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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Happy Birthday Susan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUSAN

Sending you magical birthday wishes today Susan

Kick off your shoes, take a break
Crank the tunes, Dance & Shake
light the candles, cut the cake. 
Make it a day, that's simply Great!!! 
Happy B'Day Susan  ..

:) :) :) :) :)


The Susan Slayer Birthday Blog Hop

Jane - You are here
Sharon
Alison
Susan Slayer - the Birthday Girl -
 if you have a moment please stop by Susan's blog and leave her some birthday love :) :) :) 

Ingredients:-
  • Image - CHING CHOU KUIK - Dark Lilies available from Sweet Pea Stamps
  • Colouring Medium - Promarkers
  • Dies - Cherry Lyn    and  XCut Labels
  • From my stash - black lace to cover the mats, purple card, gold peel off Birthday sticker, gems and Black Liquid Pearls

I am entering this card in the following challenges:-
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Saturday, February 14, 2015

SPS - Munchies

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image Munchies by Karen Middleton which is available from the Sweet Pea Store as a digi.

I have decided to make a box to hold a muffin for a change, a nice wee gift to give to my friend on her birthday I hope <g>  Alas I have to buy the muffin as I can't cook and won't cook lol.

To begin with I made a template for the box and lid and then covered them with gift wrapping paper.
With all the corners glued and the acetate windows in place it was time to put the box to one side to dry.
I coloured the image with Promarkers and then chalked the background.
A simple tag was made using Spellbinders Scalloped ovals, the larger back one was covered in the wrapping paper before die cutting.  I then coloured a silver peel off sentiment with my Promarker and put this on the top section of the tag.
 To finish off I added ribbon, buttons and Ice Stickles.


Ingredients:-
  • Image - Munchies by Karen Middleton which is available from the Sweet Pea Store as a digi.
  • Colouring Medium - Promarkers
  • Dies - Spellbinders Grand Scallop Ovals 
  • Ribbon, Ice Stickles and buttons from my stash
I am entering into the following challenges:-
Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a happy crafting time ahead of you :) xx

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Santa Hunk

Time for another challenge over at

Challenge #31
Make Us Laugh

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 :) :) :)

Now this was rather a hard challenge, I do love colouring, I love crafting but 'jokes', - can't tell them, can't remember them and often don't get them hahahahaha.  I hope I manage to give you a laugh

The first laugh is on me - I always write my posts as soon as I create my bit of art work and get it schedulled as I have a memory like a sieve.  For some very strange reason I had totally forgotten to do this one and did not realise until I saw on the FaceBook fan page that Ginny had posted hers - oops so sorry Ike :) xx

These days it seems like Christmas comes round all to fast and with the weather in so many areas of our poor planet being up the creek. With these thoughts in mind my card was born.

I used the image 'Santa Hunk' and what a hunk he is - I wonder how many of you would like him popping down your chimney :) :) :) He was coloured with my ever faithful Promarkers and finished off with some white glitter
 Next I used some spring lamp paper to make my mats and embossed some holly on the smaller one.  The tag followed the same theme and I fussy cut one of the lambs from the DP.
 To finish off the tag I painted a chipboard sheep white - well it should be white after 3 coats but looks more cream to me!!! I also used a wee daisy button with a pink centre.
 On the inside of the card I used some more of the DP and also embossed the same holly embossing as I had on the front of the card.
 And there we have it - a global warming Christmas card :) :) :)


Ingredients:-
  • Image - Santa Hunk'  by IKEsART
  • Colouring medium - Promarkers
  • Embossing - Holly embossing folder but I can't remember the company
  • From my stash - DP, Stickles, chipboard sheep, button
I am entering this project into the following challenges:-
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Bella

Good morning peeps, today I am sharing a Valentine card I have made using the gorgeous image 'Bella' by Conie Fong available from Sweet Pea Stamps.

This creation is for the challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More who are being sponsored by Sweet Pea Stamps.  Hope you will stop by and join in the fun :) :) :)

To begin with I designed and cut a couple of doilies, designed on Illistrator, saved as .svg and then cut with my die cutter.  The larger of the two I later coloured in a Warm Grey Promarker and the smaller one in Poppy Red Promarker
 Next I coloured the super sweet image again with Promarkers
 For the mat which the digi will be mounted on I wanted to try something new.  I bought a cheap sewing machine a couple of days ago as I love using lace on my cards and this really is the easiest way to attach it with little mess.  I alas only bought white sewing thread lol but my trusted Promarkers came to the rescue again :) :) :)
For the inside of the card - I embossed the front of the card before adding the die cuts so it would show through on the inside of the card.  I added a border die cut which is only attached at the bottom edge and the sides so the giver of this card can add a little something there is they wish.  A big heart die cut in white paper was added for the writing area.


Ingredients
Image - 'Bella' by Conie Fong available from Sweet Pea Stamps
Colouring Medium - Promarkers
Dies - Cherry Lyn Heart to Heart Doily
From my stash - lace, glass flowers and brads

I am entering this creation in the following challenges:)
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Monday, February 9, 2015

Bleeding Hearts Sprite

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image Bleeding Hearts Sprite by Mitzi Sato-Wiuff which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in rubber
I don't mind making Christmas card, I hate Halloween and Easter cards but oooooo I so love Valentine cards so this week, saying as it is February, the month of love I could not resist.  To begin with I cut the sections of my card on my die cutter.
 Next I covered the back of the folded sections with pink and silver mesh.
 The image was coloured with Promarkers
Next I took some narrow lace and stitched on side with running stitch so I could gather it up.  Using some bought satin roses I coloured them with my pink Promarker, the same as one of the colours as used in the image.
Using an 'I Love You' Sizzix die cut I created the text. With another Sizzix die I made the heart.  As I wanted lots of height here I used pearls to create the spacing between the text and the heart and again on the back of the heart where it will be attached to the card.
 Here you can see the front of the card.  A white lace bow was added to the heart/text die cut, a swirly die cut and three of the five flowers I made to complete the embellishment.
 Close up of the text and heart, you can really see the height achieved here by using the pearls.
 Middle heart of the card has one swirl die cut, a metal silver double heart and another of the flowers in the centre.
The final section of the card has the digi.  I added more lace behind the digi, the same lace I used for the flowers so it would match. Chalk was used to colour the white space around the image.  I then used the final flower to hold the card sections in place when opened.
 And here we have the finished card.



Ingredients:-
  • Image - Bleeding Hearts Sprite by Mitzi Sato-Wiuff
  • Colouring Medium - Promarkers
  • Dies - Sizzix Heart and I Love You, Cherry Lyn b127-Tropical-Flourish, card cut by Rae Carr
  • Flowers, lace, pearls etc from my stash
I am entering into the following challenges:-
Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a happy crafting time ahead of you :) xx

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

OSAAT - Cowgirl Too

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 an awesome digi pack containing several images and a paper pack too - how cool is that.

Challenge #230

Theme 'Anything Goes with Love' 

This week I am working with the image I am using is Cowgirl Too by Beary Dust - she is a wee cracker isn't she :) :) :)   I seem to have made a few Valentine cards recently and all of them traditional and very girly so this one I am hoping is suitable for the boys.  The image does not have the love heart so I drew that in so she would be sitting on something.
To begin with I printed the sentiment and some papers ready for my layered mounts. Each of the papers and the sentiment were cut out and mounted on black card.  I then distressed the edges of each of the sections.
 I also printed an insert for the inside of the card using the same papers and a heart which I added a shadow effect to so as to have a 3D effect.
 The image was coloured with Promarkers then mounted on beige card and then black card, finishing off in the same way as the other sections by distressing.  Brads were added and a cowboy boot charm.

Ingredients:-
  • Image - Cowgirl Too by Beary Dust
  • Colouring medium - Promarkers
  • Charm, brads etc. from my stash
I am entering this card into the following challenges:-
Thanks for looking and hope you have a happy crafting day:)

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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Sea Life

BLOG HOP

Ike has been at it again :) :) This time a wonderful creation of sea-life images, great for all those fishy creations you need to make and a great change from mermaids lol.
To show off all the images I decided a candle would be a great way to go and I have not made a candle for ages. To begin with I used the .png types of all the images and overlaid them on an underwater background.
Next I coloured the images with Faber Castell Ploychromos crayons.  I do love these for colouring my candle images.  Colouring with Promarkers was really difficult on tissue paper but these work great and retain their depth of colour.
Once the image was coloured and my head had recovered from the assault I set about attaching the tissue wrapper to the candle.  When I print on my tissue paper I first attach it to some thick paper with temporary adhesive spray to help it in place and make it printer friendly.  I leave this backing paper on for colouring and only remove it when I am ready to place the wrapper on the candle. I then tightly wrap grease proof paper around the candle and set to work with my heat gun.  The tissue paper keeps the wrapper in place and protects the image from burning when using the heat gun.

With the wrapper firmly in place I covered the bottom section of the candle with 'Sand' flower soft and added some shells.  Although these are not safe to burn they are far enough away from the flame to not be an issue and the candle would be thrown away long before the wick is burnt to this area.  Finally I used candle varnish, a water base varnish designed especially for candles and non-flammable to give a lovely sheen.  So here is a spin around of the finished candle, hope you like :) :) :




Thank you for stopping by and now you can head on over to see what teamie Shell have magically created for you to see :) :)
IKEsWORLD CHALLENGES 
BLACK DRAGON
GINNY
JANE O
SALL
MIMI JANE - You are here :)
SHELL
SAMARA
IKE

Ingredients:-
  • Image - Sea Life by IKEsART 
  • Colouring Medium - Faber Castell Ploychromos crayons
  • Candle from IKEA
I am entering this creation into the following challenges:- 

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