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I made this box to hold a couple of Thorntons Chocolate bars as a birthday pressie (testing out the idea for Christmas!!). Sorry I don’t have time to write much tonight!!
Gorgeous LOTV stamp was coloured with Promarkers. Image then covered with embossing ink and pink Perfect Pearls applied. I added some flowers from WOC. The textured card stock sleeve was sprayed with glitter spray.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Whimsy inspires- flowers
Clearly iStamp- flowers
Another Christmas card. I’ve succumbed to attempting a card with a holly theme!!
I’ve inked the edges of the card and holly/ baubles paper with distress inks (red and some green towards centre. The sentiment was a magazine freebie.
I coloured the digi with Promarkers. I added glossy accents on the nose and boots. The fluffy hat bits were stickled and then I added Polar flowersoft. The background isn’t showing too well here but I used embossing ink and clear embossing powder mixed with turquoise Perfect Pearls and then heated.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Paper sundaes- use a digi
Christmas card challenges- holly/ wreaths
Here come the boys- male cards, red, white and green colour combo
I bought this Lili of the valley stamp for Christmas cards and wrapping etc for some of the boys in my family. They are all into Harry Potter so I thought it would be appropriate. This is the first card I’ve made with the stamp.
I inked the edges of the card with red distress ink and added platinum perfect pearls. I made the papers and sentiment on the computer using owls and stars as themes.
I added glitter to the red card around the sentiment. I added some red star embellies.
I coloured the image with Promarkers and used stickles around the edge and on the image. I also used perfect pearls on the top of the colouring to give some shimmer.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Lili of the Valley- Christmas card for someone special
Cards for men- cards for Christmas
Bearlymine challenges- for the boyz
Shopping our stash- never been inked
I made some papers using the inspiration photo from Fairy tale challenge
and used the sketch from Stampin from the weekend even though I’ve missed the deadline!
So here is the card
I inked the edges with distress ink and added Perfect pearls. I made the mushroom paper and mushroom pattern paper on computer and the frame with the digi perched on the mushrooms from the photo. I also made the sentiment on the computer. I added the pearls and ribbons from stash.
I coloured the digi using Promarkers. I tried a new technique with distress inks to do the grass and sky background and then put on blue and white Perfect Pearls for some shine.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Fairy tale challenge- inspiration photo
Flutterby Wednesday- open challenge
Digital Tuesday Challenge- Christmas time
Bunny Zoe Crafts- anything Christmas with pearls
Daisy doodles creative challenges- anything goes with a digi
I tried out some new techniques using Turquoise Perfect Pearls today to make my background papers etc. I’ve finally managed to learn how to watermark images thanks to the great MSErs!
The snowflake background was stamped with Versamark cyan and then I added Perfect Pearls mixed with clear embossing powder and heated it. I dry embossed the grid onto the other papers, put ink on the raised areas and heat embossed again. Inked the central strip and edges of the circle directly and heat embossed. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and frame in the same way.
I coloured the digi with promarkers. I sponged the background with cyan ink and added Perfect Pearls. I sponged the penguin with embossing ink and used white Perfect Pearls.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Party Time Tuesdays- bling it on
Inky Impressions- glitter it up
Crimbo Crackers- Make it sparkle
delightful sketches- snowflakes
Crafting for all seasons- texture
Paper crafting journey- embossing
Paperminutes blogspot- sketch
Another Christmas card!
Some more papers designed on computer to match the colours in the challenges and to work with the sketch. Everything else basically stash. The edge of the card was coloured with green distress ink and perfect pearls. The digi is a freebie.
The digi was coloured with Promarkers and the snow is flowersoft and glitter.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Christmas blog challenge- Christmas mouse
Forever Friends Challenge- bling bling
Top Tip Tuesday- anything goes Christmas
CRAFT challenge- cute
Charisma Cardz- cutesy
Color throwdown
I wanted to use my new LOTV stamp and thought it would be perfect for beautiful inspiration picture for the CR84fun colour challenge and for the Stamptacular Sunday sketch (see end of post).
So this is my card
I designed the papers on the computer using the colours from the inspiration photo but also using the themes from the photo (flowers, swirls and stripes). The papers don’t show up too well here but the backing paper is light with a light pink flourish pattern, the horizontal is pink flowers on white and the vertical is black, white and pink stripe.
The edges of the card were coloured with pink alcohol ink and perfect pearrlised!
I chose my LOTV stamp as she is holding flowers and also used a LOTV sentiment. I decided to only use shades of pink to colour her and I created the background and sentiment background using distress ink and perfect pearls.
I would like to enter the following challenges
CR84Fun color challenge (inspiration picture at top of post!)
Karens doodles challenge- black and white plus one other
The paper shelter- all in pink
Fab n funky challenges- all white on the night
My mums craft shop- sugar and spice
CRAFT challenge- cute
Charisma cardz- cutesy project
Stamptacular Sunday- sketch
I used this a Stelje digi and made the papers on my computer for the wonderful layout sketch I used from sketchy colours.
The glitter is Icy stickles.
I used mirror mosaic, glossy accents and perfect pearls for the embellishment. The edges of the card were coloured using alcohol ink and then I used perfect pearls.
I would like to enter the following challenges
One stitch at a time- use a digi
Crafty Catz- use a digi
Jellypark challenges- non-traditional Christmas colours
Top Tip Tuesday- anything Christmas
Sir Stampalot challenge- blue and green
Sketchy colors sketch- shame I missed the deadline!!
I thought I’d try a bit of shabby chic for a male Christmas card.
I used distress ink on the outside of the card. I dry embossed the blue card with snowflakes and used distress ink to highlight them and distressed the edges with scissors. I used some snowflake and swirl paper I made on computer, added distress ink and used some ribbon coloured with distress ink.
I added distress ink to the snowflakes and to the die cut and then distressed the die cut LOTV image with scissors.
I would like to enter the following challenges
Stamps & fun creativity- Winter
Stamps R Us- masculine
Cards for men- it’s nearly Christmas
I did it creations- Christmas/ Winter
I thought I’d have a go at colouring my penguin digi in non-traditional colours to go with papers I made inspired by the song ‘Let It Snow’.
The photo isn’t great but my camera ran out of battery after taking this so it will have to do! The let it snow papers have been sprayed with sparkle. They are also on foam pads as is the penguin so this isn’t as flat as it looks!! The blue circle was sprinkled with gitter and flowersoft. The penguin was coloured with Promarkers and I used stickles on the snow.
I would like to enter this card for the following challenges
Paperminutes- blue and white
Whimsy inspires- monochromatic
I Love Promarkers- glitter and glitz
Southern girls challenge- can you hear the music
Stamp Insanity- chill out
Crafter’s Companion- Let it snow