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Sunday 30 December 2012

CD Sunday - Think Of A Number

This week the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog is Think Of A Number, and my number is 2013. I was half way through making my 2013 Calender when I saw what the challenge was, so it was the ideal thing to enter this week. For the calender months I've used Denis Lewin's Four Seasons CD, picking 3 images to use from each of the seasons. Then for the cover I've used Craft Artist 2 and a background from one of the sets which I then covered with fireworks, next I placed one of each of the pictures I've used for the calendar on to the front and used one of the distressed edges on the pictures to make the pictures softer. I apologise for the poor quality of the photo, but the natural lighting is terrible today.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and all of your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Saturday 29 December 2012

CD Sunday - All About Birthdays

I didn't think that I would get this made in time, but I think I've caught it, just. Over at the CD Sunday blog this week it's All About Birthdays, and just after New Year it's my nephews, wife's 40th, so this card is for her. I've used Joanna Sheen's Josephine Wall Project Book for this one, starting with an 8x8 white card base. the decoupage is mounted onto gold mirri card and put together using glue gel. The matching backing paper is also mounted onto gold mirri card, and I've made a ribbon rosette with some lime green ribbon (it looks paler in the photo) and placed across the middle. The die cut corner is a Marianne die, and the 40 today was cut using the Plantin cartridge and the Cricut. I decided not to add the Happy Birthday to the outside and have left it for the insert.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Monday 24 December 2012

Seasons Greetings

Just time to post one last Christmas card, and this one is to wish all of you out there in blogland a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope that those of you in the UK keep warm and dry over over the festive period and are not effected by the floods, and to anyone outside of the UK I hope that you are not suffering the adverse weather conditions that we seem to be getting here at the moment.




Thank you to everyone who has stopped by in the last year and taken the time to leave comments, I really appreciate it.

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2013.

Sue

Friday 21 December 2012

Santa

I think I'll just manage to enter this card into the My Time To Craft challenge this week, with not a lot of time to spare. I thought I had finished making Christmas cards, but was asked if I had time to make a Santa card for a friend for her Son. I've used Joanna Sheen's Giordano Christmas CD, which has some lovely Santa images on, including this one, which has been decoupaged. The backing paper is also from the CD, and the sentiment was made using the PC. I've used green mirri card to mount all of this onto and an 8x8 white card base. I have finished by using 2 trees cut from a Marianne die.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Wednesday 19 December 2012

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star


It's been a good two months since I last took part in the Craft A Scene challenge, but this month I've managed to make a Winter Scene to join in. I think this must be almost the last Christmas card that I've had to make, and it's for my lovely Mum. I've stamped onto glossy card, using stamps from Chocolate Baroque, the church from the Sunburst Scenes and the trees from the Terrific Treescapes, the stags both the small and the large are from Indigo Blu, and lastly I used the branch and thistle from the Little Bit Scenic Range by Sheena Douglas, available from Crafters Companion. I've used a range of blue ink pads all from Ranger, some Adirondack and some Distress to colour the scene just adding a little promarker in browns for the Stag and the Church with some green for the evergreen tree and bushes beside it. I finished the scene by adding the snow which was achieved by using a Sakura jelly roll pen in white, and added lots of stars to give the feeling of it being bright and frosty.I mounted the image onto some matt silver mirri card, the backing paper is from the Seasons Greetings CD by Artylicious, available from Chocolate Baroque, this was also mounted onto matt silver mirri card. It was all popped onto an 8x8 navy blue card base.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Tuesday 18 December 2012

CD Sunday - Teddy Bears

This Weeks challenge over at the CD Sunday blog is Teddy Bears. And this week I very nearly didn't do a Christmas card, but as I had another to make and there were some lovely images on the new Best of La Pashe CD, so I'm afraid that Christmas it is. A quick run down of the card is Topper from La Pashe, backing paper is from Bearly Mine and was a free sheet to download, sentiment is computer generated, the ribbon from my stash and die cuts from Marianne and Crealies. All of this was put together on an 8x8 card white base with gold mirri card for the matting.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Tuesday 11 December 2012

Christmas Rose

This weeks Challenge over at My Time To Craft is Non Traditional Colours, and at In The Pink it's Gonna Be A Pink Christmas, I think that this card will fit both of those challenges. The stamp is the Christmas Rose Script set from Chocolate Baroque, stamped out three times with Memento black onyx, and coloured using water colour pencils. I cut into two of the images so that I could decoupage them. The background was made by blending spun sugar and seedless preserves distress inks and then over stamping with the small flower from the set using the seedless preserves. The sentiment has been stamped using the seedless preserves and all of this was mounted onto some holographic silver mirri card. The wide ribbon I've used was some that I've had in my stash for a while, and is the type that has wire in it.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Monday 10 December 2012

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Back in October, when I was running around like a headless chicken, I saw a card on a blog, and knew that I wanted to make something similar. The blog in question is "Mir'acle Art Inspirations" and is owned by the very talented Miranda (do go and look at her beautiful work). There was only one problem the stamp that Miranda had used, I didn't have. Luckily for me a couple of weeks ago they were on offer at Chocolate Baroque, so I popped them in my basket straight away. I'd like to thank Miranda for the Inspiration for this card.

This card started off as an 8x8 white card base, and the backing paper was made using Sprinkys spray inks, that were sprayed onto my glass cutting mat and then the card dropped on top of the wet ink. Once dry I've stamped onto it with a holly background stamp also available from Chocolate Baroque, and using a snowflake and swirl stencil from Imagination Crafts I stippled through it with White Gesso, finally I went around the edges of the card with peeled paint distress ink. The background was then mounted onto some gold mirri card and then some green card, before sticking to the Green card I placed some red ribbon from my stash across the middle. Next I stamped out the Poinsettia 4 times, and after colouring them in with Aqua pencils, I cut out three of the layers, missing a little out each time so that I could decoupage it together. Again I used the peeled paint distress ink around the edge of the card, before sticking it onto some more gold mirri card. Finally I added a sentiment, this time one from Indigo Blu, again edged with peeled paint distress ink.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges
Ladybug Crafts - Christmas and/or Winter
Artistic Inspirations Crafts - Anything Goes

Sue

Sunday 9 December 2012

CD Sunday - Frosty Days

Today's card is another that I have been asked to make for someone, and it's just right for the challenge at CD Sunday this week, which is Frosty Days. The card started with an 8x8 card base, and Joanna Sheen's Giodano Christmas CD. I printed the backing paper (which has this lovely holly wreath already printed onto it) and mounted it onto some matt silver mirri card. Next I printed the topper from the decoupage section of the CD, and put together using glue gel. It was mounted onto first some blue mirri card and than some more of the matt silver. The sentiment is computer generated and then passed through my foiling machine. As this is for a child I have not put any embellishments onto this card.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Tuesday 4 December 2012

Huge Blog Candy From Craft Individuals

The Crafty Individuals Blog has some amazing Candy up for grabs at the moment, worth £150. Take a look a the picture below, or better still follow the link and take a look at their blog. I shall keep my fingers crossed, after all someone has to win it, don't they.



Sue

Sunday 2 December 2012

CD Sunday - Oh Christmas Tree

This week the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog is Oh Christmas Tree, and this is the last of the batch that I needed to make for MIL. This one will go to our Nephew who is a single parent, bringing up two very boisterous boys on his own, I have to say that he is doing a great job as well. I started with an 8x8 cream card base and Joanna Sheen's Thomas Kinkade project book and CD. I printed off the backing paper and mounted it onto some gold textured card that I had in the cupboard, next I printed off the decoupage, and mounted the base onto some more of the same gold card. I put the decoupage together using glue gel, adding glitter to the pieces that were going to be on the top. The sentiment was generated on the PC and the colour changed to match the card. I've finished with a small poinsettia from a Marianne die and the leaves were from a crealies die.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Monday 26 November 2012

Pan Pasel Challenge 46 - Frosty And Bright

The card that I have to share with you today, is another from MIL's batch that I'm still making. A beautiful bright frosty day, so perfect for the Pan Pastel challenge this week, which is Frosty and Bright. I've used Dennis Lewan's Gift of Christmas CD for this one, and if you look closely the Children are building a snow bear, and there are bears in the clouds looking down on this snowy scene. This is another 8x8 card and the faded matching backing paper has been mounted onto some silver mirri card. The topper is decoupaged and then lots of glitter added, and also mounted onto silver mirri card. The sentiment was made on the PC and I've colour matched the text to one of the blues in the picture. I've finished it off with another small poinsettia.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Sunday 25 November 2012

CD Sunday - Inspired By Nature

I've really enjoyed getting back into the swing of crafting again this week, and have been catching up on making Christmas cards, this one is one of a batch I'm in the middle of making for my Mother-in-law, and is to give to Father-in-law (he's virtually blind which is why the sentiment is on the large size). It fits right in with this weeks challenge over on the CD Sunday blog, which is Inspired By Nature. I started this card with an 8x8 card base and backing paper from Crafters Companion The Snowman. This is mounted onto some blue mirri card, next the image, which again is mounted onto the blue mirri card, is from The Best Of La Pashe 2012 and has been decoupaged. The sentiment was created on the PC, and flowers die cut with the small poinsettia by Marianne, and the leaves were cut using a crealies die.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue x

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Pan Pastel Challenge 45

The challenge this week at the Pan Pastel blog is Red and Green, and I made this card not realising that it would fit right in with their theme this week. A very quick and easy card to make, I used a new stamp that I bought at the NEC the other week, by Impression Obsession, it's a cover a card stamp. I used a Pine Needles distress ink pad to stamp the image, and then with a blending pad went around the card with a Bundled Sage distress ink pad, pulling a little of the colour into the middle. After mounting it onto some gold mirri card I added a bow with some ribbon from my large stash. Coloured the berries in red promarker. and added a sentiment from Joanna Sheens range of Thomas Kinkade stamps.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comment which are always appreciated.

Sue

Monday 19 November 2012

A Baby Girl

Today I have another card to share with you, one that has been ordered, and it also covers two challenges. The first is My Time To Craft who are asking that we make New Baby cards this week, and the second is In The Pink and they are asking that you use Punches or Diecuts. This card started with a 6x6 white card base, both of the backing papers that I've used are from Sue Smith, the striped paper from the Stripe and Co CD and the gingham is from the Gingham and Co CD. Once these were cut to size I ran a deeper pink promarker around the edge of the page. The ribbon is from my stash, the teddy die is a small sizzix die, and it's a girl was cut out using the Cricut. This beautiful digi image is from Sugar Nellie, and the Adorables range, and was coloured with promarkers. I then cut the image out using a spellbinders die, and before removing from the die I brushed a little pink ink around the edges.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Sunday 18 November 2012

CD Sunday - Layer It Up

It seems so long since I last had anything to post on here, but I'm glad to say that things are at long last beginning to get back to normal. Last week I was asked if I would be able to make a 40th Birthday card, I finished it this morning and have just noticed that it fits right in with the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog this week, which is Layer it up. For this card I've used Debbi Moore's Art Deco Rome CD. The backing paper is a collage of maps, letters and pictures all to do with Rome, matted onto some gold mirri card. The topper is from the decoupage section, put together with silicone gel. Ive added a couple of corners in gold mirri card and some gold coloured ribbon from my stash. The rosette bow was tied using the Glitter Girls bow maker. Finally I've added some flowers in a matching colours and popped some flat backed pearls in the middle of them.




As we have been so busy the last month or so, Hubby and I had a couple of days out last week, we started at the NEC, on Thursday, for the Hobbycrafts show, where I bought a Silhouette Cameo, as well as lots of other goodies. Then we stayed the night in a nice little Hotel just outside of Stratford On Avon, so Friday saw us wandering around the Town and market, before taking the slow route (non Motorway) home later in the day.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Thursday 18 October 2012

Pan Pastels Challenge 40

I've got crafting withdrawal this week, there is just so much that I have to do, 60 years of paperwork to look through (my Uncle who recently passed away lived in the family home and hoarded receipts, bills etc for many years) it has bought to light some interesting things, like family birth certificates and the like. I didn't think I would be taking part in any challenges for the next few weeks, but I remembered that I had this card that I made a couple of weeks ago, but didn't get around to showing on the blog. It fits perfectly for the challenge on the Pan Pastel Challenge blog which this week is wedded bliss, and what says it more than a Golden Wedding card. I used Debbi Moore's Glitter and Glitz Paris CD and an 8x8 white card base for this card. I printed the backing paper onto glossy photo paper, which makes the gold effect look brighter and mounted onto some gold mirri card. The topper is printed onto matt photo paper and then placed onto the card with foam pads. I added a border and place gold coloured flat backed pearls onto it. The flowers were a cream colour which I sprayed with gold glimmer mist sprays and added some centres that I made myself using bead end caps and flat backed pearls, and the leaves are a crealie die. Lastly I added the sentiment which was printed on a laser printer and then put through the foiling machine with gold foil.




Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Sunday 14 October 2012

CD Sunday - Autumn Splendor

This weeks theme over on the CD Sunday blog is Autumn Splendor, and there are certainly some beautiful colours on the trees at present, with more turning daily. For my card this week I have used Linda Ravenscroft's A Touch Of Magic. I started with an 8x8 card base, and printed off the backing paper, I did reduce the opacity on the backing paper, then mounted onto some gold mirri card. I then place some brown organza ribbon around the middle of the card. Next I printed the topper which is decoupaged and again mounted onto some gold mirri card, I also added one of the verse toppers to the bottom corner. I finished by adding a bow of the same ribbon and adding some flowers from my stash, along with some fancy centres and pearls.



Unfortunately since making this card a favourite Uncle and Godfather has sadly passed away and I will not be able to continue as Guest Designer with CD Sunday at this time. At the moment I am travelling to London and back almost daily along with my Sister, we are both executors of his estate and have quite a lot of sorting to do.

Thank you for taking the time to visit, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue x

Sunday 7 October 2012

CD Sunday - Christmas

 The lovely ladies over on the CD Sunday Challenge blog have very kindly invited me back to be Guest Designer for October, and as it is the first Sunday of the month they have a sponsor. This month it's Caroline Rawcliffe, of Carolines Digistamps ( if you click on the logo it will take you to her shop) and Caroline has very kindly give the design team a digi kit to play with, the theme this week is Christmas.


I had great fun playing with the digi kit, which can be used perfectly in either MCS or Craft Artist. There were lots of backgrounds, images and embellishments to play with, but it the end I settled for this silhouette of a robin. I added snowflake corners and stars around the image.



The great thing about this card is, that with the rise in postage cost this year, I could make it completely flat, just adding a little shadow to give it some dimension. I also created an insert to match and an envelope.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue




Friday 5 October 2012

Thomas Kinkade Christmas

The new challenge over on My Time To Craft this time is Winter. I had to make a card for someone who has asked for Thomas Kinkade, as the people who are to receive it are great Kinkade fans. There's plenty of snow on this image so it more that qualifies for the winter challenge. I started this card with an 8x8 cream card base, and I printed the topper and backing paper from the Thomas Kinkade CD from Joanna Sheen. The backing paper and topper are both mounted onto gold mirri card, and the sentiment was computer generated. After placing the backing paper onto the card I mounted both the topper and sentiment using foam pads. Finally I added a poinsettia cut using a Marianne die and leaves from a Crealie die.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Thursday 4 October 2012

CD Sunday - Tea Time

This week the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog is Tea Time, and this week I've used Crafter's Companion Moorheads. I love this image of two friends sitting down and having tea and cake, and a good natter, even the cat is there waiting for a saucer of milk. The topper for this came from the card companions section on the CD, which included the sentiment and flowers for embellishment. I cut out what I wanted for the card from this to start with and picked a co-ordinating piece of card for the matting. I then printed a backing paper from the co-ordinating section and using a 6x6 white card base matted and layered the backing paper. With another piece of the co-ordinating card I used a Martha Stewart punch and punched down both sides if the card, then taking a piece of white card I made another piece slightly smaller and layered across the middle of the card with some organza ribbon wrapped around it. I layered the sentiment onto the same two colours of card and popped onto the top corner. I placed the topper onto foam pads and put this to one side in the middle. I added a matching bow to the ribbon, some leaves cut using a crealie die, and flowers that were cut from the companions sheet. Finally I added some flat backed pearls to the centres of the flowers and also to two of the corners.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments that are always appreciated.

Sue

Wednesday 3 October 2012

Pan Pastel Challenge 38 - All About The Sentiment

This week the challenge on the Pan Pastel blog is All About The Sentiment, it was a good excuse for me to use my favourite sentiment from Chocolate Baroque, from the Loving Sentiments stamp sheet. This sentiment is useful for many occasions and I've used it many times. For this card I started with a plain white oval of card, and the coloured it with Dairylide Yellow and Orange pan pastels. The frame was cut out using Elegant Edges cricut cartridge and coloured with the same two colours as the oval, but then I went around the inside of the cut edge and the outside with Burnt Sienna. I went over the petals of the flowers with the yellow and orange pan pastels and added brads to the middles these were coloured to match using an orange pro marker, the leaves are from a Crealies die. The backing paper is from the Butterfly Bliss CD by Artylicious, also available from Chocolate Baroque. Finally before putting the card together I went around the outside edges of the card base with the Orange pan pastel.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Thursday 27 September 2012

Twinchies And In The Pink

Challenge 6 over on the Show Us Your Twinchies blog is add a stamped image, and the challenge on the In The Pink blog is Embossing, Dry or Heat, so I've combined the two. First I made the twinchie, stamping a butterfly in the middle of the piece of card with Memento Rose Bud ink and then distressing around the edges with the same colour. I then triple embossed the twinchie to make it look like a tile.



 Next with another piece of card I punch around the edge using a set of Martha Stewart punches, and again distressed around the edges with the Rose Bud ink. Then in the same colour in I stamped the sentiment, this was from one of the new sets from Sheena Douglas, the butterfly was also from the same set. After placing the tile on the punched piece, I added some swirls and flowers from my stash. Finally with a 6x6 white card base I again distressed the edges with the same Rose Bud ink, I added the completed topper and just added some flat backed pearls to the centres of the flowers.


Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Wednesday 26 September 2012

Transport

This week's challenge over at My Time To Craft is Transport, and I've incorporated this week's theme with an Anniversary card for hubby (it's our 32nd Anniversary at the beginning of next month). I had to be in London last Saturday and managed to get 2 hours at the Show at Ally Pally when it first opened, and bought a new CD, Vintage Motors, from Krafty Hands, as well as other goodies. The CD has some lovely old motors on that are ideal for the men in our lives. I started this card with an A5 green card base, then printed off the map backing paper from the CD. Next I printed off the 2 pages needed for the decoupage (this I did re size in MCS as the decoupage is quite large), cut out and mounted onto the card using a combination of foam pads and glue gel. There are several different sentiments on the decoupage sheets and I pick the Anniversary one. I added the tag also from the sheets with a little bakers twine though the hole.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Tuesday 25 September 2012

Forgotten Friday And Another Fairy Scene

Next month is the month that I have the most Birthday cards to make, mainly for family but also for friends as well. This one that I'm showing today I have made for my Daughter (she doesn't read my blog, so I feel quite safe placing it on here now), I can't believe that she'll be 29 this year. I'm also going to enter this into Judith's Forgotten Friday challenge, as I've used some previously unused stamps on this. The background was made with sprinky sprays and distress stains, by putting the inks and stains onto my craft mat and placing the card stock on top. When dry I sprayed with a gold glimmer mist, after allowing to dry I then created some hills with distress ink and mask. I made a circle in a piece of card with a spellbinders circle and placed a sun in the background , low in the sky to make it look like the sun is setting. Next using Lavinia stamps I added some trees, the hobbits door the stag, two fairies, the birds, the maple leaves and toadstools, I coloured the hobbits door and the trees with promarkers. Then using stamps from Chocolate Baroque, Autumn Hedgerow and Nature Table, that I've had for a couple of years, they have sat neglected in the bottom of the cupboard and unused until now. I used a Sekura stardust pen and a little glitter on the fairies wings and the fairy dust. This was then mounted onto some gold mirri card, and a large green card base. Finally I finished with a sentiment made on the PC and coloured to match the card. I am also going to enter this card into the Ladybug Crafts challenge, Anything Goes and Craft A Scene, Trees, Trees, Trees.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments that are always appreciated.

Sue

Monday 24 September 2012

CD Sunday - Awash With Flowers

I've just returned from taking my Mum on holiday to Devon for a week, and I'm so glad that we went last week, now that the bad weather seems to have settled in for the next few days. We had lovely weather while we were there, but had to return home a couple of days early as we had a small family emergency, but really enjoyed the time away that we did have. With the awful rain we had yesterday, the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog was a nice way to cheer the day. I spent some time going through my CDs before deciding to use From The Heart Of The Garden, Jayne Shaskey, a Joanna Sheen CD, for my card. I love Hydrangeas, you get a bunch of flowers from just one bloom, so it was my choice of flower for the challenge. I've used an A5 white card base to start the card, and printed off the sheet of toppers and the matching backing sheet. The backing sheet has the flower from the topper echoed in the corner, so when I cut the sheet to size I made sure that the flower sat in the corner. I mounted the backing sheet and the topper onto some matt silver mirri card, and used some foam pads when placing the topper. I've used some blue flat backed pearls on two of the corners and a double bow onto the corner of the topper. Finally I've added a couple of butterflies punched from a Martha Stewart punch, and coloured with cut and dry foam and distress inks that were remaining within the foam, I just blended together colours that were within the backing paper onto the butterflies, and added some smaller blue flat backed pearls down the middles.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Wednesday 12 September 2012

By The Sea

This week the challenge over on the Pan Pastel blog is By The Sea. This falls just right for me to make a card for MIL to give to my Daughter on her birthday next month. When my Children were small my in-laws live in Cornwall very near to the beach, and as the eldest my Daughter spent a lot of time in the holidays staying with them, and yes lots of time on the beach. She's 29 this year and I'm sure that this card will bring back lots of happy memories for her. For the card I started with an 8x8 white card base, then printed the topper from Joanna Sheen's Faye Whittaker CD. I cut it out and mounted onto some gold textured card that I've had in my cupboard for some time. I then printed a backing paper from the same CD, and mounted this onto the same textured gold card, the sentiment is computer generated again this was mounted onto the gold card. Once I had mounted all of this onto the card base,  I remembered that I had some stamps of shells. I stamped onto some white card stock and embossed with gold embossing and coloured with promarkers, once cut out I mounted these onto the card with glue gel. Finally I added some pearls to the front of some of the shells, I remember lots of shells being brought back from the beach, but I'm certain that none of them had pearls in them.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Tuesday 11 September 2012

Trees, Trees, Trees

The theme for September over on the Craft A Scene blog is Trees, Trees, Trees. This was such a good excuse for me to get my fairy stamps out of the cupboard. I started with a plain white piece of card which I then coloured using my Sprinky sprays, distress stains by placing the colour onto my cutting mat and spraying with water, then placing the card downwards into the colour. I can normally colour 2-3 pieces of card this way, and they are normally all slightly different. Next I oversprayed the card with gold glimmer mist and left to dry. Next using the new Little Bit Scenic pinescape stamps by Sheena Douglas, I stamped the trees across the scene and embossed with Black Glint WOW embossing powder, I then smudged a little Forest Moss distress ink under them to give them some ground to stand on. Next I stamped the Fairy from Lavinia Stamps again embossing with black glint, and placing a shadow beneath the fairy. The bird in the fairies hand is another stamp from the Little Bit Scenic range. The sentiment is from Flowersoft which is embossed with brass sparkle embossing powder (unfortunately it has not shown up very well in the photo). Then using the foliage stamp from the flowersoft sentiment collection I stamped around the bottom of the scene. I finished it all off by going around the green parts of the image with  peeled paint distress ink and the top with picked raspberry distress ink. I placed the image onto some black card and then placed this onto a pale pink centura card base and added a ribbon down the side.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Monday 10 September 2012

CD Sunday - Need For Speed

The challenge this week over on the CD Sunday blog is Need For Speed, the DT have made some lovely cards for our inspiration this week, do pop over and take a look. This is a good excuse for me to get another card for a male made, this one will be for an elderly relative and I hope that he takes it with good fun, as it was intended. The digital image and backing paper are both taken from the Next Big One CD from Just Inklined, and this lovely old fella can be found in the Wrinklies section. I printed off the image and coloured with promarkers, trimmed the image down slightly and mounted onto some textured card. I then printed the backing paper and sentiment, and again mounted onto the same textured card. This has all been mounted onto a pale blue pearlised 6x6 card base. Finally I've added some card candi .



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Saturday 8 September 2012

Time Flies

What gorgeous weather we're having here in the UK at the moment, let hope it lasts a bit longer. I've made this card to enter into the Technique Tuesday Challenge, which this month is Faux Leather. This is a fun technique which Mynnette shows you step by step how to make over on the blog. I've really enjoyed getting covered in ink making this project. I started by covering my card with little pieces masking tape as the instructions told me, and then I inked the background using a Walnut Stain distress ink pad, and then embossing with clear embossing powder. Next I cut out a clock from the Tim Holtz sizzex die (this is the first time I've used the die and I've had it over a year) and coloured again with the Walnut Stain, as this did not turn out as dark as  thought it would, went over the top with some Black Soot. I then stuck this onto the Faux Leather using dries clear glue, and placed the hands on with a brad. I created the Tick Tock and Time Flies with the PC using a typewriter font, I used a little walnut stain and black soot around the edges. Next I stamped this gorgeous beetle, from Chocolate Baroque called Steampunkery, onto some white card twice, and embossed using Wow brass embossing powder. I then coloured the beetle using Distress pens and cut out, the first one I cut everything out and the second one just the body and the top part of the wings and cover with Glossy Accents. When it was dry I placed the beetle onto the card using some glue gel to lift it away from the surface a little.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Friday 7 September 2012

Floral Anniversary

I'm back with my second Anniversary card this week, and this one will also be entered into the new Challenge on the My Craft Creations blog, which this time is Floral. The challenge is sponsored by MCS and there is a CD as the prize for one lucky entrant. For this card I've used an 8x8 white card base, and MCS Floriography CD and My Papercraft Library Words CD. First I picked a backing paper and topper and then with a sheet of words (with love and best wishes), I overlayed the words on the backing paper and using the opacity facility and dulled them so that they seemed to fade into the background. Next with the topper I added the sentiment, cut this out and placed onto some silver mirri card. I have used a spellbinders border down one side of the backing paper and then place onto the card base, and added the topper. In the images section on the CD there is a flower which matches the topper, I re sized this a couple of times and printed multiples, which when cut out I decoupaged and placed onto the card.


Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Thursday 6 September 2012

Black, White And One Other Colour

My card today is for the new challenge over on My Time To Craft, which this week is Black, White and one other colour. I've chosen to use red. My card base is an A5 black card, and I used MCS, Floriography CD which has a nice selection of black and white backing papers and digi stamps that match. I printed off the backing paper and the Digi image, and mounted the backing paper straight onto the card base after placing a red ribbon and bow across the middle. With the digi image, I coloured part of the flower with a red promarker and then mounted this onto some black card.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comment which are always appreciated.

Sue

Wednesday 5 September 2012

A Gift For You

This weeks challenge on the Pan Pastels blog is Stripes, and I decided to make a Christmas card using stripe backing paper for this. I love using traditional colours on my Christmas cards so Red and Green stripes were my natural choice. I've also used this lovely new stamp from Chocolate Baroque of a lovely big pile of presents, which I've coloured with promarkers in colours to match the backing paper, the sentiment comes from the same stamp sheet as the presents. I placed the backing paper onto some green card and the topper onto some red, then mounted it all onto an A5 white card base.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - Allsorts

This week the challenge over at the CD Sunday blog is Allsorts, and this week they are being sponsored by Funkyhand, the winner can pick a CD of their choosing over on the Funkyhand web site. As I have two Anniversary cards that I need to make for next week I decided to make one of them for this challenge. The CD I've used is Cupcake Crafting The Designer Collection, I printed off the decoupage and cut out the elements, mounted the base image onto some gold matt card and then built the decoupage up with glue gel. After printing off the backing paper I made a sheet for matting by using the colour match facility in MCS, and also popped my sentiment onto the bottom of the sheet before printing it off. I added the sentiment to some gold matt card like the topper. The two backing papers were placed onto an 8x8 white card base, and the topper and sentiment added. I then added a bow made from ribbon from my stash, a couple of Marianne swirls, and an extra rose which I place beside the sentiment.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Monday 3 September 2012

Twinchies - Autumn

It's time for a new challenge on the Twinchies blog and this time they are asking that we make our twinchies with an Autumn theme. I love the colours of Autumn, the lovely deep Oranges, Reds and Browns and after taking a look at Shirley's wonderful entry, I had to get my inks out and get going. In the back of the cupboard I had some stamps that had not been used before and they fit the theme just right.  As they've not been used before they also fit in with Judith's Forgotten Friday challenge as well. My twinchie is made using Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey on the base and a little Frayed Burlap around the edge. Then I stamped the a conker, from the Nature Table stamp sheet by Chocolate Baroque using Vintage Photo and embossed with clear embossing powder (I wanted to give the conker a glossy look), and just coloured the outside with a Crushed Olive distress pen. Then with the horse chestnut leaf I just stamped along the bottom with a few different shade of the brown distress inks. I then forgot myself and popped it onto a piece of gold mirri card before I took a photo of it, ready for what I was going to do next.



Next, with the other background that I made a couple of weeks ago, using the left over ink from the baby wipe technique, I added the Spiced Marmalade, and Wild Honey distress inks to darkened the background a bit. Then went around the edges with the Frayed burlap, just like the twinchie. Then I over stamped the background with stamps from two more stamp sheets again from Chocolate Baroque, called Tall Trees and Nature's Peace using browns again from distress inks. I then mounted the background onto some gold mirri card and mounted all of it onto a cream card base.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue


Friday 31 August 2012

Autumn Fairy

This morning I thought I would have a bit of a tidy of all the bits I'd left laying on my worktop, and I came across this background. It was one that I had made with the leftover ink from the card I made a couple of weeks ago using the baby wipe ink pad. It had a splodge across the middle that looked just like a tree trunk (well I thought it looked like a tree trunk), and decided it was just what I needed to use this stamp called Shaylee from Lavinia Stamps. I started by stamping, and then embossing with WOW black glint embossing powder, the wings on this fairy are optional, I decided to use them. I added the butterfly next, again embossing with black glint. Then with various shades of Distress Ink pads and leaf branch from the Silhouette Garden set of stamps, by Sheena Douglas, I went around the page. I wanted to give the feel of Autumn with this card so the colours I've picked are reds, oranges, and browns. I blended around the edge of the card with some ink from the tea dye ink pad, then added glitter to the wings. I mounted it onto some gold mirri card and then a 6x6 cream card base.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments that are always appreciated.

Sue

Thursday 30 August 2012

Christmas Card Batch

A few weeks ago I bought the new Traditional Snow globe CD from Flowersoft, and this week I decided it was time to start making some Christmas cards. I have made some already which I have entered into various challenges, but as Christmas  has  habit of creeping up on me all of a sudden, I thought I would get a bit of a head start. The first batch of cards I've made were using the snow globe cards and domes that came with the CD. The images were cut out and decoupaged, put together using glue gel, and when dry I added some glitter. Before putting the globe into the cards I put some Polar White flowersoft inside. I added the sentiment, which was also from Flowersoft, but this time from the Magic of Christmas stamps, these I embossed with silver embossing powder. After putting the globes into the cards I added some peel offs around the edge, and added some die cut holly leaves with a small red bow.



As the globes and cards tend to be on the expensive side I had a little play with the next batch, and cut some frames with the Elegant Edges cricut cartridge. These I cut in white card and coloured with distress inks and a blending tool. The corners on the cards were stamped using the holly corner that is on the stamp sheet with the sentiments used on the last batch, I stamped them with Pine Needles distress ink and then added the holly berries with a promarker. The sentiment comes from a discontinued stamp set from Chocolate Baroque. The card that has the snowflakes on was stamped using a snowflake stamp from the new Christmas stamps from Chocolate Baroque, these gorgeous stamps are on special offer at the moment do go and check them out. I added a gem into the centre of the snowflake. I think that the second batch looks just as good even though they are not in the globes.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Monday 27 August 2012

CD Sunday - Game On

This weeks challenge over on the CD Sunday blog is Game On. I had a look on My Craft Studio for inspiration for this one and came up with this, The Queen of Hearts and her Croquet Game, from A Very Important Date CD. I started this card with an A5 card blank, then printed one of the backing papers, I mounted this onto some red mirri card, and added some die cut corners from Cherry Lynn also cut from red mirri card. I printed one of the toppers from the CD along with three of the playing cards, the Jack, Queen and King. The topper was mounted onto some silver and then red mirri card, I've placed it onto the card at an angle, then arranged the playing cards down the side. I've not added a sentiment at this stage, I will wait until I know who the card will go to.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Friday 24 August 2012

Call Of The Wild

Well I'm back with my second post today, this time with a card for the For Your Inspiration challenge, this gorgeous photo below was the photo given for our inspiration this time. The ladies on the FYI blog are taking a break until next year after this challenge, I know I for one will miss you, but look forward to your return in the New Year. I shall also enter this card into the Craft A Scene challenge which this month is Anything In The Great Outdoors, it will be my third entry into this challenge.


All the stamps that I've used are from Stampscapes except for the Wolf which I picked up at a show earlier this year, I think I bought it from Aly's Inky Finger's but I'm not sure. First I stamped my images onto white card stock, then added the colour with Pan Pastels and added a little promarkers on the trees, grasses and the wolf. The image was then layered onto silver mirri card, and then put onto an A5 deep green card. The sentiment is also from Stampscapes.


Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Candytuft Flower Fairy

This week I was asked to make this flower fairy, The Candytuft Fairy, I had great fun revisiting the Flower Fairy CDs and made more than just this one. However this one fits perfectly for two challenges, first, Pan Pastels which this week is Decoupage, and this has several layers. Second is In The Pink which this time is Things With Wings. The card is an 8x8 inch white card base, with the backing paper mounted onto gold mirri card. The corners are from a Marianne die, also cut from gold mirri card. Before placing the backing paper onto the card base I added some pink organza ribbon and a bow. The Fairy image has been mounted onto gold mirri card and put together with glue gel.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Tuesday 21 August 2012

Twichies - Add A Flower

This time the challenge over at the Show Us Your Twinchies blog, is Add A Flower. I decided to use this small flower stamp that comes from a stamp sheet from Chocolate Baroque, unfortunately this stamp sheet is now discontinued. I stamped the flower onto my 2 inch x 2 inch (5 cms x 5 cms) piece of card using Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, and then with a water brush pulled the colour out to shade the flowers. Then I ran the edges of the card across the ink pad to finish.



I have decided that if I am going to make these twinchies I need to finish them in some way, rather than just leave a tiny pieces of art. So after making the first twinchie, I made 2 more the same and mounted them onto some black card. I then cut a piece of card 14.5 cms x 14.5 cms in white and blended the Picked Raspberry Distress Ink across the card. I the took a Crafters Workshop mask (available from Chocolate Baroque) and again with the Picked Raspberry went over the top making sure the inking was darker than the base. I added the word art from the Artistic Expressions stamp sheet, from Chocolate Baroque again, in black ink and added some black organza ribbon across the middle of the card. I then added the background to a 15 cm x 15 cm black card base, and place the twinchies onto this.



Thank you for taking the time to look, and you kind comments that are always appreciated.

Sue

Monday 20 August 2012

CD Sunday - Cute Christmas

It's time again for another challenge over on the CD Sunday blog, and this week it's Cute Christmas. This comes after stating in a post last week that I did not really do "Cute", and I now find myself making my third Cute card in a row. As I already had the  SWALK Christmas collection of stamps, and the CD out, I decided to use these to make my card.

First I stamped and embossed one of the images, then coloured in with Spectrum Noir pens. I then cut out the image with an oval spellbinders die, and while still in the die I blended a little tumbled glass distress ink around the edges. I then mounted the image onto another spellbinders die cut in blue mirri card. I used blue mirri card though out for the matting, and also blue backing papers. The sentiment is from Lili Of The Valley, again edged with distress ink and mounted onto blue mirri card. Finally I've added some blue gems to the corners.



Thank you ofr taking the time to look. Your kind comments are always appreciated.

Sue

Friday 17 August 2012

Perfect Gift

In my last post, I said that I didn't normally do Pink, or Cute. However I have a large box full of cute stamps, that I just have to buy, because I fall in love with them when I see them. So I thought it was about time I used some of them. With this card I've managed to cover four challenges, the first has to be Forgotten Friday, as this stamp has never been inked before it more than qualifies. Next is My Time To Craft, the challenge is Christmas in August, then My Craft Creations, which this challenge is being sponsored by Crafters Companion, and called Two's Company, use stuff either from Crafters Companion or Beaders Companion. And finally as I've used pink in this it will qualify for In The Pink, this will be my second entry.

I stamped the image from the Crafters Companion Winter Swalk range with Versafine black onyx, and then embossed with clear embossing powder. It was coloured with Spectrum Noir pens, then cut out with a spellbinders die, I also used a scalloped edge die to mat with. The background papers are from the Swalk Winter Collection, matted onto silver mirri card. The poinsettias are cut from a Marianne die, as well as the swills that I've used. The sentiment is the one that comes with the stamp, this was again stamped with Versafine black onyx and embossed with clear embossing powder, then just cut out by hand and placed around the image. Finally I added some card candi to three of the corners.



Thank you for taking the time to look. Your kind comments are always appreciated.

Sue x