The Cheerful Stamp Pad Challenge 67 Your choice

Exciting news - I was asked by Vicki Romaine to join The Cheerful Stamp Pad Design Team! This is my first challenge with the team.

Challenge 67 is 'your choice' and it's sponsored by Bombshell.

Please click on the challenge link and see what the rest of the Design Team have made and, hopefully, join in with the challenge - I'd love to see you there.

I based my card on the sketch given for our sponsor's August Bombshell challenge, so I will enter it there:

For my card I used some of the Indian Warrior digital set kindly supplied by Bombshell. I coloured the images with spectrum noirs. The paper behind the warrior is My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup Girl 'sweet song' and the striped paper is from a pack by Acid drops & whatnots. The sentiment was generated on my dymo letratag.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
One stop craft 239: add stripes
Challenges 4 everybody 27: anything goes
Craftin desert divas 13: anything goes
De creatieve zebra 30: anything goes
The cutie pie 51: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 20: anything goes
Make it Monday 154
Inspire me Fridays 116
52 card pickup 2.33

Have a wheelie good birthday

For this card I've following the sketch for Atlantic hearts sketch 16:

I used three Color Box small inkpads - silver (although it doesn't look like silver here), pearlised white (which doesn't really show up here on the white card, but does IRL) and gold.

I masked off areas as I used the ink direct to paper and then stamped the Papermania bicycle. The sentiment was computer generated and printed, so the card is one layer.

Sorry it's such a poor photo (might try to get a better one in the morning):

This is also for:

Sentiment Sunday 167: one layer
Fashionable stamping 54: clean & simple
Scribbles designs 8: clean and simple
A creative romance: masking
Sweet stamps: masking
The artistic stamper creative team August: travel
Oldie but a goodie: boy/male cards (the bicycle stamp is very old)
Creatalicious 54: for the boys
Cards in envy: rev it up - transport - this card is A6 size and one layer
Seize the birthday: anything goes birthday
One crazy stamper August: birthdays
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 20: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 116
52 card pickup 2.33

CAS wedding card

This is a clean and simple one layer card, using a white card blank on to which I stamped with an old Anita favourite wedding image inked with versamark and heat embossed with mirror gold powder.

As usual, very difficult to get a photo of a white card and the gold embossing doesn't show up, so I'm including a little close up as well. I coloured the faces and the groom's suit with pale spectrum noirs (hardly visible here because I was concentrating on trying to show the white as best I could).

This is for:

Sentiment Sunday 167: one layer
Joanna Sheen: embossing
Pattie's 73: embossing
Fashionable stamping 54: clean & simple
Bizzy Becs August: clean and simple
Scribbles designs 8: clean and simple

Cherry blossom

I apologise if you saw this post with just the first link and the card, but the linky for Sketchy Norway 173 was showing 1 minute to go!! So I linked before putting any description.

So this is for Sketchy Norway 173: green, white and pink, where this gorgeous picture inspiration was shared:

I used a pearlised card blank on to which I put the fancy edged oval (left over from a Kanban kit), which was stamped with Lindsay Mason's cherry blossom, which was coloured with spectrum noir. A few Papermania adhesive stones were added on the cherry blossom and the corners. I added the big green flower because it seemed to go with the green colouring, but I'm not sure it is a good addition.

This is also for:

Eureka 52: blooms and blossoms
Melonheadz friends: flowers everywhere
Let's craft and create 76: say it with flowers
It's all about the vintage and beauty 50: summer flowers
Bloggers challenge: flower power
Kort o mania 91: flowers
Sweet stamps 130: bling
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 20: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 116
52 card pickup 2.33

Playing with inks

Not feeling too great this afternoon, but wanted to do something crafty, but found it hard to concentrate and decide what to do.

I found some stamps that were free with a magazine - I never inked any of them - and stamped with versafine black onyx and heat embossed with detail black powder. I then torn around a perspex oval template and then stamped on to that with an oval background stamp inked with peacock feathers distress ink. I then splattered with water and brushed the torn edges with the distress ink.

But I wasn't too happy with this, so I decided to have another try, this time I stamped the oval peacock feathers before I tore round the perspex template. I thought I would achieve a better result that way, but in the end I prefer the original one which is on the left as you look at the picture.

These are for:

By Lori designs 53: aqua and red
Daring cardmakers: colours of the sea
Oozak 19: anything goes/sea colour
Going grey with Scrap-creations: girls just want to have fun
Crafty creations 235: make two
ABC 40: stamps, ink, paper
Use it Tuesday 61: un-inked stamps
Alphabet: N for newest stamp
Sweet stampin: bold & beautiful
Ooh-la-la: a step back in time

How silly do I look with these wings?

I was prompted to make this for CD Sunday: quick and cute, using elements from My Craft Studio Tinkering with steampunk - it certainly was quick (once I remembered how to change colours) and hope it is cute enough! This was totally created digitally.

Oh dear! When I started this there was a linky for CD Sunday, but it's disappeared now, so it seems I was too late to actually enter the challenge - nevermind, I enjoyed creating this.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
One stop craft 239: add stripes
Take a word: wild animals
Card crafters circle 88: winged things
Wags n whiskers 110: fairytale/fantasy
The cupboard trilogy 14: monochrome
Creative inspirations 227: monochrome
Little scrap pieces fun Friday: anything goes

Still no sentiment

This is another card for my CHNC challenge 138: no sentiment, using the sketch for Sunday stamps 56:

I used a ready edged tag shaped card, on to which I put some clear organza ribbon. I didn't want to completely stick this down as I didn't want adhesive to show through, so I stuck in places that I knew would be covered, wrapping around the inside and back too.

The circular embossed pictures have been in my Christmas stash for some time, but I've got no idea where they came from.I thought it was about time they were used and thought they went with the colour of the edging of the corner.

I've used a glittered vintage picture to cover over the ribbon joins:

And another one on the back:

This is also for:

Divas by design: Christmas in August
The cheerful stamp pad 66: vintage children
Ooh-la-la: a step back in time
Ruby's rainbow 60: vintage
Sugar creek hollow 67: a child's life
Wordplay Saturday August: childhood
Deep ocean 58: odd shapes
The paper girls 37: glitter, glitter, glitter
Crafty ribbons 57: use 3 of something - 3 circular images, 3 golden star gems
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 20: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 116
52 card pickup 2.33

CHNC challenge 138: no sentiment

Today's CHNC challenge 138 is 'no sentiment' - create any Christmas card this week without a sentiment on the front.

If anyone's been following my blog this week you'll know that I've been using up some glittered pyramage pictures that I got some years ago in a Kanban kit. Here is another one, mounted on to a piece of Anna Griffin flocked paper. The background papers are offcuts from some that came with a magazine, decorated with some gold foil strips and a couple of gold gems.

I following the sketch given for House of cards month two clean and simple sketch:

This is also for:

Divas by design: Christmas in August
Crimbo crackers 48: it's snow business
Christmas at sweet stampin 9: winter animals
Festive Friday 15: children's theme
Hobby cutz 12: card for a child
Simply create too 44: for a child
Make my Monday: add some dimension
The paper girls 37: glitter, glitter, glitter
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 20: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 116
52 card pickup 2.33

Here comes Santa ...

This is for the sketch for Sweet Sunday sketch challenge 190:

I've used an offcut of Papermania paper for the background, a scrap of striped paper, an upcycled picture that has some lovely glittered snow on it, a Craftwork cards sentiment and a few brads.

This is also for:

Christmas card challenge 2013 week 37: evergreen trees
ABC Christmas: P is for ... presents, papers
Sparkles Christmas 31: charmed I'm sure - charms and/or brads
Left of center 12: use something metal
My heart pieces: use a piece of meal
Jingle belles let's play Christmas tic-tac-toe - I chose clitter or bling, red or green, Santa
Crimbo crackers 48: it's snow business
Festive Friday 15: children's theme
Hobby cutz 12: card for a child
Simply create too 44: for a child
The paper girls 37: glitter, glitter, gliter
Creative Belli 176: glitter

Divas by design: Christmas in August

Crafting by designs: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 20: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 116
52 card pickup 2.33

When is a challenge not a challenge?

When you think you are going to enter it and then realise that the card isn't right for it. I made this card based on Anne-Marie's sketch given for Sunday sketch and stamp 169, completely forgetting that I needed to stamp to qualify for the challenge ... you'd have thought I'd have realised that the clue is in the name of the challenge blog! Anyway, I still acknowledge that I used the sketch even though I'm not entering the challenge:

The background is a piece of embossed vellum, the striped paper is an offcut and the circular embossed image is upcycled from an old card. Across the bottom is a piece of washi tape and a Craftwork cards sentiment.

This is for:

Polka doodles 33: have a heart

Divas by design: Christmas in August

Emma's 19: floral

Crafting by designs: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 20: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 116
52 card pickup 2.33

Tear it to pieces

It's time for a new challenge on The Sweet Pea Stampers and today it's 'tear it to pieces' paper tearing. Please click on the link here and see the gorgeous crafting of the rest of the team and, hopefully, join us in the challenge.

I've used the Sweet Pea Stamps 'hang in there, Kitty' digi by Karen Middleton and papers from Basic Grey Max & whiskers pad. The image was coloured with copics and the edges torn with a perspex oval template, using a slightly larger one as a mat for this. Everything was mounted on to a kraft card blank.

This is also for:

One sweet challenge August: favourite technique - I have many favourites, including distressing by tearing and colouring with alcohol pens
Art impressions 116: for the dogs (& cats)
LEJ 66: furry friends
PanPastel UK 32: cute and cuddly
Jellypar friends: cuddly wuddly
Paper-crafting journey: distressed/vintage
Can you digi it 42: lift me up - encouragement
Word art Wednesday 93: anything goes
Sweet stampin: going krafty
Use your stuff 97: four patterns - 4 different pattern papers
Southern girls 75: things beginning with F - feline
Crafter's corner 11: anything goes
Stamps + fun = creativity 164: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 20: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 116
52 card pickup 2.33

Another card for CCAYR August challenge

This is another card for the mid-month inspiration here on Christmas cards all year round for the August challenge.

Once again I've used die cuts pieces from a My Paper Stash Library kit, adding some Hobbycraft bling and some sparkly ribbon.

This is also for:

Divas by design: Christmas in August
Creative inspirations 227: monochrome
Deep ocean 58: odd shapes
Fun with shapes and more 141: nothing square
Penny's 140: lace and/or ribbon
The paper shelter 124: use that ribbon
Fussy & fancy 95: bingo - I chose: blue, ribbon, die cut
Craft-dee bowZ August: anything goes and include a handmade bow
The paper girls 37: glitter, glitter, glitter
Crafter's corner 11: anything goes

CCAYR mid-month post

This is one of my cards that has been posted today here for the mid-month inspiration for the Christmas cards all year round August challenge: fussy and fancy. If you haven't yet had a chance to join in, please click on the link and do so. And please have a look at the wonderful inspiration given by the crafting of the rest of the team.

I used a card blank with a ready cut fancy edge which I brushed with bundled sage distress ink, linking the inside of the card with coordinating paper. All papers are from a Hunkydory kit. Gems are from Hobbycraft and Poundland. The centre piece background with the bell is very glittered, which, unfortunately, doesn't show up too well here.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Divas by design: Christmas in August
Stamp-n-doodle: the colour green
Creative inspirations 227: monochrome
Simon says Wednesday challenge: monochromatic
DRS 83: cards with 1 decorative edge
The paper girls 37: glitter, glitter, glitter
Crafter's corner 11: anything goes
Creative Belli 176: glitter

Season's greetings

This is for Shell's sketch for the Come and get it challenge this week:

I've used another of those old glittered pyramage pictures by Kanban, some offcuts of papers, a star and sentiment, and some bling from Poundland.

This is also for:

Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday for August: oh scrap!
Make my Monday: add some dimension - 3D elements
Aud sentiments 87: anything but a birthday card
The paper girls 37: glitter, glitter, glitter
CRAFT 220: Christmas
Hobby house 3: Christmas
Crimbo crackers 48: it's snow business
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Craftin' boutique: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 19: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 115
52 card pickup 2.32

Christmas with love

This is for Unscripted flashback summer 92 sketch:

Again, I've used scraps from my Christmas offcuts box, another pyramage set from Kanban, a couple of flowers and gems and a sentiment.

This is also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 85
The sisterhood of crafters: oh scrap
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday for August: oh scrap!
Hiding in my craft room 110: super scraps Saturday
Make my Monday: add some dimension - 3D elements
Aud sentiments 87: anything but a birthday card
CRAFT 220: Christmas
Hobby house 3: Christmas
Crimbo crackers 48: it's snow business
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Craftin' boutique: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 19: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 115
52 card pickup 2.32

A very merry Christmas

This is for the sketch for The sweet stop 223

:
Once again, all papers are from my Christmas offcuts box, another Kanban pyramage picture, some ribbon from Hobbycraft and a sentiment.

This is also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 85
The sisterhood of crafters: oh scrap
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday for August: oh scrap!
Hiding in my craft room 110: super scraps Saturday
The paper girls 37: glitter, glitter, glitter
Robyn's fetish 172: lots of layers
Make my Monday: add some dimension - 3D elements
Penny's 140: lace and/or ribbon
The paper shelter 124: use that ribbon
Aud sentiments 87: anything but a birthday card
CRAFT 220: Christmas
Crimbo crackers 48: it's snow business
613 avenue create 32: anything goes
Bearly mine 99: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Craftin' boutique: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 19: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 115
52 card pickup 2.32

Rooftops

This is for Kirsy Anne's sketch for The sketchy challnge 53:

All papers are scraps from my Christmas offcuts box and the pyramage pictue is from an old Kanban kit - I've made a few cards using some of these - it's about time they were used.

This is also for:

Pixie's crafty snippets week 85
The sisterhood of crafters: oh scrap
Shelly's terrifically thrilling Thursday for August: oh scrap!
Hiding in my craft room 110: super scraps Saturday
Robyn's fetish 172: lots of layers
Make my Monday: add some dimension - 3D elements
Aud sentiments 87: anything but a birthday card
The paper girls 37: glitter, glitter, glitter
CRAFT 220: Christmas
Crimbo crackers 48: it's snow business
Simon says Wednesday challenge: monochromatic
613 avenue create 32: anything goes
Bearly mine 99: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Craftin' boutique: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 19: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 115
52 card pickup 2.32

With love and Christmas kisses

This card uses papers from my Christmas scraps box as well as a piece of white and silver snowflake ribbon that was left over from making other cards. The sentiment is one from a kit long ago and likewise the glittered pyramage picture was from a Kanban kit from some time ago.

TThis is for:

Facebook Sunday's with Santa week 32: many layers
Robyn's fetish 172: lots of layers
Make my Monday: add some dimension - 3D elements
Penny's 140: lace and/or ribbon
The paper shelter 124: use that ribbon
Aud sentiments 87: anything but a birthday card
Holly jolly Christmas: gimme glitter (hard to see it here, but lots of glitter on the pyramaged picture
Jingle belles: home for the holidays
Christmas card challenges 2013 week 37: evergreen trees
Divas by design: Christmas in August

Green diamonds

This is another card using a background made with a gelli plate print. I created a base with a pale green acrylic paint, using scrunched paper to take away some of the paint and then used the That Special Touch 'argyle' mask with a darker acrylic to create the pattern.

The images are stamps that came as part of the set with a Get Stamping magazine, inked with versamark and heat embossed with a metallic green embossing powder. The silver bling diamonds down the side were from Poundland (not sure whether I like these or not - I think the card might have been better without them).

This is for:

Sunday stamper 270: green onions - use green
Order of the opus gluei 163: the start of something BIG - I started using a 6 x 6 gelli plate recently and I love it - so much so that I've gone BIGGER - bought the 8 x 10 plate, but not used it yet - hope my interpretation of the challenge isn't too off beam!
One crazy stamper August: birthdays
Kort o mania 90: birthday
Perfect sentiments 86: your favourite technique - making gelli plate prints is fast becoming a favourite, as well as stamping and embossing that has been a favourite for ages
Nightshift stamping: back to nature
Joanna Sheen: embossing
Dream valley 63: monochrome
That craft place: monochrome
Creative creations 16: monochromatic

Another celebration

This is very similar to the previous card shown here. This time I embossed on a piece of copper star dream card and then distressed with deep red metallic gilding wax - lovely stuff to work with and smells nice as a bonus!

I used the Dawn Bibby Personal Impression stamps again, this time inking with versamark and heat embossing with detail copper powder. The paper I stamped on to is My Mind's Eye alphabet soup girl 'sweet song'

Once again the paper clip is there to keep the card closed:

Very difficult to get a photo of the inside of the card as it's fairly dull today and the camera is insisting on using flash.

Because the stamping is heat embossed, it looks different depending on the way you look at it. One way it looks dark:

and the other way it looks light:

This is for:

Joanna Sheen: embossing
Penny's 139: dry embossing
Natalie and Amy 12: celebration
Whimsy 62: clean and simple
Fashionable stamping 54: clean & simple
Wow! embossing powder challenge August: art deco/nouveau
Eclectic ellapu: art deco
Papertake: occasion-ally (this card could celebrate any occasion)
Inky linky 26
613 avenue create 32: anything goes
Stamps + fun = creativity 164: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Bearly mine 99: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 19: anything goes
Make it Monday 153
Inspire me Fridays 115
52 card pickup 2.32

Celebrate

This is a card created using an A4 embossing folder from Craftwell (for the eBosser). Having embossed the A4 card I brushed with dusty concord distress ink. For the inside of the card I used two pieces of paper from HOTP Jacie's vintage papers (I've long neglected these), stamping on the inner one using a couple of Dawn Bibby stamps by Personal Impressions, inking with dusty concord.

The paper clips are just to keep the gatefold closed, so you can see what it's like:

And part of the back is embossed and distressed:

This is for:

A card a day
Joanna Sheen: embossing
Penny's 139: dry embossing
Dream valley 63: monochrome
That craft place: monochrome
Creative creations 16: monochromatic
Crafty bloggers network 14: favourite things - embossing (using my fairly new eBosser) stamping and distress inks
Natalie and Amy 12: celebration
Whimsy 62: clean and simple
Fashionable stamping 54: clean & simple