Busy, busy..........

Well I've sure found my mojo and have made 4 cards today and another half done, whoopee!!

365 Cards Day 252 - White Space ~~ a given sketch where the white space must be left blank

Always a hard challenge, as what crafter can resist putting 'stuff' into a white space.

Green Card - DCWV

Baubles Stamp - Clarity Stamps

Ink - Ink It Up Pigment

Glitter stars - Artwork

White Hammered Card, peel offs and gems from stash

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365 Cards Day 251 - Dream Duo, card using favourite 2 colours

I love all colour combos, and they seem to change with the seasons, more pink in spring, autumnal at the moment but now leaning towards the rich jewel colours that the Christmas season brings.

I have, therefore, chosen Burgundy and White

I used a Clean & Simple sketch 67

PP - Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses

Ribbon - SU Bravo Burgundy & misc. gingham

Bauble Stamp - Clarity Stamps

Text Stamp - eBay

Ink - Adirondack Raisin

Gems - Papermania Aurora Borialis (sp)

Burgundy Card - Clarity Stamps

365 Cards Day 250 - Marvelous Mondrian, to make a card in the style of the artist

Cute Card Thursday 85 - Primary Colours

Googled and noticed that fashion took on the look so thought this the way to go for me

Dress Image - Bee Crafty Download 

Black Peel-off lines

Colouring medium - ProMarkers, Berry Red, Canary & Royal Blue

Text stamp - SU

Ribbons and base card from stash

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365 Cards Day 249 - Do the Decade, The 80's

This was sooooooooooo hard.  Seems so long ago.  All I could remember was the fact that I was more fashion conscious - actually wore heels; a very colourful, carefree decade.  Poor card and poorer scan, sorry.

PP - Kay & Co Madeline

Embellishment - Kay & Co Madeline

Text - Free in  magazine

Fashion Stickers from stash

I need to go to bed now and get over such a crafty output.  G'night, God Bless.

365 Catch Up

I have a whole week to catch up argh!! so here are two towards it.
These are for
365 Cards Day 235 - Wacky Color Wednesday Red/Purple/Brown
Day 236 - Pretty Paisley

235
The sketch for this card is from
Spoonful of Sugar Challenge 74
BaseCard - Kraft, all edges smooshed with Colorbox chalk ink in lavendar
Papers, Red - Kay & Co. 'Classic K McKenna', Circles - Basic Grey
Dragonfly Stamped Image, red twine and rub-on sentiment from my stash

236

This is a Clean & Simple sketch and the papers and paisley element are Kay & Co 'Sugary Sweet'
Gems and stamped sentiment from my stash
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black

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.

Recipe...

Well what a lovely time I've had tonight playing with my new stamp. I've also been doing lots of stamping for the Forum stamped image swap..phew!!!
So here is the card I have made tonight and it covers 2 challenges.
Whiff of Joy - Recipe...6 Brads/ 2 Flowers/ 3 P.P's

Quite a complicated sketch and took some working out.
The 6 brads consist of 2 giant button brads and 4 large plain round brads all from Eyelet Outlet
The 2 flowers are Making Memories Hydrangeas
the 3 P.P's are Kay & Co. 'Sparkley Sweet'
Additional items
Stamp - Whiff of Joy
Ribbon - SU 'Bashful Blue'
Colouring medium - PM's and Copics
Base card and sentiment from my stash


Spoonful of Sugar #70 - Given Sketch

Patchwork

Charisma #36 - Patchwork
I wanted to do this challenge justice, but am so pushed for time I had to do a quickie.
The Kay & Co paper 'Patchwork' was an ideal starting point.
I mounted a lovely little sentiment card onto vibrant pink card tied some equally vibrant pink ribbon around the card et voila!!!
The sentiment reads 'Wake and be thankful, See the good in every day'
Hope you don't mind a quickie, but sometimes these things are born out of necessity.

Get Well Soon

Oh! what a sketch over at 365 Cards day 197 - which of course is Super Sketchy Sunday, a start of another week in the calendar of cardmaking.
I found this sketch difficult to work with but finally came up with something for someone who is feeling under the weather.
The papers are Kay & Co 'Sparkly Sweet'
The border stamp is by All Night Media an Anna Griffin design
The corner diamond stamp is misc from a grab bag.
The ink pads I used - Impress 'Old Rose', Versamagic 'Tea Leaves' and 'Hint of Pesto'
The die cut butterfly which I embellished with flat backed pearls, the die cut oval and base card were out of my stash. And good ol' peel offs for the sentiment.
I could have done without the corner stamps and maybe have done something else, but too late it's done.

You're Sweet

A fabulous sketch over at CCEE and a lovely colour combo over at Passion for Promarakers 16, so I had to combine the two.
The colours of the PM's to be used this week were Sandstone & Blue Pearl a lovely duo. I also used Blossom/Rose Pink/Cool Grey 1/Cinnamon and Cornflower for depth (I hope) I'm not the greatest colourist.
The lovely image was sent to me by our Secret Fairy Godmother on the forum, she's good like that :)...she blesses peeps over and over.
The papers used were from the 6 x 6 pad from Kay & Co 'Hydrangea Stripe' which picked up the colours beautifully. The base card and die cut circles were cut from Bazzill, the sentiment stamp,the gems and ribbon from my stash.
I just love these colours together I'm going to have to make another.

Well that was lucky....while I was in the middle of this the electricity cut out and I thought I had lost it all. Well done Blogger for saving it all. I think I have a dodgy microwave oven, well it is one of the originals from the 70's...do you think I need to replace it? ...lol!!!

Super Sketchy Sunday

And here we are again at the start of another week , where does time go?
At 365 Cards today we had the usual great sketch to follow which has the ability to turn round and bite you on the butt when you think you have it sussed.
Why do I find these simpler sketches sooooo hard?
It started with a die cut pocket by Linda Maron 'Mod Designs', well it looked sort of diamond shaped!....shut your eyes and imagine..lol!!
Then I found some paper bits out of my leftovers box to match the colours, the green being Kay & Co...aha! it was the edge piece with the name on the back....that's a bonus.
And an Anna Griffin card blank in lilac was the perfect base.
Some purple organza ribbon tied in a bow so I could use the tails and I had the sketch sorted.
But I added a Linda Maron metal word doodad which says 'Dream' to hold the ribbon tails down and inside the flap I used some Doodlebug rub-ons to say 'take time to..'
So there is a slight deviation from the sketch, but only a tiny one and there we have it a start of another week over at 365 Cards

Hitting The Books

365 Cards Day 178 - 'Back To School'
I am feeling a lot less sore today after my fall on sunday, and I thank everyone who has left a comment regarding this. You are generous with your concern. xx

So on to the card for today.
This was not relevant to me at all as I have no young children in the family, but not wanting a gap in my week did a card for my Grandson Jake who is 16 and starts College in Sept. He won't want a card and will probably greet it with a blank expression, but that's teenagers for you...Ha!Ha!!!!

I used 7 Gypsies Gaffer tape and Paper Artsy ruler ribbon across a misc. paper from my box , the pattern sort of looks like mobile phones or cellphones I think you call them in the US.
The great stamp is by PSX Santa Rosa and we are all a cat-mad family so might just get a comment from him on that.
I inked it up with Versafine Onyx Black and coloured one of the books with PM Canary to give it a pop of colour.
The wording was cut from a sheet of Kay & Co School Days.
So not bad for an irrelevant challenge.

Super Sketchy Sunday 176

Well, what a palava I've had today! I must have been watching too much athletics on the TV and decided that the lawn mower looked a good possibility for a hurdling session when I was going down the path to hang my washing out....you quessed it, not a good move, and landed flat out on the path, knickers and pegs adorning the grass. Now this was one scary moment as I had knee replacement surgery at Christmas and it's not the thing to be happening.
I'm pretty banged about and aching from top to toe, but us crafters have to soldier on regardless
So it's.....

The start of another week over at
365 Cards
These sketches are always deceiving. They look simple but then I find I'm struggling to make the card look anything like acceptable.

The papers used were a great piece out of my box which was lilac with lime green spots but hasn't scanned well at all. The floral corner is cut from a piece of Kay & Co.
I added a Kay & Co 'Romanza' embossed die cut butterfly and used a clear sparkle Sakura pen to highlight parts of the butterfly and the flowers, all of which has not scanned either.
The piece of pink lace and lilac buttons from my stash.
Well I am off to rest my sore bones in bed and just hope I am able to move in the morning.
So goodnight all, and TFL. :-)

Just Peachy

A card to cover 2 challenges
365 Cards Day 174 - Peach to be the dominant colour
Mojo Monday Sketch 100

I do love a vintage look and so many very arty people do some wonderful work which I am in awe of. So I dug out one of my old vintage style stamps ...another eBay find, and got to work....whether the result is vintage or arty is in the eye of the beholder...lol!!...but I've had a try at it.

Base Card - SU Kraft
Papers - My Mind's Eye 'Bloom & Grow'
Stamp - Misc. um
Ink - Tim Holtz 'Walnut Stain'
Peach Die-cut sticker - Kay & Co 'Romanza' Images
Peach satin ribbon and rub-on from my stash

Fiskars small square hand held punch to make the hole for the ribbon to go through.
I loved using these colours for a change and am pleased I found the die-cut peach sticker :)

Elephants never.....or do they?

Passion for Promarkers week 10- Pastel Pink & Cool Aqua + Sketch
Great sketch and lovely colours too.
Ingredients used:-
Stamp - Penny Black 'Embrace'
Papers - Kay & Co. 'Sparkly Sweet'
Pink border - CraftTime Deco Border
Promarkers - Pastel Pink, Cool Aqua, Saffron, Meadow Green.
Copics - Frost Blue, Pinkish White
Nestabilities - Largest scalloped circle
Gems, sentiments and base card from my stash

I messed up my colouring with this one and couldn't resurrect it, but chose to show it for future reference on how not to colour.

The Open Road

I'm late, I'm late the teacher's at the gate................>>>>>365 Cards
Fill in the details in a mo>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well after all that the closing time is 11.59, not 8.30...doh!!
So where was I??

The card was literally thrown together because of the rush so hope each of the challenges it is for are forgiving.
This covers :-
365 Day 154 - Planes, Trains and Automobiles....and bikes! :D
Mojo Monday week 97 - given sketch
Penny Black Saturday Challenge wk60 - Summer
Pile It On Saturday #8 - Watercolour

Ingredients used:-
Paper - Basic Grey 'June Bug'
Stamp - Penny Black
Colouring medium - Marvy le Plume pens & Koi water brush
Sentiment - piece cut off Kay & Co paper
Corner brad - Eyelet Outlet
base card, 'Summer Fun' ribbon and sticky embelishments from my stash

A Certain Sentiment....

A card done today to cover
365 Cards Day 151 - to use the sentiment 'You Can Do It!'
The Pink Elephant # 25 - given sketch

A great sketch to use from TPE which always helps when mojo is low.
I had to think about this sentiment for quite a while and on rummaging through my box of image swaps came upon this one which looks to be from Hero Arts and the wording on the image is "With peace upon my wings, I shall fly around the World" which I thought was just perfect for this challenge.
I used Craft-T chalks to colour the image, and papers from Kay & Co. Tim Coffey Travel/Vacation . 3 pieces of card candy in a nice sandy colour and starfish charm finished it off. I used Doodlebug rub ons onto a little tag for the sentiment and added a little piece of cotton thread.

Ruby & Gold

I've made it so I'll show it, but I'm not happy with it. lol! The balance is wrong.
This is to cover 2 challenges.
Passion for Promarkers #8 - Ruby & Gold plus jewels & gems
Mojo Monday wk 95 - given sketch

Ingredients used :-
Image - Sugar Nellie 'Maggie with Spring Flowers'
PM's - Ruby, Gold, Vanilla, Poppy & blender pen
Copics - Blush, Whitish Pink, Pale Grape
Base card, plain gold paper, embossed gold paper, gold grograin ribbon, gold emb. sentiment(QVC) and golden yellow jewels all from my stash
I think the paper is a piece of Kay & Co

Just a few stitches..

This card covers 2 challenges, but should have been 3 until I realised that 365 Cards needs a stitched image as the focal point...hey!ho!!...back to the drawing board for that one lol!!
So we have these two challenge blogs to cover :-
Cute Card Thursday Ch. 67 - 'Stitch in time'
Sketch & Stash ch. 14 - 'Given sketch + Ribbon'
This was a great sketch as always and the stitching challenge made me bring out my new Bazzill In Stitch'z which my dear forum buddy Kerrie bought me last year and I haven't opened it until today...oh! the shame!..thank goodness for these challenges.
Also new is my Kay & Co. 6x6 pad 'Isabella'...new to me anyway, I am way behind anyone else. :-D
3 diff. sheets of the pad of paper were used
The pearl brads are from Eyelet Outlet
The image is from a craft buddy
Colouring medium - a mix of Copics and PM's
The flower was built up from 4 diff. sizes and actually is more like the colour of the images' boots than the pink it has come out in the photo. :/
The Base card, thread and Ribbon out of my stash.

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.

Secret Garden

This is a combo for Sketch Saturday #55 , Crafty Creations Wednesday #20...'How does your garden grow?' and Chocoholics Challenge on the forum...'Something that flies'
Tilda was coloured with ProMarkers and sat inside the waste of a scalloped oval Nestie.
Kay & Co paper was cut around the lilac so that it looked as if it is falling over the frame.
The base card is Bazzill and the dragonfly was cut from a sheet of Kay & Co and mounted on dimensionals and the sticky flowers are Kay & Co to match the paper.
The sentiment is by Bo Bunny Press
I added flat backed 'bling' to the dragonfly's body and to the centre of the flower to give it a bit of sparkle.