Crafty Cardmakers challenge

Hi everyone, hope your weekend is off to a good start. I’ve made a card for the Crafty Cardmakers challenge which is a challenge I’ve only just found. This time the challenge is to just have some stamping on your card with the optional extra of using a stamping technique you haven’t used before or some paper piecing, resist etc.

I’ve used this cute Motivet stamp from the new Christmas collection available at the Craft Barn and coloured it with copics then added stickles and some doodling and cut out with a circle nestability. I’ve cut some BasicGrey Eskimo Kisses paper for the scalloped circle and matting layer underneith and I’ve embossed a piece of whitewashed Core’dinations card using a Crafts Too stars embossing folder which I’ve then sanded and also coloured in some of the stars. I suppose my option is that I’ve used paper with pinky colours in it for a Christmas card, I usually tend to go for more traditional Christmas colours but I really like these in the Eskimo Kisses collection that have a lot of pinks. I’ve added more doodling around the edges, some red tulle and a craftwork cards sentiment. TFL.

DU2DS 25 and Just Magnolia Featured Stamper

Hi everyone, Friday again and time for another DU2DS challenge. This time our DT friend Larissa has designed a great sketch for us to follow which we all enjoyed using and we hope you can join us. There are some digital images for a prize and some great inspiration from my DT friends.  I’ve used a soon to be available digi ‘Got Turkey’ which is coloured with copics and then cut out, I’ve also put some glaze on his eyes and nose and added some sparkle with a copic spica clear gel pen on the turkey. The paper is by K&Co and I’ve distressed all the edges with scissors. I added some doodling around the edge of the card blank, a ribbon, gem and a doodlebug sentiment to finish off.

I was delighted to be asked by Bev and Jacquie to be a featured stamper on the Just Magnolia Challenge and I’ve done a little picture ‘how to’ for distressing which is up on the challenge now. Thank you very much ladies for inviting me, I really enjoyed doing it. This is the card I made to go along with the how to and it was made to one of Rach’s lovely sketches from a few weeks back.

This gorgeous Tilda was coloured with copics and cut out. I used some dark pink card for the layers and BasicGrey Lemonade papers.

I’m hoping to have something to post tomorrow but if not hope you have a good weekend. If anyone is going to the Craft Barn Mini Fest on Saturday, I’ll be there demonstrating the new Little Clair stamps and I hope to catch up with you there. Also, if anyone is going to the NEC on Sunday, I’ll be demonstrating on the Magnolia Stamps stand for a couple of hours in the morning and it would be great to meet anyone who’s going to be there too. TFL.

Colour Create 31 – white, blue and silver

Hi everyone, time for a new challenge on Colour Create. This time our combo has been chosen by Karen and is a gorgeous choice of blue, silver and white, thanks Karen, I loved this one, they’re a perfect set of colours for Christmas. The options this time are winter and glitter but these aren’t compulsory. My DT friends have some amazing cards for this challenge and I hope you can join us. Our sponsor is Handy Hippo so there’s a lovely prize to be won.

I’ve made a gatefold card and used a new Motivet stamp from their Christmas range available at the Craft Barn. Colouring is with copics and the paper is Imaginisce, I think this one is so pretty but it’s actually the reverse side of the main pattern, I love the blue. The image is cut out with a Nestabilities die and I’ve edged it with silver ink. I added some punched snowflakes, a Craftwork Cards greeting, ribbon and gems to finish. TFL.

Quick Post

 











Hi everyone, a quick post from me today and no card to show. I do have a link to a site I just found, www.picnik.com which is a great free photo editing program with lots of great automatic effects buttons, I’ve done the mirror style frames on the photo’s above which is one of the features  and it’s very quick and easy when you just want to edit some pics to blog quickly. I found the site through Shimelle.com where I’ve just signed up for an online class, Blogging for Scrapbookers, I saw that one of my blog friends Jacky had signed up so I went to have a look. I don’t really scrapbook but am always saving bits and pieces and taking photo’s so that I can and I do want to get going with it, hence the photo’s above, I thought this might give me a kick start and it already has as I loved a couple of Shimelle’s concepts immediately, it was a good start.
The lovely Tara has passed me an award, thank you for thinking of me T, it’s much appreciated and now I have to try and think of answers for the questions which you have to answer with one word! If you haven’t got this one yet, it’s over to you :D!!

1. Where is your cell phone? handbag
2. Your hair? grey/brown :D
3. Your mother? kind
4. Your father? funny
5. Your favorite food? Italian
6. Your dream last night? None
7. Your favorite drink? coffee
8. Your dream/goal? happiness
9. What room are you in? dining
10. Your hobby? art
11. Your fear? health
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? 8
13. Where were you last night? home
14. Something that you aren't? miserable
15. Muffins? choc
16. Wish list item? studio
17. Where did you grow up? various
18. Last thing you did? 7
19. What are you wearing? jeans
20. Your TV? on
21. Your Pets? dog
22. Friends? supporters
23. Your life? gooooooooooood
24. Your mood? elated
25. Missing Someone? grandmother
26. vehicle? car
27. Something your not wearing? socks
28. Your favorite store? Magnolia
29. Your favorite color? blue
30. When was the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? dunno
32. Your best friend? fun
33. One place that I go to over and over? blogger!
34. Facebook? Occasionally!
35. Favorite place to eat? restaurant
Enjoy your evening.

21st birthday

Hi everyone, I thought I’d show a couple of cards I made for my youngest Son who has his 21st birthday tomorrow, yikes, I feel old!! They’re both quite straightforward and were quick to make but cute images wouldn’t be what he’d like so no painting involved. For the first card I stamped the numbers from a PaperArtsy numbers set and then coloured them in with a silver and red gel pen. I’ve sponged the edges, doodled and then embossed the edges of this and the card blank on my scoreboard. Added some gems to finish.

The second card is another simple layout but it’s a huge, almost twelve inches wide. I’ve used some October Afternoon paper for this one which I’ve sponged around the edges with black soot distress ink. There’s a strip of black bazzil punched with a Martha Stewart zig-zag punch and some smooth gems that I’ve re-coloured with a black copic pen. The numbers and letters were all cut on the Cricut and I've just realised after seeing the photo uploaded that the 's' is upside down, hopefully he won't notice :). For the numbers, I've done some stamping with an Artistic Stamper background stamp and black distress ink randomly around them, they've been embossed three times with thick embossing powder and then frozen and cracked. The second photo shows the cracked effect closer up, I rubbed some black ink into the cracks and then wiped clean.

Well, I hope you’re having a good week, the rain has stopped here at last and now I can go out! TFL.

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