OMG I cant believe its been so long

Wow, the last year has gone so quick, I can't believe I haven't posted anything since February! 

I am entering the Indigo Blu challenge over at http://indigoblublogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
The challenge theme is to use your favourite indigo blu stamp of the year.

I can hand on heart say that my favourite indigo blu stamp this year has been sleeping George.  I think he is so cute and versatile.  I have come up with an 8X8 card which I have created a background using the square peg round hole stamp and a large anemone corner stamp.  I used a mixture of brown distress ink (sorry I can't remember the shade) and a gold inkpad.  Sleeping George is stamped and coloured using flesh colour alcohol markers and then die cut using a spellbinder gold die.  I did make a mistake on the card and had to put a butterfly on the front to disguise a splodge of ink.

I'm sorry the image is the wrong way around - I have been trying to rotate it for half an hour and am about to throw my new laptop through the window so I will try to pop back on tomorrow night to turn it around!

Yay, I've managed a multiple challenge!

Ive been having a ply with my silhouette cameo today and have made my hubs valentines card and a little pressie for him (a box full of chocolate hearts).

First of all the card:

I have created a fancy shaped card using silhouette and matted and layered in the same shape and created a strip going across it along with a fancy shape with the image on.  The image is a mo manning one called stole my heart which I think is perfect for a male card as its not too gushy.  I then coloured him in with my promarkers.  I have also stamped the blue layer of card with a twinkle inkpad which leaves a pearlescent watermark, the stamp I used was a free stamp that I had with a craft Stamper magazine (last year I think).

I have also matted and layered the same colours on the inside (sorry no pictures) and put a nice little verse that I printed out.

For the box I have used a silhouette design which is a scallop box, I have cut it in the colour to match the card however the white part on the box is a centura pearlescent card from cupcake crafting.

I have then used my cameo again to cut the LOVE phrase from the matching pearlescent card, this cutting file was from birds designs (highly recommend this site to everyone that has a cutting machine, her designs are all fantastic).

I also stamped the sides of the lid with the pearlescent inkpad again with a small heart.

 

 

 

I am entering these projects in the following challenges:

Panpastels challenge - love and romance
DP2 challenge - anything goes
freshly made sketches

Well thanks for looking, I'm off to work out what we're going to have for dinner as I have neglected it while crafting! :)

Baby Humphrey

Well I'm here again, this week I've had my specrum noirs and promarkers out again.

I have made this card for my box of cards, no intended recipient yet.

I have stamped the Humphrey (from Crafters companion) and coloured him using my pens.

I cut the frame on my silhouette using a free download and then created my background using stamps and distress ink.

Well thats the card made, I just need someone to have a baby now.

I'm entering this card in the Pan pastel challenge - animal

Thanks for looking.

Quickie card

I have decided that I have been hoarding too much stuff like toppers and papers that I have bought but then don't want to use them for anyone because their too nice.   For some reason I find myself being quite frugal with consumables such as kanban or hunkydory so I over the last couple of weeks I have made a concerted effort to use some toppers that were too nice to use and have been happy to realise that they make really quick cards (low and behold!)

Here is a card I made for our great nephew using a topper which I mounted onto a cirlce of mirri card which i had put through my cuttlebug using a mask and coordinating backing paper.

I am entering this card in the panpastel challenge to have another go at winning some of the lovely pastels before my hubs buys me some for my birthday.  The theme this week is seeing stars and as you can see the backing paper has stars.

Last week I had some great advice on which colours to go for as a priority so I am nearly ready to order.

Looking at other people's challenge entries I find myself surprised at just how many challenges people can make one card work on, for me its a struggle to get myself organised for one let alone 10 with one card, maybe that's going to be my next non-new-years resolution. :)

Thanks for looking.

I've been having a play

I have decided I 'need' pan pastels, I have bought a couple of good quality artist pastels to have a play with and have decided I really do need pan pastels. 

My birthday is coming up so hopefully I'll be able to have a few for that but I just can't decide which colours to have.  I've heard recommendations from people that black and white are both good colours to get because their so useful but i am so torn because they just dont appeal to me :(

This is a card I have made using indigoblu stamps and my artist pastels (all 2 of them) which I applied  using cut and dry foam.

If anyone has got any advice on which pan pastels I need first and also any advice on whether I should buy the applicators or use that money for more colours I'd be glad to hear from anyone.

I am entering this into the pan pastels panpastels challenge , it is challenge number 3 and has a theme of nature (fingers crossed I get lucky and get to start my collection off), wish me luck :)

Hubbies christmas card from playing with my new cameo

Just before Christmas my hubs bought me a cameo so of course I had to play with it lots for my christmas cards, the only problem was that I spent that long playing my cards seemed to take forever :)

When I made my hubs card I used a mo manning image, my spectrum noirs and promarkers and some pearlescent card and mirror card from cupcake crafting.

The picture isnt really doing the card credit as the colours are lovely but it hasnt pictured particularly well (as I cant have the flash on due to the mirror card and its pretty dark and gloomy here).

I am entering this in Mo Manning's current blog challenge for her favourite card challenge over at Digital pencil too.

Thanks for looking.

Don't be square challenge

Hiya, well I'm back again for another challenge (yes I know it's been a long time but Ive got no excuse).

This is a card I've done for my great niece using my new silhouette cameo and a lovely Mo image.  I cut my two shapes for the card base and made a perforated line for my fold and glued together and then created a circle and welded the letters to it and cut from glitter card.  It's my first time doing it and with hindsight I would have had the letters overlapping the circle a bit more but I'm just being picky.

I printed the image and then traced and offset it to give me a small border and let the machine do the work.  All I had to do was colour and glue and then struggle tying a bow (which probably took longer than the cutting).

I'm entering this into the don't be square  challenge over at Mo's Digital pencil Too.

I hope you like it, bye for now

A blog challenge over on D'Arcys diaries

I recently saw a challenge over on D'Arcys diaries, it is challenge number 10 and is a monochrome challenge.

I have used an image that came on the cd that was free with this month's issue of Creative Cardmaking, I'm really impressed with the cd as there are loads of fab elements and images on it, it is well worth the cost of the magazine.  If you want to spend time embellishing and 'giving it large' there is loads to use or you can make a simple quick card if needed as there are also coloured images on there.

To make this card I have printed the image onto white card and coloured using promarkers and spectrum noirs and then distressed around the edges to take the 'whiteness' away.

I have used a pearlescent brown card as the base and also to cut a frame using a c'art die and my trusty cuttlebug.  I then used a piece of white paper stamped with some circle stamps using a pearlescent chocolate inkpad and coloured the entire sheet using distress ink, I then sprayed it with a gold mica spray to give it a bit of interest and then used a brown fineliner for faux stitching around the edge.  I used glitter gems of a variety of sizes  to fill in circles on the stamped backgrounds.

I hope you like it.

Thanks for looking, any comments are much appreciated. :)

Inspiration from Papercrafting Journey

This is a card I came up with for the http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/ blog challenge.

It was using a picturefor inspiration and this is what I came up with.

I think they are woodware stamps and I coloured them using promarkers and spectrum noirs. 

Thanks for looking.

Mom's birthday card

It's my mom's birthday  next week and she's told me about a website she had found called D'arcy's Diaries and said how much she loved their images.  So I thought I'd have a look  for some inspiration for her birthday.  THE STAMPS ARE SOOOOO GORGEOUS!

I've used one of their images on her birthday card and plan to also decorate a gift bag for her pressie.

I have decided to enter the card into some challenges, the only glitch is that I have had to tell her not to look at my blog or at any challenge entries, luckily shes being a good sport :)

The papers are some that I had free with a magazine at some point - they are hot off teh press papers and are called 'soft nostalgia'.

The flowers are made using a memory box die and the centre is using a 'cherish' stamp that I bought in a small set (I think they were from Hobbycraft).  The image is colourd using promarkers and spectrum noirs.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

D'Arcy's diaries - flower power (3 or more flowers)
Freshly made sketches
Cutie pie challenge - favourite cute stamp

Try Something New and Anything goes Challenges

This is my big sister's birthday card.  It was her birthday on Monday so it's safe to post pictures of it now.

I used a digital candyfloss image from Mo's Digital Pencil that I hadn't used before and coloured the image using using my new spectrum noir alchol pens from Crafters Companion and my some of my old trusty promarkers.  Its the first time Ive used my spectrum noirs and I've goto admit I'm really impressed with them, I've found them much easier to blend than my promarkers.  I think I can feel a need for some more colours :)

The papers I've used are from a fizzy moon paper set and I used the same papers to make the flowers to make the easel stand up.  The border in the middle is using one of my Mariane dies.  Pat said she liked it and hopefully you will agree with her.

I'm entring this into the DP2 Challenge for Try Someting New and also Paper crafting Journey's anything goes challenge.

Happy birthday Lisa

It's my niece's 22nd birthday on Tuesday so I thought I'd double up making her birthday card with a couple of challenges.  I have created an aperture card using my cuttlebug and stamped some flowers and a message on the inside.  The border is created using a docrafts border punch and adding some ribbon and gems.  I also die cut a mariane die in both black and white to give it 2 layers and used black stickles glue to highlight the body and the centres of the flowers on the inside.

I am entering this card into the cas-ualfridays challenge which is black and white (clean and simple) and also in the mymumscraftshopchallenges which is for favourite colour combos.

Thanks for looking.

Anniversary card for Hubs

It was my Hubs and I's anniversary of meeting earlier this month - 17 years.  I can't believe it!

To celebrate this I made him this card using a free stamp from this month's CraftStamper magazine.  I had been watching Sheena Douglas just before and decided to take inspiration from her use of h20s.  I made the background using my h20s and watercolouring them and used distress inks to shade around the edges and then used te lighter distess ink and a folourish stamp togive some background ineret.  I then triple embossed the heart in purple (unfortunaely I lost some of the definiton when I watercoloured, but I restamped using distress ink to give put the definition back in).  To finish it off I stamped my sentiment onto velum and wrapped it around the card and added some gems.  i then matted it all onto some white card that i had coloured the edges of using a matching promarker.

He loved it  

I thought I'd enter this in the WOW embossing powder January challenge which is based on love and also on simplycreatetoo challenge which has a theme of love is all around.

Thanks for looking x

Freshly made sketches challenge entry

Its been a quiet day today, lots of chilling and no cardmaking but here is a card I made on Friday night.  It is for my husband's nephew who's passion is rugby.  Its quite a simple card using a papermania stamp and some papers from my stash. 

I'm entering it in the sketch challenge over at Freshly made sketches

Thanks for popping over to have a look :)

"Make your own flowers" and "Think Pink" challenge card

This is a card I created using a BCE template and some Pergamano stamps, coloured with promarkers.  All the flowers were quilled, all the time I was sticking these on I was counting the amount of time it had taken to make the flowers, I reckon there are about 2 hours of quilling alone on this card.  (what can I say, I'm a slow quiller).  Im entering this on the http://disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.com/ challenge which is for make your own flowers and also in http://sassycherylschallenge.blogspot.com/ challenge which is for thinking pink.

Art deco 50th card

Here's a card I made a little while ago for a friend's 50th birthday.  I used Debbi Moore artdeco paris cd and mariane dies for the flowers.