Bunny Birthday

Hello. Some crafty time yesterday created this card:

I have been wanting to play with this cute little bunny from Spellbinders since I bought it, and was able to match the cute critter to a few challenges.

I die cut the bunny from white, and as the eyes and nose stayed in place, I coloured the eyes with a black Copic, and the nose with a pink. I used the same pink Copic on the die cuts for the belly and inner ears. I layered them up and put to one side to dry.

The base panel was cut, then scored in quarter inch diagonals on my scoreboard, and adhered to a white card base.

The oval and the layer on top is from Spellbinders, and adhered with 3D foam.

I then die cut the flowers – also from Spellbinders – layered them together, then placed them around the oval.

Once the die cut sentiment was stuck down, and the bunny was adhered, I felt there was something missing, so I added the cute little envelope for the bunny to hold.

I was tempted to add some sequins or gems – but I think there is enough gold shine happening.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Happy Birthday

Tic Tac Toe Challenge – diagonal line – bunny, scoring, flowers

Ellibelle’s Corner – I spy with my little eye – a Spring or Easter critter

Fab’n’Funky – use die cuts

Cut It Up Challenge – something starting with ‘B’

2 Crafty Critter Crazies – anything goes with a critter

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

The Alphabet Challenge – A is for Adorable

Hello once again. The new challenge has started at The Alphabet Challenge, we are back at the beginning of the alphabet, and Melanie has chosen the theme of ‘A is for Adorable’. Here is my card:

I chose a very cute and adorable gnome from Polkadoodles – a digital image I resized, then coloured with Copics.

This is the time of year we begin to think of how our gardens are going to look, thinking about what to do and what to plant, so I thought she was very fitting.

I added a patterned paper layer, then a couple of other layers behind her.

I hope you can come and join us with your ‘adorable’ creations. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Lil Red Wagon – Spring or Fall

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Tuesday Taggers – Hello Spring

The Four Seasons Challenge – anything goes Spring

Ellibelle’s Corner – anything goes

Easel Card Thanks

Hello once again. The new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz has started, and Caz has chosen the theme of ‘easel card’. Here is my card:

I first stamped the Pinkfresh Studio floral image, then used the layering stencils in a range of colours. I masked some of each layer off to create more colour variety in the florals, then die cut the image.

I used Gina K Designs ‘Master Layouts‘ to create the black and white panel, dry embossing the white panel with a Spellbinders embossing folder, before adding my die cut floral arrangement.

Onto a layered oval I stamped the same floral image in a very, very light grey ink, then stamped the sentiment, adding this to the base of the card with 3D foam as the stopper for the easel.

I hope you can come and join us with your easel cards. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Beautiful Blossoms – flowers

Love To Craft – anything goes

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

A Perfect Time To Craft – anything goes

Avenue 613 – anything goes – option of ‘let’s stencil’ taken

Peaceful Olive Branches and a Dove

The new challenges has started at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge. The theme is always ‘anything goes Christmas/festive‘. Here is my card:

I stencilled the olive branches onto a white panel using some more muted colours and ‘peaceful’ colours, then cut that panel and a black panel using Gina K Master Layouts.

I stamped and gold heat embossed the sentiment, then added some gold gems and a die cut gold dove.

I hope you can come and join us with your festive makes. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Creative Fingers – anything goes

MMM Challenge – P is for…….Peace

Love To Craft – anything goes

Peace On earth Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Butterfly Garden Birthday

Hello there. Happy Little Stampers has started a new ‘anything goes birthday’ challenge. Here is my card:

I used a Spellbinders embossing folder to create a panel, then added the Pinkfresh Studio deco frame from white card stock, raised with 3D foam.

The flowers were stamped, coloured using the matching stencils, then die cut. These were arranged as you see, adding some gold butterflies and some gold dots.

The sentiment is from Spellbinders, one of their debossed sentiments into their shiny gold card stock. Spellbinders gold card stock is a particular favourite of mine as it’s double sided, and die cuts so beautifully. It is sometimes a little tricky to glue down – sliding around – so you have to be careful until it ‘grabs’.

I hope you can come and join us with your birthday themed cards. I look forward to seeing you in our gallery. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – anything goes

Seize The Birthday – birthday – option things in the garden

CYHTP – embossing folder – option of Easter not taken

Krafty Chicks – anything goes

Beautiful Blossoms – floral

Flowers and Frame

Hello. I have a card to share using a few of the products as part of the kit for the recent Crop and Create Virtual event:

I dry embossed a grey panel with a Spellbinders embossing folder and attached to a card base.

The white pierced frame is also from Spellbinders – part of the event kit – and I used one of the three layers this die cuts out. This was attached with glue to the grey panel.

The layered flowers were die cut out of yellow, the leaves out of green, and I also ink blended a little Distress Ink in Bundled Sage onto the leaves – though it’s difficult to tell from the photos.

The floral die set comes with a flourish stem, but I cut that up to create some smaller leafy areas. The flowers were added with a small piece of 3D foam, the leaves were adhered using glue.

The centre of the flowers are sequins, and I also added three more just under each flower.

I don’t have a sentiment picked out just yet, this could be a ‘just because’ card, and I didn’t want to cover any more of the embossing detail.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Fab’n’Funky – lots of layers

Color Throwdown – yellow, sage green, grey, white

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – anything goes

Beautiful Blossoms – floral as main focus

Thinking of you

Hello there. I created this card using the colour scheme from the Color Throwdown Challenge:

I stamped the Pinkfresh Studio image, dried the ink a little, then used the matching layering stencils. I used several blue inks, a couple of brown inks, and Rusty Hinge for the rust colour.

Once coloured, I used the matching die set and adhered it with 3D foam to a background panel which was dry embossed using a Spellbinders embossing folder.

I stamped the sentiment, die cut that with a label die, then searched my stash for some gems or sequins which would match the colours.

I shall be entering the following nchallenges:

Color Throwdown – blue, brown, rust

Allsorts – anything goes – option of rain not taken

Stencil fun – anything goes with a stencil – option of CAS not taken

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

CYHTP – embossing folder – option of Easter not taken

Creative Fingers – anything goes

The Alphabet Challenge – ‘Z for Zodiac’ – Best Fishes

Hello once again. We have reached the letter ‘Z’ on The Alphabet Challenge. I am hosting this time round, and the theme is ‘anything related to the Zodiac’ There are lots of options for this challenge – any of the animals, girl/woman, weighing scales, water, air etc. Here is my card:

This layering set of dies if from Hero Arts, one of the Looking Glass’ die sets. I struggle with these, despite watching YouTube videos time and again – it just doesn’t stick in my head – but it doesn’t stop me buying and using them……I just go with what works for me.

All of the layers were die cut from white card stock, then each layer coloured with tones of blue or teal. The fishes were coloured with orange Copics.

The background is a Hero Arts stamp, a blue ink onto a light blue piece of card stock.

I hope you can come and join us – I’m looking forward to seeing all the variations on this theme. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

Creative Knockouts – add a sentiment

Crafts Galore – anything goes

Avenue 613 – anything goes – option CAS

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Cardz 4 Galz – Spring Flowers

Hello there. I am hosting the new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz. I chose the theme of ‘Spring Flowers’. Here is my card:

The background panel was created using an embossing folder from Spellbinders, and cut down to fit.

The light blue frame is from Pinkfresh Studio, and the bluebells layering dies are from The Greetery.

I played around with different blue card stock until I was happy with the colour, and added some subtle ink blended blue to some of the bases.

The sentiment is a previous foiling session, and some silver drops added for more interest.

I actually lost the layering instructions for the bluebells, and despite an intensive YouTube search – I couldn’t figure them out. I reached out to The Greetery, provided them with a copy of my invoice from when I bought them, and they immediately sent me a download of the instructions – fabulous customer service…..

I hope you can come and join us with your Spring Flowers creations. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

The Four Seasons Challenge – anything goes Spring

Die Cut Divas – anything goes with die cuts

Triple B – birds, butterflies, blooms – any or all three

2 Sisters On The Blog – Spring or Easter

Beautiful Blossoms – floral/flowers as main focus

‘Tis The Season…..

The new Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge has now gone live, and the theme is always ‘anything goes Christmas/Festive‘. Here is my card:

I had quite a bit of messy fun creating this card – ink smooshing, die cutting, ink blending – and I like the outcome.

The background panel is a piece of ink smooshed card stock, with pink and blue Distress Inks, and when that was dry I used a Pinkfresh Studio background die.

I adhered that whole panel to the card base, then turned to the die cutting…….

The two critters are from Tim Holtz, and each piece die cut pout of an ink blended or smooshed panel. If I didn’t have the colour I wanted, I created one.

Before adding each layer, I did some more ink blending on them to make them different. All the brown pieces are from the same panel, but I ink blended a darker brown on them to create different shades – the antlers for instance.

The sentiment is also from Tim Holtz, stamped onto the same brown smooshed panel, cut out, then ink blending.

I adhered all of them with 3D foam.