Penny Black Green Card

Green isn't a colour that I would normally use, but I made this simple card for a friends Birthday and also for the Arty Girlz Challenge #22 The challenge this week was to use green on your card. I used some dark green cardstock and then added yellow paper which I punched down the side using a border punch and then on top of that I put Anna Griffin scrapbook paper, again which I punched down the side. I then used one of my Penny Black stamps and stamped onto a piece of white cardstock and watercoloured using pencils. I then matted and layered the image and also did another set of matting and layering and used a Happy Birthday peel off. I will have to get some green ribbon and attach it on the left hand side

Mothers Day Star Card

I made this star card for my Mother in Law for Mother's Day. I used mainly K & Co papers and some rub ons, peel offs and other bits of embellishments. I have also entered it in the Papertake weekly challenge as the theme is "Spring has Sprung". Hope you like it.
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Some Domino's

I also managed to alter some domino's today. I used alcohol inks on the domino's, cranberry, plumb and latte. I then used adirondack black ink and stamped onto the domino's with some Cats Life Press stamps.

Sunday Stampers Challenge week 4

The theme for this weeks challenge was birds, so we had to use inky techniques and it had to have a bird on it somewhere- I decided to make a tag.
On the front of the tag I used an Adirondack ink pad (wild flower) and a brayer to make the background and then I spritzed it with a little water. I used 3 Cats Life Press stamps and stamped 2 of them directly onto the tag using jet black stazon and the third one, the bird I stamped onto some DCWV paper in black stazon.
For the back of the tag, again I used the wild flower ink pad and the brayer - the colours were alot darker this time as I didn't add water to it. Again I used a Cats Life Press stamp and stamped in jet black stazon onto a piece of DCWV paper. I then used a large tree stamp and a small owl stamp (both Anna Griffin) and stamped them in versamark ink and put gold embossing powder over them. To finish off the tag, I outlined it with gold krylon pen and added some fibres.

Some tags I have made

These are 3 tags which I have made for Hels Angels Tag Swap. The theme for this month is Paper Artsy - so we had to use Paper Artsy stamps. These are the first tags I've ever made! I hope that they are okay for the swap.

Initially I cut some cream cardstock into to 6" x 3" rectangles then cut off the corners to make the tag shape.
To get the effect for the background I rubbed distress inks onto a craft mat and spritzed them with water before dropping my tag into the inks.
I took some DCWV paper and stamped in black ink, though on one I also stamped in white acrylic paint, before using some glossy accents to highlight parts of the stamped images.
I attached a large butterfly which I had cut on my Robo and inked using Alcohol inks.
Using some gold thread I attached a small butterfly charm.
As a finishing touch I added some fibres, and outlined the tags with a gold krylon pen.

I hope you like them - any comments, good or bad, most welcome

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My Paper World Sketch #4

This card I made for the Challenge on My Paper World. I used cream cardstock, some blue papers and yellow card for matting and layering. I used a Crafty Individuals stamp and stamped it on glossy card, in versamark ink and added clear embossing powder. I then used some cut n dry foam and some distress ink to colour the image. I then simply added a couple of layered flowers and attached them with a brad.

Frame Card

This is a slider style card - the little blue ribbon tabs on the side of the frame pull out to reveal a message (Happy Birthday). I used white hammered card and made a square frame from some thick card and covered it with scrapbook paper. I stamped the little flowers and added some blue ribbon and a little dragonfly charm. I made this card for the Arty Girlz Challenge - the challenge was to use a frame on your project

Fat Book Pages

It has been another nice day here today, sunny and fairly warm for this time of year. I have made 12 Fat Book Pages today for the Craft Swap Forum swaps (Winter and also Flowers). I made 3 different designs, but made 4 of each.

The first two are Winter ones and I used Joanna Sheen's Victorian Christmas CD for the images. The angel one, I just added some Glamour Dust on the fairy's wings, the little star and I wrote the word winter with glue and glittered that also - I then outlined the image with Silver krylon pen and added it to the page and finished it off by adding some white fibres down the sides. The orange fbp I just put some glamour dust around the oval.

The last ones I made are decoupaged pink roses which I downloaded off one of the free sites a while ago. They have 5 layers to them, but it doesn't show too well in the photo - I just added them onto the cardstock which was covered with a matching backing paper and added some pink fibres.

Sunday Stampers Week 3 and Arty Girlz Challenge #21

Well I haven't done much crafting at all this past week I think I must have misplaced my mojo. On a good point, I found out very late that it was someone's Birthday on Sunday so I needed to make a card. I didn't have a clue what to make - anyway, Hels set the new Sunday Stampers Challenge so I combined ideas and came up with this. The rules for this weeks challenge was that you had to stamp and also decoupage part of the stamped image. This card also meets the criteria for the Arty Girlz Challenge 21 which is "stamping"

I used a Crafty Individuals stamp and stamped it on cream cardstock and I then stamped a Paper Artsy stamp twice and decoupaged the butterfly. I stamped Happy Birthday and matted and layered using cream and dark blue card and then to finish it off I added some ribbon down the side. Hope you like what I made - I thought it was a very busy card when I'd finished it, but I do like it, hope you do to.

Happy Friday

Hi, I thought I had best make a post as I have neglected my blog this week. I've not done any crafting the past few days, but have lots of things I need to get done. Hopefully I will be able to post some new projects tomorrow.

Have a good weekend all :-)

Some Goodies Arrived Today

I'm a happy bunny today as some of my new stash arrived :-) Just need to find some time to play. I got some very large Heiddi Swapp flowers - they measure about 5", 8 gorgeous distress ink pads, a free packet of rub ons and 14 Cats Life Press stamps - I bought 12, but they sent me two extra free:-).

Pinkle's Challege Week 2

This is the card I made for the Sunday Stampers Challenge set by Pinkle. This weeks challenge was "make a card, tag, ATC or even alter something but keep the colours black & white or cream & white". The actual card layout is one which was in March Craft Stamper Magazine and as I really liked it, I thought I'd give it a go. I used white cardstock and stamped the front of the card randomly with an Anna Griffin stamp in black ink. I then cut two strips of black card and two strips of white card to put on the inside of the front of the card and I again stamped them using the same AG stamp. I then cut a piece of black paper to make an insert for the card and I stamped a Dovecraft flower/swirl stamp randomly in versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder. Finally I added two white eyelets to the front of the card and threaded some black fibres so the card could be closed. Hope you like this as much as I do :-)

Valentine Card

It is a nice bright day here today - no snow as yet, but it is very cold outside.

I was inspired to make this card as a challenge on Daring Cardmakers The card had to have red and white on it, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to make Hubby's valentine card :-) I used Carol Ann's Romance & Roses cd to print off the backing paper and also the hearts and the sentiment I printed from my pc. I matted and layered onto red and white cardstock and decoupaged the main hearts then added a couple of red heart gems on the sentiment.

This card also qualifies for the challenge on Scrummy Stash Cafe, which was to make a valentine card.

Di Hickman Challenge

Happy Thursday to all :-)

This card I made for the Di Hickman Card Sketch Jan #5. Another first for me as it is the first time of joining in with the challenge.

I used Pink Petticoat Blooming Doodles paper (putty & black). I put some silver & black rose ribbon down the right hand side of the card which I matted and layered onto silver, putty and black cardstock. I put a strip of black card, mounted onto silver card running along the lower card and added two little silver heart peel offs and a black ribbon bow.

I'm not sure if I like the end result as it is quite a "busy" card - not my usual style at all - but it is growing on me LOL

Foil Card with Ribbon

This card I made for Daring Cardmakers challenge - the first time I've joined in. The dare this week was to use kitchen aluminium foil some where on your card.

This card also meets the criteria for the Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge which is to use ribbons.

I covered a piece of card with kitchen foil and embossed it with a cuttlebug embossing folder. I added this to a black card and then stamped a DMD butterfly stamp in black ink onto white card and matted and layered it onto black and silver card. I then added a black ribbon and a buckle cut on my Wizard.

Pinkle's Challenge & Papertake Weekly Challenge

I've not done any crafting for a few days as I've been busy with one thing and another.

Anyway, here are two things I've made for The Sunday Stampers Challenge set by Pinkle http://pinkleart.blogspot.com/ The challenge was to use inky stampy techniques to make a card, ATC or a tag and this weeks theme was love.

Also the theme on Papertake Weekly Challenge was to make somethihng with a heart on it, so these were perfect.

The first thing I made is a card - I used red cardstock and the actual card design/fold was taken from January's Craft Stamper Magazine. I used a versamark ink pad, and stamped the free stamp which came with the magazine, randomly on the left front of the card and then embossed it using gold embossing powder. I put gold mirror card behind the front fold (hope that makes sense). Then I stamped an Anna Griffin heart stamp on a piece of red card again using the versamark ink pad and again embossed it with gold embossing powder. I then matted and layered it onto gold mirror card. The word "Love" I then stamped and embossed and matted onto red and gold card.

Next I made an ATC - I used some alcohol inks to make the background and then I stamped the heart in black ink and coloured it using a distress ink pad. I cut it out and edged it with a Krylon gold leafing pen. Again I used the free stamp and stamped "Love" on the bottom of the ATC and I added a lilac heart gem over the letter "o". Finally I used foam pads to mount the heart onto the ATC and edged it with the Krylon gold leafing pen.

Having a tidy up

Today I have been sorting all my crafting things out. I had a phase where I decided I wanted to do Parchment Craft so I bought all the tools and inks etc. but never really got into it. Anyways, I've sorted them all out and I'm going to sell them so I can get some money to buy some new crafting goodies :-)

No rain today

Well I've not managed any crafting yet today, I might get chance once my little monsters are in bed :-) I did get a few crafy things in the post today. Another 6 Alcohol inks for me to play with!
It's been a much nicer day here today, than of late as we haven't had any rain yet ...

Fat Book Pages

These are some FBP's I made today for the Flower swap on Craft Swap Forum. I used Pink Peticoat papers on three and the other one I used a cuttlebug embossing folder. The stamp I used is from DMD, I stamped it in lilac and then put Holographic embossing powder on. I just added a little bow and a few square lilac gems. The papers are all lilac and white, but look a little grey in the photo's.

Monday

Well it is raining here again and has rained all night :-( I really can't wait for the better weather to arrive - roll on Spring.

I've been up early this morning crafting. I've been making some Fat Book Pages, but had a bit of a disaster as my big tube of UHU glue decided to get a hole in it and it leaked all over the place :-(