Wild Poppies

Well our weather is so unpredictable isn't it?  After a weekend of torrential rain and blustery winds, summer has returned for a day with temperatures at 18 degrees and that shiny yellow thing up in the sky :-)  It's a pity I was at work today, but lovely to have the car window wound down on the way home!

This card reflects the good weather today with a display of poppies standing tall.  The background was also made using the smaller poppy stamp, versamark and mica powder.  I think it's very effective and especially on the black card.  This is another technique that I've wanted to try for ages and have now been able to tick it off my list and will definately be using this again.

Materials used:

Stamps - tall wild poppies and wild poppies

Coloured with promarkers

Sentiment - memories

Nestability - large deckled rectangle

Distress ink - antique linen

Versamark ink

Mica powder - pearls and pastels

Pearls

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

I Love Promarkers - flower power

Passion for Promarkers - cut it out

Whimsy Inspires - distressing

Hooked on Crafts - flowers

Pink Elephant - spring

Whoopsie Daisy - flowers

Pan Pastel - summer

Stampin' Sisters in Christ - green fingers

Stamptacular Sundays - spring bling

Crafty Pad - April showers bring May flowers

Crafts 4 Eternity - spring

Prairie Fairy - flowers

Moving Along With the Times - flowers

Little Darlings - flowers

My Mums Craft Shop - great outdoors

The Outlawz - anything goes

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

White on White Anniversary

As I'm always talking about my cards at work lol, one of my bosses asked me to make his wife an anniversary card.  The brief he gave me was nothing too slushy and not lots of hearts and that was it!  I've spent ages thinking about the style of card and decided that white on white was the safest option, but I really struggle with these as I always want to add something to bling it up - doh!!

I hope he likes it :-)

Materials used:

Pearlised & hammered card

Couture Creations embossing folder - tied together

Tim Holtz bigz die - tattered florals

Spellbinders die - Persian motifs

Magnolia DooHickey die - bloomy tag & leaf and swirl

Distress ink - antique linen

Pearls

Sentiment - computer generated

Ribbon from my stash

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Card Crafters Circle - pearls and lace
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - bingo (full house)
Crafty Catz - anything goes
Prairie Fairy - flowers
Poodles Parlour - anything goes
Pixie Dust Studio - embossing
Crafts and Me - embossing
Fab 'n' Funky - no dp
Little Darlings - flowers
Truly Scrumptious - distress & dies/punches




xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Daisy, With Love

Well after getting up at stupid o'clock on a Saturday morning to accompany my other half to pick up another motorbike, I'm now back in my craft room and finishing off another card whilst he plays with his new toy :-)  Boys and their toys eh?!?!?

The inspiration for this card came from the sketch over at Truly Scrumptious and also gave me a chance to use my promarkers again.  Did I tell you that I now have the full set?  I decided to treat myself with my bonus from work and got the last 35 pens which now finishes my collection :-)  I suppose they will bring out the summer editions now, won't they?

Anyway here's my card:

Materials used:

Stamp - Daisy

Coloured with promarkers

Distress ink - milled lavender

Nestabilities - Persian motifs and large deckled rectangles

Backing paper - Wild Rose Studio - lilac mist

Stamp & sentiment - tickets

Embossing folder - Swiss dots

Ribbon embellishement from Lidl

Pearls, gems & glitter card from my stash

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Truly Scrumptious - sketch

Whimsy Inspires - punch/die

Card Makin' Mamas - girly

Delicious Doodles - layers

Prairie Fairy - flowers

Stampin' for the Weekend - sparkle & shine

Outlawz - distress

Paper Pretties - girly

Bearly Mine - embossing

Craft Your Passion - punch/die

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Your Wish Will Come True

The past few weeks have been rather hectic and I haven't really had much time for crafting :-(  However, I got to play a bit more whilst on holiday last week and managed to try a few techniques which have been on my "to do" list for ages!  Hopefully after a bit more practice I can actually use them on my cards :-)

It's challenge time again over at Fussy and Fancy and the theme for the next fortnight is "Punches and Dies".  Here's my card, but why not pop over and have a look at the other DT's cards too:

 

Materials used:

Stamp - Teddy Bea 116

Coloured with promarkers

Distress ink - spun sugar

Magnolia DooHickey die - leaf and swirl

Martha Stewart punch - doily lace

Nestalibilities - lacey circles

Sentiment - Jane's script

Backing paper recycled from wrapping paper

Pearls

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Butterfly & glitter from stash

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Passion for Promarkers - pink, pearls & lace
Crafters Companion - 4 legged friends
Papertake Weekly - stitch in time
Whimsy Stamps - punches/dies
Joanna Sheen - someone special
Emerald Faeries - dazzle it
Creatalicious - butterflies & flowers
Cupcake Craftroom - wings
Paper Shelter - wings
Sassy Cheryl's - butterflies
Craft Your Passion - punches/dies
Lexi's Creations - punches/dies
Made Especially For You - 3 flowers
Ooh La La - bold & bright
Cutie Pie Challenge - circles
CCEE Stampers - pink, white & black




xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Lily of the Valley

I thought I would carry on with the theme from my last card and try a bit more brayering!  This time I've gone for a more muted colour, but I actually found it more difficult getting the graduation of colour just right.  I worked in from each corner using distress inks, but found with my first few attempts that I couldn't get it too look even - this was my third attempt at this card.

The stamp I've used is from Clarity Stamps and was sent along with my project sheet full of ideas as part of Barbara Grays project club.  Why not check it out as you get a stamp each month to play with and before it's realeased too.

Here's my card which again could be used as a sympathy card:

Materials used:

Stamp - Lily of the Valley

Coloured with promarkers

Accented with glamour dust - crystal

Sentiment - memories

Distress ink - antique linen

Pearls

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen - someone special

House of Gilli - flowers

Karens Doodles - spring

Paper Creations Ink - flowers

Dream Valley - earth tones

Paper Sundaes - anything goes

Fairy Fun Fridays - anything goes
Pixie Cottage - green

xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Special Moments

Thanks to the good old English weather, rain has stopped play outside for today, but I did manage to get the garden weeded and helped Mark to lay a path!

So now I'm sat in my craft room and have been able to tick another thing off my "to try" list with this card as I've eventually got to play with my brayer after hours and hours of watching Barbara Gray from Clarity Stamps in action.  Doesn't she make it look easy?  I can't say that I've mastered the art yet, but I'm quite pleased with my first try :-) 

 
I think this could be used for a sympathy card especially with the verse, but not sure with the bright colours!  I'd be interested to see what you think - good or bad :-)

Materials used:

Stamps - branches, climbing ivy, large foliage & thistle

Stamp - birds in flight

Sentiment - memories

Big and juicy inkpad - vibrant primary

Pearls

Ribbon from my stash

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Wags 'n' Whiskers - anything goes
Art Impression Stamps - thinking of you - WINNER
Craft a Scene - silhouettes
Sentimental Sundays - silhouettes - WINNER




xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Corset

I think I've sat through all kinds of weather whilst making this card - sun, hail, rain - UK weather eh, will it ever decide what it's going to do?

I've used a couple of stamps that haven't been inked before on this one and a technique that I haven't done for ages, which is masking!  I had real fun making it so you may be seeing more soon :-)

Materials used:

Stamp - corset

Paper pieced with dp from First Edition - dreamcatcher

Coloured with promarkers

Stamp - latin script

Stamp & sentiment - tickets

Backing paper - Wild Rose Studio - lilac mist

Distress ink - dusty concord

Pearls

Peel offs, ribbons, buttons & embroidery thread from my stash

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Pixie Cottage - sketch (optional paper piecing)

Paper Shelter - buttons and bows

Scrapbook Sisters - anything goes
Craft Us Crazy - mothers day
Pixie Dust Studio - ribbon
Crafts and Me - 3d embellishments
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - ribbon



xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx

Milly - Just For You

It's challenge time again at Fussy and Fancy and for the next fortnight we have a sketch for you to work with.

I've used a LOTV stamp for this one which I received on a craft retreat that I attended at the end of January.  Whilst we were there, amongst other things, we had demo's on colouring using copics, promarkers, water colours etc, but as promarkers are my thing, and I wanted to improve my blending, this is the image that I used!  It took me several hours to colour and I kept getting it checked by the queen of colouring Shell - thanks for your patience :-)  Here's the card I made using that image:

Materials used:

Image - Milly - just for you

Coloured with promarkers

Distress ink - spun sugar & tumbled glass

My Minds Eye papers - lime twist, happy go lucky

Martha Stewart punch - double loops

Glamour dust - crystal

Kanban labels

 Nestabilities - classic scalloped circle small
(to make the blue flowers)

Card candi - sorbet

Liquid pearls - lemon yellow & pastel raspberry

Pearls

Pink flower (goody bag from Eileen - Torquay2 on Docrafts)

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

I Love Promarkers - spring
Passion for Promarkers - theme
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Prairie Fairy - anything goes
Poodles Parlour - going dotty
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - something new (card candi)
Divas by Design - anything goes
Fashionista Challenge - anything goes for girls
Outlawz - nature


xx Happy crafting and glittery hugs xx