Autumn Cards

I do love Autumn colours. I love all the seasons' colours when it comes down to it but it is particularly fun to work in Autumn colours isn't it? So here is an Autumn card for a friend who's birthday is in September and I've entered it for this weeks Stamp Something challenge.

What is your favourite season for colours?


Materials:
Stamp - Free from Craft Stamper Magazine; Stamp Always
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers
Other - Ribbon; orange bazzill cardstock, black cardstock

Kaboodle Doodles Second Challenge

It's Sunday and challenge posting day for Kaboodle Doodle. To celebrate the first challenge and all the beautiful entries with the free download, Andrea has decided to reward everyone who entered with a paper download of their choice - Wahoo :) Isn't she lovely?

Go check out Kaboodle Doodle's second challenge over on the challenge blog. This week the theme is spots - your creation needs to encompass spots somewhere in the design. This challenge will run for a week and the winner, drawn by a random number generator, will get a free download :) Well worth joining in.


Materials:
Stamp - Sugar Nellie
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle All Star
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Inks - VersaFine Black; Distress Inks Walnut stain, Tea
Others - Buttons; White cardstock; Cuttlebug and Dots embossing folder

Let Sleeping Cats Lie

Elizabeth has started to put challenges up on the Elzybells blog. The challenges are fab sketches using Elzybells wonderful stamps and the DT cards are beautiful so go check it out.

Here is my humble attempt :)


I love paper piecing with these stamps.


Materials:
Stamp - Elzybells
Colouring - paper piecing and Letraset promarkers
Ink - VersaFine black
Papers - PaperMania Exquisite; A present from a crafty friend, I think they might be from Lakeland
Other - white, pink and black cardstock; Ribbon; Fiskers eyelet hammers

Can't See The Wood For The Trees

I've never tried free machine embroidery before, not a whole project - I've played around with stitching but never actually made something. Well that is until now. The project came from Stitch Magazine issue 49 and was written by Tracy Curtis - the instructions were really easy to follow and inspired me to give it a go. So here is my first attempt at free machine embroidery and it was really fun to do - thanks Tracy.

I've yet to frame the piece but I thought I'ld blog it anyway. It is not a card - but you could make it into a card :)

Another New Challenge For Me

This card is for my first entry for the Tilda and Co challenge which this week is about embossing. Not being a girl of many words we go straight to the card :)


Materials:
Stamp - Magnolia
Colouring - Derwent Inktense pencils
Inks - VersaColor Pink; Versafine black; Distress Ink walnut stain
Papers - Life's Journey; BasicGrey Sultry
Other - Wire; Lakeland material flower; Cuttlebug; Stickles glitter glue

Spreading Sunshine

Some sunshine for you all with this card using the Papertake Weekly Sketch and Designs by Krista Southern Sunrise papers. Still hanging on to the Summer as best I can :)

The swirl was made by printing the flourish embellishment from Krista's kit onto inkjet acetate, cutting it out and layering on top of a paper flower fixing with the brad. I like the translucent affect you get :)

Materials:
Stamps - Stampin'Up; HOTP
Papers - Designs by Krista Southern Sunrise
Colouring - Watercolour pencils
Inks - Versafine Black; Versacolor blue and orange, distress inks weathered wood
Other - printable acetate; pearl brad

Hen Nights

How about a card celebrating a hen night? Well here is one that I made with Kaboodle Doodle papers for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge which has a Stars and Stripes theme and, coincidentally, an engagement announcement :)


Materials:
Stamp - Penny Black
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle All Star
Colouring - Watercolour pencils; Letroset Aqua-promarkers
Inks - versafine black; distress ink walnut stain
Other - fine marker

Purple Kisses

Another new challenge blog for me - the Sarah Kay Weekly Challenges. I've never taken part before but I thought I would give it a go this week with the purple and green theme they have and these lovely Designs by Krista papers. I have my sewing machine out at the moment so thought I would use some stitching.



Materials:
Stamp - Sarah Kay
Papers - Designs by Krista 'Tula'
Ink - VersaColor Olive; Versafine black
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Other - Sewing machine; pearl brads

Fluttering By....

So a new card for you. This one using Designs by Krista papers from her Tula kit. This one uses this week's sketch from Friday Sketchers.



Material:
Papers - Desgins by Krista
Card - cream cardstock
Inks - Versa color Blue, Distress ink Walnut stain
Other - Sewing machine

Aliens Amongst Us

I love this set from Kaboodle Doodle - it is the alien papers and I've used them with the sketch from Sketch Saturday. I'm new to this challenge blog - I love finding new challenges.

Talking of new challenges you still have a week to enter the Kaboodle Doodle challenge with it's fab FREE papers.


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle
Stamp - Stamps Away
Inks - VersaFine Black

Loving These Papers....

Another card using the the Sugar Pie kit from Designs by Krista.


Materials:
Stamp - Sarah Kay
Papers - Designs by Krista Sugar pie
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Inks - VersaFine Black; Distress ink walnut stain
Others - Ribbon; eyelets

More Exciting News....

I'm honored to be on another design team! Krista designs beautiful digital scrapbook papers, embellishments and kits and I count myself lucky to be on her design team working with these beautiful papers on card layouts. Krista's shop is called Designs by Krista and she also has a blog.

You guys should go take a look the downloads are really easy to use and look fab on cards and scrapbook pages. Here is a card made with Krista's Sugarpie kit.


Materials:
Papers - Designs by Krista Sugarpie
Stamp - Sarah Kay; HOTP
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Inks - VersaFine black; Distress ink Walnut stain; Anna Griffin pink

Sewing Embellishments

I had the urge to do some sewing - a touch of embroidery and this week Papertake Weekly has a stitching theme - real or faux. So here is a little embroidery strawberry for you - not that I am trying to hold onto summer or anything.




Materials:
Paper - made by me
Card - white cardstock
Other - embroidery threads; cotton calico; metal frame; wadding; finemarker

What Happened to Wednesday?

I seem to have lost a day. I honestly thought it was Wednesday today. Oops. So I think that this ATC is particularly apt for me today. This one is for Think Monday, Think ATC which this week has a watches theme.



Materials:
Paper - Kaboodle Doodle
Inks - VersaColor Pink; Distress ink Walnut Stain; VersaFine Sepia
Stamp - Studio G alphabet
Other - Pearl brad

Christmas Angels

I was naughty and bought some Core'dination papers recently. Couldn't wait to try them out so I used them for this week's Friday Sketchers Challenge which has a fab sketch from Carole.




Materials:
Stamp - Whiff of Joy, HOTP
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Inks - Versafine black, Versacolor White, blue and purple
Card - Blue cardstock; Core'dinations
Equipment - printed sentiment; Cuttlebug
Other - wire; snowflake charm

More Summer Challenge

As Summer starts to drift away - being a not quite sunny August bank holiday in the UK - I have another make from the Mystery Pack sent to me by Susan Daly.



Instructions:
For this one, I cut four equal sized squares from the double sided patterned papers and aged the edges with the distress ink. The squares were arranged onto the green card as shown and the edges of this card also distressed. The 'Hello' was cut from the same green card - and yes, distressed again! For the finishing touches I coloured the arrow with a red promarker and you guessed it, the edges distressed :)


Materials:
From Stampin'Up - Susan Daly
Papers - Stampin'Up green card and double sided papers
Others - Chipboard arrow

From My Stash -
Ink - Rangers Distress Inks Walnut stain
Other - Letroset promarker

Kaboodle Doodles Challenge Blog Goes LIVE

Hey everyone, the Kaboodle Doodles Challenge blog is live from today and your first challenge is to make something from the free download papers available on the blog - Wahoo.
The first challenge will last for two weeks and then after that the challenges will be once a week.

Here is what I made with the papers:


The design team has made some great stuff go take a look and of course
take part.

Enjoy.

Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Challenge blog papers
Stamp - Free from a magazine
Ink - VersaFine black
Colouring - Galaxy markers

Blog Candy

Debbie has some fab blog candy over at her blog... go take a look.

Kaboodle Doodle Excitement

There is some major excitement going on with Kaboodle Doodles. Not only has Andrea got new kits coming out but there is a new challenge blog starting this Sunday 24th August 2008.

The first challenge will be to make something with free papers available to download from the blog on Sunday - FREE PAPERS and I've been using them and they are fab!

There is also a chance to win some Kaboodle Doodles downloads at Papertake this week with one of Katharina fab sketches:

Summer Challenge

Well as promised here is a make from the fab Mystery pack I received from Susan Daly as part of her Summer Challenge. There will be more makes on the way but this is the first.



To Make:
Matt and layer the patterned paper onto cream card and draw faux stitching around the edge. Cover a chipboard flower with the same paper and use the button with an embroidery thread bow in the centre. Layer the patterned paper and card onto red card and edge the bottom with a lace trim. The flower was stuck to the lace with silicon glue and a label was made with the metal tag and stamping onto cream card and held in place with brads.

Materials:
From Stampin'Up - Susan Daly
Paper - Patterned paper
Card - red card
Other - Chipboard Flower; Button; Metal tag frame

From my stash -
Stamp - Studio G alphabet stamps
Card - cream card
Other - Lace trim; Embroidery thread; brads; pen; versafine ink