Ericka's Designs

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One rainy day, 3 cards

2008-08-26T21:42:00.001-07:00

Hi,
It is raining in Seattle and it seems that summer is gone 8-(. So I hung my running shoes and decided to make some cards in my new office space. Here are my three, very simple, cards. I used some ideas as inspirations and tried to use the many beads, flowers and crystals that I have collected!
Enjoy!

I used paper flowers, punched leaves from an olive cardstock and crystal charms in yellow.
The stamp "best wishes" from Hero Arts.

Here I used a circle stamp from Hero Arts and stamped it in different colors. The text stamp is from A Muse Art Stamps. I glued some sequence and beads to the image.

Here I used a designed sticker (can't remember the company). I dry embossed the flower image and added silver glitter (from Martha Stewart) to the circle around the flower.

Color Inspiration Challenge #18

2008-08-07T20:21:00.000-07:00

Hi!

I'm in visiting my friend Anthonette and we worked on our cards for Kristina's latest color challenge.
Here is my card! and I hope you like it ;-)

Materials:
* SU white, summer sun and pumpkin pie cardstocks
* SU felt fusion flower in rose red
* American Crafts Thickers
* Yellow satin ribbon from Peru
* black and white design paper (unkown source)

Color Inspiration #9 and All about the Bling!

2008-05-15T09:20:00.001-07:00

My friend Anthonette mentioned to me she was buying some sticky tape and noticed that my local store sold sheets of sticky tape so I thought it will be a great idea to try it, cut a fun shape and use beads or glitter.

I wanted to come up with a card that I can submit for Kristina's color inspiration #9 and Teresa Forseth's All about the Bling challenge.

The colors were set by Kristina's color inspiration so then it was left to figure out how to put everything together. I was having fun with the glitter and the Stampin' Up star punch that I decided to make several stars with different paper color background and the card came together.

I punched 3 stars from the sticky tape sheet, then stuck one to each color cardstock, removed the wax protector and poured fine glitter. Next, cut each star out leaving a border of color cardstock. I then put some foam stickers on the back of the stars, and set them on the card overlapping each other. The orange star only has foam sticker on the left point and the tip under the turquoise star is taped on the card.

I stamped birthday wishes on so saffron cardstock and glued two background frames on old olive cardstock, one smaller than the other. On the middle frame I glued some glitter, to make the connection with the glitter stars.

Card Materials

Stampin'Up cardstock: so saffron, old olive, tempting turquoise, real red, pumpkin pie
Savvy Stamp: birthday wishes
Stampin'Up large star punch
paper crimper
Martha Stewart's fine glitter

Color Challenge #7

2008-05-01T17:11:00.001-07:00

Hi!
I rushed to make this card in order not to miss Kristina's color challenge and I think that was the best way for me to come with an idea for the card ;-) Yesterday I think I spent an hour trying to come up with a card design and I gave up ;-). Anyway, here I used a couple of sets from Stampin' Up as well as cardstock for the challenge and a velvet chocolate brown ribbon which I found at a fabric store. Enjoy!

Another view of the card... need to learn how to take photos! ;-) Sorry if it a bit blurry.

Card Materials:

SU cardstock: very vanilla, close to cocoa, soft sky
SU Ink: chocolate chip, very vanilla
SU stamps: Baroque motifs, Lovely labels
velvet chocolate brown ribbon
Embossing clear powder

Color Challenge #6

2008-04-24T12:03:00.001-07:00

I'm submitting this card for Kristina Werner's Color Challenge #6. She asked to use the following colors from Stampin' Up:

So Saffron, Sahara Sand, Pumpkin Pie and Wild Wasabi

And this is what I came up with.

I wanted something shinny so I covered the orange cardstock on the accent with crystal lacquer from Stampin' Up. I used a versamark pen to write the word "Hi!".

Card materials

SU Cardstock: so saffron, wild wasabi, pumpkin pie, sahara sand, white
Hero Arts Flower Paisley Background
Versamark
Detail White embossing powder
Crystal Lacquer
Paper Shapers circle scallop punches 1 1/2" and 1 1/4"
Brenda Walton seal punch

Card of the Day

2008-04-23T15:19:00.001-07:00

well... actually I made it last night ;-). When I saw this baby elephant stamp, I imagined it stamped on white and not much else. But then I decided to add silver satin ribbon to match the silver edge and balance the card a little. Next time I'll put brighter colors on the flower but there was no going back once I used a glitter marker from American Crafts and Souffle yellow marker from Sakura.

Enjoy!

Card Materials

Brazzil Deep blue cardstock
SU white cardstock
Silver cardstock
Silver Silk Ribbon
A Muse Artstamp "congratulations" stamp
Stampendous! "ellie" (elephant) stamp
Sakura yellow souffle pen
American Crafts orange glitter marker

Taylored Expressions' Challenge #12

2008-04-20T19:58:00.000-07:00

For this challenge I decided to use new papers I recently acquired, with matching color ribbons and chip stickers, at my local stamp store. These are from Basic Grey. The chip stickers have strong glue in the back and I realized a bit too late that I didn't center the flower from top to bottom... but I think still looks okay ;-)

Card materials:

Stampin' Up Certainly Celery and Vanilla cardstock
Basic Grey sugared paper pad
Basic Grey sugared chip stickers
Basic Grey coordinating fibers
A Muse Artstamps "Happy Birthday" stamp

Color Challenge #5

2008-04-17T15:54:00.001-07:00

I have been wanting to use this big flower stamp from savvy stamps for a while and I thought it will look great stamped in brown (and embossed) over so saffron cardstock. I decided not to add ribbon in order not to take the attention away from the flower. Instead I added a strip of close to cocoa cardstock on the side and used scallop scissors on the right end.

Enjoy!