Sunday, 10 May 2020

Guest DT at All Fun Challenges


I was the winner of Challenge 6 at All Fun Challenges with my Hope Butterfly Autumn Colours card. I was invited to be a Guest Designer on Challenge 8 which starts today.

The sponsor for this challenge is Bugaboo Stamps. I love Jodie's images and was delighted to be able to use this gorgeous image Flower Butterfly Vase.




I have used the latest sketch 810 from Stella Says Sketch for the layout of the card.


The image has been coloured with Promarkers and pencils to add some shading.

I used the Rococo Frames dies from Crafter's Companion to cut the image and also a frame from purple pearlescent card. 

The backing paper has actually been rescued from the inside of a card I received. It was far too nice to end up in the recycling bin! 

I love to re-purpose bits and pieces from old birthday and Christmas cards. This goes back to my early days of crafting when I would use bits and bobs I could find to add to my cards. There can often be lovely elements, sentiments and pretty embellishments that you can give a new lease of life to.

Following the sketch I added a strip of ribbon. The flower embellishment is a combination of a jewel brad, a silver jewellery finding and an assortment of paper flowers. Finally I added a peel off sticker sentiment.

Thank you very much to All Fun Challenges for the invitation to be a Guest DT. 


Card Details -

Size - A5
Image - Flower Butterfly Vase. by Bugaboo Stamps
Dies - Rococo Frames by Crafter's Companion
Colouring Medium - Promarkers & pencils
Embellishments - Paper flowers, jeweled brad, silver jewellery finding

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






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Tuesday, 5 May 2020

Super Hero in Scrubs


I have taken part in the progressive freebie on the Facebook group of Stamper's Delights and we were given 2 great freebie packs of stamps all related to our NHS Super Heroes.

I used the nurse from the pack Medical Heroes 2. The image has been coloured with Promarkers, fussy cut and mounted onto thin 3d foam squares.

Birdie Brown / Torico was one of my favourite digi artists and she designs rubber stamps now for My Favourite Things. They offered some limited edition digital stamps with a medical theme and the sentiment and pill bottle were from these packs. The hypodermic needle was a weekly freebie from Oddball Art Co.

I have added some home made enamel dot 'pills' that are made from pony beads that you melt in the oven. I bought a couple of small bags from Ebay and these pearlescent ones worked really well.  I found the tutorial here on Creative Bug on the Loose a long time ago and finally got round to making them. For this style you put 2 very close together so they melt into one another. I am really pleased with how they turned out and you would never believe they cost only pennies.

The card is a double Z fold. I have never made on before. I saw Sara Davies making one on Crafter's TV and it looked so easy but really effective. Once you have your card folded it is just a case of cutting papers to fit on the individual sections. I inked around the spotty paper with an old dry inkpad.

I added the personalised sentiment, trimmed the corners with a Woodware punch and the light blue frame is a Classical Frame Die'sire die from Crafter's Companion which was one of the first dies I ever bought from there.

Unfortunately my friend has just tested positive for the Covid-19 virus so this card will hopefully cheer her up. It sounds like she doesn't have it too badly at the moment but I feel so sorry for her as she has caught it from doing her job, something which I am sure many frontline workers are scared of.

Card Details - 

Size - 5.5" Square
Images - Medical Heroes 2 by Stamper's Delights, Superhero in Scrubs by Birdie Brown & My Favourite Things. Creepy Cute Needle by Oddball Art Co.
Die - Classical Frame Die'sire Crafter's Companion
Colouring Medium - Promarkers
Embellishments - Enamel dot pills

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



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Monday, 4 May 2020

Hope Butterfly Purple & Teal


This is another card in my series of Hope Butterflies. I have been making these for friends and neighbours using the same Statement Butterfly and sentiment. They have been well received by the recipients so far. It is bringing me joy making them as each one is different. I am using papers from my scrap drawers for the most part. The butterflies were all cut over the same 2 day period. As I am making the cards I am putting together a sketch and pretty papers and voila.

The base layer of the butterfly is an iridescent pink cardstock. This was part of the packaging from some pre-cut die cuts that I had purchased a long time ago. The middle layer is a scrap of DCWV paper. The top layer is white hammered card which has been inked with a pearlescent pink ink pad and white around the edges. Dark purple gems were added to the body.


I used sketch 180 from Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 for the layout of the card.

I have just had a Cartload deal from Crafter's Companion of some of the Vintage Lace collection. There were loads of dies and some pretty papers. The colours are mainly purple & teal and I used these papers to make this card. The base teal textured cardstock and the 2 patterned papers are CC products. the glittery purple cardstock is from my stash.

I have added some home made enamel dots that are made from pony beads that you melt in the oven. I bought a couple of small bags from Ebay and these pearlescent ones worked really well.  I found the tutorial here on Creative Bug on the Loose a long time ago and finally got round to making them. I am really pleased with how they turned out.

I used a digital sentiment from McMahon Five Designs who retired some years ago from designing stamps. I coloured the hearts with and red glitter gel pen. This was cut using a Baroque Frame die from Crafter's Companion.

Card Details -


Size - 8" x 8"
Digital Sentiment - McMahon Five Designs (retired)
Dies - Statement Butterfly & Baroque Frames by Crafter's Companion
Papers - Vintage Lace collection by Crafter's Companion
Colouring Medium - Sakura Glitter Gel Pen & Brilliance Pearlescent Ink Pad
Embellishments - Gemstones & enamel dots

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




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Monday, 27 April 2020

Hope Butterfly Red & Green


This is another card in my series of Hope Butterflies. I have been making these for friends and neighbours using the same Statement Butterfly and sentiment. They have been well received by the recipients so far. It is bringing me joy making them as each one is different. I am using papers from my scrap drawers for the most part. The butterflies were all cut over the same 2 day period. As I am making the cards I am putting together a sketch and pretty papers and voila.

The base layer of the butterfly is a red dotty cardstock that has been recycled from the inside of a card I have received. The middle layer is a scrap of green paper. The top layer is white hammered card which has been inked with a pearlescent pink ink pad. Black gems were added to the body.


I have used the latest sketch from Outlawz for the layout of this card. The base layer is the same card as the butterfly which I have distressed the edges with a black ink pad.

The frame is a die cut Rococo Frames from Crafter's Companion. This was cut from a green paper which is from a magazine freebie. I used a scrap of pink card for the diamond shape edged with the black ink.

Following the layout of the sketch I added a length of black ribbon to the card and embellished with some diamante gems.

I used a digital sentiment from McMahon Five Designs who retired some years ago from designing stamps. I coloured the hearts with and red glitter gel pen. This was cut using a Baroque Frame die from Crafter's Companion.

Card Details -

Size - A5
Digital Sentiment - McMahon Five Designs (retired)
Dies - Statement Butterfly, Rococo Frames & Baroque Frames by Crafter's Companion
Colouring Medium - Sakura Glitter Gel Pen & Brilliance Pearlescent Ink Pad
Embellishments - Gemstones & Ribbon

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

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Sunday, 26 April 2020

Red String


Over at The Outlawz Progressive Freebie Challenge the image we have been given this month is
 Red String by Star Stampz

I have coloured the image using the colours from the front cover of the book The Girl on The Train. I love the colours scheme of black, red, grey and white and this was actually the colours I had in my bedroom when I was a teenager. I had a really typical 80's wallpaper with a geometric design in those colours and MFI furniture which was black with red edge details on it. I loved that room although my Mum wasn't so keen as it wasn't girly (I was never a girly girl, much more of a tomboy)

  

I have used the latest sketch 365 from Atlantic Hearts. It was perfect for using some scraps of card. I have just colour sorted my scraps and it was very easy to gather together some co-ordinating scraps. I also made sure to incorporate some dots or stripes for the AAA Birthday challenge.


The card base is a sheet of A4 dark red card. The top and bottom pieces of patterned paper have been recycled from packaging. The striped piece is DCWV and the spotty is from Papermania. The pieces have been edged with a black Promarker to stop any white core edge from showing through.

The image has been coloured with Promarkers and the hair I added some grey pencil to create line details. I added a sentiment peel off sticker. The image has been matted onto circles of black and red card.

I used some Crafter's Companion dies to create a leaf and flower ensemble and added some gems to the centres.

Card Details -

Size - A5
Image - Red String by Star Stampz
Dies - Vintage Vines & Vintage Rose by Crafter's Companion
Papers - Some recycled, DCWV & Papermania
Colouring Medium - Promarkers
Embellishments - Diamante Gems

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