LOTV Challenge (18)

This week's challenge is a lovely sketch by Jo and I loved following it so will use it many more times.

For my card I have used two different papers on the base card and run a ribbon across the middle and added the gem stars to it. I then stamped a design either side of the ribbon using a border stamp and an Adirondack inkpad. The image is layered using my nesties. I cut a slider using my cuttlebug, stamped the sentiment onto it and added the ribbon. The sentiment the dragon is holding has been stamped and cut out and slipped under his hands. I finished it off by using Sakura Stardust pens on the dragon's wings and scales. I also used them on the border to add a bit of sparkle.

Card Recipe

Diecut Image/Papers - Lili Of The Valley
Stamps - Hero Arts, Studio G,
Ribbons/Gems - Stash

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Whiff Of Joy New Release

This cute little fella is one of the new stamp collection being released on February 14th by Whiff Of Joy. The collection of 10 stamps is a fun medieval theme designed by Alison Acton featuring the characters Charlotte and Charlie. For more info visit Katharina's blog at:-

http://katharina1704.blogspot.com/

What did you do in the snow???

What did you do in the snow? Make a snowman, have a snowball fight?

I thought you might like to see what one of my sons was doing. BARMY or what...

Five Challenges In One Again!

Challenges

Friday Sketchers (38) - Sketch
Creative Inspirations (2) - Thrifty (Nothing New)
Secret Crafter (18) - Recycling
Charisma Cardz (5) - 3/2/1 (3 papers/2 flowers/ 1 ribbon)
A Spoonful Of Sugar (38) - Doodle Doo

I loved making this card as I am a great believer in recycling what I can. I started by covering the card with a spotty paper. The green rectangle is a piece of handmade paper glued to a scrap of card of the same colour as it didn't show up very well. I then added the border and the doodling. I then cuttlebugged a piece of foil and layered that on top following the lovely sketch from Friday Sketchers. I cut out the main flower and added it by using D/S tape in the centre and putting foam pads under each petal to raise them up. I punched out the smaller flower from scraps and added a gem. The greeting was cut out and placed either end of the design and a bow added.

Card Recipe

Spotty Paper/Ribbon - Magazine freebies
Handmade Paper - From bouquet of flowers
Green Card/Base Card/Gold Flower - Scrapbox
Gold Foil - Butter spread lid
Main Flower/Border/Greeting/Gem - Recycled cards

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Five Challenges In One

Challenges

Sketch & Stash (3) - Sketch/New Stash = Stamps
Cute Card (46) - Metallica (Add something made of metal = heart charm)
Stamp Something - Valentine
Dutch Dare (34) - Love (NO pink or red)
Cutie Sunday (28) - Valentine

I started this one by layering onto the base card a blue patterned paper and a lilac script paper. I followed this with a strip down the side cut from the base card and inked along the edges with lilac. I stamped the image and coloured it with MLP pens and layered it using my nesties. (This is where I took the liberty of turning my oval shape around to accomodate the image). I also stamped and layered the greeting. Each were inked around the edges with lilac. To finish I added some lilac gems to the blue strip and a silver heart charm to the image.
Card Recipe

Stamps - (NEW) Free gift on a magazine this month
Base card - Craft Creations
Papers - Making Handmade Cards/Magazine Freebie
Gems - Stash

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Sketch Saturday (37)/Penny Black (35) Challenges

This card was made by following the lovely sketch on Sketch Saturday challenge blog this week. I enjoyed working with this sketch as I needed a rather simple Valentine card for a man and this sketch seemed to fit the bill.

I started by putting some plaid backing paper onto the black base card. I stamped and coloured the image using my MLP pens. I then layered it onto black card, gold mirri card, red card and black card using the nesties. I finished it off by punching out some gold mirri hearts and adding these to each corner.

Card Recipe

Stamp - Penny Black
Card/Papers - My scrapbox

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LOTV Challenge (17)

This week's LOTV challenge is 'Men' so here is a card for a husband's birthday that I have made for a friend at work.

I have made a gatefold card and used the 'romance' embossing board from the glitter girls to do the edges. The decoupage computer image is layered using my nesties. The verse inside is computer generated onto parchment and then heat embossed with gold EP before the ink dries. Then I finished it off with peeloffs.

Card Recipe

Cardstock/Gold Paper - Craft Creations
Decoupage - Wekon
Parchment - Create & Craft
Romance Board - Keepsake Crafts
Peeloffs - Stash

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Spacing

Don't know what's going on with this silly blog but whenever I write a post (even though I am putting in the relevant line spacing) it ain't showing when I publish the post. I don't know about you but I find it is harder to read without the spaces. Oh well I shall keep trying...

Charisma Cardz (4)

The challenge this week at Charisma Cardz is Black, White and One Other Colour.

For this one I used some freebie download papers from my scrapbox, I can't remember where I downloaded them from but if you recognize them please let me know and then I can acknowledge them on here. As you can see I used the positive and the negative papers and added a border down the middle. I then stamped the image onto white card using an Archival inkpad. I layered this onto black and red card. I then used a Sakura Stardust pen to colour the hair bow and flower centres and added a bow to finish it off.

Card Recipe

Papers - Freebie download

Stamp - Whispers

Bow - Stash

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Five In One Challenges

As my time is being taken up at the moment with a very poorly 20yr old cat I have made this card combinig five challenges. The challenges are:-

Friday Sketchers (37) - Sketch

Cupcake Crafts (25) - Colour Combination

Paperplay (3) - Fairy Tales

Dutch Dare (33) - Thank You

Papertake - Hearts or Flowers

To make this card I first decoupaged the gorgeous image and added a touch of glitter (wings and background) using the clear Sakura Stardust pen and then layered it onto white card. I glued some of the lovely paper to the bottom of the base card and added a piece of white card which I scalloped with my SU punch. Stamped the greeting using an Adirondack dye inkpad and finished it with the flowers and brads.

Card Recipe

Decoupage/Paper - Making Cards Magazine Free Papers

Base Cardstock - SU

Stamp - Hero Arts

Prima Flowers/Brads - Stash

Thanks for looking.