My crafty outlook: 25 Aug 2011

Thursday, 25 August 2011

Baby boy

When I made the Jemima Puddleduck tag the other day I said that I would probably use it on a new baby card, so here it is. You can see how I made the tag here.

The gingham background and the spotty, scalloped border was part of a cupcake kit from QVC (no cupcakes in sight here!). I distressed the edges of the sentiment to match the tag.

This is for:

Phindy's Friday 69: something new (baby)

Cat's corner 57: no cat

Creative Belli 124: gingham - the sentiment has been long forgotten

Crafts4eternity R33: embellishment recipe - tag

Pixie dust studio 89: tag your it

Simply create 50: time to distress

Sweet stampin: babies & little ones

CropStop 34: anything goes

Digi doodle 73: anything goes

Aud sentiments 35: anything goes

Paper crafting journey 17: anything goes

Paper playtime 53: anything goes

Lothian crafts 17: anything goes

AiFactory: August anything goes

Make it Monday 51

Embossing ... or rather 'debossing'

John ordered me some Dreamweaver stencils for my birthday and they arrived this morning. I'd already got some embossing paste ready for using with them, but decided not to try this today as there is still chaos here with the bathroom being done and didn't want to bother to get bowl of water to put stencil in.

So, instead of using embossing paste, I decided to use the swirls stencil with my cuttlebug - followed the 'sandwich' I found here - and it worked brilliantly ... except that I put the embossed dotted card in the wrong way round, so I ended up with debossing on the right side instead of embossing, but I wasn't go to waste it, so I distressed the whole area by swiping it with stazon blazing red - so the debossed swirls didn't pick up the ink colour. I quite like it (although next time I'll try to remember to put the card the right way up).

The pink spotted paper is My Mind's Eye quite contrary summer and the ribbon is from stash, long forgotten about. The little sentiment is difficult to see here - it is 'just for you' - it was originally white and I swiped with blazing red and buffed for the silver to show through.

I rounded the corners for Pals paper arts 108 elements of style - soften the edges.

And the colour was inspired by the Lollipop ladies embossed cupcake picture:

The monochrome pink is also for:

Tanda teaser 178: monochrome

Truly scrumptious 64: rocked up pink

Also for:

365 cards day 178: buried deep - new stencil and 'never used' before backing paper

DDH week 13: dry emboss

Freshly brewed 61: emboss it

Simply create 50: time to distress

Shopping our stash 14: red or ribbon or roses

Ribbon girl: project that features ribbon

Kaboodle 81: ribbons

Crafty sentiments: ribbons & bow

Really reasonable ribbon 30: keep it clean

CropStop 34: anything goes

Aud sentiments 35: anything goes

Digi doodle 73: anything goes

Paper crafting journey 17: anything goes

Paper playtime 53: anything goes

Lothian crafts 17: anything goes

AiFactory: August anything goes

Make it Monday 51

Happy school time

This is another quick sticky note holder, this time for a 'back to school' little gift, suitable for either teacher or child.

This is for:

Creative inspirations 66: back to school

Crazy challenge 81: back to school

Party time Tuesday 30: back to school

Use it Tuesday 14: back to school - the chipboard stickers from Poundland had been hoarded for a long while

For fun challenges: back to school

Papercraft star 59: back to school

Penny's 60: back to school

PaperPlay 34: back to school

Fairytale 22: first school day

2 sisters: back to school

Stamp insanity 74: back to school

Die cuttin' divas 29: for a special teacher

Your next stamp 49: fruit inspiration

Ooh-la-la 87: no backing paper

Challenge up your life 50: no patterned paper

Digi doodle 73: anything goes

Paper crafting journey 17: anything goes

Paper playtime 53: anything goes

Lothian crafts 17: anything goes

AiFactory: August anything goes

Make it Monday 51

Inspire me Fridays 20

Sticky notes holder

This is a sticky notes holder made with an offcut piece of card, decorated with a beautiful flower and a birdie twinchie that I made long ago - thought it was about time I used it. In fact, I searched on my blog and found that I made the birdie twinchie in May 2009 - wow! how time flies. The background was created with the shaving foam technique - you can read about it here.

Colours are for There she goes 121: be inspired: