Floral Vintage Mini Album

Hello folks.  We have another challenge at One Stitch At A Time so how about popping over to see all the fabulous creations by the design team.  The prize this month is a $10 coupon to spend in the store :)

Challenge 274 Theme 

'Anything Goes with RECYCLING'

Take 2 of my effort for this challenge.  My first effort ended up in the bin lol - I made a box and covered it with sweetie wrappers which I have hung onto for about eight months. Unfortunately the week before making it I had a massive tidy up and threw all but three of the papers out - as you can imagine with just three sweetie papers to cover a box it was rather sad.  So now we have my second attempt, a mini album made from the inner tube of some cling film but into four sectons (I never think to keep toilet roll tubes grrr).  This really is a mini album lol but rather cute. After cutting my tube into four sections I covered each part with papers used from Floral Vintage 1 by Coosty Creations.  Next I used some old card I had printed unsuccessfully but did not chuck out cut my front and back covers plus four tags.  These were also covered with papers from the paper pack.  All the pages and tags were then rubbed around the edges with a gold ink pad.  Last week I got some great sentiment rubber stamps in the post so these were used to stamp text on each page and tag.  On the back of each tag I added a small plain die cut in which a personal message can be written.  Each of the page holders then had the same embellishments added, offcuts from some rose and gold lace, Memory Box Elegant Scrollwork die cuts which I then painted with a gold paint pen and white lace flowers with pearls in the centre.  The front cover page was given a little more treatment with a rose and humming bird which I made from clay and moulds I have for silver clay, these were then coloured with Promarkers and my gold paint pen.  I then used one of the papers again and mounted it on a bit of card to die cut my daughters initials N. B.  The tags were embellished with gold peel off stickers.

Front and Back Cover

 Next Page

Next Page

Next Page

Next Page

The reverse side of the tags

Close up of the clay rose and humming bird I made

Ingredients:-

• Image - Floral Vintage 1 by Coosty Creations

• Colouring medium - 
• Dies - Memory Box Elegant Scrollwork, Tattered Lace Alphabet
• Stamps - various sentiment rubber stamps from different companies
• From my Stash -  clay rose and humming bird, lace, vinyl stickers, gold paint, gold pen, rubber sentiment stamps, lace flowers, eyelets, cling film tube, scrap card, 

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Addicted to Stamps 2W  Must include Stamping (no precolored digi's) #134 Lots of Layers + a Stamp (W2 of 2)
• Amusing - W, 2E, no digi - Anything Goes with a Rubber Stamp
• Pile It On - 2W - Use theme & at least one other challenge, #120 Scrap and Cutoffs (W1 of 2)
• We Love 2 Create  - 2W, 2E, F, SIO - Always Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes
• Alphabet Challenge - 2W, 1E, - (W1 of 2) - R for Recipe* (use at least 3 ingredients from the grid)
• Quick Quotes - M (first Friday of the month), E1, SIO - No.68 - October - Stamps and Embellishments
• Creates and Makes M, 3E, last Tue - Anything Goes with optional: Use Ribbon/Lace

Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)

Spooky Love

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 75
SPOOKY LOVE

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 DL card for a change lol.  The background was created with yucky acrylic paints I have, they are very thick and plastic so not nice to work with but boy do they add texture to the end result :)  I know my end result is not very spooky (I see that as the dark side) but hopefully the essence of the card is spooky enough.  The image is an old one of Ike's :) :) Alice cat which I coloured to look like a tiger of sorts hahahaha.  Lots of die cuts finished off the card, a spider with googly eyes, spiders web, bats and sentiment.  The web die cut is from Sizzix the rest I made myself.

Ingredients:-

• image - Alice Cat by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Promarkers, acrylic paints
• dies - Sizzix web die, the rest made my be and cut on my Silver Bullet
• from my stash  - googly eyes, gold pen

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

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Thank You in orange and purple

Hello folks.  We have another challenge at One Stitch At A Time so how about popping over to see all the fabulous creations by the design team.  The prize this month is a $10 coupon to spend in the store :)

Challenge 273 Theme 

'Anything Goes with HALLOWEEN COLOURS'

This fortnight I worked with the Lil' Monsters Paper Pack by Panda Bear Designs.   I only used two of the papers from the pack but there are 6 papers.  The thank you card was designed digitally (I am not a fan of Halloween so don't participate but a thank you card is always needed :) ) in three sections, the top layer, the base layer and the inside.  This was so I could add a bit of dimension to the card with the top layer.  The front of the card was finished off with black Stickles along the border between the orange and the purple.  I felt rather guilty with so much digital work but it is a great way to work with digital papers :) so I then made something I have been wanting to try for a while - lolly pop stick bracelets.  I printed two strips of the same paper which I had added a black design to the purple paper and 'Live....Love....Laugh' to the orange paper.  The stick were soaked in hot water and when soft enough were then wrapped round a furniture polish can to dry into the correct shape.  I then covered the outside of the bracelets with the digital paper, varnished then added black wool borders to both and another coat of varnish.  

Ingredients:-

• Image - Lil' Monsters Paper Pack by Panda Bear Designs
• Colouring medium - all digital colouring
• Dies - none
• From my Stash -  Black Stickles, lolly pop sticks, wool, varnish

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

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Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)

Butterflies

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 74
GIRL POWER
(think pink)

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 am a great believer in the power of positive thought so love how the sentiment and the image 'Butterfly' I used on this card came together for the theme of 'Girl Power' with pink and breast cancer being the underlying meaning.

Ingredients:-

• image - Butterfly by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Promarkers
• embossing folder - Tattered Lace Butterflies
• dies - Tattered Lace Rose Corner, flower die free from a magazine
• from my stash - silver bead string, ribbon, silver stamp pad, silver and pink metallic pens.

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Crafter's Cafe (2W, P1/15, E3, F) #158 - Use lots of Pink
• Creative Craft Cottage Challenges (2W, P7/21, F, E3) #73 Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness
• Daisy Chain Challenges (M, P5, E3) #1 Pink for Breast Cancer
• Love to Scrap - 2W, 3E, F, digi or real stamping - (Week 2) Pink
• Dragonfly Dreams - M – (Oct 2) Think Pink!
• The Corrosive Challenges - M, 3E #10 Pink for Awareness
• Catch The Bug  W,3E,SIO  Breast Cancer Awareness
• Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 219 - Think PInk
• Cut it Up- 2W, 1E, Must have Die Cuts - No. 106 - (W2 of 2) - Pink or Breast Cancer Awareness
• In The Pink 2W,3E #104 Flower Power (in pink of course) (W2 of 2)

Angel 2

Hello folks.  We have another challenge at One Stitch At A Time so how about popping over to see all the fabulous creations by the design team.  The prize this month is a $10 coupon to spend in the store :)

Challenge 272 Theme 

'Anything Goes with MONOCHROMATIC'

I tried something I had not done before with this card :)  I love embossing on cards, guess that is because when holding a textured surface I always think the whole creation comes to life.  For this card I only wanted embossing in some areas so an embossing folder was not going to work well; so I used some of my swirly die cuts bits and placed them on the areas of the card I wanted de-bossed and ran this combination through my Gemini.  A great result, just what I wanted :) :) :) 

Ingredients:-

• Image - Angel 2 by IKEsART
• Colouring medium - Promarkers, Polychromos, Pan Pastels
• Dies - top of card modified from Monica's CraftRoom doily, Spellbinders Ovals, Memory Box swirl
• From my Stash -  Flower Soft, blue glass embossing powder, sentiment stamp, ribbon, gems, wood chip bird

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Aud Sentiments Challenge 2W,E5  #165 Anything Goes + A Sentiment (W1 of 2)
• Craft Rocket Challenges 2W,3E #25 Ribbon &/or Lace (W1 of 2)
• Crafty Ribbons W,must include ribbon #169 Ribbon Or Lace
• Creates and Makes M, 3E, last Tue - Anything Goes with optional: Use a Die
• Craft-Dee BowZ - M, E3, project must have bow - (September) Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow
• Critters and Creatures - M, must include critter - (September) Always Anything Goes with a Critter/Creature
• Dream Valley Challenges - 2W, 3E, C10 - (Week 1) Embossing + DT Call
• Get Creative Challenges - 2W, 3E - (Week 2) Embossing
• Ooh La La Creations - 2W, SIO - (Week 1) Feminine
• Broken Fairy Designs 2W, E2 #12 - Anything Goes with a twist: Monochromatic (W1 of 2)

Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)

Horse and Foal

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 73
TAG you're it

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 while ago I asked Ike if we could have some horse based images to work with and WOW was I spoilt with a lovely selection - thanks Ike :) :) For this tag I used the image 'Mother and Foal', the background was coloured with Pan Pastels and some clouds heat embossed.  Next I added some rubber stamping in black and die cuts also coloured with Pan Pastels plus a gold horseshoe.  The image was coloured with Polychromos.  Finally a wee thank you sticker was added to the tree.

This tag already has a home :) it will be attached to a wee gift I have for a friend who stepped in as foster mum to my horse while I was in the UK.  He (my horse lol) was on deaths door when I bought him in November last year and has given me the most incredible journey nursing him back to health with the help of an awesome team of friends.  So many challenges, one after the other but now we are on the final leg before he becomes a true horse in his own right and able to join the pack of other horses at the stables instead of just being surround by his human pack.  Jay, when I got him, was near to starving and had a nasty abscess on his hind quarter which took two months of constant cleaning and draining to clear up - that was after the vet released it and over a pint of puss literally came out with such force it sounded as if he was peeing.  The abscess had obviously never been treated and was deep within.  While that was clearing up another abscess developed inside his hoof, again the remnants of an old one that was never treated and was constantly reinfecting.  3 months of poulticing, cleaning, treating etc. eventually cleared that up but one of the eruption points was on the coronet band (where the hoof meets the hair line) so his hoof had two large holes in in which we have had to wait to grow out and keep our fingers crossed the hoof would hold in tack long enough that when it did break it was below the white line where the blood supply is.  All is well that ends well the hoof has now broken in a safe place and not worrying him at all, we have another abscess near where his balls used to be but quick treatment is working well and again this is not worrying him.  He has now put of weight, has an awesome shine on him and his heart has the biggest amount of love which he gives so freely even though humans have treated him so badly in the past :) :) :)

This was Jay in at the end of Nov 2105 when I go him

and this was him 2 months ago as he really turned the corner :) - not quite so skinny :)

Ingredients:-

• image - Mother and Foal by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Watercolour pencils and Pan Pastels
• dies - Spellbinders Scalloped Borders 1 and Opulent Circles
• from my stash - ribbon

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• Critters and Creatures - M, must include critter - (September) Always Anything Goes with a Critter/Creature
• Make My Monday - 2W, C6 - (Week 1) No Patterned Paper
• Di's Digis Designs 2W, 3E,SIO  Ribbon, Lace and/or Twine (W1 of 2)
• My Time to Craft 2W  #330 Anything But a Card (W1 of 2)
• Sweet Stampin W, 2E  Buttons and/or Ribbons

Love Knot

Hello folks.  We have another challenge at One Stitch At A Time so how about popping over to see all the fabulous creations by the design team.  The prize this month is a $10 coupon to spend in the store :)

Challenge 271 Theme 

'Anything Goes with A SPECIAL DAY'

I never seem to make suitable cards for love that work for me but  think this one turned out OK, it says what it should be is not girly in the least.  For this card I created the heart shaped card base and cut on my die cutter.  The rope image from the pack was printed, coloured with Polychromos and then fussy cut leaving the background of the heart shape in tack which was then coloured with Pan Pastels.

I hessian/burlap was then glued to the large heart shape which I also cut on my die cutter, such lovely texture and the part that I think makes this card more suitable for a bloke.  I embossed another strip of card with a Signature embossing folder and die cut the Sizzix twin hearts, both of these had Pan Pastel treatment lol.  Finally the sentiment was printed, cut with an X-Cut labels die and again rubbed a bit with Pan Pastels (I was trying to get a leather look here hahaha).

For the inside of the card I went for a lightweight hand made leaf paper I got ages ago, lovely texture and by using the reverse side which is a little rougher than the front side it will be easy to write on.

Ingredients:-

• Image - Love Knot by Coosty Creations

• Colouring medium - Polychromos, Pan Pastels
• Dies - card dies by me, Sizzix Love set, X Cut labels
• From my Stash -  leaf paper, hessian/burlap, heart brads

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Creative Corner - W, 3E  - No Patterned Papers Allowed
• Cards und More 2W must stamp C5 - # 167 - No Designer Paper (week 1)
• Try It On Tuesday 2W, C5, 2nd & 4th weeks -  Coffee and Cream or Choose your own 2 colors (Week 1)
• The Crazy Challenge - 2W, 4E - (Week 1) Burlap and/or Twine
• Dragonfly Dreams - M – (Sept 4) Monochrome
• Scrap From Your Heart (M, P1, 5E, C10) - #1 - Be Inspired and Use HeartsThanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)