Papillons

The papillons picture I've used here was supplied for City crafter 121: let's do it again.

The background paper is DCWV  from the Mariposa stack (I do love this - I have the 12 x 12 and the 8 x 8) - taken from the top quarter of a 12 x 12. The tape is Tim Holtz - for Crazy amigo: washi tape, coloured with shabby shutters distress ink and this was also used for the edges of the paper and the Papillons picture using an inkylicious in blending brush (this gets a softer look than using cut and dry or similar).

This is also for:

Paper-crafting journey: anything goes
Craft your passion 123: gone buggy
Jelly park friends: summer bugs
Digi doodle shops best 120: things with wings
Sweet stampin: things with wings
That craft place: things with wings
My heart pieces digital stamp challenge: use designer paper
Critter 128: digi week
Card and scrap 36: use stamps (can be digi) on your contribution
Jackson's digital: anything goes 17
Crafts and me 96: use a digi
One stitch at a time 126: anything goes
Sentimental Sundays 115: clean and simple
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Whoopsi Daisy: anything goes
Paper pretties Monday 52: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 102
Inspire me Fridays 71
52 card pick up week 32

DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Tall vintage Christmas

This is a tall and thin card for Crimbo crackers 21. The colour combo for 52 Christmas card throwdown:

 The image and sentiment are from Hunkydory Christmas classics festive memories.

This is also for:

Pixie dust studio: vintage
Creatalicious 36: Christmas in July
Just keep on creating: Christmas is just around the corner
Sentimental Sundays 115: clean and simple
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Papertake: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes

DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Baubles and bows

The background for this card was made with the piece cut off from a card shown earlier, so this is another for Pixie's crafty snippets 33, also Hiding in my craft room 58: super scraps Saturday, Squiggle stamps: stash attack and Waste not Wednesdays 28. All I needed to do was to add a few bits, a sentiment and some bows and the card was done.


Another card based on this photo inspiration given for Winter wonderland this week:

This is also for:

Daring cardmakers: get knotted
The pink elephant 160: ribbon galore
Top tip Tuesday 82: focus on the ribbon
Our craft lounge 129: ribbon
Secret crafter Saturday 198: gold, silver or bronze
Creatalicious 36: Christmas in July
Just keep on creating: Christmas is just around the corner
Sentimental Sundays 115: clean and simple
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Papertake: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Inspire me Fridays 71
52 card pick up week 32

DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Home for Christmas

When I saw the photo inspiration Holly jolly Christmas this week, it was the fireplace that really caught my eye and brought back childhood Christmas memories.

So I chose a picture from the Hunkydory Christmas classics called ' a Christmas welcome' and chose background card that had some Christmas greenery.

And I used the sketch for Penny's 88:

And, as there's food involved, this is another for my own CHNC challenge 85: festive food or drink.

This is also for:

Stampin' sisters for Christ 152: something that says 'home' to you
Creatalicious 36: Christmas in July
Just keep on creating: Christmas is just around the corner
Sentimental Sundays 115: clean and simple
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Papertake: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes

DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Metallic Christmas

For this card I've used some pieces from the Hunkydory Elegant Christmas adorable baubles, matting on to some snowflake card and embossing a strip of gold mirror card with a Creative Expressions crackle folder.

This is for the sketch for Always playing with paper Merry Monday 27:

Also based on this photo inspiration given for Winter wonderland this week:

Secret crafter Saturday 198 is asking for gold, silver or bronze - I hope it's OK that I've used all three of them!

This is also for:

Christmas card challenge week 37: texture
Bloggers challenge: add texture
Chocolate, coffee & cards 19: emboss
Tabitha's designs: Christmas in July
Creatalicious 36: Christmas in July
Just keep on creating: Christmas is just around the corner
One stitch at a time 126: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes

Inspire me Fridays 71
52 card pick up week 32
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Ginger spoon

'Ginger spoon' is the name of the digital image that I've used - it was supplied by Bugaboo Stamps, sponsors of my CHNC challenge 85 this week, so this is another card for that.

This is also for Kerry's sketch for the fortnightly challenge for the Christmas Card Club (names of those involved on my sidebar - if you're interested in joining, please contact Clare):

The main background paper is DCWV and the other pieces are from my offcuts - so this is the first opportunity of the week to join in with Pixie's crafty snippets 33, also Hiding in my craft room 58: super scraps Saturday, Squiggle stamps: stash attack and Waste not Wednesdays 28.

The scalloped circle is a nestie die cut. I distressed edges with brown corduroy ink and added some Prima gems and a piece of spotty ribbon. The image was digitally coloured in Paint before printing.

This is also for:

Tabitha's designs: Christmas in July
Creatalicious 36: Christmas in July
My mum's craft shop 69: Christmas in August
Stampin with the dragon: Christmas in August
Just keep on creating: Christmas is just around the corner
Christmas cards all year round August: kids Christmas
Creative Mondays (always crafting) 13: food
Robyn's fetish 120: monochromatic cards
Just some lines: layer it up
Whoopsi Daisy: die cuts and/or punches
The poodles parlour: let's see those die cuts
Card and scrap 36: use stamps (can be digi) on your contribution
Jackson's digital: anything goes 17
Crafts and me 96: use a digi
Paper pretties Monday 51: use scallops
Tuesday alchemy 26: bingo - I chose: dies, my choice (distressing), bling (the gems)
My heart pieces digital stamp challenge: use designer paper
One stitch at a time 126: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 71
52 card pick up week 32
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Christmas cocoa tag

I don't often make tags, but I am sometimes asked for them at Christmas, so thought perhaps I ought to get some done.

For this I've used a ready coloured Meljen's designs image called 'Christmas cocoa', tearing the edges of the card and distressing first with shabby shutters and then gently with broken china distress ink. I then took a scrap piece of yellowish card and brushed the edges with the two distressed inks and then stamped a variety of snowflakes using broken china ink, from one of my favourite Christmas stamp sets - 'doodle frames holiday' by Inkadinkado.

I found a scrap of ribbon that matched up - it's a blend of yellow, green and blue - to complete the tag - I glued it gently because it would have been two thick to knot.

This is for:

Meljen's designs 122: tags
Robyn's fetish 119: tags
The sisterhood of crafters: tag you're it
Cute card Thursday 229: tag you're it
Dutch dare 177: tag you're it
Cards galore August: tag
Amusing challenges (stamped blessings): use a tag
Sweet stamps 77: stamped background

Another card for CHNC challenge 85

This is another card for my CHNC challenge 85: festive food or drink.

This time I've used the 'ginger bowl' digital image kindly supplied by Bugaboo Stamps, colouring with copics.

I've used the sketch for Fetch a sketch 30:

The white, blue and black background paper is DCWV and the other papers are Echo Park falling snowflakes (double sided).

The reindeer ribbon is some that I got from a local market a while ago, the sentiments are Craftwork cards.

All corners have been rounded with an Xcut punch.

This is also for:

Tabitha's designs: Christmas in July
Creatalicious 36: Christmas in July
My mum's craft shop 69: Christmas in August
Stampin with the dragon: Christmas in August
Just keep on creating: Christmas is just around the corner
Christmas cards all year round August: kids Christmas
Creative Mondays (always crafting) 13: food
Card and scrap 36: use stamps (can be digi) on your contribution
Jackson's digital: anything goes 17
Catch the bug August anything goes
Crafts and me 96: use a digi
Crafting for all seasons 33: bright colours
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 71
52 card pick up week 32
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

CHNC challenge 85

Saturdays seem to come round quicker and quicker, so here we are again with another new challenge on my CHNC blog - today for challenge 85 I'm asking to see festive food or drink.

For my first card I've used the Bugaboo Stamps 'cupcake candycanes' image, kindly supplied by Bugaboo, who are sponsoring my CHNC challenge 85. The image was coloured with copics.

Papers are all from the K & Co Secret Santa collection - I used offcuts (it's a 12 x 12 collection of papers, so plenty of offcuts are left over once a paper is cut into), so this is for Pixie's crafty snippets 31 and Squiggle stamps: stash attack (the papers are old and need using!).

This is also for:

Tabitha's designs: Christmas in July
Creatalicious 36: Christmas in July
My mum's craft shop 69: Christmas in August
Stampin with the dragon: Christmas in August
Just keep on creating: Christmas is just around the corner
The lollipop ladies 51: strawberry & cream + layers
Lollipop crafts: monochromatic
Stampin' for the weekend 15: monochromatic
Creative Mondays (always crafting) 13: food
Card and scrap 36: use stamps (can be digi) on your contribution
Jackson's digital: anything goes 17
Catch the bug August anything goes
Crafts and me 96: use a digi
Crafting for all seasons 33: bright colours
Crafty catz 145: anything goes
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 71
52 card pick up week 32
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Rainbow and butterflies

The background is from a Publisher clipart picture and the butterflies were stamped using a Laura Ashley stamp and coloured with copics.

This is for Chocolate, coffee & cards 18: rainbows and butterflies.

The area in the middle isn't really speckled with white - it's the flash photo that's at fault.

This is also for:

Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Jackson's digital: anything goes 17
Catch the bug August anything goes
Crafts and me 96: use a digi
Crafting for all seasons 33: bright colours
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
2 sisters 103: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 70
52 card pick up week 31
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Miss Anya autumn

No, I certainly don't want to think of autumn yet, but that's the name of the Greetings Farm digital image that I've used for this card, coloured with copics, for Farm fresh Friday: can you digi it? It's also for Anyone for Anya: flower power and All that scraps Wednesday: anything goes.

I used the sketch for Just us girls 148:

Colours are for Color throwdown 204:

 I've used Basic Grey ambrosia papers and some Martha Stewart flowers.

This is also for:

Basic Grey 74: bright and bold
Cardmakin mamas 50: 1, 2, 3 - 1 image, 2 designer papers, 3 embellishments
Tammy scraping corner 22: show us your bling (the flowers)
Sentimental Sundays 114: fall
Oozak 5: fall themed
House of Gilli 38: fall colours
Jackson's digital: anything goes 17
Catch the bug August anything goes
Card and scrap 36: use stamps (or digis) on your contribution
Crafts and me 96: use a digi
Mema's crafts August: anything goes with a twist of red
Crafting for all seasons 33: bright colours
The cheerful stamp pad 49: coming up orange
Willow sketchie 9th August: warm colours
Divas by design 47: for a female
Freshly brewed 108: birthdays
Let's craft and create 51: let's make it pretty
Cardmadfairy's digi: go floral
Waste not Wednesdays 28
Squiggle stamps: stash attack (I've had the papers for ages)
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
2 sisters 103: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 70
52 card pick up week 31
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

In the pink

'In the pink' is a new challenge blog that started today ... not surprisingly, we are being asked to make a 'fifty shades of pink' card for challenge 1, so here we go! It's also pink for Crafty catz 144.

The card is also for the sketch for Totally Gorjuss 143:

 Apart from the stitched ribbon - which is for Dilly Beans sewn challenge, everything else is from the Hunkydory tea party set.



This is also for:

Lollipop crafts: monochromatic
Shopping our stash 63: monochromatic
Totally papercrafts 128: monochrome
Incy wincy: sugar and spice and everything nice
Divas by design 47: for a female
Creative Mondays (always crafting) 13: food

WOYWW revisited on Thursday

I know that a lot of WOYWW visitors think that I'm always neat and tidy - well, I thought I'd show you the state of my work surface now - and the state of my fingers (the hand holding the camera is actually worse).

I hope Julia will forgive me for revisiting WOYWW 166.  My original WOYWW 166 post from yesterday is here (#99 on WOYWW 166).

With sympathy

While I'd got the Luminaire radiant rain bottles out I decided to use them to make an embellishment   die cut with a nestie, on to which I layered a couple of flowers that were dyed with the Luminaires and then just added a gem. I have very inky fingers now!

The sentiment stamp is from Hobbycraft.

This is for:

Less is more 79: blue and green
Perfect sentiments 44: clean and simple sympathy
Paper pretties Monday 51: use scallops
Little Miss Muffet 41: scallops
Try it on Tuesday: anything goes for July

Jaws!

Some time ago I bought a pack of fish shaped cards, but had only used one before because I couldn't really think what to do with them.

For this one, I've daubed Luminaire radiant rain colour concentrate in three different colours - rich cobalt, mallard and Mediterranean - these have a beautiful sheen to them which is quite difficult to pick up in a photo. I had to put plenty of paper between to protect the inside.

I've sort of used the blues and green in proportion for Playing in paradise 78 (although my green is a different shade):

This is for:

Craft punked 31: at the movies - Jaws!
CCEE 1232: shaped card
PaperPlay 32: shaped card
Card crafters circle 34: bend me, shape me
Di's digi: no squares allowed
Freshly brewed 108: birthdays
Come and get it: adult birthday card
Creative card crew 16: on the beach/under the sea
Party time Tuesday 80: by the sea

Belated birthday wishes

This is for Annabelle:

I've used a Faye Whittaker 'all our yesterdays' stamp (another that I bought a long while ago and have never used before today), coloured with copics.

I used the sketch for Clean & simple 201 (I hope I'll be forgiven that the image I've used is rather big):

This is also for:

Nightshift stamping 131: CAS
CAS-ual Friday 64: on cloud 9 - things you see in the sky
The stamping boutique 45: balloons
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Do you stack up 84: four legged friends

The balloon seems to stand still in the air ...

... while the earth flies past underneath.

I've used this saying with a clipart picture from Publisher to make this simple card with a piece of Trimcraft Up up and away background paper.

This is for:

CAS-ual Friday 64: on cloud 9 - things you see in the sky
The stamping boutique 45: balloons
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Daisy doodles 65: outdoors

Rejoice in the Lord

This card was prompted by the August colour challenge on Daring cardmakers where this lovely photo inspiration was given for A Mediterranean corner, featuring whitewashed walls, fresh green and hot pink, a dash of powder blue and a smidgeon of purple:

I used a piece of Basic Grey euphoria for the background, which included all the required colours, a couple of pieces of spotted ribbon and a picture of a lily pond downloaded free from the internet. The text from Psalm 33 was given with Word art Wednesday 40, so this is also for that.

This is also for:

CASology week 5: pond
Basic Grey 74: bright and bold
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Papertake: anything goes
2 sisters 103: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 70
52 card pick up week 31
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

Up, up and away!

'Up, up and away' is the name of the background paper by Trimcraft for this card. The stamp by Faye Whittaker in the 'All our yesterdays' range is simply called 'kite' and is just right for CropStop 83: flying kites, coloured with copics.

I've kept the card simple because the paper needs some space of it's own and the area of the image is quite big - I just added the computer generated sentiment.

This is also for:

Squiggle stamps: stash attack (I've had the stamp for some time but it had never been inked till tonight)
Waste not Wednesdays 28
Mad for markers August: anything goes
Crafty sentiments: clean and simple
Tanda teaser 200: CAS
Lexi 71: sparkle and shine
Bearly mine: it's all sparkle & shine this week
Fashionable stamping 27: anything goes
Cards und more 62: anything goes
Pattie's 49: animals or insects
Great impressions August: a walk on the wild side (animals)
Take time for you 73: vintage
Sugar creek hollow 23: something old (the stamp), something new (the paper)
Craft a scene August: anything in the great outdoors
Here come the boys 33: boys' toys
PanPastel UK 30: summer fun
Timbro scrap mania 53: summer
Anything goes 73: summer days
Everybody art 201: summer
Whimsy 49: summer fun
Just Hanna and friends 151: summer
Moving along with the times 157: summer
Truly madly crafty August: summer fun
Creative Friday: summer, sun & holidays
Papertake: anything goes
2 sisters 103: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 70
52 card pick up week 31
DL.ART Birthday Linky party
DCC & friends 1: anything goes

WOYWW 166

I haven't taken part in WOYWW for a couple of weeks, but thought it was about time that I joined in again and showed the state of my workspace for WOYWW 166.

Thank you to all those WOYWWers who have recently left comments and wished me well. I still have some lingering effects of the shingles, but nothing like it was at its worst.

So here is my space today:

I've been asked what's in the crates towards the top of the shelves - unmounted stamps (just some of them - the rest are housed in boxes which sit on the unit the other side of the room).

So here is the view of the left of where I sit - mainly boxes that need to be put away - although there's probably little point because I'll probably only want them out again!

And to the right of me are piles of cards that I've made recently that need to have inserts put in and bagged and labelled. At the beginning of the year one on my crafty resolutions was to do this every Monday so that the job didn't get out of hand. Well, I didn't do any last Monday, so I think I need to get on and do them before the piles get much higher - but I'd far rather be crafting!

The little mesh box with Christmas toppers (decoupaged etc) ready to be used is still there, but I have used some of the pieces recently, so that's a bit of progress.

I look forward to getting round to see some of the workspaces of WOYWWers.

UPDATE:

I've actually entered some more photos as #138 at WOYWW 166 because I know that some of you think that I never get untidy!! You can also see them here.

Relax! It's your birthday!

Having made the previous two cards with some of the remains of the Kanban everyday essentials kit, I just had to make this one - mainly because I accidentally put adhesive on the back of the shaped piece that I've used for the middle when I was making the previous card - so I couldn't put it away. The only trouble was that I have very little of the kit left, so I've used bits and pieces of it to create this card - a true concoction made with snippets! (actually I still have one or two odd bits left, so I'll have to find other stuff to go with those to use them up - don't like to throw anything away!).

This is for:

Pixie's crafty snippets 31
Squiggle stamps: stash attack
Crafty sentiments: clean and simple
Cute card Thursday 228: clean & simple
Fashionista 5: baby or birthday
Papertake: anything goes
2 sisters 103: anything goes
Challenge up your life 75: everything goes
Make it Monday 101

Inspire me Fridays 70
52 card pick up week 31
DL.ART Birthday Linky party