Relax and sparkle!

Relax and sparkle!

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

Mice Christmas!

Mice Christmas!

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

 

Non-traditional Christmas

Non-traditional Christmas

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!!

Chilled blues and sparkle

Chilled blues and sparkle

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

With thanks

With thanks

As it is Thanksgiving time I thought I would make a thank you card. My colours and papers were inspired by the amazing picture at the end of this post and I decided to work to a challenge sketch (also at the end of the post).

The ribbon reel challenge photo inspired me to design papers in these colours and to use a cute digi with a flower and butterflys and swirls (like butterfly wing patterns). I added gemstones to the papers.  I had to flip the sentiment to the other side from the sketch so you could see butterflies on the paper.

On my cute image I coloured with Promarkers. I used stickles to highlight the flower and glossy accents to give him a shiny nose. I used blue perfect pearls on my rabbit. I used alcohol inks and glimmer mist dabbed onto the background.

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges.
Digital Tuesday Challenge- cute and cuddly
Charisma cardz- cutesy challenge
My mums craft shop- gratitude
Digistamps 4 joy- with gratitude
fussy and fancy- with gratitude and feature a sentiment
The ribbon reel challenge- inspiration picture

Karens doodle snetherlands- sketch

Flower power easel card

Flower power easel card

I’ve finally tried adding flower embellishments to a card!

I have an age to add to the circle once I know the recipient of the card! I used distress inks and perfect pearls to do the background for the LOTV stamp. Image was coloured with Promarkers.The flowers are all WOC. I added a couple of gems to the flowers in her hair.

 I used glitter spray on all the yellow card.

I would like to enter the following challenges.
Sweet stamps- easel card
Paper pretties- embellish
Hanna and Friends- glitter
Totally Papercrafts- glitter it
Krafty girlz challenges- glitter and bling
Party Time Tuesdays- anything goes
More than favors- anything goes
The paper shelter- anything goes

Keep calm and eat a cupcake.

Keep calm and eat a cupcake.

I used this wonderful inspiration picture for this card.

This gave me tons of ideas and I came up with this card.

I used the colour picker on Craft Artist to match my paper colours to the inspiration picture and used ideas from it for the papers.

The central paper is stripes to match the tablecolth and I made it and added the frames and sentiment in Craft Artist. I used a LOTV die cut and recoloured it with Promarkers to match the inspiration photo colours. I used tattered rose distress ink inside the frames and around the die cut. I coloured clear gems with Promarker for the cake cherries.

The ribbon paper with cupcakes was made on the computer. The next layer down was made to look like petal wallpaper like the wall in the picture. The background paper was also made on computer and features cupcakes. I coloured some more gems for the backing paper to add some zing!

I would like to enter this card for the following challenges
Make It Monday
The Paper Shelter- anything goes
More Than Favors- anything goes
Charisma Cardz- anything goes
Challenge up your life- inspiration photo (see top of post)
Alphabet challenge- T is for Tea
I love to stamp- sketch for you to try

Snowy and fluffy!

Snowy and fluffy!

Not sure what I think of this attempt!

Not the best photo! I coloured my penguin digi with Promarkers and used flower soft to get fluffy feathers! I also used flowersoft and coloured it with glitter to make my coloured snow, colouring behind it with Promarkers and using stickles for the falling snow. The digi papers were made on computer with Craft Artist. I used my snowflake punches and a LOTV Let it snow sentiment.
I would like to enter this card for the following challenges
Crafts and Me challenges- Winter blues
Bah Humbug Christmas- with men in mind
Scrap Creations- doing it digi
The Paper Shelter- anything goes
Kraftin Kimmie Stamps- sketch (I hope it was ok to swap the order of the top 2 layers!)

Lilac and lace

Lilac and lace

Another Winter birthday card.

I designed and printed the papers and embellishments using craft artist and coloured with Promarkers. I also used distress inks around the circle.

I added silver stickles to the image and rose embellishments.
I would like to enter this for the following challenges

Girly winter in pastels!

Girly winter in pastels!

I needed to make a girly Winter card ready for a birthday in December. When I saw the beautiful inspiration card photo for the Ribbon Reel Challenge (see end of post) I knew the pastel flower theme together with my Winter angel digi would be perfect.

 I made the flower paper with the roses wreath on the computer using Craft artist. I blended Distress ink on the paper and I used Promarkers to colour the flowers on the paper. The Winter Fairy digi was coloured with pastel Promarkers and then I used somepink, light green and white stickles on some parts of the image.

I made the background paper by stamping repeated flower patterns using purple and blue ink.

The LOTV sentiment was stamped in purple onto card which had been distressed. The frame was stamped as well and decorated with 4 pearl embellishments. I punched the corners of the frame and threaded ribbon through. I coloured the flowers on the ribbon using the dusky pink Promarker and stickles.

I made the flower embellishment. The two layers of flowers from stash were distressed and decorated with pink stickles on the bottom layer and white on the top layer. I then removed the flower head off a flower pin using cutters and added it with glossy accents.

I would like to enter this for the following challenges.
CRAFT challenge- recipe of 1 ribbon, 2 shapes and some glitter
The Squirrel and the Fox- for the girls
Corrosive challenge- flying things
Top Tip Tuesday- layer it up
The Ribbon Reel challenge- pretty pastel florals inspiration photo