New Baby Girl

Well, I promised to post so I'd better fulfill!!

This is the A4 sized card I made for a work colleague's new baby.  The image is a LOTV stamp 'Special Delivery'.  The mounts are Spellbinders dies, the background a Cuttlebug folder and the name is cut on the Cricut using 'Learning Curve'.  I made the pram using the Princess Pram template from Arty Farty.  All the flowers were from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Totally Papercrafts - Friday Challenge #107 - My favourite Things.

I was asked to make a card for a friend's girlfriend and thought why not combine it with a challenge so here it is.  Totally Papercrafts challenge this Friday is called My Favourite Things and my most favourite crafting things ever (apart from my hubby who never moans at the amount I spend!) are my Penny Black stamps and my love of making cards which are a little different.  I love this stamp 'Duckling', it's so easy to colour and lends itself to decoupage too. I used Promarkers again and glossy accents on the decoupaged feet and bill.  I've mounted it on a Spellbinders die - Parisian Motifs.

The dp is from a set I got from DCWV.  This is an easel card set on a four drawer box which is covered with matching DCWV papers.  I used a border punch to decorate the base.  I thought my friend could put some little surprise pressies in the drawers!!

I'd like to enter it in Totally Papercrafts Challenge #107

More Cards!!

This is for my friend's birthday.  The stamp is from Imagination Crafts - Decoupage range. I stamped and coloured the image and then triple embossed it with clear powder to make a tile.  The large butterfly was then stamped and glittered on acetate.  The mat was cut on my Cricut.  I love this card and was proud to give it to my friend who is also a fellow crafter so it had to be a good one!! lol

A double easel card using my Cricut New Arrival cart.  The dp was from a really old CD I have from Bearly Mine.

 A quick and simple get well card for our school cleaner using a free set of stamps from Cards and Papercraft magazine.  I dug out my old Sakura pens to colour the flowers.  The border is a Clarity corner which was in their sale.

 

 Messing about with Sheena Douglass stamps and distress inks and my old H2O paints.  I saw Sheena show this technique of using the the paints directly onto the stamp for the background and then spritzing it with water.  The main image is embossed and painted directly with H2O's.

 Another simple card using a cuttlebug folder, gems and a Kanban greeting.

 

 This was a comission for my hubby's friend - using a Click, Print, Go, My Craft Studio CD.  I buy these and hardly ever use them!!  I used my Cricut for the name and numbers.

Back to basics on this one - it was a comission for a 60th Birthday and I was asked for pastel colours so I fetched out one of my under used medallion stamps.  I remember when these were really popular.  This one is so pretty though, it has a lovely rose design. I simply embossed it with gold wow powder.

A large A4 card for our school computer tech who is poorly at the moment.  I love this image as it's him to a 't'.  It's a Mo Manning digi called Computer Guy which I coloured with Promarkers.  Being a digi I could make it large enough to go on an A4 card.  I used my Cricut for the greeting.  I made the dp from our school logo using a Card Creations Master Card Builder CD.

Cricut and Sizzix come together for this comission for a friend's parent's anniversary. 

Another friend's birthday and another set of Imagination Crafts stamps, a Prima butterfly and Spellbinders dies.  The dp is embossed with gold flourishes and I added a trail of gems.

Less is More - Challenge - Spring #2

Less is More No 2

Thanks for all the comments on my last card, I appreciate all the constructive ones - I didn't like that card much either although I was pleased with the colouring.  This is the one I did first before that one - I didn't like the painting on this one or my handwriting  so left off before I'd finished it so it's a bit less fussy.  What do you think, I'm really not that pleased with either and reckon the daisies would look best on their own!!  I do love the stamp though!

Lili of the Valley 30 minute card!

My daughter asked me yesterday 30mins before she was going out if I could make a card for her friend's 21st Birthday! I threw this one together so it's all a bit squiffy and the image colouring isn't all that neat! No time for glitter or silicon glue so... no flowers :( I don't even know yet if she liked it!!

Free bp from My Minds Eye

Left over ribbon

Nellie Snellen oval die

Craftwork Cards sentiments - I love these long ones.

Get Well Soon

Our school cleaner broke her foot before Christmas so I made her this card. The image is an Elyzebelles stamp which I was given by a lovely cardmaking friend - Pauline many thanks. This lovely stamp shop has now closed down :( I used Nellie Snellen flower punches for the embellishments.

Kanban Birthday

This is a birthday card for a work colleague - I got this set of Kanban stamps from QVC - I think she is so elegant. I coloured her with Promarkers and matted her onto gold mirri card on which I stamped the oval. Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I found some peeloffs for the corners which matched the Art Deco feel.

New Baby - Tina Wenke

This card was for another of my husband's work colleagues who had a baby girl (10lbs 3ozs!! - my daughter was 10lbs 2 ozs and I thought that was big!!) - there are babies everywhere - that's one of each in his department. This one uses a stamp called 'In a Nutshell' by Tina Wenke and the sweet baby Sissix embossing folder.

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LOTV Engagement

This is the little card I made for a friend who has got engaged to be married. I used Promarkers to colour the LOTV stamp and Basic Grey backing paper. My QVC flower punches were used for the flowers. I've noticed that Docrafts have brought out individual little flower punches which are exactly the same as mine if you like them.

Penny Black Easel Card

Easel card made from a Penny Black transparent stamp and Promarkers - can't remember which set (I have so many!!) mounted on rectangle nestabilities. The sentiment is cut on my cricut and the little flowers are my QVC punches. Paper from DCWV. Ribbon, pearls and stickles finish it off. I think this was Squirrel's birthday card!

My First Distress Card aka Tim Holtz.

As it's holiday week still I was having a play yesterday - made quite a mess actually and distressed myself with the ink too, (it's only just washed off) and this is the result!! It's a large 8x8 card which I am sending to a young lady in the USA who has MS. I've had all the 'stuff ' for making this type of card for ages but have never really had a proper go with it. I love Tim Holtz products (I've got quite a few actually) but haven't made anything from them - I look a lot and then put it all away again! Anyway I thought you might like to see my latest effort. I shall try and describe how I made it now!

Backing Paper

I started with a sheet of My Mind's Eye paper and distressed the edge with Antique Linen ink. I then stamped over it using 3 different stamps and Vintage Photo ink. I brushed Heritage Gold perfect pearls over the whole sheet and it stuck to the inky bits. The cherub was stamped in black archival ink, clear embossed and coloured with distress ink and stickles. I over stamped some more flourishes and clear embossed these too to add texture. Finally I went around the edge of the sheet again with Vintage Photo.

Tag

I sponged all over the tag (cut from cream card on my Cricut from Gypsy Wanderings) with Wild Honey and Shabby Shutters and then spritzed it with a mix of water and the gold perfect pearls. I dried it and then added Vintage Photo to the edges. I stamped with Vintage Photo and then stamped the bird (look closely) with Perfect Medium and then brushed it all with Heritage Gold perfect pearls (they're gorgeous, so goldy and sparkly - excuse the English!). I used Vintage Photo ink on three Prima flowers and added Stickles Candy Distress glitter to the top one. The brad is a jewel one from Dovecraft. The word 'Hope' is cut on the Cricut from cream card and I triple embossed it using gold for the third layer.

Inspire

This was also cut on the Cricut from cream card. I sponged Wild Honey and Vintage Photo ink over it, spritzed it as before and stamped it using Vintage Photo. I triple embossed it with clear powder and threw in a bit of gold into the third layer.

I assembled the card with ribbon from a Crafty Ribbons grab bag and flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts. I used little yellow pearls (thanks Kaz) to finish it off.

The stamps I used were one corner stamp from Tim Holtz's Urban Tapestry collection and the others were from a beautiful large set of Clear Prima stamps (there's no name for the set on the packet sorry, but there are at least 15 stamps on the sheet) which I got from a sale at The Craft Barn. Hope you like it, I so enjoyed making it and will be making more again.

ps. Have done some research and the Prima stamps are a No2 set - you can see them here:

http://www.scrapshed.co.uk/catalog/prima-clear-stamps-crenee-p-9066.html

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Swirls and Flourishes.

I had fun playing with my rubber stamps on this card, though. The middle section (rectangle) was masked and brayered over a Versamarked flower stamp from Scrappy Cat with a Marvy La Plume matchables inkpad, 'Shades of Rose'. I used glossy card for this. I then removed the mask and overstamped the flowers with the same ink making sure I placed the new flower slightly away from the Versamarked flower to create a shadow effect. I stamped the corners with a HOTP swirl stamp in the same ink and then shadowed the edges with cut and dry foam. I overstamped over these with another swirl stamp and embossed it in gold. I mounted it on gold mirror card, stamped a greeting, added some Brenda Pinnick backing paper and Martha Stewart punched butterflies. I had fun making this one and didn't want to send it but I had to!! Do you find parting with your cards hard? It's worse when you remember you forgot to photograph it!! lol

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