Hello. A new challenge has started at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge. The theme is always ‘anything goes Christmas/festive‘. Here is my card:
The cute penguin image is from Gerda Steiner, coloured with Copics, with the sentiment from the same stamp set.
The background is ink blended Distress inks with a little gitterly splatter. Hills created using Lawn Fawn dies, and Lawn Fawn glitter applied to the top of each hill and their hats.
I also decided to add some glittery clouds on the top with a little – just a little – ink blending.
I hope you can come and join us and increae your crafty stash ready forr the end of the year – I look forward to seeing your creations. xx
Hello everyone. Please bear with this rather limited blog post. I am recovering from foot surgery and I have to sit with my leg raised for a couple of weeks. I’m putting this post together on my tablet, as not able to sit at my desk, and also I’m not able to sit crafting either – I’m doing quite a bit of colouring – but even that is a chore at times!
I managed to get ahead with some cards for my DT duties and this is one card I made earlier for the new challenge beginning at Cardz 4 Galz – the theme is girlies with ‘Circles and Purples‘.
I hope I managed to link this correctly!
This card is actually a reveal wheel using dies from Lawn Fawn:
I stamped the ‘Freestyle Flowers’ from Simon says Stamp – and coloured with Copics. I stamped and coloured extra flowers and leaves to add a fuller image and to fill the white space arouns the arranegment.
The white background is wood grain card stock from Lawn Fawn as are the Reveal Wheel interactive dies.
I hope you can come and join us for this challenge – I look forward to seeing your creations. xx
Hello everyone. My gosh I’ve had a busy weekend – I attended – virtually – the Maker Mania #3…..and let me tell you it IS manic. A three day event, a new technique from a different store every hour…….so much fun. I have lots of PDF’s to go through so I can use the techniques I saw – but it’s going to take me a long, long time.
All the timings for us in the UK ran from 4pm until 1am the following morning…..I didn’t make all the live showings, and not that late each night – but I will catch up. At some point. Hopefully in the near future…..
I used the Lawn Fawn ‘Build a House’ and the Gingerbread add-on for the house, using Kraft card and some Lawn Fawn ‘Let It Shine’ paper with the gold dots.
Once die-cut. I played with the layers, and the placement and then decided it needed something extra, so I use the gingerbread and tree stamps from another Lawn Fawn set – cutting down to fit – trying not to cut the gingerbread people or the trees in half, then attached as you see.
I hope you can come and join us and get your Christmas stash growing. I hope to see you in our gallery. xx
Hello there. A new challenge has started at The Alphabet Challenge. We have reached the letter ‘E’ and we want to see your ‘Easy’ makes – simple, minimal embellishments, minimal layers – easy and simple to make.
Here is my card:
The images were stamped with Gina K Amalgam ink, then coloured with Copics. All were die-cut with their matching dies, and adhered onto the white card base with a thin white layer using a Catherine Pooler postage stamp die.
The mouse was an after-thought – he was lying on my desk after a previous crafting session I hadn’t used him for – and I thought it would be a fun addition – he is running to use the gumball machine………….
I hope you can come and join us – I look for ward to seeing your creations….
Hell once again. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge and this times the me has been chosen by Billie a – Summer Fun. So – think beach, shells, water – anything which fits our theme and is along the ‘girlie’ lines is welcome. Here is my card:
Another slimline card – and this time the rhino is happily playing in the little pool, and her friend the ape is running and going to jump in and join her – which is why I think the rhino is looking a little nervous!
I can’t seem to get away from the teal and pink colour combo – but I do like how they look together. Who says you can’t have a pink ape and pink rhino? A little – OK maybe a lot – of creative license – but I am pleased with the result.
Both images were coloured with Copics, and cut out with their matching die. The pool itself is one of the stitched dens from Lawn Fawn.
I hope you can join us with your ‘Summer Fun’ cards – I look forward to seeing you there. xx
The images are from Heffy Doodle, stamped with Gina K Amalgam ink, coloured with Copics, then die cut using their matching die.
I tried to add some interest and dimension to parts of the crocodile using a technique recently learned from taking a Jenn Shurkus class – yes – yet another! Using one of the lighter greens to create some dots – the alcohol in the Copic almost bleaches the parts you touch with your nib……..varying sizes depending on how much pressure I exerted.
The sentiment is from Catherine Pooler and this time stamped before I added the dimensional images!
I hope you can join us – I’d love to see your CAS ‘Bottoms Up’ creations. xx
Hello there. The ABC Christmas Challenge has started a new challenge using the letters ‘L’ for Letters and ‘M’ for Mistletoe. Here is my card:
I took some green card stock, and used a mistletoe stamp from Simon says Stamp, heat embossing with gold for the two corners. I then stamped the sentiment, also heat embossing – but this time I heat embossed either two or three times to get a more richer and deeper colour.
I inked some green around the edges to create some ombre effect, coloured the berries with a white pencil, and then splattered with one of the Gansai Tambi gold colours – I think I went more rose or red gold.
Once this was dry, I die cut with a stitched rectangle and added to my card base.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas mistletoe and/or letters creations – I look forward to seeing you in our gallery. xx
Hello once again. It’s my final card as Surprise Party Guest at Seize The Birthday. It’s been a fabulous couple of months – I didn’t realise how many birthday cards I actually needed too – most of them went out within a couple of weeks of making them.
Onto the topic for the birthday card this time:
Here is my card:
MY ‘wheel’ is obviously the Colour Wheel – a slightly reduced colour scheme – I thought 6 colours would work for this…and with the pandas being black and white – well – I thought it would work quite nicely.
For images such as these pandas, then Copics are my favourite way of coloring – small images, with a little shading for dimension.
Now let me tell you – can you divide a circle into 6 equal parts without a protractor? It took me forever – hubby came up with the idea of printing out a clock face with just the numbers – then using the 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 – as the six partitions……he comes in handy occasionally!
I coloured the six parts, then drew a black dividing line between each, and die cut with a stitched circle.
The pandas are from Clearly Besotted – as is the sentiment. The word ‘colour’ – using the UK spelling to get the six letters – I stamped in a very light brown ink, then coloured each letter with the same Copic colours I had used on the wheel.
The ‘happy birthday’ is part of a longer sentiment, but I masked off the rest of it just to keep these two words.
I hope you can join us in the birthday challenge – whether you use the option or not – it would be great to see you there. xx
The theme at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge is always anything goes as long as it’s a Christmas/festive theme.
For this card I used some Clearly Besotted stamp sets,, Copic colouring, and my Brother Scan-n-cut to cut them out. I played around quite a bit with the Scan-n-cut to try and get it to cut the middle of the wreath out – but I couldn’t figure it out, and I didn’t want to fussy-cut and ruin the wreath after I’d coloured it – so it stays as it is!
I added quite a bit of white gel pen to my image – one of those things you do and again I couldn’t seem to stop once I’d started – but I’m liking the over-all effect.
The background stars paper I think is from Stampin-Up – but not exactly sure, and the blue splattery piece is another from a my ink smooshing/splattering and generally playing around stash. I seem to be able to find a use for these at the moment, so I’m glad I played around one day.
The sentiment was stamped, and I coloured the back red panel with a Copic to get it to match the main image.
I hope you can join us, and I look forward to seeing you in our gallery. xx
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