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Saturday, 23 July 2011

CHNC challenge 30: reindeer

It's Saturday, so that means there's a new challenge on my CHNC blog - this week I'd like to see at least one reindeer on your card - I'd love you to join in - just click here to be taken to Challenge 30.

Two or three weeks ago I showed a very similar card - you can see it here. A friend saw it and said she would like to buy it for Christmas and please could I make some more like it. One of her requests was for a blue card with a silver reindeer on it, so my challenge card is another commission ticked off the list.

Once again I stamped randomly with Brilliance starlite silver using various Inkadinkado snowflake stamps from a set (I do love these) and then heat embossed with detail silver. The Inkinkado reindeer was stamped and embossed in the same way. Having put three little gems in two corners of the silver mirror card I put a little blue one in each of the white flowers.

The photo doesn't show the card as irl - the whole card is silver embossed just like you can see in the left hand corner - such a difficult card to get a photo because of the glare of the silver mirror card. The inkadinkado reindeer stamped image is also silver embossed.

I'm entering this into these challenges:

Christmas in July:

Also for:

Catch the bug: Christmas in July: Monday: non-traditional colours
Crafts4eternity R29: shaped cards
Karen's doodles: get in shape - shaped cards
Die cuttin' divas 24: shaped die-cut cards
Top tip Tuesday 43: shaped cards
I did it 64: animals
Stamptacular 120: animal antics
Die cut dreams 94: animal antics
Creative card crew: animal antics
Stampin' for the weekend 13: paws for thought
ABC Christmas: O is for older image (the stamp is more than a year old)
Whoopsi daisy: sparkle and shine
Gingerloft 22: make it sparkle
Phindy's Friday 64: doubling up - two flowers
Order of the opus gluei 109: beat the heat (cool winter colours)
Kaboodle 76: embossing
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Friday, 22 July 2011

Ruby wedding card

I'm trying to get ahead with some commissions - they all seem to come along at once!

This is for a ruby wedding anniversary - I was told that the couple loves gardening and flowers, so I thought this decoupaged image was appropriate.

I used a doiley and the mesh ribbon for Basic Grey challenge 48 with BG indian summer papers.

I've used Mira's sketch for Sunday sketch & stamp 64:

and it's for the inspiration picture on For your inspiration 10:




I was asked to put a verse on the insert, so this is what I chose:

Today’s a very special day

Reserved for just you two

Here’s wishing you rich happiness

Today, and all year through!

Happy 4oth Anniversary


This is also for:

AiFactory: layer it up
Creative craft: let's 3D it
Crafts and me 44: add a flower
Scrappy frogs: summer flowers
Aud sentiments 33: 'enjoy your day' or sentiment to make you smile - the insert
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Thursday, 21 July 2011

Peace on earth

For this card I've used Sweet stop sketch 117 which had the added theme of 'Christmas in July':

The foiled papers were remains from a QVC kit and the stitched paper with stars seems to have gone on forever (not much of it left now!). The silver ribbon is very glittery. The stamp is by Personal impressions, inked with Brilliance starlite silver and heat embossed with detail silver.

Those of you who follow my blog regularly will know that I love making Christmas cards, so much so that at the beginning of this year I started my own Christmas challenge blog I am delighted that so many people have been entering my challenges. Challenge 29 is 'seeing stars' - to use at least one star somewhere on your card. So this is another one for my own challenge - perhaps you'd like to go and have a look and join in - you have until tomorrow evening at 22:00 UK time to link up your entry.

'Christmas in July' seems to be a popular theme atm among challenge blogs, so I'm linking for these:
Creative CAS July: clean and simple Christmas

It's also for:

Catch the bug: Christmas in July: Monday: anything goes
ABC Christmas: O is for older image (the stamp is more than a year old)
Winter wonderland: give it it a lift - wet embossing
Whoopsi daisy: sparkle and shine
Deep ocean 4: ribbons
Created by hand: ribbon/silver
Art impressions 25: stitching ... faux or real (it's real, but I didn't stitch it!)
Really reasonable ribbon 28: cool it (cool winter colours)
Order of the opus gluei 109: beat the heat (cool winter colours)
Kaboodle 76: embossing
Cupcake 151: wish upon a star
Sentimental Sundays 64: for the men in your life - I think this is suitable to send to a man
Cute card Thursday 174: for his eyes only
Craft us crazy: anything goes
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Prizes and GD slots

I was chosen as Lovely Lotus for challenge 7 on 'For your inspiration' challenge blog - you can read about it here. I've received this sweet 'Charlotte with a rose' rubber stamp by Sparkle Creations - I look forward to using it.



I've been privileged recently to win quite a few digital images for various challenges and also been given some Guest Designer slots - so, watch this space! I'll be joining Prairie Fairy fun Friday next week (I won some lovely digis from them) and another couple of challenge blogs in the near future.

I won 5 digis from Paper Pretties for winning challenge 161 last week

I've been enjoying my time as a GD on AiFactory for July - you can see my latest card for this week's challenge if you scroll down or click here.
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AiFactory GD layers

This card is for today's 'layers' challenge on AiFactory - it's my third week as a Guest Designer and I'm very much enjoying being part of the team for this month.



I used the sketch for Passion for Promarkers 109 (yes, I did use Promarkers - my stock is steadily growing, although I'm not deserting my copics - a girl (or should that be 'old girl'!) can't have too many marker pens, particularly as I've recently acquired 40 Marvy le plume alcohol pens as well - anyway, I digress!). This is the sketch:

As the challenge is to use layers, as well as layering on the card itself I decoupaged the clouds at the sides of the rainbow - the rainbow and the cute little girl, of course, are digis kindly supplied by AiFactory for the challenge.

This week's challenge on Daring cardmakers is 'it's all very Pinterest-ing' I joined Pinterest and found some lovely rainbow pictures - I could have chosen lots of them, but in the end I settled on this one pinned by Luann Lang:

This is also for:

Crafts and me 44: add a flower
The paper variety: rainbows (and grids) - I chose rainbows
Color throwdown 151: rainbow colours
Crafty creations 128: seeing double - the clouds at the ends of the rainbow are decoupaged
Artistic stamper July: hot hot hot - use hot colours
Pollycraft 102: summer fun
Dream valley 11: summer theme
Charisma cardz 29: sunshine colours
Cardnakin mamas 24: summertime
Bunny Zoe 14: fun in the sun
365 cards day 143: having a heat wave
Papertake: getting cute
Paper cutz 100: skies the limit - anything you might find in the sky
Clear it out Tuesday: anything goes
Daisy doodles 38: anything goes
Craft us crazy: anything goes
KB cute Monday 22: use a digi
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Tuesday, 19 July 2011

BF ATCs for July

The theme for the ATC swap this month of the Bubbly Funk forum is 'yellow'.

I used some paper that's been in one of my trays for a long, long time (think I bought it about six years ago).

I stamped the Jo Capper-Sandon Stampotique stamp with memento tuxedo black, also using the little bee that is on the side of the main stamp. I made sure I stamped so that the bodies of the bees were over just yellow rather than one of the flowers.

The sentiments were done on my letratag.

I'm entering these for the following challenges:

ATC challenges 6: anything goes
Spotlight: ATCs
Soartful: bees
PaperPlay 28: things with wings
Stampin' for the weekend: wings and things
Little Claire 11: things with wings
Paper cutz 100: skies the limit - anything you might find in the sky
Clear it out Tuesday: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes

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A very different wedding card

This is another commissioned wedding day card, but this time very different! The invitation that my friends had received was printed in black on a bright yellow card and so I was asked to try and come up with a wedding card that matched the theme.

The yellow card is actually very lightly embossed with the word 'summer' in different sizes and at different angles, but you can't see it in the photo - you need to move the card to catch the light. The yellow card was mounted on to stardream black sparkly card.

The congratulations border is a stamp, which I inked and heat embossed with black detail powder. I did the same with the Anita's hearts and text stamp. I printed out the names and date on my dymo letratag in the smallest size so that I could fit the names on the hearts. The other sentiments were also done on the letratag.

The colours are good for Moxie Tuesday trigger challenge: perty & flirty, where this is the inspiration photo:


This is also for:

Allways something creative 10: yellow and another colour
Craft your passion 67: text it - use text somewhere (on the stamped image)
Stampin' B 119: make card with bling
Pattie's creations 26: glitter or bling
Whoopsi daisy: sparkle and shine
Gingerloft 22: make it sparkle
Stamp insanity 66 & 67: anything goes
Clear it out Tuesday: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
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Cream and gold wedding card

This is a commissioned card for a friend to give. It needed to be cream white gold and I chose the DL landscape as this was the style of the invitation she had received.

The shaped card and scalloped oval were from a set bought a while ago from QVC. I embossed the oval with a Hallmark embossing folder and swiped it with Brilliance galaxy gold ink pad. The background PM swirls stamps were stamped with the same ink pad and heat embossed with detail gold powder. The names and date were generated on my dymo letratag using a clear tape which was then mounted on to a matt gold foiled card.

The inner flap was covered with a gold foiled sentiment vellum (I ran through my xyron so that there is no adhesive showing through, with the addition of some gold organza ribbon. I then added quite a few gems on to the embossed die cut hearts and parts of the swirls.

(Please excuse the paper clip - I used it to make sure the card was fully closed for the photo.)



I used Anna Griffin sentiment stamps for the inside, using galaxy gold ink again and embossing with detail gold.

I'm linking for these challenges:

Anything goes 45: more than one fold
Delightful: fancy folded cards
For fun: only 1 fold beside the original card fold
Die cuttin' divas 24: shaped die-cut cards
Top tip Tuesday 43: shaped cards
Kaboodle 76: embossing
Crafty Ann 45: dry embossing
Sundays with Crissy 19: de-stressing - distressing on the embossed oval
Inky impressions 19: distressing
My mum's craft shop 14: swirls and pearls (hope gems are OK)
Stampin' B 119: make card with bling
Pattie's creations 26: glitter or bling
Deep ocean 4: ribbons
Pixie cottage 78: wrap it in ribbon
Stamp and create: ribbon and bows
Whoopsi daisy: sparkle and shine
Gingerloft 22: make it sparkle
Stamp insanity 66 & 67: anything goes
Clear it out Tuesday: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes
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3D layered 'clever' card

I was asked to make an Anniversary card for mum and dad. I wanted to make something a little bit special and remembered that in a recent Kanban kit from QVC there were some 'clever card' components, so I used the celebration romance one. Not much actual crafting was involved - it was more a matter of folding and sticking in the right places (now I've done one it would be quicker to make others - this one took me quite a while).

It looks much better irl than in the photos. I made it on Sunday evening and had to take it yesterday lunchtime, so there was no time to wait for better light - but you get the general idea. The foiling is silver, although here some of it looks as if it's gold.






I'm linking for these challenges:

Anything goes 45: more than one fold
Delightful: fancy folded cards
Creative craft: let's 3D it
Unstampabelles 1: celebration
Whoopsi daisy: sparkle and shine
Gingerloft 22: make it sparkle
Clear it out Tuesday: anything goes
Simon says: anything goes

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Saturday, 16 July 2011

Hot summer colours

This is for Marie's sketch for Sunday sketch and stamp 63:

It is also for Crafty Ho's Colour challenge: brights - reds, oranges and yellows.

Papers are BG June bug and edges have been distressed with fired brick DI , also the edges of the petals of the big orange flower) for:

Inky impressions 19: distressing
The stamp man 27: anything by T!m! (the distressed inks)

There's magic in the air: birthday card
Penny's 57: happy birthday
Ruby's rainbow 7: happy birthday
Hanna and friends 102: happy birthday
Irish teddy's: flowers
Shabby tea room 70: flower power
Scrappy frogs: summer flowers
Stamp insanity 68: summer colours
Artistic stamper July: hot hot hot - use hot colours
Allsorts 112: free and easy July
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Shaving foam background

For this card I've used the 'shaving foam background technique (there is a tutorial here if you haven't come across this before). This was stamped with one of my favourite Magenta stamps.

I used the sketch for Stamptacular 119:

Papers are again from the Pink Petticoat wild blossoms collection (the pad was still out and they are so pretty so I couldn't resist using some again). Dotty sticky ribbons and sentiment added.

This is also for:

The stamp man 27: anything by T!m! (I used alcohol inks with the shaving foam)
Sentimental Sundays 63: inky fingers - unconventional stamping materials or techniques
Pile it on 28: show us your favourite technique (one of my favourites - anything with inking and stamping)
Moving along with the times 103: favourite things - inking and stamping and papers
Phindy's Friday 63: pretty pastels
Ladybug 35: summer birthdays
Penny's 57: happy birthday
Ruby's rainbow 7: happy birthday
Hanna and friends 102: happy birthday
Southern girls 23: happy birthday
I did it: floral
Irish teddy's: flowers
Shabby tea room 70: flower power
Scrappy frogs: summer flowers
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Pastel birthday

This card is for the sketch on Corrosive 124:

It's also for the colour challenge on Come and get it:
Papers are from Pink Petticoat wild blossoms collection, cutting out flowers from one of the papers to add to the sentiment circle which was cut with a Nelli Snellen die. Just the addition of some spotty sticky ribbon and the card was done.

This is also for:

Phindy's Friday 63: pretty pastels
Ladybug 35: summer birthdays
Penny's 57: happy birthday
Ruby's rainbow 7: happy birthday
I did it: floral
Irish teddy's: flowers
Shabby tea room 70: flower power
Scrappy frogs: summer flowers
Crafts4eternity R28: 3-2-1 - 3 design papers, 2 ribbons, one die cut shape/sentiment
Pixie cottage 78: wrap it in ribbon
Allsorts 112: free and easy July

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Summery colours

After all the rain this morning, I feel I need some summery colours to cheer up the day. The sun made a brief appearance a little while ago, but already covered by the clouds again. It's the kind of day to stay in and craft.

This card is for Birthday Sundaes 17, which asks for the summery colours of orange, green and white.

The background paper is BG Lilykate and the image is from Glitterbabe - which is for the 'floral' challenge this week on I did it creations, where the prize is being sponsored by Glitterbabe.

Flowers are from stash with card candy in the centres and a piece of spotty sticky ribbon down the side.

Sorry the photo is looking quite dull - the card is a lot brighter irl.

This is also for:

Irish teddy's: flowers
Shabby tea room 70: flower power
Scrappy frogs: summer flowers
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CHNC challenge 29: seeing stars

It's time for a new challenge on my CHNC challenge blog - it doesn't seem possible, but we are up to challenge 29 already - you can see the details here - it would be lovely if you could join in. This week I would like you to include stars on your card - well, at least one star!

For my card I used Papermania Classic Christmas papers with a shaped card blank. I like the way the cut away edge reveals a bit of the underneath, so I thought it was worth decorating the inside so that a bit peeped through.

I layered the stitched ribbon on to a piece of the foiled paper and wrapped around the inside, hiding the join with a star cut from the main paper I used on the front and adding a cut out star on the front too.


I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Christmas inspirations 29: free Christmas project
Bah! humbug 28: shapes - shaped cards
Celebrate the occasion 22: Christmas (shaped card)
Digistamps4joy 23: Christmas in July
Fun at fairy knoll: Christmas in July
Simply create 48: Christmas time
2 sisters 48: Christmas in July
CES 45: Christmas
Catch the bug: Christmas in July
Jellypark friends 1: Christmas in July
Charisma cardz 28: it's in the stars
Pixie cottage 78: wrap it in ribbon
Crafty sentiments: use stitching
DYSU 28: sew: faux or real
Rainbow lady 161: a stitch in time
Creative inspirations 120: no flowers allowed
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Thursday, 14 July 2011

AiFactory GD spots and stripes

For today's card as a Guest Designer on AiFactory, we were given the gorgeous Princess image and asked to incorporate spots and stripes. I coloured the image with copics. I've used Best Creation Inc 'once upon a dream' papers - these are double sided, so I was able to use three different designs. The papers on the outside panels of the gate fold are very glittery.

I hope you'll pop over to AiFactory for the challenge and join in the 'spots and stripes' challenge.



I'm also entering this into these challenges:

Gingerloft 22: make it sparkle
House of Gilli 11: lots of sparkle
iCopic lover 38: birthdays
Penny's 57: happy birthday
Ruby's rainbow 7: happy birthday
Ann's creative nook 137: buy anything new lately - bought the papers for this challenge
Cupcake 150: your favourite Cupcake challenge - 61: going girly
Anything goes 45: more than one fold
Delightful: fancy folded cards
For fun challenges: only one fold beside the original card fold
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Get well soon

This card is for Paper Pretties 161 sketch:

Once again I've used Paris Nights papers by GCD studio. The lovely cat image is an Inca stamp ' swirl cat' coloured with promarkers cool grey 1 and warm grey 4.

The spiky circle shapes were cut with nesties. I added a dymo letratag sentiment and gems, some spotty ribbon, a piece of lace and a crocheted flower brad.

This is also for:

Stamp with fun 119: get well soon
Crafty Ann 44: get well
Oldie but a goodie 23: lace and ribbon
Challenge up your life 47: 1 die, 1 lace, 1 brad
CES 44: recipe - 1 image, 2 ribbon, lace or twine, 3 DP papers
Sparkles forum 15: recipe - a flower, one image, two ribbons
For fun challenges: crocheted flowers
Use it Tuesday 11: you are an animal
My Sheri crafts 64: faithful companions (any kind of animal for a pet)
Jac-inks 12: die cuts plus texture
Crafty pad 129: lots of texture
Mark's finest papers speedy the cat 63: die cuts as a background mat
Stampavie and more 146: more than 3 layers
Card cupids: monochromatic cards
Shopping our stash 8: out with the old or in with the new - the papers were bought a few days ago, also the lace - everything else is older
Ann's creative nook 137: buy anything new lately?
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One of my favourite vintage stamps

The challenge on ABC this week is 'Y for yesterday' - vintage or using an old stamp favourite. This 'gracious lady' Hero Arts stamp is one of my favourites. All the papers are from Paris nights by GCD studio - you need to see them irl to really appreciate them. The strip across the middle has a golden sheen to it - not too in your face, but just enough to add a little something to the card. Because I didn't want to add any colouring in on the stamp, I stamped it on to a piece of the patterned Paris nights paper. The plain ivory embossed flowers were swiped across with a black inkpad and little black pearl gems added.

I've used the sketch for the Create4fun challenge for July:


This is also for:

Make my Monday 6: vintage embossing (the flowers are embossed)
Craft us crazy: distressed vintage
Crafty catz 90: a vintage look
Irish teddy's: flowers
Shabby tea room 70: flower power
Charisma cardz 27: all about flowers
Crafts and me 42 'favourites - stamp/image
Iris' spot 21: use one of your favourite stamps
Stampavie and more 146: more than 3 layers
Card cupids: monochromatic cards
Shopping our stash 8: out with the old or in with the new - the papers were bought a few days ago and this is the first I've used any of them
Ann's creative nook 137: buy anything new lately?
Stampin' sisters in Christ 97: favourite item for stamping - I love stamping directly on to patterned paper
Kaboodle 75: use those scissors - I cut the circle with scissors, having drawn round a dish - saved bothering with cutting one on my cricut
Stamp insanity 66 & 67: anything goes


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BF forum June twinchies

For the June swap on BF forum we were asked to make twinchies that included:

lace
3 x bling
image
piece of patterned paper - this can be any size you like (obviously no bigger than 2"x2")

and be blue and white.....

The girls did a wonderful job with these - aren't they fab?!

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BF forum June inchies

These are the inchies I received from the BF forum swap for June - the theme was 'films' - can you guess what they all are?
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Flashback Friday 13

This is the first time I've taken part in Flashback Friday - the idea is to show something from the past to fit the challenge.

The current FF challenge 13 is to show the first 'non-traditional shaped card' that we made.

I don't know whether this was actually the first, but it was shown on my blog on 20 September 2007 - here.


This was followed on the same day by some more similarly shaped cards - you can see them here.

They were all produced on my craft robo using and adapting a template kindly given by Erika on UKScrappers.

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