Edenland Designs – Page 43 – Creative Stuff by Eden and Landons mom :)

edenlandJuly 29, 20194 Comments

Daisy Panel

Hi there 🙂 Today I have some inspiration from Sheepski Designs 🙂 Our Facebook challenge is going on right now, and, as always, it’s ATG with an optional theme. This month, our optional theme is “Your Favorite Embellishment”. I had to think a bit about that, as my “favorite” changes all the time, depending on my mood and what the project I’m working on needs. I looked back at some of my projects and saw that I frequently use pearls and/or ribbons/bows, so I decided to go with those 2. I used the pretty Daisy Panel image for my card, and colored it with my Copics.

I put it on a fishtail banner die cut and wrapped a ribbon around the bottom, then added a bow. I couldn’t believe that I had a piece of blue paper that matched my colored background SO well…but when I put them together it was just a bit too much, so I dabbed the background of my daisies with a colorless blender pen to give it some contrast to the paper. I’ve had the daisy embossing folder for ages, and can’t remember ever using it – but an embossed panel for the bottom was perfect with this image. I colored in the centers for a bit of definition.

showing the detail of the embossing a bit more…

To finish, I adhered a few pearls to the top corners. I left this card without a sentiment for now, I can either add one when it has a recipient, or use it to write a quick note to someone “just because”.

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Brown Sugar Challenges – #291 ATG

Stamping Sensations – July, The Earth Laughs In Flowers

Color Crazy Craft Challenge – Week 29 ATG

Cute Card Thursday – #592 No Patterned Papers

DL Art – July Linky Challenge

edenlandJuly 26, 20195 Comments

Dots N’ Brights

Hi there 🙂 I’m a bit late with this post because of some health issues I’ve been having, but better late than never, right? It’s my last inspiration for this month for the Ching-Chou Kuik Facebook Challenge. Our theme for the month is Make Your Own Background, and this week, the DT was also challenged to use dots and/or stripes. I managed to do both 🙂 I used one of the gorgeous images from THIS set, found at Ching-Chou’s Etsy store. I colored her up with my Copics, going with bold and bright colors against basic black.

For the card base, I went with a shaped, Twisted Easel fold. I inked up a polka dot embossing folder with black oxide ink, and embossed a piece of white paper with each side, before cutting the shapes out with a Sizzix die. With the “make your own background ” and dots parts done, all I needed was to implement stripes 🙂 I cut a couple pieces of striped ribbon and used them, along with a bow from the same ribbon, to begin embellishing my card. A number of die cut flowers and butterflies matched up with the image, and provided a bright pop of color to the background. The sentiment on the fishtail banner serves as a stopper for the easel 🙂

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Lemon Shortbread Challenge – #98 ATG

Digi Choosday Craft Challenge – ATG Week 30

The Paper Shelter Challenge – Summer Break Special Challenge ATG

Crafty Creations – #395 ATG

Cute Card Thursday – #592 No Patterned Papers

edenlandJuly 24, 20193 Comments

Altered Notebook

Hi there 🙂 It’s nearing the end of this month’s Aurora Wings ATG Facebook Challenge. We would love to see anything you’ve done with one of Mitzi’s images….old, new, complete project or even just a coloring 🙂 There’s something for everyone in either of her stores ( here and Etsy), plus she has a sale going on on some fabulous images 🙂 I chose to work with Winter Lullaby, found HERE in the digi store, and HERE on Etsy. I printed the image on kraft paper, and colored it with my Prismacolor pencils. After adding some accent touches with a white Posca pen and some sponged gold and silver ink, I set it aside to work on the rest of the project.

I have so many things on my “alterable” shelves, that I figured it was high time to do something with one of them. I chose a notebook that I picked up at the dollar store, it’s made well, but had an uuuuugggggllly cover!! First, I trimmed a piece of dark plum CS to fit the cover, inked the edges, and sprinkled some chunky silver embossing powder on it and heated it up. Then, I took another piece of kraft which I stamped and embossed with clear embossing powder before die cutting the corners with a Tim Holtz die. I finished this piece off by inking the edges with Distress ink. I cut 2 corner pieces with a die from Cheery Lynn. I then layered everything up, placing a distressed piece of the dark plum CS at an angle under the image. A few small silver blingies finished this project off.

I’d like to enter the following challenges with this:

Classic Design Team Open Challenge – #7 July ATG

Scrap from Your Heart – Challenge 35 Anything Goes

Kreativ-Tanten Challenge – #31 Everything Goes

Ally’s Angels – Challenge #24 ATG

Simon Monday Challenge – Not a Card

Through the Craft Room Door – ATG for the week of July 23-29

As You Like It Challenge – Favorite Bird or Beast…..OWL!!! Why? Love their expressive faces and the differences between the types of owls 🙂

DL Art – July ATG Linky Challenge

edenlandJuly 14, 20195 Comments

With Love

Hi there 🙂 I’m here for my Sunday inspiration for the current challenge at the Ching-Chou Kuik Facebook group. This month, the challenge them is Make Your Own Background, however, the DT was challenged this week to make a Distressed/Shabby Chic card. After a bit of thinking, I managed to fit both themes on this card. I colored the beautiful Hold a Poppy image, from Ching-Chou’s Etsy store, with my Copics, then fussy cut it out while I went to work on the rest of the card. For the background, I shaved off some watercolor paint from a child’s paint palette, then spritzed it with water. When it was dry, I stamped around the edges with some old Stampin’ Up stamps that I found in my stash. Then I sprinked some gold embossing powder on the piece and heated it up. I tore one corner off, so the piece that I embossed and inked with a Tim Holtz embossing folder could peek out. Before layering the two pieces, I distressed the un-torn edges of the top piece, then inked all around it. I found a piece of ivory lace to run along the bottom, then arranged some flowers (I ran a Copic that I’d used in the image along the edges of the pink ones, to make a better match) and die cut greenery. I tucked a German foil bee in to the arrangements to add a bit more gold. The sentiment was stamped and die cut into a small tag shape, then attached to the card with a tiny clothespin that I painted gold.

I’m loving the femininity of this project, and it was such fun getting all inky 🙂

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Stamping Sensations – July – The Earth Laughs in Flowers

The Corrosive Challenge Blog – #7 July ATG

Morgan’s Artworld Open Challenge – #07 July ATG

Your Scrapbook Place – July ATG

Crafts Galore Encore – #65 July ATG

edenlandJuly 14, 20194 Comments

Oak Tree Fairy

Hi there 🙂 Well, thanks to getting sick and being unable to stand being vertical for any amount of time, this post is a few days late 🙂 I’m feeling much better now, so I better get at it!!! This card is my my DT inspiration for the current ATG challenge at Creative Fingers Challenge Blog. We are so lucky to have the amazing Christine Karron as a sponsor this time around for a month long challenge. I used Oak Tree Fairy from this package, one of two packages that the luck winner will get to chose from, as well as the images that the DT worked with 🙂 This was a bit of a challenge for me, as I rarely color male faces, and it was a bit of a struggle not to make him to “femmy”.

After coloring him with my Copics, I cut out the image and set it aside to work on the layout of the rest of the card. I’ve had this acorn print paper for probably 10 years now, and this was just the image to use it on!! I also found some striped paper, from a magazine paper pack, that had just the right colors in it. I layered these two prints with some coordinating solid CS pieces, one of which I embossed with a folder that I inked up with Distress inks. I added a sentiment from the same magazine pack, and some white accents in the top corner. It still needed a bit of something, so I used my Posca pen to “stitch” around a few pieces.

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Crafty Catz – #470 ATG

DL Art – July ATG Linky Challenge

Digi Choosday Crafting Challenge – Week 28 ATG

Crafting From the Heart – Challenge 247 ATG

Creative Inspirations – July ATG

edenlandJuly 7, 20195 Comments

Dragonfly Smile

Hi there! Running a bit behind here, but it’s still Sunday, so I’m still “legal” with my inspiration post for the challenge at Ching-Chou Kuik’s Facebook group 🙂 This month, our theme is Make Your Own Background. There are so many cool techniques out there and this is a great time to try out a new one, or show us one of your old favorites 🙂 I saw this technique on a friend’s card, and thought I would try it….You ink up a piece of paper….I used 4 different blue Distress Inks for my card…..then die cut it…..and use the off cuts. Since I just looked at a picture, I did the “wing it” thing when trying to emulate it….I cut the background out twice, once with the inked paper, and once with a scrap piece. I used the actual die cut of the scrap piece, and attached it with some repositionable tape. Then I went to work filling in the spaces with the off cuts from the inked piece, using foam dots to pop them up and give them dimension.

*This shows the dimension a bit better.*

When I showed a picture to my friend and told her how I did it, she laughed….a lot. Apparently there’s a tutorial somewhere that is way easier than my fiddly method. I don’t have a link to it right now…..but will add it as soon as I find it 🙂 I colored up the beautiful Drifting Soul from Ching-Chou’s store with my Copics and then fussy cut it out.

I adhered it to the blank spot in the background, then added a small die cut “smile” sentiment. For a cute, balancing touch, I punched some tiny dragonflies, then added glitter to them, as well as the dragonfly in the image 🙂

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Kreativtanten Challenge Blog – #31 Everything Goes

Ally’s Angels – #23 Anything Goes

2 Sisters on the Blog – #29 Ladies Card (not girls or baby)

Through the Craft Room Door – ATG challenge for the week of July 2

DL Art – July ATG Linky Challenge

edenlandJuly 1, 20194 Comments

Batter Up!

Hi there 🙂 Today I’m sharing my DT inspiration project for the current challenge at Creative Fingers Challenge Blog. We are thrilled to have Lemon Shortbread as our sponsor this time around. I had a card to make for a friend’s granddaughter’s birthday, and the young lady is an avid softball player. Well as luck had it, Lemon Shortbread has the perfect image!!! This sporty little chick is from the Baseball Teamies, which also comes with a boy image. I colored her with my Copics, then fussy cut her out. I found a simple baseball clipart image, and printed it off to make a baseball shaped card. I added some color to the stitching, then die cut the sentiment and the stars. I popped the girl on the card with some foam, positioning her so she helps to keep the card upright for display purposes 🙂

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Cut It Up Challenge Blog – #177 Red White and Blue

The Corrosive Challenge Blog – #6 June ATG

Creative Craft Corner – #119 Eileen’s ATG Challenge

Creative Knockouts – #304 For the Girls

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog – #230 ATG with a Sentiment

edenlandJune 24, 20196 Comments

Golden Coral

Oh my, I’m running so behind this week!!! You know how things can be going along just duckily, then life hits…..gah!! My Sunday inspiration for the Ching-Chou Kuik Facebook challenge has turned into a Monday inspiration!! The Facebook AND Blog challenge themes this month are Under the Sea. Ching-Chou has soooo many gorgeous mermaid and sea themed images in her Etsy Store that you’ll really be spoiled for choice!! I used one of my favorite images, Coral Addiction, found in this set.

I stuck to a very limited color scheme when I colored this up with my Copics, then added some sparkly highlights with a Spectrum Noir Gel pen.

A closeup to see the sparkle 🙂
A better angle to see the card fold.

I saw a picture of this card fold somewhere a while ago, and doodled it down on my handy desk blotter….but didn’t record where I saw it, or what it was called!! It’s really cool, because it folds flat for mailing, and you can use up some of your paper scraps 🙂 I had a piece of gold foil sea print paper for the background, which led me to cut some of the coral in gold mirror card, and the rest of the coral in white card stock that I highlighted with the gold sparkle pen I used in the image. I stamped a quick sentiment on a fishtail banner die cut, and added some pearls that I’d colored to match the color scheme. I’m really loving this card, and will definitely be using this fold again 🙂

I’d like to enter this in the following:

The Fairy and Unicorn – June ATG (not using optional theme)

A Gem of a Challenge – Week 12 ATG

The Corrosive Challenge Blog – #6 June ATG

The Creative Crafters – Challenge #17 ATG

World Wide Open DT Challenge – #06 June/July

Pixie’s Crafty Snippets – #355 ATG using Snippets

edenlandJune 24, 20191 Comment

Magical

Hello 🙂 I’m here to share some inspiration for the current challenge in the Sheepski Designs Facebook group. Our theme is always ATG with a Sheepski image, but there’s also an optional theme to help you out, if you need. This month’s optional theme is Black and White and ONE other color and/or Add a Sentiment. You can see that I did both 🙂

The image that I used is Seraphina’s Heart, and the color combo is my favorite….red, white and black 🙂 I colored the image with my Copics, then layered it over a striped background that I’d die cut a heart design into. I printed the sentiment on my computer, then cut it out with a fishtail banner die. I cut a few more banners and cut them to different sizes, then added some black Nuvo drops to finish it off.

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – #108 ATG

Get Creative Challenge – #81 AG with optional twist, Favorite Color Combo

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – #1925 ATG

Jo’s Scrap Shack Funday Friday Challenge – #284 AAG

edenlandJune 18, 20196 Comments

Hello Sprites :)

As my project says….Hello!!! I’ve sat on my hands as long as I possibly can before sharing my inspiration for the new Aurora Wings Facebook group challenge!!! Yes, it’s back, and we can hardly wait to see the beautiful creations you make with Aurora Wings images. The challenges will be ATG, with numerous chances to win some more of Mitzi’s images. Check out the guidelines in the challenge album 🙂 You can shop for the images at either the Digi Shop, or Mitzi’s Etsy Store; there may be a few “surprises” in the file section of the Facebook group, as well 😉

I needed a new door decoration for my apartment door…..I found the wooden letters at Michael’s….on sale, yet…..and decided to dress them up with Sprites frolicking through a garden 🙂 I used Morning Glory Sprite (Digi Shop exclusive ); Daffodil Sprite (Digi Shop exclusive ); Dahlia Sprite (Digi Shop exclusive ); Cosmos Sprite (Digi Shop exclusive ); and Butterfly Sprite with Fancy Wings (Digi Shop and Etsy), and colored them all up with Copics before fussy cutting each of them out.

I played around with the letter arrangement until I settled on the above……but then had to find a suitable “something” to mount them on. I went into the craft room pit and came up with a canvas that I hadn’t painted on yet, and cut it in half, and put it together end to end with glue and white duct tape. I glued the painted letters on, then arranged some forest moss and parts of a greenery swag (not on sale!) around them. I went with a natural burlap bow to top this piece off with. I liked the size and texture of it with the other elements. Finally, I attached all the Sprites into their private little garden. After taking numerous pictures…..it was a bit tough to get things right with something this size…..I hung it on my door… 🙂

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Craft-Dee BowZ – June ATG with a hand tied bow

Cutie Pie Challenge Blog – #136 Ribbons and Bows

Classic Design Team Open Challenge – #6 June ATG

Dream Valley Challenge – #204 Summer Colors

Through the Craft Room Door – ATG for the Week of June 18

Papercraft Challenge – #39 No Cards

Crafter’s Castle – Challenge 18, June ATG with optional Mixed Media

Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge – Week 24 ATG