Marina

Teri over at Delicious Doodles has been doodling again. Just had to use this little beauty as soon as I could. Her name's Marina.

 

I followed the sketch over at Seems a Little Sketchy.

The main DP is DCWV from the citrus stack. On top of that a pale blue, nestie cut, that I heat embossed some swirls onto before backing with pearlised white. The white swirls are cricut cuts.
The image was backed with turquoise that was edge punched after being coloured with promarkers.
The flowers and charms are from Duck Pond Crafts.












I am entering this into the challenge over at
Seems a little Sketchy - Their Sketch # 10
Crazy Amigo - Open Theme
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes with optional monotone

Wow, He's one year old already!!

I had an urgent request to make a card for DIL's little nephew. He'll be a whole one year old on thursday. Only seems like yesterday when he was being welcomed into the world. No problem, so that was the job for this afternoon. I settled on this Dustin Pike image of a little dragon in amongst a pile of pressies.

coloured with promarkers and used the blending pen to make faint patterns on the pressies. I printed the image twice so that I could cut out the dragon and layer him up.

The entire card was made following the sketchy over at Seems a Little Sketchy Challenges.

The papers and the mesh are all from a card kit from Duck Pond Crafts.
The bunting has the sentiment hand written on as is the "1" on the rosette. The colour green used as primary because that was requested.. No hard little embellies used incase the wee man gets hold of it. Can never be too carefull with little ones I think.

I am entering this into the challenge over at
Seems A Little Sketchy - Their Sketch #9
Dustin Pike Blog - It's a Dudley kind of a day
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes
Paper Makeup Stamps - for a boy/man

Cheers!!

A birthday card for a male friend needed in the next few weeks. I thought I'd better get it done sooner rather than later. I had some bottle tops left over from my clock project so used them as embellishments for this card.
I did squash them down in a vice before attaching so they are not so jaggy.

The image is a rubber stamp in my collection that I have know idea of the origin, coloured with promarkers and glossy accents applied to the glass. distressed with DI.
The colour chosen because of the antics between this friend and my hubby on last St Patrick's day ;-). The bottle tops each have a 1" circle with a hand written sentiment spread over the 3. The circles were embedded in the bottle tops with glossy accents. Small squares with some twine on the rectangle mount. The BP is from a card kit from Duck Pond Crafts.
All this was to follow the sketch over at Just Add Ink.

I am entering this card into a couple of challenges
Just Add Ink - Their sketch JAI 110
Drunken Stampers - I'll drink to that - Feature a beverage
Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes
Crafting When We Can - One for the Boys

Level Up

It's Monday, that means a new challenge over at Smudgy Antics, the challenge site of Smeared Ink and the Smeared and Smudged Forum.
This week's challenge theme is "LEVEL UP". We want to see layers and more layers in your projects. Show us how you level up! Get creative and don't be afraid to think outside of the box. We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Layers is what I used in my project - lots of them!! I've just counted them and there's 13 here.

I know - a cute card isn't my norm but this image just screamed cute at me, and I needed a card for a child. Two birds with one stone :-)

A twisted pyramage of this doll image from the Stitchy Situation set. That's 6 layers on the image alone.
The image was coloured with promarkers then scanned and this printed out 6 times. Cut out using scalloped square nesties. cutting round his top knot and slotted the die so this wouldn't get severed and ink distressed whilst in the die. Layered up and attached to an oval shape die cut.
Then following this month's sketchy challenge on the forum, continued to add yet more layers.
The papers are all from a kit from DuckPond Crafts. All stitched together in theme with the image itself. The twine was machine couched and buttons, all from stash were sewn on.


A card suitable for a child

Your turn folks to show us your layers. Don't forget to visit the blogs of my awesome fellow DT to see their fantabulous work and leave some love.

I am entering this card into a couple of challenges
Card Cupids - Cards for Boys
Catered Crop - Stitching
Card Makin Mamas - Buttons

Congratulations

My DD's best friend is getting married. A purple and silver theme. This is the card I have made for these two young people to celebrate their marriage.



The stamp used is from Papermania "build a cake" that came free in something last year, I can't remember where from.
The sketch is from Paper and Such Online.
I heat embossed all the top layers using my new WOW embossing powders. The cake in purple and the base in silver. Loads of layers diminishing in depth as well as size.

3mm ribbon being wrapped round the base of each tier before attaching to a silver cs base. This in turn, matted onto purple and silver layers.

The card base is pearlised purple layered up with silver card and silver/white DP. Purple organza and satin ribbons to tie together.
The flowers - purple and white heather, purple thistles and white/silver baubles threaded through a grey prima flower dusted with stickles.

All the flowers are from Duck Pond Crafts.
The sentiment is computer generated, as I don't own the appropriate stamp, printed in purple and mat and layered as the image.
The punch used throughout is a MS one.

I made an envelope box to fit

I am entering this into the challenge
Paper and Such Online - Their Sketch

Pieces of Eight

Pirates ahoy!
A little easel card made. One with a bit of humour that this particular 8year old will understand!


I have used 4 images from Delicious Doodles. There's Pirate Pete, A treasure map and the skull and crossed bones on the front.and Pirate Polly on the base. The sentiment was computer generated by me.

Both images were coloured with promarkers and the map was coloured with distress inks.



The skull was decoupaged up and dipped in UTEE
to make it really 3-D












The cream coloured card base was ink distressed with orange DI then papers and bazzil that were in the last card kit from Duck Pond Crafts used to make the design, all edges well distressed for that olde look. The sketch used as inspiration was #51 from Sketches with Carly.

The orange skully ribbon was from Crafty Ribbons last year.

I am entering this into a challenge or two
Sketches By Carly - Their Sketch #51
Forever Night - Pirates
Hooked on Craft - More than one fold

Music

To Soothe The Soul. It's challenge day over at Delicious Doodles this week and that's the challenge this time around.
I'm a bit late getting this posted and I apologise to all. Been a bit of a rough day. Still, I'm back now!
I had a hard job just pinning this down to one song. Soooo many that I could have chosen. In the end I went for Sirenia's Fallen Angel.


A gatefold card. The image is, of course, From Delicious Doodles - Fallen. Coloured with promarkers and plenty of distress inks in black and purples.

The BP are a mix of sheet music from google printed onto purple and distressed further with black DI and some papermania I had in my stash. Inside and out have the same papers. Together with some lilac hammered card used for matting and the sentiment printed on inside. Some black lace and some feathers to represent wings. The flower and lilac feathers from Duck Pond Crafts. the black from stash.

Blogger is playing tricks again and not letting me upload a closeup of the image just right this min. but the cards, when clicked on, should let you see more.
Ok my lovelies, your turn to get those thinking caps on and crafty bits out, think of a song and show us your representation of it.

I'd like to enter this card into the challenges at
Creatalicious Challenges - Use Lace
Sparkles Forum - Things with Wings
Do You Stack Up - Things with Wings
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Flutterby Wednesdays - Open

A simple card??

The reason for the question marks is the colour I've worked with. Why do I have this mental block when it comes to working in pink. It should be easy enough. I've done a few now in recent months but I still feel a sense of dread when picking up pink papers to work with. I had loads of choices with the new card kit from Duck Pond Crafts, but pink was on top of the pile.
I used the sketch from Sketches by Carly. I was too late with last weeks entry by just a couple of hours. I'd used the last sketch for my Delicious Doodles DT card.



The piece of paper had some vintage looking details and chose to use just that corner as my main image. Matting it onto some of the card in the kit and used a co-ordinating piece of pale green behind. All pieces have been distressed both with coarse sandpaper and some ink. The main backing is pale cream card which, cut to size, was first stamped and heat embossed with pale pink on one side (papermania hearts stamp) then the other side was dry embossed; running through the bigshot with the card carefully positioned in the folder so that only the plain bit was embossed.



The lace from the kit was threaded with thin satin ribbon, the same ribbon being teamed up with some coffee ribbon from my stash. A ribbon rose made and teamed with one of the charms from the kit and a heart shaped bead from stash.










The pearls added are also in the kit











I am entering this card into the challenges
Sketches by Carly - Sketch #48

Simply Create Too - Love is in the Air

Colour Create - Pink and Green with hand made flower

Craft Us Crazy - Valentine/Love

Crafty Creations - Valentine

PaperPlay - Ribbon, Every Which Way

The Duck Pond Card Kit

My very good friend Karen, over there at Duck Pond Crafts has asked me to review this card kit that she supplies. At a VERY reasonable cost I might add!! She's even doing a "fan of the week" for leaving a comment on her FB page.
Pictures - got loads to show you. It's crammed with goodies. This month is all about vintage and luuurve.
On opening the box ..... look at all the goodies the eye sees...

WOWOWOW

more pics















double sided papers so your choices are doubled.














8 card blanks with matching envelopes in this kit (varies each month)
Some plain, textured card stock
Then we come to all those embellishments that just finish off our cards to a "T"
In this kit comes some lace and some lovely tape that looks just like a tape measure
some seam binding, pearls and faux bottle tops


















Still more to come...













Some cute cupids on pegs and "diamonds"







And the bag o' bits
hat pins, buttons, charms, little lace flowers...














All this !!!!
All you need add is adhesive and a little love and there's enough there to make so many more cards than the blanks supplied. We all have card blanks/stock or objects that we like to alter. Plenty here to keep most people occupied until next months kit comes out.
Karen also does a lovely blooms kit. Again at fabulous prices.
Head on over there and have a good look.

Last card of 2011

And the second card destined for a friend. This one made at the request of her husband. Hence the sentiment.
The card itself is made following the sketchy over at Sketch N Stash Challenge blog.

The elements are all those that women are supposed to want from their menfolk as gifts.
Hence the tag on the little back of choccy coins left over from Christmas.

Starting with the image...
It's one of the new images soon to be in the Delicious Doodles shop. (I'll add a link when I can)
EDIT - Image - Katarina
Coloured with promarkers.
Cut out with a nestie after first lifting the head out. Backed onto turquoise c.s.
The card under is silver textured and some paper that came with the november card kit from Duck Pond Crafts. This was edge punched with a diamond punch.
A swirl pattern was created with some tiny red gems as decoration.

and some red roses, again from Duck Pond Crafts,. Some home made pins with "diamonds and pearls" added.



The black/white fabric under the image is some white fur fabric spotted with black marker to simulate the snow leopard of the image.

A few extra pearls added to finish with the computer generated sentiment.

The tag on the bag of coins, so it can be read easier









I am entering this into the challenge over at
Sketch N Stash - Their sketchy
Charisma Cardz Challenge - Anything Goes

Delicious Doodles New Images coming soon

Teri From Delicious Doodles treated us to a preview of some new images coming soon to the shop. They are also available to view on her facebook and CDAC pages.
This co-incided with me having to make some rushed money wallets on Christmas Eve. OOpps forgot until the last minute. These images are fabulous, not Christmasy but still wintery.
This is what I came up with.

Both essentially the same but still unique. The inside of each is just an old brown envelope. I have a heap of these that the sticky bit isn't anymore. Heat embossed with snowflakes and some distress ink used to colour.

a circle punch used to create the access.
The fronts
Both images coloured with promarkers and ink distressed. Matted and layered with paper and card with some lace and ribbons to tie. The flowers are available from Karen at Duck Pond Crafts as well as the little charms hanging from them. The extra beads from stash.
Money added and slipped into stockings. Job done.
A closer view of each


Aren't these images gorgeous!!!
Keep an eye out in the shop for them.




































I am entering these into the challenge at
Paper Creations Ink - Something old (envelopes) something new (images)
I love Promarkers - Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz Challenges - Anything Goes

Get Well .... NOW!

The November card kit came yesterday from Duckpond Crafts. A gorgeous selection of darker papers, card, ribbon, lace, charms........ Well it is Movember and this is all about the guys.
I went straight for this paper in the selection, my Grumpie stamps and made a get well soon card. Loads of people going down with at least one lurgie here.

So for those feeling a bit rough round the edges and green about the gills......

I covered an old CD for this. It can then be used as a hanging or, as the base is a large die cut scalloped circle, a rocking card.

The grumpie from Smeared Ink was coloured using my promarkers.
Cut out using deckle scissors and ink distressed with bundled sage green DI. The CD edges are distressed using forest moss DI. The sentiment randomly stamped
I punched some holes round the CD using a leather punch and set in some eyelets and threaded some green ribbon. Then mounted on the card base.

There are a couple of challenges that I'd like to enter this into
Tuesday Throwdown - Lots of Circles
Crafty Card Makers - Recycle - I used an old CD
Forever Night Challenge - No way Around it - Circles
My Time To Craft - Under the weather

A few Christmas cards

I'm not only trying to keep ahead of the Christmas rush but also trying to come up with some simple, quick and easy cards that will be able to go into an ordinary flat envelope for the post. So many challenges encourage 3-D, the more embellishments the better type card. These are lovely to hand out to those friends you know will appreciate the hard work but for "everyday" they are not very practicle.
I used the Christmas card kit available from Duck Pond Crafts for these.

Chocolate Baroque image stamped with white SU! pad. MS drippy goo punch. Laser cut borders. The chipboard snow flake heat embossed with white and silver with a touch of glitter added.
The white CS was run through my big shot with the embossing folder just at one end then the other leaving a plain centre.

Papermania candle image, heat embossed with gold. Red DI to ink distress. The double sided paper was "hankerchief folded" to show the other side of the double sided paper. A gusset added to the card base to accomodate the extra thickness.


A "big buckle card" instructions on SPS. The card base was trimmed to form the closure on this.

Die cut snowflakes as well as heat embossed on the card base.











I am entering the "Big Buckle card" into the challenge over at
Christmas Inspirations - Use a diecut

Cute as a Button

It's a new challenge over at Delicious Doodles Challenges this week. Cute as a button is the theme.
Normally I shy away from cute. WAYYY outside my comfort zone. This image though, the little Pumpkin Fairy, made it so much easier.


Yes the buttons do slide on this shaped penny slider card.
The little fairy herself is coloured using promarkers.
A light touch of glamour dust to her wings and the ribbon round her dress.
Tiny buttons and pearls surround her as well as a couple of pumpkin sequins. Pearls also adorn her hair ribbons.

The paper was part of a kit from Duckpond Crafts.


The base is made from some diecuts I bought cheap at somepoint thinking they might come in handy.
The slider - yet more buttons. This time piled up and tied with lurex thread before attaching to the pennies.
More of those pumpkin sequins, in the smaller size, round the base.

A closeup of this little Pumpkin fairy so you can see her better.


Now it's your turn. After, of course, going and having a good look at the beautiful cards my teamies made as well.

The Challenge

Make or use something cute, as long as there is at least ONE button somewhere!!

There have been a couple of changes to the rules and for a full rundown you'll need to read them at the challenge.
If you do use a Delicious Doodles image - you will get to be 'Spotlighted' on the Delicious Doodles Challenge Blog and on the DD Blog and be in for an extra chance to win 5 images of your choice. Hows that for incentive?
So let's see those cute buttony projects.


I am entering this card into a couple of challenges
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Little Miss Muffet Challenge - Things with Wings
Flutter By Wednesday - Open as long as it has a fairy, butterfly etc
The Paper Shelter - Fairies and Elves
Bearly Mine - Button it up
Scrap Creations - Unique Fold
Crafty Boots Challenge - Anything Goes

Stampin' Dymonz Challenge #10

This week over at Stampin' Dymonz' Creative Space the challenge for this week is to alter a CD -- both front and back, using paper. You may paint the paper if you choose; however, the CD must be covered with paper. You must also include ribbon/fibres, 3 flowers and hand stamping.

This was my DT entry to, hopefully, inspire the crafters that visit into joining in.

The image is the "Earth Goddess" from Smeared Ink. Coloured with promarkers before mounting onto some handmade paper. The hand made lace and prima flowers added after punching holes and setting copper tone eyelets with some ribbon and fibres threaded through. The charms and prima flowers from Duckpond Crafts.
and on the reverse

some slightly embossed paper that was stamped with various leafy images in a variety of inks. The beads and buttons from stash.

This is a fun project and helps to save our landfills from materials that are detrimental to the environment. It's an extra "green" project -- we're already re-using/recycling paper with our crafts. Now we've added in the recycling of CDs! So it would be great to see loads of people showing us their altered CDs at the challenge at Stampin' Dymonz' Creative Space.

A couple of challenges I am entering this into
Passion For Promarkers - No Patterned Papers
Try It On Tuesday - Hang It Up
Tuesday Throwdown - Dimension and Texture
Challenge Up Your Life - No Patterned Papers
Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes