The midweek "challenge" on daring cardmakers is making a card using a tutorial on doodling with patterned papers. Lythan wrote up lovely step by step instructions. I'm not a doodler, but I couldn't resist giving this a try.First off, I found out that I don't have many bold patterned papers in my stash, but I found some K & Company paper that I thought would work. Here's the pre-doodling phase.
I'd cut out some mini-scalloped circles using Spellbinders nestabilitities dies. I did the doodling on the patterns per the tutorial using a black gel pen and a Ranger Inkssentials white opaque pen. Here's how my card turned out. 
It's definitely an out-of-my-comfort-zone creation, but it was fun! The brown layer is the back of the patterned paper. The sentiment is a Posh stamp. I attached the doodled pieces with some pop dots to give them some dimension. I think this is a technique that I'll have to use again. Sure was less intimidating than free-hand doodling. :-)
This week's Wednesday Stamper challenge is the color, white. The first thought that came to my mind was snow, but I've had enough of that. I'm ready for spring. So here are some of the other images that come to mind when I think of the color white.
I think of simplicity, of angels and of lace. So here is a fairly simple card. The angel and the lace images are by Posh. The sentiment is by Jody Poesy. The wings are Spellbinder die cuts made from metallic Bazzill.
This is a very simple card that I made in keeping with the Three X Three daring cardmakers midweek challenge. I used three different papers, three buttons, and three ribbons for the tags on my card. The words were stamped using the small snap stamps by Karen Foster. The lace is by Posh and the center image is by Paper Angel.
I decided to work on something besides cards. Still involved stamping, but I was ready for a change of pace. I don't recall now where I originally heard of this idea, but I remember liking it and thinking that it had possibilities. These are post-it holders, but the kind that you could keep on a desk. I was browsing through Michael's the other day. Their frames were on sale. The acrylic kind that can be a lot of fun were included, so I picked up a few 5 x 7 landscape frames. I didn't have any of those. Here are a couple of examples of what I ended up making with them....
As I said, these are acrylic frames with the stamped designs in place of a photo and a post-it type notepad attached to the front. They're incredibly quick and easy to make.
For this one used Hero Arts sentiment stamps and a Posh pansy stamp. I used markers, direct to rubber, for the pansy, gave it a light spritz and stamped the image. There are also some Autumn Leaves Rhonna Farrer flowers stamped in the background in Versamark.
This holder has the cyclist by Stampington, a Vap stamp "fun in the sun" sentiment, and the "remember" is by Ma Vinci.To give you a better idea of how the frame works to support the post-it pad, here's a view from the side....
Put the stamped cardstock in upside down, or opposite of the way you'd normally insert a photo, and then lay the frame down on its back. It's best to keep the design fairly simple. The frame can only accommodate so many layers of thickness. I also found out that even eyelets that have been set fairly flat will not fit, no matter what you do. If you noticed that I managed to use a couple of big ones near the 'remember', that's because the acrylic backing ends before it gets to that point--there's about an inch of leeway.
This is a fun and easy project and you just may have most of the supplies that you need already. :-)
