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Friday, 12 August 2011

Totally Gorjuss Anniversary

Scraping in at the last minute for Net's sketch on Totally Gorjuss 92:

I used offcuts, embossing the piece of red card with a cuttlebug folder and lightly sanding. The die cut nestie patterned shape is recycled from a card received. The flowers are Martha Stewart, piece of organza ribbon and chipboard embellished heart from stash and the anniversary sentiment is Craftworks.

This is also for:

Gingerloft 22: make it sparkle
Cutie Sunday 146: flower power
Pixie cottage 81: say it with flowers
The craft garden August: bold, bright and loud
Jules' crafty snippets challenge week 31 - all papers were from offcuts
AiFactory: August anything goes
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Thursday, 11 August 2011

Poorly pup

This is a last-minute entry for Glitter geeks week 9: furry and feathery friends, using the sketch for Crafts 4 eternity 31:

The 'poorly pup' image is one of Di's Digis that I won for a recent challenge on Paper Crafting Journey, coloured with copics.

I have been so privileged to win ten of Di's Digis in the past week or so - 5 for winning the PCJ challenge and 5 for winning a challenge on Divas by design. I also have some great news to share regarding sponsorship of my Craftyhazelnut Christmas Challenge blog - more about that later.

This card was a good way of using up scraps, something I try to do, but the box always seems just as full!

This is also for:

Dutch dare 124: for the kids - suitable for a 'get well' for a child
Top tip Tuesday 46: straight edges
Simply create 49: favourite animal
iCopic lover 42: fur challenge
KB cute Monday 24: anything goes using a digi
AiFactory: August anything goes

Update: Thanks to a blogging friend, Elizabeth - she is a fab supporter of my CHNC blog - I've found Jules 'Always with a heart' blog and her 'snippets' challenges. I'm always looking for opportunities to use up the scraps - so why is it that the box seems more full day by day? So I'm linking this to Jules Crafty Snippet challenge 31, because all of the pieces of design paper were from my offcuts box.
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A clean and simple Thank You

This card is for Clean & simple 152:

I used a couple of Kanban Elizabethan stackers - and this time, they did actually stack! I covered these with some magic mesh (yes, using some of that again) and added some deep pink sticky felt lace from We R Memory Keepers. Just the addition of the stamped sentiment and the card was done.
This is also for:

Stampin' sisters in Christ 101: I've used some magic mesh again
Little miss Muffet 15: outside the die cut
AiFactory: August anything goes
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Less is more, red white and blue

The Less is More challenge for week 27 is to use the colours of our nation's flag, so for me in the UK that's red, white and blue.

I've used a card that is shaped on the right hand side to reveal a little of the inside underneath. I stamped the left hand edge with an Anna Griffin lace stamp with stazon blazing red. The clarity sketched lady was stamped with ultramarine stazon, having first distressed the edges with stormy sky DI - I then brushed some of this lightly for the lady's dress, doing the same with fired brick DI for her hat, shoes and gloves.

This is also for:

Alphabet: N for navy blue plus one other colour
Annabelle: say it with one layer
Cute card Thursday 177: clean & simple
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011

August poppies

Until I saw the challenge for this week's Daring Cardmakers: birth month flowers for August, I hadn't realised (or I'd forgotten - must be due to age - lol!) that August flowers are poppies and gladioli - both of which I love - well, having an August birthday, I should really, I suppose.

So this card is for the DCM dare, for which I've used the sketch for Saturday sketch 167, which is being sponsored by Art Journey:

I've used the colour combo for 4 crafty chicks 49:
I've used some Kanban decoupage for the poppy - this is glittered and I coloured with copics. I put some magic mesh (have re-discovered this recently) behind the glittered ribbon, added the little white bows with pearls, the glittered sentiment and the buttons.

I love patterned papers and tend to use them a lot in my cardmaking, but recently I seem to be making quite a few cards without it, which is quite a change - and this is another one.

The photo isn't very good - believe it or not (and I'm not complaining) the sunshine today is so bright!

This is also for:

Card cupids 33: buttons and/or ribbon
Karen's doodles: buttons and bows
Tanda teaser 177: ribbons and bows
Stamp n doodle: recipe - come see the ingredients - ribbon, a punch/die cut and pearls
Stampin' sisters in Christ 101: dig deep into your craft cupboard and use something from your stash that you had forgotten about - I've recently re-discovered using magic mesh - I bought quite a lot of this when I first started crafting and, until a few days ago, hadn't used it for ages
Cutie Sunday 146: flower power
Pixie cottage 81: say it with flowers
Birthday sundaes 21: birthday card
Anything goes 47: happy birthday/celebration
Spoon full of sugar 162: happy birthday
Cardmakin mamas 26: birthday cards
Creative CAS August: birthday bonanza
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WOYWW 114

I haven't taken part in Julia's WOYWW for two or three week - don't the weeks go by so quickly?!

Well, I have to confess that today's peep into my crafting world for WOYWW 114 is a bit of a cheat because the photos were taken a few days ago - one of those rare summer days when it was really warm (indeed hot), so I took some crafting supplies up into my garden summer house. You can see my 'lazy susan' with lots of my pens, my iPad (so I could watch some television using tvcatchup) and my mobile phone. You can just about see my craft sheet ready to do some stamping - stamps, ink pads etc in the box.

And I had the sun lounger at the ready for when I needed a break - I'll leave you to guess how much time I spent crafting and how much time lazing in the sun.


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Tuesday, 9 August 2011

The curtain is up ...

I was commissioned to make a card for a 70th birthday for someone who is involved in amateur dramatics and singing.

I found the picture of a production of Giblert & Sullivan's Gondoliers at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter. I added the sentiments in Publisher.

I created the curtain by printing on to flocked paper, so it feels like soft, plush material. I spent a long time this afternoon printed on to a piece of red velvet paper which looked much richer than this, but, unfortunately, when I was in the process of sticking it on to a print out of the G & S picture I tore the velvet paper, so I had to resort to this instead. Having stuck it to an A5 card I cut round the edges of the curtain to make it a bit more realistic.

I'm linking this for:

Quirky crafts 16: let's do the numbers
Birthday sundaes 21: birthday card
Anything goes 47: happy birthday/celebration
Spoon full of sugar 162: happy birthday
Cardmakin mamas 26: birthday cards
Creative CAS August: birthday bonanza
Cute card Thursday 176: no designer paper
Creative stamp friends 31: home-made background
Creative Belli 123: non-paper - the curtain is flocked

Update: took the card to the person who ordered it and she was absolutely thrilled with it.
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Indian summer GD slot on Use it Tuesday

Having won challenge 12 last week on Use it Tuesday I was invited to be a Guest Designer for today's challenge: Indian Summer. I feel privileged to join the team for challenge 13 - I very much enjoyed producing this card.

When I thought about Indian Summer I thought of a touch of summer in the autumn, so I went for autumnal colours for the framework of the card with a summer rose in the middle.

Both stamps are Kanban ones that I bought a while ago and hadn't yet used either of them.

I stamped the border one with memento rich cocoa and used distress inks - mustard seed, spiced marmalade and just a touch of fired brick. The rose was then stamped with memento tuxedo black and coloured with a variety of green and yellow copics.

I wonder what Indian Summer makes you think of? Please go over and visit Use it Tuesday and see the lovely crafting of the Design Team - and hopefully join in the challenge.

I have quite a few acrylic blocks, but I found that the border stamp went right to the edges of a large block, so I used a box lid instead - this was so easy to press in to to get a sharp image.

I'm also linking this for:

Come and get it: fall birthday (insert with birthday greeting)
Dream valley 13: distressing
Order of the opus gluei 110: a picture is worth a thousand words - no words
Sundays with Crissy 20: keep it simple stamper
Freshly brewed 30: hot!!! colours
Cute card Thursday 176: no designer paper
Creative stamp friends 31: home-made background
Frosted designs fabulous Friday: colouring (distress inks and copics)
Just some lines: outdoors/summer colours
My craft spot 20: it's hot out there - hot, bright colours
The craft garden August: bold, bright and loud
Cutie Sunday 146: flower power
The paper shelter 25: flowers, flowers, flowers
Paper creator's crafts 4: say it with flowers
AiFactory: August anything goes

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Monday, 8 August 2011

Green ... especially for you

This is a quick card with a piece of We R memory keepers background paper, a length of wired organza ribbon that I've had for ages - it has a glittery look to it irl. The ornate framed topper is a Kanban one.

This is for:

Created by hand: peridot/shades of green
Lollipop crafts 43: monochromatic
Incy wincy 106: something old (the paper and ribbon), something new (the topper)
Card cupids 33: buttons and/or ribbon
Ribbon carousel 14: anything goes - using ribbon
AiFactory: August anything goes
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When life gives you lemons ...

For this card I've used My time made easy Pretty Patterns sketch 21, which also asks for our own background (I didn't use any patterned paper) and a quote - this was produced on my dymo letratag:

This is for 365 cards day 156: when life hands you lemons ...

I've used a Pixie Dust studio 'lemonade' digi for their 'Anything goes' challenge, using one of their images, which I printed and coloured with copics. I actually cropped the image (it had some flowers at the bottom), so this is also for Bee crafty 35: cropping & chopping images.

The colour scheme is for Creative inspirations 123: lemonade - yellow & white.

This is also for:

The crafty pad 133: gone fruity
Kort o mania 44: create something with a saying on
KB cute Monday 24: anything goes using a digi
Cute card Thursday 176: no designer paper
AiFactory: August anything goes
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A dress form - just for you

This card was prompted by the challenge for 365 cards day 157: ad inspired, with this picture:

I remembered that there were some dress forms in a QVC Kanban kit I got a while ago, so I put together a border, framed oval, sentiment and hat with the dress form with a 50s dress. The black card blank is 7 x 5. The lines on the dress and around the oval are foiled with gold and copper.

This is also for:

Corrosive 128: earth tones
House of Gilli: polka dots
Sparkles forum 17: one for the girls
AiFactory: August anything goes
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BF August inchies

The August inchies swap on the Bubbly Funk forum is 'summer holiday'.

Last night I had great fun spending a 10$ coupon at Stitchy Bear digital stamps - I won it recently for a Winter Wonderland challenge 'red & green should not be seen'. One of the digis I chose was 'deckchair' by Delicious Doodles, so I thought I would use it straight away for my 'summer holiday' inchies.

The good thing about a digi is that you can scale it down to whatever size you need, so I reduced it to the right size for an inchie. I coloured the background sky and sand with copics, but used Staedtler triplus fineliner pens for the other colouring because it was so fine.

It's hard to see in the picture, but beside the deckchair there is a tube of sun lotion and a pair of sunglasses - ever hopeful for a summer holiday with some sunshine!

The little dew drop ink pad was added for size comparison (lol! to show that they really are inchies!). I tried to take a better picture outside, but it's so breezy that the paper they were put on wouldn't stay still.

I'm linkind for these challenges:

Clear it out Tuesday: summer is here
Craft room: summer holidays
Creative craft: its summertime
Divas by design 7: summer is here
Cardmadfairy 14: summer holidays
Crafty Ann 46: summertime ... and the living is easy
Deep ocean 5: seaside
Die cut dreams 95: holiday fun
KB cute Monday 24: anything goes using a digi
Cute card Thursday 176: no designer paper
Crafty purple frog: anything but a card
AiFactory: August anything goes



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Sunday, 7 August 2011

Black, white and red Christmas

I thought I'd make another card for my CHNC challenge 32 - the challenge this week is to use black, white and one other colour - if you haven't yet started your Christmas cards, now would be a good time and why not choose a colour scheme for this challenge?

It's a very simple card. I stamped a newly-acquired Kanban stamp with versamark and heat embossed with white detail power. The black shape is a Kanban Elizabethan stackable - I got lots of sets of stackables with ten sheets of clear stamps from QVC. I'm a bit disappointed though because the stackables don't all layer well - although there are some the same shape they don't leave the same amount of space around, so I opted to stick my black stackable on to a piece of white card and cut out by hand. The sentiment was produced on my dymo letratag. The embossed card blank is 7 x 5.

I'm linking this for these challenges:

Simon says: Christmas in August
PaperPlay 31: Christmas in August
Inspiration avenue: the forest of trees
Little red wagon 92: put a critter on it
Cute card Thursday 176: no designer paper
Sundays with Crissy 20: keep it simple stamper
Cards for men 16: clean & simple
AiFactory: August anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
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Saturday, 6 August 2011

Blue butterfly friendship

I'm just scraping in at the last minute for Make my Monday 9: butterflies or dragonflies.

This is actually the first of six ATCs that I'm doing for the August swap on the Bubblyfunk forum - the theme is 'a quote/a saying'.

When the other five are made (hopefully tomorrow) I'll add them to this post.

The background is a Kanban image stamped with stazon ultramarine, with the butterfly lightly coloured with pale blue grey copic. The saying is a Stamping up stamp. Edges were distressed with stormy sky DI.

Sunday update - all six are done now:

This is also for:

Bizzy Becs August: use butterflies and the colour blue
ATC challenges 7: all things summer
Stamptacular 122: friends are heaven sent
Fab n funky 84: friendship
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Red and white magical Christmas

For week 31 on the Facebook Sunday's with Santa group, there is a recipe of a snowflake, some ribbon and 3 buttons, so I have used all of these on this card.

The current CD Sunday challenge is 'bling it up!' - getting this done at the last minute before a new challenge goes up tomorrow. I used a paper and topper from My Craft Studio CD Christmas 1 contemporary tree. Until recently I'd forgotten about these Christmas CDs, so it made a change to use something from one of them (I have the My Craft Studio Christmas set). I added quite a lot of red gems for the bling, as well as the glittered snowflake. As I used a CD, this is also for Fab's big Christmas for August.



This is also for:

Incy wincy 105: monochromatic colours
Tanda teaser 177: ribbons and bows
Truly scrumptious 62: buttons & bows
Ribbon carousel 14: let's get crazy - anything goes (using ribbon)
Totally papercrafts 78: holidays (I noticed some of the DT did Christmas cards)
Simon says: Christmas in August
PaperPlay 31: Christmas in August
Stamp something: August digi day
AiFactory: August anything goes
Papertake: anything goes

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In the garden

This card is for DDH (the angel company) 11: black and white - using one of their digital paper downloads (I entered a card for their challenge a few days ago, but didn't realise that I should have used one of their papers, hence another card now).

I've overlaid some Dawn Bibby acetate, using my xyron for even coverage, for The crafty pad 132: something clear. The acetate is embossed with silver foiling.

Th daisies image is one of my favourite Magenta stamps so I'm entering this for Ladybug 36: favourite stamp; sticky ribbons are from Hobbycraft and the felt flowers with button is from Poundland.

Because of the reflection on the acetate it was difficult to get a photo - this is the best I could do:

This is also for:

Secret crafter Saturday 146: black and white only
Order of the opus gluei 110: a picture is worth a thousand words - no words
Kaboodle 78: in the garden
Poodles parlour: round and round the garden
House of Gilli: polka dots
Hanna and friends 105: dots or stripes
Delightful: stitching - it's real on the ribbons, but I didn't do it!
Pattie's 27: stitching
The stamp man 28: show us some stitching
Ribbon carousel 14: let's get crazy - anything goes (using ribbon)
Incy wincy 105: monochromatic colours
365 cards day 159: opposite day - black and white
AiFactory: August anything goes
Nightshift stamping 78: feel free to do!
Papertake: anything goes

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Cupcake birthday

This card is for Birthday sundaes 20: cakes and cupcakes birthdays. And it's for this sketch on CPS 229:

Background papers are Daisy bucket and the toppers are Kanban.


Colours are for The lollipop ladies 26: biscotti inspiration picture (the added texture is on the die cut toppers - they are embossed, but difficult to see here):

This is also for:

365 cards day 158: sweet treats (two different cakes)
Card cupids: birthday cards
Lollipop 42: celebrate - birthday
Cardmakin mamas 26: birthday cards
Craft your days away 26: birthday celebrations
My time to craft 151: espressoley for you - coffee colours or drinks
Lexi 45: a shaped card
Whoopsi Daisy: lt's get in shape
Mark's finest papers speedy the cat 67: anything but a standard card
Incy wincy 105: monochromatic colours
AiFactory: August anything goes
Papertake: anything goes

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White on white Sassy Suzi

This is a joyfold Christmas card (well, it's my adapted version of a joyfold - a bit of poetic licence) for Christmas inspirations 30.

It features Greeting Farm wild sprouts 'sassy Suzi' stamp, coloured very lightly with two or three pastel copics. This is for Anyone for Anya 'no patterned paper' challenge, also for All that scraps challenge: anything goes - it's also for Farm fresh Friday throwback challenge 3: fancy fold, using an older TGF stamp.

The crackle embossing panel on the left was made using a creative expressions folder, the spots on the central card were produced with a crafts too folder and the Christmas greetings from a cuttlebug embossing folder, all run through my cuttlebug. I made my joyfold a bit different to the norm, so that the full extent of the embossed greetings can be seen when the card fully opens. The central panel can be opened, it's just held down a bit with the craftime flower. The white ribbon ith gems was from Hobbycraft.

This is also for:

Ellephantastic August: add some layers
Shabby tea room 73: mix and match - at least 3 different patterned papers - manufactured or make your own - I made three different embossed papers
Lexi 45: a shaped card
Whoopsi Daisy: lt's get in shape
Mark's finest papers speedy the cat 67: anything but a standard card
Jingle belles: shape up for the holidays
Totally papercrafts 78: holidays (I noticed some of the DT did Christmas cards)
Just for fun 27: white on white
Bah! humbug 32: white on white
Winter wonderland: white on white
House of Gilli: polka dots
Hanna and friends 105: dots or stripes
Ribbon carousel 14: let's get crazy - anything goes (using ribbon)
Cute card Thursday176: no designer paper
Incy wincy 105: monochromatic colours
My mum's craft shop 17: monochromatic
Simon says: Christmas in August
PaperPlay 31: Christmas in August
Craft us crazy 14: anything goes in August
AiFactory: August anything goes
Nightshift stamping 78: feel free to do!
Papertake: anything goes

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My BF forum CJ has come home

For the past year I've been involved in a Circle Journal group on the Bubblyfunk forum - gosh, that year has gone so quickly ... and so it was time for my own CJ to return home and postie brought it this morning.

I am so delighted with it - thank you so much to all the girls who took part and made a DLO to make this journal so special.

I chose the topic 'If I could travel back in time .. I asked the group to think of a time in the past, either in your own ife that you would love to be able to relive, or in a time before that - perhaps an era when you would have liked to have been part of that scene.

You can see my original post here showing the covers, etc for my CJ and explaining about it.

You can double click on the pictures to enlarge them.

Here is my DLO - I chose the 1920s:


Here are the DLOs done by members of the group:

Rebekah:
Leigh:
Leigh's pages bought back memories for me - I was 13 in 1960 and so I was a teenager and into my 20s during the 60s - and, yes, I wore all the fashions - the bright colours, the mini skirts, the hot pants ... those were the days!

Di W:
Paddy:
Gez:
Nicky:
Not only do I remember the 60s, but also the 50s, during which I grew up as a child. Although it was a time of 'new beginnings', it wasn't easy as rationing still existed in my early childhood and money was tight. However, I can remember at the age of about 11 or 12 wearing some of the full skirts with lots of bright pink netting underneath.

Hels:
Lynn:

Chrissie:
Jane:
I will treasure this CJ.

I now have quite a lot of them and it's lovely to look through them from time to time.

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CHNC challenge 32: black, white and one other colour - with a prize

It's time for a new challenge on my CHNC blog:


This time I'm asking you to make a Christmas card with black, white and one other colour. As this is the first Saturday in the month, there will be a prize for a randomly chosen winner - more information here. If you haven't already started making your Christmas cards, this is a good time to begin - and, for those of you who have been making them throughout the year, a good opportunity to add to your stock - the weeks go by so quickly that it makes sense to get some of those festive cards done.

For my card I've used the black, white and gold combo that I used the other day on this card. This one is quite similar - I just love this stamp so much that I thought I'd use it again for this card. The stamp is an inkadinkado one by Tin can mail, just simply stamped on to gold matt foiled card. This time I embossed the image with black detail. The background paper is some that came with a magazine (I've been hoarding it), scalloped on the edge on my rotatrim. The lovely black die cut panel on the left is one that I bought when we were at Maidstone recently. The sentiment is a Kaisercraft rub on.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Do you stack up 31: black with a pop of colour
Your next stamp 48: beautiful borders
Simon says: Christmas in August
PaperPlay 31: Christmas in August
ClearlyiStamp CIC 33: things with wings
Craft us crazy 14: anything goes in August
Totally papercrafts 78: holidays (I noticed some of the DT did Christmas cards)
AiFactory: August anything goes
Nightshift stamping 78: feel free to do!
Raise the bar 69: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
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Friday, 5 August 2011

Flashback Friday to a gift card holder

Flashback Friday 14 is asking us to show the first gift card holder we made.

In April 2009 I showed these ones that I made for a challenge (the original post is here).

If you click on the picture you can just see the semi-circular cut outs to house the gift card:

And this one is a gate fold one:

and the back shows the semi-circular cut outs:

And here's another version of the first idea:

The components for these came from a kit - strange this challenge came up today because I came across some bits like this the other day and thought I should do something with them, so perhaps I will now I've been reminded of these.

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