Tiptoe through the tulips

'Tiptoe through the tulips' is the title of Tanda Teaser 86 set by Wendy, who says: 'Spring is just around the corner so this week we would like to see Tulips on your card or a card made in an appropriate colour palette.'

Papers are K & Co Tim Coffey tulip. I've randomly stamped tulips on the background with Versamark and embossed with white detail (unfortunately, gloss doesn't show up here). The centre piece is another decoupage.



The challenge on this week's Crazy Amigo blog is 'Color! Color! Color!' 'how colorful are you?' I've chosen to link this card because some say that pink and green should not be seen together, but I love the combination.

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Salt: Sacrifice

On Salt this time it was Kim's turn to choose the topic - you can read what she said about Sacrifice here.

I usually do a LO for Salt (I keep all my contributions in a 12 x 12 album), but this time I decided to have a change and I've made an Easter card instead.

This is based on the passage from Philippians 2 which speaks of Christ's humility and sacrifice.

The background paper is BG Urban Couture Lustra and the crosses stamp is a See-D one - plus the addition of a decoupage lily (I seem to be doing quite a bit of decoupage nowadays - don't know why, because I don't usually do it).



We are delighted at Salt that we have had a good response to our call for folk to join our DT - the announcement will be made soon!

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Another Simpsons Birthday card

This is our card for George - same background, this time on a blue base card. The 'Happy Birthday' sentiment is a lot lighter irl - more coppery.



Another one to link for 'B is for blue and brown' on ABC.

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Simpsons Birthday card

This is a card for mum to send to one of my niece's sons, who is mad keen on the Simpsons.

The predominant colours are blue and brown, so they fit the ABC challenge 'B is for blue and brown'. I used a brown linen background card, a piece of blue and cream striped K & Co La Boutique paper (I thought it matched the background on the Simpsons tag).



Apologies for the crooked scan (and the dirty mark to the right of the silver 11 - it's a mark on the scanner, not the card - I know, I should clean it!).

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Music and dance

Cute Card Thursday challenge 47 is 'music and dance'.

I used a music stamp I bought last week from QVC (one of their foam ones - inexpensive and work well) and a Jolly Nation shrink plastic dancing couple mounted on a circle embossed with Swiss dots. The music has been stamped on to a piece of Anna Griffin mat pack cardstock - just a few faint pink flowers here and there.

Saturday's Workout 42 is 'work with shrink plastic', so I'm linking for that.

It's a while since I've done anything with shrink plastic. I coloured in with ordinary colouring pencils - the dress has come up darker than I intended (it's easy to overdo it because the colours intensify with the heat).



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Chocolate brown and pink card

For this card I followed the sketch on Friday Sketchers 39:

Challenge 49 on My Time to Craft is 'brown and pink' - I just love this colour combo.

On Stamp Something this week the topic is 'chocolate', so I've used some chocolate brown papers, ribbons and flowers.

And on Dutch Dare this week for challenge 35 they say 'we would like to see buttons and bows', so they are included on this card.

I've used HOTP papers, flowers, buttons, sentiment and ribbon from stash; the stamped image is one that I received this week in a swap from Bex on JB - it was already stamped with brown and I have very lightly chalked with pink. The ovals were torn round acrylic templates.

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Since taking the photo, I've adjusted the primas a little on the lady's hat as I was aware that you couldn't see her eye!

A mixture of challenges

For this card I've used Sharon's sketch on One Stop Craft challenge 16:

I've also combined last week's and this week's challenges on Art Creations Friday. This background was the inspiration for this week:

and this picture for last week (I changed the colour):

I have also used lace on my card, which is the subject on Inspire me Thursday this week.

I turned the sketch on its side.

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Games pieces!

I've made two very simple cards for the 'game pieces' challenge on Theme Thursday. I wanted to find a chess quote to put on the cards, but couldn't find anything appropriate, so they are just simple Happy Birthday cards.



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Cupcake card

This card has been made with BG Cupcake papers, rub on and chipboard cupcake. It is for the Charisma Cardz challenge 7: cupcakes:



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House shaped card

The theme on Cuttlebug this week for challenge 18 is 'shape cards', so I've chosen this house shape and used two different embossing folders:

I chalked with Pebbles chalks. I've just spotted some stray chalk on the inside here, so will rub that out. I stuck acetate behind the front of the house and added sticky ribbon curtains.

I'm also linking as another card for this week's Awfully Big Art Adventure: doors.

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Green card

This green card fits a few challenges. I used card sketch 82 on Sketches by Tamara:

I deliberately used all green, as this week's DCM dare is 'feeling green'. The background paper and the postage stamps are HOTP and the other paper and tag are from an old 'Making Cards' magazine. There are wings on my card, which is the topic on Lots to Do challenge 7 this week and on Crazy Amigos the subject for this week's challenge is 'postage stamps', which are included (my first time doing something for this challenge blog).

Lastly, Crafty Muse's challenge this week is 'show us your favourite colour'. I find it difficult to say what my favourite colour is because there is so much variety in all the colours of the rainbow. I often say that it's purple, but I think in my heart of hearts green is still a favourite (although when I was at secondary school our uniform was 'bottle green' and I think that clouded my thinking of this colour for some time). I think green must be one of God's favourite colours because he created so much in that colour and so many shades of it in nature.

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A Basic Grey feast!

I've just had a delivery of a box of BG goodies - bought in Docrafts sale. I have to confess that the other day I had a delivery of BG goodies that included the new Marrakech.

John wants to know if I'm going to start papering the walls!

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It must be decoupage day!

This is another decoupage card - the easy die cut version. This time the card is for Rainbow Lady challenge 47: fans

It's Jolly Nation's Miss Bennet and Mr Darcy.


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Decoupage Easter cards

I've made a few quick Easter cards using die cut decoupage and matching backgrounds (a kit from QVC). I hope that these will sell when I have my Tearfund day on Saturday 14 March (anyone local, please take note).



There are matching envelopes. The background paper and the envies have a lovely sheen finish.

I'm linking these for Secret Crafter 19: Spring has sprung!

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Annivesary card

This anniversary card uses the sketch on LOTV challenge 18 this week.

This is also for the Forever Friends challenge 'Valentine', which doesn't have to be a Valentine card (done all of those), but could be for anniversary etc.

It's also another one for the ABC challenge 'A is for anniversary'.

The papers are from the Forever Friends Hugs and Cuddles pad, together with a FF sticker, sticky ribbons and HOTP swirls stamped with Stazon vibrant violet.

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New home card

For this card I used Laura's sketch 19 on 2 Sketches 4 You:

I turned it on its side. The new home stamp is one I got from Blade Rubber and I coloured in with copics. The background paper is Kanban. The current challenge on Awfully Big Art Adventure blog is 'doors' - there are a few on here!

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My first Easter card

As I'm soon going to have a day to raise money for Tearfund, I thought I ought to make a start on Easter cards, so here is my first one this year - an easy one using decoupage in reverse (think it's called invertage!).

Challenge 19 on Secret Crafter is 'spring has sprung' and on Cupcake Craft 26 the topic is 'make a scene', so this card is for both of those challenges.



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Hearts, flowers and swirls

The challenge on Wednesday Stamper is to use hearts in a different way, so I used a heart stamp, stamping it six times, keeping the bottom point in the centre, to produce a flower. I used a swirly stamp that complemented this for the background of the card, both background and flower being stamped on to Craft Creations pink texture paper. All the stamping was embossed with shocking pink.

A Spoon Full of Sugar 38: doodle doo challenge called for some doodles, either hand drawn or stamped, so plenty on this background.

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Lurve

I've used Mojo Monday week 73 sketch for this card:
I turned the sketch on its side.

This is also for Dottie's World challenge 'lurve', using one of the Dottie downloads from 'love and marriage' - I imported it into Paint and filled in colours.

The papers are HOTP, and other bits and pieces added.

And on JB for February challenge 3 'all heart', Nicky has asked us to make a card using hearts and red and white (a Valentine's or Anniversary etc) - so I hope this qualifies, although, admittedly, there's only one heart on it.

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Pink rose inchie

The challenge on last Saturday's Small World of Inchies was 'pink' and this week's on Inchy by inch is 'roses/flowers', so I've combined the two. I'm sorry that the photo is terrible (so difficult to get a good shot of something so small). I used a docrafts stamp, coloured with copics and accented with a glitter pen and glossy accents.


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Marvellous metal

A long while ago I bought some Magic metal copper, gold and silver sheets. I used some and the rest had been left in the box.

When I saw challenge 6 on Lots to do, I thought about this and have been meaning to make something for it - and now the whole week has gone past. But here it is at last:

The background paper is BG archaic and the copper sheet has been embossed with a cuttlebug folder and swiped over with terra cotta alcohol ink (has just given the copper a bit of a deeper colour). The metal has then be mounted with the brads, which have more of a metallic sheen irl.

Carolyn's challenge CBCC086 on CBC is 'metal madness', so this is OK for that.

A very simple card, but I feel that the embossed copper sheet should take pride of place.

Today's challenge on BG is 'hearts': 'As today is a very special day, we would like you to get all loved up in your creations and show us some hearts, it can be any size and any quantity of hearts you wish, and also not forgetting to use at least one item from BasicGrey somewhere on your creation' - so I'm linking this card as there are hearts on the embossing.

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