Create for a Cause!!!

 

Ever wanted to do something great for someone special?  Ever want to use your crafting ability to do that?  Well here's your chance!!!

Catherine, the owner of the Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine paired up with Crafting For a Cure, an amazing charity that SCT has worked alongside with at the Creativ Festival for years this past weekend.  You can read all about the wonderful participants and sponsors did for the Crafting For a Cure charity, HERE. They created more than 200 cards to send to hospitals all over Canada.

In taking with Pamela, the even organizer this past weekend, SCT came up with a new initiative for the magazine...

Here's how it works.  Create a card for a child with an inspirational message (not a 'get well soon' card as sadly, not all the children have a positive outcome), sign your name and send it to our offices with an envelope to:

Scrapbook & Cards Today
Cards for Kids
139 Church Street
Markham, Ontario
L3P 2M2

They will take all these amazing cards and provide them to Crafting For a Cure who will then send them to hospitals across Canada and the US.  Easy right?  Just knowing we've brought a smile to a child facing a difficult time is uplifting.  So let's get to work and see if we can help create 1,000 cards this summer for the cause!

Please take a moment to visit their website and see if there is something you can do too!

~ Ally ~

Designer Focus: Nautical Sunsets

 

Good morning everyone!  Happy Hump Day to you!

Have you taken a moment to check out one of Flourishes' newest challenges?  It's all about getting to know the Flourishes Designers; it's called Designer Focus.  Each Friday, when it's not a release week challenge or a Reveal Day, a new Flourishes Designer is interviewed and she shares some of her favourite creations.

This week our Designer Focus is on Christine Okken. This challenge began actually last week but I didn't get a chance to play along as I was feeling under the weather most of last week. The challenge is to take one of the designer's many creations posted with the intro and CASE it!  I know... super simple and SO many incredible pieces of inspiration to choose from!!!

I finally decided upon CASEing this stunning card by Christine.  Something about the design just called to me!

And here is what I created...

Nautical Sunset

First I created the pattered back ground using the fabulous Fancy Pants Designs' "Down by the Shore" paper collection.

I die cut the paper ring from Flourishes Classic White Cardstock using Spellbinder circle dies and then I scored it to resemble a life preserver.  I cut another same sized piece of cardstock to back the ring and then stamped the lighthouse scene from the stamp set, "A Guiding Light" using Memento "Black Tuxedo" ink.

I then created a mask for the lighthouse and water and airbrushed my sunset using my Copic markers.  I removed the mask and coloured in my image.

I assembled my entire card including the "Happy Father's Day" greeting and the sailor's knot, as from the "A Guiding Light" stamp set, adding some cut airbrushed buttons from Flourishes and my card was born!

I hope you enjoyed my nautical inspiration today.  Make sure to check out the interview with Christine (and also of Julie Koerber from last week too!) and come and play along!!!

~ Ally ~

Sponsored by:  Flourishes LLC.

Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes (A Guiding Light)
cardstock: Flourishes Classic White, Bazzill
patterned papers: Fancy Pants Designs
die cut shapes: Spellbinders
ink: Memento, Copic
buttons: Flourishes
tools: Copic Airbrish
other: thread.

Timeless Tuesday ~ Think Summer!

Hey fellow stampers! It's Tuesday and time for another fabulous Timeless Tuesday Challenge over at Flourishes!

This week our super talented hostess Deborah, is challenging you to create a card or project with Summer in mind and to incorporate sheer ribbon into your project (FTTC222)!  Yup... think summertime ~ beaches, playing in the water, camping, vacationing, sunshine, gardening... whatever you think of when you hear the word 'summer'!

So the first thing that I think of when you say "summer" is the beach! My family and I LOVE the beach. We're so lucky to actually live on a lake here in Alberta so we get to see our little version of a beach everyday.

I began by creating a Slider Card base. You can see how I made my card using this Splitcoast tutorial right HERE.

I knew I wanted to create a fun shaker aspect to my card so I cut out 2 copies of the Flourishes Perfectly Pierced Hourglass Dies using Flourishes' Classic White Cardstock.  I also cut a piece of Clear Cover Cardstock to use as well.  I began by cutting out the center of one of the white cardstock die pieces and adhered the clear cover cardstock to the back.  Then I stamped my masked shells from the "Seaside Life" stamp set on the solid die.  Adding an entire ring of 3D foam adhesive to the back of my window, I added some clear glitter and then adhered the shell images to the window front.

I used the following Color Made Easy cardstocks for matting: Emerald Coast (Rain) and Candy Pink (Sweet Tart).

I coloured my shells using the following Copic Collections:  BG000, BG11, BG32, R000

 

Here's a close up of my shaker...

My slider card, when you pull on the ribbon at the top, a secret card pops up on the top and the bottom. For my ribbon pull I combined some fun White Seam Binding, some Metallic Silver String and a fun Color Made Easy - Emerald Coast Light button.

For both of my pop-up cards, I again stamped some sea life image from the "Seaside Life" stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you'll join us for our summertime inspired challenge this week!

Take a moment and leave some love on all of our designers' blogs.

• Allison Cope
• Broni Holcombe
• Deborah Anton
• Denise Marzec
• Jenny Gropp
• Judy Rozema
• Katie Sims
• Iulia Pasca, our May guest designer

Come and hop along and visit with all of our super talented designers and join us in our challenge this week for a chance to win!!  Good luck!!!!

~ Ally ~

Sponsored by:  Flourishes LLC.

Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes (Seaside Life)
cardstock: Flourishes (Classic White, Candy Pink, Emerald Coast), Bazzill
patterned papers: My Mind's Eye (Kate & Co.)
die cut shapes: Flourishes, Spellbinders
ink: Stampin' Up, Versamark
ribbon, button, string: Flourishes
edge punches: Fiskars
glitter:  Martha Stewart
gems: Kaisercraft
other: thread.

Timeless Tuesday ~ Butterflies

 

Howdy everyone!  Hope you had an amazing long weekend if you are Canadian like me! This week, our fabulous hostess, Jenny, has a great challenge for everyone!  We want you to use butterflies on your card or project this week (FTTC221).  I know!  Cool right!?  So grab your butterfly stamps or dies or hand cut one and come and create with us this week. 

Here's how I began creating my own card...

Step One:
I first cut a die cut shape out of our incredible Flourishes Classic White Cardstock.  Then I grabbed some "Tuxedo Black" ink by Memento and began stamping my 3 different butterfly images from the "Old Tea Rose" and "Butterflies & Blooms" stamp sets.  I made a mask for each one of the butterflies I stamped using Post-It Notes.

Step Two:
With all my masks on my butterflies, I stamped the script from the "Thank You" stamp set using "Tuxedo Black" ink by Memento again (stamping off first to get a lighter shade of ink).

Step Three:
Next I grabbed my Lilac Collection of Copic markers and my Copic airbrush to create my back ground.

I began by airbrushing the center of my panel with V12...

Step Four:
Next I grabbed, V15 and airbrushed edges.

Step Five:
Then I grabbed, V17 and further airbrushed the edges.  I added a little bit of spatter using V99.

Step Six:

I peeled off my masks and coloured my butterflies using a variety of grey Copic markers...

 

Then I created the remainder of my card using the amazing Flourishes Classic White Cardstock and also the light and dark shades of the Color Made Easy "Crocus" paper collection; Purple Palisades & Bouquet.

Here's my final card...

I used some fun Lavender seam binding ribbon, cool silver metallic string and the cute "Hello!" stamp from the "Tiny Flowers and Tags" stamp set to finish off my card details.

I hope you've enjoyed my little tutorial today.  Can't wait to see what you create with our "butterfly" challenge this week.

Take a moment and leave some love on all of our designers' blogs.

• Allison Cope
• Broni Holcombe
• Deborah Anton
• Denise Marzec
• Jenny Gropp
• Judy Rozema
• Katie Sims
• Iulia Pasca, our May guest designer

Come and hop along and visit with all of our super talented designers and join us in our challenge this week for a chance to win!!  Good luck!!!!

~ Ally ~

Sponsored by:  Flourishes LLC.
Supplies:
stamps: Flourishes (Tiny Flowers & Tags, Thank You, Old Tea Rose, Butterflies & Blooms)
cardstock: Flourishes
patterned papers:  Teresa Collins
die cut shapes:  Spellbinders
ink: Memento, Copic
ribbon, string: Flourishes
edge punch: Fiskars
gems: Prima
other: thread.