#30DayCardChallenge - FINAL Day!!

Oh my gosh, it's the last day of this challenge! Kinda makes me sad that it's over. However, I do have TONS of more ideas for cards, so make sure to stay tuned!!
For this final card, I wanted to point out that there are so many household items that you can use in your crafting. Today I'm using regular household bleach. Whaaatt?!! Bleach?? Yes - BLEACH lol.
There's a few things that I do want to point out when using bleach though …
1. Make sure to work in a well ventilated area
2. Wear gloves when putting the bleach on the paper towels
3. Immediately wash your stamps after using the bleach
Here are the products I'm using today (minus the bleach & paper towels) …

I took a couple of paper towels, folded them up and poured a little bleach on them. You just need enough to saturate the paper towel. Then, I placed them on a stamp case. You can use anything to put this on … a coffee can lid, a shallow bowl, etc. You just want to make sure to protect your work surface and avoid any leaking of the bleach …

I used the bleach/paper towels as a stamp pad and pressed the large flower stamp onto it. Then I stamped it onto the Shaded Spruce cardstock. I repeated that 2 more times, stamping randomly on the cardstock …

After just a few moments, you can see the color begin to change. Immediately wash your stamp with warm water and a little hand soap. If you leave the bleach on, it will ruin your stamp …

I set that aside to dry and stamped the sentiment on the So Saffron piece of cardstock with Shaded Spruce ink …

I added adhesive to the back, then attached it to the piece of Mint Macaron cardstock …

I added adhesive to the back of the bleached Shaded Spruce cardstock, then attached it to the So Saffron cardstock …

I added adhesive to the back of that, then attached it to the Mint Macaron card base (look how awesome the bleached color changed!)…

I added dimensionals to the back of the sentiment and attached it to the card front …

The completed card …

I love the way it turned out! I'm eager to try this with other colors to see how they change. If you'd like to create this card, here is the list of products that I used. You can purchase them all on my shopping website … DawnBowman.StampinUp.net

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed this 30 day challenge and all of these different cards and tutorials. I really enjoyed making them! As always, if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me …
xoxo
Dawn

#30DayCardChallenge - Day 29

Oh my gosh!! Only 1 more card after today for this challenge!! That went by so quick. I hope you've been enjoying all of these cards and tutorials.
I have my card ready for today! Oh my, I just keep coming back to these daisy stamps. I think this might be my third or fourth one I made for this challenge using the daisies lol. These stamps and punches are just so versatile, I don't think I'll ever tire of using them.
Here are the supplies that I'm using for todays card …

I started out stamping the large leaf with Granny Apple Green ink on the Whisper White cardstock ...

I stamped it once, then without re-inking, I stamped again and one more time to give it 3 different shades of the green …

I continued stamping 3 times before re-inking until I had enough of the dark color. I continued the same method, but stamped the first time on scrap paper, then the next 2 times on the cardstock ...

I set that aside and punched out 4 daisies on the Daffodil Delight cardstock with the Medium Daisy punch ...

From the strip of Crumb Cake cardstock, I punched out 2 circles with the 1/2" Circle Punch …

Then I used the Crumb Cake ink on a dauber to tap some ink to the centers of the flowers …

I also added some ink to the edge of the circles and the tips of the flower petals …

Next, I attached 2 flowers together with a glue dot …

Then I added a dimensional to the back of each flower center and attached them to the 2 flowers …

I took the strip of Crumb Cake cardstock put it in the smallest (1") groove and punched out the end …

Using Crumb Cake ink, I stamped the word 'Friend' on the end that was punched …

Now, to put it all together! I gathered all of my pieces and added adhesive to the back of the Whisper White cardstock then attached it to the piece of Crumb Cake cardstock ...

I added adhesive to the back of that and attached it to the Daffodil Delight card base …

I trimmed off the stamped strip of Crumb Cake, but left about an inch on the end, then played around with positioning the tag and flowers …

Once I decided on the position, I added adhesive to the tag and attached it. I added a dimensional to the back of each flower and attached them over the tag …

Even though the Daffodil Delight is such a light color, I decided to add a piece of Whisper White cardstock to the inside to balance out the weight a little …

And the card was complete!! …

I tell you, I had so much fun making this card! I absolutely love this stamp set!! If you'd like to purchase any of these products, you can find them on my website - DawnBowman.StampinUp.net

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 Thank you so much for stopping by today! If you have any questions, or need help placing an order, please don't hesitate to contact me!
xoxo
Dawn

#30DayCardChallenge - Day 28

I know, I'm a day late with this card lol. I was busy yesterday putting up pegboard in my kitchen. Naturally, that took longer than expected hahaahaa.
Okay, so here are the supplies that I used to make this card …

The card I'm making today is called the Triple Layer Card. It looks a lot more complicated than it is - it's a really fun and easy card to make! Today, I decided to make it with the leaves in this stamp set, plus I really like the sentiment.
So, the first thing to do is apply a tiny bit of adhesive to the back of the Whisper White cardstock pieces - just the 2 smaller ones. I'll be taking them apart, so you really want to use just enough adhesive to hold them together temporarily. Then stack them on top of each other, trying to center as best as possible …

Using Mossy Meadow ink, I stamped the sentiment on the smallest piece of cardstock …

I also used the Mossy Meadow ink to stamp the tree next to the sentiment, and over the different layers. then, using the Pear Pizzazz ink, I stamped the leaf randomly ...

Using the Pear Pizzazz ink, I stamped off onto some scrap paper then stamped around randomly, filling in some empty space …

Once the stamping was complete, I carefully took apart the cardstock and adhered the smallest one to a piece of Mossy Meadow cardstock…

I attached the middle piece to the Mossy Meadow layer, then the largest stamped piece to the Mossy Meadow card base ...

I added adhesive to the back of the middle piece and attached it to the card, trying to line up the stamped pieces as much as possible, then added the smallest piece …

I finished by adding a piece of Whisper White cardstock to the inside …

And the card was complete!! …

Here's the list of products that I used today …

I really like this technique and plan to make more - maybe some colorful, pretty flowers! As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
xoxo
Dawn

Kitchen Pegboard

I missed yesterday’s card challenge, but I will be posting it later today (along with today’s card too!)
So, yesterday the hubs got frustrated pulling a frying pan out of the kitchen cabinet. You see, we have a tiny ‘galley’ style kitchen, with very little cabinet space. Over the years, I’ve arranged and rearranged and tried to utilize every inch of space and come up with storage solutions. I use one of my lower cabinets for my pots & pans. It has a roll out wire drawer that I have the pots and pans stacked in. He got aggravated pulling a pan out and said, ‘We’ve got to do something about this.’ So began the brainstorming!
We tossed around several ideas, then settled on peg board! So hubs went to our local Home Depot, purchased the supplies, and we spent the day installing it …

I had all of those pots and pans in the lower cabinet! That door on the left leads to my basement. On the back of it, I had one of the over the door pocket hangers. I think it was for shoes, but I put all of my utensils in it. Now I have the majority of them on my pegboard!
What do you think? Do you have storage problems in your kitchen? what solutions have you come up with? Tell me in the comments, I'm always looking for new ideas!

Thanks for stopping by today! I'll be back later with the card challenge cards that I made.
xoxo
Dawn

#30DayCardChallenge - Day 27

Hello, Hello! Happy Saturday!!
I've been thinking a lot about Summer the past few days. It's almost August already!! I cant believe it's going by so quickly.
Todays card was inspired by Summer. Here are the supplies that I'm using …

I started with the piece of Balmy Blue cardstock and used a sponge dauber to apply Pear Pizzazz ink to the bottom to create 'grass' …

I stamped the sentiment with Blueberry Bushel ink in the top center …

I used my Big Shot to cut out 3 chairs on the Whisper White cardstock scrap …

I brought the 3 cut out chairs to my work surface and used my tool to poke out all of the little bits that were cut …

I cut the back off of one of the chairs, straight across where the arms are …

I couldn't find my Fine Tip Glue (which would have been perfect for this!), so I applied a tiny, tiny bit of Multipurpose Glue to the back of a chair and adhered it to the left side, on the 'grass' …

Again, using tiny tiny dots of glue, I adhered the other chair to the right side, then turned the cut chair upside down and adhered it to the middle for a table …

Using Flirty Flamingo ink, I stamped 2 glasses 'on' the table top (I know - one of them is a little too high lol) …

I added adhesive to the back, and attached it to the piece of Whisper White cardstock …

I added adhesive to that, and attached it to the card base. Since the card base is a dark color, I added a piece of Whisper White cardstock to the inside  …

And here's the completed card …

If you'd like to create this card, here is a list of the supplies that I used. You can purchase any of them on my shopping website - DawnBowman.StampinUp.net

Thanks for stopping by!
xoxo
Dawn