We're off on our hols today, so there's nothing going on here now except getting together some crafting to take with me - well you never know if we might get a rainy day and there's always evenings to craft while the TV is on in the background.
All that's left on my desk is my techie stuff - little laptop, iPad synching with my PC, etc etc ready for taking with me. Sorry about the strange angle of the photo, but no time for messing around tonight (should be in bed - got a lot to do tomorrow before we go ... like packing!!)
Why am I showing this? Well, it's for WOYWW 170 - follow the link and enjoy snooping on lots of craftrooms and join in the fun.
Two or three weeks ago I mentioned that I'd received some PanPastels as a prize and a few WOYWWers have asked me how I've got on with them. Well, until Monday, I hadn't actually tried them and when I did I was limited for time, so my first attempt is very basic. I used the orange and yellow that I'd received with one of the sponges to create a sunset sky on this card - you can read more about it here.
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Christmas flowers
For this card I've used the sketch for Totally Gorjuss 147:
I used another vintage Santa oval and sentiment from a recently acquired kit, papers from my Christmas offcuts box and some Prima flowers.
This is my late effort for facebook Sunday's with Santa week 34: flowers (I've still got a few challenges to catch up, but time now has run out because we're off to Eastbourne tomorrow).
Apologies for the glare on the photo.
This is also for:
Pixie's crafty snippets 36
Waste not Wednesdays 28
Anything goes 75: early Christmas
Aud sentiments 62: Christmas is coming
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
Christmas cards all year round September: Christmas presents
Southern girls 52: it's all about the flora
Daring cardmakers: focus on flowers
Sparkles forum Christmas September 20: sparkle & bling
Penny's 91: sparkle and shine
Oozak 6: sparkle
Everybody art 203: vintage
Simply create too 21: so old or vintage
Great impressions September: sentimental journey - anything with a sentiment
Papertake: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 30: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 34: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Natalia and Amy 1: anything goes
Make it Monday 105
Inspire me Fridays 74
52 card pickup week 35
DL.ART 1000 post linky party: anything goes
I used another vintage Santa oval and sentiment from a recently acquired kit, papers from my Christmas offcuts box and some Prima flowers.
This is my late effort for facebook Sunday's with Santa week 34: flowers (I've still got a few challenges to catch up, but time now has run out because we're off to Eastbourne tomorrow).
Apologies for the glare on the photo.
This is also for:
Pixie's crafty snippets 36
Waste not Wednesdays 28
Anything goes 75: early Christmas
Aud sentiments 62: Christmas is coming
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
Christmas cards all year round September: Christmas presents
Southern girls 52: it's all about the flora
Daring cardmakers: focus on flowers
Sparkles forum Christmas September 20: sparkle & bling
Penny's 91: sparkle and shine
Oozak 6: sparkle
Everybody art 203: vintage
Simply create too 21: so old or vintage
Great impressions September: sentimental journey - anything with a sentiment
Papertake: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 30: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 34: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Natalia and Amy 1: anything goes
Make it Monday 105
Inspire me Fridays 74
52 card pickup week 35
DL.ART 1000 post linky party: anything goes
Vintage Santa
This card is based on the sketch for Crafty ribbons 27:
It's also a very late card for Sunday's by Santa on facebook for week 33 (yes, I really am behind) - which was to use ribbon and charm.
Papers are offcuts from the K & Co secret Santa collection, the glittered Santa is from a recently acquired kit and other bits and pieces from stash, including the ribbon originally from a market stall and the charm.
This is also for:
Pixie's crafty snippets 36
Waste not Wednesdays 28
Anything goes 75: early Christmas
Creative card crew 18: Christmas
Aud sentiments 62: Christmas is coming
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
Jingle belles: holiday bingo - I chose the diagonal: Santa, flowers, ribbon
Christmas cards all year round September: Christmas presents
Sparkles forum Christmas September 20: sparkle & bling
Blog-a-doodle: a touch of sparkle
Penny's 91: sparkle and shine
Oozak 6: sparkle
Fairytale 49: anything metal (charm)
Craft room: collage
Use it Tuesday 38: use that ribbon (definitely hoarded supplies!)
Everybody art 203: vintage
Simply create too 21: so old or vintage
Great impressions September: sentimental journey - anything with a sentiment
Papertake: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 30: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 34: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Natalia and Amy 1: anything goes
Make it Monday 105
Inspire me Fridays 74
52 card pickup week 35
DL.ART 1000 post linky party: anything goes
It's also a very late card for Sunday's by Santa on facebook for week 33 (yes, I really am behind) - which was to use ribbon and charm.
Papers are offcuts from the K & Co secret Santa collection, the glittered Santa is from a recently acquired kit and other bits and pieces from stash, including the ribbon originally from a market stall and the charm.
This is also for:
Pixie's crafty snippets 36
Waste not Wednesdays 28
Anything goes 75: early Christmas
Creative card crew 18: Christmas
Aud sentiments 62: Christmas is coming
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
Jingle belles: holiday bingo - I chose the diagonal: Santa, flowers, ribbon
Christmas cards all year round September: Christmas presents
Sparkles forum Christmas September 20: sparkle & bling
Blog-a-doodle: a touch of sparkle
Penny's 91: sparkle and shine
Oozak 6: sparkle
Fairytale 49: anything metal (charm)
Craft room: collage
Use it Tuesday 38: use that ribbon (definitely hoarded supplies!)
Everybody art 203: vintage
Simply create too 21: so old or vintage
Great impressions September: sentimental journey - anything with a sentiment
Papertake: anything goes
Tuesday alchemy 30: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 34: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Natalia and Amy 1: anything goes
Make it Monday 105
Inspire me Fridays 74
52 card pickup week 35
DL.ART 1000 post linky party: anything goes
Monday, 3 September 2012
Autumn birthday
As soon as I start to think about autumn cards, summer seems to have come!! And I'm not complaining about that at all - long may it last. But sooner or later (and, yes, let it be later) our thoughts will turn to darker evenings and autumnal colours on the trees.
It was my turn to choose the theme for the Time to create challenge for September on the Crafts by Carolyn forum and I chose 'Autumn with leaves and/or trees'.
So here is my card. I've used the red and yellow PanPastels that I received as a prize for a challenge on PanPastel UK blending with the sponge provided. I've tried to create a sunset sky. I then used some of my Crayan d'Arche neocolor pastels to colour the ground, blending with a baby wipe. The main tree is a much-loved 'fantasy' stamp by Penny Black, inked with a mix of memento rich cocoa, fired brick distress and Paris Trunk tiara gold. I've then used a few different Clarity trees and shrubs stamps to cover the ground - with hindsight I wish I'd made the sunset sky come further down and not had so much ground coverage, but 'tis done now and time doesn't permit me to try again.
The sentiment is a Create textured rub on.
This is also for:
Dream valley 40: something old, something new - the stamps are old, the PanPastels are new
Lexi 73: autumn colours
Lollipop crafts 89: fall frolic
Delightful: fall days
Mema's crafts September: choose a theme challenge: fall colours
Cutie stampers 134: fall leaves
Paper pretties Monday 55: create a square card
Stampin' sisters in Christ 155: birthday card
Crafts and me 99: birthdays
Divas by design 50: let's celebrate - birthday
Pattie's 51: birthdays
Stampin with the dragon: birthday cards
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Crafts4eternity R87: less is more - clean and simple
Let's craft and create 52: stamp it
Great impressions September: sentimental journey - anything with a sentiment
Perfect sentiments 47: anything goes with a sentiment
Stamp dreams 149: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
QKR 3: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Natalia and Amy 1: anything goes
Make it Monday 105
Inspire me Fridays 74
52 card pickup week 35
DL.ART 1000 post linky party: anything goes
It was my turn to choose the theme for the Time to create challenge for September on the Crafts by Carolyn forum and I chose 'Autumn with leaves and/or trees'.
So here is my card. I've used the red and yellow PanPastels that I received as a prize for a challenge on PanPastel UK blending with the sponge provided. I've tried to create a sunset sky. I then used some of my Crayan d'Arche neocolor pastels to colour the ground, blending with a baby wipe. The main tree is a much-loved 'fantasy' stamp by Penny Black, inked with a mix of memento rich cocoa, fired brick distress and Paris Trunk tiara gold. I've then used a few different Clarity trees and shrubs stamps to cover the ground - with hindsight I wish I'd made the sunset sky come further down and not had so much ground coverage, but 'tis done now and time doesn't permit me to try again.
The sentiment is a Create textured rub on.
This is also for:
Dream valley 40: something old, something new - the stamps are old, the PanPastels are new
Lexi 73: autumn colours
Lollipop crafts 89: fall frolic
Delightful: fall days
Mema's crafts September: choose a theme challenge: fall colours
Cutie stampers 134: fall leaves
Paper pretties Monday 55: create a square card
Stampin' sisters in Christ 155: birthday card
Crafts and me 99: birthdays
Divas by design 50: let's celebrate - birthday
Pattie's 51: birthdays
Stampin with the dragon: birthday cards
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Crafts4eternity R87: less is more - clean and simple
Let's craft and create 52: stamp it
Great impressions September: sentimental journey - anything with a sentiment
Perfect sentiments 47: anything goes with a sentiment
Stamp dreams 149: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
QKR 3: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Natalia and Amy 1: anything goes
Make it Monday 105
Inspire me Fridays 74
52 card pickup week 35
DL.ART 1000 post linky party: anything goes
Saturday, 1 September 2012
More Christmas bells
This is my second card for my CHNC challenge 88: Christmas bells.
This time I used a piece of Anna Griffin paper that really needs little added to it or it would take away from the design, so I cut out the bells and holly from an identical paper and decoupaged just one more layer. I added a couple of sticky glittery ribbons on the side and a Craftwork cards sentiment and then glittered the holly berries with stickles.
When I did this post last night I was too impatient to let the stickles dry, so here is another photo taken this morning now that the glitter is dry:
This is also for:
Rudolph day for August
Dare to be sassy 140: Christmas - favourite carol - I love the carol 'The holly bears a berry', which is rarely heard these days (you can see it here)
Creative card crew 18: Christmas
Aud sentiments 62: Christmas is coming
Just keep on creating August: Christmas is around the corner
Crafty sentiments: lets sparkle
Stamp n doodle: a touch of sparkle
Bearly mine 50: anything that glitters
Sparkles forum Christmas challenge 20: sparkle & bling
Perfect sentiments 47: anything goes with a sentiment
Catch the bug September: anything goes
Natalie and Amy: anything goes
QKR 3: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - using up old sticky ribbons
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 74
52 card pickup week 35
DL.ART 1000 post linky party: anything goes
This time I used a piece of Anna Griffin paper that really needs little added to it or it would take away from the design, so I cut out the bells and holly from an identical paper and decoupaged just one more layer. I added a couple of sticky glittery ribbons on the side and a Craftwork cards sentiment and then glittered the holly berries with stickles.
When I did this post last night I was too impatient to let the stickles dry, so here is another photo taken this morning now that the glitter is dry:
This is also for:
Rudolph day for August
Dare to be sassy 140: Christmas - favourite carol - I love the carol 'The holly bears a berry', which is rarely heard these days (you can see it here)
Creative card crew 18: Christmas
Aud sentiments 62: Christmas is coming
Just keep on creating August: Christmas is around the corner
Crafty sentiments: lets sparkle
Stamp n doodle: a touch of sparkle
Bearly mine 50: anything that glitters
Sparkles forum Christmas challenge 20: sparkle & bling
Perfect sentiments 47: anything goes with a sentiment
Catch the bug September: anything goes
Natalie and Amy: anything goes
QKR 3: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - using up old sticky ribbons
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 74
52 card pickup week 35
DL.ART 1000 post linky party: anything goes
CHNC challenge 88: Christmas bells
Today sees the start of a new challenge on my CHNC blog and as we start September perhaps it's the time to get serious about making those Christmas cards ... so, if you haven't started yet, why not visit my CHNC challenge 88 and join in? I'm asking you to include some Christmas bells.
CHNC challenge 88 is being sponsored by Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More , who kindly supplied me with the digital image that I've used on this card - it's called 'Christmas bell' - I coloured with copics and mounted on to a Spellbinder nestabilities label die cut, matting on to another one made from an offcut lurking in my Christmas papers box. All papers used for this card are from my Christmas offcuts, so this is probably my last card of the week for Pixie's crafty snippets 35.
I'm not that happy with this card because I used a ready cut easel card blank (I suppose I thought it would be quicker as time was pressing), but it means that there is a bit of a different shape at the top and I couldn't cut round it because it wouldn't have fitted the shape cut on the other side of the fold. With hindsight (ah, such a marvellous thing - lol!) I would have been better to have started from scratch and made my own easel card ... nevermind!
I used a piece of sticky ribbon with green flowers and sparkly gold trim as the 'stop' across the base, also adding a sentiment.
This is also for:
Stamp dreams 148: not square
Allsorts 170: anything but square
Stampin' sisters in Christ 154: use punches, dies or shapes of any kind
Creative stamp friends 58: special card form
CRAFT 170: shaped card
Creative card crew 18: Christmas
Aud sentiments 62: Christmas is coming
Just keep on creating August: Christmas is around the corner
Card and scrap 38: use dies
Crafty sentiments: lets sparkle
Stamp n doodle: a touch of sparkle
Bearly mine 50: anything that glitters
Sparkles forum Christmas challenge 20: sparkle & bling
Perfect sentiments 47: anything goes with a sentiment
Catch the bug September: anything goes
Natalie and Amy: anything goes
Jackson's digital expressions: anything goes 20
QKR 3: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 33: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - Christmas papers offcuts and ribbon and sentiments that are old
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 74
52 card pickup week 35
DL.ART 1000 post linky party: anything goes
CHNC challenge 88 is being sponsored by Robyn'sFetish Digital Stamps And More , who kindly supplied me with the digital image that I've used on this card - it's called 'Christmas bell' - I coloured with copics and mounted on to a Spellbinder nestabilities label die cut, matting on to another one made from an offcut lurking in my Christmas papers box. All papers used for this card are from my Christmas offcuts, so this is probably my last card of the week for Pixie's crafty snippets 35.
I'm not that happy with this card because I used a ready cut easel card blank (I suppose I thought it would be quicker as time was pressing), but it means that there is a bit of a different shape at the top and I couldn't cut round it because it wouldn't have fitted the shape cut on the other side of the fold. With hindsight (ah, such a marvellous thing - lol!) I would have been better to have started from scratch and made my own easel card ... nevermind!
I used a piece of sticky ribbon with green flowers and sparkly gold trim as the 'stop' across the base, also adding a sentiment.
This is also for:
Stamp dreams 148: not square
Allsorts 170: anything but square
Stampin' sisters in Christ 154: use punches, dies or shapes of any kind
Creative stamp friends 58: special card form
CRAFT 170: shaped card
Creative card crew 18: Christmas
Aud sentiments 62: Christmas is coming
Just keep on creating August: Christmas is around the corner
Card and scrap 38: use dies
Crafty sentiments: lets sparkle
Stamp n doodle: a touch of sparkle
Bearly mine 50: anything that glitters
Sparkles forum Christmas challenge 20: sparkle & bling
Perfect sentiments 47: anything goes with a sentiment
Catch the bug September: anything goes
Natalie and Amy: anything goes
Jackson's digital expressions: anything goes 20
QKR 3: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 33: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - Christmas papers offcuts and ribbon and sentiments that are old
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 74
52 card pickup week 35
DL.ART 1000 post linky party: anything goes
Friday, 31 August 2012
Mini catch up for Suzie's 365 photos
I've just realised that I haven't blogged since Wednesday - I have made one or two cards, but can't show them yet.
Before I get further behind here is a mini catch up for Suzie's 365 photos.
Day 241: textured - a left over piece of lace after I'd made this card:
Day 242: slow - was going to go out and look for snails, but decided I'd show the setting for slow cooking instead:
Day 243: thriving - these little flowers were thriving among the pebbles on the beach at Eastbourne when we were there in May - amazing how they survivie:
Day 244: through a window - I took this picture recently at mum's when I was admiring the garden she looks on to:
I wonder what tomorrow's photo prompt will be!
Before I get further behind here is a mini catch up for Suzie's 365 photos.
Day 241: textured - a left over piece of lace after I'd made this card:
Day 242: slow - was going to go out and look for snails, but decided I'd show the setting for slow cooking instead:
Day 243: thriving - these little flowers were thriving among the pebbles on the beach at Eastbourne when we were there in May - amazing how they survivie:
Day 244: through a window - I took this picture recently at mum's when I was admiring the garden she looks on to:
I wonder what tomorrow's photo prompt will be!
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
School notebook
This is another altered notebook that I did a while ago and didn't blog at the time.
I used an offcut of pink checked card as the background and stickers from Poundland - couldn't be easier, but another one to sell for Tearfund.
Cupcake inspirations 175 has a 'back to school' theme with the picture given:
This is for:
Pixie's crafty snippets 35
Papercraft star 110: back to school
Lexi 72: back to school or college
Lollipop crafts 88: back to school
Paper pretties Monday 54: back to school
Crazy amigo: back to school
Sassy Cheryl 130: back 2 school
Creative Belli 151: back to school (using old and forgotten card and stickers)
Crop stop 86: back to school
Fussy & fancy 70: back to school
Raise the bar: back to school
Simply create too 20: back to school
Just some lines: let's go back to school
My Sheri 92: back to school
Pile it on 35: I spy something with P - push pins
Robyn's fetish 122: anything but a card
Allsorts 169: it's a gift - anything but a card
Top tip Tuesday 84: birthday gifts - nice little gift for a child
Simon says: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 33: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - snippet of card used for background and some fairly old stickers used
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
I used an offcut of pink checked card as the background and stickers from Poundland - couldn't be easier, but another one to sell for Tearfund.
Cupcake inspirations 175 has a 'back to school' theme with the picture given:
This is for:
Pixie's crafty snippets 35
Papercraft star 110: back to school
Lexi 72: back to school or college
Lollipop crafts 88: back to school
Paper pretties Monday 54: back to school
Crazy amigo: back to school
Sassy Cheryl 130: back 2 school
Creative Belli 151: back to school (using old and forgotten card and stickers)
Crop stop 86: back to school
Fussy & fancy 70: back to school
Raise the bar: back to school
Simply create too 20: back to school
Just some lines: let's go back to school
My Sheri 92: back to school
Pile it on 35: I spy something with P - push pins
Robyn's fetish 122: anything but a card
Allsorts 169: it's a gift - anything but a card
Top tip Tuesday 84: birthday gifts - nice little gift for a child
Simon says: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 33: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - snippet of card used for background and some fairly old stickers used
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
WOYWW 169
Wednesday has come round again and I'm a bit late in the day to show what's on my desk, but here I am now.
I held the camera high above the desk and clicked, so the photos are at a bit of an odd angle.
Why am I showing these? It's for WOYWW 169 - if you don't know what I'm on about, click on the link ... and join in - it's good fun and great to have the opportunity to see what others are doing in their crafty spaces.
To my left: you can just see some of my birthday cards received last week - it's a bigger pile that's out of the picture - I hope to eventually show them on my blog. Then there's some cards I've made in the last day or so, a magazine, some items received in the post today - including a card put through with the post to say the postman couldn't deliver an item because there is a fee to pay - ouch! You can also see a stap that's out ready to use (whenever!) and the pan pastels are still waiting to be tried. Lodged against the computer monitor is a postcard received in a swap this morning - you can see it better here.
To my right - some bits and pieces waiting to be put way, a bag for paper pieces to be recycled (no chocolate in the bag) and one of my boxes of acrylic and unmounted stamps.
Thanks to everyone who visits me and leaves comments - so much appreciated.
I held the camera high above the desk and clicked, so the photos are at a bit of an odd angle.
Why am I showing these? It's for WOYWW 169 - if you don't know what I'm on about, click on the link ... and join in - it's good fun and great to have the opportunity to see what others are doing in their crafty spaces.
To my left: you can just see some of my birthday cards received last week - it's a bigger pile that's out of the picture - I hope to eventually show them on my blog. Then there's some cards I've made in the last day or so, a magazine, some items received in the post today - including a card put through with the post to say the postman couldn't deliver an item because there is a fee to pay - ouch! You can also see a stap that's out ready to use (whenever!) and the pan pastels are still waiting to be tried. Lodged against the computer monitor is a postcard received in a swap this morning - you can see it better here.
To my right - some bits and pieces waiting to be put way, a bag for paper pieces to be recycled (no chocolate in the bag) and one of my boxes of acrylic and unmounted stamps.
Thanks to everyone who visits me and leaves comments - so much appreciated.
Card with lace
I've had this piece of very wide lace for as long as I can remember and I thought it was about time I did something with it:
I wrapped a piece of the lace around a square offcut of silver mirror card and then mounted on to a piece of Basic Grey cappella paper. The triangles in the corners and the middle of the flowers were cut from Basic Grey green at heart paper, the larger flowers were cut from some offcuts - the flowers being cut with nestabilities through my cuttlebug.
Colours are for Color throwdown 207 (I'm disappointed that the lace doesn't look so strong a peach colour as it does in real life - it really is a deeper, richer colour peach - it must be 'operator error' with my new camera):
I then added a fair number of bright pink gems.
This is also for:
Pixie's crafty snippets 35
Charisma cardz 33: lace
Come and get it: show us your flowers
Cupcake craft 207: flowers
Love to create 30: hand made flowers
The house that stamps built DCC829: flowers challenge
Basic grey 75: anything goes
Tuesday throwdown 113: color crazy - colours I wouldn't usually think of using together
Penny's 91: sparkle and shine
I wrapped a piece of the lace around a square offcut of silver mirror card and then mounted on to a piece of Basic Grey cappella paper. The triangles in the corners and the middle of the flowers were cut from Basic Grey green at heart paper, the larger flowers were cut from some offcuts - the flowers being cut with nestabilities through my cuttlebug.
Colours are for Color throwdown 207 (I'm disappointed that the lace doesn't look so strong a peach colour as it does in real life - it really is a deeper, richer colour peach - it must be 'operator error' with my new camera):
I then added a fair number of bright pink gems.
This is also for:
Pixie's crafty snippets 35
Charisma cardz 33: lace
Come and get it: show us your flowers
Cupcake craft 207: flowers
Love to create 30: hand made flowers
The house that stamps built DCC829: flowers challenge
Basic grey 75: anything goes
Tuesday throwdown 113: color crazy - colours I wouldn't usually think of using together
Penny's 91: sparkle and shine
Jungle notebook
This is a notebook I altered a while ago, but never got round to blogging. Note to self: need to make more soon ready for Tearfund sale early October (and the weeks go by so quickly!).
The background paper is an offcut of some that was rescued from the inside of a large envelope (wish there were more envies like this!), so this is another for Pixie's crafty snippets 35, also for Our creative corner: recycle it with a pop of green.
Stickers were from Poundland.
This is also for:
Robyn's fetish 122: anything but a card
Allsorts 169: it's a gift - anything but a card
Top tip Tuesday 84: birthday gifts - nice little gift for a child
Pink gem 53: animals or teddies
Great impressions August: a walk on the wild side
Creative cutter room: googly eye challenge
Forever friends 43: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - inside of an envelope recycled and used some quite old stickers
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
The background paper is an offcut of some that was rescued from the inside of a large envelope (wish there were more envies like this!), so this is another for Pixie's crafty snippets 35, also for Our creative corner: recycle it with a pop of green.
Stickers were from Poundland.
This is also for:
Robyn's fetish 122: anything but a card
Allsorts 169: it's a gift - anything but a card
Top tip Tuesday 84: birthday gifts - nice little gift for a child
Pink gem 53: animals or teddies
Great impressions August: a walk on the wild side
Creative cutter room: googly eye challenge
Forever friends 43: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - inside of an envelope recycled and used some quite old stickers
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
Postcard swap received
Postcard swap
I took part in a postcard swap on the Bubbly Funk forum and sent mine to my dear friend, Gez - please visit her blog here to see the wonderful crafting that she produces - her creativity and talent will take your breath away.
I stamped 'rose postcard by Hardenbrook studio, inking with memento tuxedo black and colouring with copics (and one marvy le plume alcohol pen). The butterfly stamps are a couple I've had for ages.
The picture given for Just inspirational 43 showed roses, so this is for that:
This week's challenge on Clear it out is ... well, a challenge (yes, I know the clue is in the word - lol) ... this is what it said:
Well, I was inspired by the Bubbly Funk forum postcard swap (you can read about it here) and the theme given for that - and I used glossy accents which glistens - and, of course, for Clear it out the idea is to use something old ... well, I had the stamp for a long while (much loved).
I added some glossy accents here and there on the rose and butterflies.
Unfortunately, this photo doesn't really show the pale pink in the background:
I've heard from Gez that she's received this, so I know I'm safe to show it now.
I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Pile it on 35: I spy something with P - postcard and pink
Deep ocean 33: things with wings
Cupcake craft 207: flowers
The house that stamps built DCC829: flowers challenge
Let's craft and create 52: stamp it
Penny's 91: sparkle and shine (glossy accents)
Scrapalicious: anything goes
Totally stampalicious: anything goes
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
There was a choice of two themes, both inspired by the forum header:
Use any combination of butterflies, lace, bubbles and music
OR
Use at least three of these colours: pale green, pink, grey, black and ivory
As you can see, I went for the colours, but also added butterflies.
I stamped 'rose postcard by Hardenbrook studio, inking with memento tuxedo black and colouring with copics (and one marvy le plume alcohol pen). The butterfly stamps are a couple I've had for ages.
The picture given for Just inspirational 43 showed roses, so this is for that:
This week's challenge on Clear it out is ... well, a challenge (yes, I know the clue is in the word - lol) ... this is what it said:
Our theme is : inspiration (create a project based on something that inspires you-a card, a person, a place, anything) ****to be eligible to win this week you must show us your project AND a picture of what inspired you - Our stash item is: something glittery!
Well, I was inspired by the Bubbly Funk forum postcard swap (you can read about it here) and the theme given for that - and I used glossy accents which glistens - and, of course, for Clear it out the idea is to use something old ... well, I had the stamp for a long while (much loved).
I added some glossy accents here and there on the rose and butterflies.
Unfortunately, this photo doesn't really show the pale pink in the background:
I've heard from Gez that she's received this, so I know I'm safe to show it now.
I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Pile it on 35: I spy something with P - postcard and pink
Deep ocean 33: things with wings
Cupcake craft 207: flowers
The house that stamps built DCC829: flowers challenge
Let's craft and create 52: stamp it
Penny's 91: sparkle and shine (glossy accents)
Scrapalicious: anything goes
Totally stampalicious: anything goes
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Oh Christmas tree
I received my Papercraft Inspirations magazine through the post today (I keep meaning to cancel the subscription, but never seem to getting round to doing it) - anyway, there was a 'free' chipboard tree, twine and some stickers with gems with it and I thought I would use them rather than put them away forever.
So this is a card for Always playing with paper merry Monday sketch 30:
I used snippets from my Christmas offcuts box, so this is another card for Pixie's crafty snippets 35.
The red glittered panel on the left is a piece left over from a Christmas cracker a couple of seasons ago, so this is for Little red wagon 147: upcycle, also Our creative corner: recycle it with a pop of green (twine around the branches).
This is also for:
Crafty creations 184: gems and twine
The crafty pad 185: twine
Alota 89: tree challenge
Creative card crew 18: Christmas
Willow sketchie: Christmas in August
Challenge up your life 76: Christmas in summer
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
Rudolph day August
Frosted designs fabulous Friday: chipboard
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - using up snippets
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
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So this is a card for Always playing with paper merry Monday sketch 30:
I used snippets from my Christmas offcuts box, so this is another card for Pixie's crafty snippets 35.
The red glittered panel on the left is a piece left over from a Christmas cracker a couple of seasons ago, so this is for Little red wagon 147: upcycle, also Our creative corner: recycle it with a pop of green (twine around the branches).
This is also for:
Crafty creations 184: gems and twine
The crafty pad 185: twine
Alota 89: tree challenge
Creative card crew 18: Christmas
Willow sketchie: Christmas in August
Challenge up your life 76: Christmas in summer
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
Rudolph day August
Frosted designs fabulous Friday: chipboard
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - using up snippets
Everybody art 202: anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
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Simply with sympathy
I made the previous card using scraps from a 12 x 12 DCWV Mariposa paper that was cut into recently and I still had a fair amount over. I decided to add a bit of interest by cutting the paper into three panels, distressing the edges with spiced marmalade distress ink applied lightly with an inkylicious dusting brush and adding another textured rub on, mounting on to a deep brown card blank.
The photo has made the card look a bit curved because it wasn't lying quite flat enough.
This is for:
Pile it on 35: I spy something with P - panels
Pixie's crafty snippets 35
Crafts and me 98: autumn colours
My craft spot 68: hope is rising - sympathy and encouragement
Pink elephant 163: sympathy/thinking of you
The sisterhood of crafters: sympathy
Fab n funky 135: use leaves somewhere
Catered crop: no stress to distress
Twisted Tuesday 21: cooling off (autumnal feel to the air) + inked edges
Paper and such: wings n things
Creative Belli 150: winged things
Deep ocean 33: things with wings
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - using up snippets
Everybody art 202: anything goes
LEJ 18: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
The photo has made the card look a bit curved because it wasn't lying quite flat enough.
This is for:
Pile it on 35: I spy something with P - panels
Pixie's crafty snippets 35
Crafts and me 98: autumn colours
My craft spot 68: hope is rising - sympathy and encouragement
Pink elephant 163: sympathy/thinking of you
The sisterhood of crafters: sympathy
Fab n funky 135: use leaves somewhere
Catered crop: no stress to distress
Twisted Tuesday 21: cooling off (autumnal feel to the air) + inked edges
Paper and such: wings n things
Creative Belli 150: winged things
Deep ocean 33: things with wings
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - using up snippets
Everybody art 202: anything goes
LEJ 18: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
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Autumnal sympathy
This is for The house that stamps built what if A2212 sketch:
Colours inspired by LiaStampz 23:
This is my first venture this week into the playground for Pixie's crafty snippets 35, using square offcuts of some DCWV Mariposa paper that I used the other day - this has a light green background with some lightly printed text and leaves etc. I stamped four My Mind's Eye wild asparagus stamps inked with memento rich cocoa, dusted the edges with spiced marmalade distress ink using one of my inkalycious blending brushes and then edged with the memento cocoa bean.
The sentiment is a textured rub on by Creata impressions.
I don't know why, but it was very difficult to get a photo of this card - the brown card blank is very dark IRL and the spiced marmalade looks more orange, but this is the rest I could do:
This is also for:
Crafts and me 98: autumn colours
My craft spot 68: hope is rising - sympathy and encouragement
Pink elephant 163: sympathy/thinking of you
The sisterhood of crafters: sympathy
Fab n funky 135: use leaves somewhere
Catered crop: no stress to distress
Twisted Tuesday 21: cooling off (autumnal feel to the air) + inked edges
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Let's craft and create 52: stamp it
Totally stampalicious: anything goes
QKR 2: anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - using up snippets
Everybody art 202: anything goes
LEJ 18: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 83: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
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Colours inspired by LiaStampz 23:
This is my first venture this week into the playground for Pixie's crafty snippets 35, using square offcuts of some DCWV Mariposa paper that I used the other day - this has a light green background with some lightly printed text and leaves etc. I stamped four My Mind's Eye wild asparagus stamps inked with memento rich cocoa, dusted the edges with spiced marmalade distress ink using one of my inkalycious blending brushes and then edged with the memento cocoa bean.
The sentiment is a textured rub on by Creata impressions.
I don't know why, but it was very difficult to get a photo of this card - the brown card blank is very dark IRL and the spiced marmalade looks more orange, but this is the rest I could do:
Crafts and me 98: autumn colours
My craft spot 68: hope is rising - sympathy and encouragement
Pink elephant 163: sympathy/thinking of you
The sisterhood of crafters: sympathy
Fab n funky 135: use leaves somewhere
Catered crop: no stress to distress
Twisted Tuesday 21: cooling off (autumnal feel to the air) + inked edges
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Let's craft and create 52: stamp it
Totally stampalicious: anything goes
QKR 2: anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - using up snippets
Everybody art 202: anything goes
LEJ 18: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 83: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
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Colour crazy
Sadly, this is my last week as a Guest Designer on Tuesday Throwdown - I've so enjoyed my time with them and am very grateful for being invited.
Today's challenge 113 is 'colour crazy'. I've chosen to use mainly orange and purple as my colour scheme, something that isn't used together too often.
The image, coloured with copics, was supplied by Digital Delights who are sponsoring the Tuesday Throwdown challenge.
For the background of my card I used a piece of Basic Grey wisteria, colouring the cream flowers with an orange copic and also colouring the inside of the purple flowers. I've sometimes used glitter on patterned paper before, but I can't remember that I've ever actually coloured anything in, so this is a 'first'.
The matting layers behind the image were die cut with a nestie using my cuttlebug.
The sentiment was computer generated and printed.
Colours were inspired by the photo supplied for For your inspiration 36:
This is also for:
Basic Grey 75: anything goes (using wisteria paper)
One stitch at a time 128: use a digi
Stampin' sisters in Christ 154: use punches, dies or shapes of any kind
Jackson's digital 20: anything goes
Pink gem 53: animals or teddies
Mad for markers: anything goes
My heart pieces digital stamp challenge: show us your favourite colour (I love crafting with purple)
Cardmakin mamas 51: try something new (colouring on the patterned paper)
QKR 2: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 33: anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - the BG paper is old
Everybody art 202: anything goes
LEJ 18: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 83: anything goes
Forever friends 43: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
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Today's challenge 113 is 'colour crazy'. I've chosen to use mainly orange and purple as my colour scheme, something that isn't used together too often.
The image, coloured with copics, was supplied by Digital Delights who are sponsoring the Tuesday Throwdown challenge.
For the background of my card I used a piece of Basic Grey wisteria, colouring the cream flowers with an orange copic and also colouring the inside of the purple flowers. I've sometimes used glitter on patterned paper before, but I can't remember that I've ever actually coloured anything in, so this is a 'first'.
The matting layers behind the image were die cut with a nestie using my cuttlebug.
The sentiment was computer generated and printed.
Colours were inspired by the photo supplied for For your inspiration 36:
This is also for:
Basic Grey 75: anything goes (using wisteria paper)
One stitch at a time 128: use a digi
Stampin' sisters in Christ 154: use punches, dies or shapes of any kind
Jackson's digital 20: anything goes
Pink gem 53: animals or teddies
Mad for markers: anything goes
My heart pieces digital stamp challenge: show us your favourite colour (I love crafting with purple)
Cardmakin mamas 51: try something new (colouring on the patterned paper)
QKR 2: anything goes
Through the craftroom door 33: anything goes
Waste not Wednesdays 28 - the BG paper is old
Everybody art 202: anything goes
LEJ 18: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 83: anything goes
Forever friends 43: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
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Monday, 27 August 2012
Window on Paris
This is another entry for this week's Inspiration Avenue ' doorways and windows' - this time a card with a view of Paris through the window - how I wish I was there and able to enjoy looking out on to that scene.
I've used components from the Kanban everyday essentials kit.
This is also for:
Pile it on 35: I spy something with P - Paris!
Fairytale 48: song inspiration - I love Paris in the springtime ...
Cutie pie 25: borders and frames
Victorine 41: brown, white and one other colour - pale blue
Crazy amigo: travel ((I would love to be travelling to Paris)
Waste not Wednesdays 28 (still using up the remains of this Kanban kit)
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
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I've used components from the Kanban everyday essentials kit.
This is also for:
Pile it on 35: I spy something with P - Paris!
Fairytale 48: song inspiration - I love Paris in the springtime ...
Cutie pie 25: borders and frames
Victorine 41: brown, white and one other colour - pale blue
Crazy amigo: travel ((I would love to be travelling to Paris)
Waste not Wednesdays 28 (still using up the remains of this Kanban kit)
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
An interesting doorway
When John and I were in Eastbourne recently we caught the bus to East Dean and had a wander around, stopping for coffee in between. I came across an interesting doorway - I loved the stonework of the wall and the solid wood door, as well as the post where a gate had originally been attached. So when I saw the theme for this week's Inspiration Avenue ' doorways and windows' I knew that I wanted to share this photo:
When I took the photo I thought that perhaps I would be able to use it for one of Suzie's 365 photos ... and it so happens that for Day 240 today it's 'free choice', so I'm linking this for that too.
This is also for Order of the opus gluei 138: me and my camera - celebrating a photo.
When I took the photo I thought that perhaps I would be able to use it for one of Suzie's 365 photos ... and it so happens that for Day 240 today it's 'free choice', so I'm linking this for that too.
This is also for Order of the opus gluei 138: me and my camera - celebrating a photo.
Catch up for Suzie's 365 photos
Having had a mammoth catch up recently, the next day my camera broke and, although I was managing to take pictures of my cards with my iPad, I didn't fancy trying to keep up with Suzie's 365 photos using that. I am very fortunate to have a new camera that I'm beginning to get used to (although I admit I ought really to look at the instructions).
So here is my little recent catch up:
Day 235: star - these star punches are very handy:
Day 236: irregular - this napkin is in a heap in an irregular shape - and also it's very 'irregular' to just leave it there on the table after the meal:
Day 237: footwear - comfort nowadays:
Day 238: purple:
Day 239: edible - not as 'norty' as it looks - very low fat yoghurt:
I'll deal with todays Day 240 in a separate post because I want to use the photo for something else as well.
So here is my little recent catch up:
Day 235: star - these star punches are very handy:
Day 236: irregular - this napkin is in a heap in an irregular shape - and also it's very 'irregular' to just leave it there on the table after the meal:
Day 237: footwear - comfort nowadays:
Day 238: purple:
Day 239: edible - not as 'norty' as it looks - very low fat yoghurt:
I'll deal with todays Day 240 in a separate post because I want to use the photo for something else as well.
Claret and silver church town
For these cards I've used the stamped and embossed images from the Personal Impressions 'church town' stamp using some claret card and embossing with detail silver. These are what I made before decided to make the black and silver cards instead (you can see them here). I didn't want to discard these even though I wasn't really that happy with them, so I've mounted on to green card blanks and added a dreaded peel off 'Season's greetings' (I have a few of these from years ago - they come in handy sometimes - lol!).
These are for:
Rudolph day August
My time to craft 185: Christmas in August
Willow sketchie: Christmas in August
Challenge up your life 76: Christmas in summer
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
Playing in paradise 81: celebrate any holiday
Winter wonderland: red and green should be seen
Craft your passion 125: emboss it
Let's craft and create 52: stamp it
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Craft a scene August: anything in the great outdoors
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
QKR 2: anything goes
Totally stampalicious: anything goes
ATCs and cards with attitude 21: anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
These are for:
Rudolph day August
My time to craft 185: Christmas in August
Willow sketchie: Christmas in August
Challenge up your life 76: Christmas in summer
Just keep on creating: Christmas is around the corner
Playing in paradise 81: celebrate any holiday
Winter wonderland: red and green should be seen
Craft your passion 125: emboss it
Let's craft and create 52: stamp it
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Craft a scene August: anything in the great outdoors
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
QKR 2: anything goes
Totally stampalicious: anything goes
ATCs and cards with attitude 21: anything goes
Craft your days away 52: anything goes
Make it Monday 104
Inspire me Fridays 73
52 card pickup week 34
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
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