3-D flower and Butterfly

Greetings again - thank you for visiting, and I trust you feel welcome in this corner of the blog-isphere.

I recently made a birthday card for a friend with limited sight, and I try to make a very tactile card with reasonable contrast for them to be able to appreciate it.

I started with a very large scalloped oval that I had received in a RAK from Lovely Linda.  I made a basic gatefold card from it, and then added the dp on the two outer surfaces.  The edges of the card, and the top and bottom of the inner were sponged with a rouge ink.

The rose started as crinkled tissue paper that I rubbed the rouge ink over, then glued to thin card and cut and embossed, then edges of the petals were inked as well. The layers were held together with a jewelled brad.

The butterfly was made using a cuttlebug die and embossing folder set.

The sentiment was embossed, cut and sponged and layered over another die cut, and the closure secured with a ribbon.

I am linking this to:

Creative Card Crew Challenge #22 - Fancy Folds

Die Cutting Divas Challenge #89 - Anything Goes

LEJ Designs Challenge #27 - Anything Goes

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge #139 - Nothing Square About This

Shopping out Stash Challenge #75 - 3-D flower (tissue is old)

Twisted Tuesday Challenge - Free for all

Thank you for visiting, may your day be blessed.

Any comment you may leave is always appreciated.

Card Recipe:

Card - white and a scrap of red

Ink - Rouge chalk ink, clear embossing ink

Stamps - unknown sentiment

Paper - Kaiser Miss Nellie pad

Accessories

  Dies - Spellbinders Large classic scalloped oval, Labels 10, Donna Slazinger Rose, Magnificent Circles.

           Provocraft Butterfly with embossing folders

  Ribbon, gold embossing powder, tissue paper, jewelled brad

Cycle of Life

Welcome again - and thank you for visiting.

Two days after the news of a death last week, we had the news of a birth of a wee boy in the extended family.

I started by embossing the patterned paper with a a Tim Holtz 'fades' folder, 

and sponging the edges and applying ink to the texture using the 'direct to paper' technique.

The teddy bear image is a freebie from Organic Zombie,  coloured with chalks and mounted on foam for some dimension.

The sentiment was stamped, cut and sponged before being mounted with ribbon. 

The card was finished with some pearls. 

I am linking this to:

Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday Challenge - Inks,Paints, Mists (Ink)

Fussy and Fancy Challenge #74 - Anything Goes

Hot Shot Challenge #12 - Bling It On

The Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

Robyns Fetish Challenge #131 - Use an Embossing Folder

The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge #29 - Use a ribbon

That Craft Place Challenge - tic tac toe (gems, sentiment, ribbon)

Little Clare's Monthly Challenge #26 - New Arrival

Thank you for calling in - May your day be blessed.

Thanks for any comments left - they are such an encouragement.

Card Recipe:

Card - dark blue

Image - Ozzy Bear by Organic Zombie

Patterned paper - pack from The Warehouse

Inks - Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Faded Jeans distress inks

Accessories - China kaiser craft half pearls, chalks, ribbon.

Unexpected Sympathy

Greetings and welcome.

The card I had to make yesterday was for a work colleague of my husband.  Both men are retired, but for all that his death was unexpected.

I chose the colours as they are ones I know he enjoyed. 

I started by crinkling a piece of pale pink tissue and then rubbing the violet ink over it, then wrapping it around a bright pink panel of card to sustain the pink colour.

The crosses from the Layers of Color (retired) set Gothic Crosses were gold embossed on white card and fussy cut and layered. 

When they were mounted on the panel I used foam dots to give them some dimension.

I stamped and embossed the sentiment, from Layers of Color retired Sent With Love set. After shaping the banner, it too was mounted with foam dots over the gold edged ribbon that went the full width of the card..

I am linking this to:

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #51 - Anything Goes

Lady Anne's Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes

Ladybugs Craft Ink TLT Challenge - I need a P - Pink, Purple

Shopping our Stash Challenge #74 - Out of a Jar - the embossing powder

Through the Craft Room Door Challenge #41 -   Anything Goes

The Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge #4 - Anything Goes

The House of Gilli - Challenge #44 - Emboss It

Critter Sketch Challenge #138 – Embossing

Thanks for visiting – you make blogging a joy

Thank you also for any comments left – they are a real encouragement.

May your day be blessed.

Card Recipe:

Card – purple, white and Pink

Ink – Clear embossing and Versa color Violet

Paper – pink tissue paper

Accessories – gold edged ribbon and gold embossing powder

  

Sunflowers and Prayers

Welcome – I think the computer issues that have kept me unable to blog are now resolved, thanks to my wonderful SIL!!

I was given this image of sunflowers to use by Cora over at Digital Two for Tuesday, and this is what eventuated.

The image was printed on cryogen curious metallics paper and coloured with chalks. The paper has ‘inbuilt’ glitter which shows through whatever medium you use to colour it, in this instance, I used chalks.

The image was cut and embossed using a Spellbinders Classic oval die, then mounted over die cuts from the Marvellous Squares and Floral Ovals sets in orange and golden yellow cards stock respectively.

After mounting these on a green card, I finished the card by stamping and gold embossing the sentiment from a deleted stamp set from Layers  of Color, and added two gold cut outs from the Cuttlebug Vintage Corners dies.

The final touch was to mount it all on a very dark brown base.

I am linking this to:

Creative Inspiration Paints - Anything Goes

Gingerloft Challenge - Halloween or Fall

Great Impressions October Monthly Challenge – Fall

Joanna Sheen Challenge - Autumn Breeze

Scrappy Frog Challenge Blog - Fall/Halloween

The Hybrid Chick  Challenge #29 - Fall/Autumn

All Sorts Challenge Blog #177 - Autumn Colours

Challenge  Up Your Life - Autumn /Halloween

Hiding In My Craft Room Challenge #68 - Die Cuts

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #50 - Blessings from God

Thanks so much for visiting, and being patient while I had computer issues!

May your day be blessed.

Any comments you leave are greatly appreciated.

Card Recipe:

Cardstock – Dark brown, smoky green,gold yellow, orange.

Colouring – chalks

Paper – cryogen curious metallic

Ink – clear embossing

Accessories – Spellbinders dies as named, Cuttlebug die as named, gold embossing powder.

A Bevy of Beauties

Welcome - thanks for calling by again. 

 I have had the pleasure of making cards for three wee girls who have been born in the last month.

This was the first of the cards, and I gained my inspiration from a blog I follow, and the artist was good enough to supply a template - unfortunately I cannot remember who, and their name was not on the template.  What I did learn from her was to use an oval spellbinders die to cut the 'leg' edge.

The collar was cut using a Spellbinders Die, and pearls added for decoration, and the lace was a scrap I had on hand.

The sentiment was initially stamped using white ink, but that was not distinct enough, so I re-stamped and embossed it. Although I used the Stamp-a-ma-jig, I was slightly off, so there is a shadow effect.

The next onsie was cut using white card, and the edges sponged.

After cutting the 'collar' portion, I sponged the edge whilst it was still in the die.  After stamping the sentiment I added bling to finish the card.

The final card was again cut using a white base and sponged with pink.  

The collar was cut from a dp that has a slight sparkle in it, so I also added sparkle to the paper lace I edged the sleeves and legs with.  The lace was originally white, and I added colour by running the lace over the ink pad.

I am linking these to:

Crafts and Me Challenge #105 - Anything Goes

Diva's By Design Challenge #56- Anything Goes

Simon Says Challenge - Dies and/or punches

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Deep Ocean Challenge #36 - Anything Goes

Loves Rubber stamps Challenge #21 - Bling Baby bling

Papelitos Stamps Challenge #15 - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Doro Challenge #38 - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for visiting - may your day be blessed,

Thank you too for your comments, they are very much appreciated and give me much encouragement.

Supplies:

Cardstock - White and Pink

Papers - white, Kaiser Miss Nellie  block and Authentique Splendor block

Stamp - Stampendous Welcome Little One

Ink - Whispers Rich Plum, Brilliance Pearlescent Poppy and Orchid, and Moonlight White, clear embossing

Dies - Spellbinders Exquisite Circles, Labels 10 and 20

Accessories - paper lace, kindy glitz, pearls and rhinestones, lace, white embossing powder

World Card Making Day

Welcome - this is my contribution to World Card Making Day. 

I made it today, sharing the day with some from the States, as I did not get a chance to make one yesterday, the 6th October, here in the antipodes.

I used an image from Birds Cards, a freebie.

After printing it off, I cut it out using a Spellbinder labels 10 die, and coloured it using distress inks, and 'sparkle' pens, and then stippled Iridescent Medium over the 'sea' and the sails.

You can  just see it here in this photo.

I mounted a layer of mesh from a vegetable bag over the blue card, and adhered the image over this, after adding some twine to one end.  The featured panel was then mounted over a base of dark green.

Thanks for calling by - may your day be blessed.

I welcome your comments, they are always an encouragement.

Supplies:

Image - free from Birds Cards

Blue and green cardstock.

Plastic mesh.

Distress inks - Faded Jeans, Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo and Bundled Sage.

Iridescent medium

Pearl cotton

Red, Bronze and blue metallic ink pens.

Bookworm

Greetings, and welcome again.

Thanks for being patient while I continue to deal with unruly computers.

I needed a card for a young man who is developing into a real bookworm, and I could not access my digital images at the time, so this is what I came up with.

The card started with the end (read scrap) of a piece of watercolour paper which I had misted with water, coloured with distress daubers, then misted again.  That piece then dictated the orange card base.

I pulled out a scrap piece of card stock and saw this old greeting stamp used on it, so fossicked around, found it, and gold embossed it, then coloured the balloons with metallic pens.

The background paper is a scrap from an old dictionary page (my friend found it in a garage sale and bought it for me).  I tore and sponged the edges.

The book I drew freehand, and mounted over foam dots to give dimension.  The bookworm is a piece of cord that I cut to measure, whipped the end of, and in the whipping added a couple of beads.  It looks really cute IRL!

The final detail was a bookmark to go with it - I used the same card and paper and simply stamped his name on it with some plain alpha letters and covered it with clear sticky plastic.  The cord is threaded through an eyelet.

I am linking this to:

Divas by Design Challenge #55 - use texture

Inky Impressions - Lets Hear it for the Boys

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Happy birthday

Whimsy Inspiration Challenge #51 - Anything Goes

Clear it out - Must use Orange, Purple or Black as dominant colour

Crafty Sentiments - Happy Birthday

Papertake Weekly - Challenge - Anything Goes, celebration optional extra

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #71- green or recycle - the dictionary page

Use it Tuesdays Challenge #40 - use your hoarded supplies

(PIN)spirational Challenge - the colours were used

Thanks so much for visiting - may your day be blessed.

Thank you too for your comments - they are a real encouragement.  

Supplies:

Cardstock : Orange

Papers - water colour and dictionary page

Inks - clear embossing, Bronze, gold and silver metallic pens

Stamps: Sentiment by Kiwistamping, letters - cheap, clear set from chainstore

Accessories: distress Daubers Vintage Photo, Rusty Hinge and Spiced Marmalade,

                  Cord, thread, beads.