Begonia Birthday

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When I think back to how I made this card, which is very typical of my process, I am far from organised - I do not select my background paper and then decide what colours to colour the image...

I started with the image, a (Flourishes) Begonia, and coloured that with chalks...

Then came the background, and I came across this piece that was in my 'stash', I am sure it was given to me by a friend who was experimenting with marbling acrylic paints at the time.  I gave it a quick spray with a silver glimmer mist , then decided to use a doily die cut for the flower to sit on, which I cut from a Stampin' Up Christmas pad.

The sentiment I have had for years, and is a N.Z. made one, was embossed in silver, and accented with the lace.

The finishing touches were some silver sequins.

I am linking this to:

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #66 - Anything Goes

The Corrosive Challenge September Challenge - Anything Goes

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week #37 - Anything Goes

Crafting With Friends Extra Challenge #50 - Anything Goes

Emerald City Crafters Challenge #3 - Anything Goes

Polka Doodles Challenge Weeks 36 - Anything Goes

QKR Stampede Challenge #261 - Anything Goes

Simply Papercraft Challenge #50 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #300-301 - Anything Goes

Crazy 4 Challenges #403 - Sketch

Happy!!

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I started the feature panel (a fabulous Tammy Tutterow Stamp) as a colouring project for the Daily Marker Challenge, and couldn't help but mount it up as soon as it was finished.

 

I coloured the panel using my polychromo pencils,

then sprayed it with a lemon and a silver glimmer mist, and red perfect pearls..

which gave it a lovely sheen. The panel was die cut using M/B stitched rectangles, and layered over two corners from the S/B Marvellous Squares

The balloons were punched from glitter paper, the strings made using metallic sewing thread, and caught under the bow on the gold ribbon.

I am linking this to:

The Daily Marker Challenge

Scrapy Land Challenge #73 - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations Challenge #350 - Anything Goes

Moving Along With The Times Challenge - Sentiment as the Focal Point

Little Miss Muffet Challenge #171 - Anything Goes

The Crop Stop Linky Party #32 - Anything Goes

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #50 - Anything Goes

Crafting With An Attitude Challenge #31= Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge #188 - Anything Goes with a Sentiment

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #300-301 - Anything Goes

Peaceful Peony Sympathy

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I love the way this card came together as a soft and gentle expression of sympathy

My starting point was a piece of paper that was on my desk - it came as a gift is some stamps I had purchased, a loooooooooong time ago.....

This was paired with stamps from the Sweet 'n' Sassy stamp set  Peaceful Peonies

I stamped the sentiment directly on the paper in Bottle green ink

Stamped (in bottle ink), coloured (with Prisma color pencils) and fussy cut the flower from the set and popped it up in the corner, and added some micro beads to the centre for some texture.  Rhinestones were added to some of the highlighted stars on the paper

The inside was finished with a scripture from an ODBD set, and the peony  image repeated.

I am linking this to:

The Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge
Crafting From The Heart Challenge #174 - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday Weeks #300 - 301 - Anything Goes
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything goes
Lemon Shortbread Challenge #50 - Anything Goes
Digi Chooseday Craft Challenge Week #37 - Anything Goes
Creates and Makes Challenge #14 - Anything Goes
Cards Und More Challenge #193 - Flower Power
The Paper Nest Dolls September Challenge #9 - Anything Goes
Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #1737 - Anything Goes

Flowers, Glitter and a Greeting

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This started as a project to colour while I was looking after a grandson the other day, and to also enter it in the Daily Marker Challenge.  I often do the colouring, but don't always get the projects finished.!

I coloured the image (Flower Swag 3 by Tammy Tutterow) using crayola markers - they are new, and very juicy - so much so that when I added the second green to the leaves, it re-activated the first and blended it - the flowers were also very bright.  I dabbed the blue as I coloured, it was so dark.

(the original)

I still was not that happy with it, so next day I tried spritzing a dried sample, liked the results, so held my breath and spritzed the image, dabbed with a paper towel, repeated, and was really happy with the result!!

The end was still fairly bright, but somewhat muted and 'softer' in appearance.  What is not visible here is that there is a wee bit of a 'watercoloured' look to it, and the brush strokes are now blended in.

I cut the image panel into an elongated semicircle, and sponged it with Delicata Golden Glitz ink to tie in with the tiny dots that I coloured with a Signo Gold Pen.

I then mounted it onto the green layer, with a narrow strip of the glitter card top and bottom of that layer 

 I die cut the letters for the greeting from a Couture Creations set from the same glitter cardstock and added the  Spellbinders Border-abilities  decorative one at the base of the card.

I decorated the base of the inside with the same border die cut that I used on the outside - again thanks to the sparkle it is not a clear photo.

Unfortunately I didn't realise the last photos were so blurred - blame the glitter card.  The card has now been posted so I cannot re-do the photos. 

I am linking this to: 

heARTfelt Stamping Challenge - Anything Goes + a Stamp

Crafty Friends Challenge #66 - Use Dies or Punches

Crafting with Dragonflies Challenge #89- Card for a Special Occasion

The Corrosive Challenge - September #9 - Anything Goes

Glitter "n" Sparkle Challenge #256 - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge #188 - Anything Goes with a Sentiment

Jo's Stamp Shack FFC #205 - Anything Goes

Morgan's Art World Challenge #18 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #289-299 - Anything goes

The Daily Marker Challenge

Watery Thank You

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I recently wanted to join the "Mermaid" trend in card making, but I had no stamps.  This came about as I had made a very soft chalked background that looked like seaweed, but I had no stamp to use on it, so I enlisted Mr G**gle and found a free image, which I altered to suit my taste.

To make the background I used chalks/pastels through a leaf stencil, colouring first with one colour, sealing it with a burst of hairspray, and then moving the stencil and colouring it with the second colour.

The Thanks was a Simon Says die cut of sparkle paper, and the rest of the sentiment was computer generated.

I coloured the  Mermaid image with my Chromocolor pencils, and mounted her over a S/B scalloped circle die cut that I had painted with Semco Mica paints, using green and  blue paints to match the background

The final touch were some translucent sequins and 'eyelash' yarn glued to the side of the card - I also glued this inside my card, but the photograph was blurry.

This is the original card which I made as a sample for my class, and the background was much softer, and the layout slightly different, with metallic cord across the bottom and some white Pico dots.

I am linking this to:

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #319 - On Trend

Lemon Shortbread Challenge #49 - Anything Goes

Cuttlebug Mania - Anything goes using a Die Cut or Embossing

Create and Make Challenge #14 - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments Challenge - Anything Goes

Cards Und More Challenge # 192 - Anything Goes

Double D Challenge - Glitter, Glitter, Glitter

Inspiration Destination Challenge #133 - Anything Goes - Optional Twist of a recipe

(I did not use the recipe)

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #298-299 - Anything Goes

Lacy Bird

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I was tidying my desk not long before I went away and came across a card kit that Ginny Maxam had sent me some time ago, so I put my thinking cap on and came up with this card.

All the elements on the card, with the exception of the ribbon and rhinestones, came in the kit

Unfortunately the platinum embossing powder was difficult to see on the dark blue paper, and after heating I found that it was somewhat 'speckled'!! 

The paper for the base had a rough edge that I wanted to keep, so I accented it by inking it (and the other edges) with Delicata Golden Glitz ink

I loved the lacy panel that was in the kit, and was pleased that it showed up so well over the dark paper.  The paper strip on the side had soft yellow shading on it, so I drew that out and brightened the card with some yellow organza ribbon over it.

I repeatedly painted the bird die cut with WoS and managed to capture some of the sparkle in this photo.  I finished the bird with a clear rhinestone eye.

I am linking this to:

Crafty Girls Challenge #39 - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz Challenge #382 - Anything Goes

Love To Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Love To Scrap Challenge #101 - Anything Goes

Jo's Scrap Shack FFC #204 - Anything Goes

Just Keep On Crafting September Link-Up - Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge #266 - Anything Goes

Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenge #1736 - Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart Challenge #173 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #298-299 - Anything Goes

Masculine Praying Sympathy

Welcome

It's good to be back - my sabbatical was spent firstly visiting family 'over the ditch' in Australia. While there I was able to contact, and spend some time, with  Alicia, who is a lovely, talented and very generous fellow crafter. I then visited the fabulous Lovely Linda who made me most welcome and I had a wonderful four days with her and her family - a real blessing!!   I headed home totally broke, with several kilo's more luggage, most of which was craft supplies!  

This card was a commissioned one, and the customer wanted a masculine sympathy card.

I concentrated on using texture on a simple layout, embossing the white layer with the Argyle folder.

The sentiment from ODBD Praying For You set was gold embossed, and cut with a Spellbinders classic oval die, sponged, and mounted over a S/B scalloped oval cut in a subdued gold paper.

This was mounted over some burlap ribbon, then onto the embossed layer, then the red base card. The final details were the gold rhinestones.

The inside sentiment was stamped in the Espresso ink used for the sponging - the verse is from the same ODBD used on the front of the card.

I am linking this to:

Crafty Girls Challenge #138 - Anything Goes

Southern Girls Challenge - Retro, Smash Your Stash

(The stamps, ink and embossing folder are all years old)

Little Miss Muffet Challenge #170 - Anything Goes

Scrapy Land Challenge #72 - Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments Challenge #187 - Thinking of You/Sympathy

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #366 - Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks #298-299 - Anything Goes

Crafty Creations Challenge #349 - Anything Goes

Crafting By Design September Challenge - Anything Goes