Saucy Fairy

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

Think Pink
(Breast Cancer Awareness)

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 fortnights challenge of Think Pink (Breast Cancer Awareness) I thought it would be great to work with a digi I have just got from Ike :) - the digi is Saucy Fairy .  Now I can hear some of you saying 'What - a saucy fairy for something as serious and heartbreaking as Breast Cancer Awareness" and I agree.  However, life is not all doom and gloom and I believe much of the battle for any illness is staying as positive as possible and doing ones best to make the good days as good as possible, live life to the fullest when you can.  I also believe you need to find peace from within and the way I do that when life is a bit s****y is to have a lovely hot bath (not to get clean, no soap involved hahahah, generally thought a LUSH bath bar so I have lots of bubbles), I turn the lights off as they ruin the ambience and light candles instead and then I put my favourite music on, get into the bath and close my eyes so I can sink into a place of peace and tranquility for a just a little while.  Now you can see why I have decided to go upbeat with this creation, all be it pink (Ike - what are you doing to me, more pink, I so seldom have anything to do with pink but in your challenges I seem to use it a lot hahhaha), a fairy in her high heels and feel good clothes, a positive sentiment and another sentiment to link with the candles included in the card.  I hope it all makes sense now and you don't feel I am being flippant.

So here is my candle card

To begin with I made the card/box using pink hammer card.  I then covered the front, inside and candle box area with some lovely pearl satin ribbon paper with pink hearts on it.  This paper was bought from the States when I first started making cards, I think it was the first speciality paper I every bought and this is the second time I have used it :)  Not because I don't like it but because it is on a mini roll and stays in a drawer and not with my other flat paper so I keep forgetting about it.  The window has acetate behind it.

Next I assembled the card and put the candles in for no other reason at this point in time other than I wanted to hahahaha

Next I cut three fan sections using Joanna Sheen's - Large Lattice Fan and stuck the sections together.

 Onto some printing.  Using acetate I printed the text I wanted on the front of the card.

 Time to do something else with the acetate.  My old trick of using my 6x4 embossing folders which don't work with any card shapes I make these days so I don't mind taking my hammer (usually the rolling pin but I think hubby has pinched that back and put it in the kitchen).  By using my rolling pin/hammer I can control where the embossing happens, in this case, I embossed all over with the exception of the areas were there is text with wee hearts.

 Now to put these bits together before moving on.

 Time to start on the digi, I printed the digi at 30% opacity as I don't want many lines showing.

Then I coloured her in using my beloved Promarkers.  Pink Stickles were added to the frilly petticoat and the shoes.

 Promarkers used

For the wings I used some of the acetate I had left over and a second printed copy of the digi in case I messed up on the first <g>  I am happy with the way the first one turned out so this one is spare so I will use her to cut a second set of wings.  I have forgotten to take a pic, but once the wings were cut I sprayed them with gold glitter varnish from Crafters Companion, one of my new favourite acquisitions.

 Next using my electronic die cutter I cute the word Positivity in vinyl.

Onto the inside of the card while the varnish and Stickles are drying.

 All done, everything dry and assembled.  To protect the candle card saying as it does not fit in an envelope I have made a sort of tent shape with a boxed bottom out of acetate.

And here we have the finished candle card.

Ingredients:-

• Digi - Saucy Fairy by IKEsART
• Promarkers
• Acetate, Stickles, Liquid Pearls etc. from my stash

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

• All Crafts Challenge - 2M, 1st Monday of the month every other month, NO CARDS - (Oct/Nov) Anything but a Card
• Craft Your Passion - W, E3 - Hope/Love/Encouragement theme
• Path of Positivity - M, any positive/inspirational project or idea welcome - (deadline Nov 2) Courage
• Come and Get It - W, Unlimited - Women and/or Girls Having Fun
• Dragonfly Dreams - M –  Challenge 10 - Mainly Pink
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.124 - (W2 of 2) - Lots of Pink or Breast Cancer
• The Stamping Boutique - W, SIO - No.38 -  Outside the Box
• Miriam's Crafting Blog Monthly Challenge - M, 1st Wed., E4 - Pink
• Sisterhood of Crafters  - 2W, 3E - Think Pink (Breast Cancer Awareness)
• Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W, E5 (W1 of 2) #117 Anything Goes with a sentiment
• In the Pink - 2W, 3E, lots of pink –  (W2 of 2)  Fancy Fold (in PINK of course)
• Emerald Faeries Challenge - M, P1, E3 #60 ~ Things with Wings
• The Crafting Cafe - M, P1, E1 Think Pink
• Just Inspirational Challenges W, 3E –  Pink
• Papertake Weekly W - Anything With Wings
• Tuesday Throwdown W- #217 Awareness

SPS - Snowy Joy To The World

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase an image from Sweet Pea Stamps for our Variation Week where the whole team are using the image 'Snowy Joy to the World' by Conie Fong.  Just for a change I decided on a bag this week :)

To begin with I cut some mountains and icebergs with my die cutter along with the text for the sentiment.

Next to pick a bag hahahaha

 I added sky vellum to the top of the bag and airbrushed the back shadow mountains and iceberg shadows with of all things my Promarker called Arctic Blue - yep very appropriate.

 For the front mountains and iceberg tops I opted just to add white glitter.

 Onto colouring the digi.  Promarkers were used again here and the white glitter too which was placed on the white fluffy bits on the hat and bottom snow area.  Red glitter was added to the scarf and Liquid Crystal to the JOY bit to make it pop saying as it was coloured the same colours as the scarf.

Promarkers used

 Once all the elements were in place and the glitter dry I fussy cut the penguin and then attached him to the bag on his iceberg with a spring.  Well who does not like springs, so much fun.

 Here you can see Mr. Penguin really slipping on the ice :) :) :)

 Ribbon was attached just under the mountains and, using cyan and white organza a bow was added to the handle.  I attached two wee bells to this which really do ring - this is such a fun bag.

 And here we have the finished bag, now it just needs somebody to give it to.  I am in Saudi and we don't have any penguins or icebergs here just camels and sand, and more sand, and even more sand!!!!!

Ingredients

• Image -  'Snowy Joy to the World' by Conie Fong
• Promarkers
• Dies - by me
• All other items from my stash

Challenges entered

• A Gem of a Challenge - 2W (W1)  #130 CREATE a SCENE
• Little Claire's  - M,P15, 3E, SIO   #50 - Christmas
• We Do Doobadoo Challenge-  2W, E2 - (W2) CHRISTMAS
• Kitty Bee Designs - 2W,2E,C10 (W1 of 2) No.34 - Dies and/or punches
• Fab 'n' Funky - 1E, C10 - #232 Anything With Ribbon
• Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W, E5 (W1 of 2) #117 Anything Goes with a sentiment
• C.R.A.F.T. - W, 5E -#280 Christmas
• Deep Ocean Challenge 2W - #88 - Christmas in October - (Week 1)
• Digi Choosday Challenge -W,E2, - #40 Christmas
• Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge 2W, 2E, C10, Must be Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes (Week 2)

OSAAT - Feather Flourish Hat

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 #221

Theme 'Anything Goes with the Colour Orange' 

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

This week I thought I would do something different and chose to work with a die cut file by Floppy Latte called Feather Flourish Hat Silhouette Digital Die Cut File and use this on an orange box for a friend of mine who is orange mad <g>

To begin with I cut the template for the box on my die cutter.  The original pattern for this box came in a Tattered Lace magazine and I did try to cut it manually but my hands were not having it :)  I also cut four rectangles which will be used on four of the sides.

Now, not being to bright, I stuck each of the panels together and then thought, oops, I have forgotten to do the embossing I planned.  Thankfully I was able to get this semi assembled box through my machine using an A4 embossing folder by Embossilicious, two runs, one covered 4 panels, turn the box round and do the other end.  Luck was on my side.

 Here you can see the embossing folder pattern more clearly.

Next I covered each of the four rectangles with black lace and edges with black peel off line stickers.

To finish the panels I cut four Magnolia Flowers from Susan's Garden by Sizzix.  The petals are in orange and the leaves in black as I only want two colours on this box. To finish these off I added some black artificial flower stamens and then orange and black Stickles for a bit of bling.

 Onto the die cutting file by Floppy Latte - isn't she just a beauty.  I cut her four times in vinyl.  These will be placed on four of the sides of the box with the rectangle panels in between.

 Using one of the dies from the Spellbinders-floral flourishes I cut nine the same.  Eight of these are for the top of the box and the ninth for the label.

 Right, what is next, ah - print the label then cut with Spellbinders scalloped Ovals with a black shadow layer too.  I also cut a larger version of the Feather Flourish Hat Silhouette Digital Die Cut File and chopped most of it away as I only wanted part of it for the label.

 And here we have the completed label, well almost complete, it still needs the ribbon.  I made up the sentiment which really sums this special friend up, she is such a giving and fun person, a special person indeed.

Right, all done, I have three views of the box to show you from different angles.  I will be putting a piece of my glass etching in this box and giving it to my friend as a thank you gift :)

Ingredients:-

• Digi -  Feather Flourish Hat Silhouette Digital Die Cut File by Floppy Latte  available from the StitchyBear Digital Outlet
• Dies - Spellbinders Floral Flourishes and Scalloped Cirles, Tattered Lace Carousel Box from their magazine, and Susan's Garden Dogwood by Sizzix
• Vinyl, lace, gems, Stickles and ribbon from my stash

I am entering the following challenges

• Allsorts - W, 3E -  279 - Autumn (COLOUR ORANGE, EMBOSSED FALLING LEAVES BACKGROUNDS)
• Di's Digis Designs 3E 2W SIO - (W2) GIRLY!
• My Time to Craft - W - DIE CUTS ONLY!
• Open-Minded Challenges - 2W, 3E  (W2) Fall / Autumn
• Alphabet Challenge - 2W, 1E, JFF - (W2 of 2) - Q for Quadruple (use 4 or something)
• Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 114 - Autumn/ Fall (COLOUR ORANGE, EMBOSSED FALLING LEAVES BACKGROUNDS)
• Creative Corner - W, 3E  - Anything But a Card 
• Digitally Sweet - W, Digital images/projects - (Does not have to be 100% digital.) - No. 109 - Lots of Flowers
• Left of Center Creative Challenges - W - No.48 - 3 or More Layers
• Crafter's Cafe - F, 3E - #84 punches/diecuts
• Crafty Creations - 2W - #273 Orange
• Creative Moments - 2W, 3E - #52 Anything goes/3 layers (2nd week)
• Inky Impressions - SIO - #179 Anything but a card
• Nutcrafters - 2W, SIR for 1st prize, any image for 2nd Prize, 1E -  #78 Something New (THE BOX DESIGN IS NEW)

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

SPS - Joy is . . . . .

Sweet Pea Stamps

Morning everybody, hope you are having a good day so far :)  Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to use Helena Reis's - Joy is ...Dressed Up For Halloween. A while ago one of the websites that sells dies had a crazy, and I mean crazy sale with up to 70% off - now who could resist, not me.  One of the dies I got was to make rosettes by Tim Holtz, I knew it would come in handy as some point in the future.  Anyway, this project seemed perfect for the use of the die in my Halloween gifts.

To begin with I die cut some pumpkins in gold vinyl and put these in the centre of each rosette.  A wooden skewer was attached to the back and some sweets placed in wee bags and attached with ribbons.  Right that bit done :) Once the rosettes were made using different brown and orange papers I set to work on everything else.

 Next I coloured the fab digi by Helena Reis

 Promarkers used.

Now for a bit of recycling, my empty Bisto gravy container hahahaha.  I covered this with some of the same paper used for a couple of the rosettes.  The top was finished off with some black lace and a die cut spider web added.

 There we go, a fun Halloween container with gifts.

Ingredients

• Image -  Helena Reis's - Joy is ...Dressed Up For Halloween
• Promarkers
• Dies - Tim Holtz Rosette, Spellbinders ovals and scalloped ovals, Scrapbooking Table for the web
• Covering paper, sweets, ribbon and lace from my stash

Challenges entered

• 613 Avenue Create- W - #92 Anything Goes 
• Anything But A Card - 3W, no cards - #40 Anything But a Card Week 1
• Come and Get It - W, Unlimited - Halloween
• The Corrosive Challenges - 2W, 3E - #209 Halloween Colors
• Hiding in my Craft Room - W, 1E  - #168 - Halloween Colors!
• Sunflower Fields Designs - M, SIO ,3E Autumn/Halloween!!! 
• Craft for the Craic - M, 5E (First Friday of the month) - October - Something suitable for a child
• Creative Corner - W, 3E  - Anything But a Card
• Cut it Up- 2W, 1E, Must have Die Cuts - No. 55 - (W1 of 2) - Anything But a Card
• Left of Center Creative Challenges - W - No.48 - 3 or More Layers

IKEsWORLD Zombie Blog Hop

Time for another challenge over at

IKEsWORLD

ZOMBIE Blog Hop

Are you ready for this folks - IKE has done it again lol  - where else can you get digis like this!!!!!!!  My comfort zone has gone to pot, I don't even watch horror movies never mind understanding why anybody else does.  My brain is for fairies and butterflies not for blood and guts.  However, when IKE put these digi's together for the Zombie Pet Shop I agreed to join in if she created a snake to go in one of the back.  With such short notice I was keeping my fingers crossed Ike would be far to busy or sleeping to do this.  Alas no, in my mail box the next day were the Zombie Pet Shop packs to work with and yes - my lovely California King Snake who was called Nyoka was in there too - no backing out for me now.  OH dear what to do - a card, well who could I give it to, everybody I know in the real world is butterflies, flowers and fairies!!!!  Now in for a penny in for a pound I decided to make key rings using Shrink Plastic, that way I could use each of the digi's and if nothing else put them in one of my kids stockings for Christmas or maybe better still give them to my 4 year old grandson!!!!!  Now that is a plan :) his mum (my eldest daughter) has a cracking sense of humour lol.

So here we go, a book box with the Zombie Pet Shop digis made into key rings.

To  begin with I printed the digis on Shrink Plastic, only used this stuff once before so a bit of an experiment.  I coloured them with Faber Castle Polychromos pencils.

Once coloured and cut it was into the oven and pray :) - phew they shrunk and stayed flat - yep they definitely shrunk hahahha

To finish them off and seal the colour I added a layer of Mod Podge then added the key rings.

Onto the book box.  I made one of these a couple of weeks ago and decided to see if I could make another one but this time not use a pattern - just more praying it would work. Yep, seem to be praying a lot during this project - maybe that is to keep the zombies away hahahaahha

I airbrushed the outside of the book with Promarkers and added some wounds with stitches, in keeping with the ones Ike has on the digis.  The inside of the book cover was covered in black card.

The front cover used another of the digis, the shop keeper, but this time I coloured it digitally and added some textures to the skin.  I placed the digi on the front of the book cover and added Gesso round the edges (hopefully this will look like brains).  Printing a second copy of the digi I fussy cut the brains on the plate out and covered these with Mod Podge Dimensional stuff, this will be attached with foam tape when dry.  At this point I am quivering and shaking so am leaving my craft room to go drink strong coffee and recuperate with this lot dries :)

And there we have it, a book box of Zombie Pet Shop key rings ready to go on the shop keepers counter or more likely into my grandsons Christmas Stocking!!!!!  I did put a false bottom in the box, after all that is what packaging is often like!!!!! Oh how naughty of me but it bugs me when you buy something that the packaging is so big to make it look good value and the contents only really take up about a quarter of the space lol.

Ingredients:-

• Digis - Zombie Pet Shop packs 1 and 2 by IKEsART
• Promarkers, Polychromos pencils
• Shrink Plastic
• Mod Podge regular and dimensional
• key ring hoops from my stash

And now for the blog hop -

 IKEsWORLD DT are all using images from the brand spankin' new Zombie Pet Shop packs - If you are a zombie lover you are going to fall head over heals in love with these :) :) :) 

To WIN a set of your choice, all you have to do is follow along the BLOG HOP and leave a huggy comment on each of the DT members' Blogs and then return back here to leave a comment and your name.

This offer will run for 1 WEEK and I will tally up the names next Saturday and announce a Winner. Simples !!  :-D

IKE
BLACK DRAGON

SHELL

MAUREEN

SAMARA

TERESA

MIMI JANE ( you should be be here now)

GINNY

SHONI

CHRISTINE

SALL

JANE O