Circles in inchy form

Playing today with my cuttlebug embossing folders, a background stamp and some ink I've made an inchy for the Inch By Inch challenge, which this week is circles. The circles were stamped onto the inchy by inking up the square background stamp, stamping it onto card embossed with the dots and spots folder and then stamping the background stamp onto white card. It leaves a wonderful negative empression of the dots and spots embossing.



Materials:
Stamp - Whispers square background stamp
Ink - Versa Color pink and blue
Equipment - Cuttlebug / dots and spots embossing folder; pliers
Other - Button; Wire

Buttons Grow on Trees - Didn't You Know?

Buttons are this week's theme for the Papertake Weekly Challenge and I have a very rare button tree for this one :)



Materials:
Image - hand-drawn fine black marker and coloured with promarkers
Paper - Kaboodle Doodles All Star
Other - Cardstock; Computer/printer for wording and parenthesis

Cakes for Meece

It's party time for mice and here is a card for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which has a fab stetch for us this week. The papers are a new kit about to be released from Kaboodle Doodles.



Materials:
Stamp - Penny Black
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Party Picnic
Inks - VersaFine black
Other - Watercolour pencils; Glitter Glue; white cardstock

Sooo Cute

Back in the crafting swing had the urge to alter a photoframe with the Alien Card Kit from Kaboodle Doodles. The photos are of my boyfriend as a little boy - Oh just Sooo Cute.



Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodles Alien Card Kit
Other - wooden photoframe

Normal Services Have Resumed.....

It has been a wonderful week. Haven't had much time to do crafting but have been absorbed in my other obsession/passion in life - Taiji or Tai Chi as most people would probably know it.

At the beginning of the week I packed away my craft table so that we had room for a family friend who was down in London for a week's workshop with the Open University. It was fab to see her. Then my boyfriend and I (luckily we both enjoy Taiji) packed-up to go to a five day workshop ourselves. Five hours of training for five days - marvelous!

Back home now with sore, but happy legs. Craft table is back up and I am chopping at the bit to get started. Took the Kaboodle Doodle papers from Andrea with me to camp for inspiration - so even though I couldn't do any crafting I was still thinking about it :)

So some new cards and stuff will be going up shortly, particularly as I got home to some goodies which I will tell you about later. Meanwhile here is a card a did for a Post Pals Child - Zachary, through the Cardmaking Friends Forum.



Materials:
Pens - Promarkers; fineline black pen; galaxy markers
Card - White cardstock
Stamps - Studio G typeface mini-alphabet
Ink - Versafine black

So a doodle card where I made a doodle car shape template coloured it then placed two onto white cardstock and doodled the passengers. The cars where then cut out leaving a small white border. The sun and clouds where also cut-out and layered onto the background. The greeting was stamped into circles and cut-out and layered onto white card. The whole scene was then placed onto a card front leaving a white border

More felt things

Cake, yummy cake - sorry it is made from felt and beads. This one went on the front of a friend's little girl's birthday card.

So a question for you - what do you call them? Cupcakes or fairy cakes :) If you are old enough and from the UK you probably remember them as fairy cakes? We all seem to call them cupcakes now - did that start in the USA? Or perhaps fairy cakes are just the ones with the little sponge wings - do you remember them?

Talking of cupcakes have any of you seen the amazing cupcakes made by Hanita. She posts them on Flickr you must take a look. She has a blog too.

Birthday Card for my Mum

A new card to post. I made a card for a challenge in May but halfway through making it I decided that it would be a lovely birthday card for my Mum and as I did not want her to see the card before her birthday I have waited 'til now to post this. Of course I then had to make a different card for the challenge but hey ho.



This has to be one of my favourite stamps. It is a Tim Holtz stamp and it was one of those things that as soon as I saw it I knew that I had to have it :) As my Mum has a keen interest in sewing and vintage style, well it was a must for her card as well. The image stamped twice and the woman on one image coloured with watercolour pencils and cut out and layered on the monochrome image with 3D-foam. The patterned cardstock is from the DCWV 'All Dressed up' glamour stack.

Playing with Felt

I haven't posted any sewing for a while as I've been concentrating on the papercrafts. So I thought I would put one of my felt flowers up. Made from felt, embroidery silk and buttons.



I love working with felt, you can get it in so many colours and it looks fab. This flower is to put on a make-up bag but I'm going to make some smaller ones for cards :)

Kaboodle Doodles Altered Box

Just thought I would blog one of the creations I sent to Andrea at Kaboodle Doodles for the design team call. Particularly as I can't do any crafting because my stuff is all packed away at the moment :(
I needed a new buttons box so thought I would alter a large crispbread tin I had been saving to make into something (I horde everything, literally everything). So here is the result. I used some wonderful free download papers Andrea has on her site and scanned some buttons then using Adobe Photoshop Elements put together the label with the lined paper from Kaboodle Doodles. So here is the result:

Before:



After:



Mmmm might need another Buttons box soon, this one is almost full already!

I'm Sooo Excited

Andrea over at I'd Love to Wear a Rainbow has had a Design Team Call up for her papercraft company Kaboodle Doodles and she has picked me to be one of seven. I'm ecstatic! I can't wait to get started. You must go have a look at the papers they are fantastic :)

The other design team members are:

Leann New
Steph Smith
Tracey Vincent
Zoe Stupples
Jo Nevill
Lisa Swift

Go have a look at the lovely blogs of this talented lot :) I can't wait to get to know them all better.

No Excuse Blogging

Been a bit busy recently having to clear away my craft stuff so that we can make room for a guest! So my craft desk, which is a fold-up garden table, is being dismantled and put away :( Therefore thinking about crafting more than doing crafting for the next week. Ho Hum. If you live in a tiny flat.....

But it will be nice to have guests :) And so that is what our living room looks like again :)

New Home Card

Hey all, How you all doing? I've made a New Home card with the fab sketch on the Friday Sketchers blog and for once I've done it at the beginning of the challenge rather than at the end :) As you can see I have used my Cuttlebug again - not that I'm totally obsessed with it or anything.



Materials:
Stamp - Stampendous
Ink Pad - Versafine black
Card - Turquoise textured; White
Equipment - Cuttlebug, spots and dots embossing folder
Others - Ribbon; nail file

Acetate Bookmark

I've been experimenting with my Cuttlebug seeing how different materials emboss - what fun :) So here is how it looks embossing acetate. I've made a bookmark for the challenge on This Thursday, It's All About.... which is looking at making things that have uses. I also took the opportunity to use a fab stamp I have from Inkadinkado of an angel image and Lots To Do has an Angel theme this week so of course I had to enter :)



The image was stamped with Stazon onto acetate that I had tinted with alcohol inks. I then coloured the image on the back with Cosmic Shimmer powders mixed with 3D-glue. The image was then placed on white paper and cut out to be stuck onto the embossed acetate.



Materials:
Stamp - Inkadinkado
Colouring - Alcohol inks stream and butterscotch; Cosmic Shimmer
Equipment - Cuttlebug and script embossing folder
Other - 3D-Glue; White paper

Thank you Tracey and those at This Thursday, It's All About...... for sampling me again, it is a real honour :)

Linked over at the Bookmark Collector (thanks guys) - have a look it is an interesting site of different bookmarks.

Beads On Cards

So here is a card for the wonderful sketch from Katharina on the Papertake Weekly Challenge blog this week. I decided to play around with beads on cards again partly inspired by the little beaded tassels on the card I made for the Whiff of Joy Guest Designer call and partly by my Mum who suggested I had a go at some bead embroidery on my cards.

I love the effect but oh boy do you need patience :) Even for this very simple beaded tasseled border on some organza ribbon. Even so I definitely think I will be doing more cards with beads in the future.



Materials:
Stamps - Hanglar and Stanglar; HOTP
Colouring - Promarkers
Ink pads - VersaFine Black and Sepia
Papers - Me & My Big Ideas
Other - Beads; Brown sparkle card stock; Organza ribbon; Invisible thread; Piercing wheel

Candy, Candy

Candy, Marlene has some Hanglar and Stanglar stamp images AND a stamp to give away on her blog a Lil bit of Me. Go take a look at her cards too - they are fantastic :)


Funky Hand have some fab candy too which includes a whole range of fabby embellishments - but that isn't all, there is also a choice of their wondeful papers :) How cool? Anice is celebrating Two years of the company and has she done a brilliant job?

Whiff Of Joy Guest Designer Call

Katharina is setting-up a new stamp company, Whiff Of Joy, and is looking for some guest designers to join her really talented design team. She has some fantastic stamps coming out designed by Elizabeth Beth and Alison Acton, you should go take a look at her blog: Katharina's Creative Place. There are some sneak peaks at some of the wonderful stamps they plan to launch. Well I thought I would submit a card for the design call :) It would be fun to be a guest designer wouldn't it?

The flower and the wire swirl paperclip are handmade......



Materials:
Stamps - Sarah Kay; HOTP
Stamp Colouring - Promarkers
Ink Pads - Tim Holtz Distress Ink walnut stain; Versa Color Opera Pink
Papers - Basic Grey Sultry; Papermania Exquisite
Equipment - Cuttlebug; Birds and Swirls embossing folder; Crop-a-dile
Others - Wire; white cardstock and paper; Beads; eyelet;

Maggie's Centre Call for Cards

Kath on All That Glitters is asking for help. She is looking for cards to give to Maggie's Centre to raise money for this charity. Maggie's centres help all who have been affected by cancer either directly or not. So pop over to Kath's blog to get the low down of how to get involved.

A Year's Supply of Funky Fairy's Products

Funky Fairy's have an amazing blog candy going on the Inspiration blog - to win a year's supply of their products. Their papers and stamps are fantastic you should go take a look. I've used some of the papers in my papercrafting take a look :)

Knight in Shining Armour

So here is one for you. It was made for the wonderful Blog Candy that Nikki has on her site Nikki's Card Creations. Make a card using one or more of the following: Flowers, Buttons, Ribbon and Patterned paper. She is celebrating here Blogorversary and nearly 30,000 hits. Well Done Nikki.

So here it is it has patterned papers and buttons.






Materials
Stamps: Sugar Nellie; HOTP
Paper: K&Co; hammered gold;
Ink Pads: Walnut Stain distress; Versa color Amethyst; Black Staz-on;
Other Inks: Adironack Alcohol ink Stream and Butterscotch
Card: White cardstock; aubergine bazzill stock; silver mirror
Other: Cuttlebug Script embossing folder; Buttons; nail file; sticky dots; 3-D foam; promarkers

How can such a simple looking card use so much stuff?

Lucky Me

I've been very lucky recently, I've been sent three blog candies over the past few weeks. First came from Nikki over at Nikki's Card Creations, she had some eyelets she had no use for, there were loads and all fabulous (the piccy only shows a small sample of them!). Next I was sent a box of Glamour Designer Chipboard from Nicola at Enjay's Craft Creations - aren't they lovely? But then I'm a lucky girl again and win the wonderful stamp images and fantastic envelope folder from Shaz at Funky Fairy's Papercrafts.

Thank you all so very much - I shall be putting them all to good use :)