Anniversary

It was my OH and my anniversary mid-October and I put all of my love into making this card ;) I've since made other cards using variations on this design becouse I liked it Sooo much, but this was the first.


Materials:
Paper - Basic Grey; K&Co
Ink - Ranger distress ink Walnut stain
Other - Button; thread; fine marker pen; eyelet; crop-a-dile; seam ripper

Christmas Trees

Been playing with my Limitless Limbs stamps from Pink Cat Studio and thinking about Christmas. So here is a card using circles cut from patterned paper stamped with one of the tree stamps.


Materials:
Stamp - Limitless limbs; Studio G Alphabet
Papers - Dovecraft Victorian Christmas
Inks - VersaFine Onyx Black; Rangers Distress Ink Walnut Stain
Colouring - Koh-i-noor Watercolours; H2O Twinkies
Other - Dovecraft Victorian Christmas brads; Circle template;
Usual suspects - Scissors; Trimmers; Silicon glue; double-sided tape

Sassy Crafts DT Call - Round Two

I got through to the second round of the Sassy Cafts DT call. How cool is that? So the next challenge is to make a project without using any ready-made embellishments of any sort. So, for example, you can not use ribbon unless it is to turn into an embellishment. Mmm - Interesting!

I think I went a little mad and decided to do a little embroidery. So the sentiment is stitched onto card and the edges distressed then covered with crackle accents glue. The flowers where cut from the papers, edges distressed and then the centre is an embroidery knot. Just had to stitch a swirl in chain stitch and a buttonhole - a desire to put a buttonhole on a card had just overtaken me :) The two mini-buttons are also cut from the papers, edges distressed and covered again with crackle accents.



Materials:
Papers - K&Co. Classic K Bailey, McKenna and Life's Journey
Inks - Distress inks Walnut Stain; Tea Dye
Other - Embroidery thread; Needle; Pin; Inssentials Crackle Accents; White hammered card; silicon glue; Scissors; Paper trimmer; Cut-N-Dry Foam

Be Ready To Be Spooked - Kaboodle Doodle Style

There are some Spooky goings on other at the Kaboodle Doodle challenge blog this week with some free downloads to boot. Anyone having a spooky Halloween party would be glad of this scary banner. So get your costumes on and go satisfy that sweet tooth.....but beware of the bogey man!

I would do an evil laugh a this point but I'm not very good at them.



Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Halloween kit
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Other - ribbon; staples; glue

Take Care Of Your Garden

A Blooming Marvellous card for an avid Gardener, with a bit of a gardening twist. The card uses the Kaboodle Doodle Blossom Berry Bright kit with a watering can stamp from Elzybells Art Stamps. I had fun glittering the sentiment and the flowers on this one.

I made this a while back now for a birthday this month and I've been sitting on it so that it got to it's recipient before I posted it on my blog :) I made it such a long time ago that I almost forgot about it and just remembered before I made another one for the same person! Do you do that?


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Blossom Berry Bright Kit
Stamp - Elzybells Art Stamps
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers; Glitter
Other - Glitter; ribbon

Holly tree For BasicGrey Challenge

A Christmas card for the BasicGrey challenge this week which is about stitching. So look closely and you will see the stitching on the ribbon :)

The stamp is from Pink Cat Studio which I managed to get from Dies to Dies For. I had been desperately wanting these fabby stamps and the lovely Tracy stocks them :) There is just all sorts of combinations you can make with this plate of stamps I just didn't know where to start!

Do you get obsessed as I do about a crafty want? Just got to have it :) Desperately 'need' some nestibilities and a scor-pal at the moment (just don't tell my boyfriend).



Ps. If you are looking to get these fab stamps too just take a look here (you might recognise the card! - thanks Tracy). She stocks Copic pens as well - Mmmm adding those to my wishlist :)

Materials:
Stamp - Pink Cat Studio Limitless Limbs
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - Twinkies H20
Papers - BasicGrey sultry
Other - Ribbon; brown sparkly card; white hammered card; circle template

Birthday Pink

The card today is for the competition over at Poppicrafts. The competition is open until the 31st Oct and the prize are some beautiful flowers. The theme is 'no images' in any combination of pink, green, black, white. Well I decided to go for all four colours - I'm greedy like that :)



Materials:
Papers - DCWV; the patterned paper is from a friend so I'm not sure where it is from
Inks - VersaColor pink, green
Other - embroidery threads

Sassy Crafts DT Call

I thought I might have a go at the DT call going on for Sassy Crafts. The challenge is to make three projects as outlined on the Sassy Crafts blog:

1 - A stamped project:
A new Christmas card for you.


Materials:
Stamp - Sugar Nellie; HOTP
Papers - Basic Grey; note paper
Colouring - Derwent pencils and sansodor
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black; Adirondack Rust
Other - Glitter glue; Fimo clay; brads; Flower soft


2 - A favourite piece
It is difficult to pick a favourite piece, my thoughts change daily on the matter! But here is one I made a few months ago. I love how the embossing works on the designer paper and highlighted with inks. Then there was the fun I had with the flower, wire, tab and beads as well.


Materials:
Stamp - Sarah Kay; HOTP
Colouring - Letroset Promarkers
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black; VersaColor pink; Distress ink Walnut Stain
Papers - BasicGrey Sultry
Equipment - Cuttlebug and embossing folders; Crop-a-dile
Other - Beads; eyelet; metallic thread; wire


3 - A project that contains 4 squares, 3 small and 1 large
And not that I'm getting Christmas obsessed or anything but here is another Christmas card :)


Materials:
Papers - BasicGrey Mellow; 7Gypsies
Inks - Distress Inks Walnut Stain, fired brick; tea dye; peeled paint
Other - Shapes designed by me; Cardboard; Seam ripper

Rock It With Kaboodle Doodle Challenge Eight

The challenge over at Kaboodle Doodle is Rock and Roll. So get your thinking caps on. You can use anything that makes you think of Rock and Roll in your project - well for me that is guitars. I used this Sugar Nellie stamp and the fabby Halloween Kit from Kaboodle Doodle for my creation. The embellishment is a beer bottle top from my scavenging activities.



Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle Halloween Kit
Stamp - Sugar Nellie; Studio G Alphabet
Colouring - Letraset Promarkers
Inks - VersaFine Onyx Black; Distress Ink Black Soot
Other - Fine Marker pen; Beer cap; 3D Glue

Gorgeous Papers

We all love beautiful papers don't we? Have you seen the papers from Webster's Pages? This was one of those blog-hopping accidental finds, the papers are stunning but I haven't quite worked out how to get them in the UK.

They are launching a new range with some candy - it is gorgeous so go take a look here. With any luck they will send it out internationally :)

Candy Call

Some lovely folks are offering some lovely candy:

Silly Monkeys Craft has some candy to go with their DT announcement until 6pm today.

A beautiful card and Whiff of Joy Stamp on Le Blog De Scrapmumur until 17th Oct.

Martine is celebrating 10k hits on The Craft Table until 18th Oct.

It is Natalie's Blogoversary at Crafting Fun until the 18th Oct.

Wish Granted Wednesday at Cake, Cocoa and Gossip until 22nd Oct.

Some lovely eyelets on Kristin's blog Retro Cafe Art until 31st Oct.

Paul is celebrating 15k hits over at Crafty Blogocks until 31st Oct.

Thank you all very much for sharing with us Crafty blogovites.

It Is Going To Be A Pink Christmas

The Christmas cards are coming along slowly.... I've made one or two - is it cheating to use leftovers from last year?

I'm loving distressing papers at the moment. I don't have a specialised tool such as the Tim Holtz widgit or the Heidi Swapp pacman (don't you think it looks just like a pink pacman?) but I do sew and my seam ripper does the trick and is a lot cheaper and easier to get hold of seeing as any haberdashery shop should have one.

The lovely stamped image is one of Alison Acton's lovely illustrations available from Whiff of Joy and was coloured using my Derwent colour pencils and sansodor to blend. Glitter glue finished the trim and silver metallic gel pen for the bell on the Cat's ribbon. The sentiment was also coloured with the pencils.

For the background I used a 4" by 4" piece of textured card cut into smaller pieces and coloured with the same pencils and blending technique as for the stamped image. The outside edge of the 4" by 4" was over-stamped with the HOTP swirl in silver. Finally each edge of the smaller pieces was distressed with the seam ripper.




Materials:
Stamp - Whiff of Joy; HOTP Sentiment
Ink - VersaMark; VersaColor Silver; VersaFine Onyx Black
Papers - Homemade
Colouring - Derwent Colour pencils; Sansodor; Inscribe Pastels
Equipment - Seam ripper; Cuttlebug; Cuttlebug snowflake emboss and die
Other - Foam pads; silicon glue; Stipple brush; Stickles Glitter Glue; Sliver Gel pen

The Challenge That Keeps on Giving.....

In the Summer I joined in a fab challenge run by Susan Daly. Susan sent me, and others around the blogosphere, some fabby Stampin'Up goodies with the idea that we make some projects with the goodies and blog them. In my last blog one of the comments I got suggested using the paper for a Christmas card - What a good idea - so here you are.



Materials:
From Stampin'Up Susan Daly
Papers - Gold, green double sided papers, red card

From My Stash
Stamps - HOTP swirl and sentiment
Inks - VersaMark; Distress Ink Walnut Stain; VersaColor Gold
Other - Ink it up gold embossing powder; Seam ripper; Black card

There Will be Blue Birds......

A quick make card for general use here with the lovely Bewitching kit from Designs by Krista. I think I might have said before that I love the papers in this kit.

Feeling a little nervous today - I have to go to get my first ever filling at the dentist - I had hoped that I would get to forty with no fillings but just missed the mark by 1 year 5 months - Boooooo!


Materials:
Papers - Designs by Krista Bewitching Kit
Stamp - Imaginisce
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Other - glitter glue

Kaboodle Doodle the Seventh

Ah the week begins on Sunday with the new challenge from Kaboodle Doodle. This week it is all about the tags :) Here is mine and it uses the fab All Star kit for girls.


Materials:
Papers - Kaboodle Doodle All Star
Other - glitter; ribbon

Again with the New Home Cards

So as I am on a new home theme here is one I made ages ago. In fact it has been a while and I'm having diffculty remembering what products I used so excuse me if I forget anything :)


Materials:
Papers - K&Co
Inks - Distress ink brick red, grey, green
Stamp - Autumn Leaves; Stamps Away alphabet
Other - Fineline marker; raffia; 3D-glue

New Home Cards

For some reason I really like making new home cards. I don't know why but I just do.

Forgive me for the rubbish photograph but the front of the card is meant to look like the view from inside the house. Inside the card, and you could see it through the 'window' if it wasn't for the light glare, there is a sentiment written in the same paper as the 'wallpaper'.



Materials:
Paper - DCWV Glamour
Other - Ribbon; Cocktail sticks; black brush pen; glitter glue; black, White card

Candy

Emma on News, Gossip and Giggles has some Papermania goodies up for grabs, the lucky girl is a brand manager for Papermania and X-cut AND she is expecting :)

More Christmas Cards

Another Christmas card, this one is for the Basic Grey challenge blog which this week is all about the Scallops. All the scallops have been hand scalloped (is that a verb? I scallop, you scallop, he scallops, we all scallop) using a circle template, scissors and craft knife and can be found on the long sides of the patterned paper, the circle with the poinsettia mounted upon it and then the bottom of the card itself. Do you think that is enough scalloping for one card?



Materials:
Paper - Basic Grey Dasher
Inks - Distress Ink green
Others - Ribbons; Gems; Stickles Glitter glue
Equipment - Circle template; scissors; craft knife

Candy

Christmas has come early - Emma has some yummy candy on her blog at Elf - Creation.

A lovely brown 70's fabric is up for grabs on Gilly's fab sewing blog Silly Gilly.