Paper Sweeties February 2018 Blast From The Past

Good Morning, Thursday!

Boy the week flew by!  WHEW!

It's the 2nd day of Paper Sweeties' 2018 Blast from the Past.  

Hop along and check out what all the Designers are showcasing as some of their favorite Paper Sweeties products in new or past projects.

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jinny Newlin
Karen Letchworth

Kathy Schweinfurth

Larissa Heskett
Lisa Bzibziak
Lori Turner
Mackie Robertson 

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala
Nancy Salkeld (You are HERE)

I made two new cards for today.  I did some watercoloring using an acrylic stamp block to create my backgrounds.  Then I stamped my images with Versamark and white embossed them.  On one card I added sequins while on the other I added some hearts cut from painted watercolored paper.

Hello Friend Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties

Birthday Banners - Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties

Happy Cake Day - Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties

Hugs and Kisses

Cupcake Sprinkles Sequins - Paper Sweeties

  

Paper Sweeties Blessings!

4 Crafty Chicks #390 ATG & Layers & Layers

Happy Thursday!

Hope everyone felt some love yesterday on Valentine's Day.

It's time for a new challenge

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4 Crafty Chicks!

Amy is our hostess, yay!

She has chosen the Twist of Lots of Layers ---

4CC #390 - ATG & Lots of Layers Twist

So, layer up, y'all!

My card is another Valentine that I made for my son daughter inlaw using Gerda Steiner's "Buckets of Love" stamp set.  It's a set of buckets and cats.  My son/dil have two cats and we have two kittens and so I colored these cats like our kittens, Rory (black one) and Bella (Grey striped).  

Stop by the Hen House and check out the rest of the chicks' projects, including our guest designer, Tangii! AND, congratulate Tangii as she is now our permanent Guest Designer and will be hosting our Crazy Egg Challenges throughout the year!  YAY!   Be sure and give her and all the other chicks some blog love.  Then, play along with us and share your layered projects.  You might be one of our next Top Chicks!

Crafty Chick Blessings!

Paper Sweeties February 2018 Blast From The Past

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope you have a day full of sweetness and love, no matter whether you have a significant other or not because everyone deserves some love and sweetness!

Today is also the first day 

of 

Paper Sweeties February Blast from the Past!

For the next three days,

 the Paper Sweeties Design Team is showcasing 

some of their favorite Paper Sweeties products 

from the past.

Hop through the DT List below and check out what everyone has shared and leave some blog love for them:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jinny Newlin
Karen Letchworth

Kathy Schweinfurth

Larissa Heskett
Lisa Bzibziak
Lori Turner
Mackie Robertson 

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala
Nancy Salkeld (You are HERE)

Since today is Valentine's Day, I decided to flash back to some Valentine decor, floating hearts, that I made with the With Love Sweet Cuts heart.

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These were super easy to make.  I think I created about six or seven groups.  Each heart is made from 4 of the "With Love" heart die.   I cut each one out of different pattern paper and glued four of them together to make one heart.  There are also four of the lace heart trim also glued together around each group of four. 

I used some clear nylon thread/string to loop through the tops.  Usually I hang them across our mantle so it looks as if they are "floating" in mid-air, but our fireplace is undergoing a bit of a facelift AND with two hugely active and inquisitive kittens bounding around, I knew they would not last long this year.  The other nice thing about these hearts is that they fold flat and can be stored nicely in a box.

With Love Sweet Cuts Paper Sweeties

So I hope you enjoyed my "Blast from the Past" Valentine hearts and come back tomorrow for more.  It could be another past creation, OR it could be a new one OR it could be both!  You'll have to come back to find out!

Paper Sweeties Blessings! 

Friends Fur-Ever

Good evening!

One more post for today.  I've been on an unusual roll of pumping out the cards and the posts.  Maybe the Hubs should work all weekend more often? ;)   Except the more I get done the more I have to do.  Somehow that doesn't seem right.  Maybe it's just I was that behind!

I seem to always have components of cards I start, dies or colored images, and then they sit to get covered up by more of the same.  So, this weekend I made myself use up some of them.  Everything on the card below, minus the sentiment, has been on my craft desk or in a bin anywhere from a month to maybe six months.  Not anymore.

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS: Sentiment - Sending Buckets of Love (Gerda Steiner). Plaid background stamp (Catherine Pooler).

PAPER: White cardstock (Neenah); Navy (Bazzill).

INK: Be Mine, Juniper Mist (Catherine Pooler Inks).

EXTRAS: Scallop stitched rectangle and rectangle panel (WPlus9); Stitched Quilted Swirl cover die (Lil Inker Designs); Long banner die (My Favorite Things); Small banner (My Favorite Things); Doily heart die (Lawn Fawn); Cat die (Penny Black); Small navy heart die (Taylored Expressions). Pink heart enamel dot (Recollections).

I love that Penny Black cat die with their tails making a heart.  It reminds me of our two kittens who are the same age and good pals.  I'm entering this into the Cas-ual Fridays Challenge, Hearts, Hearts & More Hearts.

For Following Challenges:

Furry Blessings!

You're Grate

Another quick card ---

I've been coloring more since The Daily Marker has had the 30 Day Coloring Challenge again.  I did these cuties from Darcie's Heart and Home.  I used Copics and Spectrum Noir alcohol markers.  I created the cheese by using various size circle dies (some were tag hole dies).

For Following Challenges:

The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Cheesy Blessings!

Never Hide Your Wings

Happy Monday!

A quick card this morning to get in with the Casology challenge ---

I had some background paper left from the plastic wrap technique I had played around with a few weeks ago, so I cut them into butterflies. I cut the top layer out of  silver foil paper.  This is one of them.

Butterfly Blessings!

A Pastel Thank You

Happy Sunday, at least for another few minutes.

I've been busy in the craft room off and on again today.  The hubs has been on a four day work spree with hospice, day and night, so the house has been quiet.  Wait, what am I saying?  We have two kittens who race and bound up and down the stairs and hallway, under and over furniture.  Then they "visit" me in my craft room only to steal my paper, paint brushes, tape and today Bella crawled into one of my stamp bins!  And here I thought when our boys moved out we'd have peace and quiet.  LOL  Anyhow, I have managed to do more crafting this weekend than I have in a while, feline chaos and mayhem aside.  

I'm sharing a card I made for the current Muse Challenge since I haven't been able to play for a while.  I took my inspiration from the colors, the butterfly and the layout, although I switched placement of the sentiment.

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS: Butterfly Notes, Wild Garden (Catherine Pooler); Enchanted Garden (Sugarpea Designs for Catherine Pooler).
PAPER: White cardstock (Neenah); Midnight Black cardstock (Catherine Pooler).
INK: Midnight Black, Mint To Be, It's a Girl (Catherine Pooler).
EXTRAS: Pastel enamel dots.

For Following Challenges:

Muse Card Challenge #252

MUSE BLESSINGS!

Sending Golden Hugs

Good evening!  

I have another post this evening of a card I've been working on for a while now and finally finished it this week.  I just love this stamp set, Stay Golden, by Kindred Stamps.  Do you recognize them?   The Golden Girls!  How adorable are they?  

I had shown the set to my son and daughter inlaw and they asked me to do a get-well card for a friend of theirs who loves The Golden Girls.  I've been needing to practice more coloring and so this provided me a good chance.  I still need more practice, particularly with hair.    

The stamps are not actually as large as they are on my card. I wanted to try and enlarge them a bit so I used my copier to enlarge them.  I colored them with Copics, mounted it on plaid pattern paper from My Favorite Things, then added the sentiments.  The sentiments are from two different stamp sets.  "We are sending you" is from Hero Arts' Support Prayers Love set.  The 'Hugs" word die is from Say It-Hugs by Technique Tuesday.

Golden Blessings!

Forever You

Happy Saturday!

I hope everyone is having a nice weekend.  It's rainy but spring like here in the Triangle of NC.  Actually, the perfect kind of day for crafting and Carolina basketball!  Just excuse me, I'm a HUGE UNC basketball fan.  I have my youngest son to thank for that as he has loved UNC since he was 9 and is also a UNC grad, so they're family.  ;D 

Anyway, I played around with a new technique yesterday - faux enamel with embossing powder.  Here is a tutorial I used, thanks to fellow crafters, Nancy Littrell and Bonnie Klass.  And another tutorial.

Thought I'd share my three first attempts at this technique ---

In the photo above, the hearts are in order in which I made them.  I didn't have any white chipboard, so I used some thick white 110 lb Neenah cardstock.  After I did them I thought I probably should have tried my other 110 lb cardstock by Recollections as it is a little thicker than the Neenah but not as bright a white. 

Anyway, I discovered the cardstock had a tendency to  curl up due to the thickness of powder.  When I tried to flatten the larger heart under a book, it cracked some, so I wound up not using it.  You can see too that my second attempt, the larger heart, is much more course and bumpy. That could have had something to do with it cracking as well and the fact that I left the parchment paper on it longer . I think the key is keeping the heat tool on it as you peel off the paper to get a more smooth look. 

I also found a difference in heat tool effectiveness as well.  I have a newer Wagner heat tool with a more narrow tip and I have an old (10 years old) Marvy Uchida heat tool with wider tip.  The Wagner one tended to get super hot and began to smoke and burned the parchment paper quicker.  So I used my older one and it seemed to actually melt the powder better with less burning of the parchment paper and it didn't smoke.  

I think it is a really cool technique and I am going to pull out a few different dies and other powder colors and try it again.  So there you have my two cents worth on my first experience at faux enamel with emboss powders.  

I wound up using my 3rd attempt on a card ---

 SUPPLIES:

PAPER: White cardstock (Neenah 110 lb); Pink vellum (Recollections maybe); Gold foil sheet (Stampin' Up).

EXTRAS: Heart die (Spellbinders); Forever sign die (Technique Tuesday); You word die (Cas-ual Fridays); Swoosh heart die (Poppystamps); Pink, red and dark red emboss powders (Recollections); Super fine gold emboss powder (WOW); dimensional tape; Tombo Aqua Mono glue.

I kept my card CAS so the heart would be the main focus. I used pink, red and dark red emboss powder.  They're so old I don't remember the brand, maybe Recollections.  I also added some WOW super fine gold powder.  

For Following Challenges:

Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Love Is In The Air

Loving Blessings!

4 Crafty Chicks #389 - ATG & Mardi Gras Twist

Happy Thursday!

It's time for a new challenge

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4 Crafty Chicks!

I'm your hostess this week!

  

With Fat Tuesday/Lent next week, 

I thought it would be fun to have a 

Mardi Gras Challenge twist.

4 Crafty Chicks #389 - ATG/Mardi Gras Twist

If you aren't familiar with what Mardi Gras is, it is celebrated on "Fat Tuesday".  Fat Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent.  So Fat Tuesday is a day when you are to "fatten up" eat a big feast in preparation for fasting during the six week long Lenten season.  It's a big party mostly in New Orleans with lots of food, bands, parades, parties, etc.  I've never been but I've heard it's a pretty wild party!  

Mardi Gras colors typically are purple and green, sometimes with a harlequin pattern.  However, I couldn't find much in my stash that really complimented what I was going for so I stuck with black, white and gold.

Supplies:

Stamps: Balloons & Sentiment - Bold Balloon Stamps (Sunny Studio).

Paper:  Black cardstock (Catherine Pooler); Whitecardstock (Neenah); Patterned Vellum (Die Cuts With A View); Gold Foil (Stampin' Up).

Ink: Midnight (Catherine Pooler); Versamark.

Extras:  Mask die (Poppy Stamps); Streamers - from confetti cover plate (Hero Arts); Stitched scallop die (Pretty Pink Posh); black sequins (Stash).

For Following Challenges:

Time Out Challenges#102

Crafty Chick Blessings!

Alpaca My Heart

Happy weekend!

It's an exciting weekend here at the Salkeld abode because it's SuperBowl weekend and my beloved Patriots are playing in it and on the verge of winning their 6th Title!  Nah, I'm not excited.  LOL

I'm also working on lots of different card projects trying to finish up many, some very late in completing.  

I've been wanting to play along with The Daily Marker's 30 Day Coloring Challenge and I finally got some coloring done!  So I'm sharing the card I made with the colored pieces.

I love this faceted cover plate by Lil' Inker Designs because it has a hidden heart in it that you can emphasize.  Also, a friend of mine wanted an alpaca valentine card so I used the Gerda Steiner llama set.  Did you know alpacas and llamas are actually very different?  So I chose the llama that best resembled an alpaca. After I finished of course, I thought of  the phrase, "Alpaca my heart and send it to you", which would have been perfect.  So I'll have to make another one and use it.

  

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS: Llama & Cacti "Llama Tell You" (Gerda Steiner).

PAPER: Neenha white cardstock; Bristol smooth cardstock (Swathmore).

INK: Zig Clean Color Real Brush Watercolor Pens

EXTRAS: Sentiment die (Lawn Fawn); Facet cover die (Lil' Inker Designs); Heart dies (Sunny Studio).

For Following Challenges:

Loving Hearts

Happy Friday!

Sharing a card for the challenge

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Inspired By All The Little Things

Supplies:

Stamps: Love Is In The Air (Catherine Pooler); Plaid background (Catherine Pooler).

Paper: White cardstock (Neenah); Kraft (Recollections)

Ink: It's A Girl (Catherine Pooler)

Extras:  Scallop border die; Stitched heart dies (Lawn Fawn). Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh); green ribbon.

Loving Blessings!

4 Crafty Chicks #388 -Recipe Twist - 1 Word, 2 Pattern Papers, 3 Hearts

Good Morning!

Happy February!

It's love month and in the U.S.,

it's Heart month.

Even if you don't live in the U.S., take this month to be good to your heart, the physical, one as well as the emotional one. 

It's also time for a new challenge 

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4 Crafty Chicks!  

Leanne is our wonderful hostess 

and she has a recipe for us!

4 CC #388 ATG and Recipe Twist - 1 Word, 2 Pattern Papers, 3 Hearts

Supplies:

Paper:  Patterned Paper: Yours Truly (Pebbles).  White: Neenah; Colored cardstock from stash.

Dies:  Word "love" and postal die, "Love is in the Air (Catherine Pooler); Stitched and doily hearts (Lawn Fawn).

February means Valentine's Day and this year I am trying to send out more Valentines.  It shouldn't be a day just for lovers.  We all need love and appreciation and why not spread it around more on Valentine's Day.  So here is one more I've made.  Sweet and simple and I just love pink and turquoise together.

Stop by the Hen House if you haven't yet and see what the rest of the chicks have created and leave them some blog love.  Also welcome our new Guest Designer for the month, Tangii!  
Welcome, Tangii!  Then join us and share your "recipe" twist card with us.  If you don't want to participate in the twist, remember we are now always Anything Goes so you can link up as well, as long as it is new. 

Crafty Chick Blessings!