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365 Cards Day 263 - Ad Inspired

Take inspiration from the ad to produce a card

Gorgeous ad and I felt I could find something straight away

 

All papers are scraps and mag freebies the stamped flower is Hero Arts and embossed with clear emb. powder over Adirondack Stonewashed Ink

I handstitched the piece of folded Kraft paper to look like a Roman blind

Rub-on letters are Doodlebug

Another Fall...

I don't think I've ever made so many Fall cards, but I do love the colours at this time of year.

This card is for 365 Cards Day 256 - Perfect Pair ~~to use Buttons & Rick Rack

The card came about by wanting to do something different with buttons.  I hope they will pass for leaves.

Stamp - Carolines

Ink - Adirondack  'Rust'

Paper - My Mind's Eye 'Bloom & Grow'

Text printed out in Word

Chalk to smoosh around edges

Rick Rack & buttons  from my stash

Celebrate the Season

I had a birthday gift of 2 Whiff of Joy stamps and thought it about time I joined in the challenges over there.

So this card is for Whiff of Joy Challenge #53 - Red, Cream and one other colour

I love this cute mouse.

I paper pieced the hat and the  bow on the top of it

A flat backed pearl was added to the centre of the  bow

The image was coloured with ProMarkers

Sentiment stamp - Hero Arts

Ink - Adirondack Red Pepper

Fiskars border punch used to edge the red card

Cream base card, paper, red card and ribbon from my stash

Blue Christmas

Not much going on in my little part of the world.
Weather is dreary and my purse is empty after getting my car repaired to get it through it's MOT...these things are sent to try us.
I did manage one card though and it is a blue Christmas card to go with my mood.
I used the great sketch from Sketch and Stash challenge 21
and if I'm not too late this will fit in perfectly with Crafty Creations 37 - Blue ~~( Too Late :(  )

Stamp Something - Bling It Something

I dug out all my old Christmas papers from last year and I refuse to buy anymore until these are all used up.
The new stash are the die cut snowflakes the, large one I covered in Doodlebug Sugar Coating glitter, and the snowflake stamp by Dawn Bibby which I stamped onto the faux silk paper which I made for another challenge somewhere ??? I also added glitter to this before the glue dried and it is lovely and sparkley.
Denim by Adirondack was used to stamp the snowflake.

Let's hope I can get a few more made today eh???

Silent Night

Another chance to make a Christmas Card over at Stamping Sisters in Christ - The challenge is to make a card or project featuring the nativity or other religious theme about Christ's birth.

I chose to try an arty style for Christmas, which is definitely different.

Paper - Basic Grey 'Wassail'
Overstamped in
Adirondack 'Winter Sky'
Using
Christmas message stamp by Stamps Away
Flourish stamp by Stamp Attack stamped in Adirondack 'Rust'
Nativity Scene by Clarity Stamps also stamped in Rust and the figures filled in with brown chalk.
The whole card edged with sponging in Adirondack 'Butterscotch'
Sentiment cut out of a magazine page of sentiments, mounted on card and edged with Butterscotch.
Ribbon from my stash.
Thanks for stopping by.

Colour Scheme

365 Cards Day 229 - Colour Scheme

It took a while for me to find the colours for this challenge as they didn't show up on the 365 blog so had to blog hop to see if anyone had put them up.
I've had huge probs with viewing some peoples pics and it's driving me mad. It's such a shame when I cannot see what some have been up to all these weeks, but hey ho! that's Blogger for you or, maybe, my server???

This card was quickly put together for this challenge as I'm not in crafting mode.
The die cut and embossed cream card was sent to me along with a pile of other colours from a crafty buddy CarolAnn off a forum Wish.
I chalked the vines in green ans the owl in light brown, they just about show up in the scan.
Mounted on peach/apricot coloured card from my stash
The sentiment stamp by Stampendous was inked with Adirondack 'Butterscotch'
Gems added to the sentiment and owl's eyes.
Leaf embelishments from my stash to finish off for an autumn feel to the card.
If I'm not too late - which is my wont, this will also fit in with Secret Crafter #53 Autumn Colours and The Pink Elephant #36 - Fall

Two Techniques

365 Cards Day 224 - Two Techniques ~~Layering & Fussy Cutting to create a foreground and background on the card.

I'm not sure whether I have complied with the rules of the challenge as my layering is stamp layering of a sort, not layering of cut out pieces. I did do fussy cutting though, that dragonfly was eye boggling to cut out and he did lose half a foot in the process. The back ground is brayered and the dragonfly is mounted on dimensionals
All stamps are Clarity Stamps except the grass which is Posh Impressions
Glossy Cardstock from Clarity Stamps
Inks are Adirondack Bottle, Denim and Autumn Sunset and Versafine Onyx Black.
Wings of dragonfly coloured with Copics in blue and green
Low tack masking tape used to mask around the each side of the card
Because I used glossy cardstock the ink has puddled slightly on the boat image.  It's a learning curve and I will know next time to use less

Happy October

Another month gone, and autumn is knocking on the door. It has been very cool today albeit with a bit of sunshine to cheer the soul. The leaves are starting to change and it is my favourite time of the year.
But my favourite blog of the year has given me a headache today.
365 Cards Day 215 - 4 Elements
To divide the card into 4 parts representing the 4 elements of water, fire, earth and air.
Phew!!...no pressure then. I thought and thought about this and our Designer Amy put up a beautiful take on this, but I didn't want to do the obvious 4 squares, although I was truly impressed and very tempted.
On choosing how I would do my 4 portions I then had to look for papers...oh! my..earth was simple, I just had to use this great paper from Basic Grey 'Archaic' pad as it reminds me of boulders. Also fire was no big deal because I knew the new Basic Grey 'Indian Summer' had just the fiery sort of paper I needed. So then the rummaging started and I came upon a piece of shiny advertising media that had come through the post that I had squirreled away for just this moment in time. It featured the perfect picture of water. But then I was stumped, I had nothing that would denote air. No cloud stamps, or puffing wind stamps...you know the god with big puffy cheeks blowing, all these were in my mind.
I finally decided upon this tiny anon. stamp of stars so just stamped away with Adirondack 'Denim' until I was happy.
The resulting card once all layered up looked terrible, nothing linked anything together and of course, the colours didn't look well together, ....it needed words, everything needs words, I'm a wordy person...as you can tell. Nothing came to my mind until I thought of printing the actual element words using my Dymo Letra tag. On placing the first 'earth' I knew they had to be in some semblance of order so as not to look all over the show. So stepped them upwards.
Still not finished...it had to be a card I could send to someone, so brought out my trusty PSX Pixie sets and used the two sentiments to finish it off.
Now you know why I have a headache to start October off with. :D
Phew!! this turned out to be a saga, sorry folks, you can wake up at the back now!! I've finished.

White Space.....2

365 Cards Day 214 - White Space
My heart always lurches when I see this challenge theme, but I think I'm at last getting my head round it.
So This time I went for less is more.
The idea for the card is from a Clean and Simple sketch I saw some time ago and pencilled into my book.
The stamped flowers are Hero Arts 'Real Carnation'
Inks - Adirondack 'Lettuce' and 'Wild Plum'
Sentiment stamp by Stampology
Ink used - Versafine Onyx Black
I popped in a little bit of Adi. 'wild plum' into the heart and flower with a Marvy Le Plume Blender pen.
Lush magenta and black ribbon from my stash....voila! job done.

Who would believe that that is another whole month of cards done. :O

Out of Africa

365 Cards Day 209 - It's a Jungle Out There
I had something in mind for this and did the best to try and put my idea onto card.
Paper - Basic Grey
Stamp - 'Africa' by Stampabilities
Grass and Leaves stamp - Clarity Stamps
Vine Stamp - Clarity Stamps
Sentiment Corner Stamp - Clarity Stamps...I think you will gather I love these
Inks - Adirondack 'Pesto' & 'Lettuce', Versafine Onyx Black
Base card from my stash

I wanted to play about with a direct to paper technique and masking to make bushes with my grass stamps and to have the zebra looking out....I sort of got there, but it was a bit laborious to cut the masks around the blades of grass and leaves.
It was hard to think how to put a sentiment on there, not sure I chose right
It's not a bad effort, even though I say so myself.

Life is Sweet

Well I feel a bit better about my cardmaking today, maybe because the sun shone for a while and unseasonably warm too...lovely!!!
So today for 365 Cards Day 192 - So Sweet - the card is to have the word sweet on it and The Cuttlebug Spot 47 - 'It's for the Birds' to feature a bird.
Even though it's summery I felt autumny colours coming on.
The card base is kraft card by Lakeland.
The paper with the birdie is a great free download from DoCrafts - http://www.docrafts.co.uk/. I pierced around the edges and drew a pen along the holes to look like stitching.
I embossed a piece of lovely orange card in my Bug and cut the edge with my new Fiskars border punch 'Apron Lace' which I had for my birthday off a dear crafty buddy.
The sentiment stamp was inked with Adirondack 'Raisin' but surprisingly bled into the paper, it makes it just look more rustic.
A piece of Anita's sticky ribbon across the top and 3 buttons from my mum's tin with embroidery floss through the holes finished it off.
Job done!

Flight of Fancy

I was using my new(to me) owl stamp from Magnolia Tilda and remembered there was a challenge somewhere for wings so hope I've made the deadline for Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge 'Flights of Fancy'.
I stamped the owl on a little piece of Basic Grey then coloured the eyes in with a white liner pen.
The branch stamp and seperate leave are all misc. in my drawer and I used several shades of Adirondack to stamp them up.
The heart sentiment is a download from Pink Petticoat.
Ribbon and butterfly charm from my stash.

Movie Monday

365 Cards Day 184, and Movie Monday has to feature 'Pretty In Pink'.
Now I have never seen this movie so googled it and read about 2 sentences to get a quick idea. I didn't want to read too much as I would then get bogged down with 'stuff'.
Basic Grey 'Sugared' papers were used and I stamped this great PaperArtsy image in Adirondack 'Raisin'.
A couple of men were found in the shape of old cigarette cards by 'Vintage Memories'
I distressed the edges of the pink card as it was probably a distressing situation.
A couple of metal corners by Scrapbook Basics for the male and lace for the female.

365 x 2

Time for a bit of a catch up over at 365 Cards after a wonderful day yesterday at the wedding of my son Barney and his beautiful fiancee Elen. I only took a few terrible snapshots as my camera is so old and I had to do them from wherever I was sitting at the time. So I will show some better ones when I get the official photographer ones.
So on with what I have been catching up with
Day 180 - Going Vintage, so a vintage image needed here
Day 181 - White Space, a given sketch where only the black portions could be decorated however we want
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The vintage image is from a misc. pictorial rubber stamp. Which led to me getting out my Anna Griffin vintage looking paper and some lace. I finished off with some glittery stickers from my stash adding a little piece of pink ribbon and a word sticker by Kay & Co.





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I thought border stamps when I saw the sketch and dug out these ancient SU stamps (1998) which I inked up wuth Versafine Onyx black and coloured with PM's and Copics, I had fun doing this as colouring always takes me back to my childhgood.
The lettering was from some oddment of rub-ons and a few dots with a pen. I smooshed round the edges of the card pieces with Adirondack 'Meadow'

Sunday Combo 2

My mojo is on overdrive and I have managed to make another card to cover another 2 challenges

CCEE Stampers - Flowers & Trees
Stamp Something - Something from Summer Vacation

Ingredients for these challenges :-

Stamp of Trees & Sunrise - misc. from eBay which I've had for years at last it has seen the ink. :)
Ink for stamping - Versafine Onyx Black
Gloss card - Clarity stamps
Ink for brayering the background - Adirondack 'Autumn Sunset'
Papers - Basic Grey 'June Bug' and 'Urban Prairie'
Flowers - Prima Got Flowers 'Vintage'
Scalloped Edge - Bazzill 'Just the Edge' in white but coloured using :-
Copic - Lime Green
Pearls - a mix of Basic Grey and Crystal Stickers
Gems - Making Memories
Pearlise green base card, mesh strip and sentiment tag from my stash

This is my idea of a perfect morning on holiday, I can feel the warmth of the sun and hear the birds singing.

My Sunday Combo

Managed to cover a few challenges with a card today...I hope!
365 Cards Day 169 - Super Sketchy Sunday
Simon Says - Light Brown, Light Green, Blush Pink, Coral & White
Pollycraft Monday Challenge - Buttons & Bows
Apologies, as usual, for the poor photo. Card wouldn't scan because of the bulkyness, I have made myself a light box, but haven't the lamps you need to light it from the sides. Far too expensive this game...LOL!!

Great sketch as always over at 365.
Papers - Downloads from Pollycraft 'Easy Breezy'
Image - Download from Willow Design
Colouring medium - Copics: Blush, Lime Green and Dull Ivory. PM's: Coral
Flower Buckle Brad in White - Stash
Light Brown ribbon tied into Bow - Stash
White Buttons - Hero Arts
Sentiment - Hero Arts
Ink Pad - Adirondack 'Meadow'

'Gift' Card

365 Cards - Day 167
The card is the gift.
i.e. Make your card look like a gift.

Just did what comes natural. Tied ribbon around a square card to look like a present. But firstly I stamped the 4 Hero Arts Poetic Petal stamps in Adirondack 'Denim' onto ready made masked off squares of Memories soft mauve and Colorbox Chalk Wisteria... mounted the stamped white card onto blue pearly card and then onto the base card... spotty organza ribbon a little tag finished the look.
I am sooooooooooo tired and off to my bed........g'night all. xxx

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!!!

An Eye for an 'I'..........

365 Cards - Day 150
So a homophone is to be used in the sentiment.
Plodded all day with this, trying to think of something that may be different, I will know when I check everyone elses out. :D

I brayered a piece of glossy card with Adirondack 'Noel' - the greeny end.
I stamped my lovely Clarity deer stamp in 'Woodland' and the grasses and hanging vine stamps in 'Bottle'.
Top and bottom I put a run of DCWV 'Old World' ribbon and the sentiment I printed off in Word. Which I sponged - again- in 'Woodland'

I think the card may have looked ok until I plonked the sentiment on, could have done a better job of that methinks...hey ho!!

A technique revisited...

365 Cards - Day 149
Sponging
This will also fit in with the challenge over at Charisma Cardz #29 'Tag It'
As you can see from my card this is a trip back in time. It is that long since I've done any sponging the technigue has not evolved for me. I daresay this needs further time looking into but this is my quick offering for today.

I shall *whisper* that I dug out some old peel-offs and placed them randomly on a piece of white card.
I then sponged with Adirondack Butterscotch, Pesto and Red Pepper until I was happy. On removing the said peel-offs the pale shadowy images are left behind.
I tore this piece of card and edged it in Adirondack Ginger.
This was stuck to the green base card which looks like Bazzill, but not sure.
I made another piece of card into a tag, placed a Basic Grey sticky Letter 'F' and sponged with the same colours again. I then added a rub-on to marry the letter. I found it hard to apply the rub-on over the ink. :/
This was then placed onto a piece of chocolate brown card and cut around. Made a hole with a punch and added a piece of misc. brown loopy ribbon which I also put down the side of the card, hopefully to bring it all together.
This looks like something I would have made 10 years ago lol!!