"Let's Go Fly A Kite" Dirty Dozen Card-Making Challenge

Six months ago I wrote in THIS POST that I was given the great honor in the paper-crafting world to join the "Dirty Dozen" on Splitcoaststampers.   Splitcoaststampers is an on-line paper crafting community where crafters can learn new techniques, chit chat with each other, share their art work, and so much more.  One part of this community is "The Dirty Dozen".  This is an invitation only group of crafters whose work is seen as exemplary so they are asked to be part of the Dirty Dozen.  The requirements of the Dirty Dozen is to create six cards for six months centered around a different theme each month.  The cards then are uploaded into the "Dirty Dozen Gallery" and only fan club members are allowed to see them.  After six months, Dirty Dozen members are allowed to post them elsewhere on social media or their blogs.  Well, it has been six months since I completed my first challenge, so I can finally show me my first set of cards!

The first Dirty Dozen challenge theme was "Let's Go Fly a Kite" and here are my submissions:

Vintage Boy

To make this card, I used the Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen Sketch 0424.  The stamp set is retired Crafty Secrets "Little Boy".  I stamped the images, colored them with Copic Markers, fussy cut them out, and popped them up on dimensionals.  I stamped the "Dear Little Boy" sentiment on a separate piece of card stock and cut it out with a Spellbinder's Nestability.  The other sentiment I stamped directly on to the card. I hand drew the grass with acrylic paint.  The designer kite paper is from Cosmo Cricket "Togetherness".

Wishing You Joy

To make my next card, I used retired Stampin' Up! "Kids at Play".  

The little girl and kite were stamped on separate card stock, cut out, and popped with dimensionals. I used a Spellbinder's Nestability to create the Very Vanilla frame behind her. I added a ruby red diagonal panel over the kite designer paper to emphasize the little girl more (otherwise she would have gotten lost on the card). I stamped the sentiment onto Very Vanilla and cut it out with an MFT banner die, then I cut another one out of Ruby Red to make it stand out. I adhered the sentiment with two brads. The card base is "Soft Suede". The sentiment is unknown.

Kite on Card

This card was inspired by "lovinpaper" who shared "ruby-heartedmom"'s cute kite card. I made a kite shaped card and decorated it with Cosmo Cricket designer paper. The kite portion of the card is made the same way as the Penny Black "Garden Friends" card below following the same SCS Tutorial.  I glued it to a card base also decorated with paper from the same stack. I stamped a sentiment onto white card stock and cut it out with Spellbinder's Nestabilities along with a scalloped frame cut out in Blue Bayou. The Flower die is from MFT, all cut from card stock. The butterfly die cut was made using a Spellbinder die.

Fabric & Felt Kite Card

This was a fun card to make because it brought both my love of sewing and paper-crafting together. I made a kite out of felt and cotton material. I sewed the cotton and felt triangle pieces onto a kite shaped piece of felt. I had to put the cotton material on top of another piece of felt or it would have been lower than the other two felt pieces. I cut the clouds out of white felt using an MFT cloud die. The kite tail is a piece of "fiber" purchased from a craft store. I only glued portions of the tail so other parts would stick up. I stamped the sentiment directly on the main image panel. I cut two scalloped border out of Ruby Red card stock for the side borders and the edging strips are Cosmo Cricket designer paper.

Penny Black "Garden Friends"

I made the kite shaped card following the directions on the SCS tutorial. I stamped my image, colored it, and cut it out using a Spellbinder Nestabilitie. I added a scalloped frame using Spellbinders Nesties. The flowers were cut out of card stock using an MFT die. I put a small yellow pom pom in the center. The sentiment was stamped onto white card stock then cut out with an MFT banner die. I made a kite tail with yellow twine and tied ribbon onto it.

MFT "Adorable Elephants"

I made a Diamond Fold Card following the SCS tutorial. I stamped the main image onto white card stock and colored it in then cut it out with a Spellbinder's Nestabilitie die. The kite was stamped on a separate piece of card stock, colored, cut out, and glued to the die. I stamped the sentiment onto blush card stock and glued it the main image panel. Adhesive crystals were added for embellishment. I mimicked the colors in the die by coloring just the corners of white card stock with the same colors in the kite using copic markers

I like how the shape of the card's design mimics the shape of a kite.

 I hope you enjoyed looking at my first set of Dirty Dozen cards.  I will be back next month with more.

Have a Great Day!  Amy

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