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Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Merry Wuffmas

 


It's time for a new challenge over at The Paper Funday.
Our challenges are alway Anything Goes with an optional twist.
The twist this time is 'Lots of Layers'


We are very fortunate to have 2 sponsors for each challenge this year which means we get to choose which artist we would like to work with. This is really great as it gives us double the choice. We are very lucky with the amazing sponsors that are lined up this year, many of which are old favourites and some that are new to me.

This month we are sponsored by Newton's Nook Designs & QKR Stampede


For this card I have used a stencil from Newton's Nook Designs which has little pawprints on it. I inked onto my card blank with Tea Dye and Walnut Distress ink pads alternating between the 2 shades of brown. I bought some soft blending brushes last year and it is the first time I have used them. I am not an 'inker' really so was very impressed how crisp the result is and I was much lighter with my pressure. I am much happier with the softer effect I achieved so they are worth the pennies.

I was given a bag of Christmas cards by a neighbour who know I like to recycle them. The little doggies were from a much bigger card and I knew they would look lovely with this stencil. I used a CREAlies die which has a lovely scalloped edge. This is quite thick card and it always cuts so well. I mounted it on foam pads for dimension. The sentiment is another recycled element matted on a scrap of brown card.

Finally I added some sisal garden string to complete the brown tonal effect.

I hope you will join myself and our fabulous Team over at
The Paper Funday Challenge.


Card Details -


Size - 6” Square

Image - Recycled from an old Christmas Card

Dies - Crea-Nest-Lies XXL 70 (CREAlies)

Stencil - Pawprints (Newton’s Nook Designs)

Colouring Medium - Tea Dye & Walnut Distress Inkpads

Embellishments - Sisal garden twine



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)



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Wednesday, 4 January 2023

Swallowtail Sympathy

 


Happy New Year ! It's time for the first challenge of 2023 over at The Paper Funday.
Our challenges are alway Anything Goes with an optional twist.
The twist this time is 'Starry Night'


We are very fortunate to have 2 sponsors for each challenge this year which means we get to choose which artist we would like to work with. This is really great as it gives us double the choice. We are very lucky with the amazing sponsors that are lined up this year, many of which are old favourites and some that are new to me.

This month we are sponsored by Fred She Said Designs & LeAnn's World


For this challenge I chose to work with Swallowtail by Fred She Said Designs. This file comes with both a coloured version plus lines art to colour yourself in different formats.


I had already printed this image off before Christmas and had great plans of what I was going to make with it. Unfortunately two friends have had very close family members pass away. I rarely make sympathy cards, somehow it feels wrong to have them already to hand almost anticipating the sad times. It is always the saddest reason of all to make a card. Unfortunately as I get older more and more of this type of card is needed so I think maybe I need to make more to add to my stash.

I have a 6" pad of designer paper which is all sunflowers. I decided to colour the butterfly with pencils and placed it so it would be framed by the sunflowers on the paper. I  fussy cut around it (very fiddly....) and gently curled the wings so they stood out from the background. I used a brown card for the base and matted the sentiment with it.

I made it at night and left it until the following day to take a photo. Just as I took it the sun came out and the wings cast a slight shadow. I think there was something quite spiritual about that so decided to use that photo.

I hope you will join myself and our fabulous Team over at
The Paper Funday Challenge.

Card Details -


Size - 6” Square

Digital Image - Swallowtail (Fred She Said Designs)

Colouring Medium - Arteza Expert Pencils

Designer Paper - 6” Nature’s Garden Sunflower Collection (Crafter’s Companion)



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)


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Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Baked With Love

 


It's time for the final challenge for 2022 over at The Paper Funday.
Our challenges are alway Anything Goes with an optional twist.
The twist this time is 'Holiday Time'



We are very fortunate to have 2 sponsors for each challenge this year which means we get to choose which artist we would like to work with. This is really great as it gives us double the choice. We are very lucky with the amazing sponsors that are lined up this year, many of which are old favourites and some that are new to me.

This month we are sponsored by Mirtillamente & Varada Sharma Designs


For this challenge I chose to work with Edible Holidays from Varada Sharma Designs



This is a really great pack with 3 sentiments and 8 images of cookies and sweet treats for Christmas.

This card has been made using a sketch from Kendra's Card Challenge. This is the first time I am taking part in such a project. Every quarter Kendra provides a PDF which has a cutting plan for several cards using 6 sheets of 6"x6" paper. This time there are 17 card sketches for A2 size cards which are slightly smaller than the A6 cards we would normally make as a small card in the UK. This layout is sketch 16


I sized the gingerbread house to suit my card base and added some little star cookies as further decoration. These have been coloured with a combination of Promarkers, Spectrum Noir and some fineline pens for the smaller details. I fussy cut and added to the card raised on thin foam pads.

I used a sentiment from the pack and matted with a scrap of gold card.

Foe embellishments I added some pearls to the dots around the window to emulate the sugar balls you can decorate cookies with. I also added some pale gold gems to the snowflake centres on the red paper.

I hope you will join myself and our fabulous Team over at
The Paper Funday Challenge.

Card Details -


Size - A2

Digital Images - Edible Holidays (Varada Sharma)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Spectrum Noir Markers, Fineliners

Designer Papers - Merry Christmas Traditional, Merry Christmas Vintage (Craft Sensations) Cosy Christmas (The Works)

Embellishments - Pearls & gems















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Wednesday, 2 November 2022

Merry Christmouse


It's time for another challenge over at The Paper Funday.
Our challenges are alway Anything Goes with an optional twist.
The twist this time is 'Colours of Autumn'


We are very fortunate to have 2 sponsors for each challenge this year which means we get to choose which artist we would like to work with. This is really great as it gives us double the choice. We are very lucky with the amazing sponsors that are lined up this year, many of which are old favourites and some that are new to me.

This month we are sponsored by Sweet November Stamps & Hetty Clare Art


I chose to work with an image from my collection Merry Christmouse from Hetty Clare Art.

This card has been made using a sketch from Kendra's Card Challenge. This is the first time I am taking part in such a project. Every quarter Kendra provides a PDF which has a cutting plan for several cards using 6 sheets of 6"x6" paper. This time there are 17 card sketches for A2 size cards which are slightly smaller than the A6 cards we would normally make as a small card in the UK. This layout is sketch 15 and suits the shape of the image perfectly.



I have coloured this with mainly Promarkers, a metallic gold gel pen and then pencils for the background. This has been layered onto a scrap of gold card. I embellished with some dots of gold Stickles glue for the champagne bubbles and some Icicle glue for the snow in the sky and drifts. 

I have had this image since May last year and it is the first time I have used it so it was really nice to finally get it coloured up for this challenge.

I hope you will join myself and our fabulous Team over at
The Paper Funday Challenge.

Card Details -


Size - A2

Digital Image - Merry Christmouse (Hetty Clare Art)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Arteza Expert Pencils

Designer Papers - Merry Christmas Traditional, Woodland Christmas, Christmas Basic Style (All Craft Sensations)

Embellishments - Gold & Icicle Stickles glitter glue



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)


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Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Santa Possum

 


It's time for another challenge over at The Paper Funday.
Our challenges are alway Anything Goes with an optional twist.
The twist this time is 'It's All About the Candy'


We are very fortunate to have 2 sponsors for each challenge this year which means we get to choose which artist we would like to work with. This is really great as it gives us double the choice. We are very lucky with the amazing sponsors that are lined up this year, many of which are old favourites and some that are new to me.

We are sponsored this month by Colour of Love and Jan's Digi Stamps. Both of these are great designers who I have had the honour to work with their images in the past.



For this challenge I have chosen to work with this sweet little image Santa Possum from Colour of Love. The possum images I find very cute and this was a delight to colour. 



I used mainly Promarkers to colour adding pencil for the possum and also the background shading. As there was a spring of holly on the candy cane I decided to use traditional red & green colours adding gold for a complimentary colour.

The papers used are from 6" pads as the smaller patterns suited the size of the card better. I particularly wanted to use a striped paper to accentuate the candy can in the image.

I added lots of gems to the dots that are hand drawn on the image. Christmas cards are the perfect reason to add sparkle ☺ 

Finally I added a chipboard sentiment tag and found a scrap of bakers twine.

I hope you will join myself and our fabulous Team over at
The Paper Funday Challenge.

Card Details -


Size - 6” x 6”

Digital Image - Santa Possum (Colour of Love)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Arteza Expert Pencils

Designer Papers - Origami Super Stack & Classic Christmas (The Works)

Embellishments - Self Adhesive Gems, Chipboard Tag, Baker’s Twine



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)


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Wednesday, 7 September 2022

Frozen Fellowship

 


It's time for another challenge over at The Paper Funday.
Our challenges are alway Anything Goes with an optional twist.
The twist this time is 'Thinking of You'


We are very fortunate to have 2 sponsors for each challenge this year which means we get to choose which artist we would like to work with. This is really great as it gives us double the choice. We are very lucky with the amazing sponsors that are lined up this year, many of which are old favourites and some that are new to me.

We are sponsored this month by Newton’s Nook Designs and QKR Stampede both of which I have created with before.

For this challenge I used this super rubber stamp set Frozen Fellowship from  Newton’s Nook Designs. I won a chalenge some time ago and the prize was a gift card so party of my winnings went on this. I do love a snowman and had nothing like this with lots of snowmen and instantly fell in love when I saw it. It had not previously been inked so it was the perfect reason to get my stamping platform out.


I used one of the sentiments from the set and thought it would be fun to isolate just one of the snowmen and make that my favourite. I have never done the spotlight technique before. I used a heart shape frame die as a template and drew around it using a blue pencil. I then coloured the snowman with my pencils in blue to match the paper. Fastest colouring on an image ever I think....

The white card base has some Glittering Snowflakes Vellum from Crafter's Companion. This is a really thick vellum which is very forgiving when you stick it down as it doesn't show through.

The die is Regal Snowflake from Crafter's Companion and is a recent purchase. I have quite a few snowflakes in my collection and really don't NEED any more but I loved how detailed and intricate it is so it kinda fell in my basket ☺

I matted the sentiment and image using some scraps of blue card and then the final touch was using some gems to embellish the snowflake and add eyes to Mr Snowman. This will be the card I give to my hubby at Christmas so look at me being so far ahead. 

I hope you will join myself and our fabulous Team over at
The Paper Funday Challenge.


Card Details -


Size - A5

Rubber Stamp Image & Sentiment - Frozen Fellowship (Newton’s Nook Designs)

Colouring Medium - Arteza Expert Pencils

Dies - Regal Snowflake (Crafter’s Companion), Heart Framelits (Sizzix)

Designer Paper - Glittering Snowflakes Vellum (Crafter’s Companion)

Embellishments - Self adhesive gems (The Works)


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)


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Wednesday, 3 August 2022

K.I.S.S.I.N.G. in a tree for my Anniversary

 


It's time for another challenge over at The Paper Funday.
Our challenges are alway Anything Goes with an optional twist.
The twist this time is 'Friendship'


We are very fortunate to have 2 sponsors for each challenge this year which means we get to choose which artist we would like to work with. This is really great as it gives us double the choice. We are very lucky with the amazing sponsors that are lined up this year, many of which are old favourites and some that are new to me.

We are sponsored this month by Star Stampz and Fred She Said both of which I have created with before.


For this challenge I chose to work with this sweet image K-I-S-S-I-N-G. as I thought it would be lovely for an anniversary card for my hubby. We have been together for 33 years and although we didn't get married until nearly 13 years later we still celebrate the anniversary of us becoming a couple. Unfortunately things have been a little strained between us recently as my hubby is going through a difficult patch but we will work through it and I am sure it is only a temporary blip. Ultimately he is my best friend which also fits in with the challenge theme.

I coloured this image with Promarkers and a very fine brown liner pen to add bark detail onto the tree. As I am a sorry so and so I have lots of heart papers and shapes so pulled together my paper and ribbon and used black cardstock to add layers underneath the image. 

The sentiment is an old blog freebie from Sentiments 4 You which has unfortunately retired. I added some colour to the hearts and used a circle die to cut a black mat. This has then been added to the card with foam pads for dimension.

As a final touch I dragged out some peel off stickers (remember those?) which have a red heart outline and gold in the centre.

I hope you will join myself and our fabulous Team over at
The Paper Funday Challenge.

Card Details -


Size - 6”x6”

Digital Image - K-I-S-S-I-N-G (Star Stampz)

Digital Sentiment - Retired Freebie (Sentiments 4 You)

Dies - Framelits Circles (Sizzix)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers

Designer Paper - J’adore 8x8 (First Edition)

Embellishments - Ribbon, peel off stickers



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

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