Crafty Animal

 Hope you have had a great Christmas folks and are not too worn out after all the festivities :)  Today for my DT creation I am using Janice Cullen's Fruity Babies Watermelon available from Sweet Pea Stamps in rubber.

To begin with I rummaged through my stash of free papers from magazines which I seem to have to make a real effort to use as I always forget about them hahaha. I embossed my chosen paper with a butterfly folder and then mounted this on pink card to match the watermelon on the digi.  The digi, by the way, was coloured with a mixture of Promarkers and Polychromos.  Next I cut a die using Sizzix Frames Ornate Moroccan and added some green butterfly gems and lighter green flower gems.

The inside of the card was finished off with the remaining scraps of my design paper with a pink card Spellbinder lattice on top.  Nice an simple :)

Ingredients:-

• image - Hot Santa
• Colouring medium - Promarkers
• Dies - Spellbinders Oval Floral
• From my stash - Christmas paper, bag, gold pen, snowflake brad, bells, ribbon, gold pipe cleaner, beads

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

Today I am sharing a Christmas card I have made for my sister using the stunning image Rosarna Christmas by Karen Middleton available from the store both in rubber and as a digi.  I made this card a wee while ago, well actually back in May lol as I took it to the UK with me and left it there for posting at the right time (save me trying to get cards sent from Saudi and ensuring they arrive safe and sound).  I have just mentioned that because I see one of the poinsettia flowers on the image is squiff and I can't take another picture to correct that - sorry folks).

To begin with I coloured the image with Polychromos and Promarkers.
I then made a couple of simple mounts and a sentiment mount layering up in greens, golds and some gold holly embossed vellum.  The image is so gorgeous I really did not want to overly embellish this card or add to much as everything I tried just made it look cluttered and distracted from the image.

Hello folks.  We have another challenge at One Stitch At A Time so how about popping over to see all the fabulous creations by the design team.  The prize this month is an awesome digi pack containing several images and a paper pack too - how cool is that.
Challenge #252 Theme 'Anything Goes with THE COLOUR RED'  Hello folks, hope you are having a good day :) :) :)

Oh what a struggle lol, it seems everything is mounting up at the moment and I have mislaid my mojo. Normally I love being in my craft room and having some me time but all I want to do at the moment when I get back from work is sleep hahahaha.

No getting out of doing this card as it is for my Grandson and I would never be forgiven if I did not make him one.  Still got to do another for him for his birthday, bless him that is on Christmas Day too.

I decided to make Jay a shaker card this year, he has not had one of these from me before.  Just to personalise it a bit I added text to the sign Santa is holding so he has a check list to see how good he has been this past year (wonder if he can tick them all hahahaha).

The image used for the card is Cartoon Santa Claus Holding a Sign by Ken Benner which I coloured with Polychromos and then fussy cut.  To make the shaker card I used two Spellbinder Grand Squares to make the frame and cut four of them so they could be mounted on top of each other.  The card has 4 layers, the base layer, a white layer, an embossed mat using Tim Holtz 'Wall'.  The final layer is the shaker section, the base is again an embossed mat this time using Cuttlebug 'Snowflakes' which I then coloured with a white crayon and then added Ice Stickles.  The top frame was also covered with Ice Stickles and white sequins and clear tiny beads were used for the 'shakes' :) :)

A simple insert was added using Spellbinders Grand Scalloped Circles and finished off with some red Christmas Stickles.

Ingredients:-

• Image - Cartoon Santa Claus Holding a Sign by Ken Benner
• Colouring medium - Polychromos
• Dies - Spellbinder Grand Squares and Scalloped Circles
• Embossing folders - Tim Holtz 'Brick Wall' and Cuttlebug 'Snowflakes'
• From my Stash - Ribbon, Ice Stickles, Red Stickles, acetate for window, sequins and beads

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

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Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)

Morning folks and hope you are having a fabulous day :) :)

Time for me to share a creation I have made as the Guest Designer for Through The Craft Room Door.  I don't do this often haha but when I do it is such fun being sent an image to work with and not having a choice really gets the brain cells working.  I hope you like what I have managed to create.


The image I was given to work with is from Digi Stamps For Joy - Flamingo Pair.  I coloured the image with Polychromos for the flamingos, water and bull rushes and Pan Pastels for the sky.  To finish off the flamingos I added some pink feathers - such yummy texture.


A white card blank was cut and a second mount also in white which I covered with turquoise and gold lace.  Next I used the Tattered Lace Antique Circle die and gold card for the lacy circles.  The image was cut using Sizzix - 657939 and the gold mount below the image too.  This second mount was embossed with a hessian embossing folder by Tim Holtz.  Pink Liquid pearls were added around the edge of the image just to help carry a bit of the pink through the card.  I wanted to add a sentiment but really was not winning so in the end I added a tag which was cut with Spellbinders Ornamental Tag 1 and Papermania Thinking of You stamp which I heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

Again to help carry the pink through the card a bit I added a pink bow.  Lots of dimension going on but I wanted a bit more so I used the Memory Box Lavender die and coloured it to look like the bullrushes in the image.  Finally three pink gems and there we are, all done

To begin with I coloured the gorgeous image Christmas Fairie by Karen Middleton available in ruber or as a dige, with Promarkers Faber Castell Polychromos.
Recently I have used up brads that I have which I don't like by dismantling them and then using the smallest Spellbinder Circle die to cut the circle shape and Glossy accents to recreate the plastic covering.  For this die I used the holly ribbon for my circle inside the brad. To finish off a couple of strips of the holly ribbon and a big bow to bring everything together.
 To create the writing area for the card I used Spellbinders Ovals and Scalloped Ovals to form three layers.  A simple Christmas peel off sticker was perfect for the sentiment and some gold Stickles for a bit more bling.

Good morning folk, hope you are having a good day :) :) This week I am sharing a Christmas card with you using the cute image Madison by Fernanda Oravec.

To make this card I first embossed some tan card base and then layered with red.  For the front of the card I added some gold mesh to one corner.  The image was coloured with Polychromos and then fussy cut and a gold circle die added behind the head.  The label is a peel off sentiment layered on red and gold and to finish off several poinsettia flowers. Not a very fancy card but I do love the way it has turned out with all the layering and texture :)

Ingredients:-

• Image - Madison by Fernanda Oravec
• Colouring medium - Faber Castell Polychromos
• Dies - oops, I can't remember
• from my stash -  flowers, peel off sentiment and gold mesh

Competitions entered :-

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

Hello folks.  We have another challenge at One Stitch At A Time so how about popping over to see all the fabulous creations by the design team.  The prize this month is an awesome digi pack containing several images and a paper pack too - how cool is that.
Challenge #251 Theme 'Anything Goes with WINTER' 

Hello folks, hope you are having a good day :) :) :)

Oh I loved this challenge, living in Saudi I don't have winter, just lots of sand hahahaha and I don't miss the feeling of the cold of the UK but I do miss seeing fresh snow on trees and watchings snowflakes fall (all be it from a warm place looking out :) )

 For my creation this fortnight I have used one of the images from Canada Bungle by IKEsART, there are six images in the bundle all with a Canadian feel but when I saw the scenic image I fell in love, it was perfect for what I was wanting to do :)  The image was coloured with Promarkers, Polychromos and finished off with Snow Writer for the 3D snow and Pan Pastels for the clouds above the mountains (I should not have coloured the sky all before hand, I was hoping the Pan Pastel White would be dense enough to cover the ink which it didn't  All the same I do like the soft cloud look which was achieved.  I printed the image twice as I wanted to add just the tree in the foreground on 3D tape, just for a different effect.  The image was then mounted on some white Angel Hair.

With the image finished I cut some blue card and then decided to emboss it.  Oh dear, time to put the thinking cap on as I did not have a snowflake embossing folder.  Rumaging around in my bits and bobs I came across a snowflake border from Cuttlebug which I bought when I first started making cards.  By embossing one row at a time I managed to fill the whole sheet and am rather chuffed with the outcome.

 Next I took my white card blank and added white glitter around the edges.  Several snowflakes were cut using Impression Obsession Snowflakes and these too were finished off with white glitter.

 One thing that has not show up on the the image is the addition of the Stampee Foil which I added to the water.  I bought this years ago and have never used it - gosh, how many of us do that.  Alas I did not have the powder that would have made the job easire but the package did say I could use adhesive and so that was the route I took.  Not wonderfully successful but in certain lights you can see the shimmer on the water.

I made the sentiment and printed it digitally.  Once cut it was then mounted on one of the snowflakes.

 The rest of the snowflakes were used on the lower edge of the card and finished off with a blue gem in the centre of each.  Thankfully I had the perfect coloured blue ribbon and love the fact it had white spots on it, in this case they represent snow falling lol.  In the center of the bow I added a tree charm and another white ribbon.

 The inside of the card is a great snowflake border by Sizzix - 657904 which was cut in the same blue card as the embossed mount on the front.  I also cut one of these in white and again covered it in white glitter, it is hard to see on the card front but has been used as the layer behind the blue embossed one. There we are, all done :)

Ingredients:-

• Image - Canada Bungle by IKEsART
• Colouring medium - Promarkers, Polychromos, Pan Pastels
• Dies - Obsession Snowflakes and Sizzix - 657904
• From my Stash - Snowflake embossing border, white glitter, gems, metal charm, ribbon and Angel Hair

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Craft for the Craic - M, 5E (First Friday of the month) - November - Something Glittery
• Creative Corner - W, 3E  - Glitz & Glam
• De-Stempelwinkel Stamper Challenge 2W, SIR, No totally digital projects  - No.21  - (W1 of 3) Winter / Christmas
• Fairy Tale - 2W, 2E - No. 131 - (W2 of 2) - Christmas without Red/Green
• Graph'It Colour Challenge - W (any medium)- No.48 - Christmas
• Morgan's Art World - 2W, E3, SIO (must use digital stamp) - No.12 - (W2 of 2) - Monochrome
• Winter Wonderland - W, 3E, must be Christmas – Add Sparkle and Bling
• 4 Crafty Chicks W #274 Masculine
• Aud Sentiments Challenge 2W,E5 #145 Anything Goes + A Sentiment (W2 of 2)
• C.R.A.F.T. W,5E #339 Winter
• Crafty Ribbons 2W,include ribbon #136 Frosty Christmas(W1 of 2)weekly until Christmas
• DL ART Thursday Challenge 2W,2nd & 4th Thurs,3E #169 Christmas
• Scrap & Craft Challenges M,1st Thurs,3E #16 Christmas
• Crafting By Designs - W,F, 3E -  Get Ready For Christmas November Edition
• Crafting for all Seasons - 2W, 3E - #115  Brrr It's Cold Outside (Week 1 of 2 )
• DoubleClick Skittles - 2W, E1, F -  #36 Christmas or Blue and White  (Week 1 of 2)
• Fab 'n' Funky - W,1E, C10 - #283 Christmas
• Paper Shelter Challenge - W,3E, SIO - #229 A Christmas Card
• The Crafty Addicts M, 1st Wednesday of M, E #4 - Anything Goes/ Use A Die Cut 
• Card and Scrap (2W, P1/15) #107 Christmas
• Christmas Cards All Year Round (M,P1) Oh Christmas Tree
• Country View Crafts' Challenge (M,P1) #33 The Colour Blue
• Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra (M,P1) Anything goes as long as it is Christmas 
• Creatalicious Challenges (M,P15) #81 Merry Christmas
• Creative Craft Cottages Challenges (2W,P1/15,E3) #52 Christmas
• Natalie and Amy's Challenge (M,P30) #38 Winter Scenes
• Nordsalten Hobbyklubb (2W,E3,P1/15) #128 Winter Joy
• Sunsational Stamps  (M, P last day of M, E3) Anything Goes with Glitter 
• A Snowflakes Promise 2W, E3, Must be Christmas/winter themed  #10 - Anything Goes with a Winter or Christmas Theme (Week 2)
• Deep Ocean Challenge 2W - #117 - White and one other color  (Week 2)
• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - W, E4, Must Be Square or Rectangular #112 Anything Goes with a twist: Make a Scene
• Unicorn Challenge M, 1st Tuesday of M, E3, No fully digital projects November - Christmas is Coming
• Always Playing with Paper - W, E3 - Christmas Cards
• Craft-Dee BowZ - M, E3, project must have bow - (November) Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
• Ooh La La Creations - 2W, SIO - (Week 1) Let It Snow
• Sparkle N Sprinkle - M, E3, all crafts - (November) Anything Goes: use loose glitter, embossing powder and/or flocking
• Vintage Stamping Challenges/Flonz Craft - M, 3E, Must Stamp, does not have to be vintage - (November) Traditional Christmas
• Crafty Calendar M,1E  Nov- sparkle, bling and embellish 
• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas W,must be Christmas die cuts or punches 
• Crazy 4 Challenges W,1E  square card or elements
• My Time to Craft 2W (W2 ) Let it snow 

Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)

Oh such a sad occasion to be making a card for, the closure of Sweet Pea Stamps.  I have had a ball over the last 18 months and feel so privileged to have been on the Sweet Pea Stamps Design Team so it is with a very heavy heart this card.

One of my DT buddies on another DT was also on the Sweet Pea Stamps team and that was where I first heard of the company.  She made the most beautiful card and I longed to see her creation each week, drooling at the most beautiful digital stamps.  A wee while later I saw Sweet Pea were having a DT call and plucked up the courage to submit a creation and then sat on edge but really did not give myself much hope.  Oh what a wonderful day it was when I got the email to say they would like me to join them, it was equivalent to passing my driving test hahaha and I was on cloud nine.  Now Sweet Pea is closing the feeling is opposite, I feel I have lost a dear friend :(

Lynette, you are a true superstar, so supportive, so hard working, so game to try everything possible to keep your business going in very hard times and, in many ways, a sad environment and you have my upmost respect and gratitude, I also am keeping my fingers crossed your health improves treasure, you so deserver to be happy and well :)  Jennifer too, as the DT coordinator has been amazing keeping us all straight as what to do, when to do it and always making sure the blog runs smoothly.  Thank you both so very much for everything you have done and the joy you have given me.

Time now for me to share my blog hop creation - having a hard time as when I put my card up I know it is the last one and I don't want to do it :( but I have to so here it goes (very very sad :( :( :( )


For my card I have used one of the fairy images from the Fairy Set by Amy Brown.  The card mount was airbrushed with Promarkers to match the colours on the edges of the wings.  Next I used a green paper behind the die cut mount and more of the paper for the roses, the colour matched perfectly with the fairy's shoes :).  The die cut mount and leaves were cut out using gold card along with the thank you sentiment.  I had thought of having the fairy sitting on some flowers but in the end opted for skeleton leaves which I sprayed with silver glitter varnish. Behind the fairy I placed some mauve tulle which also has glitter on it.  Pearls, gold flower charms, gold bead chain and pearl bead chain are the finishing touches to bring everything together.

Welcome to the Sweet Pea stamps Blog Hop!

This hop is from a loyal group of Sweet Pea stamp fans who want to let Lynette know that we appreciate all her hard work bringing us the wonderful stamps in both rubber and digi format over the years.  Thanks so very much for all the wonderful images we have collected from you!

There are some random prizes along the way, as certain blog owners have decided to include a prize, so please leave some comments along the way as you see everyone's gorgeous Sweet Pea Stamp creations.

Also, the store closes at the end of the day on the 25th, so if you see some wonderful stamps on this blog hop, today is the last day to get them, so please drop by the store!

 The inside of the card was finished off with an off-set writing area using the holly paper I also used on the front. The shape was cut using Spellbinders Labels 20. Finially I added a small spray of crystals and pearls plus a Christmas themed bow.

Ingredients:-

• Image - My Teddy by IKEsART
• Colouring medium - Promarkers, Polychromos and Tim Holtz Distress Ink
• Dies - Spellbinders Labels 18 and Foliage, Tattered Lace sentiments, Die'sire - Blossom Fleurs and Creative Expressions - Filigree 3d Bow
• From my stash - double sided design paper, pearls and brads 

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

Just a very quick post as I wanted to join in the Lacy Sunshine challenge this time - a favourite of mine, Tic-Tac-Toe and at the moment we have the electricians in our house, a bunch of 5 men wondering around and it is very off putting hahahaha.

This week is Artist Week and the whole DT are using images from Zoimar Lezama, I have chosen to use Copia.  The image was coloured with Polychromos and for the background I used a stencil and Pan Pastels.  When I coloured the image initially I had no background so added a digital background by removing the white space from the image once I had taken a photo of it.
I just loved colouring all the folds on this image :)
For my card base I covered a white card with a shimmering slightly embossed paper and then added a dark green layer in the same type of paper.  The green layer was mounted with foam tape.  Next I added some lace and allowed it to hang over the right edge a bit and on top of that some pink organza ribbon.  The ribbon does not really show unless you look hard but is the same ribbon I used for the bow and is a nice way to carry the colour.
What fun I had making my bow lol, I was trying to make something that resembled sections of a butterfly in keeping with the image.  To hold my bow in place I used a hat pin to which I added pearls and a hand made bead along with a bit of old broken necklace.  The pointy end of the hat pin was then passed through my bow from bottom to top and the end then bent over to make a hook.  The hook end was then secured to the back of the image. Below you can see a close up of the hat pin and bow.
 With the scraps of paper I had left over I decorated the inside of the card using Spellbinders Foliage again and Memory Box Levington Border

Thank you for stopping by and hope you are having a special day taday :)

Ingredients :-

• Image - Copia by Zoimar Lezama available from Sweet Pea Stamps in rubber and as a digi
• Colouring Medium - Polychromos and Pan Pastels
• Dies - Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms and Foliage, Memory Box Levington Border
• From my stash - pearls, butterfly, ribbon, lace, hat pin, beads

Challenges entered :-

Hello folks.  We have another challenge at One Stitch At A Time so how about popping over to see all the fabulous creations by the design team.  The prize this month is an awesome digi pack containing several images and a paper pack too - how cool is that.
Challenge #250 Theme 'GIVING THANKS' 

Hello folks, hope you are having a good day :).  I don't celebrate Thanks Giving so having the theme Giving Thanks is a great way to let everybody join in with the challenge, after all you can't have enough thank you cards can you lol.
For my OSAAT DT creation this fortnight I am working with an image from the artist Reeces Scrap Pieces called RSP Many Thanks Lucy.  This is such a sweet image and when I saw it the immediate thought was how well it would lend itself to a shape card.  I don't normally add a pic of the image I am using but here I will so you can see what I mean.

I started by printing the image on white card and colouring in Lucy with my Poloychromos.  I also printed the image twice more so I could used the section to make the decoupage parts on the final card.  Next I used the image to create my template being careful not to cut out Lucy yet ahahaha as I only wanted the envelope section. With this done I covered my card front with two papers and drew in the two lines on the bottom section of the envelope.  Time to put this to one side and colour the Many and Thanks sections, these were done with Promarkers and a black liner pen, glitter was then added for the flowers and butterflies and the two sections fussy cut.
Time to assemble now and I finished cutting Lucy out and added her to my card, then the sentiment sections were added using one layer of foam tape for the 'thanks' one and two layers for the 'many' one.
With the scraps of paper I had left over I decorated the inside of the card.

Ingredients:-

• Image -  RSP Many Thanks Lucy
• Colouring medium - Polychromos and Promarkers
• From my Stash - design paper from PaperMania and glitter

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Catch The Bug W,3E,SIO give thanks 
• Di's Digis Designs 3E,2W,SIO (W2)Tic Tac Toe -(FANCY FOLD, DIGI IMAGE, FLOWERS)
• Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - (W2 of 2) Always Anything Goes
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.152 - (W1 of 2) - Thankful
• Jo's Scrap Shack - W, 3E  - No.114 -   Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede – W, 4E, SIO – No. 165 - Give Thanks
• Simply Create Too - 2W - No.98 - (W2 of 2) - Give Thanks
• Crafty Girls Creations 2W,3E Always Anything Goes
• In The Pink 2W,3E #82 Fancy Folds or Shaped Card (in pink of course) (W1of 2)
• Crafty Creations - 2W - #302 Give Thanks  (Week 1 of 2)
• Crafty Gals Corner -  W, E2 - #45 Thank You or Thankful

Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)

 Ingredients :-