random reflections

Fun with Letter Substitutions

I think I've enjoyed Spring Card Camp 2 even more than the first Spring Card Camp. I have several lessons from both camps still to try. This afternoon I created three cards I'll share later from Day 6, but today I want to share two cards I created from Channin Pellitier's lesson on letter substitution for Day 10. It didn't take me long to find just the right image to replace a letter in a sentiment. This cute bear holding a heart seemed perfect to replace the "U" in HUGS.

In talking to Sarah this week, I found out that Hannah no longer wishes to share a card with Caleb. She came out of her room after rest time the other day clutching the rainbow card, and announced, "MY rainbow card." So this time they'll each get a card of their own. I've had this darling bear stamp from Ellen Hutson for over a year, and have never put it to use. In addition to the heart, I have a whole collection of cute items the bear can hold, so I know this isn't the last time you'll see him.

He was just the right height to pair with The Stamp Market's "Skinny Upper Alpha" dies which I cut from black fun foam---a technique I saw Laurie Willison use awhile ago. It give the letters a bit of dimension as well as some texture IRL.

The accompanying sentiments are from Papertrey Ink's "Big Hugs." Both patterned papers came from The Stamp Market's 6X6 "Color Crush" paper pad.

I'm linking up these card to the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge, Animals, and recently revived NBUS (Never Before Used Stuff) Challenge. I should have linked an earlier post this month to that challenge as well. Between the #100DayChallenge and the card camps, I'm getting around to using some products I've had for awhile.

 

Spring Card Camp Continued

I have a few more cards to share based on the lessons in Spring Card Camp. Two of them were also part of my #100DayProject and the #30DayColoring Challenge. I want to get them posted before the galleries at the card camp close on Thursday. However, I probably won't get to all the cards I'd still like to try before then. First off is an open butterfly card, one I wanted to try after making this set of cards earlier based on Julie Ebersole's lesson on Day 4.

The butterfly stamp is Butterfly Folk by Papertrey Ink and the sentiment is from Taylored Expressions.

I had, of course, a second butterfly that was die cut from the front of the card. I decided to use it with a design by Kristina Werner from the class on Day 6.

It's not often that I do ink blending, but I gave that a try here as well and then cut the pattern from Vintage Jadeite and Hawaiian Shores (PTI).

Here you can see them together:

Finally, a card from the last class led by Ashlea Cornell who offered a whole range of cards using a multitude of stamps and techniques. She created an overall pattern card using a Pinkfresh Studio stamp set I owned, and I did a more CAS design, placing the florals on just the left side of the card.

The stamp set is "Fancy Blooms" and the sentiment is from a Simon Says set "30 Days of Thankful." They were colored with Copics, and in the spirit of two cards for each lesson I did complete two pretty identical cards.

I'm entering the Open Butterfly card in the AAA Birthday Challenge: Things with Wings. 

More Spring Card Camp Fun

Creating multiple cards was the focus of Spring Card Camp. On Day 11 Dawn Woleslagle created a group of cards all focused around die cutting rainbows made from Simon Says Stitched Circles. I didn't have any of the other supplies she used, but I had plenty of products to substitute. In the end, I created eight cards starting with two sets of die cut circles in rainbow colors. It's taken me awhile to get them all assembled as I continue to work on my #100DayProject and the #30DayColoring Challenge. This weekend I worked on Mother's Day cards for Sarah and Betsy, but today I finally finished the last of the rainbow cards.

These are all variations on the theme. One of the two circles was cut into quarters. The clouds on the bottom I cut freehand. For three cards I used stencils for backgrounds, and one uses die cut clouds.

The other circle was cut in half to create two cards. The design for these was actually one I saw in an email from Reverse Confetti. Once again, I didn't have any of the products used on that card, but I did have good substitutes.

Although Dawn did not use the die cut circles left from the rainbows, I decided I could put them to good use as well, and created two more cards--one pictured here.

I now have a nice stash of cheerful cards to stick in the mail to friends I haven't seen in over seven weeks. Three of them already have stamps on them and are headed out the door tomorrow. I still have three or four more techniques to try from this card camp, and Spring Card Camp 2 begins on Wednesday. I'm not having any difficulty staying busy!