Birthday Balloons (#SICC #2)

If you missed my previous post, I am trying to work through all the challenges in the PaperCrafts Stamp It Card Challenges magazine. Here is #2.

Challenge #2: Stamp one image seven times. 

This balloon was from a Hero Arts set. I broke out an Echo Park paper pack and went to town stamping and embossing the balloons. Then I fussy cut them, attached some embroidery floss for the strings, and ta-da! I almost wish I made the card a little bit bigger so the balloons could be more "up in the air," but I was limited to a 6x6 paper pack sheet for the background. :) 

Thanks for all the comments on my last post! It seems like I may need to make the leap to Instagram...maybe I will try it soon. Eek! New social media!! 

Hello again. (Stamp It! Card Challenge #1)

Hi.

It's me.

You know, Meg. Meg Craig? I'm known for having a corgi. Now I have two. Luna on the left, Addison on the right:

(Ok, ok, stop begging! I'll show you some puppy pics!)  

Our first picture!

Ears down!

She is seriously one happy and lovey dog!

But that's not why you came here, right? (BTW, thanks for coming here. It's been a while, hasn't it? Hope life has been treating you well.)

You came here for cards. And I'm going to try to make some! 

Honesty time: It's been at least 5 years since I really was all-in on cardmaking. Teaching got in the way, then it was just SO HARD to come back to. I'd have some crafting spurts, but I couldn't remember how to do anything. Where anything was stored. Is that green River Rock or Certainly Celery? Ugh. So it was just A LOT of work every time I went to make a card. Then the card just wouldn't be as good as ones I made 5 years ago (I know, shocker right?). Plus I stopped following almost all stamping blogs and didn't visit Splitcoast, so I didn't even have much inspiration. 

Challenge time: What I do remember loving the most were challenges. Not necessarily to win or get favorites, but just to stretch my mind. But I don't even know what the "hip" challenges are and didn't want to spend hours trying to find one. So here is my challenge to myself: 

There are 66 stamping challenges in this Paper Crafts (RIP) mag from 2013. I'm going to try to attempt at least one a week. (Well, except the one that is "stamp on glitter" because this is a no-glitter household.) Feel free to join me! I'll post the challenge and the card and if you want to play along, leave a comment with a link to your card. I also just noticed that a hashtag would be #SiCC as in, man, did you see Meg's card? It is #sicc, bro! Is instagram a thing with stampers? Maybe this will finally make me join. (I am on twitter @mathymeg07)

Without further ado, I present 

My Triumphant Return To Stamping

(that technically involved no stamps)

Challenge #1: Stamp an image in place of a letter

Who doesn't love a good clean & simple card? Steps:

1. Punched a bajillion leaves using Martha's branch punch. 

2. Iced hand for thirty minutes to recover from punching a bajillion leaves.

3. Used a circle nestie to trace a circle on the card, used a glue pen to glue the branches.

4. Tied the cutest little bow using red twine. 

5. Went through all 300 fonts to find the best J and Y, sized them to match the wreath, and cut using the Silhouette. 

6. Jumped for joy! 

So your homework is:

1) Tell me what blogs I need to follow (including yours)

2) Play along if you want or don't play along if you don't want

3) Be awesome

Luna is nailing #3.