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'

Mellow Yellow

This card is to cover the following challenges :-
Friday Sketchers 65 - given sketch
Crafty Creations 28 - Yellow
ABC Challenge - 3rd time round....A for Anything goes plus An Additional Animal if you want

This was a great sketch and I enjoyed using yellow for a change.
I also look forward to trying to do the whole alphabet this time around.

Supplies:-
Stamped Image - Stamping Bella 'Kittycatabella'
Papers - Basic Grey 'June Bug' & 'Lemonade'
All other items from my stash

Touch of Toile

365 Cards - Day 168
I think I may be able to combine this with Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge too - 'Fancy Corners'....will 1 corner count I wonder? :)
What a wonderful challenge this turned out to be as I dug out my box of Anna Griffin stash and used it all on the card....just remembered I have forgotten to glitter, I know we didn't have to but I did wanted to glitter around some of the paper just with some Stickles to give it a bit of bling, so take it from me girls that is what I will be doing after the event.
The Anna Griffin ribbon for this was from a set called 'Hannah' and I love it. The lace corner is 'Georgette'.
Don't we get used to clear stamps....I had great trouble trying to stamp this wood mounted A.G. one and to get it central, but hand crafted cards aren't meant to be perfect are they?
The only thing that is not Anna Griffin is the little MoP button and the thread.
I stamped up the frame with Versamagic Chalk Ink in 'Niagara Mist'
I used a Clean & Simple Sketch #55

'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

Recipe...

365 Cards - Day 166 ---- Card Recipe!
and this is just perfect for
Crafty Cardmakers 1st challenge - Blossoms

Oh! I love recipes as it tells you when to stop as I do suffer, sometimes, from the inability to observe the rule of 'Less is More'

The ingredients for this recipe are :-

4" x 7" card
5 Blossoms
Glitter
Wet embossed sentiment
3 different patterned papers

Good card size to use for a change and I used just bog-standard green card for this....No Bazzill????....well this card was already cut to the stated size and was the starting point for the whole thing :) The stripey and spotty papers are misc. out of my stash, but the floral paper, of which I cut around the pattern, is Basic Grey LilyKate.
The 5 blossoms were all mounted one on top of the other to make 1 bloom, then I thought Ah!!... no brad can be used to hold it together, so just got to work with DST to stick each one and then used a good blob of glue and sprinkled glitter into the centre of the flower to give it a centre. The largest of the blooms is a Flourish Flower by Imaginisce.
I also drew around some of the swirls on the paper and some of the dotty pattern with a glue pen and sprinkled the glitter all over that. The glitter being Stampendous Ultra Fine.
I then stamped the Hero Arts sentiment in purple pigment ink and heat embossed it with clear emb. powder.
Another challenge completed, just wish I could go back and get some older ones done too, but that is expecting too much of my poor brain....lol!!

The scan does not show up the glitter or the shiny embossing unfortunately so you will just have to use your lovely imaginations.
Thank you for reading this far. 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!!!

Color Scheme

365 Cards Day 164 - To use given color scheme
Alarm, alarm, such busy colours.
Found some great papers in Basic Grey 'June Bug' and Kay & Co 'Patchwork' and some bits and bobs of chipboard and got to it.
I didn't have anything in the purpley colour so used my Aubergine PM and coloured some strips of card for the flower stems.
All the flowers were glittered with Doodlebug Sugar Coating in Lily White
The sticky sentiment is from a sheet of Reminisce 'Princess'

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.

So Far Today..............

I have made 2 cards.
The first one is for Passion for Promarkers week 11 with a given sketch and we could use any colour.

The image - Winnie Owl from Willow Designs
Papers - Basic Grey 'Two Scoops'
ProMarkers used : Cinnamon, Sandstone, Lemon, Pastel Pink and Apricot
Copics used : Lime Green, skin white and orange
Stickles used for the bee's wings - 'Icicle'
Card Candy
Nesties used to cut and emboss the circles
Base Card - Bazzill
Unfortunatel the whole thing has been spoilt by the awful green ink used for the Birthday Sentiment...didn't look that bad in real life.

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Second card is for Kerrie's Sketch on the forum.

This was a great sketch and quick to do.
Base card - Bazzill
Papers - Basic Grey 'Eva'
Chipboard shape - Basic Grey
Sentiment stamp - PSX
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black

Super Sketchy Sunday

365 Cards Day 162

This great sketch starts the ArtGlitter Week....and typing this has reminded me that I meant to put some glitter on it somewhere, but considering that it is for a male I'll forgo it today.
Everything is misc. out of my stash except for the Card Candy which is out of the pack called 'Winter Wishes' and the sentiment stamp which is by Studio G.
Cut the label with my Nestie and drew around the embossed edge with a ProMarker in 'Poppy'

Happy Birthday Tracey

To my dear daughter Tracey Jane
43 today, how time flies.

Cool Collage

I have had a wonderful day out today with my dear daughter-in-law to be, Elen and her mum and sister and her friend and little girl Rose who is 3 and an absolute delight. The idea was to meet her mum and sister to aquaint ourselves before the wedding on the 27th. We had a great time sailing up and down the River Dee in Chester and then stopping off for a champagne lunch and a good few laughs. Started at 11 and ended at 5.30 so I am exhausted and therefore the crafting is a quickie
for :-

365 Cards Day 161 - Cool Collage

Today's challenge is all about overloading that card with patterned paper and embellishments. The goal: Don't leave a blank space on your card.

I quick rummage in my box of bits and slap it on a Kraft card jobbie......voila!!!

Lovely Lace

365 Cards Day 160 is Lovely Lace
So the idea is to feature lace on your card.

I have not made a card but a tri-fold pocket to use for the vouchers I have for my son's wedding gift.
I really struggled with this, as I always do when I make anything that needs measuring and cutting.......arrrggghhh!!!!, at one point I even said to myself, er! what's 90degrees???...my brain was that befuddled.

Double sided card - Costco
Cream and Pink ribbons - SU Very Ivory and Regal Rose
Corsage pin - eBay
Felt flower - Sugar & Spice
Sentiment stamp - Quietfire Designs
Lace and pearls from my stash

Setting The Scene - Indoors

365 Cards Day 159

I stayed well and truly in my box for this one.
My indoors scene was a whole stamped image.
Took me ages to colour though and it's not the best talent I possess.

Didn't keep a record of the PM's and Copics I used, but it was a lot.
The stamp is by Stamps Happen and hasn't seen the light of day for a number of years. Why I buy these large picture stamps I'll never know as they are very limiting. I daresay I could have decoupaged it, as we all love doing that, don't we girls? :/!
I actually heat embossed the image too, so that the pens didn't make the ink bleed.
Just a piece of misc. ribbon finished it off.
Oh! to have done something as awesome as Amy...hey ho!!

What's Your Sign?

365 Cards Day 158
To create a sign on a card.

I really struggled with this one. Had the perfect stamp of a sign by Stamps Away, as usual still in the pack and unused....but Oh! my!! what to do with it....I bought it for scrapbooking you see.

I found this downloaded paper in my file which must be at least 5 years old and waiting for the perfect opportunity to be used....love that scarecrow, reminds me of the Wizard of Oz...one of my all time favourite films.
My little PSX Pixie stamps and Versafine Onyx Black finished the whole thing off.
Not an ideal sort of card but the challenge is fulfilled.

Sunflowers

365 Cards Day 157 - Imagine this: Sunflowers

The card didn't have to be of sunflowers but inspired by them.
Well I had no inspiration in my bones at all today.
Therefore I have done sunflowers, or rather a likeness!

I have kept it clean and simple.

Ingredients:-

Stamp - Hero Arts 'Showy Blossom'
Inks - Dauber Duos in brown/yellow/green and Versamark Black Onyx
Sentiment stamp - Whispers by DoCraft...just inked up half of it
Base card, coloured card, ribbon and paper piece from my stash

Inspiration

365 Cards Day 156 - Ad Inspired....
Great picture to give the inspiration
I just drew from the general colours and shapes of the items...plus, of course, the beautiful tulips.
I have used lots of bits out of my offcuts folder and the container for the tulips is cut from a sample of wall covering.
The tulip sticker is by Anna Griffin
Buttons are by Hero Arts
Sentiment stamp - PSX using Versafine Black Onyx ink

This was very satisfying as it used up bits and cost only pennies to make.

I dedicate it to 365 Cards for bringing me out of my crafting shell.

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.

Pink & Green

Having a mind boggling weekend trying to look for templates to download for making Wedding Favour Boxes. I have cobbled together 4 or 5 different ones, but I need something that is simpler, really and less taxing for my poor old arthritic thumbs. My son gets married on the 27th and he asked if I would like to make them...I need to make 50 .....if anyone who kindly reads my blog has any ideas I would be eternally grateful. TIA

Now on to more important things...lol!!
Cards I have made today.
The first is to cover
365 Cards Day 155 - Super Sketchy Sunday...a given sketch
C.R.A.F.T Challenge 10 - Pink & Green.....simples, I love pink & Green

Ingredients used :-
Green card - Bazzill Basics
Papers - Basic Grey 'Eva'
Brads - Doodlebug Sugar Coated
Stamp - Clarity
Ink - Versamark Onyx Black
Ribbon from my stash...would you believe that this is the most shocking lime green and the scan has totally bleached it!!

Tools used :-
Nestabilities scalloped ovals in 2 largest sizes
3/4" circle MakeMe punch to concave the corners.
DS Foam Tape to raise the image

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