Our Craft Lounge - Every Heartbeat

Hello Again Everyone!!  Thanks for popping in today to check out another day of amazing Valentine's Day sneaks from OCL!!  Today I've worked with the Every Heartbeat set. 

I layered my background with Ouchless Cardboard from Gauche Alchemy.  I painted it with some of my Ranger Distress Paint.  I stamped my chevron pattern on Basic Grey designer paper and then trimmed it out.  I layered on top with some crocheted vintage trim, some hearts cut using my MFT Hearts-a-Plenty Die-namic, and some die cut tags that came with my Basic Grey paper.  I used the heart in RED as well as the sentiment that I attached to a tag and created a fun little grouping.  As a final touch, I added some self-adhesive red pearls spotted throughout my creation.

I hope you have enjoyed our sneak peeks today!  There is some fabby blog candy being given away over at OCL so remember to leave love on all of the gals blogs so that you can be entered into a drawing to possibly win!!


Here are all of the fantastic artists participating in today's sneak peeks!!

OCL Blog
Kendra Wietstock
Lori Tecler
Tammie Edgerton
Broni Holcombe
Debbie Fisher
Carolyn King 
Lori Barnett
Debbie Corbari
Lisa Eisner
Stephanie Serrano
Amber Hillman
Meredith Winston
Joy Stagg 
Michelle Pearson
Dawn Barrett 
Melissa Cash
Latrice Murphy
Deb Felts

Our Craft Lounge - Smooth Sailing

Greetings All!!  I'm here today posting along with my friends at the OCL for their upcoming new Valentine's Day releases!!  Today I'm previewing a set called Smooth Sailing.  SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO crazy cute!!  I decided to paper piece the adorable sailboat.  I pieced the sail as well as the boat.  I used my Copics to color in the hearts, small flags as well as the water.

I've used both Basic Grey and Martha Stewart designer papers.  My cardbase is kraft cardstock from JoAnn Fabrics.  

I added my sentiment on a MFT Die-namic and created two different color mattes for it to match my color scheme.  I stamped my anchors in red and used them as a fabulous border along the bottom of my card.


There is some fabby blog candy being given away over at OCL so remember to leave love on all of the gals blogs so that you can be entered into a drawing to possibly win!!

For your convenience here is the list of everyone playing along today!! 

OCL Blog
Kendra Wietstock
Lori Tecler
Tammie Edgerton
Broni Holcombe
Debbie Fisher
Carolyn King 
Lori Barnett
Debbie Corbari
Lisa Eisner
Stephanie Serrano
Amber Hillman
Meredith Winston ------------ YOU ARE HERE! =)
Joy Stagg 
Michelle Pearson
Dawn Barrett 
Melissa Cash
Latrice Murphy
Deb Felts

Thanks for coming by today!  I hope you have enjoyed and been inspired!


 

Our Craft Lounge - CAS Holiday

Hi All!!  Popping in today to share some CAS (clean and simple) holiday cards.  I have to share a secret with you - as a practice, I don't do any mass production of my cards.  I simply don't like the monotony of cutting and stamping the same thing over and over.  The ONLY exceptions to that rule are when my close family and/or friends ask for an order of cards.  My darling SIL (sister-in-law) recently asked me for a grouping of cards for her to give gifts in.  So I took the opportunity with this week's OCL challenge to create a bunch of cards for her.  I used OCL's White Christmas and Winter Wishes sets pulling out all of the individual snowflakes.  I stamped the snowflakes using Versamark Dazzle ink.  I then used clear embossing powder to heat set them all.

I used some fabulous starry paper for my banner ended sentiment panels, a couple of wraps and a bow using wonderful baker's twine and a chipboard embellishment adhered with Glossy Accents.  Each card is a bit different as I changed the orientation of the snowflakes and each one has a different chipboard embellishment.

I hope you have enjoyed and are having a very creative weekend!!

OCL - Tag, You're It

Hi Friends!!  Double post today as I'm bringing you a tag that I created for this week's OCL challenge - Tag You're It.  

I created the entire tag myself using scraps that I had on my table from earlier today.  I've used a beautiful wintery set called Winter Wishes.  I stamped my image using Momento ink onto really good quality water color paper.  I then took my distress ink pads in a variety of blues, greens and browns and dabbed them all over my craft sheet that I always have on my desk.  I misted the ink with a Perfect Pearls mixture of water and water colored my image.  It's impossible to photograph but the image does have a twinkly effect in real life when the light hits it.  It's BEAUTIFUL!!  I added some dots of glossy accents to further catch the light and set the entire piece aside to dry.  I used the snowflake strip stamp that comes with the set to anchor the top and bottom of my set.  I stamped it in Versamark ink and heat set it with white embossing powder.  I used some great yarn-like twine for the top of my tag.

I made two rolled felt flowers for my embellishments and used a domed clear sticker on the bottom that says "just the two of us".  I liked how the sentiment played with the "Remember this:" printed on my die cut tag above.  I'm going to give this to my DH as we always ALWAYS try to carve out time - even if it's just a little bit - each day to do this for each other.  Having two small children easily allows all of your focus to be maneuvered often for days, weeks, months at at time away from each other.  I'm going to give this to him as a wonderful reminder for the both of us to never lose sight of us while we raise our babies.  =)  

I hope you've enjoyed and been inspired!!

OCL - Cute Critters

Happy Friday!!!  I hope you all had a very festive, fun, and wonderful Thanksgiving!!  I know I did celebrating with family and friends.  A great day to reflect on all the wonderful things we have to be thankful for.

Today at OCL we are hosting a Cute Critters challenge.

When you play along you are entered to WIN any one stamp set of your choice from Our Craft Lounge.  

You have until 11:59pm Thursday, December 1st to enter.  Participate as many times as you like!   A random winner will be selected and posted on the OCL blog at the beginning of next month.

Here are the rules:
* use any stamps that you wish – get BONUS POINTS when you use OCL stamps!
* link to your card/project at the bottom of this post using the link tool provided on the OCL blog – **be sure to link DIRECTLY to your challenge card – not a general blog or gallery link & add the appropriate photo.**
* use the challenge as your inspiration – do whatever inspires you, but please base it on the challenge
If you upload to SCS, please use the Keyword OCL93.

For my creation today I've used a set called Penguin Fun.  It's totally adorable!!  I've colored my penguin with my Copics and Prisma markers.  I've paper pieced her hat and scarf using sweet papers from Jilly Bean.  I matted my striped paper with self adhesive cork and used some Bazzill Swiss Dot Kraft cardstock as my base.  I kept my card simple and sweet using "Happy Holidays" as my sentiment.

I hope you can join us over at The Lounge!!