A Special Request

This card was a Special Request in a couple of ways.  A friend of mine as me to make an Engagement card for her son and soon to be daughter in law <g>.  

First I used a couple of images of the couple, alas they were very small digital versions which made the artwork I wanted to create a bit hard.  I started with the two images and played around with them in Photoshop, finally using the Stamp filter to create very bold idea I wanted.

Next I brought the images into Illustrator, got them positioned as I wanted them, did a few other bits and bobs then printed on an mustard/gold paper.

Out with a card blank in black which I then covered the front of with gold coloured lace.

The different sections of the card topper were cut with Cherry Lyn Heart to Heart Doily dies, in the gold/mustard again and in black.  Now it was ready for layering.

Not to much in the way of embellishments for this card, I really did not think it needed much more that a bit of ribbon and an engagement peel off sticker sentiment.  I used gold organza and gold ribbon which I layered together.  Then I made the bow to match using the gold organza.

Ready to put it all together now :)

I also decorated the inside to match

And here we have the finished card.  The base of the heart was attached to the card then the centre heart with the image was mounted with foam tape for a bit of dimension.  Ribbons were put in place and I added a few Bisque Liquid Pears for a bit of fun :)

Ingredients:

• Back card
• Digi by me
• Dies -Cherry Lyn Heart to Heart Doily dies, Spellbinders Grand Labels 1
• Lace, ribbon, sentiment sticker and Liquid Pearls

I am entering this card in the following challenges:_

• Deep Ocean Challenge 2W - #73 Lace and Pearls (Week 2)
• Flourishes Timeless Tuesday W-  #263 A Touch Of Gold
• Bunny Zoe's Crafts - M, 1E - (February) Hearts/Love
• Crafting from the Heart - 2W, E3 - (Week 1) Anything Goes / Use Dies
• Craft-Dee BowZ - M, E3, project must have bow - (March) Anything Goes with a HANDMADE BOW
• Through the Purple Haze - W, E3, C10 - Use a Digi

Will-O and The Wisps

Sweet Pea Stamps

I am very excited to share with you today my first creation for the Sweet Pea Stamps blog.  I applied to be on the challenge a couple of weeks ago and was over the moon to be asked to join this amazing team.

The theme challenge this month (March) is Scream For Green and you still have plenty of time to enter so why not head over to the blog and join in.

For my creation today I have used the digi Will-O and The Wisps by Norma J Burnell

I decided to make a gate fold card for a change.  After selecting my green hammer card I then cut two extra panels for the front.  These I embossed and then air brushed with Promakers.

Next I printed the digi twice so I could mask off the area I wanted to hand colour and air brush the background.

 And here we have the digi with the airbrushed background.

 Time to colour the digi with my beloved Promarkers.

 I made a flower and coloured a shiny white leave embellishment green.  A gold mount was made for the digi and I used a gold mesh material on the front sections of the card.  I wanted the skin of this beautiful lady to have a slight green tinge so air brushed lightly over the whole digi with Apple Green. Time now to assemble.

 As you can see I changed my mind about using the flower, it was to heavy for the card in appearance.  Nothing wrong with evolving a card as you go along lol. In the end I used a green feather, three flower sprays which I coloured with my Promarkers and then made a wee bow in green and pink.

Ingredients

• Green Hammer Card from Craft Creations
• Digi - Will-O and The Wisps by Norma J Burnell
• Promarkers
• Mirror card, gold mesh material, flowers, feather, ribbon and peel offs from my stash.

Challenges entered

• Glitter n Sparkle - W - Challenge #76 Include some green/St Patrick's Day.
• The Corrosive Challenges - 2W, 3E -Challenge #195 (1st week) Go Green.
• The Ribbon Girls - W, Must use ribbon -Colour Challenge - Green.
• Color Me Creative Challenge -2W, 3E - #89 (W1 of 2)  Show some skin
• Challenges and candies - 2W , 3E - No.29 - (W2 of 2) - Flowers
• Craft for the Craic - M, 5E (First Friday of the month) - March - Something Green
• Craftitude -2W, 3E -  No. 60 - (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes or Add a Little Green
• Digi Haven – 2W, 3E, must use a digi – (W2 of 2) - Use at Least 3 Different Shades of Green
• Get Inky! - W, 2E - No.9 - (W2 of 2) - Green/ St.Patty's Day
• Stampin With The Dragon - 2W, SIO – (W2 of 2) - Let's Go GREEN
• Delightful Challenges - W, 1E, SIO - Wearing of the Green
• Inky Impressions - SIO - #150 Green

Fairies are Invisible

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.

Challenge #204

Theme 'Use A Digi' 

The sponsor is StitchyBear Digital Outlet with a 7 image prize pack. To win main prize you MUST use an Image from our store. Runner up prize for person using none store image is $3 to spend in the StitchyBear Digital Outlet. So everyone can win something ;O).

It was Deborah's turn to choose for our group this week from Panda Bear Designs and she chose the Renew Paper Pack 1 for us to work with.  The pack contains 9 different digital papers all of exceptional quality for printing.  I have combined the papers from this pack with a Stitchy Stamps digital image called 'Reach' from the Fairy Fun silhouette pack.

I started by backing my card blank with one of the papers.  Next I placed the fairy digi digitally onto the paper in and overlaid my quote by Lynn Holland - 'Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels.  But their magic sparkles in nature.' which iI thought was just perfect to go with the papers and the digi I was using.  I then printed this paper and mounted onto card.  So far my creation was looking a bit plain so good old trusted lace to the rescue which I placed behind the green layer. This was then mounted onto my card with foam tape.  For the embellishments I used the following dies: Marianne Design Craftables - Branch2, Marianne Designs Creatables LR0106 for the flowers and Spellbinder  Les Papillions 2.  I used embossing powder, Enchanted Gold on the centre of each petal on the flowers and assembled them with a small flower shaped gold brad.  A few Liquid Pearls on the butterfly and there we have it, my finished creation.

Ingredients:-

• White card from Craft Creations
• Paper Pack - Renew Paper Pack 1
• Digi - Fairy Fun by Stitchy Stamps available from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet
• Dies - Marianne Design Craftables - Branch2, Marianne Designs Creatables LR0106 for the flowers and Spellbinder  Les Papillions 2
• Lace, Liquid Pearls, embossing powder and brads from my stash

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Challenges and candies - 2W , 3E - No.29 - (W2 of 2) - Flowers
• Craft for the Craic - M, 5E (First Friday of the month) - March - Something Green
• Cut it Up- 2W, 1E, Must have Die Cuts - No. 40 - (W2 of 2) - Green for St,Patrick's Day or Spring
• Savvy Handmade Cards - 2W, 1E (must use stamping - rubber or digi) - (W1 of 2) -  Spring Flowers
• Scrapping4funChallenges - 2W, 1E - No.12 - (W2 of 2) - Flowers
• Crafty Little Fairies W, 2E, C8 Things with Wings
• Creative Knockouts W, 2E, C8 #28 Border Time
• Oldie But A Goodie Challenge 2W, must use something at least 6mts old  & state what is- Spring Has Sprung (Week 2) - Lace about 10 years old <g>, dies almost a year old.

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

Birthday Boots

It has been a while since I made a card just for fun so today I thought I would indulge myself :)  I do love making a card to fit in with a few challenge, I find it really gives me focus and creates a challenge within itself to bring all the elements together.

This card has been made to fit the following challenges

• Passion For Promarkers - Butterfly Kisses - add/use butterflies
• I Love Promarkers - Lets Get Spotty
• Chocolate, Coffee and Cards - Colour Inspiration
• Freshly Brewed Designs - Sketch

To make my card I tried a new technique which I have seen others using - inking an embossing folder so you get a textured coloured paper.  What fun, I thoroughly enjoyed doing this and love the uneven effect I give, definitely a technique to use again, I just wish the embossing folder would clean itself afterwards hahahaha.  For this experiment I used an Encore Metallic Pink stamp pad and an A4 embossing folder M-Bossabilities Graduated Dots.  This folder was chosen to fit in with the I Love Promarkers challenge

 Yipee - it worked, still need a bit of practice but not bad for a first attempt.

 There was still ink left on the folder so I used my second colour of plain paper which fits in with the colour challenge and then used Spellbinders Grand Scallop Ovals to cut the shape I needed.

 Next I printed the digi - Gardening Boots Hers from Just Inklined.  I had placed the didi on a background I had prepared and added the Happy Birthday text.

 Promarker time - the digi was coloured using the colours below.

 To fit in with the Passion for Promarkers challenge I created digitally some paper which had small butterflies on using the colours from the Chocolate, Coffee and Cards challenge in a pattern  and also used spellbinder - les papillions two.  The base layer was cut out of bits left over from the backing paper I made and the cut out section from scraps of the oval layer.  Shame to waste bits and pieces especially when the colour was just perfect.  I finished off the butterfly and the corners of the digi topper with Lilac Liquid Pearls

With all by sections ready time to assemble following the sketch Freshly Brewed Designs. 

While assembling I felt something else was needed - to many harsh lines.  To solve this I added some Mulberry paper, airbrushed with Promarker Blue Green, then wet the edges and tore to make a fluffy edge. And here we have the finished card.  Hope you like it.

Ingredients

• Digi - Gardening Boots Hers from Just Inklined
• M-Bossabilities Graduated Dots embossing folder
• Encore Metallic Pink stamp pad
• Promarkers
• Dies - Spellbinders Grand Scallop Ovals and Les Papillions Two
• Lilac Liquid Pearls
• Plain papers and mulberry paper from my stash

I am entering this card in the following challenges:-

• I love Promarkers - Must use Promarkers - #210 Spots
• Passion For Promarkers Challenge W- must use promarkers - #238 Butterfly Kisses
• Fresh Brewed Designs - M, 5E - Sketch or Photo Insp*  
• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - 2W, 3E -  No. 60 - (W1 of 2) - colour Inspiration
• Challenges and candies - 2W , 3E - No.29 - (W2 of 2) - Flowers
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.109 - (W2 of 2) - Birthdays
• MilkCoffee Challenge-2W, 3E, SIO (W1 of 2) At Least 2 Flowers
• Crafter's Cafe - F, 3E - #54 Flowers.
• Crafty Creations - 2W - #258 Happy Birthday (2nd week)
• Digistamps 4 Joy - 2W, SIO  - #87 Birthday sentiment (2nd week)
• Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - SIO - #301 Birthday cards

Movie Night - Vaguely Goth

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Movie Night

What - a Movie Night, now this is a challenge.  What can one do I wonder???  A poster for a new movie, an invite to friends for a movie night at home, a remake of an old movie, the options are endless.  After much though and chewing of pencils I decided to make a popcorn holder for the sequel of Avatar.  I loved Avatar, the colours and special effects had me totally drawn in.

To begin with I made a template of a popcorn holder which I cut on my Black Cat.  I then coloured this with Blue glitter acrylic paint and using Promarkers, air brushed black and maroon over the top.   Boy did I get messy hahahaha

 Next I printed my planning and working sheet with two copies of the digi, Vaguely Goth by IKEsART.  Also on my sheet are some popcorn pieces which I designed, to be cut out and coloured with Promarkers, blossom coloured oval which I need to decorate for the box, the front and back of a tag I am adding and a ticket to the movie which I designed.  Also on my sheet is my idea how to colour the digi which I played around with digitally the other night and a pic of Neytiri from the real movie for inspiration.

 If you saw the movie, do you remember the part in the forest where we see the Tree of Souls, (my favourite bit) and all the seeds etc are floating around?  That is the basis for the background of my popcorn box. I know my interpretation is nothing as beautiful as the real thing but it works for my box :) :) :) I added .................. in blue and silver to the base of the oval to represent the tendrils, air brushed with Midnight Blue and Maroon for a bit of shadow etc and then covered with Stickles applied with a paint brush..  I also drew other floating seeds with a silver pen directly onto the box.  The popcorn was fussy cut and areas coloured with Satin Promarker.  These were then attached to the box.

The digi was coloured with Promarkes.  Once again I forgot to take a photo of it before I fussy cut it and attached it to the box grrrrrrr.

 Next I fussy cut the sections for the tag on a stick.  Again I airbrushed to get some shadow going on. More silver and blue ....... was added, the skewer was stuck to the back of one side and then I put the back on.

 Finally I cut out the ticket which I designed.

Here is the finished pop corn container complete with popcorn :) :) :) 

side view

I am all set now, just need the movie to be written, produced and released for public viewing :) :) :)

IKEsWORLD Challenge - Movie Night.

Prize

To win the prize you must use and IKEsART image.

Ingredients:-

• Vaguely Goth by IKEsART
• ProMarkers - 
• Blue and Silver
• Blue Glitter acrylic paint
• Stickles, skewer, silver pen etc. from my stash

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

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Baby Gangstaz Zeke

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.

Challenge #203

Theme 'For a Boy'

Our sponsor this week is the StitchyBear Digital Outlet with a prize of $9 to spend in the store.  To win this prize you MUST use a digi from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet.  A second prize of $3 to spend in the StitchyBear Digital Outlet will be given to an entrant who does not use a SB product.

This week I have worked with the fun image Baby Gangstaz Zeke by Rheeces Scrap Pieces.  Here I am out of my box again - For a Boy - how could I use this digi.  I can't think of a single bloke in my family I could make something for with this digi, either they were too old or would only approve of Spiderman (am I right Jay <g).  Not stuck, if I add the word tom in front of boy that that could well apply to me so I think for once I will make something for myself.  Yes - an idea, I will make a door hanger for my craft room saying as I don't have any indication from the outside of the room as to what is happening behind the closed door.  While in the UK I had bought a packed of pre cut door hangers just in case they would come in handy for a project. I have to admit, it feels a bit like cheating as I usually cut my own items but hay ho never mind.

 Next I covered the pre cut door hanger with a shiny purply brown paper I have had for a while and cut the area where the hole is along with the slit at the top.

Now the fun starts, I really felt like being a mucky pup today so out came the acrylic paints - yummy :) :) :) 

 

I blobbed the paint onto the covered door hanger and then . . . . 

got my fingers really dirty with some finger smudging.  This was one occasion when I found it very hard to stop what I was doing but I had to or else it would have all become one colour hahahaha

While the background was drying I set to colouring the digi with Promarkers.  At some point I will remember to take a picture of the finished digi before I attach it to the project.  Here is a cropped image of the coloured digi.

 Finally I used white peel off stickers for the text (yes my craft room looks like an environmentally hazardous zone :) :) :) If I was brave enough I would take a photo of it to share with you, I could tidy it up before hand but then I wouldn't be able to find anything :)  The digi was attached with foam tape for added dimension.

And here it is hanging on my craft room door :)

Ingredient:-

• Digi - Baby Gangstaz Zeke by Rheeces Scrap Pieces
• Acrylic paints
• Promarkers - Forest Green, Bright Green, Apple, Leaf Green, Grey Green, Capri Blue, Denim Blue, Pastel Blue, Cool Grey 3, 4, 5
• Flex Markers - Nutmeg, Dusky Pink, Blush and Linen

I am entering this project in the following challenges:-

• Craftitude -2W, 3E -  No. 60 - (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes or Add a Little Green
• Digi Haven – 2W, 3E, must use a digi – (W1 of 2) - Use at Least 3 Different Shades of Green
• The Stamping Boutique - W, SIO - No.7 - Make Your Sentiment POP
• Paper Crafting Journey - 2W - (W2 of 2) Make it Manly/Boyish
• Nutcrafters - 2W, SIR for 1st prize, any image for 2nd Prize, 1E -  #63 Masculine
• Penny's Paper-Crafty - 3E -  #167 Anything but Square
• Everybody-Art-Challenge W - #268 light-green/brown
• {Pin}spirational W - Photo Inspiration*  #97 
• Through the Purple Haze - W, E3, C10 - Use a Digi

Love Hand Doodle - OSAAT

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.

Challenge #202

Theme 'Anything Goes' 

The sponsor is StitchyBear Digital Outlet with a 7 image prize pack. To win main prize you MUST use an Image from our store. Runner up prize for person using none store image is $3 to spend in the StitchyBear Digital Outlet. So everyone can win something ;O).

For this weeks design I chose for our team to work with  'Love Hand Doodle' by GraftyGirl Creations.  I loved this digi when I first saw it and have longed to get a chance to work with it, just my cup of tea :)  I decided, with such a fabulous digi which has great depth of meaning to carry that theme through the card. The digi is the hand sign for love but my card is not a traditional 'I love you' card but one that speaks of love in many ways.  To start with the colours were important.  I chose dark red, teal and an olive green as they go rather well together visually and all have a meaning associated with love (I may be a little loose on my interpretation though).  Dark red, well red is the colour of love and passion so that is easy, teal is the colour of sentimentalism, and we all love a bit of that in our relationships I think.  Finally, green, the colour of love and hope.  I also used gold, gold is such a beautiful colour with each of the paper colours in this group and added just that bit of zing.  Gold signifies generosity, giving and compassion, all things that are so important in a loving relationship whether it be with a partner or  a special friend.

Next I used a saying 'Love, possible whether you are near or far for love lives in the heart'.  A lot of meaning for me there as my hubby worked overseas for many years while I raised our kids in the UK.  Now I am overseas with my hubby and our kids along with the rest of my family are in the UK.  Not all hearts in the same place at the same time.  What else to add, ah!! the word love in different languages which I printed on the dark red paper.  We have a few new teamies on our team and even some of the oldies are not from the UK or have English as their main language so this is for them and for all the other international crafters emerging on the scene in our blogland world :) :) :).

Next I coloured the digi with Promarkers :- Burgandy, Rock Pool and Olive Green finishing off with a gold Metallic Promarker.

I had created a cutting file to cut the shapes I needed but decided to try and use my Spellbinder Grand Scallop Ovals instead, using the negative cut out for the card not the inner shapes.  I then went over the black love in many languages text with gold pen.  Alas I did not like this last bit so reprinted and re-cut the dark red layer leaving the text black.

I assembled the card and then using the same Promarkers I used for the digi and the spray gun coloured the inside.  Three wee hearts were punched with some of the left over paper I had.

Now we have the completed card.  The finishing touches of mounting the digi on black and attaching to the card with foam tape for added dimension, a gold punched heart embossed with a heart embossing folder and also mounted on black and finally three buttons also coloured with the same Promarkers.  I can hear you asking what the buttons symbolise hahahaha. OK in my warped way of thinking the buttons are to symbolise a way of attaching two things together, in this case - two hearts in love.

Ingredients:-

• White card from Craft Creations
•  'Love Hand Doodle' by GraftyGirl Creationss available from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet
• Red paper from a scrap pad, the teal and green are from magazines but I can't remember which - sorry
• Promarkers - Metallic Gold, Burgundy, Rock Pool and Olive Green
• Heart Punch
• Heart embossing folder
• Buttons and gold mirror card from my stash

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-

• Fan-Tastic Tuesday - W, E2, Must Be Square #25 Anything Goes
• Passion For Promarkers Challenge W- must use promarkers - #236 Make It Digital (text and placement of text on the papers in digital work)
• Craft Room Challenge 2W, 3E - Colour Challenge* (Week 2)
• Card Mania - 2W, 3E - (Week 1) Use a Sentiment
• Open-Minded Challenges - 2W, 3E  (W1 of 2) #5  Use Something Green
• Moving Along with the Times - W, E3, C unlimited  4 things beginning with L (Love word, Love Hand digi, Love heart, Love in many languages)
• Crafting By Designs - F,M -  Love
• Crafty Sentiment Designs W, 1E, SIO - Love

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