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Monday 2 July 2012

Daisy Doodles #63 Independence



Over at Daisy Doodles Creative Challenges we have a new challenge today


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For my card I have used Home…Sweet Home which comes in 3 formats for only $2. Head over to the Daisy Doodles Store to check these out and all the other great digi’s that are available !
  



We want to see anything which embodies Independence this week and for me the most important mark of my Independence was when I moved out from my parent’s home when I was 18 and started living with my hubby Paul. It turned out to be a grotty flat, with a leaky roof and an awful landlord but it was ours and we were so happy together. Our 1st meal was a strawberry cheesecake eaten in the bath, just because we could J  very happy memories…..

Anyhoo, back to my card…. I coloured the image with Promarkers & Flexmarkers extending the image so create a slightly cloudy sky. I matted the image onto green spotty paper and some cream textured card. The card blank has some leafy paper from the Woodland Friends paper pack by Papermania and the punched border strip is also by them. The pennant banner I am really proud of as I hand cut the pieces from scrap cream card, punched the holes with my Cropodile and then added them to scrap green card cutting them and leaving a small border. I used a paper piercing tool to poke holes so I could thread some twine through. The black lettering is acetate stickers by Pebbles Inc and the circle sentiment is from Lets Make Cards. The green letting is from a Brenda Pinnick QVC kit.


I hope you will pop over to the blog to see the lovely creations on there from the rest of the DT and we look forward to seeing your entries in for our Independence Challenge

I'll see you again next week with another lovely Daisy Doodles design.


Materials Used in this card are as follows:-
Card Size – A5
Image – Home… Sweet Home by Daisy’s Digi Doodles
Papers – Woodland Friends by Papermania
Sentiment – Lets Make Cards
Tools - 3d Foam pads, Promarkers, Flexmarkers, Cropodile,
Embellishments – die cut paper strip by Papermania, bakers twine, Pebbles Inc & Brenda Pinnick stickers
Techniques – Faux Stitches

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-


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Tuesday 20 September 2011

Tortagialli Angel Heart Girl



This pretty little redhead is a fab image that Linda Tieu from Tortagialli gave us for the 2nd round of challenges at the CDAC.

I decided I was going to go down the mean and moody route and made her into an Emo girl using grey and black with red as the only real colour in there. Every time I see and Emo kid they seem to have red hair and striped apparel of some sort so I made her tights stripey. I think I’ve got the look right as she looks like my next door neighbour, my niece, like loads of the kids that hand around St. Paul’s Cathedral in the middle of Birmingham…… I bet they all think they look different but I think they all look the same LOL

Following a sketch from the House that Stamps Built I layered papers together from the HOTP pack with some ribbon from my stash. Rather than put a full message on there I used chipboard letters to spell HB. All these kids use Facebook and text messaging and seem to prefer to use ‘text talk’ to hb for Happy Birthday it is (and here was me thinking it had something to do with pencil lead….)

I used Promarkers to colour my image, creating a second layer for the dress and glasses. I used stickles to highlight the heart on the dress and glossy accents for the glass on the glasses.

If you took part in round 2 of the CDAC Progressive Challenge you will have received your fabulous images. Team B have provided the DT samples this time round and they have done a brilliant job with them. If you missed out on the last challenge you can buy yourself back in for only $1 so head on over to the CDAC and be part of the fun.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5
Image – Angel Heart Girl With Glasses by Tortagialli
Paper – Classic Cardmakers Pack by HOTP
Embellishments – ribbon, glossy accents, white gel pen, Stickles glitter glue, chipboard letters from a Brenda Pinnick QVC kit
Tools – Scissors, 3d foam, Promarkers
Techniques – Decoupage, Faux stitches

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-




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Sunday 24 April 2011

OSAAT #59 Fathers Day/Sports Collab


Over at OSAAT we have a new challenge for you today which is based on the theme for the store collaboration which is Father's Day/ Sports

For this Challenge Cosmo Cricket are offering a an Upcycle Crafting Kit as a prize to one lucky winner.
And Digis With Attitude are offering a prize of 3 digis of the winner's choice from there store.

In the Newsletter this week we have spotlight on a very talented Creator, Angela from Toucan Scraps. If you don't already subscribe I would suggest that you sign up as there are some fabulous images given away as freebies and you will always be kept up to date with the latest image news.

For this Designer's Collaboration challenge I was very lucky to work with a set of tickets with a Dad theme from Lexi's Creations.

I chose the 'You're a Star' one as my Father in law is not one for slushy sentiments. I picked the star theme for the card. I have made an A5 size with a huge glitter star in fun foam which is self adhesive and already had the glitter on it. Absolute bargain from Poundland at Christmas with 4 assorted A4 sheets for only £1. I was quite impressed that there wasn't a lot of glitter shedding too.

I covered the card front with a star paper I have had for years. I added a pale blue ribbon with silver stars onto a silver one so it stood out from the paper better. I added some colour to the edge of the ticket with a Sharpie marker and a bit of twinkle with a Sakura clear glitter pen. The chipboard lettering is from a QVC Brenda Pinnick kit and the star brads are by Papermania.

The rest of the team have made some smashing cards with goodies from the Collaboration set and it is definitely well worth getting your hands on.

If you are looking for a bargain please pop over to the Stitchy Bear Store as many of the designer's digis are going on sale this week with a whopping 20% to 30% off. This is definitely a good time to fill your basket with the designs on your wish list.

I really enjoyed visiting the blogs last week and seeing the most gorgeous of creations. I hope you will join in with our challenge this week and look forward to passing on some love.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical order) :-

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Monday 28 March 2011

Single Flower - Digi's by Phooka

At Crafty Cardmakers it is my choice for the Spotlight Challenge today which is Decoupage. Please take a look at my previous post which is a tutorial I made as a simple introduction to decoupage. This post is to give you more information about the card itself.

I just love this gorgeous happy flower image from Digi's By Phooka. I call sunflowers 'Happy Flowers' and this image and card pretty much sums me up. Bright colours with a happy smily face. I've even added a glittery fabric sticker butterfly :)

I have decoupaged the image and coloured with Promarkers. I used a Nestabilities die to cut the main image and also the larger orange on in the background which is a DCWV cardstock. I have edged both panels with a gold metallic marker. The main card has been covered with a marbled paper which was a magazine freebie.

The patterned ribbon is one I got from a Brenda Pinnick TSV from QVC which I have had for a good few years. The flowers are Primas. I coloured the larger one with the gold pen to tie it in and added a pearl brad from American Crafts. The sentiment is a clear adhesive one with gold foil rubbed onto it.

This card will be heading out to a very good friend who took me to a spa day last Tuesday. I had a sunbed session, pedicure, facial and a back massage and was so chilled out, calm and relaxed. The smiley flower signifies how very happy I was and the floating butterfly is me, I felt like I was floating afterwards and like a butterfly.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges :-
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Thursday 13 January 2011

Friends Make Christmas Very Merry

I made Christmas card using a stamped image that I had from a forum swap. I think it may be an Elzybels image but I'm not 100% sure. I found it in my Christmas stuff and had coloured it a long while ago using Twinkling H20's. It's quite bright and bold as I just cannot shade at all with those paints. I love the shimmer they give but I'm not subtle with them at all so I think I am much better with my Promarkers.

Reminds me of an art project at school. I did this gorgeous A4 pencil portrait of the pop star Morten Haarket from A-ha. I was sooooo in love with him at the time, I was convinced I was going to marry him (I'm sure all 13 year olds go through something similar LOL) Anyhoo, the pencil drawing was really good but then we had to blow it up to a much bigger size and then paint it. I did such an awful job of the painting I completely ruined it, I was so gutted. I'm not very good at drawing but I have got an eye for detail and can copy an image really well and shade with lead pencil but as soon as colour gets introduced I bugger it up big time. I'll never be an artist I'm afraid.......

Anyway, back to the card. I used the current Sketch at CPS for the layout,can you believe they are at sketch #200. Woohoo CPS, you and Di Hickman's sketches are what got me into them big time when I started making lots more cards when I got into blogging. My husband would say you have a lot to answer for LOL.

ll materials used are old except the ribbon which came from a prize I won from the Cards For Men blog hop just before Christmas. The papers are DCVW and I have used a Martha Stewart punch on the text strip with a bit of gold pen the edge it. The sentiment is a clear sticker from a Brenda Pinnick kit from QVC which I have had for about 4 years. To finish off I have added a few buttons, the small ones are Papermania, no idea where the larger one came from. I added a little big of stickles to the snow and as Gordon Ramsey says DONE!! Better than that, it puts my
Crimble card count upto 3 already. Yay :)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges :-
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Sunday 17 May 2009

365 Cards Day 78

Had a pretty stressful week with the whole Grandad and hospital situation and have had very little free time, certainly none to make cards unfortunately. I NEEDED to chillout and have some 'me' time today and I have managed to make a couple of cards whilst catching up on my favourite TV programmes like Bones, Cold Case and Fringe.

This card was made using the sketch which was posted as todays challenge for Day 78 over at 365 Cards (boy I am so behind on their challenges now, boo hoo!)

I got a cute booklet full of papers and embellishments with Crafts Beautiful magazine all with Paddington Bear on which I cracked open for this card. I used to love PB when I was a kid, I even used to eat marmalade sandwiches and used to shuffle round like Paddington used to do. LOL

All the elements and paper ribbon are from this pack. I mounted the PB picture on black card and the little cakes are on 3D foam. The corner is from a Brenda Pinnick kit at QVC which was embossed with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and inked with a black pad. The card front was layered onto a black DCWV textured card blank. 
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Saturday 2 May 2009

Kazan 25 & 365 Cards Day 62

The challenge yesterday, day 62 at 365 Cards was to make a card where a number needed to signify the importance of the event. Having just made an age card only a few days ago I couldn't think of an event I needed one for so soon. Then it dawned on me that our neighbours lad is 18 this year and a card was born.....

I have used Kazans latest sketch 25 over at 2 Sketches 4 You as the layout as it seemed perfect for an 18 year old male.

The papers are from Papermania and Dovecraft. The gold star is from a miscellanous pack of paper & card I had from Home Bargains. It came in an A4 red tray with tons of papers in it and was an absolute bargain. It was supposed to be a kids scrap play pack, well at 37 I can still be a kid right?

The white star is glittered and I have no idea where I got that one from. The lettering is self adhesive die cuts from a QVC TSV that Brenda Pinnick did last year.

Well it's not his birthday until late August so I've REALLY excelled myself making this one in advance....

Just one more 365 card to go and I've completed this week's challenges. 
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Sunday 26 April 2009

365 Cards Day 50

Woohoo, this is the last 365 Cards for this week so I have managed to do them all this week, only the 2nd time I have been able to do it since the blog started.

Day 50's challenge was a sketch. I have used a white card blank and the pink papers are a double sided one from a paper pack with Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine. There are some really nice designs in this one for a change and the quality of the paper is really good.

The central band is a HOTP shimmer paper which has been cut with my trusty Martha Stewart doily punch - however did I live without it?

The ribbon in the centre is a Brenda Pinnick one from a QVC TSV. I have added a Cuttlebug butterfly and the purple gems are from a sheet I got of various sizes at Poundland.

I've missed a lot of 365 challenges over the last few weeks but I intend to catch them up. I really want to be able to say I have made 365 cards with them by the end of the challenges and I know I speak for many people when I say how much all the hard work is appreciated from Pam and the DT.
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Monday 6 April 2009

CSAD # 218 My Designer Card

Today I have a card on the Card Sketch a Day blog. It is Birthday week this week and we all need to make birthday cards don't we?

I used my trusty Cuttlebug folder in Swiss Dots for the white background, it has to be my most used folder as it is so versatile. The 2 pieces of card were in my scraps folder. I have foubd since I have soerted them by colour group it is so much easier for me to find what I want to use in a project. The lighter purple had a white core so I sanded it down to highlight the Divine Swirls embossing.

The tag is from a Brenda Pinnick QVC kit with a K & Co rub on sentiment from an Amy Butler card kit. The ribbon is Docrafts, the flower is a Prima from one of those purple assorted bags. The brad is from DCVW and the present and balloons embellishment is an old one from about 4 years ago. It's one of those special ones that you hoard and never use, hence still being in my stash after all these years..... LOL 
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Sunday 30 November 2008

The case of the Armless snowman

Another craft day make, this card was made using Dovecraft backing paper and tag and I stuck the snowman on from the DCWV drawer set, but his twick arms looked silly sticking out so I chopped them off !! I hope I don't get done for cruelty snowmen!

The ribbon and the sentiment are from the Brenda Pinnick kit
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Christmas Bears

This card was made using a pre embossed blank, I have no idea who makes it or where I got it!

The central embossed panel dictated the size of the panel so I chose a recycled image to fit inside and matted it on gold and red cards to add definition. The scanner as usual hasn't picked the gold up well though :(

The sentiment is again from an old card. The flowers and gem are from the Brenda Pinnick QVC kit I had recently. The ribbon along the bottom is from Dovecraft.

I did consider chalking the embossing to bring out the design but was worried that I would ruin it so decided against it !
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CPS Sketch #91

I made a few cards last weekend but haven't had time during the week to scan them or blog them.

This first card was based on CPS Sketch #91. I had a look through my circular images recycled from old Christmas cards and have a couple of circular ones so will probably make a few more cards using this sketch.

The sentiment paper is DCWV and the ribbon strips are from the large Brenda Pinnick kit off QVC
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Sunday 23 November 2008

2 Sketches 4 You - Kristin's Bonus Sketch

This card was made using the bonus sketch from Kristin who is one of the new DT members over at 2 Sketches 4 You.

The backing paper is DCWV, the embossed panels are from a Cuttlebug folder which has had silver inkpad run over to highlight the embossing. The sentiment and central snowflake are from a QVC Brenda Pinnick kit. I think the snowflake is missing something so I might add a bit of bling to it. Christmas isn't chrismas without a bit of sparkle is it ?
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Monday 21 May 2007

Thank You Card

Mother in Law asked me to make a card for a friend who has been looking after her dog Ellie.

Used image of Yorkshire Terrier printed on photo paper, Cuttlebug embossing folder (love 'em soooo much) and Chipboard sentiment from recent TSV. Background paper is from DCVW glitter stack which I love :)
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