Sympathy

Another CAS sympathy card using a hammered white card blank on to which I swiped distress inks - bundled sage and antique linen. I then stamped one of my favourite Penny Black stamps 'sparklers' inked with memento rich cocoa and added part of the Hobby craft sentiment stamp.

Colours are for The craft garden June challenge:

This is also for:

Addicted to stamps and more 9: CAS
All kinds of cards 82: stamping
Penny Black and more at Allsorts June: CAS
Penny Black June: masculine (think this is suitable to send to a bereaved man)

Krafty birthday

I based this card on the sketch for CAS colours & sketches 29:

I used a kraft card blank on to which I stuck the striped brown and white ribbon, adding the prima flower and a couple of leaves from Hooked on Craft, a Create textured rub on and printed part of one of my favourite Penny Black stamps 'sparklers' inking the stamp with memento rich cocoa.

This is also for:

Make my Monday: CAS flowers
Card and scrap 56: flowers
Penny Black and more at Allsorts June: CAS
Order of the opus gluei 158: birthday
Fab 'n' funky 175: birthday
AnMaCreatief 21: birthday
A and T 25: happy birthday
Scrappers delights 1: S is for ... stripes and square
Crafty ribbons 48: anything goes with ribbon
Sister act 11: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 10: anything goes
613 avenue create 23: anything goes
Aud sentiments: anything goes
Paper playtime 12: anything goes
Make it Monday 144
Inspire me Fridays 107
52 card pickup 2.24

With sympathy

I had a request last night for some more sympathy cards, so I made a few while I was at it.

This is simply a white card blank on to which I put shaded lilac distress ink pad direct to the card. I then stamped it with one of the Clearly hesotted stamps building blocks set, once more using the shaded lilac to ink it. I then used my oldest little stamp that often comes in handy to stamp over this.

The sentiment stamp is from Hobby craft (I masked off the left hand piece) and stamped over with the same stamp as before.

The photo doesn't do this justice - so hard to get a good photo of a white card.

This is for:

Clearly besotted 1: anything goes (using one of their products)
Penny Black and more at Allsorts June: CAS
Shopping our stash 105: oldest stamp
Scrappers delights 1: S is for ... sympathy
Sister act 11: anything goes
613 avenue create 23: anything goes
Aud sentiments: anything goes
Paper playtime 12: anything goes
Make it Monday 144
Inspire me Fridays 107
52 card pickup 2.24

Birthday adventure

Another card made with a background printed with paints and my gelli plate, once again using a lattice piece of card as a stencil and the Tando mask by Andy skinner, I wasn't sure about the splash of red and blue at the side or the panel at the bottom, but I think the Sandy Lion stickers go OK with this.

This is for:

That craft place: independence day - red, white & blue
Polka doodles 24: male theme
Creative creations 12: for dad/masculine
Try it on Tuesday: one for the men
Kitty bee aloha Friday 1: father's day/masculine

Relax ...

... it's your birthday.

Another card with a background made with a print on black card from the gelli print using black and white acrylic paints and a lattice card as a stencil, mounted on to a black card blank with the addition of some stickers and the sentiment generated with my dymo letratag label maker.

This is for:

Facebook A card a day
Our creative corner June: recipe - I chose: List A: fabric (the cushion and slippers), List B: metal (the clip around the newspaper), List C: paints
Catered crop: for the boys
Glitter n sparkle 36: father's day/male cards
Hobby cutz 8: masculine and/or father's day
Cards for men 12: boys will be boys
Craft your passion 166: father's day/masculine
Get inky 6: creations for boys and/or men
Kaboodle 175: for your favourite guy
Lexi 92: father's day or special male birthday
Platypus 34: for the boys
Tammy scraping corner 66: anything goes manly/father's day
City crafter 163: it's all about him
Clear it out: male cards + stash: metal (the glasses on the newspaper) - the stickers are old
Crafty sentiments: card/project for a male
LEJ 57: something for the boys/men
Papertake weekly: hello boys
Top tip Tuesday 103: masculine
Tuesday throwdown 151: you're the man
Twisted Tuesday 52: clothes make the man (slippers)
Use it Tuesday 57: masculine (old stickers)
Crafting by designs: anything goes with a twist: father's day, men, male themed
Crafting for all seasons 54: one for the guys
Perfect sentiments 83: for the boys
The sisterhood of crafters: it's all about the boys
DL.ART thankful Thursday 111: father's day/or card for a man
MilkCoffee: father's day and/or male inspired creations
Jelly park friends: masculine theme
Simply create too 39: father's day/or a male
Crafter's cafe 17: fathers or for a male
The crafting cafe June: here come the boys
Digistamps4Joy 69: for the men in our lives
Art impressions 112: masculine cards
Order of the opus gluei 158: birthday
Divas by design: happy birthday
Fab 'n' funky 175: birthday
Bloggers challenge: birthday
AnMaCreatief 21: birthday
A and T 25: happy birthday
Sister act 11: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 10: anything goes
613 avenue create 23: anything goes
Aud sentiments: anything goes
Paper playtime 12: anything goes
Inky linky 18
Make it Monday 144
Inspire me Fridays 107
52 card pickup 2.24

Zentangle heart

This is a bit different for me - I'm not sure that I like it, but it's done now!

The background was created with gesso, paints and my gelli plate using a lattice piece of card and also a Tando mask by Andy Skinner.

I used the Singles zentangle heart stamp by Sam Poole that I bought in Eastbourne (from That Craft Place - a super shop and also a Facebook group). The black lace was also from there. The black bow and black pearls are from stash.

This is for:

Bizzy Becs June: monochromatic + one other colour
CAS on Sunday 10: black and white plus one
Rhedd and rosies 8: ribbons and lace
QKR stampede 42: ribbons & bows
Take time for you 94: background homemade
Heck of a challenge June: bingo - I chose: lace, ribbon, pearls

Have a wheelie good day ...

... that was what I nearly printed on this card, but in the end I decided to leave it as it is.

This was prompted by the June colour combo this week on Daring cardmakers:

And also by the 'direct to paper' CCEE 1323 challenge, where a link is given to tutorials here.  I chose the first of the three suggestions, using distress ink pads to swipe across the card, using these colours: antique linen, mustard seed, bundled sage, peacock feathers and worn lipstick. Because I'm impatient at waiting for inks to dry I blotted with some kitchen towel and I like the effect that gave.

This wasn't my first attempt - having found it difficult to swipe at the same height across the card, I used masking tape to make it far easier.

The bicycle is a little Papermania stamp and the travel stamp is by Debbi Moore, both inked with memento tuxedo black.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Crafts by Carolyn TTC 013-6: use a tutorial
Less is more 123: need for speed

Best wishes

The shaped front of a card matted on to a dark blank card blank with the addition of some flowers with brads and stamped sentiment.

This is for:

Make my Monday: CAS flowers
Card and scrap 56: flowers
Sentimental Sundays 158: metal findings (brads)
Let's craft and create 72: shape
Creative card crew 38: metal
Timbro scrap mania 73: free theme
DL.ART June: anything goes
Tok bobok 1: anything goes
The rubber buggy 7: anything goes
Sister act 10: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 10: anything goes
613 avenue create 23: anything goes
Aud sentiments: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 22: anything goes
Paper playtime 12: anything goes
Make it Monday 144
Inspire me Fridays 106
52 card pickup 2.23

With sympathy

A simple sympathy card using an offcut of some embossed silver matt mirror card that was run through my eBosser with the folder that came with the machine. It looks like gold here, but it is silver. The dove stamp is one that I've had for ages and it comes in handy for all sorts of cards. With the addition of the Craftime flower and the stamped sentiment, the card was completed.

This is for:

Make my Monday: CAS flowers
Card and scrap 56: flowers
Hiding in my craft room 101: super scraps Saturday
Pixie's crafty snippets week 76
Inspiration avenue: birds
Crafty calendar June: things with wings
Bunny Zoe June: wings
Sweet pea stampers: birds of a feather
Pink gem 83: emboss it
Crafting musketeers 2: use a stamped image
Timbro scrap mania 73: free theme
DL.ART June: anything goes
Tok bobok 1: anything goes
The rubber buggy 7: anything goes
Sister act 10: anything goes
Spark your creativity now 10: anything goes
613 avenue create 23: anything goes
Aud sentiments: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 22: anything goes
Paper playtime 12: anything goes
Bearly mine 90: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Make it Monday 144
Inspire me Fridays 106
52 card pickup 2.23

Simply decoupaged

A CAS card using some die cut decoupage that I acquired some time ago, mounted on to the card blank with the silver border.

This is for:

My heart pieces: clean and simple
Great impressions June: leave a little sparkle
613 avenue create 23: anything goes
ABC: O for open
Challenges 4 everybody 22: anything goes
PanPastel 23: anything goes
Created with love 45: anything goes
Paper playtime 12: anything goes
Bearly mine 90: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes

Golden anniversary

A simple golden wedding card using an offcut of My Craft Studio card, a glittered gold strip, Craftime flower and sentiment panel, all mounted on to a gold textured card blank.

This is for:

Make my Monday: CAS flowers
My heart pieces: clean and simple
Card and scrap 56: flowers
Great impressions June: leave a little sparkle
Hiding in my craft room 101: super scraps Saturday
Pixie's crafty snippets week 76
613 avenue create 23: anything goes/optional twist: celebrations
Sarah Hurley 81: all that glitters is gold
Aud sentiments: anything goes
ABC: O for open

Simply happy birthday

This is a CAS card made with the background rescued from packaging with some prima flowers (too good to waste and I managed to cut off the piece that said 'prima' etc. All I've added are the flowers with gems and the stamped birthday sentiment.

This is for:

Make my Monday: CAS flowers
Addicted to stamps and more 49: CAS
Flutter by Wednesday 244: clean and simple + butterflies
My heart pieces: clean and simple
Card and scrap 56: flowers
Order of the opus gluei 158: birthday
Divas by design: happy birthday
Fab 'n' funky 175: birthday
AnMaCreatief 21: birthday
Great impressions June: leave a little sparkle

Crafty goodies ...

... from Eastbourne:

CHNC 128: use a die cut and/or punch

It's Saturday and that means it's time for a new challenge on CHNC so please click on the link for CHNC challenge 128 and join in.

I'm keeping this brief because we're still in Eastbourne and I forgot to prepare this write-up earlier.

For my card I've used two images from stamps kindly supplied by Flonz craft, one of our sponsors, encasing these in a Nellie frame die.

Papers were from my Christmas offcuts box so this is my first visit to the playground this week (too busy doing nothing much in sunny Eastbourne) for Pixie's crafty snippets week 75.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Holly jolly Christmas: love those layers - at least six
ABC Christmas: K for kept safe (this is the first time I've used these stamps)
Festive Friday 10: vintage
Christmas cards all year round June: vintage Christmas
Crafting when we can 45: punches and/or die cuts
That craft place: dies and punches
Creative card crew 37: punches/dies

Silver wedding anniversary

Another card I made and scheduled before I left home.

A simple silver wedding anniversary card using an offcut of embossed matt silver mirror card (originally embossed with the folder that came with my eBosser), a piece of silver/sheer ribbon, a Kanban silver sentiment panel, numerals and a Craftime flower.

This is for:

Top tip Tuesday 102: numbers
LEJ 55: celebrate
Creative Belli 170: flowers (the pearlised paper had long been forgotten!)
Get creative May: flowers
A and T 24: bling
613 avenue create 21: anything goes
Scrappy frogs May: free choice challenge
Make it Monday 143
Inspire me Fridays 106

Father Christmas

It was Margaret's turn to choose the topic for the Christmas Card Club challenge for today and she asked us to make cards featuring 'Father Christmas'.

As I'll be away in Eastbourne (hopefully) when this goes live I've made two simple cards in advance and am scheduling this post.

They were made by using die cuts from the 'Santa express' sheet from the Hunkydory vintage Christmas collection together with matching card.  They are A5 size.

The snowflakes on the first card were punched out of the 'scrap' that surrounded the die cuts (better than wasting it).

This is also for:

Facebook Sunday's with Santa week 22: card for a child
Crafting when we can 45: punches and/or die cuts (punched snowflakes on the first card)
That craft place: dies and punches
Frosted designs fabulous Friday: punches

CHNC 127: use your favourite embellishments

For today's CHNC 127 I'm asking to see favourite embellishments. I've used some lovely Prima Christmas flowers and a sparkly wired ribbon tied into a bow - I find it hard to choose my favourite embellishments, but I think that flowers are just ahead of ribbons!

The background white pearl paper was embossed using the folder that came with my eBosser. The panel of gold is an offcut of the same embossing lined up to continue the pattern.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Hobby cutz 7: flowers
Creative Belli 170: flowers
A and T 24: bling
Fussy & fancy 90: bling it on
Hobby house 1: anything goes

CHNC challenge extra for June

It doesn't seem possible that it's June already - by the end of this month we'll be nearer to Christmas 2013 than 2012 ... the months go by so quickly, which is why it's a good idea to make Christmas cards throughout the year to save the panic when it gets towards Christmas. If you haven't started yet, it's a good time now to get cracking with some of those Christmas cards. You can enter my CHNC challenge extra for June with any Christmas card - and you can enter as many times as you wish - a good way to build up stocks.

My CHNC challenge extras are always sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps who kindly supplied the 'winter birds skate' image that I've used for this card, coloured with copics.

I've based the card on the sketch given for Digi sketch challenge, where the theme is also cute:

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day (for Friday, although it's actually Saturday now, but only just!)
Facebook Sunday's with Santa week 23: sports (I'm ahead with this one because I'm away from home, so prepared earlier)
Pile it on 21: put a bird on it
Robyn's fetish 161: birds
The house that stamps built DCC522: fur, fins or feathers
The sweet pea stampers May: birds of a feather
Christmas at sweet stampin 6: winter sports

Guest design slot for Fab 'n' Funky: girly card

This is my final week as a guest designer for Fab 'n' Funky - I've so enjoyed being able to join the team this month - five fabulous challenges.

For challenge 173: for the girls, I was provided with the lovely 'Raggedy girl - adorably yours (pigtails) image Kathryne at Stampart design,, sponsor for the challenge.

I used papers that I had free with a magazine. I wouldn't normally mix red and pink, but I think it works here. I coloured the image with spectrum noirs (they are fast becoming my favourites) and cut out with a Nellie Snellen die, using the next part of the die for the surrounding layer which was cut from textured DCWV card.  The birthday ribbon is by Sass belle (www.ribstone.com) and the piece across the middle is upcycled from a wrapping around flowers. The flowers are Craftime.

I followed the sketch for Seize the birthday17 (although the challenge has now closed):

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Joanna Sheen: girls, girls, girls
The squirrel and the fox 44: here come the girls
Creatalicious 50: for the girls
Glitter n sparkle 34: birthdays
Red carpet studio 38: birthday card
Allsorts 208: happy birthday
Bastel-traum: birthday
Nutcrafters 44: mono - mainly one colour
Hobby cutz 7: flowers
Everybody art 237: flowers
Creative Belli 170: flowers
Get creative May: flowers
Rhedd & Rosies 7: blooming lovely
Digistamps4Joy 68: oh to be young again
Let's craft and create 70: die cuts
Card mania 21: spots and/or stripes
Deep ocean 52: ribbons and/or laces
Stampavie and more 194: ribbon or lace
Crafty ribbons 46: anything goes with ribbon
Simon says: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 21: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 21: anything goes
613 avenue create 21: anything goes
Sister act 8: anything goes
Scrappy frogs May: free choice challenge
DL.ART May linky party: anything goes
Make it Monday 142
Inspire me Fridays 104
52 card pick-up 2.21

Come round for a cuppa ...

... but don't all arrive at the same time!

This is for Sweet Stamps monthly technique challenge: flip flop card using the tutorial given on Splitcoasters. It's my time to choose the theme for Time to Create for June on Crafts by Carolyn for June, so I'm asking to see something created by following a tutorial.

Mine is a very simple version because time is tight before going away. I used double sided card. I drew pencil lines to indicated where to score and cut which made it easier.

I've used one side of the swing to put my greeting and the other side to put a stamped image - stamps are from Joanna Sheen's willow pattern set. I stamped the cup and saucer first and then masked to put the jug behind. I inked the stamps with memento Paris dusk.

Colours are for:

Cupcake inspirations 212:

Bloggers challenge: red, white and blue

Little scrap pieces fun Friday: let's hear it for red, white and blue

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Crafts 4 eternity R125: get into shape
Fun with shapes and more 135: everything
Card mania 21: spots and/or stripes
Use it Tuesday 56: anything goes (the card is very old)
Party time Tuesday 122: anything goes
Fitztown 1: anything goes
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): anything goes
The rubber buggy 7: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Kaboodle 173: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 21: anything goes
613 avenue create 21: anything goes
Sister act 8: anything goes
Scrappy frogs May: free choice challenge
DL.ART May linky party: anything goes
Make it Monday 142
Inspire me Fridays 104
52 card pick-up 2.21

Golden wedding anniversary

I seem to have had a run on anniversary cards lately - another golden wedding card - clean and simple, using the embossing folder that came with my eBosser to create the background on pearlised paper, with just the addition of the numerals, sentiment panel and sparkly prima flowers.

This is for:

Moving along with the times: embossing
Top tip Tuesday 102: numbers
Chocolate, coffee & cards 39: use a number
LEJ 55: celebrate
Creative Belli 170: flowers (the pearlised paper had long been forgotten!)
Get creative May: flowers
A and T 24: bling
Crazy 4 challenges 187: no patterned paper
Fitztown 1: anything goes
Kaboodle 173: anything goes
Challenges 4 everybody 21: anything goes
PumpkinSpice 21: anything goes
613 avenue create 21: anything goes
Sister act 8: anything goes
Scrappy frogs May: free choice challenge
DL.ART May linky party: anything goes
Make it Monday 142
Inspire me Fridays 104
52 card pick-up 2.21