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Sunday, November 30, 2014

OSAAT - Ellie Cat

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.

We have some changes going on with the way we run the challenge, we are now going fortnightly with a prize for the random winner and badge for the Top 3 chosen by the DT.

Challenge #225

Theme 'Anything Goes with Lace'

The sponsor is StitchyBear Digital Outlet with a 5 image November prize pack. Remember if you use one of the store items you can enter as many times as you want <g>.

This week I am working with an image by Hope Jacare called Ellie Cat

My sister loves cats (as I do) so I thought I would make her a wee gift along with her birthday card.  Using lace, as this is a 'Lace' challenge I first covered a tissue box with cream vinyl then applied the same lace as I am using for the card where I had used a cream base.

Next I coloured the image with Spectrum Noir blendable crayons and outlined the swirl areas with a gold pen.  This was then framed with the Tattered Lace Oval die
SN crayons used.
Flowers, I need flowers and time to experiment.  I cut strips of the lace into long ribbons.  Each of these was then spiralled onto the small circles I had cut and a green button applied to the centre of each.
There we go, not done this before but it seems to be a great way to make lace flowers.
The Cottage Cuts leafy branch die was used for the leaves and Liquid Pearls in gold and green were added to the oval frame die.
To finish off the box, again the leaf die and a couple of flowers.
And here we have the finished gift.

Ingredients :-
  • Digi - Ellie Cat by Hope Jacare and available from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet
  • Spectrum Noir blendable crayons
  • Die - Cottage Cuts leafy branch
  • Lace, buttons and ribbon from my stash
I am entering this creation in the following challenges:-

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


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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

My Umbrella

Time for another challenge over at

Challenge 27
Raining Cats and Dogs

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, just remember, you must use and IKEsART image to be eligible for the prize.  Why not pop on over to the store too :), Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)
You know when you have an idea and get stuck on it then find you have no idea how to do it - yep that was me with the umbrella in this creation using My Umbrella lol.  I found some great wee graphics at IClipart which I used to make my background paper, couldn't be more perfect as the were wee cats and dogs falling as rain. I also printed my sentiment to represent a ribbon with text and used brown paper which I embossed for the bottom half of the card.  So here you see my background complete.
Now for the dreaded umbrella.  I really wanted a plastic see through one so started of using clear acetate and airbrushing with blues and oranges.  That ended up in the bin.  I tried again, more or less doing the same thing but with a gray base layer, that was binned too.  Then a brain wave, I have some blue plastic sheets, try that.  Great, success.  Now the next thing I wanted to do with this umbrella was to make it dimensional so I used and embossing tool and tried to get the shape a real umbrella would have.  Not bad until I put it agains the digi and it was totally off.  Another one for the bin lol.
Try again, this time after tracing the umbrella again and cutting I used my heat gun to shape the edges and make them turn in - now that worked - why did I not think of that before hahahahaha.
Onto colouring the digi (minus the umbrella) with Promarkers.
Promarkers used.
To finish off, first I added some matching ribbon, how cool, a perfect match and a copper line sticker. Next I made a couple of frames using brown and a pretty blue which were placed over the background layer. A couple of brad hears just because the corner needed a bit of attention. The umbrella was attached with a glue dot and then the wee fussy cut girl was placed over the edge of the frame and attached with foam tape so she really pops. Actually, I will let you into a wee secret, the foam tape is actually window insulation tape, I find this far stronger and more durable than the craft stuff we tend to buy to the point it is all I will use now.


Ingredients:-
  • Digi -  My Umbrella available from IKEsART
  • Promarkers
  • DP by me
  • Embossing folder, brads, line sticker, plastic sheet etc from my stash
I am entering this project into the following challenges:-
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Sunday, November 23, 2014

SPS - Zoe

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase an image from Sweet Pea Stamps for our Featured Artist Week where the whole team are using images from Regan Kubecek.  I have chosen to work with the image Regan Kubecek's Zoe and make a bag for a change.  This image shouted pink and black to me <g>



To begin with I covered a white gift back with some rather scrumptious black snake skin paper.
 Next I coloured the digi with Promarkers
 Promarkers used
 Back to the bag.  I attached some stunning pink and gold trim around the top of the bag.

Next I mounted the digi and cut some hearts using Cherry Lyn's Heart to Heart Doily
To finish off I made a tag using the same heart die and added a sentiment.  Black beads and a gold heart charm were added to the bottom of the heart tag.  Onto the dreaded task of bow tying, something I am far from good at.

And here we are, the finished bag.  My lights are being being a pain and I can't get them right today so I apologies for the red trim which should be pink and the washed out text on the tag grrrrrrrrr.


Ingredients
  • Image -  Regan Kubecek's Zoe
  • Promarkers
  • Dies - Cherry Lyn's Heart to Heart Doily
  • Covering paper, charm, beads, braid and ribbon from my stash
Challenges entered

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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

OSAAT - 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.

We have some changes going on with the way we run the challenge, we are now going fortnightly with a prize for the random winner and badge for the Top 3 chosen by the DT.

Challenge #224

Theme 'Anything Goes with Giving Thanks

The sponsor is StitchyBear Digital Outlet with a 5 image November prize pack. Remember if you use one of the store items you can enter as many times as you want <g>.

At this time of year giving thanks makes one think of Thanks Giving :) :) but really we should be giving thanks all year round for so many wonderful things.  I decided to go down the road of giving thanks for the memories of a person who has passed over, a sympathy card.    I don't know about you, but I find, when somebody who has left an impression on you during their time on earth passes you are left with some wonderful memories to carry you through with your journey here on earth.  That is the basis of this card, 'Thank you for the memories'
To begin with I back the card with some beautiful soft rose flower design paper then overlaid with mauve lace.
With the remaining part of the design paper I covered the inside of the card and then used the border pattern from the DP to create the border in the card.
Next I coloured the image Angel 2 by IKEsART using Promarkers and Spectrum Noir blendable crayons.  For the background I wanted a marble effect to placed an embossing folder underneath before colouring with the SN crayons.
Colouring medium used.
I made a hat pin using colours from the image and as this is a sympathy card I wanted to add a cross charm.  Rubbish, the only ones I have include blue gems on them.  OK, make one lol. Using copper wire I added small beads again matching the colours used in the image and a heart bead at the top.  Strong adhesive was used to hold the beads in place.
The tag with the cross and a couple of bronze wing charms was tied to the hat pin with mauve ribbon.
I needed something else on this card but was pretty stumped, hand made flowers would be to heavy if made out of paper, a spray of flowers again to heavy and upset the balance of the card.  Then I remembered I had bought these glass flowers when I first started card making a few years ago from Lakeland but never used them as I try to make my cards (until now) to fit flat into envelopes.  Now I have some boxes for my cards I can make them a bit more bulky.  There were some pretty light purple ones in the box but the all had red gems in the centre and that wouldn't work.  Not hard to remove the red gem and replace them with purple gems and a pearl.  These were then attached to the bottom right of the card.
And here you have the completed card.

Ingredients :
I am entering this creation in the following challenges
Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)


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SPS - Peacock Fairy

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase an image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I decided to work with the image Peacock Fairy by Meredith Dillman.

I have had this image for ages and have been longing to colour her but wanted to wait until I had some real peacock feathers to work with for the card too :)

To begin with I created the card base.  When I was designing this card I created a very swirly cut out design for the front windows.  That was fun to do but thinking about it I wondered if I would be able to cut it successfully first time.  My die cutter is more than capable but I have learnt over the years a new mat and needle are imperative for something like this along with the type of card being worked with, something with a tight composition, bone dry and preferably white is the best I have found for cutting.  Being a bit pushed for time and not wanting to trash a new mat I wondered if it would work to cut the design using cream vinyl and then applying that to a clear plastic sheet - worth a go.

Here is the cutting done
Next I used some cheap lightweight vinyl to transfer the cut shape and apply it to the clear plastic sheet.  Next I cut around the outside of the shape, scored the fold lines and done.  Yep, this, I think was a great success.
Now, for some reason, I don't seem to have taken any more photos.  Think that is because I am tying to get lots of blog post done before I go on holiday and some things are just slipping from my memory lol.  Anyway, I printed the image with a 60% opacity to prepare it for the no-line colouring technique the proceeded to colour using Promarkers.  As there is nowhere to write inside this card I used a Spellbinder die and the same dp as I used to cover the inside of the card.  To finish off the back I used a few of the longs strands found on peacock feathers and a tiny wee bright blue bow.  The front of the card has the same embellishment and a birthday tag.  To finish off the front, Liquid Pearls were placed on the swirl ends of the cut out design.

Back of card
 Front of card


Ingredients
  • Image -  Peacock Fairy by Meredith Dillman available in rubber or as a digi
  • Promarkers
  • Dies - C Art Decorative Oval Frames, Spellbinders Adorning Squares-7 and Spellbinders Classic Scallop Squares
  • Vinyl, Liquid Pearls, plastic sheet, peacock feather, bow etc. from my stash
Challenges entered

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Friday, November 14, 2014

SPS - Christmas is Just Around the Corner Blog Hop!

November 14, '14 blog hop info
Welcome to the Sweet Pea Stamps Christmas is Just Around the Corner Blog Hop! Today our wonderful design team members are featuring a plethora of gorgeous Christmas themed images in both, rubber and digi format, to inspire your Christmas crafting.

Please visit each of our talented team members' blogs and leave a little love - a comment on every hop post will enter you into a drawing for a $20 gift code to the Sweet Pea Stamps store! As an added bit of fun share the hop on Facebook tagging Sweet Pea Stamps for a chance for a $10 gift code to the Sweet Pea Stamps store! Winners will be chosen around the first of next week.

I am on holiday at the moment so designing something to take part in this blog hop was a bit of a challenge. I hope you like what I managed to put together with very limited supplies lol.  For this creation I used the image Scarlet Holly by CHING CHOU KUIK



This is me - Jane 
We hope you enjoy the hop! Have a wonderful Holiday Season!

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Sexy Steampunk

Time for another challenge over at

Challenge 26
Colour Challenge


Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, just remember, you must use and IKEsART image to be eligible for the prize.  Why not pop on over to the store too :), Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)
For this weeks challenge I opted for a bag, I do so love making gift bags <g>.  I have used the image Saucy Steampunk available from IKEsART.  To begin with I used a wee bag and some hand made paper which I sprayed with adhesive and covered the bag with.
 Next I printed the digi and coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils.  The metalic part of the clothing was coloured with Metallic Promarkers.  I don't particularly like these Promarkers as they are very thick and hide any of the drawing detail underneath them.  However, this week I read somewhere that you can mix them with water.  Giving this a go and using a paintbrush it did work however the metallic sheen has vanished grrrrrrrr.
 Next I printed my sentiment on orange card.
Time for some die cutting.  I have forgotten yet again to take a pic but I used Tattered Lace Large Flourish with brown card.  I cut three of these and then bisected them for my background. Next I used some copper metal foil and using X-Cut cogs made these :)
 To bring more of the cherry colour into the design I raked out some really old lace my Mum gave me yonks ago which not only being the perfect colour had a lovely scalloped edge. I cut the edges off to frame my sentiment and then used some of what was left to create a mount for the digi.  The rest was cut into two strips and sewn together and later used as part of the ribbon arrangement.
 To the ribbon arrangement I also added a metal charm and a big glass bead to go with the sentiment.  Using a strong adhesive pushed into the hold of the glass bead I was able to attach it easily to a metal bead chain, you can see it through the bead which I think is rather neat.
 Here we have the bow using the lace remnants along with some orange and turquoise organza. The charm and glass bead are there too.
Now for the finished bag, rather like this one and know just who I am going to give it to :)    I do a bit of glass etching and my friend recently had a birthday so this is for her with a couple of glass etched tea lights inside - a nice link again to the sentiment.

Ingredients:-
  • Digi - Saucy Steampunk available from IKEsART.
  • Uncovered bag from HobbyCraft
  • Dies -Tattered Lace Large Flourish and X-Cut Cogs
  • Handmade paper, lace, ribbon, bead and charm from my stash
I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

SPS - The Archway Angel

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase an image from Sweet Pea Stamps for our Variation Week where the whole DT use the same image to work with.  It always amazes me how everybody's work is so individual and the image can be used in so many ways . We are all working with the image The Archway Angel by Karen Middleton.

I am trying something a little different.  Recently I bought the Spellbinder lattice die with wonderful visions in my head of how my cards could look.  Today is the first time I have used it so please be gently :) :) :)

To begin with I used the Marianne Designs Creatables Anjas Vintage Decoration border die on some mid tone purple card stock.
 I then cut a half centimetre border around the main area and removed the card.  I replace this with some of the lattice I had made with the die cut in a light mauve shimmer card.
 Next onto the digi.  I printed the digi with a %30 opacity and then went over the lines with my Promarker.  To finish off I used a purple shimmer paint.
The inside of the card was covered with a mauve embossed striped vellum type paper.  It is hard to know where to write on a card like this, any writing in the usual area will show through the lattice cutout.  To stop this happening I added dragonfly gems and some star tails.  To create an area to write I drew round the purple mount around the digi and cut it out. This was then placed on the inside of the front cover shadowing the position of the digi on the front.
 And her you have the finished creation :)



Ingredients
  • Image -  The Archway Angel by Karen Middleton available from the Sweet Pea Store
  • Purple Promarker and shimmer paint.
  • Dies - Marianne Designs Creatables Anjas Vintage Decoration border and Spellbinder lattice die 
  • Gems and tiny stars from my stash
Challenges entered:-

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