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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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