Altered Playing Card Challenge Week 9

Welcome back to another week of the Altered Playing Card Challenge

This is week 9 and boy has it been so much fun! I'm thrilled that so many have taken on this challenge and are having fun with it.

We are up to 207 members on the Facebook page and we have some that aren't on Facebook but do participate each week.

Last week was a bi-week due to my foot surgery so I hope that those that were a bit behind or had just joined in were able to catch up

If you have missed any week's here are the pertinent links

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6 
Week 7
Week 8

and our Facebook page

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and the Pinterest Board link

Pinterest Board

For this week's challenge we have a wonderful sponsor
Susana's Custom Art and Card Design
There are some fabulous Digi stamps over on her online store so make sure to check them out
She has also been so generous to offer a "Buy 4, get one free sale",  to all those that are playing along with us.
Just add "APC" in the  "comments" section at checkout and also which digi stamp you chose for free, also in the comments section and that's it!  How cool is that!? This deal is only for a limited time so hurry if you want to take advantage of it.
(you certainly don't have to use the digi stamps, you can go your own way and use whatever you already have)

I didn't really go with a theme this week, I just made some cards without thinking about themes.
For card #1 I wanted to do something with the Monster Chill digi stamp, I think he is just so cute

I started out by spraying my background with Dylusions
Somehow I keep ending up with green and yellow together haha! I will have to make sure and use some crazy colors next week lol

I had already drawn out the circles on my card when I gessoed them so I wanted to do something with those circles.
I decided to make flowers, so I got out my marker and started to draw
I don't pretend to be good at drawing, (because I'm not at all) I just kind of wing it

I also wanted some stems and centers for my flowers and decided to use wash tape on paper to create those
All you do is add tape to plain paper and then cut out whatever you want
I free-hand cut my stems and use circle punches for the centers

I doodled a bit more with the black marker and white pen

I then printed my digi stamp in three different sizes and chose the size that was right for the card
I colored my stamp with copic markers and cut him out

After coloring my image, I decided that it wasn't the right color for this project because the green blended in too much with the green on the card, I re-printed him and colored him again with another color
Here is my finished card

I really like him better in the orange, he stands out much better with that busy background. I also printed out my quote and cut it out and added it

For card #2 I wanted to go with subtle instead of bright and bold
I started with some distress paint in the color of antique linen, it's a subtle off-white color

I had gotten black paint on my card by accident so I wiped it off and it left a stain, but that's ok cause I'm going to cover it up

This color is very subtle, here is what my card looked like after the paint went on

I then used adirondack ink in a pesto green color called Oregano and also used a stencil to create a subtle background, I applied the adirondack color lightly

I then glued on some pieces of torn Tim Holtz tissue paper

Using distress ink I lightly applied vintage photo around my edges and onto my background

I then splattered water onto my background

Next, I used a piece of worded paper and cut some flowers out with a memory box die called Prim Poppy

I adhered that to my background and also added lace to the bottom portion of my card

I chose a digi stamp called Peaceful Thoughts for this card, the girl is so sweet and subtle with her flowers
I colored her with copic markers and cut her out

This is what my 2nd card looks like finished

Here are my two Altered Playing Cards side by side

It's kind of funny how they are so different but the colors are very similar in both cards. Maybe that can be the theme this week, how to use the same colors in two different ways, Bright and Bold and Subtle

Enjoy making your cards this week, I will see you back next Monday with more altered cards and we will have a drawing next week!!
CHEERS!!!

Roc Nicholas Postcard Exchange

Hello all, Happy Valentine's Day to you (tomorrow)

I hope you all have a wonderful day with that special someone in your life

I recently joined a postcard swap in my Facebook group dedicated to Stampotique's  Roc Nicholas,  she has a wonderful Facebook fan page and it's so neat to see all the great art that is created with her stamps

For this postcard I used Roc's stamps

Scooter Girl

Stacked Love

Here is my postcard for this swap

I went with a Valentine type theme with the hearts and Love. I wanted my Scooter girl's clothing to match the wash tape so I colored her outfit the same colors.

I used Tim Holtz distress glitter for the hearts and the new Memory Box  stencil (honeycomb) for the background. I am really loving those new Memory Box stencils, they are fun.

Have a wonderful day tomorrow everyone!! Take care and Cheers!!

Let It Snow....

Hello again, I've been a crafting bee lately. It's been really cold (like below zero) and snowing here so I've been staying home and using my time to craft. At any rate, there is a super fun challenge over at 

Tag A Long called "Frosty the Snowman" and all you have to do is create a tag in the theme in order to play along. How Fun!!

Also, over at Stampotique Designers Blog it's "Anything Goes" this month. So I am entering my tag for that challenge as well.

So for this theme I chose a stamp by Daniel Torrent called Snowy Fran you can see her over at Stampotique Originals. 

I stamped my Fran onto card stock and then colored her with copic markers and then cut her out. 

I set Mrs Fran aside and went to work on my background. I used Tim Holtz distress paints and tissue paper to create this portion. I simply added the paint directly to my craft sheet and spritzed with water and then ran my tissue paper though it

Once that was dry I used a manilla tag by Ranger and some glue and seal to adhere my tissue paper to my tag. I sort of scrunched it up a bit as I went

I spritzed my background and a few snowflakes that I will be using for my background with silver perfect pearls 

I used some delicate Memory Box dies along with red card stock to create some flourishes for the edges of my tag

I wanted to do some star stencils in my background so I used Archival blue ink and a crafters workshop stencil. The stencil that I used had too many stars so I taped some card stock underneath in order to block some of them off.  I just put some stars here and there onto my background.

I made a flower for the bottom corner with the Tim Holtz tattered flower die strip and card stock. I also used some of the tissue paper. I added a red glittery center to finish it off

I created this star with some mirrored paper and card stock. I added a rivet so that I could hang it from Fran's arm

After adhering everything to my background and creating my phrase, this is what my finished tag looks like

Thanks for stopping by, I hope that you stay warm and safe in the comfort of your home!! 

Cheers!

"Joy To The World" Christmas Postcard

Hello there everyone, today I have a postcard for you. This one was a little different for me because I didn't use any stamps, inks or stencils. You know how I love those and use them in almost everything I do. I did use a tiny bit of paint I couldn't resist. haha! 

Well for this particular postcard I decided to use some of my fantastic Memory Box dies. They are so intricate and they have so many to choose from. 

For starters I got out my dies and picked out a few I wanted to use.

I had cut the mini row of houses onto my red paper, making sure that there was overlap so that it wasn't cut completely out. 

My card looks crooked here but it's perfectly straight I promise. haha! It's because it's sitting on this grid pad.

I then cut a piece of white card stock to use as a template so that I could cut a window into my card. 

(there might be an easier way to do this but this was the quickest and simplest way for me)

I then used my Xacto knife to cut around the white piece of card stock and ending at the edges of the row of houses.

The ending result should look like this..

Once that is done cut another 4x6 piece of white card stock for your background and lay out your other items to see who you want your postcard to look.

I decided I wanted something in this background to sort of look like snow flurries so I used two colors of Tim Holtz distress paints. I just used my paintbrush to dip into the paint and splattered it across my paper here and there.

Once that was all good and dry...

I then glued my piece of red card stock on top of that and edged   it all with Archival black ink.

I then used glossy accents to glue everything onto my postcard and whalla!! Here is the end result....

I ended up making three of these, two to send and one to keep.

Thanks for stopping by today, it snowed here in Colorado so I will most likely being staying home and crafting again today. YAY!!!

Have a good one!!