Beautiful

I had big plans today to make lots of cards, and you all know what happens with big plans!!..........I ended up making one! It did take a long time though. Reasons will soon become clear.
This card I'm happy to say covers a good few challenges.
365 Cards Day 221 - Imagine This 'Denim', so denim had to feature somehow
Inspirational Card Sketches # 37 - Given Sketch
Crafty Card Makers #5 - Ribbons or Fibres
Pile it On #18 - 3-Dimensional, something not flat on your card

It all started with 365 Cards and the Denim theme...someone had already done a jean's pocket which I had thought of, so I went through my fashion stamps and knew this would be great, I also had a 12 x 12 piece of denim paper, yes girls I've cut into a 12 x 12 to piece this dress..:O!!! A bit of artistic license used here, as I'm sure denim could not be used in a dress and hat like that, denim stilettos I think would work.
I love paper piecing and had good fun but it took sooooo long. The orange parts were cut from the offcuts from making my Pumpkin Card a few days ago.
The 3-D element, I would say, is the sentiment mounted onto dimensionals and there is no way that that huge denim flower is flat...lol!!
The sentiment is great, it says :-
"Nothing makes a Woman more Beautiful
than the Belief that she is Beautiful" ~~ Sophia Loren

Ingredients used :_

Patterned Papers - Basic Grey 'Boxer'
Denim Paper - Sandylion
Image stamp - Creative Stamping
Ink Pads - Versafine 'Onyx Black' for the image, Versamagic 'Mango Madness' for edging and Adirondack 'Denim' for the sentiment
Denim flower - Making Memories
Sentiment stamp - Inkadinkadoo
Flesh colouring - Copics: Milky White, Skin White and blush/ Hair PM Canary
Base Card, card pieces, ribbon flower and brad 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

Embossing adventure

I have been playing with embossing after reading somewhere that the Fiskars Texture Plates can be passed through the 'Bug'. Very successful too. So I have 6 different textured backgrounds to play with and can resist, just for a short while, buying any more Embossing Folders.
I have used a small piece of large dot embossed card in the middle of this card, such a change from Swiss Dots which I have done to death.
Ingredients:-
The papers - Basic Grey 'Sugared'.
The ribbon - SU 'More Mustard'
The lovely sentiment is a sticker by Chatterbox.
Velvet brad - Doodlebug
Flowers - Making Memories
Metal spacer under brad - Beads Direct.
Flourish Outline Sticker

This card is for these challenges
Kezza's Sketch 2 for September
Crafty Creations #32 - Embossing

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.

Masking to my Heart's Content

365 Cards - Day 163 Try a Technique: Masking

Oh! I was excited by this because it MADE me dust off a stamp I bought about 5 years ago and have never used, I know, I'm ashamed!
It is a stamp by Clarity called Abstractart and is brilliant for masking...well it's made for it.
All the stamps bar a couple of little Hero Arts flowers are Clarity also...I used to collect them, and still would if I had the money. Barbara Santerelli, as she was then, was my all time fave. Designer
I stamped the large frame stamp in Versafine Onyx Black and then masked off every little area in turn with Post-It notes and stamped different flowers, butterflies and some of the leaves into all the areas.
I then coloured them with a mix of PM's and Copics.
Then I went over the veins in the butterflies wings and the antenna with a Quickie glue pen and sprinkled over Stampendous Ultra Fine Crystal glitter....remembering it is Art Glitter Week.
Then a Making Memories Page Pebble was added to the magnifying glass for a lens.
The sentiment stamp also by Clarity was stamped in Versafine also
Matted and layered onto a buttery yellow piece of Bazzill and then finally mounted onto a chocolate brown DL card.
A piece of satin ribbon and 2 Doodlebug gems finished it off.

I'm in a Bind!

365 Cards - Day 137
To bind two pieces of something (card, plastic etc) to create a card.

I chose to use my Fiskars hole punch and to use spotty paper as it is easier to space the holes.
Pink Bazzill Basics card topped by misc. magazine freebie pink spotty paper, punched through and tied using metallic thread by Madeira No10 Color 0313
I used a piece of Anita's sticky backed ribbon to cover the join and added two cardboard embelishments by Making Memories to finish it off.

Mojo Monday

Another great sketch over at Mojo Monday Challenge week 79.
Actually tried something new for this.
I cut and embossed a Nestabilities Curved Rectangle out of a piece of watercolour paper and using a Hero Arts 'Showy Blossom' stamp coloured straight to stamp with Marvy pens and sprayed with Moonglow Glitz Spritz and stamped onto the rectangle. Unfortunately the scan doesn't pick up the sparkle in the image but it looks great.
Everything was mounted up using Kay & Co. 'Hopscotch' papers and misc. white card.
Ribbon out of my stash and the dots were added with a pen along the scalloped edge.
The Love sentiment is a mini tag by Making Memories.

Recipe 52

Oh! I love these challenges over at Cute Card Thursday. They really make it hard to control yourself.
The recipe this week was:-
Take something Ripped
Add 2 Papers
And 4 embellishments only, no layering of them, they all count.

So I chose a stamped image to rip, the 2 papers one of which was from Kay & co Somerset pad and other piece a scrap which I ripped also to mirror, and the embellishments were
1 ribbon from stash
1 sentiment tag by Making Memories
1 flower by Prima
1 button from stash
So there you go a very tightly reined card but loved doing it. The number of times I kept saying NO, NO, NO, was amusing to say the least.