A Tiny Craft: We Remember

Here we in the middle of November, meaning it's time for a new A Tiny Craft (ATC) Challenge! We are looking for ATCs (cards or coins) for the challenge theme We Remember. With Remembrance Day (Canada) and Veterans' Day (USA) recently behind us, we are looking for something that reflects those commemorations. I made two artist trading cards with a poppy theme: 

Let me tell you a little more about each one...

This poppy is watercoloured with Daniel Smith paints on black mixed-media cardstock. I thought this sentiment was perfect for the theme - it's stamped in white pigment ink. 

This time I used a poppy die set, and added it to black cardstock that I'd stamped and embossed with a plaid background stamp. A little nod to the many regimental plaids. 

Be sure to check out the Tiny Craft blog - you are sure to be inspired to join us! 

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Hitting the Books

It's the last week of September! How did another month flash by so quickly? It really doesn't seem that long ago we were in sloooow pandemic time, and while covid still hasn't gone away, time has sped up remarkably - for me, at least. All this to say... I never seem to find the time to make cards for challenges that I'm not already part of! But Shopping Our Stash currently has a Back to the Books challenge (okay, until midnight my time...) and I love making book-related cards! While the image that I chose has only been in my stash for a couple of months, the sentiment has lived here since before the pandemic: 

Possibly another reason I lose time for cardmaking - I am very fond of getting lost in a good book. ;) I stamped and masked my reader so she could sit on a pile of TBRs, and coloured her and the books with Copics, as well as the mini book in the sentiment. I used a deckle die to cut out the panel, and found some cardstock scraps in coordinating colours to add a little interest to the card base. And while normally "staging" is one of my least favourite parts of the card blogging process, when it's a book card I always have fun picking which Dickens items I'll use. :D (This time, a couple of 1858 photographs. Photography has been around for a loooong time.) 

If you also like making book-related cards, there are still a few hours left in the challenge! 

Supplies: Neenah white & assorted coloured cardstock scraps, Altenew Tall Tale & Feed Your Craft Page Turner stamps, Versafine onyx black ink, Wow clear gloss embossing powder, Copic markers, Sizzix/Tim Holtz deckle edge die, fun foam

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Happy Little Stampers: CAS

A new month means a new round of challenges at Happy Little Stampers, and today it is time for a new CAS challenge! Our theme this month is Winged Things. I took the obvious route and put a bird on it: 

It is possible I'm pushing the clean and simple envelope by using a gelli plate print as my background panel - but I'm pretty sure the "clean" refers to a clean design, not how messy the production might have been ;). And if you have any experience with making these, it can be a quick and simple process. This background was simply three inks swiped on the plate, brayered to smooth and blend them, and then printed onto the cardstock. To make sure the rest of my card was CAS, I die cut the white bird silhouette and stamped and embossed the sentiment. A trio of Nuvo drops finished everything off. 

You will see a variety of winged things on the HLS challenge blog! I hope we have inspired you to join us. 

Supplies: Neenah white cardstock, Altenew Inky Bouquet stamp, Versafine onyx black & shaded lilac, tumbled glass & spun sugar distress ink, Wow clear gloss embossing powder, CUTplorations perched bird & MFT diagonal stitched rectangle dies, Nuvo drops

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Altenew's Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop: Addicted to Stamps and More

Today I am thrilled to be representing Addicted to Stamps and More in a special blog hop organized by ALTENEW: the Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop! Altenew recognizes the inspiration and opportunity to showcase papercrafting that challenge blogs offer the crafting community, and are celebrating that with this special hop recognizing twelve of the many challenges offered out there on the interwebs. Here are the participants: 

Altenew generously offered the participants two stamp sets to use for this hop. I chose two different, but equally beautiful sets: Inky Bouquet and Tall Tale. When I think of Altenew, I think of flowers, so I used the Inky Bouquet set for my first card: 

This gorgeous bouquet is so versatile, and can be coloured in a variety of ways, including using its coordinating stencil. I chose to stamp and emboss the floral image over a mauve background made using the largest image from an older Altenew set, Halftone Circles, and Lavender Fields ink. The sympathy sentiment nestles perfectly in one corner. I added a few clear Nuvo drops for a bit of embellishment. With my embossed bouquet and sentiment, I am adding this card to the current Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge. 

For my second card, I played with Tale Tale, a perfect stamp set for this reader!

Another clean and simple design, using the open book and sentiment stamps from the set. To ground the book, I used one row of Altenew’s Weave Builder Stencil with Persian Blue ink. The book is simply coloured with markers and popped up with a bit of foam tape. Because books should never be boring :D, I added a mat of silver glitter cardstock to the card base.

A blog hop isn’t complete without a giveaway! Altenew is offering $250 in total prizes! To celebrate this fantastic hop, they are giving away $25 gift certificates to TEN lucky winners. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on September 5th, 2021. Here is your hop order: 

Altenew

AAA Card Challenge

Happy Little Stampers

Addicted to CAS

Perfectly CAS

Addicted to Stamps and More!

Seize the Birthday

Color Hues the Color Challenge

Time Out Challenge

Less is More Challenge

Double D Challenge Blog

The Sisterhood of Crafters

The Color Throwdown

In addition, Altenew is offering free U.S. shipping with code HAPPY08A8 or $5 OFF international shipping with code SHOPPING08A8 at checkout on orders over $39 from 8/10/2021 at 12:01 am EDT to 8/11/2021 at 11:59 pm EDT. Shop here: https://altenew.com/collections/all-altenew-products (Not valid on prior purchases. Cannot be combined with other promo codes.) 

One last thing! Create your own Altenew project and link up at any of the participating challenge blogs for a chance to have your card be one of five featured on the Altenew blog on September 5th, 2021! Why not "Make Your Mark" and enter Addicted to Stamps and More’s current challenge at the same time? 

Thanks for stopping by today! Enjoy the hop and good luck! 

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