September - Creative Card Chicks - Mr. Megaphone

 Hi, friends,

Yes, it is time for the September Creative Card Chicks challenge. I am still catching up and need to do July and August, but thought since I was ready, I'd go ahead and post September. Also, I'm the hostess for this month, so good to be on time. Every month we have a different hostess who picks the theme or sends a kit out. Since I am still recovering from my hand surgery, I chose to send a challenge to the group. The challenge was to do a masculine card using a fancy fold. They could also use a stamp that they normally couldn't use because of the angel policy or they could use a digital image. I'm excited to see all the different cards that they make. Here is mine.

My image is from Twistoon digi stamps created by Lisa Twistoon. She does free digi stamps now so you can go to her website twistoon.com and download five free images every day. I still have a bunch from when she was selling them. This one is called Mr. Megaphone. Her images are all a little bit wonky which I love.

The sentiment inside is from SU Balloon Adventures.

My fancy fold is from Karen Titus, Create With Us. For her cards, she used a piece of 5 1/2 x 12 double sided designer paper. This was my first try so I just used a piece of cream cardstock from my stash. Either way, you score the paper at 1 3/4, 4 3/4, and 7 3/4. Fold on all score lines, but have a hill in the middle and glue them together. That makes like a little book. I stamped the image twice and mounted it on a blue SU cardstock. I need to look to see which it was. I didn't write it down. Line up the second image behind the first and attach it to the inside fold. Then take your sentiment and line it up behind the first two images and glue it down on the inside. You can see above how it looks from the outside and then how it looks open. The designer paper I used was from Pink Paislee - Birthday Bash. 

I used my Copic markers to color the images and stamped the sentiment with Memento, Tuxedo Black. It was fun to look at a lot of different fancy fold cards. I need to start doing more of that to make cards more interesting.

 

June - Creative Card Chicks - Little Things

 Hello, my friends,

 Back again to share another of my catch up cards for Creative Card Chicks. Today's card came from a kit sent by Vikki Jo. She sent us all a ton of stuff including dies and cardstock. Our challenge was to look on SCS for the Featured Stamper on June 1 (Mary Ross) and use one of her card images to make our card.  Here is my card. 

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Everything on this card was in the packet sent by Vikki Jo. I used my Copic markers to color in the flower and the butterfly. I do miss seeing all my Monarch butterflies around my house since I don't raise them anymore. It became a lot of work. I love how this card turned out and I hope that we all take time to enjoy the little things.
 

May Creative Card Chicks

 Hello my friends. Yes! I am finally back. It has been forever since I've posted on my blog. I had hand surgery back in March and was in a brace for six weeks. Then I wasn't allowed to do any PT for two weeks. I started PT 7 weeks after my surgery. PT went until the end of July. Now I have another minor surgical procedure coming up on the 24th for my left thumb which has a trigger thumb. The top joint of my thumb does not bend anymore. My doctor says it can be fixed by a simple procedure to loosen the tendon. I sure hope so. I'm ready to be done with this. Luckily it should not require any PT after the surgery. He says it will be fixed right after the surgery is done. I'm counting on it. Mostly the rest of my hand is doing okay. I still have some tingling in that nerve that runs across the base of my thumb, but I can deal with that.

 Glad to be back to crafting again. It has taken me awhile to catch up on all the Creative Card Chick challenges, but I'm finally there. This is my first one which is from May.  It was sent by Sue (stampinspooky). She sent us the image and the designer paper and we were to create a card for Spring.

 Image - Penny Black Botanical Notes

Designer Paper - Hand Penned (it's hard to see this because the image is so large and only a little around the edges shows.

Cardstock - SU Crushed Curry

 I used my Copics to color the image and not sure when I took the sentiment from. I'll have to go look at my stamp sets. I thought it was perfect for the image.