Eddie Elephant

Hello once again - it is still cold and stormy here, so I thought I would brighten my day with this cheerful character from McMahon Vintage Digital, who looks as though he has riden off the pages of a vintage children's book.

I thought this would be ideal for a child's birthday card, so I coloured the image with watercolour crayons.

I then mounted the image on a maroon base, added double sided sellotape and then glitter.... now I remember why I don't use this technique often, there is still glitter glittering in unexpected places!!

I also used the glitter on the corner pieces, embossed a greeting and added three gold rhinestones for added sparkle.

In this final photograph I have tried to capture (not very sucessfully) the intensity of the glitter.

I have decided to make three separate posts today, rather than one humongous one, hence the brevity of this.


I am linking this to:
Southern Girls Challenge #23 - Happy Birthday
Forever Friends Blog - Not Square & an Animal
Hanna and Friends #102 - Happy Birthday
Stampin' B's Challenge #112 - Use Bling - the glitter
Penny's Paper-crafty Challenge # 57 - Happy birthday
Ruby's Rainbow Challenges #7 - Happy birthday

May your day be blessed.

Bad Taste Card

Greetings - I have been busy but cannot share some of what I have made, yet...

but on to todays card.

I saw these images as freebies on Create with TLC and immediately thought of my friend, who this morning was (quite deliberately) the "Queen of Bad Taste", and with whom I had a few jokes about weight control - something we both have issues with :-).

Loved this wee one with her 'cuddly' figure, and the orange and pink combination, which is where the colour scheme started.  She is mounted on some very textured wallpaper that I recycled, which I  sponged with orange ink before mounting on the orange card.  The saying was deliberately slipped under her foot.

Then there were too many voids, something that doesn't usually worry me, but it was just too stark, so I made a pink flower that I 'found' how to make here  on Becca's blog, and mounted it on pink ribbon.

Next came some bling, and some doodles around the edge and it was finished.

A little bit of fun that came together very quickly.

I am linking this to:

A Spoonful of Sugar challenge #155 - Here comes summer

Bearly Mine Challenge #12 - Anything Goes

Craft Room Challenge #1 - Anything Goes

Crazy Amigo - Summer

Deep ocean Challenge #1 - Anything Goes

High Hopes Challenge #110 - Favourite pet or animal

My time To Craft Challenge #144b - Wildlife

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throwdown #52 - Animal

Thank you for visiting, and may your day be blessed.

Baby Blues

Greetings again - I managed some time in the studio today and made a baby card using this delightful digi from May Brit.

I used two different designs of baby dp from a Warehouse pack, and embossed them both with a folder called "Gem Swirls". 

The large piece was mounted on the white card stock base, and the smaller pieces mounted the panels of dark blue.

The image was coloured with chalks and 'fixed' with a quick spray of hair spray.  The edges of the image panel were sponged with blue ink.

This was attached to the base with sticky tape, but I used some foam spots in the top left corner to compensate for the layers,  it also gave a lovely sense of dimension to the whole.

I finished the card with a bow and some rhinestones - I had forgotten that I still had some of these larger, clear rhinestones in my stash.

I photographed this in the late afternoon and the white background of the image has taken the colour of the sun setting.... Ah but it was lovely to see the sun!

I am linking this to:

Anita Be Stamping - Go Crazy with Layers

Digital Tuesday Challenge #113 - Animals - A teddy is an animal :-)

Tip Top Tuesday - Wrap it up with ribbon

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #106

The Cheerful Stamp Pad Challenge #19 - A Special Occasion

KB Cute Monday - Anything Goes

PollyCraft Challenge #95 - Be My Teddy Bear

Squigglefly Challenge #100- triple digits

Stamps + Fun= Creativity - Challenge # 49 Swirls (the embossing)

Woodware USA Challenge #29 - Use a forgotten embellishment - the rhinestones

Thanks for calling by - I love it when you leave a comment - it makes my day.

May your day be blessed.

Sunflower Wishes

Greetings once more to my cyber-visitors - it is always wonderful to know you have been here.

I wanted a cheerful card to send to a friend who is a bit under the weather at the moment, added to the fact it is the end of autumn (fall) here and the weather is rather wet and cold!!

I chose a sunflower image from Rebecca of Beccy's Place and printed it off four times, and the joined leaves twice, painted them with water colours and Twinkling H2O's, then cut two of the flower images back to give some layers, adhering them with foam dots to increase the dimension.

I wanted the flowers on a blue backdrop, but the blue card I found was a wee bit small, so ran it through the Cuttlebug in the Rellie Rave folder to give it some texture.

The sentiment (from Layers of Color Happy Wishes Set) was stamped with blue ink and embossed.

And as I assembled the whole I added some hand made tatting and chocolate pearls for some final detail.

I am linking this to:

Southern Girls Challenge #19 - Frills and Polish - use lace and pearls

Bunny Zoe's Challenge #12 - Lace - hand made tatting

Craft Your Passion - #59 - Let it all hang out (over the edge)

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #46 - Embossing

Get Hippity With Ippity Challenge #2 - Flowers

House of Gilli - Flowers

Make it Monday #38 - Anything Goes

Stamps + Fun = Creativity challenge #48 - Flowers

Stamps R Us - Goin' digital

Woodware USA - Challenge #28 - Anything Goes

Anita Be Stampin challenge #21 - Pearls and Lace

Clear it Out Challenge - Colouring

Use It Tuesdays - Flowers and a stamp not previously inked - the 'get well' part of the sentiment

Thank you so much for visiting - may your day be blessed 

Ball Games

Greetings to you all - thank you for visiting today.

I managed some studio time during the weekend, and although all did not go to plan I did manage to achieve some success, this being one of them.

This card came together very quickly for which I am thankful.  This image is one that was available at the web site Free Digital Stamps and was from an artist by the name of Sliekje

I coloured him with chalks with a wee bit of sparkling ink on the letters on his sweater.

The sentiment is from Kiwistamping and although I embossed it, the emobssing was absorbed by the hand made paper

The cream coloured panel was embossed using a cuttlebug embossing folder - which 9 year old boy is not fascinated by spiders!!

This is just a quick post as I started the day with a migraine and should not be on the computer....

I am linking this to

Card Cupids - no patterned paper

Corrosive Challenges - birthday

Creative cowgirls Challenge - Anything Goes

Emerald faires Challenge #1 - Anything Goes

One Stitch At A Time #62 - Anything Goes

Paper Sundaes Challenge #69 - Happy birthday

Pile It On - Boys and Girls Come Out To Play

Scrappy Frog Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting, may your day be blessed.

Mr Turtle

Hello to all my cyber visitors - it's good to 'see' you here!

I have made a habit of not reading some of the challenge 'rules' recently and have managed to 'disqualify' myself from a couple as a result - not that I am unduly worried, but I thought that this card filled the criteria for two challenges, so I would leave it at that.

I had an order for a card for a youngster, and started with this stamp 

from  Bugaboo Stamps, and thought it would be good to use on the sketch from the Stampin Royalty challenge, and this is the result.

I coloured the turtle with Stampin' Up pencils and then water brushed them. Added crystal and gold KindyGlitz, and mounted the panel on some metallic blue paper.  Embossed the sentiment (from Hero Arts) , and mounted it on scraps from my stash, cut to size.  The stitching in the sketch was replaced with ribbon, and the buttons with more metallic paper cut into circles.

This is a very cheerful card and I am very happy with it as, perhaps surprisingly, I struggle with cards for children.

I am linking this to:

Stampin' Royalty Challenge #64 - sketch

Southern Girls Challenge - Add an Animal

Thanks for calling by - may your day be blessed. 

A Very Quick Card!!

Greetings to all my patient followers - I will admit to being MIA for no other reason than I got the "Blahs" and did not want to blog - I have made some cards, but they are in the archives and may be pulled out at a later date...


I have recently started to make what I call 'male bling' - I wanted to add an accent, but did not want to use pearls or rhinestones, so I do 'faux nail heads'. 

Now to be honest, I have never actually seen or bought nail heads, but I have seen them on the internet, and if I remember correctly they are available at Gina K's Store.  I make them by punching out the colour card stock that I want to use with a 3/16" punch, adhering the dots to the card and then adding some dimensional glue - volia, a perfect accent!!


The card I am wanting to show you was made in 20 minutes - I think the drying of the glue on the accents was the most time consuming part of it!


I needed a masculine card for a mechanic/car enthusiast so I researched my digital images and came across this one from Cora at Digital Two for Tuesday, printed it out and trimmed it a wee bit, mounted it on black, stamped and embossed the greeting on white and mounted than onto black.


I then scored the white background, adhered that to the black base card, mounted the image and sentiment on the scored white panel, and then added the faux nail heads and it was all done!!  To good effect, I feel.

I am entering this in the following challenges:


No Time To Stamp - threes
Sew many Challenges - Digi image and anything goes
Stamp Something - Something to Celebrate
Totally Papercrafts Challenge #36 - The Great Outdoors

Thanks for calling by - I hope it has been worth the wait!!


May your day be blessed.

More Babies

It's been a long break between postings here - it's good to be back, and thank you all for calling by.

What is it about this year - there seems to be babies galore expected - including a couple of grand babies for us :-) - so I thought I would get a head start on some more cards....


I also decided to enter the digital age and use a digi-stamp from Digital Two for Tuesday, of a mother and babe - I coloured the image with chalks and then mounted it in different modes - as you can  see.  I kept the backgrounds simple to emphasise the image as it is so peaceful.  The greeting was computer generated also and then cut using Nestabilities labels.


The other card seemed to be a law unto itself and to have a (rebellious) life of it's own - the main image was stamped at least four times before I was happy with it! I am still not completely happy with the base-card and the ink that I sponged it with, but it has to stay!!  The textured layer was done using a cuttlebug  'd'vine swirls' embossing folder.  The purple flowers came from a gift of bits I was given, and I finished them off with a little bling which made all the difference, but I must say I was pleased to finish this card!.  


Thanks for calling by - I treasure all the comments you leave.