Rocking on New Year's Eve!

A rocking card for a new baby. When I saw the gingham seat in the Tuesday Trigger Photo, I had my colour scheme, even if my burgundy is a little redder. I've kept this card very simple with just four colours, some stickles, glossy accents and iridescent stars.

Challenges:
I ♥ Promarkers Challenge #148: Anything but Square
Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: Sweet Dreams
Simon Says Stamps Challenge: Anything Goes

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABCs, Pa-Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: White card from stash, Dovecraft Back To Basics II

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Stickles, iridescent stars

Colouring: Promarkers, Flexmarkers

 

Wishing you all the best for 2013!

Make A Wish

Playing with my new Critters Ever After by Lawn Fawn I got my dragon to blow out my blazing number 4 candle. I also had a go at faking washi tape & used lots of glitter glue!

I missed playing along with the Papertake Weekly Challenge at the begining of October, so am taking my chance to redo the All Creatures Great & Small Challenge using my fierce dragon.

Challenges:
Passion For Promarker Mega Christmas Challenge: "include the word happy in your sentiment"
Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes
Paper Play Challenges '12-Wk 51 & 52: Out with the Old, In with the New! [New Stamps]
Papertake Weekly Challenge: Pick of the Year - All Creatures Great & Small

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After, Quinn's ABCs, 123s, Pa-Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum, Chevron Backdrops, Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Stormy Sky

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Stickles, gold gel pen, iridescent stars, glimmer mist

Colouring: Promakers, Flexmarkers 

Peacock Feathers Easel Card

edited to add: My photo stopped being displayed properly, I've changed it's size so fingers crossed all is well now!

Easel cards are perfect for a special occasion. They are great fun to make & not anything like a traditional shop bought card. Not everyone is fond of Peacock feathers, but I love them. Their colours are rich & gorgeous and the shapes are fascinating. These are shop bought so nothing as vivid as the ones you can collect when peacocks moult.  When I first saw the Perfectly Paisley Cuttlebug embossing folder I thought of peacock's feathers, so had to use it on this card. I've coloured the ribbon with a Turquoise Promarker to match the feathers, the beautiful Bo Bunny Vintage Double Dot cardstock and one of my favourite Distress Inks, Peacock Feathers. How could I not use it! A bit of swirly bling & space to add the special date in. Hey Presto a wedding card (well the next one will be quicker, this one had a lot of will I put it there, no there, no there).

Challenges:

The Cuttlebug Spot: A Feathery Challenge
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #130: Easel Card
Allsorts Week 182: Bring on the Bling

Engagement

I wanted a go at negative space & pink space, so I die cut a heart from the white textured card front & coloured it pink with Worn Lipstick Distress ink. A second heart was embossed with flowers & vines, coloured with distress ink, the flowers were highlighted with Star Dust Stickles and the whole heart was covered in Glossy Accents.  I love how the Stickles picks up the colour of the distress ink underneath it. More Stickles were added to the large heart & the banner sentiment. The base card was coloured pink & stamped with roses & vines. 

Dust 'Em Off: This is my first time using the Disney stamps & Jak Heath Paper. I've had them in my stash for ages. I very rarely use the Congratulations stamp, but I do love all the curls- perfect for glitter!

Top Tip:

If you don't have the space or cash for all the colours of glitter glues, just buy an iridescent glitter glue. It will pick up the distress ink or Promarker/Sharpie colour underneath. The Stickles looked really pink after applied to the wet (or almost dry) distress ink and the sharpies changed my iridescent glue rainbow colours.

Challenges:

In the Pink Challenge #7: Keep it CAS- Lots of Pink Space
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #89: We're All Heart (TIP)
Lawnscaping Challenge: Dust 'em off

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Jessie's ABCs, Papermania Clear Stamps Sentiments, EK Success Disney Princess

Dies & Punches etc: Xcut Nesting Heart Dies, Docrafts Embossing Folder Pampered Pets (Vine)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Ink Worn Lipstick, Peeled Paint

Paper: White card from stash, Jak Heath Pretty Peony 3 Background Sheets (Freebie)

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Stickles

Hope you enjoyed your visit.

A Small Big Thanks

This was a quick CAS card with lots of sparkles. I love that you can colour (& glitter!) this sentiment from Paper Smooches Chit Chat . I used a fuchia pink Promarker to colour the sentiment & the punched heart. Finished the thanks with glitter & the heart using white gel pen faux stitching & glossy accents for shine.

Top Tip:
Use a toothpick to spread the glitter glue in the narrow spaces of the sentiment letters.

Challenges:
Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge: Trend Watch Typography

I ♥ Promarkers  Challenge #142: Pretty in Pink

Sentimental Sunday Challenge #128: Thanks/Thanksgiving 
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge #89: We're All Heart (TIP)

Caoimhe

On this card I decided to let the letters do the talking. I fussy cut Quinn's ABCs & 123s, leaving the centres of the letters in to show off more of the patterned paper & paper pieced the teddy & rocking horse. I love all the fonts on the happy birthday embossing folder, but haven't used it in a while so I dusted it off! I've had the twine for ages. It came wrapped around my prize from Lawn Fawn & I thought this was the perfect card to get it out & use it. I've kept all the sentiment stamping lowercase by using the happy birthday from Paper Smooches. It's such a fun font.

Caoimhe is pronounced Kee-va or Quee-va depending on where you are from. It means beauty & grace and is associated with November.

Challenges:
Lawnscaping Challenge: Dust 'em off
Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge: Trend Watch Typography
Sentimental Sunday Challenge #127: Dimensions


Hope you enjoyed your visit & see you again soon.

Boo!

I won some Hero Arts clear stamps a while back from Simon Says Stamp & have just got round to using the haunted house in the set. I thought the paisley leaf would make a fabby ghost and the googly eyes were a must. One of my favourite background stamps is Magical Background by Hero Arts, give it a wobble when you are stamping & you too can get the extra swirls that make your eyes think they are out of focus. Totally intentional as I'm sure you know :) I liked the effect so didn't stamp it again. I misted the background with Glimmer Mist & highlighted a few areas with Stickles for a bit of glitter & shine.

This card was a thank you card for someone who loves the Halloween festivities. The sentiment was a bit of fun with the thank you on the inside. This card has a lot of dimension: googly eyes, raised embossed background, foam squares for the ghost & haunted house plus it's a thank you & a Halloween card rolled into one. Hopefully this exemplifies the Fall spirit (Halloween, thank you & an actual spirit). 

Sorry for another low light level photo, yeah for the Winter days!

Challenges:

A Blog Named Hero Challenge #15: The Ol' 1-2 Punch
Sentimental Sunday Challenge #127: Dimension
Ribbon Carousel Challenge RCC74: Fall Spirit
Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes (I didn't use the option)
The Crafty Pad Designs Challenge #195: Anything Goes at the Crafty Pad

Happy Halloween!

Low light photo of my pumpkin carving skills. Even though it's blurry, I love how the candlelight glows. The flash version had no spooky quality and was completely lacking in blurriness.

A forum friend alerted me to this lovely paper pumpkin. All my tools are metric so I just used the imperial measurements as a rough guide.

My ghosts are made using Paisley Leaves X-Cut Nesting Dies, Black ProMarker or googly eyes.

The mini pumpkins (shown back to front) are made using Swiss Dot embossed orange card & ProMarker coloured white paper cut with Oval Nesties. Stalks were cut with the Paisley Leaves.

My spiders are last years & I can't find the link.

We had great fun making our decorations & trick or treating.


Oíche Shamhna shona duit!

Bearly Mine Crafts Blog Candy

Bearly Mine Crafts have a Mega Candy on offer which will run until the 30th November.

Going Buggy Letraset ProMarker Giveaway

Going Buggy is offering the opportunity to win a complete set of Letraset ProMarkers to one of her followers. A winner will be drawn on 18th November & announced on the 19th.

Punches, Dies & Texture

This card contains so many of my go to items. My Martha Stewart Butterfly punch is always at hand, I use it so much I can justify buying more, can't I?! Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABCs is such a fun set, it can be used in so many ways & as soon as Quinn's 123s became available they were mine! A white gel pen was one of my first crafty purchases & it's still going strong over a year later.  From this you can tell I don't craft as much as I'd like, but I have a second pen ready to takeover from the first. Glossy accents provides my favourite textured finish & Cuttlebug's D'vine Swirls embossing folder is so versatile I've not tired of it yet. Spellbinders Posy Patch Dies & the matching Heartfelt creations stamps work so well together and last but not least my corner rounder punch. 

Oops how did I forget it, glitter glue- everything looks good when it sparkles.

 

Challenges:
Lawnscaping Challenge #43: Texture
Stampalot October Challenge: Punch Away
Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog: Use Dies and/or Punches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Jessie's ABCs, Quinn's ABCs, Heartfelt Creations Posy Patch

Dies & Punches etc: Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly, Spellbinders Posy Patch, Corner punch, Xcut Circle Cutter, Cuttlebug EF D'vine Swirls

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Papermania Blue

Paper: White & blue card from stash

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Stickles, Glitter glue, white gel pen, blue gems & seed beads

Colouring: Sharpie blue pen

Hope you enjoyed your visit.

Menswear

I don't use a lot of orange but when I saw the Runway Inspired Challenge photo the colours clicked into place. This is their first menswear collection perfect for a male card. I loved the solid blocks of colour on the top, mirrored by the solid stars & blocks of chevrons on my card. I've used the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch for this card and I really like the cluster of stars. Initially I could only visualise this as flowers (not exactly what I wanted for a male card) then I saw the star burst. The colours have a real Autumnal feel so I reached for my tiny trees & stamped first on scrap paper & then on my card for a softer look. I used black ink, stamped on the orange distress ink background which took on a slightly green hue.

 I went a little over board with the foam squares, but still managed to fit it into a regular envelope. A great find for me was how close shaded lilac distress ink is to ProMarker Blue Pearl and I'm still in love with chevrons, a hot trend that Young Crafters Unite is looking for.

Challenges:
Runway Inspired Challenge RIC#9: Iceberg Spring 2013 Menswear
Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #114
Young Crafters Unite Challenge #13: Hot Trends

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroes, Teeny Trees, Lawn Fawn Chevron Backdrops

Dies: Spelbinders Nestabilities Stars, Ovals
Paper:  White from stash
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Paris Dusk, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Spiced Marmalade, Shaded Lilac

Embellishments: Glossy Accents, White & silver gel pens, stickles, Papermania clear stars
Promarkers & Flexmarkers:

Thank you for dropping by, hope you enjoy your visit.

Birthday Bag

This is my first shaped card, a prototype! I created the template with a tent card as the starting point and an image of small rigid satin bags with dainty handles in my head. As you can see I need to work on the dainty handles. The bag had to be pink, just perfect for Jane. The gems sparkle & the edges appear less rough in person, but I think a slightly thinner card would work better next time.

Challenges:
Catered Crop: In the Pink Recipe Swap
In the Pink Challenge #3: Pink & Anything but Square
ABC Challenges: W for Wishes


Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABCs, Paper Smmoches Sentiment Sampler, Waltzingmouse Stamps Teeny Trees

Paper:  Pink card & acetate from stash
Ink: Tsukineko Versamark
Embellishments: White embossing powder, stickles, pink gems, eyelets, white ribbon, charm from stash

  

Hope you enjoyed your visit & see you again soon.