You're A Star!

Hi all!

Only 3 weeks til Christmas - are you all ready for it?  I'm not!

Time for a new challenge though at the Creative Card Crew and for this fortnight we are being sponsored by the fabulous Simon Says Stamp

They're offering one lucky winner a very generous $20 voucher for their shop!

So the challenge theme this time is....

Star!

Here's what I did:

I made this card to match the tag I shared a few weeks ago.  The image is "Sweet little donkey" by Meljen's Designs and I coloured it with the following copics: B95,93,91,YG07,05,03,R08,05,02. Background;YR02,00,E40.

The papers are DCWV "Nana's Kids" and kraft card. I used Spellbinders circle and big scallop circle dies for the image and X-cut stars for the, erm, stars!  The banner die is by Dienamics.  The sentiments are computer generated except for on the banner where I had to hand-write it - it would've taken forever for me to line it up on the computer!  A bit of Stampin' Up! grosgrain ribbon and a few swarovski crystals finish it off.

The inside uses the same elements as the front.

So pop over to the Creative Card Crew challenge blog to see some fantastic pieces of inspiration by the rest of the design team and join in the fun!

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Crafts & Me Challenges; Ribbon or trim
Crafty Boots Challenge: Anything goes
Jackson's Digital Expression; Inks & such
Joanna Sheen Challenge Blog; Anything goes excluding Christmas
Kaboodles Doodles; Use circles
One Stitch At A Time; Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Challenge; Anything goes
The Corrosive Challenge Blog; Anything goes

Thanks for looking!

Just Chill

Morning all!

I've scheduled this post as it's a little too early for me (I'm probably not too long in bed!) and I want to try to get back on track.
I had my second bit of physio at the end of last week and I'm still not the better for it!  She really worked hard on my back and shoulders.  I hope it's not as bad this week as I have an exciting weekend ahead! ;)

Anyway, It's time for a new challenge at the Creative Card Crew and this fortnight we are being sponsored by the ever fabulous Simon Says Stamp

who are offering the lucky winner $20 to spend in their shop!

So in order to be in with a chance of winning this fabby prize, the challenge is..

Silver & Blue!

What a fab colour combo, especially for this time of year!

This is what I did:

The image is Winter Skating Tilda by Magnolia (the one that all the fuss was about! - not the actual one but another one! lol)  I coloured her with the following promarkers (available at Simon Says): Skin;Sunkissed pink, Oatmeal, Blush, Pastel pink. Hair;Umber, Burnt sienna, Caramel. Clothing;Midnight blue, Cornflower, Denim blue, Agean, Sky blue. Skates;Black, Cool grey 5,4,3,1. Background;Arctic blue, Pastel blue, April shower.  And a little bit of black prisma pencil.
I stamped around Tilda with a Magnolia snowflake stamp and versamark.  I didn't emboss or anything, just let it dry and it has left a lovely faint watermark effect snowflake pattern which you can't see in the pics but is nice in the flesh.

I also added some glamour dust to her cuffs, ends of scarf, bobble and the blades on her skates which really made them pop!  I think you can see it a bit better in this pic.

 The papers are from DCWV The Winter Stack.  They aren't quite big enough for my size of card so I added a bit of white card stock at the bottom which I embossed using a snowflake embossing folder by Cuttlebug.  A little bit of christmassy ribbon hides the join.
I used spellbinder circle dies and the out-of-the-box technique to cut out the image and a Spellbinder Crown Circle die for the surround - I added little crystals to each of the petals.  And I used my magnolia swirl die on silver mirri card to compliment the little silver Christmas tree that I had in my stash (possibly salvaged from some crackers?).

As it's a Christmas card the inside is fairly simple using the same dies as are on the front.  The sentiment is by magnolia, stamped with memento Bahama Blue ink and then glitzed up with a clear sakura stardust pen.  I also did the snowflake/versamark thing on the die-cut circle here too. (which you still can't see!)

So let us see your creations using our theme - I'm looking forward to seeing them!  Have a look at what the rest of the DT did over at The Creative Card Crew blog!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Crafts & Me; Bling it up
Crafty Catz; Add texture
Crafty Ribbons; Christmas
Divas By Design; Feeling festive
Fab & Funky; Die cuts/punches
I Love Promarkers; Cute
Sweet Stampin; All that glitters
The Pink Elephant; Favourite colouring medium
The Ribbon Girl Challenge; Add sparkle
Whimsy Stamps Inspirations Challenge; All things sparkly

Thanks for looking!
 

A Day Late & A Dollar Short!

Morning everyone,

Yes, I'm a whole day late with my Alphabet Challenge Blog DT entry!  Oops!
I was trying to get something finished to go along with my entry and then I had a call about going to something that I had completely forgotten about and had to leave!  Then I didn't get home until late last night so now I'm gonna have to post my entry late and without the extra bit. :/

So I'll just get straight to the point - and a short point it will be this week too!

The challenge for the next fortnight, chosen by the lovely Tammy, is.....

T for Tags!

A tag all on its own or one on your project.  Perfect for coming up to Christmas or even anything else!

Here's what I did;

I cut a tag shape out of kraft card and covered it with paper from the DCWV Nana's Kids stack.

I used a sentiment from the Tiny New Baby sentiment sheet from Pink Petticoat which I printed onto safmat before adhering to a wee bit of kraft card and gluing to a piece of Hodgepodge Hardware from Stampin' Up! and then attaching to the tag with the supplied brads.

The letters are Making Memories Velvet Alphabet stickers.  I added some tiny stars that I had kept from a previous project - they're the left-overs from a spellbinders die.  And I finished the tag off with a piece of string and a little tiny feet charm.

I didn't get my card made to match the tag yet, so it will have to do another day!
Go and have a look at what the rest of the DT made and have a go yourself at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!  See you there!

I'd like to enter this in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks; A day to remember
Anything Goes Challenge Blog; Anything goes
By The Cute & Girly; Twinkle twinkle little star
Crafty Boots Challenge Blog; Tag or invitation
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge Blog; Seeing stars
Creative Inspirations; Lets celebrate
Little Claire's; New arrivals
The Paper Shelter Challenge Blog; Anything goes
Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog; Anything but a card with autumn colours
Twisted Tuesday; Free for all/anything goes

Thanks for looking!

 

How Arrrrr Ye Doin'?

Morning everyone!

Can you believe I'm on to my second challenge as a DT member on the Creative Card Crew challenge blog?!
And can you believe the Olympics are over?!  A thoroughly enjoyable couple of weeks and I can't wait for the Paralympics!  I'm looking forward to seeing the yummy Oscar Pistorious again anyway! lol!  That's not the only reason I've loved the Olympics though.  I think it's amazing what some people are able to do.  I watched the women's mountain biking on Saturday and it's astonishing how fit they must be to be able to go non-stop, on that terrain, for an hour and a half - and still have the energy to lift the bike over their head at the end!  Amazing!  I can only imagine how astonishing the Paralympics are going to be!

Now, back to the challenge...
We're being sponsored this fortnight by the fabulous Simon Says Stamp! 

They're offering a $20 gift voucher to the lucky winner!

And to win that fabby prize all you have to do is create something using...

Maps/Newsprint or Sheet music!

So I'm looking forward to seeing some gorgeous works of art this fortnight!

Here's what I did;

The image is by Kraftin Kimmie and she's called Alicia Strawberry Pirate.  I coloured her with my promarkers (which are available at Simon Says Stamp): Skin; Sunkissed pink, Oatmeal, Blush, Pastel pink. Dress; Midnight blue, Petrol blue, Marine, Henna, Terracotta, Cinnamon, Mulberry, Fuchsia pink, Rose pink. Hair & Sword; Black, Warm grey 5,4,3. Skulls; Morning mist.  And some clear stardust pen to finish.

The papers are DCWV, "Treasure Map" from the Once Upon A Time set, a Daisy D's paper and "The Spiders Web" by MME.  I used a distressing tool around the map to get it well worn looking and used Walnut Distress ink around it to dirty it up (also available at SSS)  The sentiment is computer generated and the font is "Black Adder".

The ribbon, charms, gems and metal corner are all from my stash.  The image was cut out using a Spellbinders Wonky Rectangles die.

And the inside looks like this:

And thar's me carrd!  I hope's ye be likin it.  Arrr!

Ahem...Go and have a look at the rest of the DT's fantastic work and join in with the challenge at the Creative Card Crew.

I'd like to enter my card in the following challenges:

By The Cute & Girly; Fruity
CRAFT Challenge; Add a charm
Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge; Anything goes
Creative Inspirations; Anything goes
Daring Cardmakers; Get knotted
My Heart Pieces; Use designer paper
No Matter Which Challenge Blog; Anything goes
Southern Girls Challenge Blog; Water Play
The Squirrel & The Fox; The sea
Whoopsie Daisy; Anything goes

Thanks for looking!
 

Photo Overload Alert!

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you all brought 2012 in with a bang!

On the MAC forum we had a Christmas card swap so I had 8 cards to make.  These are my last Christmas cards as I just didn't have time to make any more.
I decided to do the cards the same, but different!  I thought that stamping and colouring would take too long so I decided to do somthing similar that I did on a card last year and cut 3 different sized circles 8 times and build snowmen out of them!  It still took bliming ages!

I used 2 different snowflake embossing folders on the circles and then coated the middle sized circle with glossy accents and a sprinkling of glamour dust so as you could still see the embossing under the glossy accents.  I cut eight squares and small rectangles (longer than the squares) out of black card, coated them in glossy accents and black glitter.  Once all was dry I assembled into snowmen and added the glitter hat, two black swarovski's for eyes and a carrot nose made out of orange card.  I coloured 8 toothpicks with my burnt sienna promarker and stuck to the back of the snowman with glue and covered it with another die-cut circle to both hide the toothpick and for stability.

I cut 8 doo-hickey fences and attched them with short lengths of card to the front panel of the easel card to hold the front up.  When the card is closed the fence lies flat.

The sentiment is from Waltzing Mouse stamps and cut out with a spellbinders fancy tag.  The snow flurry behind the snowman is a memory box die.

Everything is distressed with various distress inks and my clear stardust pen and glamour dust have been extensively used too.  The papers are from Crate Paper's Snowy Day Collection, Prima's North Country Collection, DCWV's Rose Tinted Christmas multi stack and Kaiser Craft's Christmas Carnival Collection.

I'd like to enter these in the following challenges:

Craft Your Days Away; Snowmen
Crafts And Me Challenges; Anything goes
Creative Card Crew; Snow Day
Diva's By Design; Merry Christmas
Dream Valley Challenges; Christmas
I Love Promarkers; Anything goes - I admit that my use of promarkers here was very limited so if you think I haven't used enough then please remove me from the draw. x
My Mum's Craft Shop; Anything goes
One Stop Craft Challenge; Winter Wishes
Paperplay Challenges; Christmas
Papertake Weekly; Anything goes
The Poodles Parlour; Song Titles - "Let it Snow" or "The Snowman"
Saturday Challenge; Anything goes
Simon Says; Anything goes
The Pink Elephant; Anything goes
Top Tip Tuesday; Anything goes
ABC Christmas Challenge; Z is for zingy colours
Christmas Cards All Year Round; Non traditional colours

Phew, that's quite a list!
Thanks for stopping by!
 

I’ve Been Black-Listed!!!

A colleague of my sister asked for a card for her sons 18^th birthday and she asked for it to be sexy. So I immediately thought of a Kenny K image and sent her a link to his site to have a look and see if the image would suit (it is from his mother!!). Well the IT department at her work obviously thought it was a little too raunchy and black-listed me from sending any more emails!!!

Here the card with the offending image

As I said the image is Bodacious Bev from Kenny K Designs and I’ve coloured her with my copics. I cut her out with a nestie using the out-of-the-box technique.

The papers are DCWV from the All Dressed Up stack. I cut the card base using a mega nestie in my grand calibur. I coloured a chip-board 18 black and then glittered it with black glitter. The sentiment is computer generated.

The inside with some matching DCWV paper and a Wild Rose Studio sentiment.

I’m sure you’ll be pleased to hear that my good reputation has been restored and my email address removed from the black-list!

This card fits the following challenges;

A Spoon Full of Sugar: Anything goes

Crafty Catz: Anything goes

Creative Belli Blog: The letter S – for Sexy! My old stash is the paper which I’ve had for ages!

Paper Play Challenges: Sparkle galore

Simon Says: Sparkle & shine

Sketchy Colours: Blue, green & black

Totally Paper Crafts: Don’t be square

Trully Scrumptious: Anything goes

Thanks for looking!

Hold On Tight!

I was asked to make a card for a 6 year old girl – that has to be the easiest age group and gender to make a card for, so it didn’t take long to come up with this

Which is an easel card

I used this fabby image from Mo’s Digital Pencil which I coloured with copics and I gave her some shiny shoes and accessories with a clear stardust pen.

The papers are DCWV Nana’s kids. I glittered a chipboard 6 with some soft pink glitter and attached it with foam pads to lift it out a bit. I used a sizzix die to cut the lettering for the name, which I also used the stardust pen on. The circles were cut with nesties.

On the inside, I used the piece of dp that I cut the circle out of for the front to make a panel, and then made a flower out of some Stampin’ Up! ribbon. I used a cute wee button from Crafty Ribbons. I attached a tag with some purple wire. The Happy Birthday is a Wild Rose Studio sentiment stamp.

This card fits the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge Blog; U for Up in the air

Totally Papercrafts Challenge; Cute and cuddly

Mo’s Digital Challenge; Buttons and Bows

Thanks for dropping by!

A Bit of an Alteration

I bought a box ages ago and decided I would decorate it and give it to my mum for Christmas. As with all these kinds of things, it was very difficult to get decent pictures of it, but here's the best I could do...

The papers I used are DCWV from the Mariposa stack and I attached some Tim Holtz metal feet. I painted the lid with distress crackle paint in antiqued bronze and went over it with a dark distress ink (can't remember which one) and perfect pearls. I stuck an array of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts over the lid along with some spellbinders die cut butterflies, made using grunge paper and painted with the same crackle paint as the lid.

I stuck some Swarovski crystals down the body of the butterfly for a bit of bling. I used another spellbinder die to cut the tag and stamped "with love" using stazon.

I found candles that fitted perfectly into the box so I decorated them with butterflies to fit the theme.

And protected them with organza tied with ribbon

I was quite pleased as it's the first thing I've properly tried to alter. My mum loved the present but thought I bought it somewhere!

I hope you liked it, thanks for looking!