My crafty outlook: 1 Aug 2013

Thursday, 1 August 2013

Tag card

I've used the tag that I made and showed here on a card, using a piece of paper from a magazine freebie and another scrap from my Christmas offcuts box.

This is for:

Always playing with paper: anything goes Christmas
Deep ocean 57: Christmas in July
Little red wagon 196: Christmas in July
Fairytale 72: Christmas in July
Left of center 11: Christmas in July
Totally gorjuss 194: Christmas in July
Ruby's rainbow 59: layer it up
Digi haven: any animal
Daring cardmakers: creature comforts
Papercreators 12: just bears
Crafty boots: animals
All kinds of cards 85: animals
Southern girls 74: animal antics
Chocolate, coffee & cards 44: animals
Mark's finest papers speedy fox and friends 170: tie it up
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 280: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Pile it on 30: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 17: anything goes
Make it Monday 151
Inspire me Fridays 113
52 card pickup 2.30

This is a tag using Christmas scraps and featuring the winter bear digital image from Dilly Beans for their 'make a tag' challenge. I edged the tag with fired brick distress ink and added the piece of tartan ribbon. This is quite a large tag - about 5.5 inches tall. I might try and incorporate it on to a card eventually.

This is also for:

Digi haven: any animal
Daring cardmakers: creature comforts
Holly jolly Christmas: tag it
Cheerful stamp pad 6: make a tag
Sweet stamps 128: Christmas tag
Papercreators 12: just bears
Stamp-n-doodle: Christmas comes early
Cardcrafters circle 85: Christmas in July
Polka doodles 30: Christmas in July

Birthday wishes

This is for the colours given for Color my heart 53:

The main embossed paper was created with a new Embossalicious folder run through the eBosser. I swiped this with some versamagic pink grapefruit ink. The fishtail piece of embossing was done with a little folder that was free with a magazine. I stamped directly on to the Dovecraft doily inking the Magenta stamp with stazon vibrant voilet. I then added the Craftime sentiment and the prima flower spacer.

This is also for:

Craftin desert divas 11: birthdays
Tuesday throwdown 158: birthday party
Little tangles 18: let's celebrate - birthday bash
Seize the birthday: anything goes birthday celebration
Bloggers challenge: they say it's your birthday
One crazy stamper August: birthdays
Kort o mania 90: birthday
LEJ 64: distressing or paper tearing
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 280: anything goes
Pile it on 30: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 17: anything goes
Make it Monday 151
Inspire me Fridays 113
52 card pickup 2.30

Summer picnic ...

... complete with ants! Wasn't sure about including them at first, but they were with the miscellaneous stickers I was using, so thought I might as well add them and it was only afterwards the I realised that I'd stuck them right close to where there's an ant on the DCWV paper!

Other stickers from various sources.

This is for:

Anything goes 98: coffee break and/or food
Whimsical designs: going buggy
Crazy 4 challenges 196: join us on a picnic
Pink by design: summer vacation
Catered crop: summer lovin
Dream valley 62: summer days
Hobby cutz 11: summer
Collage obsession: summer
The crazy challenge 150: summertime
City crafter 170: summer time
Crafty sentiments: summer holiday
Creative belli 175: summer (all old supplies)
Happy campers 20: summer
Pollycraft 4: fun in the sun
The sisterhood of crafters: bring on the heat - card with a sun on it
A little bit crafty August: summer sun
AnMaCreatief 23: summer
Heck of a challenge August: summer holidays
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 188: vacation (or travel)
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 280: anything goes
Pile it on 30: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 17: anything goes
Make it Monday 151
Inspire me Fridays 113
52 card pickup 2.30

Christmas silver extravaganza

This is my third card as one of the design team for Christmas cards all year round August: Christmas extravaganza - make it fussy and fancy.

This is another 8 x 8 card. The silver mirror card punched circle was cut with my mini 8 snowflakes punch and the smaller one was also cut with that using a piece of Hunkydory foiled card.

The image is Kanban spring silhouettes (but I think it can double up as snowflakes with a bit of imagination - lol!) inked with versamark and heat emhossed with detail silver powder, with the addition of some sparkly flower gems from Hobbycraft., cut out with a nestie die. Punched snowflakes were added at the corners with little pearls.

This is also for:

Facebook Sunday's with Santa week 31: anything goes (getting ahead this week!)
Always playing with paper: anything goes Christmas
Deep ocean 57: Christmas in July
Little red wagon 196: Christmas in July
Fairytale 72: Christmas in July
Left of center 11: Christmas in July
Totally gorjuss 194: Christmas in July
Craft room 56: heat embossing
Paper crafting journey: punches and/or die cuts
The paper nest dolls 9: die cuts
Die cuttin' divas 126: anything goes (nestability)
4 crafty chicks 153: bling
Ruby's rainbow 59: layer it up
Craftin' boutique 1: anything goes
Inky linky 25: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
Crafters corner 11: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 280: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Pile it on 30: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 17: anything goes
Make it Monday 151
Inspire me Fridays 113
52 card pickup 2.30

More Christmas extravaganza

This is my second card for Christmas cards all year round August: Christmas extravanganza - make it fussy and fancy. Please come and join us if you can.

This is a large 8 x 8 card with a piece of Hunkydory foiled card in the background, topped with a piece of Kaisercraft turtle dove script paper. I overlaid this with a piece of snowy acetate. The embossed strip is an offcut from using an eBosser folder. The image is a glittered one that was part of a set that I bought long ago (have loads of them left). Flowers are prima and the strips of pearls from stash.

This is also for:

Facebook Sunday's with Santa week 31: anything goes (getting ahead this week!)
Always playing with paper: anything goes Christmas
Deep ocean 57: Christmas in July
Little red wagon 196: Christmas in July
Fairytale 72: Christmas in July
Left of center 11: Christmas in July
Totally gorjuss 194: Christmas in July
Lisa B designs: vintage
Tok bobok 3: vintage
Bastel-traum: shabby chic/vintage
Our creative corner August: words, words, words
4 crafty chicks 153: bling
Paper playtime 15: pattern paper
By Lori 52: designer paper
Ruby's rainbow 59: layer it up
Inky linky 25: anything goes
Just for fun 1: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
Crafters corner 11: anything goes
Cute card Thursday 280: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday challenge: anything goes
Pile it on 30: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 17: anything goes
Make it Monday 151
Inspire me Fridays 113
52 card pickup 2.30

Christmas extravaganza

It's time for the August challenge on Christmas cards all year round and today the theme is: Christmas Extravaganza - make it fussy and fancy, so this is my first card as one of the Design Team. Please go over to CCAYR and see all the fussy and fancy cards made by other members of the team and, hopefully, join in the Christmas extravaganza.

Papers are Teresa Collins 'Christmas home. The black glittered strips, little glittered reindeer and ribbon have been in my Christmas stash for some time. The foiled and glittered panel and the leaves were rescued from one of our Christmas crackers last year.