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Happy Birthday Debbie at Passion For Crafts!!! To celebrate, she's giving away some fabulous stuff!!
Pop on over to her blog to enter! You have until May 26th, so go wish her Happy Birthday!

H2H Challenge #6, Rockin' Birthday Card

The Heart to Heart Challenge this week is a "techie" challenge, meaning to use a technique on the project. You must check it out if you haven't already, this week's entries are full of new techniques and tutorials!

This also fits with the "masculine" challenge at TreehouseStamps.

I made a "Heavy Metal" Rock card for my son's upcoming birthday.
See if you can spot the techniques I used:

If you guessed 1) off-stamping, 2) embossing and 3) edge distressing, you'd be right.

1) Off-stamping is when you stamp the image several times without re-inking. In this case I stamped the rocker dude 4 times to imply motion. I think it turned out nice.

2) Embossing: I used a Sizzix texture plate with my Cuttlebug to emboss the silver metal in a "manly" way.

3) Edge distressing can be done several ways, here I used my scissors to distress the edges of the white cs, and inks to distress the edges of the orange cs.

I also layered the stamped images on the sentiment, but I'm not sure if that is a "technique" with a name.

RECIPE

My Acrylix Stamps:

D1432 X-Treme

C1257 Happy Birthday

D1320 Shining Star

X7122B You Rock Level 2 paper pack
CTMH Exclusive Inks in Outdoor Denim, Goldenrod, and Orange


Also, EK Success Silver Architexture Sheet Metal and Sizzix embossing plate

This card is for my baby's birthday on Monday, he'll be 9! (He likes Heavy Metal music when he works out with Dad)

Thanks for visiting my blog!
Lorrinda
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My card was chosen for the Friday Five this week,
Thank you ladies!

H2H Challenge #5

The Heart to Heart challenge this week is to make a Mother's Day Card. I already made one for last week's challenge to use ribbons, but I really wanted to play along...so I made another one!  I just LOVE this stamp set...I altered the sentiment with the word "mother" from the retired May Word Puzzle stamp set.

Recipe:
X7124B Splendor Level 2 paper pack
X7121B Caboodle Level 2 paper pack
C1398 Love You Forever My acrylix stamp
Z1114 Piercing tool kit
Z1123 Sorbet ribbon collection
Z1284 Winter craft buttons
4275 Black My Legacy Writer pen


All product CTMH except for DMC floss #352

Now I can't decide which Mother's Day card to give to my Mom, I like them both! (see post below this one) Which one do you like better? Leave me a comment with your vote :)

Thanks for visiting my blog,
Lorrinda

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I Made the Friday Five this week with this card! I'm so flattered!

P.S. I chose to give this card to my Mom instead of the ribbon one. She loved it.

H2H Challenge #4

The gals at Heart to Heart Challenges have done it again! This weeks challenge is to use at least 2 different ribbons on your project. I'm a little late this week, but better late than never! I SO wanted to play along! I love ribbon!

Here's my card, a bit late for the challenge, but I got a head start on my Mother's Day card!

Recipe:
All product CTMH
X7119B Veranda Lavel 2 Paper Pack
C1342 Damask Tiles My Acrylix stamp
D1261 Simple Beauty My Acrylix stamp
stitched ribbon in Creme Brulee
grosgrain ribbon in Garden Green
whie satin ribbon scrap
Exclusive Inks in Juniper, Garden Green, Cocoa, Creme Brulee

Thanks for visiting my blog!
Lorrinda

P3 Challenge May 2010 - Shadowbox

It is the 1st of the month, time for a new challenge from Paper Cubed! I'm especially excited today because it's my very first Design Team assignment!

The challenge is......create a SHADOWBOX! 

Now, I've never done a shadowbox before, but I've always wanted to try one. This is what challenges are meant to do, challenge you to step out of your comfort zone once in a while!  Try it, you'll be amazed at what you can create!

Here is what I came up with...

I modified Dawn Griffith's Shadowbox Card template/tutorial from SplitCoastStampers, click HERE to see the basic instructions.

RECIPE:

CTMH Products:

Cardstock: Cocoa, Bamboo, Colonial White, White Daisy

Exclusive Inks and markers: Cocoa, Desert Sand, Bamboo, Ponderosa Pine, Olive, Garden Green, Topiary, Sweet Leaf, Black, White Daisy.

My Acrylix Stamps: D1067 Racoon and Friends, D1298 Beautiful Things

Z906 Bamboo Waxy Flax

Z1114 Piercing Tool Kit

Z679 Liquid Glass

Z903 Soft Chalks (Summer)

3505 Watercolor Pencils

1171 Waterbrush

3174 Blending Pen

Z1151 3-D Foam Tape

Z534 Micro-Tip Scissors

Z1252 Cutting Knife

Z1279 Versamat

Other Products:

Oval Coluzzle Cutter (retired CTMH)

Flower Soft in Summer

Sizzix texture plate

random twigs from my backyard! (I knew I had a good reason to put off the spring clean-up :)

Now, go on over to the P3 Challenge blog and check out what the super-talented design team has to inspire you!  The gals have come up with all very different takes on this challenge, and they are all fabulous!  You're bound to find  one that will spark your creativity!  You've got until the end of the month to create your own 3D Shadowbox and upload it to the gallery. Winners will be announced by June 5.