OWH Sketch

Hello Hello!

I'm back (I can't take credit for two days in a row of posting, this one is pre-scheduled because I'm actually working a double as you read this :) with a card I made for Operation Write Home. The wonderful Julie sent me this lovely sketch to work with.

Gorgeous, right?!
Here is what I came up with

I cut a piece of white to a standard sized card then rubbed on some barn door distress ink. For the main panel I used spellbinders labels eight. I cut one in white, then traced the die to get the border in black. I stamped Hero Arts Musical Background in Black Soot.

For the hearts I actually traced some chipboard hearts onto white cardstock and cut them out (it's the greedy crafter in me I get use up all of what I love) For the solid heart I stamped polka dots (Oriental Trading, Fruit salad) with white them heat embossed with white. I colored the entire heart with barn door.

The open heart I colored with barn door but them covered the whole thing with versamark and utee. Once the utee was melted down I added another layer ( I think I added 3 total) to get that great shine. With OWH cards glitter is a big no-no so finding other ways to add texture is always a good idea. The partial scallop border is just a couple of small circles punched out of black cardstock.

I wrapped the whole panel with grey DMC floss, added a button and a bow. The sentiment is from Hero Arts Classic Messages. Thinking of you cards are always big winners at OWH.

Thanks for stopping by to see my contribution! A big THANKS to OWH for all that they do for our Heroes and allowing me to participate on their blog :)

It's been a long July . . .

but I'm finally back :) I missed you guys!!

Between two girls being off at work and my Husband's 30th birthday July was a rough month. I have had almost no time to craft let alone blog :(
Plus my mojo was feeling a little "blah" as of late, hopefully my time away will help out with that.

At the beginning of the year Kathy had posted a gorgeous Distress Color Chart. I am always so in awe of her! I really wanted to create one for myself and since my mojo was taking a vacation I figured this required almost no creativity from me. Here is the link to Kathy's fantastic chart.

and here's mine: (You'll notice a few missing spaces, I still need Old Paper, Frayed Burlap, and Pine Needles)

I stamped the Butterfly (Hero Arts, Butterflies) with jet black archival ink then fussy cut them all out. I colored in the lines of the bodies and polka dots on the wings with a white gel pen. Each butterfly was colored with a different color distress ink.

Front shot

Side view



For the labels the used my Storybook Cricut Cartridge (God Bless Kathy for cutting out all those spellbinders labels:) I wrote each name with a black sharpie. I stamped each color using the smaller version of the magical background. It's from the Archiver's exclusive Hero Arts Mixed Design set. To finish I distressed the edges.

Top Right Close up

Top Left Close Up

Bottom Left Close up

Bottom Right Close up

The only addition I made from Kathy's is adding Stardust stickles on parts of the wings. I use stardust all the time (if you follow me you know I'm an addict hehe) so it was something I definitely needed on my chart.

I adhered just the butterfly body to the label and folded the wings up for some added texture. I also made one other change. I adhered my labels with repositionable adhesive. This way If I want to compare colors when I'm trying to come up with a color combo I like I can just pluck them off the board and stick them back up when I'm done.

I still have my Color Chart from the Ranger website It's a simple 8.5 x 11 that is easy for me to take on the go.

Thanks for stopping by and sorry for my extended absence. I'll be back tomorrow with a sketch sample (I promise :)