SAF 2013: All 10 Projects

Well, I made it.  I got all 10 projects done.  My friend Kristie and I got a late start yesterday working on our projects as we made a few stops at some local crafting stores and did some retail therapy first.  We started on our projects after dinner, working into the wee hours of the morning.  We got a few hours of sleep, then got up and crafted the rest of the morning into early afternoon in our jammies.  Here are all 10 of my cards:

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SAF 2013: Sugar Coated

This card just might be my most favorite of the SAF bunch I made, and I'm not even a glitter person.  I like how it looks, but I hate the mess it makes!  I hadn't used the baby word die since I first ordered it and wanted to use it,  so I was trying to think what would be a good image to stamp on it and the pattern I associate most with babies is polka dots, so that was starting point for my card.  The baby in the sling image is from the Bundle of Joy set.

SAF 2013: Limited Ingredients

The hardest part of this limited ingredients challenge was figuring out how to line up the dahlia blooms as I hadn't inked up this set before.  Once I figured that out, the rest pretty much fell into place.  I opted to leave the 1 3/4 " circle punch off.

SAF 2013: Whipping Up Scent-sational Cards

I remember how much I liked scratch and sniff stickers when I was kid.  I have a vivid memory of hoarding a certain sheet of chocolate-scented images that my mom let me pick out at Hallmark to add to my sticker collection.  It was fun creating my own scented embossing powder for this crafting challenge.  I look forward to mixing more scents to go with the images in the Scent-imentals set.  In anticipation of fall, I wanted to create a card to celebrate the arrival of my favorite season, so chose to work with the pumpkin image and emboss it with pumpkin pie spice.

SAF 2013: Custom Accents From the Oven

Although I had some trouble with my spider web die cut at first, I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to get my shrink plastic to work on the first try.  After the web shrank, I colored it with Black Soot alcohol ink and a silver alcohol ink mixative.  I was happy with how this card turned out.

SAF 2013: Gallon/Quart/Pint

The gallon/quart/pint challenge was a fun one to try and using this design principle will help me with future projects.  For my card, I chose Dark Chocolate (gallon), Berry Sorbet (quart) and Melon Berry (pint) as my colors to work with.

SAF 2013: Sprinkle of Salt

The salt project gave me a bit of trouble at first, but I was able to salvage my project, by die cutting the word "hello" from water colored and salt impressed background paper.  All in all, I'm happy with how my final card turned out.

SAF 2013: Mixing Mists to Match

For the mist project, I decided to pull out the limited edition Reasons to Smile set that came in my SAF kit.  I created my own mist using my Fine Linen ink refill.  I added a few droplets by flicking the end of the sprayer on to the stamped panel, then spritzed the entire thing, which softened the flowers and made them look water colored.

SAF 2013: Rolled Dough Designs

Here is my next project in the line up.  The paper clay was a bit tricky to work with and kept sticking to my die cutting plate, but it was still a fun product to try.  I die cut the hand/heart from the Love Lives Here set out of the paper clay and stamped them with the coordinating images in the set.

SAF 2013: Tea Staining Techniques

I'm back with my next SAF project.  I think this one may be one of my favorites out of all of the cards I made.  I dyed some white felt in a mug of coffee and die cut the mugs from the Warm Happiness sets.  The little heart tag from the new Coffee Cozy Details die collection added the perfect finishing touch.

SAF 2013: Breakfast Bake and Take

Here is my project I made for the Breakfast Bake and Take challenge, which combined a color recipe and sketch recipe:

I look forward to trying out the other color and sketch recipes in future projects.  I'll be back soon to share the rest of my nine SAF projects.

August PTI Blog Hop: Fast Food Color & Sketch Challenge

It's been two months since my last post.  Work and other events in my life took over my summer, but hopefully I can get back into my crafting groove and blog a bit more regularly now that the cooler months are approaching.

I did a very quick and simple card for this month's blog hop this afternoon.  After completing all 10 of the Stamp-A-Faire challenges between yesterday and today, my brain is a bit fried!  I was taken with the rainbow birthday cake layers in the inspiration photo.  I'm not really drawn to pastel colors, but since I've spent the last two days crafting outside my comfort zone, what was one more card to stretch me creatively?!

Here is my card, which is a very literal interpretation of the inspiration photo:

I think I might go back and try to glitter up those stripes a bit.  But that's for another day!

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