Dare 2B Artzy September Challenge - Favorite Color

 Hi Artzy friends -

My favorite color changes with my mood. Today it's teal! Pair it with purple, and you have a winner for any season!

This card was created with the darling gnomie (Gnellie Gnome!), from the Flower Gnome stamp and die set.  

She is perched on a popped up circle cut with Double Dot Circle framelits.

The "thanks" is cut with the Thanks Double Layered word die. I cut the word out 2 or 3 times, glued the layers together, and covered with Glossy Accents to add dimension and shine. 

The pretty teal floral background paper is from the All the Buzz collection.

I hope you'll join in on this month's Dare 2B Artzy challenge! Enter your creations to be entered to win a $15 giftcard!

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

Avra

Need a Hug?

 Hi Artzy friends -

There's so much going on in everyone's lives right now; I would like to take this time to send you a big hug! But only if you promise to send one to me in return!

This adorable teddy bear is from the Teddy Bear Hugs stamp set, and cut out with the coordinating die. 

After coloring the bear, I cut two concentric circle frames using the Double Dot Circle framelit dies.

I mounted the circles, the bear, and the stamped sentiment, on beautiful plaid paper from the Autumn Oasis collection. I just love the beautiful fall colors and patterns in this collection. 

I think this set would make a great card for a teacher in your life too!

Be sure to check out all of the wonderful stamps, dies, and papers that Dare 2B Artzy has to offer! 

You can also join our current monthly challenge, which is, Anything Goes, for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate!

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

Avra

A Peek of Fall

Hi Artzy friends! 

Here in Ohio we're back to the "dog days of summer," which is to be expected in mid August.  But over the past week we had a few days that actually felt a little fall like. The cooler temps briefly put me in the mood to make a fall card! (Don't worry, I'm not done with summer yet!)

Dare 2B Artzy has several fall themed stamps and dies, as well as papers featuring beautiful fall colors, and I've used a few of them here.

For this card I colored and die cut images from the Foxy Greetings stamp set and the Squirrel stamp set. The patterned paper is from the Autumn Oasis collection. 

I love these cute critters no matter what season it says on the calendar!

Be sure to take a look at all of the fall themed stamps and papers that Dare 2B Artzy has to offer! 

I also hope you'll join the monthly challenge on the Dare 2B Artzy blog. The theme for August is "Anything Goes."  Enter for your chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the shop! 

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

Avra

Background Bowl Games

Hi stamping friends!

Today I have something a little different for you! A friend in our Ohio Stamp Junkies group, Gale Thompson, presented us with a challenge. She asked for volunteers to create cards with backgrounds
she had piling up in her craftroom. How fun is that?

Here is the beautiful, sparkly blue background that Gale sent me. I never think to stencil glitter pastes and other mediums on colored cardstock, but I really love this look !

It immediately made me think of water and ocean waves so I was inspired to make a fun playful water themed card. Stay tuned, because I actually decided to cut up the background and make THREE cards!

For the first card, I created a sunny sky with a Catherine Pooler stencil and Distress Oxide inks. I cut a portion of the background along the "wave lines" and popped a cute Sugarpea Designs penguin on an action wobble to make it look like he is playing in the waves.

I had another penguin colored and ready to go so I added him to a card as well. This time, I used a sunray background paper from Sugarpea Designs, and popped him up using foam tape. It looks like he caught quite a big wave! 

Finally, I was able to incorporate a background piece that I had created and was waiting for the perfect card to use it on. This stretch of sandy beach was created with Brutus Monroe Sandcastle embossing powder, and was the perfect addition to this beach scene. The little Coastal Cuties are from Sunny Studio Stamps, and the beach umbrella is from Lawn Fawn. I stenciled the sunny sky with a Hero Arts cover die cut and Distress Oxide inks. 

This challenge was a lot of fun to participate in and it inspired me to look at the backgrounds and "leftover" images I have sitting around in MY craftroom and put some of them to good use!

Thank you, Gale!

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

Bear Hugs

Hi Artzy friends!

For the past several weeks, Cindy Sartain, the owner of Dare 2B Artzy, has been  participating in online stamp and scrapbook events, and has also done weekly live videos on her Facebook group (Artzy Community.) During these videos she demos Dare 2B Artzy product, both new, and some items that have been around for a while. Her demos have inspired me to pull out some items that I may not have used recently, and create cards with them.

Today I am sharing two cards that I created with the Bear Hugs stamps and dies, as well as the Rectangle Fancy Framelit dies and the Fun Card Fold die.

The first card is a more "traditional" easel card. I love how the bears "stand up" on the card, and that the card also folds flat for mailing.

These adorable bears have their masks on and are social distancing, making them perfect to use on a card during this crazy time in our lives.

The next card is called a reverse easel card, created with the same dies and stamps.  

This card also folds flat for mailing, and the bears without their masks on can be used for a fun card any time! 

Both of these cards use beautiful papers from the All the Buzz collection

The entire Dare 2B Artzy product line can be found here. 

Our current challenge for this month is Christmas in July. You can enter your project here for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to Dare 2B Artzy. 

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Avra

Bird-Day Greetings

Hi Artzy friends!

 My card today features the Dare 2B Artzy  Little Birdie stamp set, and I think this birthday card would be appropriate for a man or woman, young or old. I don't know about you, but I love having a few birthday cards on hand that I can pop in the mail quickly when the need arises.

To create this card I first did some ink blending using three blue shades of Distress Oxide inks.

I cut an overlay with the Circle Background die out of a piece of blue mirror card. Shiny!

I colored my bird using Copic markers, and stamped my sentiment on my inked background, aligning it with the large open circle on my die cut. 

I assembled the card, popping up the bird with foam tape. 

I hope your July is going well! Please join the Dare 2B Artzy monthly challenge, Christmas in July, for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate!

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

Avra

Christmas in July - Dare 2B Artzy Monthly Challenge

Hi Artzy friends!

Christmas is the last thing on my mind during this 90 degree heatwave we're in the midst of!
But it will be here before you know it so now is as good a time as any to get started on those holiday cards!

Please play along with the Dare 2B Artzy monthly challenge by entering your Christmas in July themed project, anytime in July,  for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to Dare 2B Artzy.

I created this shaped winter card using the Rectangle Fancy Framelits.
I cut an A2 card base, with the fold at the top, using one of the fancy rectangle dies. I then cut another of the same sized rectangles out of my patterned paper, from the Snow Much Fun collection, and attached it to the front of the card.

I cut a piece of white cardstock with the Swirl and Stripes Background die, and wove strips of red paper through the striped portion of the die cut. I then cut the swirls side of the die cut off and adhered the woven piece to my card front.

I colored this adorable penguin from the Penguin Fun stamp set, and cut him out with the coordinating die. This set is such a fun, whimsical set that can be used for any winter season occasions.  I wanted to add him to the card with an action wobble, but the ones I had were too large for this image. I must find some small ones to add to my stash! I popped him up with foam dots, and stamped my sentiment, from the same stamp set.

I hope you'll get out some of your wintery, Christmasy, stamps and join our challenge! Who knows? It might just cool you off! 

All of the Dare 2B Artzy products I used today can be found here.

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

Avra