One last CAS Challenge for April

Hello blogland!  It's Friday and that means a new Clean and Simple Challenge at Simply Scrapping Crafts.  This week's challenge:  use a non-craft item on your project.  I have to admit, this one really made me think outside of my comfort zone - and it took me a while to come up with something for my project.

But once I got an idea, I think it turned out pretty cool.  My non-craft item is the big white flower made from....white Michael's plastic bags! 

How did I do it?  I cut up a few bags, taking off any portions with writing, and making rectangles of the cut pieces.  I then layered 3 or 4 pieces, turned my iron to high, and put the rectangles between two towels.  I then began to iron the pile and kept the iron moving.  This can take a few minutes, but the plastic rectangles melt together to make a leathery feeling swatch.  I used the Tim Holitz Tattered Florals Sizzix die and cut two of the large, medium and small flowers; creased all the petals in half upward to give the flower some dimension; used a small hole punch on all the centers and used a large K&Co. brad in the center.  Whatcha think?  I'll definately be making these again, lots of fun!

Be sure to stop by SSC and check out all the challenges - something different every day of the week!

Monthly Blog Hop from Simply Scrapping Crafts

Hello blogland!  If you've come here as part of the monthly blog hop from Simply Scrapping Crafts - welcome!  Our challenge this month was to make something for our current season.  I live in the US and spring is finally here - flowers and trees are waking up and birds are chirping and singing.  With this in mind, here's my project to share with you:

This was a really fun project to make!  The cardstock is from Colorbok and the ribbon is from Michaels.  The birdcage and bird are grunge board that I cut using a Tim Holtz Alternations die from Sizzix.  I used some Starburst Stains from Lindy's Stamp Gang HERE:  Cocoa Bean Copper for the cage and Winter Jasmine Gold and Tibetean Poppy Teal for the bird.  After this was dried I covered the bird in VersaMark and several coats of UTEE embossing powder.  After it was cooled, I bent and cracked the UTEE on the bird.

It made a great effect - almost looks like the lines of it's feathers.  I added a copper pearl for the eye and some copper brads at the bottom of the cage and I was done.  A happy little spring card to make someone smile. 

Be sure to check out all the things we have going on over at Simply Scrapping Crafts - daily challenges, Copic classes, card workshops, and much more.  Enjoy the rest of the blog hop!

Happy Easter!

Khrystos Voskres! Christ is Risen!

Voyistynu Voskres! Truly He is Risen!

 

 

Happy Easter!

 



A new Clean and Simple Challenge

Hello blogland!  This week has just flown by and I have a new CAS challenge to share with you from Simply Scrapping Crafts.  Our challenge this week was to use paper piecing on a project and I had a blast with this one.  Here's my project:

I chose a My Favorite Things Pure Innocence Stamp for this project.  I stamped it once on white cardstock then stamped it again on this DCWV patterned paper and carefully cut out just the dress and after coloring the original stamped image with copic markers, I added the cut piece right on top.  Easy peasy!  I added some Stampin' Up chocolate chip ribbon, a few I Am Roses mini roses that I edged with Distress ink, rounded the card corners and I was done!
Come check out the other great inspiration samples for this week's CAS challenge at Simply Scrapping Crafts HERE and the great prize from this month's sponsor My Favorite Things.