Hello from Paris

My quest to use the cast off scraps from cards gone by... after finding a border punched piece and a few butterflies I quickly made this card in 15 mins!

 Die cutting the Tim Holtz/ Sizzix Eiffel Tower from a piece of plastic to use as a mask, I sponge Soft Suede ink over the mask.

 Finding a paper doilie I sponged that all the way around as I wanted it to match, while I thought to lay it down on a piece of cream writing paper, it helped me to make my inside of the card as well as an accent piece.

 Added a couple butterflies and sentiment and the card quickly came together.

French Foliage one layer card

Here's another single layer sponging masked card.

 I punched a square from a scrap piece of cardstock and sponged on one card Purely Pomegranate and on another Concord Crush.

I also stamped the French script stamp in the masked off area with the same stamped color.

 I added leaves using Wild Wasabi

 Then masking off the leaves, I stamped over then with the splatter stamp in Pear Pizzazz

Finished it off with a couple score lines to make a couple note cards.

Center stair step birthday card

I saw a similar scene card on Pinterest (I'm into scene cards lately) and wanted to try it out and make a birthday card to have in my stash.

Here are the steps I made to make this card.
I made a center stair-step card with 1-inch side panels.

Cutting a separate piece of card stock at 3 1/8" x 3 3/8" I used the following SU ink to sponge the background. Starting with the lightest color.

The sentiment piece is 3/4" x 5 3/8"

I removed the sun mask and sponged a little over it to soften the edge.

Then with a stamp from Studio 111 (Michael's craft store clearance for .50) I double stamped the image over the 3 panels.
Bird and sentiment from Stampin Up.

Directions on scene card

I made another scene card, this time it was requested that I make a one layer card for a friend. Because of that I was able to take step by step pictures.

 I die cut a 2" circle from a piece of white card stock and temporarily glued it to my base white card.

I placed a scrap piece of card stock to cover / mask off the top 2/3 of the circle.

 Using these three colors I sponged the ocean to the open area of the circle.

 This was the results.

 Taking a 1" circle I temporarily glued it to the left middle of the scene, this will create the setting sun or moon depending on how you view it.

 I then flipped the mask to cover up the ocean to now create the sky.

 These are the colors I used to sponge the sky.

 This is the results. I then took Wild Wasabi ink (not shown) and stamped the sea grass from SU set Wetlands a couple times. I added the sentiment as well, oops a little crooked. Darn.

To finish it off I scored lines all around.

Scene card Single layer Thinking of you

I wanted to make a card that perhaps could also be a little art picture for my daughter to be able to hang or leave the card up for a bit.

When I saw this type of sponging on Pinterest it came to mind.

The layer itself is a very thick cardstock raised on foam squares on another layer of white.

My next post, I'll take step by step photos of my process.

I chosed to put the sentiment on the inside as to keep with the thought of a picture / wall hanging that it could mimic.