Happy Hallowe'en

The end of another month and ever closer to the end of another year. Where does time go? Why do the days seem so much shorter when you are on the downward side of life's hill? so many questions, so little time...lol!!

Todays cards feature my favourite animal, The Cat, of which I have 3, but they, too, are on the same side of the hill as me, and Charlie even further down. I was up at 5.20 this morning cleaning an accident off the carpet, poor thing he sometimes loses the plot aswell as his bowel control..Ah! well!! that's life.

I digress, onto the cards.

365 Cards Day 245 - 'It's a Matter of Inches', to use an inchie on your card or the inchie to be the card.

I made 3 inchies with images from a rubber stamp by Inca called 'Cat Blocks'

Stamped using Versafine Onyx Black

All card and paper are from the scrap box

Image coloured with ProMarker 'Sandstone'

Embellishments by Daisy Hill & ek Success

Border punch - Martha Stewart 'Embossed Petals'

I used the sketch from :-

Sketch Saturday #75 as it was perfect for this.

The card also fits the challenge for

Daring Cardmakers - 'Getting Punchie With It'

Card No 2 for Today

To cover challenges :-

CRAFT #23 - Hallowe'en

Passion for ProMarkers wk 23 - any colour and theme + animals

Cuttlebug Spot #54 - 'Boo' ~~ Purple/Green/Black

Bubbly Scrumptious #10 - Ghoulies, Ghosties and Long Legged Beasties

Secret Crafter #56 - Hallowe'en

 I love this digi image which I got from Mo's Digi Pencil

I coloured it with PM's - Ice Grey 1, Cool Grey 1, 2 & 5, Lime & Emerald Green, Satin, Pumpkin, Apricot, Vanilla & Mandarin

The die cut I ran through the 'Bug' using my swirls folder and added purple gems

Green Rub-on letters by Doodlebug

Black letters - Peel-offs

Black card with embedded gold glitter - Kanban

Purple ribbon from my stash

Harvest

A late card for me for 365 Cards Day 205. - Color Scheme
Instead of making my card early evening as I always do I had to take to my bed. Rather poorly with a tummy complaint I have :(...I would definitely have preferred crafting...eeeewwww!!!!!

So for this lovely colour combo I chose papers from Basic Grey 'Offbeat' and 'Indian Summer'
I chose a great sketch from Sketch Saturday, always a good starting point.
The great image is a download from Bee Crafty
I coloured in with PM's Pumpkin, Berry Red, Canary, Emerald, Raw Sienna and Cool Grey.
The ribbon is SU 'Tempting Turquoise'
The tag, brads, base card and gem flowers from my stash.

Off to catch up on todays>>>>>>>>>

Spots & Stripes

A card to cover two challenges :-
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge wk 41 - 'Spots & Stripes'
Sketch Saturday # 60 - given sketch
A great sketch a great theme.
PP - Basic Grey 'Cupcake' which had spots and stripes in abundance
Stripey brad - Dovecraft
Red Card Candy = spots
Image - Penny Black
Colouring medium - watercoloured with Sakura Gel pens
Stripey/spotty faux stiching using Black Copic multi liner 0.3
Flower - Prima
Grosgrain ribbon - SU
Base card , white card and sentiment - misc from stash

Sketch Saturday #59

Another great sketch and hopefully I've got it done in time this week.
Ingredients
Image - Download Willow Designs Winny Owl
Papers - Basic Grey 'Boxer'
Sentiment - Bo-Bunny Press 'White Shabby Random Thoughts'
Card Candy, grosgrain ribbon, velvet brad and flowers from my stash.

Patriotic

This has been a great weekend for all things Red, White & Blue in the blog world.
I have a combo of 4 challenges to cover this card as follows:-
Sketch Saturday #58 - a brilliant sketch & to feature Red, White & Blue
Penny Black Saturday wk 56 - Also Red, White & Blue
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #39 - 3 Ribbons
Charysma Cardz Thursday - Buttons

As you can see I acheived the R, W & B with the base card, Doodlebug striped paper, downloaded red & white check paper and various blooms.
The 3 pieces of R, W & B ribbon were out of my bits box
The Penny Black stamp is 'Burst of Stars' which is very appropriate and I used Adirondack Red Pepper ink pad.
The brads and 2 buttons were out of my stash.
The Best Wishes sentiment was a freebie with a magazine years ago.

I have enjoyed making these last 2 cards as it is so good to get away from pink and green.
And the Union Jack flag being Red, White & Blue I feel very patriotic too.

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.

3 x Combo

Forced my mojo into overdrive and combines 3 challenge blogs to produce this card.
The sketch is from Sketch Saturday #51
The Recipe 3....2....1 from Penny Black Saturday being 3 Flowers/2 papers/ 1 charm
The theme of Flowers and Bling over at Funky Fairies
The bling being the charm, silver sentiment and the glittered centre of the daisy 'parasol'
Ingredients :-
2 Papers : download from Funky Fairies
3 flowers : download from Funky Fairies
Watercoloured Image : Penny Black
Bee charm, ribbon, sentiment and base card from my stash

Hopefully this card fulfils the challenges in all 3 cases.
Links to these blogs will hopefully be found at the right.

Sketch Saturday & Basic Grey catch up

 

Forgive my lack of blogging and cardmaking friends....for some reason I have been unable to put my mind to anything for the last couple of days.....call it brain fug.
So this has been a rush to try and get this done in time. It was a great sketch from Sketch Saturday #49 and really wanted to do this....the brilliant colour theme was over on Basic Grey challenge 33 Lack, Grey +1....mine being lime green.
All items were misc. from my stash apart from the lime card which is Bazzill, the Black card which is core'dination with the lime core which I embossed in my 'bug' using a Fiskars texture plate 'leaves' and the grey paper which is appropriately Basic Grey. PM's were used to colour the Celtic cat image which has been heat embossed in silver.
I have so many cards I want to do and my mind is all abuzz, but I will be out at Port Sunlight tomorrow for the fabulous Happy Stampers North West which is a fantastic biannual show.

4 into 1 will go.......

Set myself a challenge to see how many challenges could be incorporated into one card. Managed 4 which is a record for me. Don't know whether this is allowed but I'm sure someone will say if it isn't.
The sketch is from Sketch Saturday being #47 which is too late anyway...great sketch.
The themes are '3 shapes' over on Penny Black Saturday week 47...those being the square, the rectangle and the circle plus the required Penny Black stamp on the die-cut circle.
'Mirror Mirror' over at Cute Card Thursday requiring something shiney...which is the silver card which I embossed with a 'Bug' folder and cut out portions to use as sentiments + the Jewel.
'Flowers' over at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge

As usual the scan has bleached out the lovely colour of the flower stamped onto the die cut circle :-(

Ingredients used :-

Flower & Bug image - Pink Petticoat download
Large flower stamped image - Penny Black ' Burst of Stars'
Jewel - Doodlebug
Papers - Basic Grey 'Lilykate'
Base card and silver card from my stash
Tools Used :-
Nestabilities Embossing folder
Brilliance Inkpad 'Peacock'

Blue & Green

 
This is a sketch over at Sketch Saturday (#48) and a 'blue & green' theme at A Spoonful of Sugar (Ch. 49) combo.
Both being great challenges.
The wording on the tag has bleached out with the scan, it says.....'simple delights' :-/
Ingredients used :-
Image - Walter Owl download from Willow Designs
Papers - Basic Grey '2 Scoops'
Pale green piece of card - Bazzill basics
blue base card, ribbon, green flat backed pearls and sentiment tag from my stash.


Tools used :-
Nestabilities Labels 1 Die
Fiskars scalloped border punch

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

Eat Cake.........

A great sketch over at Sketch Saturday which was Tracies #45.
I was combining with a citrus challenge too but have missed that one. Where does the time go when you are having fun?
Anyway here are my ingredients for this yummy little number.

Backing paper and image - download from Funky Fairy Papercrafts
Card Candy - Craftwork cards at The Glitter Pot
Base card and strip of card - Bazzill basics
Ribbon and chipboard embellishment from my stash.

Tools used
Fiskars Border punch
Woodware Corner Rounder
Pro Markers - Rose Pink, Canary, Apple

Sunday Combi.

Getting snowed under with challenges I want to do so have combined 2 this weekend -the theme from Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #23 which is 'Have Your Cake And Eat It' - and - the sketch from Sketch Saturday #42 sponsored by The Cutting Cafe.
The sketch was great and cake being the theme....need I say more. The Penny Black image was coloured using PM's. All papers used were from Kay & Co. Tim Coffey Tulip and Papermania Olivine Essence. The piece of cream card was cut using Fiskars Wide Scallop scissors and overstamped with 2 flower stamps by Hero Arts using Colorbox 'Wisteria' Chalk Ink pad. Prima flowers and Hero Arts buttons used to finish. All other items misc. from my stash.

This Little Piggy.......

...Messed be about good and proper.
This was a great sketch over at Sketch Saturday, being #41 Ria's Week, sponsored by Funky Fairy's Papercrafts.
Really enjoy doing sketches as it takes a lot of the brain drain out of making a card and only leaves you with choosing the elements to use.
Which were........Green card by Bazzill, Stamped image Penny Black, Papers by Laura Ashley, loving those, and flowers by Prima.The butterflies were cut from the Laura Ashley paper too and mounted on a Glue Dot with wings a-flutter. Cream card, gems and pearls out of my stash....and the sentiment I typed up myself on Word.
So, you are wondering, where was the messing about. Well it was trying to scan or photo it. I am stuck for choice which image to upload the over bright scan or the dull and squiffy photo - no sun and it kept blowing in the wind.
I'll choose the scan and be damned. LOL!!

Butterfly Friend

Still catching up and this one is for Sketch Saturday #40 sponsored by The Craft Barn which was a great sketch with lots of thought needed. With so many papers going on I decided on a rather plain butterfly stamped image that I had in my stash of swaps, it looks as though it has been stamped in irridescent ink, maybe Brilliance. The papers were from a pad of K & Co. 'Roam' and the brown card is Basic Grey. The sentiment is Bo-Bunny Press. The flat backed pearls from my stash. Well at 1 minute past midnight I think it is time to call it a day. :-)

Animal Magic

I took the opportunity to combine two challenges in this card. The sketch was taken from Sketch Saturday #39 sponsored by Emma Lockley and the theme of Animal Magic was for Cute Card Thursday #49 sponsored by Craftaway.
The stamp used was by Penny Black, watercoloured with Marvy Le Plume pens. Oddments of Bazzill Basic cardstock and embellishments out of my stash along with Basic Grey paper were used to finish it off. I love to be able to use minute pieces of cardstock which I never throw away and I feel a greater sense of achievemant if I do so.

Sketch Saturday #37

Another great sketch and enjoyed deciding what colours I was going to use after doing an all white card for the forum challenge. [after up-loading realised I had chosen the colours of the sketch...how spooky]
The papers used were K & Co Tim Coffey 'Travel/Vacation' which I overstamped with 'wishes take flight' stamp by Stampendous in Rust Adirondack...as always...lol!! and the floral sheet was from K & Co 'Roam'pad., which was attached with 4 velvet brads from my stash. The embelishment was K & Co K-Ology Grand Adhesions mounted on 2 scalloped circles cut and embossed using my 'Bug'. Pearl gems were added for extra decoration.
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Sketch Saturday # 36

At last I think I've sussed how to do all the links for these challenges. Please forgive me if I've messed up. :-)
This was a taxing sketch and took a long while and plenty of grey cell activity. I just wish I could combine different colours and not play safe .
Everything used is oddments out of my stash and an image from a swap. The delicate watercolouring has been bleached by the scan unfortunately.
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