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Sunday, July 21, 2013

The Corrosive Challenge #179 - Fancy Folds

Welcome to another Corrosive Challenge! It's amazing how quickly two weeks flies by but here we are again with another fabulous sponsor and fun theme! This fortnight we are welcoming back Mayzy Art as our sponsor!

MayzyArt is a digital stamp location with a growing collection of fun stamps for use in scrapbooking and papercraft projects. MayzyArt’s goal is to provide unique, imaginative and affordable stamps. For updates on the newest stamps and sales, and examples of great projects done by MayzyArt customers visit www.mayzyart.blogspot.com.

Our challenge this time around is "FANCY FOLDS". Thinks easel, center step, gate fold... As long as there is more than one fold in your project, it qualifies! I opted for my absolute favoritest of favorite folds - the center step. There is a fantastic tutorial by Frances Byrne (aka StampOwl) HERE on splitcoaststampers and HERE on YouTube. I love making these with two images on either side and something fun on the center panel. Today I've used two of Mayzy's Steam Punk images, Xander and Meri. They are both colored with Copics and fussy cut. Papers are from the DCWV Naturals stack. The Steam Punk hot air balloon in the center is a Jollee's sticker embellishment and it sits on an embossed gear background. I added a couple of flowers, a bit of bling, and a few Tim Holtz metal mini gears. The metal sentiment is also Tim Holtz and reads " reality has limits; imagination is boundless". The border punch is Martha Stewart.

Mayzy is offering a $15 gift voucher to our winner so there's lots of incentive to do some creative folding and play along! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you're enjoying your weekend!

Markers used: Copics (E11, E21, E00, E04, E13, E15, E17, E23, E25, E27, E31, E33, E34, YR24, YG93, R20, R39, N0, N4, N8).

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Regan

Sunday, October 28, 2012

The Corrosive Challenge #161 - Know When To Fold 'Em

It's been quite the month! Posting every day has really tested my creative limits. I have enjoyed it, but with only 3 days left in October, I'm looking forward to a little break from the crafting madness. I hope to squeeze in some Halloween baking this week too, but we have Hurricane Sandy a.k.a. "Frankenstorm" headed our way just in time to muck up my favorite holiday! That makes two years in a row that Mother Nature has surprised us with a wicked storm on October 29th (last year it was snow)!

Enough of my weather woes, though... Today I'm here to tell you about a new Corrosive Challenge! This is the last one for the month and for our fabulous sponsor, Sassy Studio Designs. They have generously offered 4 digis of choice to our monthly winner! I have used two SSD images in my project today. The theme this fortnight is "Know When To Fold 'Em". In other words, fancy folds! If it has more than one fold, it qualifies! I opted to make a center step card. This is only my second one ever, but I have to say that I love this style of card! My images (including the Egyptian throne from Delicious Doodles) were colored with Copics and Prismacolor Art Markers. I fussy cut Sassy Mummy and Bonnie of the Nile (Cleopatra Sassy) and sponged around the edges of the throne image panel. Papers are Deja Views - Global Treks. I added a punched border from Martha Stewart, flowers, bling, and a Tim Holtz word band as my sentiment.

I hope you'll head over to The Corrosive Challenge blog to see what the rest of my team has come up with for this challenge. Maybe you'll be inspired to play along! Me, I am off to a Halloween party at a local farm with the small man. We are meeting some friends for a bit of toddler friendly spook-tacular fun (as long as the weather holds out for us until then). Then it will be home for more crafting and blogging as I try to complete the next challenge for the Simply B(etty) Stamps 13 Days of Halloween challenge.

It's always nice to see you here and I appreciate all the comments I receive! They always make me smile! Have a fabulous day and stay safe if you are in the path of the storm! See you soon...

Markers used: Copics (E11, E21, E00, R20, W4, W6, W8, W10, 100, E23, E31, R24, R29, R43) and Prismacolor Art Markers (149, 196, 209).

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Regan

Sunday, August 26, 2012

dum dum da dum

Hello, my crafty friends! Ever make a card that you couldn't wait to share?! Well, THIS is one of those cards! It was an order from a co-worker for her friend's wedding. They are very good friends from college, along with a third girl, so she wanted a card that represented their friendship. She sent me a photo of the three of them to work off of and this is what I came up with.

It is a center step card (and only the second one I've ever made). There is a fabulous tutorial on splitcoaststampers on how to do this. You can find it here.

I adjusted my dimensions just a bit because I wanted it to be 7" wide. I divided the sections into 2" sides and a 3" center. I have used three fabulous Sassy Studio Designs images - Sexy Bride Sassy, Charlotte Sassy, and Miranda Sassy. All are colored with Copics and Prismacolor Artmarkers. I added lots of Crystal Stickles to the bride's dress and gave her a pretty pearl earring!

Papers are from a My Mind's Eye 6x6 pad called Meadowlark. The sentiment is savvystamps and was cut with a Grommet Tags die from Spellbinders and secured in place with rhinestone brads. I finished up the details with the Martha Stewart Wrought Iron border punch, a pearl swirl, and a few flowers. I was really happy with how this turned out and I heard it was a big hit with the recipient too! That is the best part about this hobby - the smiles and joy the finished products give others!

Speaking of hobbies.... I have a friend , an old high school acquaintance, who has his own woodworking shop, Molasses Hill Woodworking. After catching up on the last 20 some odd years of our lives via facebook, I commissioned him to make a holder for my Copics. I had been frustrated that you could no longer buy the white Color Cubby towers from Studio3 Solutions. I'm not the DIY type so I bought large clear storage jars at Michaels and was using those on my desk.

Well, that just wasn't working for me! I don't have a ton of markers. Yet. But I have about 80 now and I wanted them somewhere with room for the collection to grow. So Rick came to my rescue! I sent him some photos and links to blogs, even the dimensions of the Color Cubby. I wasn't sure what to expect, but when I saw progress photos on facebook and then finally the finished piece in real life (he even delivered it to me) I was ecstatic! His craftsmanship is incredible and it was worth every penny! Take a look: