Morgan's Artworld Candlestick Phone

Hi there, Arlene here with a card for Morgan's ArtWorld.  I don't know if you remember this kind of phone, but I sure remember seeing those old black and white movies where the actors would hold one of these phones and speak into this NEW-FANGLED devise.

The theme is always "Anything Goes" at Morgan's ArtWorld.  
Challenge dates are August 1 to August 27th on Australian Eastern time (Sydney).  
You can use any image or project you have created and enter up to three (3) times.

For purchasing Morgan's ArtWorld Images please visit the Facebook Digi shop 

(you will need to join the Facebook Group to view the Images in Albums) 
Morgan's Artworld (Facebook) Shop HERE!


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Morgan's ArtWorld Pinterest Link: HERE! 

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I know there's not much color, but most of the phones I've seen on Pinterest are black and white, so that's what I made with a background of smaller candlestick phones on all the white panels.  Even black and white phones have a certain style.

I think the sentiment is fun with the old-fashioned phone with a "hello" too.

Inside of card.

The die-cut on the front of the card extended just a bit on the inside, so I cute the same die and stamped it with a wood block stamp, "You're old school and cool".

Supplies:

Morgan's Artworld Vintage Phone No. 3  

Spellbinders "The Stamp Doctor"  Side Step Card Die (card base)

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles

Hero Arts wood block stamp "tired of texting"

Hero Arts cling stamp from "My Type"

Little B Handwritten (hello die)

Vagabond die cut machine

I am entering the following challenges:

Colour Crazy Challenge - 

Creative Moments - anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes

Scrapy Land - anything goes using any die that Scrapy Land sells

Corrosive Challenge Blog - anything goes

Crafty Sentiments Designs - anything goes

Digi Choosday Craft Challenge - anything goes

A Thank You to Cas-ual Fridays Stamps - See Die Cut Divas

Sharing some end of the month inspiration with you and Die Cut Divas.  I used the same sentiment in my first card of the month, but with different dies and background colors, I think it makes a unique statement all on its own.

I cut one treble clef out of a pearly white paper and one out of a navy blue, both left-over papers.  I also used only a heart from cutting the heart at the bottom of the treble clef.  Offsetting the pearly white paper over the navy paper gave me a nice depth and color combo.   I'm very happy with this card and sentiment. 

A Big Thank You to Cas-ual Fridays Stamps for their sponsorship of Die Cut Divas.  The challenge at Die Cut Divas ends today and this card is my way of saying Thank you.  The challenge is here ending at 9:00 p.m. Pacific time.

Supplies:

Cas-ual Fridays Stamps Big Treble 

Cas-ual Fridays Stamps die Treble Clef Fri-Die

Poppy Stamps dies (both Photo Cuts dies)

Distress Inks Chipped Sapphire & Victorian Velvet

White and red card stock

Vagabond die cut machine

Hero Arts Flickr Scramble

I entered the Hero Arts Flickr group scramble and below is my card.  I had fun putting together odds and ends of my pre-cut, colored Hero Arts images.  I didn't even realize I had these because they kept getting buried under other stamped and cut stamped images.

Some of the guidelines follow:
-  Use at least one Hero Arts stamp (digital included and not just a sentiment), stencil, die cut as focal point.
- Tag your card as quickcard162 (all in one word without spacing)
- Add your card to the Hero Arts flickr group pool (you will have to join the group)

Check out the challenge here.  This challenge ends July 19, 2019 12:00pm PDT (3:00 pm EDT

I took this picture around midnight and used a green folder for the backdrop because I was getting sleepy.  It's a bit whimsical and was fun to make.

Using A Negative to Make a Positive

I used the negative of the Treble clef die here.  First, I die-cut the small photo cut, distressed with distress inks and then die-cut the treble clef, so only the negative of the clef was on the photo cut.  Next I adhered  the photo cut panel to the white card and used a corner rounder to round the bottom of the white card.  I really like how this turned out.

My first card of the month used the actual die-cut from this card.  I was able to make two cards from this one cut.  Yeah for me.  I also used this post on Die Cut Divas here.

Visit Die Cut Divas to enter the challenge of "Anything Goes With an Optional Twist: Patriotic".

Supplies:

Cas-ual Fridays Stamps Big Treble 

Cas-ual Fridays Stamps die Treble Clef Fri-Die

Poppy Stamps die (Photo Cuts)

Distress Inks Chipped Sapphire & Fired Brick

White card stock

Corner Rounder

Vagabond die cut machine

A2Z Scrapbooking Sparkle and Shine

Please join A2Z Scrapbooking in this month’s "Sparkle & Shine" challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to the A2Z Scrapbooking etsy store. 

Lots of sparkle and shine here.  The background is from shiny paper covered with Distress Inks and some sprinkles of water. I thought there was so much glitter and sparkle, that I didn't want to add anything but a sentiment.  I did sponge on several distress inks on the card stock to make a more earthy card.

Close-up below:

On my last post of July 3rd, I showed you what I stored my Stickles in and now onward to how I store my Distress ink sponges.   Several months ago I was watching Els of Elizabeth Craft Designs do some sponging on die pieces and replayed the video to see what she used to hold the sponges.  I saw a plastic box and thought "that's what I'm looking for!"  I checked out grocery store plastics for different baked goods and paper stores for plastic containers.  Finally, after picking up something at Michael's I found a plastic box about 7 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches and an inch deep.  I figured I could fit 4 sponges across and 5 down for 20 on each side of the box.  Depending on how many distress inks you have, you may want something larger.  This seemed like a good size for me, one container for my distress inks (35) and one container for my Oxide inks.  I think if you could find a container 3/4 inches deep, that would work out really well too.

This container holds my distress oxide inks.  I labeled the names on the outside of the containers so I don't have to guess.

  

Be sure to use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more at the A2Z Scrapbooking store here.

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Our current monthly challenge can always be found in the menu bar, and runs from the 1st to last day of the month

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products as well as a nice selection of digital stamps! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

• Hero Arts Garden Fancy Die at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Stickles (reds, blues and greens)
• Distress inks - multiple colors
• Vagabond die cut machine

A2Z Birthday Challenge - August

Be sure to visit A2Z Scrapbooking to join in the "Birthday" challenge this month.

Be sure to use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

This card seemed to flow from the colors.  I colored the cake in, set aside and looked for a stencil.  I think I used Tattered Rose distress ink to color in the stencil.  I believe I colored the cake in RV colors and used the same color for the flames as the "Happy" die-cut.  I know flames are usually yellow, but I just couldn't use yellow here.  Using the cake as a backdrop, I die-cut "Birthday" in white.  The background makes this card feel and look so feminine.  This turned out better than I thought when I first started with its creation.

Close-up below

• Hero Arts Digital Birthday Bash at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Hero Arts Birthday Bash digital kit at A2Z
• Hero Arts Scrollwork Stencil at A2Z
• An Elizabeth Craft Designs "Happy Birthday"
• Starts - plastic
• Vagabond die cut machine

Hero Arts Sparkle and Shine Challenge with a July 4th flair

I wanted to add sparkle and shine to my card and celebrate the USA's July 4th.  Unfortunately, you cannot see the Stickles smeared across the blue stripes of the larges star in this photo.  Even a second try doesn't help.

The round dots are all Nuvo Midhnight Blue pops of shine..  I thought a bike would throw a bit of old fashioned fun into the mix.  The bike is cut from a Cola can, so the tin is very shiny.  I guess that this could be a cool masculine card, looking at the boy's bike.

Have fun with the A2Z Scrapbooking theme of "Sparkle and Shine" this month and let your creations sparkle and shine.
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Close-up, but not much sparkle.  I added Crystal stickles on top of the blue and it sparkles quite well in real life, sadly, not so much in the picture.

I do have one additional photo and it's my new storage solution for all (ALL) my stickles and some re-inkers.  You can fit 20 Stickles in this case and some re-inkers will fit double, just not my Distress re-inkers.  But I can fit 10 of those and can SEE them without picking them up one at a time.  Yeah for me.  I am in an organizing mood and on my next post, I'll be showing you how I store my distress ink sponges.


Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more..  I am home at A Bit of This and That.

Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

 Please join in this month’s "Sparkle & Shine" challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to the A2Z etsy store.

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products as well as a nice selection of digital stamps! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

Supplies:

• Hero Arts Astral Digital Printable File only at A2Z Scrapbooking store
• Little B Handwritten (celebrate)
• Tessler Crafts dies (bicycle)
• Nuvo Crystal Drops Midnight Blue
• Silver glittered tape
• Vagabond die cut machine
• Scrap paper
• Crystal and Faded Jeans stickles
• Pixiss Alcohol Ink Hard Plastic Storage Carrying Case Organizer

A Hero Arts Garden With Sparkle and Shine

Can you believe I have a Hero Arts die I never used?  I bought it because I wanted a wonderful see-through window either into the interior of my card or into a sunset, sunrise lake, ocean or wherever my creativity took me. 

Be sure to enter the A2Z Scrapbooking challenge for July and make your card sparkle and shine!

I created a sparkly card that was very simple, using glitter paper  It just took choosing the right colors and putting them together.  I used a circle die slightly larger than the circle for the Garden Fancy die, glued it to the back of the Garden die cut panel.  The whole panel is raised up from the card stock on foam tape for a rather impressive card in real life.

Close-up below

Be sure to use my code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.



Please join in this month’s "Sparkle & Shine" challenge for your chance at a free digital stamp set AND, if you used Hero Arts or Sugartree Stamps, a $20 gift card to the etsy store. The monthly challenge runs from the 1st to last day of the month

The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products as well as a nice selection of digital stamps! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Arlene15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more.

•  Hero Arts Garden Fancy Die at A2Z Scrapbooking
• Little B Handwritten die (sentiment)
• Glitter Paper
• Vagabond die cut machine

New Challenge at Die Cut Divas with Cas-ual Fridays Stamps

I love the music related stamp sets and dies at Cas-ual Fridays Stamps.  I couldn't help but purchase this stamp set and die so I could play.  Even if you are not musically talented, like me, this set says all I need it to.

The challenge at Die Cut Divas begins today and this card is an inspiration card for the challenge here.  Since the challenge is Anything Goes with an optional twist (patriotic), I twisted my card to include the U.S. colors of the flag (red, white and blue).  To create the extra hearts, I just cut the hearts from the Treble Clef die.

Supplies:

Cas-ual Fridays Stamps Big Treble 

Cas-ual Fridays Stamps die Treble Clef Fri-Die

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles

Distress Inks Chipped Sapphire & Fired Brick

Red card stock

Vagabond die cut machine