Challenges:
- Come and Get It - recycled (my glass was cut from waste plastic packaging)
- Creative Inspirations Paint - Green
- Glitter and Sparkle - Green
- Gingerloft - Green
- Quirky Crafts - make your own BG paper
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Showing posts with label recycle. Show all posts
Beer Glass card
I was discussing with my cronies the Beer challenge at Blessings Ink, and Lois told me about a card she had made that used a transparency for the beer mug . I thought it was a very cool idea, and decided to try it myself, only making a Pilsner glass (my husband's preferred beer receptacle).
I stamped the background with the vintage labels set from a•muse studio; I thought they were evocative of beer bottle labels. I hand cut the "glass" and the gold cardstock that I used for the beer. The foam was cut using the cloud die set from a•muse studio.
Challenges:
Challenges:
Scrap doll
One last bookmark doll, I promise! This one is unique in that all the paper on this card except the base is from scraps. The hair and head are leftovers from the other dolls I've made, but everything else is from a CTMH class I took last month. Unlike other workshops I've attended, Michelle doesn't give us precut pieces for our cards; she gives us uncut pieces of paper and a cutting diagram. There is always a lot left over, sometimes enough to duplicate all the cards we make at the workshop and then some. Anyway, I used the leftover CTMH paper because I knew that all the colors and papers would go together without even thinking about it.
Fast forward a month - I'm at this month's card class, and we are chatting about CTMH blog hops, and it's time for me to go, so I ask what I should do with my plastic drink cup (I was looking for a recycling bin), and Michelle tells me that I should use it on a card for the recycling challenge on the Heart 2 Heart blog.
So, I took it home and punched a butterfly out of it, and hit it briefly with my heat gun to curl it a little. The tan color of the solo cup goes nicely with the muted tones of the paper, I think. It was easy enough to add it to the card with a glue dot.
Other challenges:
WoodwareUSA - anything goes
Stamping Vacation - no black ink
Papertake Weekly - dimension
A Spoon Full of Sugar - small creature (butterfly)
Rubber Redneck - color
Freshly Brewed - cute and sweet
Fabulous Friday - handmade embellishment
Fast forward a month - I'm at this month's card class, and we are chatting about CTMH blog hops, and it's time for me to go, so I ask what I should do with my plastic drink cup (I was looking for a recycling bin), and Michelle tells me that I should use it on a card for the recycling challenge on the Heart 2 Heart blog.
So, I took it home and punched a butterfly out of it, and hit it briefly with my heat gun to curl it a little. The tan color of the solo cup goes nicely with the muted tones of the paper, I think. It was easy enough to add it to the card with a glue dot.
Other challenges:
WoodwareUSA - anything goes
Stamping Vacation - no black ink
Papertake Weekly - dimension
A Spoon Full of Sugar - small creature (butterfly)
Rubber Redneck - color
Freshly Brewed - cute and sweet
Fabulous Friday - handmade embellishment
Recycled materials card
Sometimes a person needs a challenge to get the creative juices flowing. Fortunately, there are a lot of blogs out there issuing the challenges. This challenge is from Card Positioning Systems, which exists exclusively (as far as I can tell) to create layout sketches with which to challenge people. I have been watching others play this game, and now I want to play too.
This card doesn’t have any stamping or ink, and it does use found materials. The words, as you may have guessed were cut sale flyers in my newspaper, and the background is a variation of the Gesso Off technique that I learned from Technique Junkies, using black gesso instead of white, and using a slick postcard instead of ordinary colored cardstock.. There really aren’t black smudges on the card, it just scanned that way; there are plenty of black smudges on my hands, though.
This card doesn’t have any stamping or ink, and it does use found materials. The words, as you may have guessed were cut sale flyers in my newspaper, and the background is a variation of the Gesso Off technique that I learned from Technique Junkies, using black gesso instead of white, and using a slick postcard instead of ordinary colored cardstock.. There really aren’t black smudges on the card, it just scanned that way; there are plenty of black smudges on my hands, though.
