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Card Sketch Challenge #23

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Welcome back, Everyone!  We are up to Sketch #23 in the Card Challenge and we have some news for you.  This will be our last Card Challenge at Frosted Designs.  Don't despair!  There are some fabulous changes coming to this blog and you don't want to miss them!  


We would like to take this opportunity to thank each of the Design Team Members from the Card Sketch Team.  They have done an amazing job creating inspiration for all of our followers.  Stop by their blogs and spread a little love, won't you?  Be sure to check back for information on the upcoming changes.

On to the sketch:

Thank you, Heather, for creating this beautiful sketch for us.  Let's see what the Design Team did with it:













We would like to welcome GraphiCat Designs as our sponsor for this challenge.


Graphicat Designs is an online store and stamp company specializing in those sarcastic, off the cuff, funny sayings to match up with the many awesome images available everywhere now. We do also carry some of those stamps from Whimsy, Simply Betty and Tickled  Pink stamps. I hope you can come by and check us out!

The prize is a $10 Gift Certificate to their store!





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Card Sketch #22

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

We have a birthday wish for one of our fabulous designers....


Happy Birthday Sassy!! Hope you have a wonderful day!

We're back again with another beautiful sketch.  This time, it was created by Heather:

Don't you just love it?

Check out the Design Team's work:








Beautiful, aren't they?  Don't forget to stop by their blogs for more information on the cards - and maybe leave them a little love too!

We would like to welcome back Floppy Latte Digital Designs as our sponsor for this challenge.

Hi! Im Jessica or Floppy Latte Designs – the name comes from my significant other, Mark. He so thoughtfully purchased me an espresso machine for Christmas, and since he could not remember all the different coffee drinks that I crank out, he calls everything that comes out of the machine “Floppy Lattes”, I thought to myself, Self…that is such a catchy name, you should use it! And thus the name, Floppy Latte Designs was born. I had been doing a bit of designing under my real name, Jessica, but the new name just sounded sooooo fun! So, all the credit goes to Mark, for his humor and great ideas!  I design digital stamps and papers, and also rework old woodcuts and drawings and put them into digital stamp form.  My fav right now is flowers, but Floppy Latte's Digital Designs offers a bit of something for everyone!  I do hope you will visit me at www.floppylattedesigns.com/catalog and have a look around!

They are offering a $10 gift voucher good for stamps and paperpacks.

We are looking forward to seeing your beautiful creations!

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Show Me Sunday by Martina!

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Hello everybody!
Today is my turn to do tutorial and I decided to show you how you can make beaded embellishments . I chose to make a flower but you can make other cute embellies - like butterflies, bugs etc.
You will need:
seed beads
wire
scissors
glue
any other small embellishments you want to add to your project  (I have a small flower to use in the centre of my finished beaded flower)


1. Cut a piece of wire and string the beads on it, I cut fairly big piece of wire and used that for two flowers in the end.

 2. When you have quite a few beads on the wire start shaping the wire in the desired shape, here I am shaping it into flower petal shape.



3. Continue same way to shape desired amount of petals, here I am shaping 5 petals.



When you have 4 petals you could make this into butterfly, instead of finishing the last petal you could create a body with the same beads or different colour beads.



4. When you have 5 petals you will need to finish the centre of the flower, you have few ways to do this, here I just shaped remaining beads (you can add beads anytime to the wire) into a spiral which created really pretty centre.

Here is the flower used on a card.

And here is another flower where I used bought flower as a centre, in this case you need to use the glue to attach the flower to the centre.

And it's that easy! I had a lot of fun playing with the wire and beads. Hope you like it and give it a try.
Have a great day and fun crafting.

Martina


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Card Sketch #21

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Welcome, Everyone!  It's been very busy here at Frosted Designs.  I hop you had the opportunity to check out our Craft Space Blog Hop this past weekend.  So many beautiful spaces were shared!  If you missed it, click here to take the tour.  You won't be disappointed!
But now, it is time for our new card sketch:



The Design Team did a fabulous job with this one.  Let's take a look:













We would like to welcome Jillian Vance as our sponsor for this challenge.
All Clear Stamps

This business was started by Jillian Vance at the age of 10 years old. A very creative young lady, she decided to start a card business and sell them at her mom's salon. Then after needing sentiments that she couldn't find anywhere, she decided to fill the niche in the clear stamp market she felt was missing.  Read more about this amazing young lady and her business here.


She is offering the Perfect Day Stamp Set as the prize:

Perfect Day Stamp Set

Once again, we look forward to your submissions!

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Card Sketch #20

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

It's hard to believe that we are at Sketch #20 already!  Where does the time go?  We hope you are ready for a new challenge,,  Here's our sketch:



Take a look at what our Design Team made to inspire you:












Our sponsor this week is Ginger Snap Scraps.

Ginger Snap Scraps was opened in March 2012 by stay at home mom Cori Wagner. She runs the business out of her home in Pennsylvania. Ginger Snap Scraps is your one stop shop for the latest and most popular scrapbooking and paper crafting products. You can also subscribe to our newsletter to receive emails about upcoming events, special discounts and new products!

Cori is giving away the 6X6 Camp-A-Lot paper from Bo Bunny.  Be sure to stop by her store to see all of the wonderful products that she has available!  If you noticed the papers used by Ann and Beverly - they are Echo Park, also available at Ginger Snap Scraps!

We hope you are inspired and we can't wait to see what you create!

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