Little Critter

Welcome back - this post is my second for this week releases from McMahon Five Design.com.

This image is one in a series called Funny Little Things by Studio 313 - the image is named Birthday Happiness

There is a lot of sparkle on this card that the camera did not pick up.

The image was printed out on Cryogen curious metallic paper which has a subtle sheen that shows through any medium, and painted with twinkling H2Os - don't you love his crooked wee smile?

Here is a close-up of the balloon, and I highlighted it with some crystal stickles, which were also used on the balloons on the designer paper.

The final touch, which proved to be the most difficult, was to layer the image over these sheets of shiny 'holes'.  They show purple IRL, but the camera picked up a more aqua tone :-(.

Thanks for calling, and please feel free to be inspired by the rest of the Design Team at McMahon Five Design.com - the links to their blogs are all in the sidebar.


I am linking this to:
Craft Us Crazy challenge #20 - Anything Goes
Moving Along with the Times Challenge #135 - Cute Critter
Paper Prettys Wednesday Challenge #192 -_ Add Texture to your card

May your day be blessed

Vintage Flutterbys

Welcome again.

This is my second post for the day, please scroll down for the other one.

Sue over at McMahon Digital Vintage has just released this beautiful butterfly set.

The set is entitled Go Confidently, as there is a sentiment that goes with it.

I used Cryogen paper to print the butterflies on, trimmed the image slightly on the right side, coloured the butterflies and background with chalks, and added some Crystal Stickles and Zva Crystals (trimmed)

The sentiment was not available when I made my card, so I added this stamped one from the D'Amour Allure Wishes of Love Acrylic Set.

The design paper is from the Lilybee pad Head over Heels and picks up a lot of the other colours in the card.

There are a lot of new designs this week, and a new designer ,over at McMahon Five Design - do pop over to the blog to catch up with all the news.

I am linking this to:

Diva's by Design Challenge #20 - Anything Goes

Flutterby Wednesday Challenge #188 - Open

inky Impressions Challenge #44 - Pearls or Bling

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Use Striped Paper
DYSU Challenge #57 - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting again - may your day be blessed.

Fleur Heart Anniversary

Welcome back - I am glad to see that you have visited.

I made this card as a CASE of one I saw at Paperlicious Designs, but when I went to link to the specific project, it has been taken down.

The main stamps are the same - the heart from the Fleur Hearts, and the words from The Love Chapter set by Layers of Color

The heart was stamped and clear embossed, masked, and the background wording stamped in blue not black.  

The lace is totally different, and I added the pearls and rosette.

I stamped and silver embossed the sentiment directly onto the card base rather than mount it on another layer as in the original.

The panel was stamped on cryogen paper which has a subtle sparkle, and was mounted on the navy base, and two silver lines drawn down either side.

I am linking this to: 

Stampin' Sisters in Christ Challenge #123 - Let a Heart stand Out

The Corrosive Challenge #141 - I {heart} you

Ippty Challenge - Something old (rosette) something new (lace) something borrowed (the sketch) Something blue (the card stock)

Lets Ink it up Challenge #19 - Anything Goes

Penny Black January Challenge - Love and hearts

Pile it on Challenge #4 - Add Lace

Robyn's Fetish Challenge #91 - Love

Scrappy Frogs Challenge - Lace

Get Hippity with Ippity challenge #13 - Hearts

Thanks for visiting - may your day be blessed.

Silent Night

Welcome once again - today I am sharing a new release image from McMahon Vintage Digitals called Silent Night

I printed both the image and the sentiment onto vellum gold embossed them, and cut them with a Nestabilitie classic oval.  

The scene was coloured on the back of the vellum with water colour pens, and some blue card was cut to the shape of the sky line and adhered to form the sky.  The image was them mounted over a scalloped oval of Cryogen paper, although the sparkle did not show through the vellum.

The sentiment was also layered over the cryogen card.

The background layer was a dark blue card sprayed with Shimmerz spray.

The ribbon was layered over the blue, and a wee bow folded held with silver flower spit pin.

Pleae feel free to visit the other team members (they are linked from my side bar) to see the other releases this week.

Thanks for visiting - may your day be blessed

Recipe:

Image: Silent Night digital from McMahon Five Design.com

Accessories: Gold embossing powder, water colour pens,

                  silver ribbon, silver split pin,Shimmers Spray

                  Cryogen paper.

Lily Boy Blue

I was asked to make a baby boy card the other day,

and this is what transpired, which I was very happy with.

The image is Baby Cana Lily by McMahon Vintage Digitals, coloured with chalks.

The image was printed on cryogenic paper which has a lovely twinkle in it which shows through any colouring medium.  The image was mounted it on a scalloped oval cut from some shiny blue paper from a 'scrap pack'.

This was mounted over a beautiful ribbon that came wrapped around some stamps (thanks to Layers of Color), and a button was added to that.

The corner was cut using the Vintage corners die, and pearls added for interest.  The sentiment is from Stampendous, and the card was finished with some faux stitching with a glitter pen.

I am linking this to:

Two Sisters Challenge #66 - Let it Sparkle

Drunken Stampers Challenge #78 - Up in the air (on the flower)

Just some Lines - tic tac toe (glitter in ribbon and paper,digi and die cut

So Artful Challenge - Sew Pretty - faux stitching

SS&D Challenge - Embossing - the edge of the image oval
Dream Valley Challenge #20 - Stitching
One Stitch at a Time Challenge #89 - Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting - may your day be blessed.

Sweet sleep

Welcome, and thank you for visiting again.

I have had a run of making baby cards recently, and this one was made with the Stamping Sisters In Christ challenge in mind.

The challenge was to Dig in your stash and use one of your oldest stamp sets, one that hasn't seen any use for a long while.

I used two of my original stamps in the background - the script stamp is from Kiwistamping, a local company who are totally responsible for my stamping addiction, and my first ever purchase are the flower stamps, two from a trio from Hero Arts which is now deleted.  The script was simply stamped with chalk ink, and the flowers were stamped with embossing ink and clear embossed.

The adorable focal image is a digistamp, a freebie, by May Brit. This was coloured in chalks after being printed in Cryogen paper, and was mounted on foam dots for some dimension.

This photograph gives some idea of the subtle sparkle in the paper that shows through the colouring medium.

I fussy cut the image and mounted it on an oval cut using a Nestabilitie Classic oval that was sponged before removing the die.  this was mounted over the organza ribbon which was folded in half to get the strong colour and correct width. The bling was the final touch.

I am linking this to:

Stamping Sisters In Christ Challenge #116 - Genesis 3:6

4 Crafty Chicks - Baby themed

CRAFT Challenge #128 - Cute

Charisma challenge #44 - Cutesy

Rainbow Lady's Challenge #178 - Pointsettia Challenge - Include pink and Green
Crafty Catz Challenge #108 - use a digital image for the focal point
Frosted Designs Fabulous Friday p- Embossing (the flowers)

Thanks for calling by - may your day be blessed