DTC #167 - DTC 6th Anniversay Celebration "Raffle" Graduation

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble's "6th Anniversary Raffle" and decided to make a Graduation Gift Box for my youngest grandchild, Izzy, for her 2024 High School Graduation Party.  It seems like yesterday she was just a baby. 

I thought a box card would be perfect... and used "The Pop Up Box Card | Very Easy To Make" tutorial by Sam Calcott UK - Mixed Up Craft ... and there was an excellent way to add the crossbars in the box, much simpler than I've done previouosly.  

Optional Twist: Twisted Sister wants you to use Kraft paper, Kraft-colored cardstock, a brown paper bag, or any product made from Kraft-type paper in your project... so I used some textured corrugated cardboard on three sides of the box. This first photo is the front of the box card (slightly open) with many school elements.  

This second photo is the back of the card for Izzy's future plans to attend college at State University of New York at Fredonia.  The Logo of the college is a tag to pull out an attached Fredonia Gift card.  

My Raffle Ticket is for a Graduation Gift Box. All of the elements in the box are listed in my Products below identifying what die, stamp or cricut cut was used. The photos below, using different focus points, show better detail of some of the elements in the box.   

Double Dare says to combine your project from one of our previous partners for another chance at the Double Trouble random drawing for a prize. I chose Creative Creases with my Box card.  

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble to check out the Design Teams inspiration and the raffle they chose. Let's see what you choose to create... hope to see you there.  

You may want to skip on over to Try A Sketch on Tuesday, our Sister challenge, and combine our challenge with their sketch for additional chances at our random drawings.  Click HERE for the  current list of previous partners.  

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Creative Creases "Anything Goes with a Fun Fold" 

Critter Crazy Challenges "Anything Goes with a Featured Critter" (Graduate Hornet Logo on Card and in Box) 

Heart's Quest Celebration of Love "May optional Graduation"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Honey Butte Mix-Ins 

     Gold, Black and White Glitter Paper 

Cardstock 

     Kraft Textured Cardboard  

     Honey Butter, Black and White Daisy

Stamps 

     CTMH M1143 "Festive Congrats Occasions" 

     Jillian Vance "Graduation Sentiments" with Cap and Diploma 

     CTMH Teach Love Inspire - Books and Coffee To-Go Cup

     Photos Copied from Internet, Resized and Printed

        Forestville School Hornut Logo 

        Fredonia College Logo and Credit Card

        I-Phone Photo    

Dies 

     Flowers:  MFT #054 "Upsy-Daisy" 

     Flower Pedals:  I.O.Dies 667-Q "Spring Branches" 

     Numbers:  Lil'Inker "Mixed/Stitched Numbers"

     Balloons:  Poppy Stamps #1604 "Pinpoint Balloons" 

     Balloons and Ties:  Spellbinder "Balloons" 

     Graduation Cap:  Stamplorations 

     Book Bag, I-Phone and Izzy's name:  Cricut Cuts

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Sakura Gelly Roll "White" 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) Y19, E71, E55 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Options "Plastic Strips" 

Color Dare Challenge #600 - Sweet as Honey

This is my Design Team project for ColorMyHeart Color Dare #600 "TicTacToe" and my choice for the TicTacToe is the 3rd Column colors of Sapphire, Capri and  Honeybutter.  

Immediately went to my stash to pull out a retired CTMH stamp set "Honeycomb Flair" perfect for the Sketch Saturday #750 and Honey Butter. Honeycomb patterns were stamped using Linen, Honey and Canary inks... a great match to the Honey Butter Mix-in patterned paper used for the focal point. Sentiment was stamped on bottom left using Sapphire ink. The Honeycombs, focal point and background were all bordered using Sapphire cardstock and adhered to the background using some 3D thin foam tape for dimension.  

Left over Negative and bee cuts were used to decorate the inside corner of the card base. 

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #600 and check out the Design Teams inspirational projects.  Let's see what you create... hope to see you there. You may also like to hop over to Sketch Saturday to see their Design Team members inspiration and how easy it might be to combine challenges. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Critter Crazy Challenges #86 "AG - Critters"

Cut It Up "Add a Sentiment" Make sure to include a Die  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Background "You Are Enough"

     Sentiment Panel "Mix-In X9050" Honey Butter

Cardstock 

     Sapphire and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     C1537 Retired "Honeycomb Flair" 

Dies 

     Momenta Paper Crafts "Paper Crafts" #1912542

Inks/Pens 

     Honey Butter Ink (Mixed Layers of Linen, Honey, Canary) 

     Sapphire Ink 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

TSOT Challenge #646 "Hootie Cutie"

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch On Tuesday #646 using the ColorMyHeart Color Dare Challenge #599 "Triple Play" and you must use All Three Colors in your project.  

 

Once I found a good match of papers and colors it was easy to cut the shapes used in the sketch and bordered with Lagoon cardstock. In one of my favorite paperpacks there were some cute owl stickers in Wisteria and Lagoon which were perfect for my focal point. The owl was added with 3D thin foam tape for some dimension and from that same sticker sheet I added the butterfly and sentiment direct to background.   

Other stickers (large Hooray sentiment and flowers) were selected for the inside border and corner and adhered direct to inside card base.  

Please hop on over and join us at TSOT and check out the other Design Team members' inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

You may also like to hop over to ColorMyHeart Color Dare to see their Design Team members inspiration and see how easy it might be to combine these challenges. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Critter Crazy Challenge "AG with Featured Creature"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Mix-In X9034 - Wisteria 

Cardstock 

     Royal, Lagoon and White Daisy 

Images 

     Stickers from Life's a Hoot Paperpack 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

DTC #166 - Tuesday Morning Sketches (May 6-19)

Here is my Design Team card for Double Trouble #166 "Stash or Trash" in celebration of Lost Sock Memorial Day on May 9th in collaboration with Tuesday Morning Sketches.   

My suggestion for this fun challenge is to spend a little time (as little as possible) searching for those missing socks as most likely you won't find them. So off I headed to my scrapping space (where I spend most of my life... lol) to conduct my brief search. 

While I was going through my stash I was surprised to see all the unused, unmatched snippets of patterned paper and/or images. I was so mesmerized by a 5x12 snippet left over from a Yuletide 12 Christmas Card Workshop I attended in 2014. So it was time to throw my socks in the trash.  

I pulled up my blog to refresh my memory and came across the photo below to see the cards we created and a close up of the cardinal image. There was so much similarity this snippet would be perfect, along with two other snippets, to use for Twisted Sister's optional twist to create using the Tuesday Morning Sketch #756.  

Cut two of the panels using the Cardinal and music note snippet and two other patterned papers from my stash behind them. Had another snippet of the red patterned paper and was able to use it for the background.  Bordering of the panels were cut using the retired Colonial White and adhering to a Colonial White card base.  

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble to check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there. Check out Tuesday Morning Sketches, our collaborating partner to this challenge, to see how easy it might be to combine challenges.  

The tree branch and sentiment were used for the ribbon part of the sketch adhering with 3D thin foam tape for a little dimension.  For the inside border of the card base the snippets from the snippets were used... leaving nothing to put back in my stash.  

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Critter Crazy Challenge "AG with a Featured Creature"

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Resigned Christmas Paper Pack 

     Mix-In CTMH Papers

Cardstock 

     Colonial White 

Dies      

     In Stash "Leaves" 

     Paper Smooches "Christmas Words" 

Inks/Pens 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) Red:  R56

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Let's Party - Double Trouble #165 SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing

This is my Design Team card for Double Trouble Challenge #165 "SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing" using Twisted Sister's optional twists to use at least three Colors from her Cinco de Mayo clipart to earn another chance to our random draw and if you included an image from one of the tablets there was an additional chance to our regular random draw.  And you can add another chance to the draw if you have matched it up to one of our previous partners... I chose ColorMyHeart Color Dare Challenge #597.  

All four colors used in my card... one of the patterned papers from Dream Maker was perfect to include three of the closely matched colors of Rosy, Sundance and Ballerina. My focal background was an Avocado found in Cricut Design Space which was cut using both the light and dark side of Limeade cardstock, layered and adhered direct to the background.   

Now my biggest challenge is getting closely matched colors using the Copic Sketch Pens (alchohol-base) for each of the Cinco de Mayo stamps used in my scenery.  All the images were stamped with Memento black ink, colored and fussy-cut except for the bucket and cactus which was masked together as one stamp. The sun, an unknown circle die in my stash, was cut using Sundance cardstock and again cut to fit in the avocado center.  The rest of the colored items were adhered with glue and some with 3D thin foam tape for dimension.  Two sentiments stamped directly on the background... upper in Candy Apple Red ink and the lower was Memento black ink. Using Copic Multi-liner black ink I added faux stitches around the avocado to show more detail.  

I had so much fun putting this card together and put a smile to my face when it was done. 

On the inside... stamped Happy Birthday and in the bottom corner stamped and masked in Memento black ink (no coloring) a couple more images from the same stamp set. 

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.  

You may want to partner up with Color Dare, one of our previous partners or our sister challenge at Try a Sketch on Tuesday to get extra points. For a full list of our previous partners, click HERE and it will take you to our Double Trouble tab with all our previous partners.  

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Addicted to Stamps and More #466 "Make Your Mark"

Cut It Up #302 "Starts with a B" (Must Include at least one die cut) 

   (B for Banner, B for Bird Inside Corner) 

I Love Promarkers #557 "Anything Goes/Shapes" (Pear Shape) 

Kat Scrappiness "Quick Card Recipe"

613 Avenue Create "Splash of Color"  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Dream Maker Paperpack 

Cardstock 

     Limeade, Sundance, Toffee and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Hero Arts "Cinco de Mayo Creativity in a Box" and Dies 

Dies 

     Avacado:  Cricut M42DBC "Avocado Half" 

     Sun in Avocado Pit:  We R Memory Keepers "Icons for Albums" 

Inks/Pens 

     Candy Apple 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) 

        Toffee - Brown:  E43

        Rosy - Red:  R46            

        Limeade - Green:  YG63

        Sundance - Yellow:  Y17 

     Copic Multi-Liner 0.1 "Black" 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Color Dare #598 - You Make Me Smile

Here is my DT Card for ColorMyHeart Color Dare #598 "Shades of Pink, Green and Yellow" and combining it Try a Sketch On Tuesday #645.  When I went to write my post noticed that the sentiment was in the wrong place and embellishments on the upper r-h corner were missed... so back to my drawing board and here is the second card closer to the TSOT sketch.  

Both cards, the circle and background, were cut to approximate size using Mix-In paperpacks in the colors of  green and yellow and pink used in both images. The first card had a flower as the focal point and the second card had a cactus focal point. The same sentiment and pink embellishments were added to both cards.  

Here is a photo of the first card made but later added pink embellishments:  

On the inside stamped a border of pink flowers on both cards.   

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #598 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

You may also like to hop over to Try a Sketch on Tuesday, to see their Design Team members inspiration and see how easy it might be to combine these two challenges. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Colorful Options "Pastels"  

Kat Scrappiness "Cook Up a Recipe" 

My Time to Craft #532 "Everything Dies"  

TicTacToe Challenge #246 

"TicTacToe" 

Left Diagonal: Flowers , Free, Die Cuts  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Mix-In Paperpacks - Green=Sage, Yellow=Lemonade 

     Dream Maker Paperpack  Pink 

Cardstock 

     Sage, Black and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     Paper Sweeties "So Sweet of You" Sentiments

Dies 

     Paper Smooches #J2D391 "House Plant" 

     Paper Smooches #J2D388 "Cactus"  

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

Other 

     Nuvo Crystal Drops "Bubblegum Blush" 

Make Room for Fairies in Your Garden - Double Trouble #164 with Crafter's Cafe

This is my Design Team project for Double Trouble #164 "CAS Less But Better" and using Twisted Sister's optional twist to use another color instead of using the white cardstock. I already had my stamp set picked out and when I saw Sketch Saturday #748 it was perfect for my three small fairy stamps. Our partner for this challenge is Crafter's Cafe "CAS".  

In the sketch I could see a lot of layers; but my intent was no layering nor embellishments so just had to figure out how this could be done. Next decision was the color I would use for the open space instead of white and when putting away a paper packet I had not yet used there was a real pretty varigated blue/white pattern with a floral that was also perfect for the distirbution of color and open space. 

 

Background patterned paper was cut to 4" x 5 1/4".  Placed and stamped the fairies with Black Memento Ink where each circle appeared. Looked at my rectangle frame cuts with the approximate size in sketch and cut the first frame in the center of the patterned paper, and the other frame was the size I had already cut and was able to get the stitching on the outer frame... how did that happen?  Reminded me of the layered stamping technique. For distinction of the smaller rectangle I brushed Glacier ink on the inner part of the larger frame.   

Wasn't satisfied with just the stamped fairy and thought it still needed the circle. A spotlight technique came to mind. Using a circle cut from vellum, placed the circle over each fairy, outlined the circle using a Copic Black Multi-liner and added clear Wink of Stella on each circle (photo below).  For the small sentiment rectangle I stamped a little flourish from the same stamp set.  

Another thought... this is where I brought in the Color My Heart Color Dare Board #595 since I used a Glacier background I only needed to chose two more colors and I chose the softer colors, pink (Peach) for the flowers and Seafoam for my card base.  

My daughter, my mentor, thought it still needed a sentiment... so went to Pinterest to see some of the sentiments used and found this one to be perfect with my floral background and fairies.  Printed the sentiment from my computer, bordered with a thin piece of Glacier cardstock and adhered directly to the patterned paper (ooops, a layer, blame it on Lisa); but I was very happy with my CAS card. Let me know what you think.      

On the inside corner stamped one of the other florals from the same stamp set along with the one used on the front of card and colored slightly with Copic colors similar to Seafoam and Peach.  

Please hop on over and join us at Double Trouble and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.  

Also please go to Crafter's Cafe, our partner for this challenge and check out Design Team members inspiration and see how easy it might be to combine these challenges. 

CARD 2:  

Well, after looking at the card I wasn't sure whether the first card would be considered a CAS card for the Crafter's Cafe "CAS", our partner's requirement... so decided to do another card with the same images but different background paper and less patterns.  The card below does not meet the Color Dare challenge so just an entry for Crafter's Cafe "CAS" using the same Sketch Saturday Challenge #748.  

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Heart's Quest Fantasy Challenge Blog "AG - Fantasy" 

Crafter's Cafe "CAS" 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Dream Maker (Floral with Glacier and White background)

Cardstock 

     Seafoam 

Stamps 

     B1174 "Flower Fairies" 

Dies 

     Crafting Desert Divas "Stitched Rectangle Frames"

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Copic Sketch Brushes (alcohol base) 

        Pink:  R30 (Closest to Peach) 

        Green:  G12 (On Inside of card, Closest to Seafroam)

     Copic Multi Liner 0.1 Black

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Zig "Wink of Stella" Clear 

Hugs - Color Dare #596

This is my Design Team project for ColorMyHeart Color Dare #596 "Black & Brown + 1 Color" combined with our sister challenge at Try a Sketch On Tuesday #644. My selection was using Toffee as my brown, Black and my + 1 color is Candy Apple. 

All the panel borders were cut first using black cardstock to help me with my selection of where I would use my red + color.  I chose the Teddy Bear for my focal point and using Toffee patterned paper. The Teddy Bear was stamped two times... first directly on the cardstock, the second used to fussy-cut the head, arms and legs separately, piece and adhere to full image on cardstock with glue and 3D thin foam tape rounding the Teddy Bear.  Added a red bow for pop of my + color.  

A pretty patterned Toffee background was selected and adhered to the black border cut.  To break the two brown panels decided to use more than just the pop of red. anc cut a panel using a Mix-In Candy Apple patterned paper, adhered to the black border cut and adhered to the background.  The Teddy Bear panel was added to the black border cut.  Two hearts were cut, one in black, the other in the same Candy Apple patterned paper.  The red heart was off set a little bit to show a black edge, overlaped the heart on focal point panel using 3D thin foam tape. The double cut Hug sentiment was added to the top, glued and hugging the heart.    

On the inside of the card, just added a thin black border with the Candy Apple patterned paper.  

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #596 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

You may also like to hop over to Try a Sketch on Tuesday to see their Design Team members inspiration and see how easy it might be to combine challenges. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges:

Critter Crazy Challenge "AG with Featured Creature"

Crafty Catz #669 "Anything Goes with Optional Critter" 

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Mix-In Papers - Toffee and Candy Apple 

Cardstock 

     Black and White Daisy 

Stamps 

     CC12413 Love Notes 

Dies 

     Our Daily Bread  "Mini Stitched Hearts" 

     Coco & Reno "Bows" 

     Tutti Designs "Hugs" 

Inks/Pens 

     Memento "Black" Ink 

     Copic Multi-Liner "Black" 

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

Holiday Card - TSOT Sketch #644

This is my Design Team project for Try a Sketch on Tuesday #644 and using ColorMyHeart Color Dare "Six Pack" Challenge which gives you a choice of at least three colors from the Color Board #594. You're also free to use B&W, Neutrals and Metallics.  

Decided to do another Christmas card with these colors and the poinsettia die gave me two of the elements in the sketch.  Three die cuts were made, one in a Pine patterned paper and the other two using white cardstock.  Adhered the band and poinsettia to the small rectangular Shortbread cardstock. Petals from the white die cuts were adhered inside the green band and a second petal adhered with glue and thin foam tape for dimension.  Small gold sticker embellishments were added to the center of each flower.  

My two background panels were cut from two different Scarlet Mix-in patterned papers, layered with Pine and adhered to the card base. The poinsettia panel was also layered with Pine and then adhered to the background.  Sentiment will be added at a later date.  

On the inside border adhered the white poinsettia band without the leaves... in the picture you can barely see it; but it was a nice finish for the inside.  

Please hop on over and join us at Color Dare's Color Board #594 and check out the Design Teams inspiration, and then let us see what you create... hope to see you there.

You may also like to hop over to Try A Sketch on Tuesday, our Sister challenge, to see their Design Team members inspiration and see how easy it might be to combine challenges. 

Also entered at the Following Challenges: 

Kat Scrappiness "Quick Card Recipe"  

CTMH Products Unless Specified Otherwise: 

Design Papers 

     Mix-In Patterned Papers - Scarlet, Shortbread, Pine 

Cardstock 

     Pine and White Daisy 

Dies 

     Memory Box "Poinsettia Band"  

Other 

     3D Thin Foam Tape 

     Stampendous "Class a'peel Stickers - Gold"