Showing posts with label Fall Fest bundle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fall Fest bundle. Show all posts

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Stampin Up, Pals Paper Arts challenge #223


Ok, so with colors of Tangelo Twist, Basic Black and Very Vanilla, what kind of card would you make? LOL. Yup, I could have made a pretty and bright flowery card or? But hey, it's that time of year, and I do have lots of grandsons I can send to.

But I have a little secret, I didn't use Very Vanilla. I do have the paper, but I wanted to use this piece from the Back to Black DSP pack.  The Typeset DSP would have worked great too, but I don't have that one, might have worked even better!
I cut the black strip using my Rotary add on to my trimmer. It's super easy to switch out the arms and the blades as well.  The blades are in little cartridges, so you can't get cut. I used the small scallop blade on this, very quick to do.

I wanted to use the Banner Framelits, but they were too long to get the width I needed, so I did it by hand.  After cutting the sides to fit, I simple cut up the center from the bottom, then cut in from each side. You can adjust the amount of angle you want this way.

I sure hope you enjoyed it. Now go, have fun!


Thursday, September 18, 2014

Stampin Up, Pals Paper Arts Challenge 220

Todays PPA challenge is a sketch challenge.   I challenged my fellow demos this week to use a stamp set they haven't used before for one of the challenges they do.  This was easy for me, I just got this set and the idea just popped into my head.  I love when it's easy. I almost put patterned paper instead of the embossing on the background, but this worked better for me.

I love using embossing folders in different ways, this one is easy, just use your brayer to put color from your ink pad onto one side of the embossing folder then emboss the card as usual.

Colors used today are: Whisper White, one of the new incolors Mossy Meadow, and Tangerine Tango.  To add a little interest I used some linen thread looped around and just the tip of the large grunge stamp in Gorgeous Grunge.

Here is the sketch for this week:
So, come on over and join in the fun, doing challenges can really help you grow in your crafting.