Belly Button

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #17
A SPECIAL DAY

A fun card from me this time using digi called BUGABOO - stella belly button.  My eldest daughter needed a birthday card from a friend and this friend had decided the other day to go out without a bra on!!!!!!!  A lot of giggles between my daughter and this friend and a comment about a belly button also came up.  How could I use any other image for her birthday card, this one was just so perfect hahahaha.

Challenges entered:-

• Bugaboo Crafty Challenge #9 
• Jo's Scrap Shack - W, 3E  - No.206 - Anything Goes with Bugaboo

Bride Time

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 97
Anything Goes With an optional twist White on White

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

I just love this image and it is a wee while since I last used it, this challenge is the perfect chance to use it again.  The background was coloured with Distress Oxides and then I used a stencil and silver ink to add some more texture.  The image was coloured with Polychromos and then SN glitter clear pen on the scales to add the sheen.  To finish off I used some underwater themed stamps.

Ingredients:-

• image - Bride set of 4 by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Polychromos crayons
• other items - stencil; silver, blue and green stamp pads; clear shells, coral, fish and sentiment

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Crafty Sentiment Designs W, 1E, SIO - Dies and/or Punches
• Deep Ocean Challenge 2W - #163 - Lovely Lace  (week 2)
• Crafty Cardmakers - 2W, C15 - #195 MONOCHROME (Week 2)
• Ooh La La Creations - 2W, SIO - #237 HAPPILY EVER AFTER  (Week 1)
• International Art & Soul - 2W, E3, badge awards, all crafting - #16 Lace and/or Pearls (W2 of 2) - COULDN'T RESIST hahaha xxxxxx
• Crafting with Dragonflies 2W,1E, No rude/sexy or Halloween/witch  cards only -Card for Special Occasion (W1 of 2)
• Crafty Friends Challenge 2W, 3E, To use Dies/Punches (W1 of 2)
• Di's Digis Designs 2W, 3E,SIO Ribbon, Lace, Twine or Cord (W1 of 2)
• Sweet Stampin W, 2E, include stamping - Wedding/Anniversary

Old Boot

I had to make a card quickly to give to a friends hubby.  This friend is an old school friend who I have know since I was nine and at boarding school she was my partner in crime. We lost contact when she left the school when se was 14 for about 30 years when I found her again on the Internet through a web site I set up to track former pupils of our school :) What a great day that was :)  Anyway it is her hubby's birthday next weekend and we are all going out together so I thought I had better make a card for him quickly.  Stu loves the out-doors and his walking along with that he also studies dragonflies and lectures on them in his spare time hence the addition of the dragonfly brad on the fence pole.  I won this fab 'Old Boot' image this week from Digi Stamps 4 Joy, thank you Margy and as I promised if I could I would enter into her monthly challenge so here we are.  The background uses and image from Just Inklined called Holy Ribbon Chapel and I coloured it with Pan Pastels - new to me as I have never used them to colour and image before.  This time I wanted a very soft background and am rather pleased with the outcome.  The 'Old Boot' image is from Digi Stamps 4 Joy, I superimposed one image behind a second copy before printing.  Once printed I coloured with Polychromes and then fussy cut.  I love the depth of colouring on the boots in comparison to the soft background. To finish off I mounted the finished images on black card then a gold green metallic paper.  A dragonfly, as mentioned earlier was added to one of the fence posts and Glossy Accents were placed in each corner to keep the peel off gold line stickers secure.

Challenge entered :_

• Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Challenge #140 - Anything Goes + optional twist of "warm colours"
• Craft for the Craic - M, 5E (First Friday of the month) - September - Autumnal Coloured Project
• Just Add Ink – W, - No.375 - Just Add D - DRAGONFLY
• Cardz 4 Guyz 2W, 3E - #177 - Something beginning with letter D (week 2) - DRAGONFLY

Lace and Pearls

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Challenge #16 - LACE and/or PEARLS

Always a favourite challenge of mine as I love lace and pearls on cards, they always look so elegant.  I decided to move away from my normal choices of creams or blacks and this time use silver, pale pink with some black for the contrast.  The lace is very old, a gift from my mother's lace collection she used to keep for dressmaking so many memories for me as I used it :)  

Challenges entered:-

• Crafty Friends Challenge 2W, 3E, Birthdays (W2 of 2)
• Kitty Bee Designs - 2W,2E, C10 - No.102 - Birthday (W2 of 2)
• Star Stampz Challenge 2W,3E,SIO  2 Or More Die Cuts (W1 of 2)
• Seize The Birthday 2W  Birthday + Optional Topping of Ocean Colours (W1 of 2)
• The Crafty Addicts M, 3E, #39 - Anything Goes/Option of Girly

Over the Hill

You know when you get one of those days when you need some 'me time' but don't know what to create.  Today was one of those days so I headed over to PaperPlayful to find a couple of challenges to enter and create a card around their themes.  Sounds simple but I still had to trash my first attempt, it just did not come together as I had hoped.  Deciding not to quit I started again and totally forgot one of the challenges had to have something with the letter 'D' - blow me my first attempt was using a drill the second card I forgot the D and did cars.  It was not till I was half way through it I realised grrrrrrr.  Thankfully after moaning to hubby he came up with disc brakes as they are on a car and drew me a nice wee picture of what they look like.  Now to make them, what would work?  - Button dies lol.  I don't have many male themed cards in my stash so this is a handy one to put away and I do rather like how it turned out.  After my crafting 'me time' I feel a lot better hahahaha.

The background was created with a vintage car stamp from Papermania which I have had for ages.  I stamped a couple of spare cars and fussy cut them to use for masking.  The sentiment stamp is from and the Birthday stamp a freebie from a magazine.  Spellbinder dies were used for the topper and white circles for the disc brakes, the button die is in a packet I have and have not written who the maker is sorry.  Black ribbon added a bit of texture to the card.

Challenges entered :-

• Cardz 4 Guyz 2W, 3E - #177 - Something beginning with letter D (week 1) - DISC BRAKES 
• Hand Stamped Sentiments 2W, 2E - #271 - Sketch Challenge* (week 2)

• Paper Minutes W, - #501 - Black and White

Athena

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 96
Anything Goes With an optional twist Mythology
{popular culture, folklore, and other non-scientific}

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

A wonderful new image from IKEsArt, isn't she a beauty :) :) :) The image was coloured with Polychrome crayons.  For the background I masked the image and then used stamping ink to blend the green.  Next was to stencil some metallic green using a Sheena Douglas stencil.  I have the die that matches this stencil so the was cut next and covered with aged copper embossing powder.  To finish off some simple gold trim and a stamp which was free from a magazine.  Ooops nearly forgot the pearls lol.

Ingredients:-

• image - Athena by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Polychromos and stamping inks

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Colouring in Scrapland - M 1st Monday, E2, winner + Top 3, No digital coloring, must have hand-colored image -  ANYTHING GOES
• Dream Valley Challenges - 2W, 3E, C10 - #162 USE A STAMP OR A DIGI (Week 1)
• Come and Get It - W, 3E - 2 more different Embellishments
• Morgan's Art World Open Challenge - 2W, E3, any image - No. 17 - (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - W, C10 – No.34 - Anything Goes
• That's Crafty! Challenge Blog - 2W, E3, Prize only for UK residents, Top 3 open to all - (W2 of 2) Only Cards Challenge

Funky die cutting

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Challenge #15 - Layer it UP

OOOO layering is such fun especially with all the fabulous dies and die cuts around these days.  For the die cut I used Card 3 from Monica's Creative Room.  Monica is one of the most talented and generous electronic die cut creators, her dies are intricate but stunning.  For this card I started with a silver blank, the next layer was the white die cut which is almost the same as the black layer you can see in the card.  Next I used some hand made paper I collected on my travels and cut the flower shape.  The next layer is the black layer and then I added a lacy doily cut, this was a disaster as the hand made paper was not dense enough to cut properly.  In the end, to solve the problem, I glued the hand made paper to some regular 75gms copy paper and let it dry.  Cutting worked perfectly after that.  I cut the small doily out of black card and to finish off lots of glass gems.  The tag layers are hand cut and the Happy Birthday die is from Desire.

Challenges entered:-

• Frilly and Funkie - 2W, 3E, C10, SIO - Dies, Punches, Cutting Tools (Week 1 of 2)
• Paper Shelter Challenge - W, 3E, SIO -  Punches/Dies
• Crafting With An Attitude M,1st Thurs,3E Always Anything Goes