I am in the Splitcoast Stampers Dirty Dozen!

This is so exciting and such an honor!

I have loved splitcoast's website for so many years! However, this means that I cannot show my cards until after my six months is over. luckily I have a couple of cards I made for Craft Roulette which I can post.

Something different

I really should stop watching YouTube because I find out about new crafts that I just need to try. And for new crafts, you're going to need some new supplies! When I heard about die cutting felt, I just had to try it. I already had a die cutter so I only needed to buy felt and the stitching dies. Anyway, this is a nice little craft that you can do on the couch or take on the go. The owl is from a Nicole Spohr spellbinders die. The bell is from Poshta Design. The bear is not a stitching die, but a papercrafting die. It is by Trinity Stamps. I tried to stitch it to paper in order to make a gift tag, but it didn't work real. The felt and paper seemed to be off size wise.

Old faithful template

For Craft Roulette this week the parameters were: thank you card, 1950s colors, toast or bread and brown paper. Toast or bread was the difficult parameter. I have one small stamp of toasting glasses, but I do not have anything for toast or bread. So, I thought of money being "bread" and I used my old faithful plastic money holder template. Years ago I used that template to make Christmas cash envelopes for my neighbor to give to her grandkids. When I heard that it has to include Brown, my mind went to pink for 1950s colors. My aunt used to have a 1950s pink kitchen.

Double Z fold, updated room pic

Of course, I made a Z fold card for Craft Roulette.

On the show, Mary showed us how to make a double Z fold. I had never done that before. I had also never used these little Mandela stamps from spellbinders so to first I thought was good. It's not a typical card for me. Also posting a quick update on my room. I cleaned my room and I actually added a second desk, which is really helpful. It's not shown in the picture though. Why didn't I think of that before?

Rhymes with Ogg???

The parameters this week for Craft Roulette were: bookbinding card, candy colors, rhymes with ogg, lettering. I am not a big fan of the bookbinding fold, but I really had fun with the rhyming parameter. I made a cat and I learned that in Australia mog is a term for a cat. my cat is on a log with a frog. I hand drew the frog and cut him out. I made so many changes over the course of this card with layout, colors, sentiment. I colored first with alcohol markers and I did not like the result at all. Me and alcohol markers do not mix. for the final image,I used my Tim Holtz watercolor, pencils and got a much better result. The stamps were a bargain from the used craft store 2.50 for those cute cats!

Not another Zoyfold!

On the Craft Roulette challenge this weekend, the wheel made us do a card with three folds! I am not good with these fancy fold type cards. The only thing I could think was to re-create another Zoyfold card, which was required a few weeks ago by Mr. Wheel. A zoyfold is a combination of a Z food and a Joy fold card. I must admit, they are kind of fun. I liked the way this turned out and I probably should use Reid more often. The parameters were: a card with three folds, sweater colors, footwear, and a Post-it note. I colored with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol.

More Craft Roulette cards!

For some reason these parameters really did inspire me! They were: project: slimline colors: lumberjack ( this was the hardest one I thought) element: hat or cap random: lace people used all kinds of things for caps. Even bottle caps! I never would've thought of that. Love the creativity of the Craft Rouletters! here are the cards I submitted. I always like doing mixed media but I feel challenged by it.