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:)