"Thankful for 3 Girl JAM Fans Blog Hop!"

Welcome to my stop on the "Thankful for 3 Girl JAM Fans Blog Hop!"  The 3 Girl JAM design team has joined up with a few of our friends and fans to put together an awesome hop full of inspiration and fun!

3 Girl JAM has put together an awesome prize package of crafty goodness!  To win it, all you have to do is leave a comment on each stop of the hop.  Easy peezy!

 I made this card using of course 3 Girl Jam ribbon, the Latina Crafter printed cardstock and some whisper CTMH card base. The stamps used were also from Latina Crafter. The pin is from Connie's Store.  

I used an the elements of the CTMH sarsaparilla collection long discontinued...

For the inside, I used the cowgirls stamps and the dies from Latina Crafter.
This was an easy card and I used the sketch from the previous challenge from:
share joy challenge: Tic tac toc :

The full hop order is below:

Julie K. -- http://3girljam.blogspot.com

Rhonda -- http://scraphappenswithrhonda.blogspot.com

Dawn -- http://dawnmercedes.blogspot.com

Kim -- http://katydidcards.com

Chriss -- http://www.chrissandlou.blogspot.com

Marji -- http://www.fstampaholic.blogspot.com

Veronica -- http://vickyscrappingpassion.blogspot.com

Karen -- http://karey2005.blogspot.com

Susan -- http://scrapathousandwords.blogspot.com

Jessica -- http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com

Connie -- http://www.conniecancrop.blogspot.com

Donna K -- http://createdbydonnak.blogspot.com

Angela -- http://www.crazy3monkeys.blogspot.com

Daphne --http://www.craftyscrapsofstuff.blogspot.com

Julie O -- http://muddypawsinkyfingers.blogspot.com

So, your next stop is at Karen's blog. Thanks so much for hopping with us today!

Craftily yours,

Vicky

Entering the Not just cards challenge:

http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2015/11/challenge-171-anything-goes-winners.html

http://avenue613.blogspot.com/2015/11/challenge-150-anything-goes-woptional.html

Accordion Card/ Wall Panel

Dear scrappers,
For this project I was inspired by actually 3 challenges:

Compendium of Curiosities 3, Challenge 8

Using Tim’s Faded Layers technique. Btw, this challenge just passed and I didn't get to finish my project on time. I had just the background done last Friday...

Don't forget to check out this challenge sponsor: Joy and her family at Inspiration Emporium

Great online store. 

Compendium of Curiosities 3, Challenge 9!

Using the Sizzix Alterations Framelits! using Tim's book  A Compendium of Curiosities, Vol.3, as inspiration.

Which I used to embellish my tri-fold (accordion style) card/wall panel.

and finally:

Challenge #13 - Let's Cycle...Up-cycle, That Is!

This challenge was actually what inspire me to use my otherwise- thrown -away glossy packing material instead of cardstock for my card.

Here is a picture of the final project:

 Here is how it looks hanging on my wall:

 Here is how the card looks when folded:

Here is in detail how each panel/part looks in close-up:

I won't go in details how I made the background for either panel/part, but how I got the inspiration. I always get the question, from where did you get the idea, well, the answer is simple: I look for ideas in Pintarest, other crafter blogs, and challenge blogs.

The Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge blog inspired me to look around and see a second use to my otherwise-thrown away pieces around my house:

I was preparing my scrapbooking club class this past week and came across this very interesting 3D-embellishment packing and got also inspired by a Clear Scraps class at CKC-Houston  to use it for a card:

I also used a cricut cut (ArtBooking, CTMH) as stencil in a similar way I used it in my scrapbooking layout for the class, see the transparency background. I was keeping this cut for another project as well..

As mentioned I used the faded layers technique for the background of the part 1 and 3 of the tri-fold card.

I also stenciled some butterflies using distress inks over the faded layers.

For the middle part (the transparency), I decided to used a part of my craft hoard: the 1.double sided

patterned adhesive from ClearSnap and some Vintage Velvet glitter from Ranger:

I love how this glitters highlights the background.

For this CC3-challenge 9, I used the Framed Silhouettes alteration framelits on foil-taped packing material from my son's school shirts. I stamped the foil with Platinum Metallic StaZon:  

 I also used some mirroed stars to embellish the frames and wanted to match the color of the Adirondack markers (Ranger) I used to distress and color some of the shapes. Thus, I took some DecoColor markers to distress the stars.
For the back of the card, I used some tissue wrap and adhered it using Glue'n Seal (Ranger) to the back of part 1 and 2 of the cardstocks and distressed it with distress inks (Ranger)

That way, when the card is open halfway, the tissue wrap is seen through the transparency.

I also used the G Apha Card and Chitchat stickers (Idea-ology) to add my favorite quote from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Gabo) to the center of the card on the transparency. You can see my message to her written in the back of the last panel on the tissue wrap...

I am planning on giving this card to my Mom (Gloria), who's bday is the 20 and who loves Gabo too. Thus, I added my children pictures and framed them using this CC3-technique as well. She will get it in and envelop and surprise when she opens the whole panel and realizes she can hang it on the wall too.

I hope you enjoy this project and decide to participate in these great challenges,

Have a wonderful week

Vicky

My Son's Initials and some Challenges

Dear Scrappers,

Greetings from Galveston.
This week, I am designing and writing from the gulf coast ;-)
My kids are at the NASA camp having a blast and leaving me some time to take care of many errands. And giving me the opportunity to attend  CKC Houston, thus I wanted to finish this project and share it with you quickly.
I bought these cardboard letters for my son's room. I used as inspiration three different challenges from my favorite blogs that I have been following:

CC3 Challenge 7: Painted Industrial

Challenge-12: whos-boss from Craft Hoarders Anonymous
which is all about embossing...

and finally from Simon Monday Challenges:
J as Inspiration: Jump Rings

I love all three blogs and use them as inspiration as much as I can. I get motivated to create by them and love their designers.
As many of you know, I have tried to keep up Tim's newest book: Compendium of Curiosities 3 and many of the techniques used here, I learned from there.
Inspiration Emporium is sponsoring this CC3 challenge #7, please visit Joy... and say Hi from me ;-)

Here is my finalized  project:

I used some papers from CTMH wotg: Later Sk8er and some of their elements.
I used Tim's Painted Industrial technique for my foil taped cardstock strips and die-cuts. Details for that technique to be found in page 46 of CC3...
I used the embossing Diamond Plate & Riveted Metal Set by Tim Holtz for the metal strips and die-cuts made with Sizzix Bigz BIGkick/Big Shot Die by Tim Holtz, Gadget Gears:

 I used a previously made for the center of the A, and for the letters to spell my son's names die-cuts (Inside out)  from light grey cardstock and some foil-taped pieces too.

 I used TH picked fence paint to distress the cardboard edges and some grey crayon from my daughters' stash (who is beginning to be a craft hoarder too ;-).

The outside of the letter were distressed with peacock feathers distressing ink to highlight them against the grey papers...
Here is a close-up of the different letter I used:

 I added a rocket to the A to highlight the Outer space collage paper from Karen Foster...

 I used some Jump rings (Ring Fasteners from Idea-ology TH) instead of regular brads using the Simon Monday Challenge as inspiration and a way to add later some Lego gears from my son's stash and to make this lock piece movable (this die, i bought ages ago and finally i got to use it ;-)
My son loves all kind of locks and gears. He inherited my father's engineer's mind ;-)

 I also used some Hitch fasteners and game spinners to complete the steam-punk look...
Some gears were distressed using oregano alcohol ink (i bought this ink set in my first convention back in 2007) and more peacock feathers distressing ink.

 I added some of the Later Sk8ter elements to the gears after distressing them too to complement the look:

I tried to distress the Idea-ology mirrored star and added it to the Later Sk8ter one:

 A closer look to each single letter:

I hope you enjoyed this fun project and give me some feedback.
Please follow my blog as well (I'm trying to get my numbers up ;-)
Have a blessed weekend and I hope to see you at CKC this Thursday or Friday,
Vicky

H2H Challenge - Go Green - March Entry # 1 and kids' teachers valentines

H2H is having a "go green" challenge, which could be interpreted as creating a green project or in my case recycling something old and giving it a new purpose. Last Valentine's day I took old Folgers containers (which I found cute and saved them) and used some elemental papers from CTMH, some cute heart  ornaments from Hobby Lobby, the Whooo's your Valentine and Monogram CTMH stamp sets, and the Art philosophy cricket cartridge to decorate them as multipurpose containers.
I also bought some Target clear plastic frames with post-it pads decorated similarly to go with the containers and completed the desk set with a decorated pen.
This is my first time participating in an H2H challenge and even though I am a CTMH consultant, I am my only client ;-)
I hope you like it

http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/2013/03/go-green.html