Paper Playhouse: March 2014

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Sweet Sunday Season's Greetings

It's time for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, SSSC213.

This week's sketch has a little bit of a twist to it. Your card is supposed to be a skinny card, not a regular 4.25 x 5.5 size, and mine is 3.5 x 5.5 so it fits the bill perfectly. You know when you make a card and you absolutely adore it? Well that's how I feel about today's card. It makes me SMILE! And guess what? It's card #3 for Project Christmas 2014.

I used the circle element as a frame for my cute little snowman from Swanky Snowdudes by Paper Smooches. I cut a circle right through the front of the card and placed my snowman on the inside.

I used the same "faux epoxy" technique as last week's card to create the sparkly, shiny frame around the opening.

I hope you'll play along with this week's sketch and link your creation on Karen's blog. Now it's time to hop around and see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers created.

Lynn Put (She's taking this week off)

Sarah-Jane Kalé

Tracy Clemente (She's taking this week off)

Vicki Burdick

and Karen Giron

Here are the supplies I used:

InLinkz.com

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Sweet Sunday Thank You

It's time for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, SSSC212.

This is a perfect clean and simple layout for a nice big sentiment, like the Thank You Die-namics from My Favorite Things. I decided to completely flip the sketch upside down once I had my sentiment in place because there's more space below the words than above, which works better with the flower embellishment.

I used the "inlay" technique (which I first saw on Jennifer McGuire's blog) and cut the sentiment from patterned paper from the Basic Grey Kneehighs collection. Then I cut the sentiment out of the white piece and inlayed the patterned 'thank you'. The big thing to remember with the inlay technique is to keep all the tiny middle pieces because you need to re-insert them for it to look authentic.

I love the pop of yellow from the flower. I embellished the center of the flower by first coating it with Star Dust Stickles, then once that was dry I gave it a thick coating of Glossy Accents, so it looks like faux epoxy.

I hope you'll play along with this week's sketch and link your creation on Karen's blog. Now it's time to hop around and see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers created.

Tracy Clemente (she's taking this week off)

Vicki Burdick

and Karen Giron

Here are the supplies I used:

InLinkz.com

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Sweet Sunday Cheer

It's time for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, SSSC211.

Well friends, I did it again this week…I took the Christmas route and made card #2 for Project Christmas 2014. The big rectangle on this week's sketch was just too perfect for the big sentiment from Grand Holiday Greetings.

I masked off parts of the sentiment and stamped it three times using three colours of ink. I used a circle punch to cut out the ampersand then popped it on foam tape for dimension. The patterned paper is from the My Mind's Eye Mistletoe Magic collection.

The snowflake element was fun to create. I cut out two snowflakes and adhered them together for added stability, then I coloured it with my Wink of Stella pen. I like how the sparkle helps it stand out from the same coloured circle in the background.