Card Week, Part 4

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Card Sketch #12

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"Thank you" card by Christy Arthur
Products - Bazzill: Cardstock; Sassafras: Mix and Mend Tailored Sweetly, Sweetly Smitten Dainty Sketch; Hero Arts: Typewriter Stamps; Martha Stewart: Classic Butterfly Punch; Jenni Bowlin: Turquoise Dot Paper; Other: Twine

• I used butterflies in place of the stars in the sketch.

• I used twine on the outside of the card instead of the horizontal strip in the sketch.

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"Loving You is Easy" card by Katrina Hunt
Supplies - Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned Paper: My Mind’s Eye (Fly a Kite “Spring” and Lime Twist “Be You”); American Crafts/Amy Tangerine (Oh Happy Grey); Basic Grey (Out of Print “Storyteller”); Studio Calico (Destination); Paper Clip: American Crafts/Amy Tangerine; Twine: The Twinery Baker’s Twine; Stamp: Unity Stamp Co. (Sept. 2011 Kit of the Month); Tags: Studio Calico; Punch: EK Success Border Punch; Stapler: Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher; Adhesive: Scotch ATG and Scrapbook Adhesives

I like lots of layers, so I just added a bunch! Plus, I had gotten a new border punch (addict….) and wanted to play with it!

I don’t even know where to start with the variations, so I am not listing them this time. The things that are similar:

• I did squares, but did six one inch squares and centered them on one of my layers.

• The message is in the same place.

• I substituted twine for the “strip” of paper.

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"Full of Wonder" by Lynette Jacobs
Supplies used - Cardstock: Bazzill; Printed Papers: Cosmo Cricket, October Afternoon, Simple Stories; Ribbon: Local Haberdashery; Alpha: Simple Stories and American Crafts; Flowers: Prima and My Creative Scrapbook August kit; Chipboard Flourish: Enmarc; Quote rubon: Kaisercraft.*

• I cut a square piece of Bazzill and 9.5 x 9.5 inches.

• I cut hexagons from the printed paper and made a quilt.

 • I added faux stitching to each hexagon.

• I framed the piece of Bazzill with a punched border.

• I replaced the striped paper with lace ribbon.

• I used two photos and punched the photo mat with a punch.

• I added the flowers and flourish to the right hand corner of the photos.

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"Woohoo!" by Janette Kincaid
Supplies - Patterned Paper: We R Memory Keepers (Geo-Hectic - Full Speed Ahead, Short Circuit and City Blocks); Cardstock: Bazzill; Adhesive: Helmar Scrapdots and 450 Quick Dry, Glue Arts; Journal Pen/Marker: Zig Black; Floss: DMC; Circle Punch: Marvy; Ink: Black Stazon; Misc: blue buttons, foam arrow stamp, transparency

Variation 1: The most obvious change of course is that I created a one-page layout from the card sketch.

Variation 2: I replaced the star with my featured photo.

Variation 3: I replaced the four background squares with pattern paper strips simply because these where sitting on my desk as leftovers from a previous project and I didn’t have enough to make complete squares from the bits.

Variation 4: I left out the white background square.

Variation 5: I trimmed one of the strips from a multi-strip pattern paper for a quick and easy title. I tucked it under the photo rather than the top square as shown in the sketch.

I added my journaling in strips as well as a few more embellishments. The three pinwheels at the bottom of the page were made with a circle punch.

Two circles were cut in half and reassembled with foam squares to give some depth and a button finishes them off.

The arrow was stamped with black Stazon onto a transparency.

The transparency was trimmed in half and placed on either side of the horizontal title strip. This made the arrow bigger and filled the empty space.

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"Happy Halloween" by Shari Thurman
Supply List - Pattern Paper: My Little Shoebox; Doodle-pops Cardstock Sticker: Doodlebug Design; Ribbon: unknown; Cardstock: unknown; Candy: Pixy Stix; Adhesive: Thermoweb, ATG by Scotch; Other: machine stitching

This is a perfect example of a project gone wrong. I started out making a cute little Halloween card. I then got a little crazy with the sewing machine and stitched one side completely shut before I realized my mistake. Rather than trashing my project and starting anew, I adjusted my original plan.

This is my modern day version of a Halloween tussie mussie. I left the top open to hold several Pixy Stix and stitched a ribbon at the top so it can hang. I thought this would be a cute alternative to give someone on Halloween instead of a traditional card. The Pixy Stix


I often say, "There are no mistakes in scrapbooking, just opportunities to embellish." I definitely embellished on this project. I tried to use a mess up as a creative challenge. I had fun nonetheless.
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