Stamp Something Challenge/Birthday Somethings

At craft club tonight we were doing layouts so I thought I would combine them with a couple of challenges. This first one is using a sketch from SCS which I enjoyed doing. To stamp the flowers I used the 'masking' technique and layered them using Nesties.

Card Recipe

Cardstock - SU
Papers - Summertime Designs
Inks/Colouring - Archival inkpad and Marvy Le Plume pens
Stamp - Woodware
Greeting - Papermania Rub-ons
Butterfly & Ribbon - Stash (ribbon was recycled from a box of chocs)

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Cute Card Challenge (43)

This week's Cute Card Thursday Challenge is 'Have A Giggle' so I have come up with this golfing card that I made for a friend. I just love the verse! The decoupaged image is from Jolly Nation while the papers are from my scrapbox again. The brads are from my stash. The verse was computer generated and I coloured it with chalks.

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Five Challenges In One...

(1) Cupcake Craft (22) - Sketch

(2) Ooh La La (27) - Love is in the air

(3) Paperplay - Pink/Green/Buttons & Blossoms

(4) Secret Crafter - Hearts

(5) Penny Black (32) - Let's Get Dotty

The stamp for this one is PB and is coloured with watercolour pencils. The sentiment is a freebie rub-on. The paper is from Summertime Designs and the flowers and buttons are from my stash. As the buttons were not the right colour I coloured them with alchohol inks and I added diamond glaze to the bubbles.

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A Spoonful Of Sugar Challenge

I have made this card using the sketch from the Cutie Sunday challenge and combined it with A Spoonful Of Sugar challenge which this week is 'paper piecing'. The stamps I have used are Hero Arts and all the papers are Dovecraft. The brads are from my stash.

I must admit I am not keen on this one, perhaps it isn't bright enough!

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Mini Card Set

I have now completed the cards and envelopes to go in the 4"x4" Pizza Box that I made earlier. I'm afraid it is not a very good photo due to poor lighting.

I have done six cards and envelopes all using paper from K and Company. The greeting stamps are Hero Arts and are layered using my nesties in the cuttlebug. Gems, brads and prima flowers are from my stash.

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Magnolia V's Stampavie Challenge (9)

This week's challenge at Magnolia V's Stampavie is 'Give A Little' so I have made a CD Jewel Case Calendar.

I started off by separating the top & bottom of the CD case and then putting it back together the 'wrong' way round. Doing this enables it to stand up instead of just closing. I then covered a piece of cardstock with papers from Monti's Pixel Playground (make sure you cover the reverse side as well as this will also be on show). I then coloured in the dragonflies with Sakura Glitter pens to give a bit of sparkle, and added a PB sticker of daisies to the bottom corner. I stamped and coloured a Sarah Kay image with MLP pens and cut this out and attached it with 1mm foam pads. Having inserted it into the CD case I attached a small calendar to the front of the case.

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Lili Of The Valley Challenge (14)

This week we have a lovely sketch from Donalda to follow at the LOTV challenge.

My card has used a cute kitten cut-out fron LOTV which I have layered onto LOTV papers. I finished it off with a flower I have recycled from an old card.

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Chinese New Year

This is a card I have done for a friend to celebrate Chinese New Year. The colours of red and gold are for good luck and as it is the year of the ox I have included one. The wording says 'Happy New Year', and I have used gold peel-offs. The gold embossed chrysanthemum is done using a stamp set I got from Create & Craft and layered using my nesties.

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Stamp Something Challenge

This week's Stamp Something challenge is No Stamping Allowed and this is what I came up with. Seemed strange not to stamp an image as I am so used to either stamping or decoupaging. It certainly made me think.

I started off by embossing half the card with my Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I then scored two lines to the left of the dots (unfortunately these don't show, but they are there). Next I tied two lengths of organza ribbon around the spine. I then 'iced' some Papermania flowers using Funstamps Glitter EP (you have to be careful not to melt the flowers doing this) and added a little pearl flower to the centre. I used a dragonfly peeloff which I coloured in with Sakura Glitter pens and finished it off with a mini envelope.

I just love the colours of this one, and all the sparkle.

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Friday Sketchers (34) & Chaisma Cardz (1) Challenges

I have made this card using the sketch for this week's Friday Sketchers (34) challenge and the colour scheme for this week's Charisma Cardz (1) challenge which is PINK.

The stamps I used are Penny Black and Hero Arts. The inkpads are Versacolor and Colorbox. The papers are from my scrapbox. The following are from my stash: flowers/brads/eyelets/gem and ribbons.

I enjoyed doing this layout as I have never linked two bits of card together with ribbon before so I had to work out how to do it. I think it came out alright.

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