Ayana's Creations

Guest Designing for Lawnscaping Challenge #2: CASING

*Second Post for today. Please click HERE for my RI Rose Window Card. *

HELLO Everyone!... I have some fun news! Today I am Guest Designing over at the Lawnscaping Challenge Blog! Yay! How fun, huh?.... I'm so excited to be part of such a fun group this month. Laurel and her amazing design team are just full of fabulous talent and inspiration. :)

This week's Lawnscaping Challenge #2 is to CASE one of Kelly Alvarez's cards. I had some trouble deciding which of her cards to CASE, so I actually ended up making two entries. You can check them out below:

This first card, shown above, was inspired by THIS card that Kelly made. I tried to use the same sketch layout and colors of her original card. The only main element that I changed was the stamp images.

For my second card, I chose to use THIS card for my inspiration. As you can see, Kelly's card was one-layer, however I chose to make my version a bit more 3D by adding some actual red thread on the spool and also by popping up the white layer of my card.

Well, I sure hope you all enjoyed my two cards today. This was such a fun challenge and I definitely urge all of you to play along too! You can find all of the details over on the Lawnscapings Challenge Blog, along with more fun samples from the design team. Be sure to check it out today. I can't wait to see the entries for this one! :)

SUPPLIES:

Cat's Meow Card

Paper: "Solar White" (Neenah Paper) and kraft & red cardstock
Stamps: "Critters in the Burbs" (Lawn Fawn)
Ink: "TuxedoBlack" (Memento) 
Other: Copic markers, Spellbinders Nestabilities, Zig-Zag scissors, red Saddle Stitch Ribbon (PTI), black & white checkered ribbon

Sew Lovely Spool Card

Paper: "Solar White" (Neenah Paper) and "Kraft" (PTI)
Stamps: "Sew Lovely" (Lawn Fawn)
Ink: "TuxedoBlack" (Memento) & "Real Red" (Stampin' Up) & "Antique Linen" (Distress Ink)
Other: red string, looseleaf paper

Jazzy Paper Designs Inspiration #9

Hello & Happy Saturday Everyone!

Hope you are all enjoying your weekends so far. I don't usually post on the weekends, however today I am being featured as a guest designer over at the Jazzy Paper Designs blog! I won their last challenge for my entry here, and therefore I was chosen to be their "Jazz Cat of the Week". Yay! =) So I made up this CAS style card for their new challenge that was posted today: Jazzy Paper Designs Inspiration #9. This challenge is being sponsored by Soft Pencil Digital Stamps. Aren't those little sailors so adorable?!....

Do you guys want to know a "secret"?.... Well, i'll tell ya... This is actually my FIRST card ever using digital stamps! Yup, that's right. I have always been hesitant about going digital, because at first, it kind of just confused me. Haha!... I'm not even sure why, because I do love computers! But I have to admit, when Tenia first sent me an email with the digital stamps for this challenge, my first initial thought was: "Umm... Okk... what am I supposed to do with these??"... HAHA! I know that may sound silly, being that digital stamps are so very popular now days. But I guess it was just something "unknown" to me, since I had never tried them before, and nobody has ever shown me how. LOL!.... But anyways, I am now happy to report that I had so much fun working with these digital stamps, and I realize now that they are surely not as "confusing" at all, as I once thought they were.

I have no idea why I didn't try them out sooner! You can color them however you want, eliminate certain portions that you may not need at the moment, and you can also play around with their sizes. For this particular image that I used on my card today, the stamp originally had a sailboat and waves in the background. However, I chose to just feature the cute little sailor kids. So I simply got rid of the background and made the sailors bigger to the size I wanted them to be. I actually ended up making another card with the items in the background from the original image. But I will share that with you another time soon.

I'm so glad I was able to be a part of this challenge and that it forced me to try something new! So I just wanted to say THANKS to Tenia and her fabulous design team! And to any of you readers who may also be hesitent about trying something new, I would just like to say "Just go for it! Try it out with no worries, and there's a good chance you'll be happy with the results."

Thanks for stopping by today! =)

SUPPLIES:

Sailor Friends Card

Paper: Neenah paper (Solar White) & Kraft, Pure Poppy (Papertrey Ink)
Stamps: "Happy Sailors" Digital Stamp (SoftPencil Digital Stamps) & sentiment from Hero Arts
Ink: "Jet Black" Archival Ink & printer ink
Other: embossing folder, circle punch, red grosgrain ribbon, Copic markers