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Saturday, 20 August 2011

Back to school notebook


This was made with my Bind it all and some papers from my offcuts box. Stickers were from Poundland (some time ago). Note to self: must make more notebooks (Tearfund sale early October and the weeks go by quickly!).



This is for:

Creative inspirations 66: back to school
Die cuttin' divas 28: back 2 school
Little darlings 5: school days
Little red wagon 94: back to school
Paper pretties 167: back to school
Penny's 60: back to school
Delightful: back to school with primary colours
Fairytale 22: first school day
2 sisters 53: back to school
One stop craft 145: bold and bright
Craft your passion 71: anything but a card
Creative craft: anything but a card
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes
Lothian crafts 17: anything goes
AiFactory: August anything goes
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Christmas waves a magic wand

I wasn't going to do any crafting today, but couldn't resist making a quick card. As it's my birthday we've had pizza delivered, with garlic bread and potato wedges and we had some wine ... and now I'm full! Just having a bit of a break before settling down to watch Casualty. We were going to go out, but things have been topsy turvy here this week because we're having our bath replaced with a shower unit and there were some unexpected hitches with the work- hoping they will finish it by Monday or Tuesday.

Anyway, back to the card. I chose a quote topper that was part of a QVC kit a couple of years ago - this is for ABC Christmas: Q for quote plus an image (hope the squares count).

The background paper and square motifs in the corners were from a magazine from a Nancy Watts collection.

This is another card for my CHNC challenge 34.

I used the sketch for Corrosive 129:

Colours are for Jay Gee's nook challenge 10: photo inspiration:


This is also for:

Christmas inspirations 31: clean and simple
Totally papercrafts 80: Christmas in August
Meljen 72: sparkles, shine and glitter
Tanda teaser 178: monochrome
Sukkersott 133: monochromatic
Paper and such: sentiment as main focal point
Aud sentiments 35: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Poodles parlour: anything goes
Nadia's challenge 12: anything goes
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes
Lothian crafts 17: anything goes
AiFactory: August anything goes
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BF August inchies swap

These are the inchies I've received from the swap for August on the BF forum - the theme was 'summer holiday'.

It's amazing how much detail can be put on to a little inchie - they are fab - thank you, ladies:


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CHNC challenge 34: Christmas birthday or 'anything goes'

It's time for another challenge on my Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge blog. Today is my birthday, so challenge 34 is a bit different to the norm. I usually ask you to make a Christmas card, but today you have a choice of making a card for a Christmas birthday or an 'anything goes' Christmas card.

We have a lot of family birthdays around the festive season, which means making a lot of birthday cards around Christmas time. So at least I've got one done early - perhaps I'll make one every week so that I don't have to do them all at the busiest time of the year.

For my easel card I've used BG wisteria papers, various flowers, buttons, ribbon and scalloped border. The image is one of my favourite Greetings Farm ones - wild sprouts 'sassy Suzi', coloured with copics.


I'm entering this into these challenges:

Bunny Zoe 15: easel cards
Fussy & fancy 1000 follower celebration challenge using the F & F blog colour scheme
Pixie cottage 83: big on birthdays
Anything goes 47: happy birthday
Spoon full of sugar 162: happy birthday
Tuesday throwdown 62: non-stamped sentiment
The crafty pad 134: cute n girly
Paper creations ink 7: show us your flowers
Stamptacular 124: fancy folds
Karen's doodles: fancy folds
I did it: a different shaped card
Mami doodles 32: shaped card
Farm fresh Friday: button it up
Papertake: eyes down, look in - I chose 'buttons, ribbon and FREE
Digi design house 12: recipe week 2 - 3 buttons, 2 patterned papers and 1 ribbon
Digi doodle shops best 72: a recipe - 1 ribbon, 2 backing papers and 3 buttons
Lexi 46: recipe - 1 image, 2 flowers, 3 papers
Ribbon girl: project that features ribbon
Crafty Ann 47: scallops and/or fancy borders
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Aud sentiments 35: anything goes
Basic Grey 51: anything goes
Poodles parlour: anything goes
Nadia's challenge 12: anything goes
Stamp insanity 73: anything goes
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes
Lothian crafts 17: anything goes
AiFactory: August anything goes
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Friday, 19 August 2011

Black, white and silver romance

I love black and white cards and this week's Just for fun challenge is to combine black and white with silver.

I used a shaped black card blank for I did it: a different shaped card, and for Mami doodles 32. Ithen matted with Kanban Victorian stackables, stamping a Kanban image on the white one. As the silver one was quite a bit bigger than the white I stamped some random PM swirls with black stazon.

As is always the case with silver mirror card it was difficult to get a photo because of the high reflection (shows that the mirror card is good quality), so this is the best I could achieve, but it gives a general idea.

This card would be suitable for a wedding or an anniversary so I'm linking it for:

Little Claire 12: wedding/anniversary
Anything goes 47: celebration
Crazy challenge 80: movie inspiration: My best friend's wedding

It's also for:

365 cards day 169: vintage plus black
Crafty sentiments: no sentiment challenge
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Poodles parlour: anything goes
Nadia's challenge 12: anything goes
Stamp insanity 73: anything goes
Craft us crazy 15: anything goes
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes
Lothian crafts 17: anything goes
AiFactory: August anything goes


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Graffiti Banksy style

When I saw today's Daring cardmaker's 'inspired by Banksy' challenge I wondered what on earth it was about and what I would do. Pretty quickly I got hooked on looking through Google images. My great nephews are big Simpsons fans, so I thought I would base my card on this image (I will save it for a birthday in February):

The Simpsons picture was found on Google, the wall and hand are clipart from Publisher and the graffiti was generated in Word.

So here is my finished card - I really enjoyed putting this together (it took a few goes to get it right):

Please click on the picture to enlarge

This is also for:

Wee memories 64: masculine
Sparkles forum 18: one for the boys

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Thursday, 18 August 2011

Out come the fibres again

For this card I've used the sketch for A la card monkey 69, which also asked for the card to be sympathy or thinking of you:

and I've used the colour combo for ColourQ 98:

This is also good for Crafts and me 48: blues or blue/greens.

Once again I raided my offcuts box, so this is for City crafter 70: scrap happy, and Jules crafty snippet challenge 32.

I haven't used any fibres for ages and ages (I remember a few years ago when they were very popular in cardmaking) - anyway, I got out the box and chose this eyelash lime green one. This is for this week's The paper variety challenge to use threads.

Why is it that the flash photo has made the brown brad (used three different colours deliberately) look more like red? Ah well! The brads are for 4 crafty chicks 51: metal, Sew many challenges 64: 3 or more brads, and also for Digi design house 12 recipe week 1: 3 brads, 2 patterned papers and 1 floss.

The sentiment is a Hobbycraft stamp inked with memento rich cocoa.

This is also for:

Fussy & fancy 43: use a lot - pick any embellishment and show at least 3 (brads)
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Nadia's challenge 12: anything goes
Stamp insanity 73: anything goes
Craft us crazy 15: anything goes
Art impressions 28: anything goes
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes
Lothian crafts 17: anything goes
AiFactory: August anything goes
Aud sentiments 35: anything goes
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Happy Kiss-mas!

A quick clean and simple card this morning, bearing in mind that Bah! humbug 32 'kiss'mas closes at lunchtime today and we're going up to Guy's this morning, so I would miss the deadline if I waited till we got back. And today's CCEE1133 is 'kiss'.

I used up scraps of BG wassail, mainly left from making this card yesterday. The main background paper is the one I used to cut the nestie scalloped circle for yesterday's card - covering it up today with the printed image, which is a Dottie Christmas download, appropriately called Christmas kiss - so this is for City crafter 70: scrap happy, and Jules crafty snippet challenge 32. The sentiment was computer generated.

This is another one for my own CHNC challenge 33: simply Christmas - if you haven't yet discovered my Christmas challenge blog, why not hop over there and take the opportunity to start on your Christmas cards - it makes sense to do so if you haven't yet started them because we'll be into September now before you know it.

This is also for Sylvie's challenge for this fortnight on the Christmas card club (there's a list in my sidebar - just click on one of the names and contact if you'd like details of the club) - Sylvie asked us to use mistletoe.

This is also for:

Christmas inspirations 31: clean and simple
Tuesday throwdown 62: non-stamped sentiment
Shopping our stash 13: your weakest link - patterned papers, but particularly BG 6 x 6 pads - I've got most of them (I apologise that I went over the limit of challenges - I'll submit another entry)
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Stamp insanity 73: anything goes
Craft us crazy 15: anything goes
Art impressions 28: anything goes
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes
Lothian crafts 17: anything goes
AiFactory: August anything goes
Aud sentiments 35: anything goes
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011

Happy birthday, with love

This is for the colour challenge for Creative sketches 43C:

Basic black, poppy parade and basic grey.

I've used items from a redline kit - when I bought this I thought the items were die cut, but they weren't, so I put them away and had forgotten about them, but thought it was about time I used them.
This is also for:

365 cards day 168: vintage plus red
Come and get it: red, black and white colour challenge
Crazy amigo: black, white, red
Pixie cottage 83: big on birthdays
Anything goes 47: happy birthday
Spoon full of sugar 162: happy birthday
Tuesday throwdown 62: non-stamped sentiment
The crafty pad 134: cute n girly
Paper creations ink 7: show us your flowers
Jellypark friends: your favourite embellishment - flowers
Challenge up your life 50: no patterned paper
Paper Playtime 53: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Lothian crafts 17: anything goes
AiFactory: August anything goes
Aud sentiments 35: anything goes

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Christmas window

This card is for Christmas challenges with sketches 7 - please follow the link to see the sketch.

It's also for CCEE 1132: glass - I used the photo for Papercraft Star 58 as inspiration, concentrating on a window frame:
I've used a vintage Santa topper from a kit I bought a few years ago; papers are BG wassail and the scalloped circle was cut with a nestie, a few gems and Craftwork sentiment added.

This is also for:

365 cards day 168:vintage plus red
Ooh-la-la 86: oh Christmas!
Secret crafter Saturday 147: Christmas in coming
Phindy's Friday 68: vintage look
Jingle belles: bling on the holidays - the topper is very glittered
Gingerloft 22: make it sparkle
Scrappy frogs: time for some bling
Tuesday throwdown 62: non-stamped sentiment
Crafty Ann 47: scallops and/or fancy edges
Created by hand: what's the point? (triangles)
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes
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CAS blues

In the post below I've shown how I made this card and the items I used - you can see and read about it here, so I won't repeat the process.

This is for the sketch for a special CAS-ual Friday/FTL 153 on Clean and Simple:


This is also for:

Less is more 28: one layer, use inks - something you haven't done before
Pile it on 33: blue, blue, blue - three different shades of blue
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WOYWW 115

There isn't a lot that's different in my workspace today (in fact, it's quite tidy after yesterday's crafting), so I thought I'd show what's in my immediate space - the stages of the card I've been working on this morning for a special CAS-ual Friday/FTL 153 (I'll be blogging the actual card after this, so I won't show the sketch now, but you'll be able to see it when I show the finished card in the next blog post).

I masked off an area that I wanted to ink with ice blue chalk ink:

I then masked so that I could ink the strip that had previously been masked, this time using stormy sky DI:

This is what the card then looked like:

I then stamped with blue iris chalk ink, using one of my favourite Penny Black stamps 'sparklers' - unfortunately, this didn't quite stamp fully at the top, but I'm leaving it because I think it givess a whimsical look to it (well, that's my story ... and I'm sticking to it - lol!). The little 'for you' sentiment is part of a Stamping Up set.

Why not go over to Julia's WOYWW 115 and see what others are up to today ... and perhaps join in and show us your workspace.

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Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Another kawaii cupcake card

This card is similar to the previous one, using similar papers and cupcake, this time mounting the cupcake on a scalloped embossed mat cut with a nestie.

This is for the sketch on Taylored Expressions 144:

This is also for:

Totally papercrafts 79: food and drink
Our creative corner: fun with fruit
Gingerloft 22: make it sparkle
Crafty Ann 47: scallops and/or fancy borders
Cooking it up with Katie 70: emboss a summer punch - embossing on the nestie, cupcakes make me think of summer, nestie die cut
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
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Kawaii cupcake

The theme on Daring Cardmakers this week is 'so kawaii'. Originally I was going to use a picture of some kawaii cupcakes I found on the internet, but I thought that was a bit of a cheat, so I decided to adapt a cupake. I was going to stamp one, but remembered that I still have quite a bit left from a Dawn Bibby kit I bought in a moment of weakness (yes, another moment - lol!) so I just doodled a kawaii face on the cupcake and the cherry. The cherry and 'make a wish' papers are matted on to deep cherry foiled card. The scalloped circle with the cupcake is matted on to a Nellie die cut with the foiled card. A couple of Poundland gems finish the card.

There's lots of glitter on the top of the cupcake and on the scalloped edges of the dotted mat.

I used the sketch for My time made easy 22:


This is also for:

Totally papercrafts 79: food and drink
Our creative corner: fun with fruit
Gingerloft 22: make it sparkle
Scrappy frogs: time for some bling
Crafty Ann 47: scallops and/or fancy borders
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Paper playtime 53: anything goes

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Wishing you a purr-fect birthday

This is for the sketch for I love Promarkers 78:

And the colours are for Cat's corner 56: brown and pink. Also this week's There's magic in the air Magical Monday challenge is 'pink, white and brown.

I've used a favourite Ladybug Magnum stamp, so I'm also entering this into Ladybug 36: favourite stamp.

I used one of my favourite nesties and distressed with tattered rose DI. The Magnum image was stamped with memento rich cocoa and coloured with Promarkers, also using the blender pen. The flower is recycled from another card.

The papers are all from my scraps box, even the large piece covering the card blank, so this is good for City crafter 70: scrap happy and Jules crafty snippet challenge 32.

Sorry that you can't see the sentiment that well on here - it says: wishing you a purr-fact birthday!
It's also for:

CES 49: mix and match - papers from at least 2 manufacturers
Crazy for challenges 100: monochromatic colouring
Totally Gorjuss 93: round and round
Crafty sentiments: punches (leaves) and die cuts (nestie)
Art impressions 27: favourite technique - stamping/distressing
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes

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Have wheels will travel

This card is for Crafty Creations 131 sketch, with the theme of male birthday:
I've used components from Kanban Gentleman's Journal, matting the various pieces on to gold mirror card. The card blank is a light grey 7 x 5.

This is also for:

Phindys Friday 68: vintage look
Cards for men: anything goes
Sparkles forum 18: one for the boys
Hobbystuggu 4: for a man
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes
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Monday, 15 August 2011

I do like to be beside the seaside

Some time ago I got a Delicious Doodles digital image of beach huts, but this is the first time I've used it. As this is sold by Stitchy Bear, I'm entering this into One stitch at a time 75: anything goes.

I digitally cut out the clouds in the original digi - this is for Bee crafty August 35: cropping & chopping images - and then printed directly on to a 'British beach' paper by Shan Lawrence and litly coloured the doors and roofs of the huts and the grassy patches in the sand. I mounted this on to the cloud paper and added a bit of torn sea at the bottom.

This is for:

Digital Tuesday 123: I love the sea
Order of the opus gluei 111: oh I do love to be beside the seaside
St Luke's August: oh I do like to be beside the seaside
Stampin' B 123: make a card with clouds on it
Creative craft: it's summertime
One stop craft 144: at the beach
Shopping our stash 13: dogs or digi stamps or denim
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Lothian crafts 17: anything goes
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Put your best foot forward

Put your best foot forward and put on your dancing shoes - one of my favourite 'My Sentiments Exactly' stamps - simply stamped with memento tuxedo black. The dancing lady is a 'red line' image and Poundland felt flower with button is mounted on to a black paper flower. The sentiment is a bit dark to see, but it is Happy Birthday.

This is for Creative card crew: best foot forward.

This is also for:

365 cards day 168: vintage plus red
Come and get it: red, black and white colour challenge
Paper creations ink 7: show us your flowers
Pixie cottage 81: say it with flowers
Jellypark friends: your favourite embellishment - flowers
Challenge up your life 50: no patterned paper
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
Paper playtime 53: anything goes
Lothian crafts 17: anything goes
AiFactory: August anything goes
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Sunday, 14 August 2011

All wrapped up

'All wrapped up' is the name of the digi image from Shelly's that I've used on this card. I coloured him with copics, cut with a nestie and distressed the edges with stormy sky DI while the nestie was still on the image (did this the other day for another card and liked the effect).

The background paper is a freebie from a magzine and the two squares are scraps from the My mind's eye Christmas glitter book.

This is for the Facebook group 'Sunday's with Santa' challenge 32: snowmen/snowladies.

I've used the sketch given for Christmas challenges with sketches 6 (please click on the link to see the sketch within the challenge post).

This is also for:

Ooh-la-la 86: oh Christmas!
Secret crafter Saturday 147: Christmas in coming
Aud sentiments 34: merry Christmas
The cat's pajamas 171: Christmas in August
Jingle belles: bling on the holidays - glittered snowflakes
Gingerloft 22: make it sparkle
Winter wonderland: light it up
Kaboodle 79: primary colours
Charisma cardz 32: distressing
Simply create 50: time to distress
Catch the bug: distressed or shabby chic
Quirky crafts 17: red hat society
KB cute Monday 24: anything goes using a digi
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
AiFactory: August anything goes
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Letter to Santa

I don't know, of course, who the letter's going to, but I'm guessing that this little girl is sending her letter to Santa.

For this Christmas card I've used the sketch for Jac-inks 14:

This is for Kerry's challenge for the Christmas Card gang (for more info please get in touch with one of us listed in my sidebar). Kerry asked us to include a robin, some holly and the option of adding a postbox.

The stamped image I've used was part of a little set given with Quick Cards last year, coloured with copics. The three papers were all freebies with a magazine. The 3D holly sticker is from Anna Griffin.



This is also for:

Ooh-la-la 86: oh Christmas!
Fab n funky 85: it's Christmas
Secret crafter Saturday 147: Christmas in coming
The cat's pajamas 171: Christmas in August
Little red wagon 93: use a bird on your project
The crafty pad 134: cute n girly
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Come and get it Guest Design slot

Having been shown as one of the top three for a recent challenge on Come and get it, I was invited to be a Guest Designer, so here is my card for today's colour challenge: 'black, white and red'.

The black and white hearts background is Kanban (part of a black and white kit I bought ages ago).

The strawberry cupcake image is from Delicious Doodles, one of the digis bought with my 10$ coupon at Stitchy Bear digital stamps - I won it recently for a Winter Wonderland challenge 'red & green should not be seen'. I just coloured the strawberry with a copic. Stitched ribbon, white lace and sentiment from stash.

I'm also linking this for these challenges:

Hooked on craft 5: sweet treats
Totally papercrafts 79: food and drink
Cupcake 154: sew mad
The paper shelter 26: real or faux stitching - it's real, but I didn't do it!
Southern girls 25: black and white with a pop of one colour
Stamp insanity: lace and pearls with the gurlz
Ribbon girl: use ribbon
KB cute Monday 24: anything goes using a digi
Whoopsi Daisy: anything go's
AiFactory: August anything goes
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