Maryann's final November challenge for the CCEE Stampers was for us to celebrate with a seaside holiday. I pulled out an old Flourishes stamp set for my card.
Florida has had a terrible hurricane season this year, and it's so nice to see an end to it. This serene scene is more like what I love about Florida, so I was happy to create it.
Maryann asked the CCEE Stampers to create a card with more than a center fold -- think of an easel, pop-up, center step or shutter card. I love learning new fun folds. Karen Aiken posted a card a month or so ago that she called a Diamond Z-fold Slimline card, which was quite pretty. I have made several of them since I first saw her card. Today's card is one of them.
Maryann is back with this week's challenge for the CCEE Stampers. She asked the team to create cards with a beautiful silhouette. It could be in a scene or a standalone image.
Ever since I discovered distress oxide inks, I love to do ink blending for backgrounds. Today is no exception. My background was created by blending four different inks -- Dusty Concord, Fired Brick, Ripe Persimmon and Wild Honey.
After the ink blending, I stamped two wildflower stamps from Just For Fun that I've had for years and added the sentiment, which is a die set from Karen Burniston called Just Because.
Be sure to check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more beautiful silhouettes.
Maryann is the hostess for the CCEE Stampers this month and starts off with an interesting challenge. According to the days of the year calendar, it is Walk Your Dog Week, a weeklong holiday dedicated to bringing your dog a healthier lifestyle. She asked us to make a card with your furry friend in mind.
I currently do not have a furry friend; but when I was a kid, we had a dalmatian called Patches. My father's friends loved to throw lit cigarette butts on the ground and watch Patches pounce on them to put them out. A true firehouse dog!
For my card I made a pop-up card using Karen Burniston's Surprise Ball and Bitty Ball Pop-Ups. The pups on the front of the card are from Kindred Stamps.
Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for more tributes to our furry friends.
The theme of the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge this month is "Snowman." I've lived in Florida for over 50 years and haven't made a real snowman in many, many years. But Karen has several die sets that give me an opportunity to make a paper snowman at least. I pulled out several previously released dies for my card -- the Snowman Pop-Up being the main one, along with the Christmas Tree Pop-Up. That said, the snowman on the front was actually made with circle dies approximately the same size as the Snowman Pop-Up. I used the smallest plain circle from Crosshatch Circles for the head and one of the dies from the Circle Tag Book for the body. I did bring in smaller dies from the Snowman Pop-Up for the rest of him -- his hat, features, scarf, and arms. The tree is the one of the larger tree dies from the Christmas Tree Pop-Up.
To accommodate both the snowman and the tree, my card is 5" x 8". Because of where the tree needed to be placed, I balanced out the layout with the snowflake die from Long Nature's Edges 2. There was not enough room for the arms or boots that come with that die set.
It's hard to see in the photos, but both of those white rectangles are embossed with snowflakes. I used the Crosshatch Rectangles for the small panel on which you can write your name.
Be sure to check out the cards made by the rest of the Karen Burniston Design Team for this challenge.
When my sister and I visited a local stamp store in Orlando last month, we saw a class project on display -- a cute little goodie bag. She bought the kit for the bag, and I used the instructions to make my "More Than One Score" project for November. You're supposed to use a lunch bag for the inside bag; but, being true to the "more than one score" rules of this challenge, I also made the bag using patterned paper. The label on the front is held down by two very small magnets hidden behind the designer paper.
Check out the Scor-Pal blog to see how the rest of the design team handled November's challenge.
