Blog Candy

Some fabby Candy to go check out:

Desire on Doing life has a fab guessing game running till the end of October

A Wedding Card

A card for a wedding today, using the lovely Blossom Berry Bright kit from Kaboodle Doodle, I love this kit, and a stamp from Elzybells Art Stamp. This one is using the fab sketch from this week's Friday Sketchers. You can't see it too well in the photo but I used co-ordinating glitter on the dress, flowers, hat, waistcoat and cravat.

AND get this - I was drawn in last week's draw on Friday Sketchers and won the fab Hero Arts background stamp. How lucky am I? It was quite a shock, I was just checking out the site for this week's sketch and saw my name - so was not expecting that :)


Materials:
Stamp - Elzybells Art Stamp
Paper - Kaboodle Doodle
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers
Inks -VersaFine Black
Other - Glitter; Shades of purple Bazzill cardstock; Cuttlebug and Dots embossing folder

Autumn falls and a missed Challenge

Oh bless me. I am, as my friends would say, being special :) I looked at the Papertake Challenge on Monday (yesterday) saw that it is had an Autumn theme and went off and made this card using the Tweet Kit from Designs by Krista and my favourite stamp at the moment which is from Whiff of Joy. Only to go back to the site and find that I was a week late and Autumn was last week's theme and this week there is a sketch - D'oh.


Materials:
Stamp - Whiff of Joy
Papers - Designs by Krista
Inks -VersaFine Black; Distress inks Walnut Stain
Other - Sepia finemarker; Cuttlebug and leaf dies

Tearing Thanks

Having enjoyed tearing up for the Kaboodle Doodle Challenge this week, I carried on tearing. Here is a thank you card using Designs By Krista's Bewitching kit. I absolutely adore this kit. I love the turquoise and ruby together with the black - yummy. Think you will be seeing some more of this kit.
Anyway the card isn't for any particular challenge I just wanted to do it. Tearing is fun :)


Materials:
Papers - Designs By Krista
Other - Pearl Brads; Ribbon

Kaboodle Doodle Third Challenge

Week number three for the Kaboodle Doodle Challenge blog and this week it is all about tearing. So go on rip it all to peices :)




Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Berry Bright
Inks - VersaColor Amethyst
Other - Stickles Eucalyptus

Another Christmas Card

This one is for Friday Sketchers and uses some of Krista's papers but actually not a Christmas set but her gorgeous Cabana set which has more of a Summer feel to it.



Materials:
Stamp - snowflake homemade; Personal Impressions
Papers - Designs by Krista Cabana
Other - Acetate; Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder; snowflake brad; cord; glitter; embossing glue; heat tool

Kaboodle Doodles Sponsors the ABC Challenge

Hi All, just to let you know that Kaboodle Doodle is sponsoring this week's challenge from ABC Challenge which this week is H for Holidays. The DT work is fab, go check it out.

Inchies, Two of Two

Second inchy of the day and there is an Autumn theme at Inch by Inch.



Materials:
Paper - basic grey; coloured vellum
Ink - versafine ink; distress ink walnut stain
Stamp - leaves Avec
Other - emboidery silk; cuttlebug mini tag die

Inchies, one of two

So some mini 'art' for you :) This one is for the Small World of Inchies blog which has a celestial theme.


Materials:
Paper - coloured vellum; handmade paper; origami paper

Candy

Some fab candy up on Scrap Bitz offered by Suzanne. She is celebrating 20,000 hits with a fab give away.

Some more fabulous candy up on Nikki's blog Bunny-Zoe.

And some fabby candy on Crissy's blog Crissy's Art and Heart.

New Basic Grey Challenge Blog

A new challenge blog comes our way and this one is for the lovely Basic Grey papers. This week their challenge is buttons. Here is a card that I have made for my amazing Granny, to hopefully cheer her up after an illness.



Materials:
Stamp - Sugar Nellie
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Ink - VersaFine Black
Papers - BasicGrey Mellow
Other - Cuttlebug, leaves die; Buttons; brads; embroidery silk; stickles glitter glue

Daring Strawberry

A sketch from Daring Cardmakers this week. From being in Autumn to a quick drop back into summer for this card :)


Edit - Katy, the Editor of the fab mag Craft Stamper, has started a new blog and is looking for samples of the cover stamps in use. She has very kindly sampled this card on the CS blog :) Thank you.

Materials:
Stamp - Free From Craft Stamper Mag
Colouring - Trinkies H2O
Ink - VersaFine black, versacraft white
Other - red and white card; Cuttlebug; American Craft ribbon

Candy Call

There is some Whiff of Joy candy over at Inge's blog Patterned Paper - she has a fab stamp on offer, go take a look. :)

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