

 

 

I am happy that I am able to make two cards for the HEXAGON challenge over at CASology for this week.

 

The first one is a simple Christmas card.

 

I used a pattern paper in which a Santa Clause was printed (I thought it's from My Mind's Eye 6*6 paper)and went the paper through my Big Shot with a hexagon die template from Papertrey Ink. To adhere the cutout frame to the base Kraft cardstock I used a two-way glue. It was a work that required my patience. 

  

 

 

The last touch I made was a bit of fun. 

In contrast to the neat and clean result of the hexagon die, the Santa paper was designed to be seen as worn-out and aged. So I added some aged effect on the Santa image by rolling some pieces up. Can you see that fun roll up? 

  

  

 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog.

 

I have one more card to share with you in the next posting.

 

Sophia.   

 

  

 

   

Smiles

* Do the happy dance with me. I've got my second time honorable mention badge from CASology.

Hello friends there,

Happy Friday!

 

 

Yesterday night, I made a super(x100) simple card for the week #41 challenge over at CASology. They have a cue word for GIGGLE. 

 

 

 

For the giggled or smiling lips, I used one of brushing images from PTI's watercolor wonder stamp set and inked up with Hero Art's neon pink. Some of you may notice that the stamp set has no image of that kinds and the trick was... using the back side of the stamp in order to get a perfect lip shape. It looks like our smiling lips, doesn't it? hehe :D!

 

For the eyes, I thought of "emoticon" like this (> .<) that seemed to possibly express wrinkled eyes when we giggled. My original idea went with using "arrow" images if I had but I couldn't find any of them in my stacks. So I had to change the direction and found the alternate which was the letter "V" and "I" from K&Company Amy Butler's clear Alphabet stamp. 

 

To finish off the card, I put some sequins on the lips. I felt the card would be too simple without having some sequins on the lips. (Or am I obssesed with an idea that I have to use sequins to all the cards I will make?)    

 

 

 

 

  Hope you have smiles all day long as my card suggested!

 

Sophia.

 

 

 

 

 



CAS 40, Holiday

 

This card I created for the challenge "word" over at CASology more focused on the word itself. 

 

 

 

 

 For the card, I began to cut out the letter "holiday" from a Kraft cardstock using PTI's wonderful words: holiday collection. My original idea went with using the cut-out image but I changed my mind to create something with the negative side in order to highlight the word "holiday" itself.

 

I trimmed the negative side into a panel, punched each corner, and looked at it whether it's OK enough to emphasize the word. I felt I should add something. It was not bad but looked too simple and boring. So the kraft panel should go through my Big Shot with PTI's impression plate (This is a double-sided /canvas-linen/ embossing steel plate and I think I used linen side). Then I rubbed the entire kraft panel with Vintage Cream and Fresh Snow ink pads from PTI.

I finally satisfied with the result after having done all the steps above.

 

What do you think? This might be our (crafter's) on going dilemma, to add something more or to stop somewhere in the process of creating works?

How can you find your optimal medium?    

 

 

The next step was adhering the panel to a kraft base. For this, I placed a green patterned paper between a kraft panel and the kraft base.

 Then, I used foam tape and this was "the" job that tested my ability to endure. Foam tapes should be cut out to fit exactly into cut-out letters of the negative side and it needed a delicate job. I decidied not to do this work again next time, (but who knows? :D) 

 

As the last step to finish off the card, I put a leaf decoration on the dot in the letter "i." I fortunately kept the decoration from last year's Christmas cake. 

 

 

Hope you enjoy my card.

I love to hear your opinion about optimal medium in crafting.              

Sophia.  

 

 

 



CAS week 40: "word" from Bible

Hello friends again,

 

It's Wednesday night and I came up with two cards I made for this week's challenge over at CASology. The cue card they suggest for this week is...

 

 

The cue "word" directly linked me to the word from Bible. And this Bible passage 1 Peter 5:7 is one of my all time favorites.

 

 

 

Cast all your cares upon him,

For he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7

 

 * I am entering this card to the challenge #76 over at Word Art Wednesday.

 

Thanks for having some time to visit my blog. I appreciate your comments.

 

Sophia

You make my world that much brighter. Thank you.

Happy Wednesday, my crafty friends.

 

 

I have a quick card to share with today.

 

 

I have struggled to make my card sparkle since the mission from the CAS-ual Fridays for this week was all about glitter. I was thinking of using glitters, glittered letters, glittered chipboard, and so on...there are so many possibilities to get a glittered effect using glitters but the problem I have is no time to play with glitters. 

 

You probably know what I mean by it. For me "glitters" are equal word to "messy" in my craft dictionary. I cannot spend extra time for cleaning up all those scattered glitters after my project done. Also it's not easy to get rid of all tiny little things. It would stay and stick to the craft mat for a while and it is affecting my next CAS project. = .=

 

 

So I took a simple way by using Cleasnap's Smooch pearlized accent inks. 

 

    

Mine is not in the picture above. I got the one from Michaels when it was price down after Christmas season. It has four Christmas colors, Siren/Green Apple/Moonlight/Gold Lame.

 

And here is how my choice of sparkle turned out.

 

For my card,

I picked Gold Lame to cover almost entire space of the textured white base. I chose a textured white cardstock as a base because I expected it would look like a canvas after I colored it with the Smooch Gold Lame. What's it like for you? Just a gold color? :D

Then I added some yellow copic marker(forgot the exact number) over the Gold Lame.
 

 

While let the base card dry up, I stamped PTI's brush image on the plain white paper and colored it with some copic markers. I used the Smooch's Gold Lame ink again on the tips of each brush and cut the image out and place it on the base with foam tapes. You could see the brush image was a little up from the base and had some dimensions. Then I stamped the sentiment twice and it's a simply you stamp from Technique Tuesday.       

  

 

That's all for today. Hope you enjoy your day.
Thanks for dropping by my blog.

 

Sophia.