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365 Cards Day 263 - Ad Inspired

Take inspiration from the ad to produce a card

Gorgeous ad and I felt I could find something straight away

 

All papers are scraps and mag freebies the stamped flower is Hero Arts and embossed with clear emb. powder over Adirondack Stonewashed Ink

I handstitched the piece of folded Kraft paper to look like a Roman blind

Rub-on letters are Doodlebug

Colour Scheme Challenge

365 Cards Day 262

is a colour scheme challenge

I found this so hard.  Nothing flowed I'm afraid.

Everything is out of my bits box even the odd stamped images which fortunately matched the colour scheme well.  Think they are Hero Arts.

Celebrate the Season

I had a birthday gift of 2 Whiff of Joy stamps and thought it about time I joined in the challenges over there.

So this card is for Whiff of Joy Challenge #53 - Red, Cream and one other colour

I love this cute mouse.

I paper pieced the hat and the  bow on the top of it

A flat backed pearl was added to the centre of the  bow

The image was coloured with ProMarkers

Sentiment stamp - Hero Arts

Ink - Adirondack Red Pepper

Fiskars border punch used to edge the red card

Cream base card, paper, red card and ribbon from my stash

Two for Thursday

Another 2 for 365 Cards and 1 for Basic Grey
Day 242 -  Ribbon Frenzy use 7 Different Ribbons
Day 243 - Beautiful Bouquet
Basic Grey Challenge wk 6 - Colour combo Green/Red/Blue

Day 242 details
Paper - Basic Grey Marakesh
Sentiment stamp - Hero Arts
Tag - Prima
Ink - Adirondack 'Denim'
Buttons, card and ribbon offcuts from my stash
This card will also fit with Basic Grey Challenge

Day 243 details
Paper - Laura Ashley
Stamp - Anna Griffin
White card - DCWV
Sentiment, ribbon & card pieces from my stash

365 Cards Catch Up 2

3 more cards done...quite a few still to go
Day 230 - Shape Up!....Semi Circle

Day 234 - Trio ~ Pearl, Tag & Ribbon

Day 238 - Fine Twine

Ingredients for all cards:-
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Papers - Basic Grey
Image Stamp - Anita's
Sentiment Stamp - Elzybells
Piece of green card - Bazzill
Pearls and base card from stash
Faux stitching using liner pens

234
Papers - DCWV
Tag - received in a forum swap
Ribbon - Anita's
Sentiment stamp - Hero Arts
Pearls from stash

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Base Card - Kraft from SU embossed with bone folder and scoring board
Large owl stamp - Magnolia Tilda's owl
Tiny Owl Stamp and sentiment - Hero Arts
Twine - Hobbycraft
Yellow Crad - Bazzill
Inks pad - Adirondack 'Rust'
Branch stamp, green card from stash

Apricot & Cool Aqua

These are the colours to be used this week on Passion for ProMarkers challenge 19 You also have to feature a flower somewhere.
I used this great sketch from Card Patterns 34 but it may not be exact as I couldn't understand my pencil drawing of it...lol!!
It will also fit in with the Basic Grey Challenge 4 - Embossing
And CCCE - Digital
Papers used -Turq. & Leafy pattern...Basic Grey 'Urban Prairie' and embossed apricot leaves... My Mind's Eye 'Bloom & Grow'
Image - download called 'Melody in Love' by Pollycraft
Apart from the stated colours, other PM's used :-
Ruby, Spice, Lime Green, Vanilla, Saffron and Pastel Pink
Flesh tones were from Copics Pinkish White & Blush
Scalloped edge is by Bazzill and I coloured it with the Cool Aqua
Birdy image - Hero Arts
Swirly flourish - Basic Grey 'Wassail' um stamp
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Sentiment - magazine freebie
Flowers, brad, base card and ribbon from my stash

Autumn Joy

Feeling full of the joys of autumn so have made this card for challenges
Crafty Creations 35 - Leaves/Autumn
Allsorts 20 - Autumn Days

The papers were a great freebie with a magazine
Image - Hero Arts 'Big Owl'
Sentiment - download
Colouring medium - Promarkers
Base card, brown card pieces and brads from my stash.

White Space.....2

365 Cards Day 214 - White Space
My heart always lurches when I see this challenge theme, but I think I'm at last getting my head round it.
So This time I went for less is more.
The idea for the card is from a Clean and Simple sketch I saw some time ago and pencilled into my book.
The stamped flowers are Hero Arts 'Real Carnation'
Inks - Adirondack 'Lettuce' and 'Wild Plum'
Sentiment stamp by Stampology
Ink used - Versafine Onyx Black
I popped in a little bit of Adi. 'wild plum' into the heart and flower with a Marvy Le Plume Blender pen.
Lush magenta and black ribbon from my stash....voila! job done.

Who would believe that that is another whole month of cards done. :O

Lace & Pearls

Penny Black 67 - Lace & Pearls
Along with the cute PB Hedgie stamped image which was coloured using watercolour pencils I used a couple of Die cut and embossed Nestie labels for mounting. For a change I used Lakeland's paper lace as I received some as a gift.
The sentiment stamp is by Hero Arts
The base card, paper and pearls from my stash.

DIY

365 Cards Day 207 - DIY: Patterned Paper.
To make your own background paper in any way you wish.
Over the last few weeks I have been following lovely Dawn McVey on her blog 'My Favorite Things' and she has been making the most wonderful backing papers using small patterned stamps and multi stamping them, so thought I would have a go. I just wish I had chosen a larger stamp. This tine one is by Clarity Stamps which I inked up in Versamark and stamped repeatedly turning the stamp each time until I got fed up :D..I then heat embossed with clear emb. powder.
I stamped a plain piece of white card with a Hero Arts dotty background stamp in dark pink and smudged it over with pink chalk then cut it with my Fiskars Border Punch. Over that I placed a piece of red card.
Embellished with a tag by Kelly Panacci,flat backed pearl by Papermania and piece of dotty organza ribbon from my stash.
All card is DCWV.
I didn't like the blank red to the left so stamped again in versamark twice, the other way up, you can now judge the size of the stamp, embossed with white emb. powder and surrounded it with a throwaway piece of pink card left after cutting out with my Nesties.
This is not very neat, there are a couple of bodged jobs, but the challenge is met.

Super Sketchy Sunday 190

365 Cards starts another week of crafty mayhem. Also this week is Sassy Studio Designs week and we start with this sketch.
Oh! my!! I found this sketch soooooooooo hard. Probably because, unlike some of you wonderful arty people, I don't think outside of the box, I have to be so literal! ha! ha!
So after much deliberation this is what I came up with.
The Christmas Tree is by Clarity Stamps
The circular sentiment is by Hero Arts, with the centre cut away.
Everything else from my stash.

Black & White

365 Card Day 186 - Ad. Inspired

Another grey matter stirrer, and had to think long and hard over this.
I felt the shoes in the ad. were made from a lovely grey/black wool tweed material or something with that look about it.
The only paper I could find that came anywhere near was this piece I used which had a hammered texture and a sort of gunmetal sheen and when I ripped it it had a lovely black core, so that was my starting point.
The red rose stickers are by Anna Griffin and the shoe stamp by Hero Arts.
I wanted to use black lace, but noticed another girl had used that idea so chose to use instead the black daisy trimming.
The sentiment to finish it off is by Inkadinkadoo
Both stamps stamped with Versafine Onyx Black

Sporty Saturday

It has been a sporty saturday what with the F1 qualifying, the rugby and the football, very enjoyable, I do love my sport.

So onto my card making for today which is very little, I've usually got more done than this.

A little sporty number for 365 Cards Day 182 which had to feature a ball of any kind on it, so I have a football and the colours for the scarf and cap are for Liverpool!
This image is a great download from Pink Petticoat and the background is a download from French Frog 'Joey'. The flower stamp is by Stamps Away and the little birdie Hero Arts. The sentiment is part of the turtle image. I coloured the images with a mix of Copics and PM's
The base card is Lakeland's Kraft

This card will also cover challenges over at :-
Stamp Something Challenge - Animal Something
Saturday Challenge - Flights of fancy (anything with wings)

Stampin' Saturday

365 Cards Day 175 - Layering stamps, not masking
This will also fit for Crafty Creations Challenge # 29 - 'Tags'
Now I was really in my element, but I seriously didn't know when to stop...so a case of 'less is more' it is not.

Ingredients used:-
Stamps - Hero Arts 'Polka Dot Pattern', All Night Media ' Script', Hero Arts 'Skylark Bookmark', Clarity corner stamp, Image by European Memories, Sentiment by Paper Artsy
Inks - Tim Holtz Distress Inks in 'Tea Dye' and 'Walnut Stain'
Paper from Costco
Card blank - Kraft from Lakeland
Cotton twine
I still feel I need to put something else on it, like a button!..lol!!!

Always & Forever.....

Hopefully this card will cover 3 challenges if I am not too late.
365 Cards Day 173 - Mixed Message - to incorporate 3 ways to create 1 sentiment
Sketch Saturday #61 - Given sketch
Daring Cardmakers - Lace
This was a great sketch and needed a bit of guidance today.
Interesting challenge on 365 Cards and was able to complete that with the word Always being a rub-on & being a mini tag and Forever I printed out using my Dymo Letra Tag
The lace used was paper lace, I forget the make.
Ribbon strip and Papers - Laura Ashley 'Contemporary
Gems - Hero Arts
Velvet Brad and flowers from my stash
Image - Penny Black
Colouring medium - PM's Sandstone, Vanilla, Satin, Ice Grey 1, Coold Grey 1 and Cool Grey 5 and Copic - Blush
The left edge was cut using a Fiskars border punch Threading Water

Trio

365 Cards Day 171 - Trio Challenge
So the idea is to incorporate into the card
A triangle
A sticker
A button

And having a button this card will fit in nicely with ABC Challenge -B for Button(s) I hope 1 button will suffice :)


And because I am late (to me, anyway) this is a clean & simple type card.
I adore this triangle stamp which I got off eBay years ago and haven't used for a while...great for this challenge.
Used Versafine Onyx Black to ink it up.
Mounted it onto plain pink card.
The floral frame is actually a cardstock sticker by Kelly Panacci and the sentiment is a sticker also by Bo-Bunny Press so take your pick :)
and the button is by Hero Arts...voila!!!..job done!
ribbon and black textured card from my stash.

Crafting in the night................

Well I was up until 1.30am last night finishing this and then I lost internet connection...which made me very grumpy...so here it is, for what it's worth..which was blood, sweat and tears.

365 Cards Day 170 - 'Double Duty'
Which means it has to double as a gift or something else at least, but no voucher holders!

I have been gathering seeds over the summer from my garden - what summer? - and had the idea to pass them on so this challenge lit up a light bulb in my head.
I made a sort of concertina book to hold all the little packets of seeds so lovingly collected.

Ingredients:-
2 pieces of grey card for front and back frrom my bottomless box
6 Vellum envelopes
large peice of Kraft wrapping paper
PP's - Basic Grey 'Offbeat'
Sentiments - a mix of Clarity Stamps, Hero Arts, and computer generated
Floral images - Penny Black 'Christmas Colour'(front cover) and Great Impressions (back cover)
Paper to cover front and back boards - a lovely piece of Mango Soft
Ribbon - Grograin: SU 'Always Artichoke' silk: Anna Griffin
Tags from my stash

Being so late in the night and so tired I just snapped away with my camera at my work table, so apologies, as always, for the poor pics.

One day I will surprise you with the most amazing photography, but the cards will still be the same..lol!!

My Sunday Combo

Managed to cover a few challenges with a card today...I hope!
365 Cards Day 169 - Super Sketchy Sunday
Simon Says - Light Brown, Light Green, Blush Pink, Coral & White
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Buttons & Bows
Apologies, as usual, for the poor photo. Card wouldn't scan because of the bulkyness, I have made myself a light box, but haven't the lamps you need to light it from the sides. Far too expensive this game...LOL!!

Great sketch as always over at 365.
Papers - Downloads from Pollycraft 'Easy Breezy'
Image - Download from Willow Design
Colouring medium - Copics: Blush, Lime Green and Dull Ivory. PM's: Coral
Flower Buckle Brad in White - Stash
Light Brown ribbon tied into Bow - Stash
White Buttons - Hero Arts
Sentiment - Hero Arts
Ink Pad - Adirondack 'Meadow'

'Gift' Card

365 Cards - Day 167
The card is the gift.
i.e. Make your card look like a gift.

Just did what comes natural. Tied ribbon around a square card to look like a present. But firstly I stamped the 4 Hero Arts Poetic Petal stamps in Adirondack 'Denim' onto ready made masked off squares of Memories soft mauve and Colorbox Chalk Wisteria... mounted the stamped white card onto blue pearly card and then onto the base card... spotty organza ribbon a little tag finished the look.
I am sooooooooooo tired and off to my bed........g'night all. xxx