Rose Scent Tilda

I really love today's card which I've made for The Stamp Basket blog.  I ordered the  gorgeous new Graphic 45 pad from Janet, and it arrived last weekend.  So, after hubby's rant along the lines of "gawd, what have you bought now" when the package hit the doormat last Saturday, guess what I spent the morning playing with!!

I coloured her with my Copics, but stamped the image with grey, rather than black, ink pad so the lines are soft.  I find this really hard to colour, and although I'm pleased with her hair, I'm not too sure about her dungarees, so I may have to have another try soon.

I stitched around the panels and image and managed to squeeze in two of my favourite Memory box dies; Lavish Branch and Fancy Blossoms.

Also, don't forget there is a huge summer sale at the moment at The Stamp Basket, as Janet is making way for new stock, so pop over there and grab a bargain.



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Card Recipe:

• Image - Rose Scent Tilda
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Graphic 45 Secret Garden Papers
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• Spellbinders Lacey Circles
• Memory Box Lavish Branch
• Memory Box Fancy Blossoms
• Liquid Pearls
• Hobby House Purple Pearls
• Hobby House 8mm Pearl Brad
• cArtUs Lili Border Die
• Spotty Ribbon
• Lili of the Valley Sentiment Tag
• Sewing Machine

I've been inspired by:

• Totally Tilda - Inspired by a song (Kiss from a Rose by Seal)
• Hobby House - Anything Goes
• Totally Papercrafts - Flowers & Bows

Happy crafting

Clean & Simple Summer Fun

StampFairy are sponsoring Sketch & Stash, and I've made a card to support the challenge.  This one features my favourite bear (yup, Barry is here again) but he's on the beach today, building sandcastles in the sun (well it is meant to be summer after all!).

I've painted him with by Distress Reinkers, and coloured the sun in Sakura Stardust Gel pen to give it some sparkle.  I've hand stitched some cross stitch onto the edges of the panels and looped some yellow ribbon on the sides.

I'm not usually a fan of orange, (although I LOVE orange roses - how does that figure!) but I quite like these papers, so that's helped to give it a Summer Fun theme.

 

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Here's the sketch, with the added twist of 'summer fun'.

Card Recipe:

• Image - Barry Throughout the Year - June from Stamp Fairy
• Colouring - Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Distress Inks
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• First Edition Papers
• Ribbon
• Embroidery Thread
• Glossy Accents

I've been inspired by:

• Without Words - Hot Summer Colours
• Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - C&S
• Stamp & Create - Summer Fun

Happy Crafting

Barry Bee

StampFairy are sponsoring Craft Your Passion and this week the theme is 'Let's Play Dress Up', so I've made a little card to support the challenge using Barry dressed as a Bee.  

Unfortunately, because most of my Barry cards involve flowers, my husband already thinks that Barry has 'masculinity issues' (I won't tell you the phrase that he actually used), so seeing Barry dressed as a bee has not helped support poor Barry's case.  But despite what hubby thinks, I think Barry looks adorable with his sparkly wings and bee costume.  :0)

He's been watercolour painted with my Distress reinkers and Stardust pens.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Barry Bee from Stamp Fairy
• Colouring - Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Distress Inks, copics (for accents on dies)
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Cardworks Card base
• First Edition Papers
• Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
• La La Land Fence Die
• Memory Box Lavish Branch Die
• Ribbon
• Pearls
• Glossy Accents

I've been inspired by:

• Bunny Zoe - Wings
• Crafty Calendar - Things with Wings

Happy Crafting

Bella with Bouquet

My card for The Stamp Basket today features some more Wild Rose Studio goodies; Bella with Bouquet and my lovely Vintage Rose Papers.  I've stitched around the panels and used a dark brown card to layer each piece.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Bella with Bouquet from Wild Rose Studio
• Cardworks Card base
• Vintage Rose Papers from Wild Rose Studio
• Neenah Classic Crest White Stamping Card
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• Brown Card
• Martha Stewart Lace Doily Punch
• Liquid Pearls
• Glossy Accents
• Hobby House Pearls (don't forget you can colour white pearls with copics)
• Hobby House 8mm Pearl Brad
• Pink Satin Ribbon
• Doily
• Pink butterfly embellishment
• Wild Orchid Craft flowers

I've been inspired by:

• Crafty Boots - Pink Butterflies
• Incy Wincy - Butterflies and Bows
• Crafty Catz - Pink
• Hobby House - Anything Goes
• In the Pink - Pink with Flowers
• The Ribbon Girl - Pink flowers photo inspiration
• The ABC Challenge - P for Pretty in Pink

Happy crafting

Tilly with Presents

Despite the lack of my beloved embellishments, I think that today's card is one of my favourites that I've created for The Stamp Basket.  Probably because it features my favourite two colours, pink and aqua.

I've used my lovely Wild Rose Studio Vintage Rose papers.  You know how there are usually one or two papers in a set that you don't like as much as the others? ...  Well, I love ALL the papers in this set which is really rare for me.  I've also used a cute image of Tilly with Presents.

It's a truly C&S design (for me) and I really like showing off the papers without cluttering them up with a lot of embellishments.

Hope you like it too.

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Don't forget there's a summer sale on at The Stamp Basket at the moment.  Janet's making room for new stock so there's loads of bargains to be had.  I'm hoping my order's gonna arrive today so I can play with it over the weekend :0)

Card Recipe:

• Image - Tilly with Presents
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• WRS Vintage Rose Papers 
• Neenah Classic Crest White Stamping Card
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• Spellbinders Nestabilities Floral Ovals
• Memory Box Fancy Blossoms Die
• Aqua satin ribbon
• Pink vintage ribbon
• Glossy Accents
• Hobby House Snow White pearls
• cArt-Us Lily border die

I've been inspired by:

• Hobby House Challenge - Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - Lots of Pink (papers, image, flower, ribbon)

Happy crafting

Lovely

Today I've got a JFF card to share, using the gorgeous new image from Saturated Canary.  I'm not sure I've done here complete justice with my painting skills, but I wanted to try painting her with my distress reinkers.  I printed her out quite large and had to cut off part of her dress to fit her into the frame, (absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I messed up the base of her dress, of course!).

I've used my lovely Papermania papers (I think I'm addicted to this pad) and distressed the edges with my new distressing tool, before stitching them onto the red card.  The papers were so pretty that I didn't add too much fuss in the form of embellishments.

Hope you like her:

While I've got your attention, I'd like to tell you about a Super Summer Sale on at The Stamp Basket
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Card Recipe:

• Image - Lovely by Saturated Canary
• Colouring - Distress Inks
• Cardworks Card base
• Papermania Lucy Cromwell
• Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
• Lacey Ovals Spellbinder Nesties
• Felt ribbon
• Pearls
• Liquid Pearls
• Red Ribbon
• Butterfly
• Sewing Machine

I've been inspired by:

• Saturated Canary Challenge - Show us your Lovely
• Crafty Boots - Pink Butterflies (was a pale pink, but I coloured it with a dark pink Copic)
• Incy Wincy - Butterflies and Bows
• Sketch Saturday - Sketch

Happy crafting.

Never too old for a hug

The theme today at As You Like It Challenge is to use your favourite papers.  Well, this one was an easy challenge for me.  If you come here often, you'll know that for many months, my favourite papers have been the Papermania Lucy Cromwell pad.  

Each page of this set is in one of my favourite colours; pink, aqua or purple, and most are either glittered or double sided.  

And you know how, in most paper pads, there are always a couple of designs that you like less than the others ??  .... well in this set, I love them all.  

I've loved this pad so much that I've bought 2 of the 6" size, and then treated myself to a 12" pad recently too (to keep in reserve)!

I've used the pink and aqua a lot recently, so today's choice is purple (for a change!).

Our sponsor this week is the shop where my lovely friend Samantha works, Penrith Crafts.  So if you're in Cumbria, make sure you pop in and see her!!


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Card Recipe:

• Image & Sentiment - Never too old for a hug from LOTV
• Colouring - Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Distress Inks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Papermania Lucy Cromwell Papers
• Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
• Spellbinders Nesties Labels 18
• cArtUs Lili Border Die
• Magnolia Leaf & Swirl die
• Plum Ribbon - Fantastic Ribbons
• Pearls
• Crystal Glamour Dust
• Glossy Accents
• Papermania Brad
• Liquid Pearls
• Sewing machine

I've been inspired by:

• LOTV - Use a sentiment
• Wild Orchid Crafts - Lots of layers (there are 8 layers up to the image)
• Crafty Calendar - Things with Wings

Happy crafting.

Is it too late to be good?

The theme today at ABC Christmas Challenge is L for 'Laugh' or 'Less is more'.

My regular visitors will know how much I struggle with the 'less is more' style, so I've had  no choice but to opt for the 'laugh' version.

However, it's more like a small smile, rather than a belly-ache laugh!!!

I also opted to paint my image with distress reinkers, but had to have a couple of attempts as it was quite a challenging image (and I still struggle with painting hair).  Perhaps I should stick to painting my bear images and keep my Copics for more intricate images.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Stockings from Saturated Canary
• Typed Sentiment (You won't bring me down font)
• Colouring - Distress Inks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• cArtUs border die
• Nitwits Digi Papers 
• Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
• Pearls
• Doily

I've been inspired by:

• NordSalten Hobby Club - Sketch
• Wild Orchid Craft - Lots of layers (5 layers of card plus a doily)

Happy crafting.

Masculine (Oh, noooooo!)

The theme today at Top Tip Tuesday is masculine.

Anyone who visits me often knows I'm worse than hopeless as masculine cards.  I love pink, cute, sparkle, ribbon and flowers too much.  However, it's Father's day this Sunday, so I gave myself a stern talking to and got crafting.

I'm not sure that I'm entirely happy with the finished card, but the image is just perfect for my dad, who's a bit of a DIY enthusiast.

I've used glossy accents on the spanner, and spectacles, added a couple of blue buttons (one spotty and one striped), sneaked in a bit of spotty ribbon (shhh, no one will notice!) and one of my own circular sentiments.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Birdie Brown DIY Dad
• One of my own Freebie Sentiments
• Colouring - Distress Inks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Spellbinders Lacey Circles Die
• Raspberry Road Papers
• Spotty ribbon from my local craft shop
• Spotty and striped buttons
• Embroidery thread
• Glossy Accents

I've been inspired by:

• Simon Says Stamp - Masculine / Father's Day
• Anything Goes - Father's Day
• Here come the boys - Use Ribbon
• Joanna Sheen - Spots (ribbon & button) and Stripes (button)
• Lexi's Creations - Father's Day
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - The Button Challenge
• Papertake Weekly - Hello Boys

Happy crafting.

Jessica

My card for The Stamp Basket today features Jessica from Crafter's Companion. I've also used one of my favourite Wild Rose Studio paper pads and Memory Box Precious Stars.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Jessica from Crafter's Companion
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Always & Forever Wild Rose Studio Papers 
• Neenah Classic Crest White Stamping Card
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• Memory Box Precious Stars Die
• Liquid Pearls
• Crystal Glamour Dust
• Hobby House Snow White pearls
• Super Sheer White ribbon
• Stickles
• Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers
• Gem brad

I've been inspired by:

• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes & not a square
• Hobby House - Anything Goes

Happy crafting

Bunny with Flowers

My card for The Stamp Basket today is another from Wild Rose Studio. I love these little critters!  This one's Bunny with Flowers, and with pretty Wild Rose Studio papers too, I've kept the embellishments to a minimum.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Wild Rose Studio Bunny with Flowers
• Cardworks Card base
• Wild Rose Studio Annabelle's Garden Papers 
• Neenah Classic Crest White Stamping Card
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• Red Bazzill Card
• 15mm Red Satin Ribbon
• Glossy Accents
• Hobby House Snow White pearls
• Hobby House 8mm Pearl Brad
• Memory Box Corner Bow
• Flowers from Wild Orchid Craft

I've been inspired by:

• Wild Orchid Crafts - Lots of layers (5 layers on top of the card base)
• Hobby House - Anything Goes
• Charisma Cardz - Lots of layers (5 layers on top of the card base)

Happy crafting

Barry Spring

StampFairy are sponsoring Stampin' for the Weekend so I've made a card to fit their 'Cute' challenge using an image of Barry the bear.  I have painted him using my Distress Reinkers (I think I did a better job on him than I did on yesterday's puppy), and I gave him a does of glossy accents on the nose and paws.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Barry Spring from Stamp Fairy
• One of my own Freebie Sentiments
• Colouring - Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Distress Inks
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Papermania Lucy Cromwell
• Lacey Circle Spellbinder Nesties
• Fleur de Lis Square Spellbinder Nesties
• La La Land Heart Fence Die
• 15mm Purple Satin Ribbon
• Hobby House Pearls
• Glossy Accents

I've been inspired by:

• The Ribbon Girl - Use a die cut (nestie and fence)
• The Hobby House - Anything Goes

Happy Crafting

Puppy Power

Another just for fun card today, this one was for my friend's birthday, which was yesterday.  I've painted the image with distress reinkers, but not altogether happy as I think the head is too dark and the body is too light.  Still, he's a cutie and hopefully she won't look too critically at my painting skills.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Naughty Puppies from Wee Stamps
• Typed Sentiment (Praying Angel)
• Colouring - Distress Inks
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Papermania Capsual Collection papers
• Spotty Ribbon
• Striped Pink Brad
• Pink Heart Button
• Embroidery thread
• Hobby House Pearls Ruby Mix
• Glossy Accents
• Liquid Pearls

I've been inspired by:

• Sketch Saturday - Sketch
• Joanna Sheen - Spots (ribbon & paper) and Stripes (pink striped brad)
• Craft Your Passion - Haberdashery Items (button, embroidery thread)
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - The letter S (snail, spots, stripes)

Happy crafting.

I've dug out some Wee gems

We're half way through the Kept Sage challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge and I've made a little card using something that I've 'kept safe' since 2005.  They are the little gems in the top left corner of my card, from some hair accessories that I wore on my wedding day.  They came in a set of 6 from Claire's Accessories and you twist the wire spirals into your hair so that only the gems show and sparkle through.  I've kept them in a little tin, meaning to use them for something.  And now finally I have.

I snipped off the wires as they were a bit grubby, and then glued the stone settings onto my card using some Glossy Accents.  They stand quite proud from the card, but then so do the roses and the image is raised on foam pads so really they don't stick out more than anything else.

I think it kind of looks like the girlie in the image is looking up towards them.

Here is what they looked like before:

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Wee Stamps Heidi
• One of my own Freebie Sentiments
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• The Snowman Christmas Papers
• Memory Box Lavish Branch
• Memory Box Party Lanterns
• Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
• Lacey Circle Spellbinder Nesties
• Spellbinders Labels 3
• Spotty Ribbon
• White Satin Ribbon
• Pearl / Diamond hair accessories
• Crystal Glamour Dust
• Glossy Accents
• Liquid Pearls

I've been inspired by:

• Totally Papercrafts - Anything Goes
• Hobby House - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp & Show - The Letter S (snow)
• Allsorts - Here come the girls
• Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes with Flowers

Happy crafting.

Puppy Post

I've got a just for fun card to share today.  I couldn't resist these cute pups, so I've got a couple to share this week, and this is my first. Isn't he ADORABLE.  I just want to scoop him up for a snuggle.  I'm not sure if I've used this paper before, but it's from my favourite Papermania set.

I've also used my distressing tool that I bought weeks ago from my local craft store, The Craft Room, and have not used until now.  I find it really hard to 'ruin' the edges of lovely papers, but I gave it a go.  It's much easier with the little tool than scissors, but it did create quite a bit of powdery paper bits, so in the end I held it directly over the waste bin while I did it.   I think it looks a bit underdone though, not quite one way or the other, so I'll have to have another try.

I love the C&S look of this card, a pretty paper and a small strip of contrast with a border die, and I've kept it free of embellishments, other than some pearls (couldn't resist!), but I didn't think it needed anything else.

The image was painted with my distress reinkers, and I used my shimmer chalks for the clouds.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Naughty Puppies from Wee Stamps
• Colouring - Distress Inks
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Papermania Lucy Cromwell
• Lacey Circle Spellbinder Nesties
• cArt-Us Border Die
• Ribbon
• Hobby House Pearls
• Glossy Accents

I've been inspired by:

• Joanna Sheen - Spots (paper) & Stripes (ribbon)
• The Ribbon Girl - Add a Die Cut (lacey circle nestie and border die)
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• Totally Papercrafts - Anything Goes
• Hobby House - Anything Goes
• Craft Your Passion - Haberdashery Items (sewing)

Happy crafting.

Happy Birthday Mark

I've got a "Just for Fun" post today as it's my brother-in-law's birthday, so I'm sharing the card I made for him.  I was under strict instruction from hubby that it was to contain 'no cute images' (he spoils all my fun!), so I went with a completely clean and simple design with a touch of blue, for a masculine feel.

I die cut the sentiment twice (one in white and one in blue), and embossed the white layer for some definition from the white background.  I matted the white embossed sentiment over a blue one which just gave it a bit of colour from the side.  I added a few pearls (yes I know they're a bit girlie, but I couldn't not add anything, could I?).

This card has gotta be right up there at the top of my C&S list, so I'm off to lie down & recover from a serious case of EWS (Embellishment Withdrawal Syndrome).

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Card Recipe:

• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Cuttlebug Swiss Dots
• Die-Versions Sentiment Die
• Pearls

I've been inspired by:

• Creative Craft - For the Fellas
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• Stampin' for the Weekend - Monochrome
• Sparkles - Monochromatic

Happy crafting.

Bunny Hop

My card for The Stamp Basket features a cute Bunny card from Wild Rose Studio called Bunny Hopping.

I really love the purple accents on this card, and the cute checked papers from Graphic 45. The filigree corner were originally die cut in white, but I coloured them with V17 Copic to match my ribbon, but then I found some purple shimmer paper in a similar colour, into which I punched a fancy border before attaching my checked paper panel.

Finally I added some pearls, and some die cut butterflies (again coloured with V17), but I only stuck the middles down, so that the wings lift up from the base card.

This card was made for someone special in mind.  Her style is quite C&S, in contrast to my normal fussy and floral, so I've tried to keep the card quite clean of embellies.  Hopefully she'll know who she is when she reads this, as it is her birthday TODAY!!!.  (Actually, I sure hope Mr Postman manages to get my card to her before she reads this post, as this could get embarrassing if she's not received it yet!!! LOL).

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Bunny Hopping from Wild Rose Studio
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Secret Garden Patterns & Solids Papers 
• Neenah Classic Crest White Stamping Card
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• La La Lands Filigree Corner Die
• Memory Box Dancing Butterflies
• Martha Stuart Lace Doily Border Punch
• Glossy Accents
• 5mm Purple pearls
• Hobby House 8mm Pearl Brad
• Spotty Ribbon

I've been inspired by:

• Papertake Weekly - Sketch #53
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• Totally Gorjuss - Anything Goes with Flowers
• Crafty Calendar - Things with Wings

Happy crafting

Windy Miller!!

My card for The Stamp Basket today is one that's a little different from my usual pink, purple or aqua style.  

I'm not usually keen on yellow and green, but I've tried to venture outside of my comfort zone as this seemed to be a summery kind of image, perfect for a summer birthday.

The image reminds me of Windy Miller of Candlewick Green.  Anyone else remember him???

I've found a little video of him below to jog the memory.  The setting is not quite the children's program that I remember, but it might make you smile!!!

Enjoy your breakfast porridge !!   ;0)

I can also let you know that The Stamp Basket are having a special weekend promotion on Crafter's Companion stamps this weekend until 9-00a.m. GMT Tuesday and there's 15% off all stamps. Pop your skates on and grab a cute bargain.


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Card Recipe:

• Image - Molly Blooms Whimsical Windmill
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Bo Bunny Surprise Papers
• Neenah Classic Crest White Stamping Card
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• Memory Box Summer Kites
• Liquid Pearls
• Red pearls
• Yellow ribbon

I've been inspired by:

• Crafty Boots - Rainbow colours
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Happy crafting

There's always room for more birthday cake

The theme today at As You Like It Challenge is to use your favourite rubber stamp.  The idea is that we all tend to forget our old favourites sometimes, and so this is a great excuse to dig out that stamp you cannot possibly live without, and remind yourself why you love it!

I've gone back to my stamping roots, as my first introduction to rubber stamps was Penny Black and so I always have a soft spot for these critters.  My favourite characters are the hedgehogs and mice, so I've chosen an image that features one of each character.

I've softly water-coloured my image with my Distress Ink reinkers, and I've used my favourite papers (again) from Papermania (Lucy Cromwell), (current) favourite nestie (floral ovals), and two of my favourite dies (Lavish Branch and Corner bow).

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Penny Black Slapstick Hedgehog Birthday
• One of my own Freebie Sentiments
• Colouring - Distress Inks, copics for highlights on leaf die cuts
• Clouds - Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Papermania Lucy Cromwell
• Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
• Lacey Circle Spellbinder Nesties
• Floral Oval Spellbinder Nesties
• Memory Box Corner Bow Die
• Memory Box Lavish Branch Die
• Organza Gold Ribbon
• Blue Mesh Ribbon
• Pearls
• Glossy Accents

I've been inspired by:

• Bunny Zoe - Case a DT member (Karina's sketch, nestie, ribbon layers, coloured using DIs)
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes

Happy crafting.

Kept Safe

The theme today at ABC Christmas Challenge is Kept Safe, so I've had to dig down to the bottom of my Christmas stash box to find something long forgotten!

I did find a few things that I've not used for a while, and amongst them was a small bag of resin holly leaves that I have had for years. Unfortunately I had ripped off the top of the bag which presumably had the manufacturer's name on it, so I can't tell you who makes them, but I think they are 'Dress it Up' buttons.

I've kept the card quite C&S (this is C&S for me anyway), but couldn't resist adding a big red bow held on by one of my favourite pearl brads.  Unfortunately I didn't have the right shade of red card for the matting layers, so I used white and coloured them with R05 Copic to get a lovely bright red for the die cut border for the green spotty panel, and also for behind the image, edged with green ink pad.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Xmas Hamster from Wee Stamps
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Summer Driggs Winter Gifts Papers
• Red Satin Ribbon
• Pearls
• Glossy Accents
• Stickles
• Hobby House 8mm Pearl Brad
• Resin holly leaf/berry button
• cArtUs border die

I've been inspired by:

• Cute Card Thursday - Tie it up
• Winter Wonderland - All tied up
• The ABC Challenge - N for Not Just One (pearls, ribbon, brad, holly button)

Happy crafting.

I've Fallen Under Your Spell

The theme today at Top Tip Tuesday is numbers.

It was my wedding anniversary last week, and hubster is most insistent that when I make him a card I should not put any kind of cute bear on it whatsoever.  (he spoils all my fun!!).

So, this card has no bears.  I've also kept it C&S so it doesn't have much else on it in the way of embellies either!!

Unfortunately for me, hubby likes zombies, collecting vintage razors, and fantasy / sci-fi books.  Since I think neither zombies or shaving are very romantic for an anniversary card, my card has a fantasy / magical theme.

My typed sentiment says 'I've fallen under your spell' which was the most romantic spell-themed sentiment I could conjure up !!

'Conjure', get it !?

I'll get my coat......

Now as it happens, hubby (who can never remember my birthday but is usually very reliable at remembering when we got married) forgot it was our wedding anniversary until 10pm the night before.  By then the local petrol station / Spar shop was shut so he had to admit that he'd not got me an anniversary card to give me the next day.  He seemed more upset about it than I was, probably because I had already assumed he had forgotten because he'd not mentioned it.  Although I was secretly hoping he was going to surprise me with something nice!!!)

Anyway, he was so upset that when he got home from work the next evening (our anniversary night), he spent an hour at my craft desk using my stuff to make me a card using an image he'd found on the internet.

So when I got home from work later that evening, knowing I like pink and blue (and bears) he handed me this:

He said that colouring it took him ages, and also made his eyes "go funny", so he doesn't think he'll be doing it again.  But he was rather proud of it as a first attempt at card making, especially when I said I'd rather have him make one than buy one from the shops.  :0)




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My Card Recipe (sorry I've no idea where hubby's image comes from to give credit):

• Images - Bugaboo The Chosen One, Sidekick, The Wise One, Magical Tidbits Couldron & Bookshelf
• Typed Sentiment (Scrappy Looking font)
• Colouring - Promarkers, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens
• Is that it?  No flowers, pearls, ribbons, die cuts, pretty glittered papers?  Where's the rest?

I've been inspired by:

• Zombies
• Vintage razors
• Magical fantasy
• Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Camera / Film related (Harry Potter)
• Cupcake Craft - Boys
• Creative Craft - For the Fellas

Happy crafting.

Star Struck

OK, after the last could of attmpts at C&S over the weekend, I'm back to my normal style with a 'just for fun' card today using Mimi Stars from StampFairy.

I've used papers from my favourite pad, and have been practising my water colour painting with my DI reinkers again.  I think I went a bit mad with the yellow, but at least it brings some sunshine into the colour scheme!  She's also printed in grey to soften the lines of the image.

I tried to complement the blue and yellow of the image with the colours of the flowers too.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Mimi Stars from StampFairy
• Typed Sentiment
• Colouring - Distress Inks
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Papermania Lucy Cromwell
• Wild Orchid Craft Flowers
• Memory Box Bistro Label
• Memory Box Precious Stars
• Gingham Ribbon
• Pearls
• Glossy Accents
• Pearl Brad

I've been inspired by:

• Wild Orchid Craft - Sunshine (lots of sunny yellow on my card)
• Creative Craft - Just Checking
• Joanna Sheen - Girls Girls Girls

Happy Crafting

Basketful of Love

Today's card for The Stamp Basket features another Molly Blooms stamp, but this time it's a real C&S style.  I've just used an image, papers, some pearls and a bit of flowersoft.  The papers were so pretty and ornate that I wanted them to form my background for the image.

It kind of feels unfinished, but hopefully you'll like her.

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Card Recipe:

• Image - Molly Blooms Basketful of Love
• Cardworks Shaped Card base
• Papers Wild Rose Studio Annabelle's Garden
• Neenah Classic Crest White Stamping Card
• Momento Stamp Pad Ink
• 5mm, 4mm & 3mm Snow White pearls
• Promarkers

I've been inspired by:

• Passion for Promarkers - Anything Goes
• Joanna Sheen - Girls Girls Girls

Happy crafting