You Rock!

Hi everyone!

I know my posts have been few and far between  :(    It's not because I haven't been crafting because I have!  I told people at work they have to stop leaving and having birthdays!  I can't keep up!  LOL!  Between that, running 613 Avenue Create by myself, work and family...I'm going bonkers!!!  Whew...well speaking of 613 Avenue Create our challenge this week is Anything Goes and the optional theme is Party Time!  Whatever you may be celebrating works for us!  Come link up your projects HERE!  You could win prizes from our sponsors this week:

I chose to use the Guitar digi from Oak Pond Creations.  For the guitar I water colored the paper and put sea salt on it.  Love that technique but I didn't get my usual results because the humidity was 97% that day!  Ugh can say gross?  It sat in front of the fan for 2 hours and still didn't dry!  I had to dry it with the hair dryer.  Anyway, it still came out ok.  I fussy cut layered it and added some enamel dots for the knobs.  I popped it up on the base which was embossed with a Darice flames folder and sanded.  The sentiment is by Verve.

Hope you like it!  Come see out what our talented DT ladies have come up with this week!
Hugs,
Kathi   :)

Verve's April Diva Dare and a tip

Hi all,

This month's Diva Dare at Verve Stamps is to create a card with a flower or butterfly and bright colors.  Must use at least one Verve product.  So here is my creation!

 
Here I used Verve's Flutterby die which I embossed with the dot folder, then I touched all of the dots with a little Crystal Stickles.  The license plate is a die by MFT as well as the alphabet stamps. I heat embossed the letters with a sparkle embossing powder.   A flower (added Stickles to the edges), Jolee's crystal and paper (We R Memory Keepers) from the stash. Large dot embossing folder by Darice.  License place popped up with a piece of foam.

*TIP:  I really don't like to see the white foam or foam dots from the side of my project.  So what I do is take a Sharpie (black) or a Copic and color the edge of the foam to cover the white.  In the picture above you can't see how the license plate is raised.  Simple yet effective!  Hope you can use the tip!

Hope you're having a good week...I am sick again now with bronchitis!  Ugh...I can't win...
Hugs,
Kathi

Additional challenges I would like to enter:
Crafts and Me - Bling 
Divas by Design - Butterflies and Birds 
Inky Impressions - Punches/Dies 
Nut Crafters - Anything Goes 
Paper Pretties - Birthday 
7 Kids College Fund - Anything Goes 
Stampotique Designers - Birthday 
Whimsical Designs - Flowers 
One Stitch At A Time - Bright Colors 
Bearly-Mine - Spring Flowers 
Can You Digi It - Butterflies 
Everybody Art Challenge - Bling

Inks and Such Challenge at JDE!

Happy Tuesday and it's time for our weekly challenge at Jackson's Digital Expressions.  It's time for Inks and Such (AKA strut your stuff) and this week I'm using the Chef Eli digi.

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Details:  card base is a blank card from Michael's $1.00 bin last year, sentiment from Papertrey Ink sets Birthdays by the Numbers + Big Birthday Wishes, MFT Die-namics die, washi tape from Target, Darice embossing folder on brown paper, papers from stash, skin colored with Copics bow with Prismacolor pencil/Gamsol.

Challenges:

Here Come the Boys Challenge Blog - #41 Birthdays Only
Mema's Crafts - Anything Goes

License plate card

Surprise!  It's me again...LOL!  I can't believe how productive I've been lately!  Guess that's what happens when you don't sleep well and have some energy  :)  Well here's a card I made for a co worker who's going to another program.

Here is the sketch I used from Sketch Saturday this week.  I rotated the sketch.

Supplies: patterned scrap from My Mind's Eye/other papers from stash,  embossing folder by Darice, MFT license plate/letters and file tab, you rock by Jillibean Soup, inked edges and stippled.

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes