A Boy's Card and an Award

Welcome

This card is for a three year old boy, and what boy does not love vehicles, particularly large vehicles!?

I started with some silver tape - unfortunately a cheap variety, and it tore easily and did not peel off the roll that well, but I persisted and covered the base layer, then embossed it with a cuttlebug folder. 

I had to do  'double run' as the folder did not go right down the piece - then I discovered that I had in effect de-bossed the panel - oops :-)

I stamped the images from Flonzcraft in cocoa ink,  fussy cut them, and then made a sentiment banner, embossing the wording, and then mounted it over the corrugated card  with brads for more texture.

I am linking this to:

Love To Create Challenge #104 - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Birthdays

Crafty Bloggers Network February Challenge - All about Boys

Artistic Expressions Challenge #80 - For the Kids

Card Mania Challenge #41 - Use a Sentiment

The other day I was honoured by Shelly at My Creative Rumblings with the Liebster Award.  Shelly is a wonderful artist, and it is worth a visit to her blog to see some of her wonderful work.

Here are the rules of the nomination:

1. Be sure to thank the blog that nominated you and be sure to link back to their blog.
2. Answer the 11 questions that the blogger asked you.
3. Nominate 11 of your favorite blogs with under 500 followers and ask your own 11 questions.
4. Make sure to let each blogger know about your Liebster Blog nomination on their blog (leave a comment and link back to your Liebster Blog post).

These are the questions Shelly asked:

1)Why did you start Blogging?

Because my daughter told me it was easy – which it is – time consuming, but easy! I also ws following other blogs and liked the concept of blogging my craft(s)

2) Where do you get your inspiration for your projects?

Often from knowing for whom I am making the card, through looking at other cards, and having a deadline gets the mojo flowing.

3) What is your favourite colouring method?

Chalks – fast and effective

4)What time is the best for your creativity?

Sunday afternoon – that is my 'set' studio time

5)Do you like making 3D items?

Yes, but I have not made a lot of them.

6)Describe your typical type of cardmaking- eg CAS, Shabby/Chic.

I am a fairly eclectic card maker, but tend towards CAS....

7)Do you like using rubber or digi images?

I prefer rubber but can do digi with no hassles

8)What other crafts do you do?

Knitting, crochet, bobbin lace, embroidery, sewing, gardening, reading.... but most take second place to card making.

9)If you were the main character in a movie, who would play the role of you?

Don't know as I don't follow who is what in the movies – I am a movie novice.........

10)What makes you Laugh out Loud?

A good cartoon

11)Name three crafting items you could not live without.

Scissors, glue, paper... I could name a few more too!!!

Blogs I am nominating:

Becky at A Diamond In The Rough

Jeanette at Cre8tive Play : It's Cheaper than Therapy

Lynne at Creative Lynks 

Dawn at Dawns World

Shannah at Embellished ExpesShans

Gemiel at Gemiel's Gems

Kim at KLDezign

Libby at Libby's Little Addiction

The Irish Cherokee at Love the Details

Kate at Manualidades por Mi

Jill at Ribbon Challenged

Questions to be answered:

What started you crafting, especially paper crafting?

What is your favourite medium for colouring in paper crafting?

Do you use a cutting/embossing machine?

Have you ever taken card making classes?

Where do you craft?

When did you start your blog and why?

Do you have any hobbies/obsessions other than card making?

Where do you live?

Do you love to travel, and where?

What is your favourite TV programme?

What is your ultimate goal in card making?

Thanks for taking the time to read all this 

Any comments you may leave are deeply appreciated

May your day be blessed. 

Pink Anniversary

Welcome

I was commissioned to make an anniversary card recently, and this is the outcome.

The couple had had pale pink in their bridal party, so I decided to go with that as a colour scheme.  

The background, although it was a slightly textured paper, was insipid, so I adhered the pink to some white copy paper and ran it through an embossing folder, then swiped it with Spun Sugar ink to highlight the embossing.

 The feature panel is a retired Layers of Color stamp, and I stamped it using my new Delicata Gold ink by Inspired Inks, and highlighted it by using a deep pink layer of card to frame it.

Look at that lovely gleaming gold ink!! No need for embossing with an ink like this!

To finish the project I added this fancy flower brad, and a layer of ribbon and lace.

I secured the flower shape with a pink centred brad, and then slipped and secured a wee tad of pale pink ribbon behind it.

I stamped the sentiment with the same ink (Delicata Gold) and again mounted it on the deep pink card to highlight it before placing it in the card.

I would like to mention here that the embossing folder and ribbon and brad came from RAK's from other stampers - thank you Grace and Michelle

I am pleased to say the customer loved the card.

I am linking this to:

Little Claire Monthly Challenge #42 - Monotone

2 Sisters February Challenge #173 - Embossing

The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge #64 - Something Spooled - Ribbon and lace

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #195 - Make Your Own Background paper

One Stitch At A Time Challenge #201 - Girly

Lacy Sunshine's Challenge #27 - Lots of Layers

Challenges 4 Everybody #38 - Anything Goes

Blessings Ink Amusing Challenge - Anything Goes

Addicted To Stamps Challenge #76 - Pink

613 Avenue Create Challenge #60 - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting - any comments you may leave are deeply appreciated

May your day be blessed

Tree Welcome

Welcome

I have guests due shortly, and this is the card I made for them.

It is a bit larger than the last one, and square.

The tree (Seaweed) stamp is one I bought from Kiwistamping earlier this week. I stamped it in Espresso ink, masked it, and then sponged it with bundled sage, and overstamped it with desert sand ink using a Hero Arts woven background.

The sentiment is part of a Stampendous stamp, Welcome baby, stamped in Crushed Olive ink.

The edges were sponged with the bundled sage ink.

The guests are nearly here so I had better run... and will link up later to some challenges.

Linking up to:

Docerela Creations Challenge #56 - Anything Goes

Creative fingers Challenge #24 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #120 Anything Goes

Diva's By Design - Rubber Stamps Only

Crafty Creations Challenge #257 - Keep it Simple

Baffies Kreative Blog challenge - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge #100 - Bingo - left vertical column

Krafty Girlz Challenge #12 - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting - any comments you may leave are deeply appreciated.

May your day be blessed

New Stash Inspiration

Welcome

Yes, I am back again!!  Some of my stamp class ladies wanted to go meet the Kiwistamping owners, so we arranged a visit today..... 

As you may recall, I blame them for my addiction to this craft.

I did succumb and buy some more stash, including this wee stamp, and then just had to use it when I got home.

This is one of those cards that did not turn out anything like what I had first envisaged... but it was started before I bought the stamp.

The image was coloured with pencils - I did think of blending them, but decided to simply leave it 'as was'.

I had no die that would fit the panel, so used a border die to cut both sides of the red panel.

The sentiment was stamped on scrap of handmade paper (with Lady Bug ink, another new purchase). I used the same paper on the base of the card, and all the fluffy edges were sponged with violet ink. The final details were the bow and some sequins.

And I remembered to 'finish' the inside of the card.

I am linking this to:

Love to Scrap Challenge #24 - Anything Goes

Lunagirl Moonbeams Challenge - Vintage Red

Cfraft Your Passion Challenge #201 - Girly Girl

Craft-dee-Bowz February Challenge - Anything Goes and a hand made bow

The Ribbon Girl February Challenge - Red

Scribble and Scrap Challenge #12 - Anything Goes

Lacy Sunshine Challenge #27 - Lots of Layers

Great Impressions Stamps February Challenge - Floral Images

Challenges 4 Everybody #38 - Anything Goes

Catered Crop - Good Birthday

Thank you for visiting - any comments you may leave are deeply appreciated.

May your day be blessed.

  

Silver and Blue Birthday

Welcome - is it really a week since I was here?? 

I hope you were not looking for me - I have been crawling around a garden, pushing the lawnmower and the worst of all, I had a migraine - oh, and hubby wanted my computer to follow the cricket on, as we do not have pay TV.

But, I got some time in the studio yesterday, and got this card made.

I am really disappointed with the camera as it has picked up the the sparkly flower as gray with glints, when IRL it is really a very pretty, clear silver.

The background is stencilled using Broken China Distress ink through a mesh bag - the sort you get your fruit in.  It was a bit fiddly to use as it kept wanting to spring away, but the use of masking tape, holding the mesh onto a glass cutting board sorted that problem.

The top panel was a scrap that I found in my stash of odd and ends - after tearing the bottom edge I inked it with some silver ink - bad move, so I then dipped it into silver embossing powder and heated it and volia - success!

After assembling the card I felt it still lacked something, so sprayed it with a silver shimmering mist - still not happy, I rounded two of the corners.   I then thought of adding some pearls, and was scrabbling around to find them when I came across some clear rhinestones -  I added them top and bottom and was finally happy with the card.

There is a lot of shimmer and shine on this card, and the more I see it the more I like it - I am allowed to say that, aren't I?

I am linking this to:

Penny Black and More Challenge - Make it Sparkle

Treasured Time Rubber Stamping - Anything Goes with Layering

The Crafting Cafe February Challenge - Embossing

Feeling Crafty Challenge #25 - Die cut and/or punches (the flower)

Crafts Glaore Challenge#2 - Add a Gem, glitter or candy or any bling you fancy

ABC Challenge - F is for Flowers

Open Minded Crafting Fun Challenge #4 - Monotone

Little Claire's Challenge #42 - Monotone

Fairies challenges #20 - Celebrations

2 Sisters Challenge #173 - Embossing

Thank you for visiting - any comments you may leave are deeply appreciated

May your day be blessed

Crayon Resist Scribbles

Welcome

I recently bought a January copy of the U.K. magazine Craft Stamper, and in it there was an article by Riikko Kovasin, using wax crayons as a resist to watercolour.

I was teaching a stamping class today, and as we were making Salted Backgrounds, I thought I would throw in this extra technique as a challenge.  

I know I found it hard the first time I tried it as I am mainly right brained, and the free-form nature of this is a bit scary.

Here is the card that I made and took as a sample.

I made the background doing random  scribbles with the wax crayons, and then painted over them with water colour paint.

I took one look and did not like what I saw - so left it for an hour or so as I had a visitor, which was most timely!

When I came back, I first added three strips of Washi tape,

then scrabbled through my card scraps, and came up with the orange and gold, which matched some of the crayon colours.

I tidied the orange piece, punched the corners, then die cut two flower shapes, inked the edges of the petals, shaped them slightly and adhered them to the orange with a brad. The green in the brad matched the watercolour green.

The end result is a bright and cheerful card that I am rather pleased with.

The challenge to the class was to create a background, and then take it home and create a card to bring back next time we meet.

I am linking this to:
Artistic Inspirations Challenge # 78- Anything Goes/Valentines

Through The Purple Haze Challenge #28 - Anything Goes

Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge #34 - Anything goes (option, use a heart)

Make it Monday Challenge #178 - Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody #38 - Anything goes

Avenue 613 Challenge #58 - Anything Goes, Create Your Own Challenge

Thank you for visiting - any comments you may leave are deeply appreciated

May your day be blessed

Pink Roses and Purple Accents

Welcome

I had intended to be back here before now, but the gardens have been calling! I have a fabulous display of roses this summer, and they inspired this card.

I started with a (retired) Layers of Color set, and stamped the doilies in Pearlescent Orchid ink.

The rose is a retired FireCracker Design, stamped in Cocoa ink and coloured with chalks. The die cut I layered it onto with foam tape is a Spellbinders Marvellous Square cut out of vellum. The corner accents are from the same die set.

The main panel was mounted to make an easel card.

The base of the easel was decorated with a border from the same set as the doilies, the sentiment is from a Crafts Meow set, embossed in gold and cut out using a tag die and sponged with a wee tad of violet ink.

The strip above that is a ribbon covered layer of card with lace and pink pearls added to it.

Another view of the finished card.

I am linking this to:

Die Cut Diva's February Challenge- Girls Night Out - Pink and Girly

Simply create Too Challenge #54 - Mothers Day or For a female

Creative Fingers Challenge #22 - Anything goes (Dies or Punches optional)

Wags and Whiskers Challenge #122 - Bingo - Pink, Pearls and Doily (stamp)

Word Art Wednesday Challenge #118 - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Challenge #2 - Add Bling

ABC challenge - E is for Embellish

Treasured Times Challenge #11 - Anything Goes with Layering

Mema;s Crafts February Challenge - Who or What Makes You smile - Roses

Flat Friends Challenge #17 - More than one Fold

Feeling Crafty Challenge #25 - Dies and/or Punches

Thank you for visiting - any comments you may leave are deeply appreciated.

May your day be blessed

Sunflowers and Butterflies

Welcome

Butterflies, sunflowers, and music - great memories of a wedding day ten years ago - and the traditional anniversary for the tenth anniversary is tin or aluminium, hence the layers of silver on the card.

The die cuts were all made with the same set - the smaller one was simply placed at right angles to the large one.  

The heart stamp was stamped using Versamark ink and clear embossed on a tectured card - the sentiment was silver embossed on smooth card.

 The sunflower was an (old) freebie digi image from Beccy's Place that I printed out and coloured with chalks. One was left as it was printed

 This other one was made of two layers, one having the outer petals cut out of it. The layers were given extra dimension using foam tap.

The final details were the butterflies, cut with a die by Memory Box, from the same silver paper as the layers.

I am linking this to:

Stamp and Create February Challenge - Love Is In The Air

Simon Says Monday Challenge - Love Notes

Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge - Anything Goes / Use a Heart

PR Design Challenge #15 - Show the Love

Melonheadz - Valentines/Love Challenge

Love To Create Challenge #101 - Celebration/Anniversary

Digi makeover Challenge #126 - Anything Goes

Digi Darla challenge #100 - Your Personal Style

Craft Your Passion Challenge #199 - Love is in the Air

Artistic Expressions Challenge #77 - Anything Goes/Hearts

Thank you for visiting - any comments you may leave are deeply appreciated.

May your day be blessed

Anniversary Hearts and Pearls

Welcome

I have wanted to share this card for some time, but could not as one of the recipients reads my blog regularly and would have realised it was intended for them.

I was inspired by this card on Pinterest, but I cannot attribute it to anybody, much as I have hunted for the creator of it.

The colours were inspired in part by the blue in the bridal party that the recipient had chosen. I chose to heat emboss the hearts, available from Kiwistamping, and interlocked them with a wee slot.

 The background white I embossed with a couture creations folder, and then I added the paper lace hearts either side of that layer.

The sentiment was stamped inside the card, using a (retired) Layer of Color set of stamps.

The final details were the ten pearls - one for each year of their marriage.

I am linking this to:

All Sorts Challenge Week 224 - Love is in the Air

A Gem of a Challenge #112 - All You Need Is Love

2 Sisters Challenge #173 - Embossing

Tokbobok Challenge # 9 - hearts

The Cupboard Trilogy Challenge #19 - Love

Scrap it Girls February Challenge - Hearts

Natalie and Amy's Challenge #17 - Love is all Around

Live and Love Crafts Challenge #20 - Love n' Lace (paper lace on my card)

Creative Craft Challenge #11 - Hearts

Imaginations Crafts Challenge #8 - Love is in the Air

Fairies Challenge #19 - Love is in the Air

Crafts and Me Challenge #114 - Hearts

Thank you for visiting - any comments you may leave are deeply appreciated.

May your day be blessed.