Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 80

This is my design card for Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 80: anything goes with a twist ... use some pink.  Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

For my card I used Lacy Sunshine Lizabeth spring music, kindly supplied by the sponsor. The background was printed from one of the lovely free digital scrapbook pages I found here. Flowers were from Poundland and sentiment die cut from Craftwork cards.

This is also for:

Lacy sunshine 58: monochrome
Crafty catz 279: let's feel the music
Alphabet: G for glitz and glamour
Creative craft cottage digi 25: monochrome
Little Claire digi stamp 5: mono colours
Scribbles designs 29: B is for ... birthday
CRAFT 311: birthday
Seize the birthday
Cute as a button 9: girlie card in pink
Sentimental Sundays 258: happy mother's day/really girly
Crafters cafe 116: feminine
Eureka 140: flowers
Deep ocean 103: flowers
Digi choosday 19: flower power
Di's digi: load on those flowers
613 avenue create 123: anything goes
Scribble and scrap 44: anything goes
Going grey with Scrap-creations: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Creative fingers 80: anything goes
Craft your passion 261: anything goes
Crafting from the heart 59: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 198: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Stampartpapel retarte 47: anything goes
Not just cards 19: anything goes
Inspiration destination 33: anything goes
Sister act 106: anything goes

Completely Christmas challenge 63

This is my design card for Completely Christmas challenge 63: anything goes with a twist ... for a child. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

I used Sparkle n Sprinkle snow family kindly supplied by the sponsor, printing and colouring, then matting on to matt silver card and then a white card blank.The children's song is one I found on the internet, to be sung to 'You are my sunshine'. This was printed directly on to the card.

This is also for:

12 months of Christmas link up
Melonheadz friends: all about kids
Holly jolly Christmas: clean and simple
Little tangles 56: clean and simple
Scrappy hands 38: clean & simple
Simply papercrafts 4: anything goes or CAS
Sweet stampin: clean and simple
Creative craft cottage digi 25: monochrome
Lacy sunshine 58: monochrome
Little Claire digi stamp 5: mono colours
Jingle belles: happy hybrid holidays
Little Claire 57: outdoors
Creative fingers 80: anything goes
Craft your passion 261: anything goes
Crafting from the heart 59: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 198: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Stampartpapel retarte 47: anything goes
Not just cards 19: anything goes
Inspiration destination 33: anything goes
Sister act 106: anything goes

Second card for CCAYR mid-month

This is my second design card for Christmas cards all year round May challenge: vintage. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of others in the team and you can join in our challenge here.

As my theme for this week's CHNC challenge 228 is 'vintage/shabby chic' I'm also showing this there - the challenge is only open until 22:00 UK time tonight, so there's still time to join in.

I'll be back later with the name of the lovely paper that I used for the background (double sided). The black strips are Paper Cellar gllittered strips, although they don't look glittered here. The berries on the lovely vintage scene are also glittered.

This is also for:

12 months of Christmas link up
Recycle, re-purpose & re-invent May: anything goes (the image from an old card)
Country view May: simply scenic
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Stampartpapel retarte 47: anything goes
Not just cards 19: anything goes
Inspiration destination 33: anything goes
Sister act 106: anything goes

CCAYR mid-month inspiration

This is my first design card for Christmas cards all year round May challenge: vintage. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of others in the team and you can join in our challenge here.

As my theme for this week's CHNC challenge 228 is 'vintage/shabby chic' I'm also showing this there - the challenge is only open until 22:00 UK time tonight, so there's still time to join in.

The background of the card was made using two Embossalicious folders run through the eBosser and then brushed with stormy sky distress ink. The lovely vintage scene was rescued from an old card.

This is also for:

12 months of Christmas link up
Recycle, re-purpose & re-invent May: anything goes
Country view May: simply scenic
Left of center 78: distress it
Glitter n sparkle 136: embossing
Creative card crew 87: embossing
Little red wagon 289: make an impression - dry embossing
V's sweet 34: emboss it
Crafty boots: ribbon or lace
Fresh brewed: ribbon or twine
3 girl jam May: anything goes with ribbon
Craft-Dee-Bowz May: anything goes with a handmade bow
Scrappy hands 37: blue and white
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Stampartpapel retarte 47: anything goes
Not just cards 19: anything goes
Inspiration destination 33: anything goes
Sister act 106: anything goes
DL.ART May linky

Mid-month inspiration for CHNC challenge extra for May

It seems impossible that I'm showing my design card for mid-month inspiration for CHNC challenge extra for May ... where does time go it?! Please click on the link to see the wonderful designs by my team and join in the challenge here.

My card was simply made using the lovely glittered picture that was cut off an M & S gift card, matting this on to backgrounds that I'd previously made for another card that I didn't like when it was finished, so I demolished it apart from the background layers - the top one had been embossed with a folder.

The strips and sentiment were from Craftwork cards - the sentiment says 'from our house to yours'.

This is also for:

12 months of Christmas link up
Recycle, re-purpose & re-invent May: anything goes
Order of the opus gluei 207: then and now or now and then
Country view May: simply scenic
Scrappy hands 37: blue and white
Creative craft cottage 39: all that glitters
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Stampartpapel retarte 47: anything goes
Not just cards 19: anything goes
Inspiration destination 33: anything goes
Sister act 105: anything goes

Fan-tastic Tuesday challenge 85

This is my design card for Fan-tastic Tuesday challenge 85: anything goes with a twist ... add some flowers. Please click the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and join in the challenge with your floral delights.

For my card I used Bugaboo Stamps Beautiful blocks - faith, kindly provided by the challenge sponsor. I love this image - suitable for so many occasions, including condolence.

I changed the overall look of the image from blackand white to sepia and coloured the roses in Microsoft Paint before printing and mounting on a piece of pearlescent card and then a dark brown card blank. Just the addition of the 3D rose stickers and the butterflies and the card was done.

This is also for:

Crafts 4 eternity R225: sepia tones
My time to craft 291: sympathy
City crafter 261: focus on flowers
Come and get it: flowers
Deep ocean 103: flowers
Fab n funky 258: May flowers
Bloggers challenge: May flowers
Fussy & fancy 138: lots of flowers
Di's digis designs: load on those flowers
Digi choosday 19: flower power
Digitally sweet 138: April showers bring May flowers
Our creative corner May: April showers bring May flowers
Dragonfly dreams May: how does your garden grow
Stamp and create May: May flowers
Pattie's 110: use a flower image
Simon says Wednesday: let's get sentimental
Artistic inspirations 131: anything goes with a twist of swirls
Crafty catz 278: CAS
Scrappy hands 28: clean and simple
Little tangles 56: clean and simple
Stampartpapel retarte 47: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Not just cards 19: anything goes
Inspiration destination 32: anything goes
Sister act 105: anything goes
DL.ART May linky

Cheerful stamp pad challenge 111

This is my design card for the Cheerful stamp pad challenge 111: fairies. Please click on the link to see the wonderful crafting of the rest of the team and we would love you to join in our challenge.

For my card I used the lovely Ching chou kuik's 'magic spread' digi kindly supplied by our sponsor, Sweet Pea Stamps. I coloured with spectrum noir pencils and cut the image with a Spellbinders nestie die, brushing with antique linen distress ink before removing from the die. This was then matted on to another Spellbinders nestie die cut using some matt gold card, which was also embossed. The paisley embossed background was created with an embossalicious folder using some cream card with gold glitter, brushing this with the antique linen ink, adding the strip of corrugated card, sentiment, gems and hessian and wood flowers. Everything was then matted on to matt gold card and then a kraft card blank.

I based my card on the sketch given for Die cuttin' divas challenge 214:

This is also for:

One sweet challenge May: things with wings
Polka doodles 19: things with wings
Craft for the craic May: wings
Crafty calendar May: things with wings
Corrosive 224: every little thing she does is magic
Fairytale 117: corrugated cardboard
Glitter n sparkle 136: embossing
Just us girls 292: embossing
V's sweet 34: emboss it
Creatalicious 74: embossing
Robyn's fetish 263: lots of layers
Little Miss Muffet 111: many layers
Brown sugar 145: layers
The stamping boutique: die cut or punch
Little red wagon 288: distress it
Sentimental Sundays 258: (mother's day)/really girly
Get creative 14: for the ladies (or mother's day)
DRS 173: beautiful backgrounds (make your own)
Little Claire designs 56: use kraft card
Everybody art 323: happy birthday
Creative inspirations 312: birthday
Dare to be sassy Thursdays 280: happy birthday
Seize the birthday
Left of center 77: bling
Creative craft cottage 39: all that glitters
Inky impressions 208: embellishments
Come and get it: flowers
Deep ocean 103: flowers
Tuesday throwdown 243: flowers for her
Fab n funky 258: May flowers
Bloggers challenge: May flowers
Spectrum noir (facebook): use flowers
Whimsy 82: colour an image
613 avenue create 123: anything goes with let's celebrate
Scrapy land 17: anything goes (used Spellbinder dies)
Scribble and scrap 44: anything goes
Crafting by designs May: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Digi choosday 18: anything goes
Stampartpapel retarte 46: anything goes
Not just cards 19: anything goes
Inspiration destination 32: anything goes
Sister act 105: anything goes
DL.ART May linky

Another card for CHNC challenge 228

My second card for my CHNC challenge 228 was put together digitally using a digital paper 'baby it's cold outside' from Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet (one of our other sponsors), Coosty Creations 'holly girl' paper from Stitchy Bear's Digi Outlet, layering these and fading the edges of the holly girl paper and adding the Crafty Girl creations 'Christmas ornaments 2', once again given by Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet, fading the edges to allow the underneath edges to show through.

This is also for:

Stitchy Bear facebook May challenge: anything goes with a Stitchy image
12 months of Christmas link up
Jingle belles: happy hybrid holidays
Little Claire digi stamp 5: mono colours
Perfectly rustics 47: use three of something
Word art Wednesday 182: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Digi choosday 18: anything goes
Stampartpapel retarte 46: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 32: anything goes
Sister act 105: anything goes

CHNC challenge 228: vintage or shabby chic

This is my first design card for my CHNC challenge 228: vintage or shabby chic. I have to admit that I sometimes find 'vintage/shabby chic' rather daunting, but when you think of Christmas, perhaps you can feature an old fashioned snow scene, or a family gathered around the fire, a vintage looking Father Christmas ... I'm sure you will have lots of ideas. And I think it might be a good opportunity to use some of those cards from last year that you couldn't bear to part with ... a bit of upcycling may be.

I've used a beautiful vintage sheet kindly given to me by Heather at  My Artistic Adventures - Christmas angels peace on earth. I scanned this into my Scan n Cut and used it to cut all the pieces - so much quicker than fussy cutting by hand. I then overlapped and matted these on to a piece of fancy pants design winterland paper. All edges were distressed using victorian velvet distress ink. Everything was then mounted on to a sparkling pink card blank.

This is also for:

12 months of Christmas link up
Jingle belles: happy hybrid holidays
Quirky crafts 10: angels among us
Crafty boots: things with wings
Polka doodles 19: things with wings
Whoopsi Daisy May: things with wings
Craft for the craic May: wings
Crafty calendar May: things with wings
Allsorts 310: die cuts, more than 2 (all cut on Scan n Cut)
Crimbo crackers 80: die cuts
The stamping boutique: die cut or punch
Little red wagon 288: distress it
Creative corner: pink galore
Perfectly rustics 47: use three of something (3 angels)
Doodle pantry ants in my pantry 5: anything goes
Clear it out: anything goes (the paper and card blank are old)
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 182: anything goes
Sisters of craft May: anything goes
Sugar & Betty's May: anything goes
Mema's crafts May: anything goes
Creative fingers 79: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack funday 87: anything goes
Crafts galore May: anything goes
Creative ladybirds 3: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Digi choosday 18: anything goes
Stampartpapel retarte 46: anything goes
613 avenue create 122: anything goes
Craft your passion 260: anything goes
Crafting from the heart 58: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 32: anything goes
Sister act 105: anything goes
DL.ART May linky

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 79

This is my design card for Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 79: anything goes with a twist ... use some flowers. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

I used Deedee's Digis sunshine and sunflowers, kindly provided by the challenge sponsor, matting the image, the bees and the sentiment on to the digital paper, printing out and matting on to gold mirror card and a kraft card blank. The bowl of sunflowers is a 3D sticker.

This is also for:

Aloha 47: in the garden
Catch the bug: in the garden
Bloggers challenge: May flowers
QKR stampede 138: nature
Di's digis: load on those flowers
Little Claire 56: use kraft card
Clear it out: anything goes (the flowers 3D sticker and card blank are old)
Word art Wednesday 182: anything goes
Sisters of craft May: anything goes
Sugar & Betty's May: anything goes
Mema's crafts May: anything goes
Creative fingers 79: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack funday 87: anything goes
Crafts galore May: anything goes
Creative ladybirds 3: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Digi choosday 18: anything goes
Stampartpapel retarte 46: anything goes
613 avenue create 122: anything goes
Craft your passion 260: anything goes
Crafting from the heart 58: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 32: anything goes
Sister act 105: anything goes

Completely Christmas challenge 62

This is my design card for Completely Christmas challenge 62: anything goes with a twist ... add a touch of silver. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

I used Bugaboo Stamps 4 square - snowman, kindly supplied by the sponsor, colouring with spectrum noir pens and matting this on to the easel fold of the black card blank. The base of the card was covered with some embossed matt silver card which a strip of organza ribbon with gems (from Hobbycraft) and the addition of lots of silver gems.

This is also for:


12 months of Christmas link up
Jingle belles: happy hybrid holidays
Left of center 77: bling
Pink gem 144: more than one fold
Creative card crew 86: fancy folds
3 girl jam May: anything goes with ribbon
Inky impressions 208: embellishments - lots of gems and ribbon
Clear it out: anything goes (supplies are old)
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 182: anything goes
Sisters of craft May: anything goes
Sugar & Betty's May: anything goes
Mema's crafts May: anything goes
Creative fingers 79: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack funday 87: anything goes
Crafts galore May: anything goes
Creative ladybirds 3: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Digi choosday 18: anything goes
Stampartpapel retarte 46: anything goes
613 avenue create 122: anything goes
Craft your passion 260: anything goes
Crafting from the heart 58: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 32: anything goes
Sister act 105: anything goes

Let's craft and create challenge 101: anything goes male

This is my design card for Let's craft and create challenge 101. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and we would love to see your entries for the challenge.

This month's sponsor for Let's craft and create is

The prize is any 3 sets of your choice from The Cutting Café.

The Cutting Café provided the DT with various templates to use and I chose to use those for a classic car shaped card, converting the svg files with Brother canvas to cut using my Scan n Cut. I used some DCWV textured card and also some smokey grey mirror card, as well as some plain black card.

The sticking together was quite fiddly, but I got there in the end!

This is also for:

Card and scrap May: male cards

Quirky crafts 9: let's go on a quirky journey

Penny's 225: anything but square
Polka doodles 17 and 18: anything but square

Cute card Thursday 371: use a sentiment
Everybody art 323: happy birthday
Stampartpapel retarte 46: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Ruby's rainbow 103: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 244: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 31: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Sister act 104: anything goes

Fan-tastic Tuesday challenge 84

This is my design card for Fan-tastic Tuesday challenge 84: anything goes with a twist ... use pastel colours. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and we would love to see your entries for the challenge.

I used Sassy Studio Designs snow queen portrait (Think it works just as well for spring/summer as winter) colouring digitally using Microsoft Paint and fussy cutting around the image before mounting on to a piece of Buckwells Crafts 'checkout' digital printed paper, matting this on to a piece of textured lemon DCWV card die cut using one of the Spellbinders marvelous squares. The background card is DCWV from an old summer range - the white flowers are lovely and shiny. Flower ribbon, sentiment and gems from stash.

Colours are for Hiding in my craft room 04NSD old daffodil petals:

This is also for:

In the pink 68: fussy and fancy or clean and simple
Cute as a button 9: girlie card in pink
The ribbon girl: mother/female
Come and get it: female
Eureka 139: feminine cards
Get creative 14: for the ladies
Seize the birthday
Everybody art 323: happy birthday
Crafty ribbons 118: anything goes with ribbon
3 girl jam May: anything goes with ribbon
Cute card Thursday 371: use a sentiment
Chocolate, coffee & cards 90: spring has sprung
Frosted designs: spring
Great impressions May: celebrate spring
Oddball: spring
Scribbles designs 28: spring has sprung
Stampartpapel retarte 46: anything goes
Digi choosday 18: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Ruby's rainbow 103: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 244: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 181: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 31: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Sister act 104: anything goes
DL.ART May linky

The cheerful stamp pad challenge 110 second week

This is my design card for the Cheerful stamp pad challenge 110 second week, which is all about owls. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and join in our challenge here.

For my card I used Concetta Kilmer's 'owl hearts' Sweet Pea digital image keeping the colouring to sepia tones, including a little distress sponging around the edges before tearing around a perspex oval template and using an offcut of brown card with a larger template to back the image. The background paper is actually from My Mind's Eye lost and found Christmas, but I think it can be used for occasions other than Christmas. This was wrapped in the centre by some lovely natural jute from Poundland, with  maroon offcut down the centre that matches the background, finishing with some lovely textured natural canvas and cork flowers, again from Poundland.

This is also for:

One sweet challenge May: things with wings
Crafty boots: things with wings
Bloggers challenge: things with wings
Craft for the craic May: wings
Crafty calendar May: things with wings
Whoopsi Daisy May: things with wings
The male room 09: birds (suitable to give to a male for 'our anniversary')
Cardz 4 guyz 68: flight
Animal friends 26: spring/featuers - bird
Addicted to stamps 103: flowers
Fussy & fancy 138: lots of flowers
Left of center 76: hearts and flowers
Hiding in my craft room 03NSD: May flowers
Ruby's rainbow 103: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 244: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 31: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Sister act 104: anything goes
DL.ART May linky

The glory of Christmas 58: focus on the sentiment

This is my design card for the Glory of Christmas challenge 58: focus on the sentiment. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

The card blank is a lovely deep blue stardream that has a glittery look according to how the light shines on it. I used an offcut of Echo park 'winter time' patterned paper to stamp the Joy to the world Clarity stamp, inked with Adirondack denim. I then masked off the O and stamped the Clarity carol singers stamp, again using the denim ink. The strip behind the ribbon is a snippet left from printing some Ooh la la digital paper long ago, which I think goes just right with the other paper. Ribbon and felt buttons from stash.

This is also for:

Pixie's snippets week 175 and 176
12 months of Christmas link up
Fab n funky 257: Christmas
Sparkles 67: ribbons and buttons
Crafty ribbons 118: anything goes with ribbon
3 girl jam May: anything goes with ribbon
Craft-dee Bowz May: anything goes with a handmade bow
Cute card Thursday 371: use a sentiment
Glitter n sparkle 135: anything goes
One crazy stamper May: anything goes
The pink elephant 296: anything goes
Simon says Monday: anything goes
Ruby's rainbow 103: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 244: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 31: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Sister act 104: anything goes
DL.ART May linky

CHNC challenge 227

It's Saturday again and time for CHNC challenge 227: girly - and this week I'd like you to make a girly Christmas creation - either featuring a female or suitable for a female to receive.

For my card I've used a girly image resulting in a card that I think would be fine to give to a female. I used the Indigo Blu Rebecca snow queen mounting on to an offcut of red mirror card. The card blank is a black A5 size opening landscape, so I cut off a piece on the right so that I could put a patterned paper inside that would show (an unknown paper from my stack of Christmas papers). The paper used on the outside of the card is My Mind's Eye Bohemia Christmas 'believe' stripe paper.

This is also for:

12 months of Christmas link up
Fab n funky 257: Christmas
Christmas stampin all year 45: dots & spots
Simply create too 84: pretty woman
Cute card Thursday 371: use a sentimen
One crazy stamper May: anything goes
The pink elephant 296: anything goes
Simon says Monday: anything goes
Ruby's rainbow 103: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 244: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 31: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Sister act 104: anything goes

Suzy See's Bloomin' challenge 78

This is my design card for Suzy Bee's Bloomin' challenge 78: anything goes with a twist ... no patterned paper. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

For my card I used Sassy Studio Design's Little Honey's tinkerbell image (Sassy Studio Designs are the sponsors of the challenge) - this was digitally coloured and mounted on to a small offcut of mirror card. The large background is a piece of Curious Particles midnight star card embossed using the hessian embossing folder (one of the Crafter's Companion textures range) and the smaller embossed card was created with an embossalicious folder, both run through the eBosser. The flower was from Hobbycraft and ribbon and sentiment from stash.

Not a good photo, but I'd left the card till the last day and wanted to take the photo while the light was reasonable.

This is also for:

The sisterhood of crafters: monochromatic
Scrappy hands 37: blue & white
Creatalicious 74: embossing
V's sweet 34: emboss it
Crafting with an attitude 2: freestyle/fantasy
Addicted to stamps 103: flowers
Seize the birthday: birthday + option: own background
Artistic inspirations 129: anything goes with a twist of ribbon
Crafty ribbons 118: anything goes with ribbon
3 girl jam May: anything goes with ribbon
Craft-dee Bowz May: anything goes with a handmade bow
Cute card Thursday 371: use a sentiment
The pink elephant 296: anything goes
Simon says Monday: anything goes
Ruby's rainbow 103: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 244: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 181: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 31: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Sister act 104: anything goes

Completely Christmas challenge 61

This is my design card for Completely Christmas challenge 61: anything goes with a twist ... add some holly. Please click on the link to see the lovely designs of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

This is a very simple card, using a lovely Dazzling Ace Designs picture which was added to a background, blending in by fading the edges. I removed the greeting from the right hand bottom corner because too much of it faded into the background.

This is also for:

12 months of Christmas link up
Fab n funky 257: Christmas
Make my Monday: vintage
The pink elephant 296: anything goes
Simon says Monday: anything goes
Ruby's rainbow 103: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 244: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 31: anything goes
Scrappers delights 44: anything goes
Sister act 104: anything goes

Another card for CCAYR May challenge: vintage

This is my second design card for Christmas cards all year round May challenge - please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

The background paper is an offcut piece of Simple stories '25 days of Christmas' collection 12 x 12 left over from a previous card. I stamped directly on to it using the lovely vintage post card stamp by Stampendous. Ribbon and 3D stickers/sentiments from stash.

This is also for:

Christmas card challenges 21: anything goes
Fab n funky 257: Christmas
Pixie's snippets week 174
Artistic inspirations 129: anything goes with a twist of ribbon
Crafty ribbons 118: anything goes with ribbon
3 girl jam April: anything goes with ribbon
The stamping boutique: ribbon and/or lace
Craft-dee Bowz May: anything goes with a handmade bow
Make my Monday: vintage
Cute card Thursday 371: use a sentiment
Red rubber inspirational 218: the letter S - stamping, sentiment, snow scene
One crazy stamper May: anything goes
The pink elephant 296: anything goes
Simon says Monday: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Ruby's rainbow 103: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 244: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 181: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 31: anything goes
Sister act 104: anything goes

Christmas cards all year round May challenge: vintage

This is my first design card for Christmas cards all year round May challenge - please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

The background is a patterned card by Imagination Crafts on to which I stamped my favourite vintage Santa image, Santa collage by Rubber Stampede and also two Docrafts stamps, inking all of them with versafine onyx black and heat embossing with detail clear powder.

This is also for:

Christmas card challenges 21: anything goes
Fab n funky 257: Christmas
Hiding in my craft room 197: any holiday
Cute card Thursday 371: use a sentiment
Red rubber inspirational 218: the letter S - stamping, sentiment, snow, Santa
Craft stamper make it take it May: take a stamp - anything goes
Creatalicious 74:- embossing
V's sweet 34: emboss it
Sparkle n sprinkle May: anything goes - used embossing powder
One crazy stamper May: anything goes
The pink elephant 296: anything goes
Simon says Monday: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Ruby's rainbow 103: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 244: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 181: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 31: anything goes
Sister act 104: anything goes

Buckwell Crafts challenge 8: spots or stripes or both

This is my design card for Buckwell Crafts challenge 8: spots or stripes or both. Please click on the link to see the lovely crafting of the rest of the team and join in our challenge.

I've used A Lil Digi Heaven 'beach lounger', kindly supplied by one of the challenge sponsor. Lozzy will also be giving Micro Dots Digi Papers and Checkout Digi Papers to two winners.

Unfortunately, the idea that I had for my card was better in my head than the finished result. I used drawing gun to cover up the image while I brushed Spectrum Noir aqua tints across the piece of card. This is the first time I had used drawing gum, so the result was far from perfect and I'm still trying to get better results with the aquatints ... I should have given myself more time. I apologise to Lozzy and my teamies for my poor effort.

I coloured the image with Spectrum noir pens, including putting the spots and stripes on the beach loungers.

The yellow ink for the sand was mixed with a bit of gold, so in real life there is a lovely shimmer.

This is also for:

Perfectly rustics 46: new technique (using the drawing gum)
Crafty gals corner 17: stripes and/or polka dots
Digi choosday 17: CAS
That's crafty: let's keep it simple
Without words April: under my umbrella
Create something catchy 14: mixed media
Love to create (PanPastel UK) 9: anything creative/mixed media goes
The pink elephant 296: anything goes
Simon says Monday: anything goes
Simon says Wednesday: anything goes
Ruby's rainbow 103: anything goes
4 crafty chicks 244: anything goes
Word art Wednesday 181: anything goes
Not just cards 18: anything goes
Inspiration destination 31: anything goes
Sister act 104: anything goes