Category: Contests

Inspired by TGIF Challenges #TGIFC585

As I’ve been working behind the scenes updating my website, one of the pages I’ve been most excited to create is a new section dedicated to the creative challenges I love participating in. Challenges are one of my favorite ways to spark creativity, try new techniques, and look at my supplies in a whole new way.

While putting that page together, I came across the TGIF Challenges #TGIFC585 sketch and knew it would be the perfect inspiration for my next project.

For this card, I reached for the Splash and Relax Bundle to create a bright, cheerful summer design. The sketch immediately made me think of sunshine, water, and relaxing by the pool.

To create the background, I used the Water & Dotted Lines Mask with a blending brush, layering Pool Party, Coastal Cabana, and Pretty Peacock ink to build the water effect. Once the ink was blended, I added a simple splash of water across the background to lift some of the color and create natural texture. It’s one of my favorite techniques because it’s incredibly easy but gives such beautiful results.

One other little detail I love is the baker’s twine. Rather than searching for the perfect color, I started with the gray baker’s twine from the pack and used my blending brush with Pretty Peacock ink to color it. It’s such an easy technique that lets you customize your twine to match any project. Plus, it gives you even more ways to use all the colors included in a multicolor pack!

I finished the card with a bright life preserver, my custom-colored baker’s twine, a simple greeting, and a few embellishments to keep the focus on the fun background.

Sometimes the simplest designs become my favorites, and this one definitely makes me smile. Between the ink-blended background, the water splatter texture, and the colored baker’s twine, this card uses a few easy techniques that add lots of interest without adding much extra work.

If you’ve never tried a sketch challenge before, I encourage you to give one a try. They are a wonderful way to get inspired and stretch your creativity.

Challenge: #TGIFC585

Ready to make your own? For a complete supply list and quick access to all the products used, click here to shop this project.

Love creative challenges or looking for a little inspiration? Be sure to check out the Creative Challenges page in the Learn section of my blog. It’s packed with links to some of my favorite challenge sites, along with ideas to spark your creativity. They’re fun, inspiring, and a wonderful way to get yourself creating today!

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A beautifully crafted Christmas card featuring a window scene that displays a peaceful nativity setting on one side, while the inside is adorned with cozy holiday elements like hanging stockings and warm colors.

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Greatest Journey

Have you ever fallen in love more with the dies than with the stamp set?

That is how I felt when I first saw this suite. It was the dies that drew me to them. Maybe because my family is very outdoors and we love to camp, hike and bike and I thought these would be perfect to make cards for them and scrapbook pages. When I started to play with this stamp set I really wanted to use the blending brushes in a unique and different way. I chose to use the dies to cut out a template that I held to create a layered effect on the card. Rather than having a blended look by using the template I was able to create depth to the background without adding more layers. I finished it off by layering cardstock that I embossed the saying on with white embossing powder and the used one of the die cut images as a focal point.

I originally created this card as a swap with my Stampin’ Up! team and I’m happy to report that I was one of the winners of the swap with this card. Here is a close up picture where you can see the detail better.

After creating the card for the swap I decided I wanted to see what I could come up with using some of the other images and sayings in the set. Here’s what I came up with. What do you think? I still like the first one the best, but I like these as well. I know I’ve said this before, but I’m sad this one didn’t carry over from the mini catalog as I think it’s a great set and I love the dies.

  • 160588 – Greatest Journey (R) (M)
  • 160593 – Greatest Journey Dies (R) (M)
  • 160594 – Greatest Journey Bundle (R) (M)
  • 160597 – Three Twine Combo Pack, Pumpkin Pie, (R) (M)
  • 160518 – Small Blending Brushes (C) (M)
  • 153611 – Blending Brushes (C)
  • 160519 – Blending Brush Storage (C) (M)
  • 155554 – Stampin’ Emboss Powders, White, (C)
  • 129053 – Heat Tool (C)
  • 147277 – Craft Stampin’ Ink, White (C)
  • Colors – Mango Melody (R), Cajun Craze (C), Orchid Oasis (C), Highland Heather (C), Starry Sky (C), Basic Gray (C), Basic Black (C), Basic White (C)

(R) Retiring, (C) Carrying Over, (M) Found in the Mini Catalog

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Dinosaur Punch Art

I’ve been seeing throw back Thursday on Facebook a lot and I thought it would be fun to do it on my blog.  I’m not sure that Thursday will always be a throw back, but I’ll try.  If you are like me you keep stamps, punches and even paper that you love even though you can’t by them anymore.  So I figure why not share some fun ideas to do with them.  Maybe I’ll even make some new projects using retired products.  Who knows.  So now lets get on with the project because hey that’s the fun part right?

Dino Chart

Every year Stampin’ Up! has a contest called the Artisan Design contest.  I’ve entered many years, while I’ve never won I’ve had my projects shown at Convention and I’ve enjoyed creating them.  It does however make me sad to give them away.  Some of them I’ve re-created and some I’m still planning on it.  This is one of the still planning on it projects.  Hopefully before my little boy grows out of dinosaurs.  I think this was the hardest one to give away and I wish I had it still.  It was also quite big so I actually took it to Stampin’ Up! (Good thing I live close.)

Dino Chart Top

This is the top of the chart.  I used MDS to create all the pictures for the chart.  I changed them all to Sepia so they would match and added a fun background.  I also added the age and height.  He was only 5 when I made the chart so I left spots to add more pictures over the years.  I attached twigs to the top to hang it with.  Of course the top picture is when he was born.  So cute.

Bird Dino

Here’s a better picture of the bird Dino.  All of the dino’s are made using punch art and shapes from the big shot.  Can anyone guess where I got my inspiration for my characters.  Yep “Land Before Time.”  You can also see the close up of the texture on the letters.  I cut them out of chip board and paper, then glued the textured paper to the clipboard.

Green Dino

Next is my green Dino working his way up the mountain.  The mountain is just created by tearing up paper and crumbling it up then smoothing it out.  I used the directly to paper technique to add texture.  (That’s where you just take the ink pad straight to the paper to highlight the texture and edges.)

Brown Dino

Here’s the brown Dino.  I think I actually used the leave die to make the splotches on his back.  You’ll noticed I also added some grass to the mountain by just tearing up paper and snipping the edges.

Orange Dino

This one wasn’t really in the movie, but I wanted one more to work with the spacing.  I think he turned out cute.  He also had to be orange because that’s my son’s favorite color.  The ruler was created by using the simply scored tool.  I placed a cardboard so I would know how far to score each section so they stayed even.  Then I flipped it over and used a sponge to highlight the marks and added the numbers with the calender set.

 

T-Rex Dino

Of course we had to have the T-Rex at the bottom chasing the little Dino’s up the chart.  I left space on the side so that I could mark the height and write the date.  My son was very disappointed that I gave away the T-Rex.  That’s his favorite Dino.  Just posting about this makes me want to re-create it.

I hope you have enjoyed my throw back Thursday.  As you can see I really do love punch art.  It’s so fun to see what you can create using our awesome punches.  Especially something they weren’t designed for.

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Thank You card

Over the weekend I went to a Stampin’ Up! Training meeting with my awesome up-line and group.  These events are always filled with friends, great training and fun projects that I will be sharing with you.  However we also usually have a card swap and contest.  I was so excited to find out that I won second place with my Thank You card.  So I just had to share it with all of you.  You may notice that some of it looks familiar.  I took the tag from my Zucchini from the other day and created a card.  Hope you enjoy it.

Thank You Card

Materials used:

Colors-  Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Baked Brown Sugar, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze

Stamps-

Off the Grid, Gorgeous Grunge, Lots of Thanks, Magnificent Maple*

Accessories-

Early Esspresso Core’dinations Cardstock w/ Sanding System, Woodgrain Embossing folder w/ Big Shot, Linen Thread, 1-1/4″ Burlap Ribbon, Stampin’ Sponges, Stampin’ Distress Tool

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I love “My Digital Studio”!

I just love this program.  It’s so easy to use and I have so much fun creating with it.   Here’s a fun page I created using just the basic program.  I used the punches to create Goofy just like I did on my card in real life.

Just a quick reminder now you can try it out for FREE.  It’s simple; add the free My Digital Studio Express trial (item 129600) to your online shopping cart, and then download and install it from your Download Manager.   Click here to start shopping and download your free program.  Once you try it I’m sure you will want to keep using it.  You can purchase the DVD program from me or on-line or you can order the express version on-line.

With the FREE trial, you’ll get:

“MDS” Contest

Win the Sale-a-bration “My Digital Studio” DVD.  It’s easy here’s how to enter.

  1. Down-load “MDS” and have some fun creating a card or scrap-book page with it.
  2. Save your project as a JPEG (share option) and up-load it to my Facebook page or e-mail it to me and I will up-load it.
  3. Share the page with your friend and invite them to like my page and vote for you project.
  4. Invite your friends to down-load the program and join in the fun.
  5. Contest Entries must be up-loaded before March 31st.
  6. Winner will be picked based on:  # of votes, quality and creativity of the project.  Voting will begin April 1st and end April 10th.
  7. Winner will be announced on my blog and Facebook on April 15th.

Good Luck and have fun!

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I’m so excited I had to share!

I’m super excited and just had to share my good news with you.

Stampin’ Up! was having a contest to help us get inspired to earn the Disney World trip this year.  So they decided to have a Disney contest.  All you had to do was create something Disney and then post it on our group website Stampin’ Connection, which is like a facebook for Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators only.

Of course I just had to enter and today I found out that I won.  There were over 250 entries and I was picked as one of the five winners.  I also got a free stamp set of my choice so I’ve been walking on air all day.

Anyway I thought I would share with you the 5 projects that I entered.

This is my fun Disney sign to keep me inspired.  All of the fun characters are made with punches.

I had a friend request for me to make a Donald Duck out of punches so I thought the contest was the perfect opportunity.

This one is a little different.  It’s a giant Genie that I have on my back door.  He’s holding our dream board.  I drew him, but I colored him with the Stampin’ Up! water-color pencils.  Oh and yes I do know that I spelled command wrong.  I just through it in the picture on Photo shop and didn’t notice till later.  It will be correct when I add it to the door.

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You’ve probably seen this one before it was a page that I entered in my first Artisan Award Contest.

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Last is the winning card.  This is my Goofy card which you’ve probably seen before.  His all made with punches.  I actually made him for a swap a few years back.

Thanks for sharing my excitement with me.  I hope you enjoyed my projects.

Remember that there’s still plenty of time to join me and earn the Disney trip together.  Plus there is the Totally-Awesome tote that you get for free when you sign up before 18th.  Contact me today for more information.  435-245-5321

PS-
I was thinking that I would give away 5 of these fun cards. To win all you have to do is help me get to 50 fans on my “Stampin With Candice page” on Facebook.  All you have to do is go to my page by clicking on the link and select like, then invite your friends to like my page too.  Then leave me a comment. I will choose 5 winners when I get to 50 fans and I’ll mail them out to you. Thanks so much for your support and for helping me to spread the word.

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