Card Camp - Week 4

I love this week's color combo at Summer Card Camp!  Blues and greens - awesome!  It's been a fun four weeks of camp with a ton of inspiration, videos, color combos and wonderful prizes!  I'm hoping to keep all the PDFs in a file and look to them when I need an extra push to create.

Here's my card I created last night:

I used ink and a soft cloth to create the sky and grass on a piece of Vintage Cream cardstock.  After stamping and coloring in the leaves of the tree, I added Glossy Accents to give them some dimension.  The bird is die-cut from Blueberry Sky paper with a few Stickles on the wing for sparkle.  The three flowers have some sparkle to them as well since I colored them in with my Sakura Stardust pen.  I added some texture in the clouds by running them through my Big Shot with the Canvas Impression plate. 

This card is for a very special friend of mine, but I won't say who because sometimes she reads my blog.  She's getting ready for some changes in her career, and I want her to know I'm thinking about her.

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

 

Card Camp Week 3

This is another card for this week's Make It Monday, where Dawn inspired us to create pockets as focal points for our cards.  You can see the video and sample cards by clicking here.

I'm in my 3rd week of the Summer Card Camp classes with Kristina Werner and Jennifer McGuire.  The videos, tutorials, samples are colors are very inspiring.   I love this week's color combo! 

Red with cream and brown is a favorite combo for me, but three shades of brown was a bit difficult. I think I was able to pull it off with the use of some real wood birch paper.

Here's my card:

The idea behind the Make It Monday challenge is to use the edger dies from Papertrey Ink to create the borders.  I don't have any edger dies and turn my head quickly from my monitor anytime I see one used - and chant in my head, "I do not need that.  I do not need that."  I tried that with the impression plates too, but now I own a half-dozen of those.  Maybe I'll be stronger about the edgers.

So, I used a punch - and one of my favorites.  I know I've told you how much I love the grass punch from Fiskars I used on my other Make It Monday card, but I also love this bracket border punch from EK Success.  It punches and embosses. 

It's also the same shape as the side of Mat Stack 4 - a happy coincidence.  So that is what I used as my tag that fits in my pocket.

I'm hoping to get another card done for the Card Camp before Sunday night!  We'll see if time is on my side!

Tomorrow I'll be back with a summery card for Jenny's Wee Memories Challenge!  Should be fun!

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

Hello Friend!

This is my third card for this week's camp.  I'm hoping to dig out some patterned paper and see if I can get one more in for this week.  For this card, I kept it simple using dies, an impression plate and buttons.

I talked myself out of the Sunshine Impression plate from PTI so many times I can't even count them. So glad that I finally left it in my cart.  It's one of my favorites.

The only hard part about this card was threading the twine through the buttons - that took some time, but I like them better with the twine.  Do you have a preference for buttons - with twine or without?  I'd love to know what you think!

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

Apple of My Eye!

This is my second card for this week's Summer Card Camp.  I haven't gotten around to using any patterned paper for the challenge yet - maybe later. 

I haven't had a chance to play around with my Fruit Fusion stamps and dies that I got from PTI yet, so I knew I wanted to use them.  Seems that every time I go to the produce section, I see every color of apple imaginable, so I thought now would be a good time to use the apple set.  Even though technically, apples are a fall fruit!

Here's my card:

I'm also going to link this card to my blog group's challenge:

Deena's challenge is to use a background stamp.  In my card I used Background Basics: Tin Type from PTI.  I love how it echoes the pattern in the apple!  You should come play along with us.  We have challenges every couple of weeks - just for fun, no pressure.  Here's the link to our blog. 

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!  I'll be back tomorrow with one more card for this week's camp.

Card Camp - Week 2

Last week was the first week of Summer Card Camp, and I was sorry to miss the beginning, but I'm back now and have 3 cards to submit for this week.  How's that for make-up work?!

Here's the first one:

I CASE'd a card I created a few weeks ago.  (Is it OK to CASE yourself?)  I loved the technique I had learned, and loved the card when I made it.  I gave it away to a friend for her birthday the day after, so I wanted to create another one, this time with this week's color combo. 

After Kristina's video today, I'm digging through all of my patterned paper to make a 4th card.  We'll see if that happens!  Off to finish the third one before I get to the patterned paper!

Thanks for visiting My Happy Place!

P.S.  Thanks to Tami Hartley for drawing my name from her comments for the Summer Camp giveaway!

P.P.S.  I received an email from Paper Crafts Magazine today letting me know they chose one of my cards to be published in their January/February issue!  My first publication - so excited!