Flight of Challenge (SFYTT Mar 28)

This week I didn't get distracted by the blinding "star" in the Sketch for You to Try at iheart2stamp.com.  I laid an egg instead!

Credits:  Stamps:  Hummingbird collage - Magenta, Birthday wishes - Inque Boutique, Egg - Carmen's Veranda

Papers:  Wausau Papers, Embossing Arts (before purchase by Auntie Amy)- blue fiber, card in a package of pre scored cards from Peterson-Arne

Ribbon - Making Memories

Ink - Tim Holtz Antique Photo Distress Ink

Other - Asst. Prismacolor pencils, paper stump, Gamsol

Flight of Challenge (Paper Craft Planet SK032809)

Here is my version on Paper Craft Planet's Sketch Challenge of the week.  It is an Easter card as the blossoms have been stamped with "Happy Easter" over and over.  You probably can't see it in the photo, but it is visible in person.  I didn't have a flower embellishment in this color so I tore apart an artificial carnation and used two of the petal pieces with a pom-pom cut from a pom-pom trim for the center.  The flower foliage and stem was made by cutting parts off  fern punched pieces.

Credits:

Stamps- "Happy Easter" - Jim Stephan (milk carton set), Blessing and flower - Heidi Grace (Fiskars) We are family set.

Die- Smallest circle in the Spellbinders Nestabilities Standard Circles Small set

Carnation petals - Walter Trading Co.

Pom-pom - Making Memories trim

Ink - Ancient Page Sunburst

Punch - Fern from Make an Impression

Paper - White glossy - Xerox, Yellow and green - Wausau Papers

Polka- Dot adhesive border strips - Unknown - Came is a grab bag I won at Craft Warehouse

Flight of Challenge (Rubbernecker Wacky Wed. #4)

The Rubbernecker Wacky Wednesday challenge was to make an Easter card suitable for a child.

I'm sure children of all ages would be amused by bunny bottoms and anything that uses stickers.  I took piano lessons for ages and gave piano lessons for several years and I still haven't outgrown my love of stickers.  (For those who never took piano lessons it is quite common to put a sticker on the page when you "passed" a particular piece of music.)

Credits:

Stamp - Rubbernecker Grand Bunny Bottoms

Paper - Wausau Papers, DCWV and Making Memories (eyelet pattern paper)

Paper Frills - Doodlebug designs (pink paper rick rack)

Buttons - Favorite Findings by Blumenthal Lansing Co.

Scrapper's Floss - Karen Foster

Ribbon - Making Memories

Stickers - American Greetings

Felt Easter Scatter - World Market Cost Plus

Flight of Challenge (SFYTT Mar 21)

This week's Sketch For You To Try on the i{heart}2stamp blog involved a star so it immediately set me to thinking about the stars in a box of Christmas chipboard shapes I have gathering dust.  Then I got the words to the song "The Flower That Shattered the Stone" that John Denver sang and Joe Henry wrote stuck in my head so I typed them and printed them on a transparency.  Naturally, since I taught Earth Science for years I can't think of that song without thinking about the weathering process of root pry (when the roots of a plant grow into tiny cracks in a rock and proceed to crack it apart).  That of course brought me to the flower tamp with the roots below the bulb.  The flower is a Camas or Wild Hyacinth (Family Liliaceae, Genus Camassia) which happens to be one of my favorite wild flowers. (BTW, the bulbs of this flower were an important food source for the Native Americans and each year I see fewer and fewer of them as the highway department "clears" the roadsides.)  I f I hadn't got stuck with that song in my head and wanting to illustrate the words of the song I wouldn't have had to make such a giant card to fit in the flower and I think I would have liked the sketch better!

Credits:  

Stamps: Stars and children - Magenta, Scene- PSX, Flower - Above the Mark

Circle punch - Family Treasures

Chipboard - Scrapworks

Paper - Wausau Papers

Other - Memories ink, Prismacolor pencils, Office Depot Inkjet Transparency, rainbow embossing powder from a company that went out of business years ago!

Flight of Nonsense

No card finished today because I went grocery shopping, watched Dr. OZ on Oprah tell us how to live to 125 and then watched Mr. President.  This picture is in honor of the eruption of Mt. Redoubt in Alaska.  I have never been to Alaska and I have no idea what mountain this is, but I do know it is in Alaska because I took the picture out of the plane window on the way to China.

Other things worth mentioning include the broken right collarbone of Lance Armstrong (shucks) and the marriage of David Letterman ('bout time).  Other things not worth mentioning (but I will anyway) was the crochet artist yesterday on MARTHA who had crocheted a urinal to hang on the wall.  I briefly turned that show on today to see one of her worker bees eating a sandwich she had just made and declaring that he had never had butter on a sandwich before. I then turned it off.  With any luck tomorrow Tiptoe the Birthday Elf will make my dreams come true.  Now isn't this what a blog is all about, no paragraphs and a bit of nonsense? 

Flight of Challenge (Card Positioning System 108)

I managed to complete CPS 108 without using a rubber stamp.  How on Earth did that happen?

Credits:

Papers - Wausau paper - white, Chiyogami 495c - gold, Paper Parachute - blue

Ink - Ancient Page - Cobalt Blue

Sizzix die - Bird with leaves and flower

Cuttlebug embossing folder - D'vine Swirl

And of course felt from the fabric store.

Flight of Challenge (Rubbernecker Wacky Wed. #3)

Here is my version of the Rubbernecker Wacky Wednesday #3 challenge.

Credits:

Stamps - Clock Collage- Rubbernecker

Papers - Pink - Fraser Papers, Brown - French Ppaers, White Glossy (card) - Xerox

Inks - Memories - Black, Ancient Page - Pink Pizzaz

Transparencies and sticker - Making Memories

Rub on Letters - Zip a Tone (TIMELESS)

Circle punch (to punch round elements from another copy of the clock collage) - Combined Resources International

Flight of Challenge (Card Positioning System 107)

WooHoo!  Spring is only a few hours old and I'm already in the spring creation mode.  Here is my entry for Card Positioning Systems Sketch 107.

Credits -  Papers - Best Creation Inc., Wausau papers, DCWV

Stamp - The Stamp Barn

Butterflies - Spellbinders die, Fiskars punch, Emaginations punch

Embossing Folder- Cuttlebug

Ink - Memories

Ribbon - ??? I bought it by the yard in a scrapbook store.

Flight of Celebration

Happy Spring!  How about a Spring FLING?  Put your party hat on and celebrate the day.

Credits:  Stamps - Hero Arts -Woodgrain background, decorative birds

 Stamp Camp - Tree and leaves

 Flowers - Rubber Stamp Tapestry

Ribbons - Making Memories

Punch - EK Success

Papers - Wausau Papers, Worldwin, Best Creation Inc. (party hat is actually part of a kite!), card itself?? from a package of prefolded cards

Inks:  Memories, Clearsnap, Fluid chalks and Ancient Page

Other:  Prismacolor pencils, rub ons from an office supply store?, rhinestones - Jo-Ann's, stickers??- from the grocery store, but lost the outside of the package!

Flight of Challenge (SFYTT Mar 14)

Spring is almost here and the flowers are bustin' out all over.  It is time to "Celebrate Today" in this week's Sketch for you to try on the I{heart}2stamp blog.

Credits:

Stamps:  Celebrate & hearts - Hero Arts, Bike - A Muse Artstamps, Flowers - Rubber Stamp Tapestry

Papers:  Wausau Papers and Rubber Soul

Ribbon : Making Memories

Ink:  ColorBox Chalk Inks, Marvy LePlume Markers, Unknown sparkly pink gel pen, Versafine

Other:  Spellbinders Nestabilities, Flower Soft, Fiskars Embossing Plate

Flight of Challenge (Card Positioning System 106)

This card uses non-traditional colors with a lot of texture.  The lines and chick are flocked and the egg and flower center are "colored" with decorative sand.

Credits:

Papers -Wausau papers

Punches - Chick - Fiskars, Little circle - EK Success, Bigger circle - Family Treasures

Dies - Egg - Spellbinders, Flower - Sizzix

Fun Flock Black and Yellow - Stampendous

Senic Sand - Activa

Ink - Ancient Page- Turquoise

Stamp - Happy Easter - Jim Stephan

Adhesives - Xyron, Quickie Glue Pen - Sakura

Flight of Challenge (SFYTT Mar 7)

Here is my bright shiny version of the Sketch For You To Try on the i{heart}2stamp blog for this week.  The appearance of the sun, yet with a cold wind blowing, was the inspiration for this creation.

Credits:

Stamp - Inkadinkadoo (PSX)

Striped paper - Rubber Soul

Kite paper - Best Creations

Solid Papers - Wausau Papers Astrobrights

Cuttlebug - Distressed Stripes

Unknowns - Holographic Wrapping Paper, silver embossing powder, glossy white cardstock

Flight of Challenge (SFYTT Feb 28)

Inspired by the "koozie" prize for this week's Sketch For You To Try, on the i{heart}2stamp blog, here is my entry.   Hope you enjoy it!

Products used:

Stamps- Flamingo, Viva Las Vegastamps!, Paradise, Rubbernecker, swirl, Hero Arts

Ribbon- May Arts

Ink - Black- Memories, Pink, Marvy LePlume#67, asstd. alcohol inks, Adirondack and Pinata

Circle- Spellbinders Nestabilities Standard Circles Large

Bloom Dots Embossing Folder - Cuttlebug

Crystal Stickers- Mark Richards

Paper- Black & pink- Wausau Paper Astrobrights Eclipse and Fireball Fushia

White glossy paper- unknown

Flight of Instruction

If you are enjoying the show and you live near Salem, Oregon I will be teaching a class at

Stampin' Cat Studio on March 14, 2009,  ATCs of your Dreams.  In the class you'll learn my

technique for making these dreamlike mini works of art and get a chance to experiment to create your own.  For sign up information call the store at 503-390-2553.

Flight of Challenge (Card Positioning Systems 105)

Here is my version of CPS 105 .  It looks a little blurry in the middle because the card has dimension and the scanner obviously can't deal with three layers.  The scanner also doesn't like to deal with transparencies which the center colored scene is done on.  The scene stamp is from Northwoods and the word stamp is from Art Impressions.  Wish you could see it in person!  The center element was made using the same technique as the ATC class in the next post.