World Cardmaking Day 2014

Hello and welcome to World Card Making Day! I hope you can find some time to play along with us for the special WCMD challenge over at Deedee's digis blog and create a card! Deedee Anderson is offering this  super cute and fun "YoHoHo" digi completely FREE only until Monday morning, so be sure to check out the store in the "free to try" section before it's moved to the regular "pay for" section! Make a card using any of Deedee's digis and you could win $10 worth of free Deedee's digis, so what are you waiting for?! Grab this freebie or any other Deedee's digi, make a card, and enter it here - but hurry! This challenge closes at 9:00 AM (Pacific time) on Monday! You can use any Deedee's digi to play along in the challenge, so check out all the "Free to try" digis available in the store!

There is also a 25% discount available at Deedee's digis store only until Monday Morning. Use the code WCMD25. To use this code, type it into the "Enter coupon code" text box on the checkout screen. Then click the "Apply Coupon" button. If you don't click this button, the order will not be discounted!

I used one of the pre-colored images from this set, and added a little extra color with Copics and glitter pens just for fun. Since the sentiment includes the word "treasure" I added some precious treasure on the ground by adding lots of different colored gemstones, pearls, and Geo Sparkler stickers. The silver borders are stickers and so is the tiny heart on the bird's chest. I used a wink of stella glitter pen on the bird's cape.  The card base is GinaK's blue raspberry, with some SU! real red.

Thanks for stopping by and have a very happy World Card Making Day!

Carol

World Card Making Day

I always like to play along with Ellen Hutson's CLASSroom on world card making day, and today I made time to play along with 4 of their 5 challenges.
First up is  WCMD 2012 challenge 1 with Julie Ebersole. Julie's challenge is to create a holiday greeting. I made mine pretty simple by using an embossing folder from Sizzix's Thank You set #5 and matted it with cherry cobbler cardstock, while stamping it with a Christmas greeting from G Studio. The ornament was stamped with Versamark, embossed with gold ep, and punched with a SU! ornament punch. I added some Viva pearl pen accents and a piece of gold twine. I don't know the name of the stamp set, as I used it at a friend's house:)

There is a photo from Pinterest that Chari Moss challenges us to use as our inspiration to create a card for the WCMD 2012 challenge 2.

And this is the card I came up with. I used a stamp set called Fine & Dandy by Stampology. I stamped the leaves with white pigment ink on kraft cardstock, then embossed them with white ep. The image was embossed on light pink with claret ep, and die cut using a SB labels 25. I outlined both dies with a white picket fence distress marker before cutting, and added some tiny gemstones and Spica glitter pen accents. The cream colored border was stamped with a smaller image using pretty in pink and cut with a MS doily border punch. Sentiment is by SU, and the ribbon was from my stash. I used a piece of Close to Cocoa for the layering mat.

Next up is WCMD 2012 challenge 3: A sketch challenge by Sharon Harnist.

This is the card I came up with for challenge 3. I used another image by Stampology and colored it with Copics. The dsp is from the BoBunny Crazy Love collection. I punched some small hearts in the "banners" since this is a love card, The ribbon was a gift from a friend. I used a SB labels 18 die to cut the image, and outlined it with a marker before cutting.

My last card for today is for the WCMD 2012 challenge 5: Trend Watch Challenge by Julia Stainton. I used one of my favorite trends in cardmaking today - the chevron. I just love the look of those jagged stripes and can't seem to get enough of it. I also love hexagons and plaid dsp too. I used a Hero Arts stamp set done in navy ink, and also used an EK punch for the border. The dsp is Bazzill Basics Huckleberry Pie, and I used real red for the sentiment tag and mat for the clock face. Quick and easy, but a great card to send to OWH.

That's going to do it for me for world card making day. I'd like to give challenge #4 a go but I'm not going to have any sunshine to take photos tomorrow as we have rain in the forecast, but I'll see what I can do!

I hope you made some cards for this special day, and thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Carol

WCMD Christmas Card

I made this card for the Ellen Hutson CLASSroom challenge EHWCMD2. The challenge is to make a Christmas card. I used a SU! Christmas stamp set called Contempo Christmas, stamping the ornaments on red card stock and embossing with white ep. I added some silver cording to attach them to the branches that were done with a MS fern punch and some scraps of green. The background was embossed with a CB swiss dots ef, and the sentiment is a silver sticker.

I've been making cards for WCMD, so hopefully I'll have more to post later on today!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you're getting some cards made too!

Carol

EHWCMD6 & EHWCMD7

Here are 2 more cards I made for the challenges over at Ellen Hutson's classroom for World Card Making day. The first was a color challenge from Sharon Harnist's EHWCMD6 to use light blue/poppy, vanilla bean, and cream or natural white. I used Cool Caribbean, Chocolate Chip, and Cottonwood for this card. I stamped the tree image on Caribbean with Versamark and embossed it with clear ep. I embellished it with Kaiser Blush and Chocolate pearls. The sentiment was stamped in Chocolate chip and I kept this card a relatively basic design. The great color combination doesn't really require much else..........at least not for me.

Next up is a Christmas card I made for Debbie Olson's EHWCMD7 challenge to create a holiday card. For this one I used heavy-duty aluminum foil for an accent. I stamped the snowflake (CTMH) in versamark and embossed with red ep. After it dried, I used a glue pen to mark highlights and added some dazzling diamonds for sparkle. If only my camera could have picked up the glitter *sigh*. You can click the picture to enlarge, and perhaps you might see it better. The snowflake brad was white, but I dipped that in a Versamark inkpad, then in silver ep and hit it with the heat gun. The scalloped circle was made by adhering some foil to a scrap piece of cardstock, then I used a Nestability to cut it out. For the sentiment panel, I used a Nestability label, cutting one from white and the other from foil-covered cardstock. I cut the foiled label lengthwise to layer it underneath the white. The dsp, ribbon and sentiment stamp are all by SU!, while the white card stock is from PTI. The tiny silver pearls were a RAK from Silke Ledlow(thanks g/f)

Thanks for the great challenges over at the CLASSroom and thanks for spending a little time with me here today. Enjoy your Sunday!!

EHWCMD1 & 2

I played along with Ellen Hutson's CLASSroom today for World Card Making Day. They have 7 challenges for you to play along with and there are prizes involved, so click the link above and check it out! The first card (EHWCMD1) was a challenge by Cindy Lyles where she asks us to try and arrange three Inchie Squares (or one-inch squares) on a simple card, and stretch the image over the three squares. I used the Ever After stamp set, stamping the image on wc paper & coloring with markers. I cut it into 3 pieces and layered it on scraps of tangerine tango and hunter green, using a piece of Haiku dsp. The borders were punched on Hunter using the MS arch lattice punch and the sentiment is from Kind Thanks and stamped in Hunter green. Ribbon is from my stash. This card was made using Susan Roberts' sketch challenge EHWCMD2. I tweaked the sketch a bit and eliminated the small horizontal panel since my sentiment was already on the main image. I used a scrap of dsp from my stash, along with green, purple, black & some more tangerine tango for the card base. I used my scalloped scissors to notch the corners and added 3 halloween colored brads. The jack-o-lantern face was hand-drawn onto the smallest of the 3 Shapeabilites Blossoms. The skeleton was colored with glazepens, and I added 2 punched pieces of white for the eyes and dotted them with a black pen. The bottom border was punched using the MS goo punch, and the felt ric-rac was in my stash forevah!
I hope to get a few more of the challenges done before the deadline, but it was fun to play along with these 2 so far! I hope you're all enjoying WCMD wherever you are!