Here’s my go at Lynn Mercurio’s challenge on Paper Craft Planet. In doing this card, I learned something new about myself. What did I learn, you ask? Well, allow me to tell you. Seriously, let me please tell you. I learned that, on top of never attempting to make another ribbon bow, I will now never attempt to add real flower petals to a card. I would say that working with petals is a pain in the ass, but my buttocks didn’t actually physically “hurt” while doing this (although the sentiment fits). What I CAN say is that if flowers were people, I’d be hanged for multiple murders. Senseless, tragic murders, all for the sake of completing Lynn’s challenge. Lynn, you are partly to blame for this crime!!
Ingreeeeds:
Basic Grey paper
Stamps- Wings on Things: Small, and Today’s Forecast from Molly Stamps
Accessories: Poor, innocent, defenseless flower petals, left to die glued to some really nice Basic Grey paper….
Noble and I were hanging out the other night, doing some arts and crafts at the table. He wanted me to punch a bunch of circles so he could glue them on a card for mommy. He’s a damn fine crafter, if you ask me. He can glue with the best of them.
I had purchased a paper piercer….just another tool I wanted to play with in this ever growing paper crafting addiction. So glad I bought it! So much fun piercing paper.
And away we went. No idea what we were creating. Noble actually took a break from the action to take the paper bag used for recycling paper, and he filled it, one item at a time, with all my supplies. When he was done with his little “side job”, the paper bag contained my pencils, all kinds of stamps, the ink pad, the glue stick…WITHOUT the lid (still can’t find the lid), scissors, all the punches, and a large tupperware bin. I had to complete this card by sifting through the garbage to get the supplies I needed. Made for some good ol fashioned crafting fun.
Card contains the following:
Basic Grey paper…juuuuuust about done with the 6×6 pads…gonna need to get more paper soon.
Stamps: Today’s Forecast from Molly Stamps, and one from another set that I’ll have to check on the name of, because right now it’s late, and I’m too lazy to get off the couch and look.
Accessories: paper piercer, some cross-stitching yarn, some elevating sticky deals
Amount of time it will take to clean up the mess Noble and I created: Undetermined, because I haven’t cleaned it up yet.
Big birthday party for a 2 year old girl last weekend. And they had a bounce house! So much fun! And Noble had a good time too.
Good opportunity for me to use up some of that girly girl paper I had left over from Gayle’s “I Love U” card that I made for Valentines day. I also wanted to play around with all my new crafty tools. My punches and the 4-n-1 embossing corner dealy. And, in honor of Diana Gibbs and her “do things in odd numbers” mantra, I added 3 brads. Even though my mission is to create the revolution of “even” numbers, I felt I just had to use three. My apologies to myself.
Here’s Ruby’s card:
Here’s the ingredients for this tasty dish
1) Girly girl paper
2) Stamps: Quirky Alphabet from none other than “Molly Stamps”
3) Accesories: pink brads
4) Tools: 1.5″ and 2″ punch, and the 4-n-1 embosser punch thing (I really don’t remember what it’s called.) Glue stick from 5th grade. And those little double sticky elevating squares.
5) Amount of time I spent in the bounce house with Noble: 20 minutes, at least!
6) Amount of time before an almost 3 year old boy becomes overstimulated by the crazy fun in a small play gym and becomes an uncontrollable, rowdy, fun seeker….1.25 hours.
7) Number of plastic balls thrown out of the plastic ball sandbox thing by a rowdy, fun seeking toddler: 32
8- Number of adults hit by plastic balls thrown out of said box: 4
9) Color of my face while trying to discipline, but not look like a mean dad…..FLAMING SWORD (from Glidden’s Bright and Lively collection)
10) Pictures I took of the occasion: 2….and then the frickin battery died!
11) Amount of time 2 AA batteries last in a digital camera: 5 minutes.
I pretty much just wanted to cut and fold paper today. Origami, cards, envelopes, I didn’t care….just give me paper to cut and/or fold, tell me how to cut and/or fold it, and let me stare at my work of art!
So in searching around on the web, I found out how to do Iris Folding. Pretty dang cool. I decided on doing the apple, and went to work. I had no idea what kind of a card I was going to make, or anything like that. I just wanted to make the apple. So in the end, when I placed the apple on the card, I was left wondering what the heck kind of card this was…..and then it hit me….in the form of my wife spelling it out for me….that this was THE PERFECT CARD TO GIVE A TEACHER! So I slapped a couple of “a’s” on there from my Quirky Alphabet set, and SHAZAM! The card is done.
This card is perfect to give to a teacher for any sort of reason:
1) A teacher appreciation day card
2) An end of the year, you were my favorite teacher card
3) A please don’t give me detention card
4) A sorry about the tack incident….you are actually my favorite teacher card
5) An I’m a total kiss ass, and here’s a card to prove it, card.
6) A please don’t tell my parents I’m failing your class card.
7) A card that contains the crumpled ruins of the doggy eaten homework.
Basically there’s a number of uses for this card.
In other news…if you have a cool place to go for paper folding/cutting, that doesn’t require that I have ten thousand Marvy Punches, 8 different paper slicers, an all kinds of other accessories, then I’m very interested, and would you let me know? Thanks!
OK, here’s the card. No recipe this time. I’s basically just paper and packing tape (I ran out of scotch tape).
It’s actually not all that bad. We have a couch in there, and my keyboard….yamaha S80 (88 keys, weight controlled….oooohhh yeah!) My desk is there, but there is no heat, and it smells like paint. But I’m focussing on the good right now.
As I was sitting on the couch, wearing a bunch of parkas that I got out of the storage containers, I got to thinking about being stranded on a desert island. The garage has a similar, isolated feel to it. As if you have been forgotten and left for dead. So as I sat there, feeling stranded, I asked myself, “Russ, if YOU were stranded on a desert island, with only the clothes on your back, a paper cutter, some Basic Grey papers, a glue stick, your Quirky Alphabet set from Molly Stamps, an acrylic block, a black ink pad, and a black pen, what would you do?” Well, after some contemplation, this is what I came up with: a card to send to sea, in hopes that it reached civilization.
Incidentally, I have chosen Susanna Boyd’s sketch challenge, at Paper Craft Planet, for this particular card.
If you can’t read it, you can click on it and it will enlarge for you. It’s basically me reaching out for the necessities.
Well, they were good while they lasted. I am now in a brownie point recession that no stimulus package is going to remedy. I thought I would take an artistic approach to the intricate workings of the female creature. Here’s the card I made for my wife using Melanie Muenchinger’s sketch challenge from December on Paper Craft Planet. It represents my thoughts on my evening with Gayle.
Recipe:
Stamps: Molly Stamps (Today’s Forecast)
Paper: Some stuff I got at Michael’s, and some leftovers I had from the really GOOD Valentine’s card that I made that should really be remembered when taking everything into account.
Ink: The palette Hybrid Noir Black ink pad that was hurled at my face when I showed her the card.
Sentiment: Huge mistake
Inspiration: I really should just keep my mouth shut
Time I’m going to spend living in the garage: Indefinite
What I plan to do for Valentines day: Grovel
I made this card for my wife. I have only made about 5 cards so far, in my life. And they all occurred in the last few weeks. After opening my stamping business, Molly Stamps, I have found that I really need to get some paper cuts and sniff some glue to get inside the head of the crafty card makers of the world. Sketch challenges, I’m finding, are quite the fantastic way to pick up on how to lay a card out. The sketch for this card is from one of the crazy, and talented, people on my design team….Diana Gibbs. She put this up on Paper Craft Planet, or PCP as we have come to know it.
The inspiration for this card was simple: how can I earn the most brownie points from my wife? Hand making a sentimental card, I have found, is the holy grail of brownie points. So I went to the neighborhood crafty craft store and utilized the assistance of one of the employees to help me find coordinating papers and supplies.
Then, using Diana’s template from PCP, I created this card:
Here is the template I followed:
Recipe:
Stamps: The wonderful Molly Stamps “Quirky Alphabet”, and one that I got from the crafty craft store.
Paper: Some pink, some red, some light blue, and a pinky polka dotty one that the lady at Crafty Craft helped me pick out
Accessories: Ribbon from Crafty Craft
Glue: a glue stick that I’ve had since 5th grade
Inspiration: scoring points with the lady
Additional comments: I don’t think I will ever make bows out of ribbon again. I’ve never wanted to kill an inanimate object before, but if I could have, I would have murdered the ribbon. Bows are a pain.