Fall

I haven't made many ATC's at all, but thoroughly loved doing this so really must make the effort to do more.

I made this specifically for

Tilda & Friends ATC Challenge - Fall Back!

Ingredients :-

Owl Stamp - Magnolia Tilda

Colouring medium - ProMarkers~ Vanilla, Shale, Sandstone & Apricot

Branch stamp - Misc.

Leaves Stamp - Misc.

Ink Pad - Versafine Onyx Black

Papers - bits out of my box

Wording - HOTP

This will also fit in with the challenges over at

The Play Date Cafe - Orange/Yellow/Brown

Ad Inspired

365 Cards Day 216 - Ad Inspired
Always another toughy for me as when I look at an ad, I literally just see what is there. What I see does not evolve artistically. I do envy (naughty, I know) some people's ability to do that.
Soooooooo I have just taken the colours and the birds and played my hand.
The chick and sentiment stamps are Snag 'em Stamps by Imaginisce
Ink - Versafine
A small piece of Kay & co cream paper was used to stamp the birds on and I made the flowers stripey with my drawing pen to match one of the papers.
Flat backed pearls from my stash in turquoise added to the blooms to match the piece of DCWV off cut.
Offcuts of tan Bazzill and HOTP b & W dotty paper finish it off.
Large Woodware scallop punch used to punch around the sentiment.

Bookmark 1

Made this bookmark over the weekend for the challenge over at Passion for Promarkers - Emerald & Marine and not a card.
I intend to make a few for Christmas gifts.
It's not awesome but I am sure it will keep someone's place in their book handy to find.
The image is a download from BeeCrafty which I thought perfect for this.
I coloured using the challenge colours plus :- Cool Aqua, Ivory, Vanilla, Pastel Pink, Amethyst, Satin, Apple, Meadow Green, Royal Blue, Sky Blue and Cool Grey 1. It's amazing how many colours you get to use on something which looks to be quite similar in shading.
The Wording is by HOTP
The paper on the back is Kay & Co 'Hopscotch'
Sentiment stamp on the back by Papercraft4you.
Stamped using Versafine Onyx Black
The wording says ' The Way to Know Life is to Love Many Things'
On completion I laminated it and punched a hole in the top for a couple of bits of ribbon from my stash.

Black, White & Silver

2 challenge combo with this card.
Kerries Challenge 4 on the forum - given sketch
Gingersnap Creations 23 - Black, White & Silver

Great sketch Kerrie.
White base card, matte silver paper, black card and silver mirri card from my stash
The giant brads are from Eyelet Outlet
Patterned paper from HOTP
Rub-ons from DCWV Daydream Doodles
Sentiment sticker from QVC
I cut the piece of black card with my new birthday present, my Fiskars border punch

Shape Up!

365 Cards - Day 165
A star must be the dominant shape on the card.
So using a star stamp,star spangled ribbon and paper and a star charm says I did the challenge. :)
The stamp was an old freebie off Craft Stamper magazine and I stamped it 3 times with Adirondack 'Red Pepper' and decoupaged different elements cut from each stamping.
The papers are HOTP. I was being quite brave here using pink and red and I distressed the edges of the red star paper and this is the first time I have done this. I used a Quik Unpick out of my sewing box. A tip I picked up from somewhere. The pink paper I cut and embossed with one of my Nestie Labels
I did add glitter, although it isn't a compulsory element. The top star has Stickles 'Sequins' added to it.
All other bits and bobs are out of my stash.
The only card I have made today, sadly, as my back is particularly bad because I went shopping.....hey ho!!!

365 Cards - Day 141

Super Sketchy Sunday today and here is the sketch.
This was lovely and painless.
Feeling below par atm, like the golf I'm watching. lol!!

But as I type this the sun is starting to shine which makes a blessed relief from the amount of rain we have had lately, so much for our summer!!!
Anyway, I digress....the starting point for this card was the Nestie die cut scalloped oval in two sizes....the only two left in my box of spares. So that shade of pink dictated the rest of the card.
The Card stock is Bazzill Basics, not sure of the shade. The pp's are HOTP, years old, but I throw nothing away, so sometimes you may think my cards look a little dated, lol!! , but I care not a jot. :)
I trimmed the top piece of paper with my Fiskars scalloped border punch 'Threading Water' and forgot to do the bottom piece...doh!!
All pieces had their corners rounded with a corner rounder punch, no less. I added the sentiment by Clarity Stamps inking with Adirondack 'Cranberry'. 2 little flat backed jewels by Papermania were added to the dots on the 'i's'..ribbon from my stash and to finish it off I added two little mulberry flowers, pulling the stems through the knot of the ribbon.
The start of another great week at 365 Cards.

Black, White & Red All Over...

365 Cards - Day 136
These are the only colours that can be used for this challenge.
I had no feminine black or red so with these chosen papers I made a male card for my ex-hubbie's up and coming milestone birthday.
Ingredients:-
Papers - HOTP Paper Flair 'Bold & Black'
Wording - Bo Bunny Press stickers
Image - Googled....this is his trade
Base Card - from stash

Woodware 2" scalloped circle punch
Woodware 1.5" circle punch

Card Recipe

365 Cards Day 128
....is a card recipe...oh! I love these.

Ingredients
1 5x5 card
1 rub-on image
2 buttons
1 pce. patterned paper
1 pce. ribbon (NO bow)
1 sentiment inside the card

I don't buy rub-on pictures, but had this one though for about 4 years and never used as I have never had much success with rub-on pictures especially Royal and Langnickel and binned the lot of them. I kept this because it is PSX but never dared to use it for fear it would end up ruining a card.......but voila! it was successful.
The piece of paper used is by HOTP
Everything else from my stash, the stamp used for the sentiment inside was off eBay and has no make on it.

This took me longer than imagained as I was sat with the one piece of paper in my hand staring at the rub on on the card for sooooooooooo long lol!!...I then came up with the torn window.

Hope this fits the recipe okay.

Piece it together............

365 Cards Day 115
Well this is a first for me....Paper Piecing
I have never tried this before due to the arthritis in my thumbs as I find decoupage bad enough....but...I thoroughly enjoyed it and am pleased with the result. So thank you 365 :-)
Ingredients :-
Stamp - Sugar Nellie 'Talking to the Birds'
Colouring medium - ProMarkers
Main floral paper - Kay & Co. 'Sparkly Sweet'
Dark Pink Paper under image - KH Pink Painted Flat paper
Paper pieces - assortment of HOTP dark pinks and Basic Grey pale pinks
Sentiment stamp - PSX
Mulberry Flowers
1/4" punch
Pink base card and ribbon from my stash.

I pieced the jumper out of a piece of herringbone pattern paper, the skirt out of spotty paper and the hands and spots on the skirt out of plain pink paper.
I placed the pieced hands over the stems to make it look more like she's holding a bunch of flowers.
The flower in her hair and on the branch are the same colour as the mulberry flowers in real life but the scan has bleached the colour out.

Sketch Saturday...just a bit late!

#46 is a great sketch over at Sketch Saturday
I chose to do another card with the cute Walter Owl from Willow Designs.
Also decided it was time to use up some of the paper scraps I have mounting up. Makes you feel real good when you do this.

So here are the ingredients for my card :-
Walter Owl - download from Willow Designs
Pale blue paper - " ditto "
Sentiment - sticker Bo Bunny Press
other paper pieces - scraps of HOTP
Base card, ribbon, and square gems from my stash

Tools used :-
Fiskars border punch
DST
Tombow glue stick

Black & White with a splash of colour

This was our forums' 4th April challenge.
The scalloped tag I made with a 2 1/2"punch and used my Hero Arts circle of dots stamp and an Elzybells sentiment.
Dotty paper is HOTP.
Please note that the marks on the black card are on the glass of my scanner which I really must clean for shame's sake.

Cousins.....

Well this has taken me all afternoon...phew!! why do I get so in a mess doing LO's. My bedroom looks like a battleground and goodness knows where I will sleep tonight LOL!! The cats have been demoted to the garden.
Well as you know this is my 3rd LO and is courtesy of the forum challenge which gives a set LO map each week. I think I'm missing one though.
The card is Bazzill, the paper is HOTP 20228 'Light Blue Flowers On Blue' , the chipboard letters are QVC but I got them off eBay for peanuts.
All other embellishments from my stash.