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Monday 27 May 2013

Single Rose RSVP


The challenge at Beccy’s Place this month is anything goes with one of Beccy’s images. I was very fortunate to win the Rose Bouquet Set last month and felt it would be particularly appropriate to use this set for my card this month.

My favourite image is the Single Rose, just sheer perfection and so very detailed. My favourite colour of rose is yellow but as I had just made a card recently with the same colours I went more towards the pink spectrum for a change.

I used Promarkers to colour my image and added darker colours to the centre of the rose and petal edges. I used a border due from Crafter’s Companion for the trim at the bottom and layered it up with 3d foam.

I used a sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches for the layout. The paper is a Pink Petticoat one from a magazine freebie. The ribbon is a scrap from DCWV and the sentiment is a rub on from Royal & Langnickel.

We have been invited to another wedding reception and I needed to do an RSVP for it so I felt this image would be perfect for it. I don’t do CAS very often as it is I really have to fight the urge not to fill the space up with an embellishment but at least the paper is pretty and not covered up with loads of added elements and of course the image is perfection and needs very little to complement it anyway J

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-
Card size – 5” Square
Image – Single Rose by Beccy’s Place
Paper – Pink Petticoat magazine freebie
Sentiment – Rub on from Royal & Langnickel
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Crafter’s Companion Grace Frame border die, 3d foam pads
Embellishments – DCWV Ribbon
Techniques – Diecutting

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


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Sunday 26 May 2013

Get Well Soon Naomi


The fabulous Lisa from Decosse’s Dynamite Doodles is such a loving and giving person and I am proud to count her amongst my friends I have net in blogland. If you have never been to her blog before I urge, nay implore you to pop over. Have a mooch, read all the lovely things she has to say and especially the things other people respond back. You will very quickly get a feel for this special lady, her values and very giving nature.

She is fabulous at promoting other people and works tirelessly for the people she backs, one of which is Naomi from Creative Bug On The Loose. I have followed her for quite a while and she is very generous with her digi freebies, the image above Sick Lolly being one. Naomi has not been very well so Lisa stepped in to do some posts for her and asked us to make cards for Naomi using this image. I did respond back saying I would do my best but had a lot of DT work and to be honest I have been so tired these last few weeks. I managed to get the image coloured but ran out of time to make the card.

I have now made it using the latest sketch from I {Heart} Card Sketches.


I rotated the sketch to fit the design and used a Nestabilities die to cut a mat from Kraft cardstock. I inked the edges and mounted on 3d foam. The image was coloured with Promakers & Flexmarkers, fussy cut and mounted on thin foam pads. The paper is a magazine freebie from Pink Petticoat. I used some scraps of card from my box and rounded the edges adding a couple of white rub ons to the blue square. They were a  blog candy prize without packaing so not sure where they came from. The sentiment is a digi freebie from Diana All About Me.

Naomi, I truly hope your problems ease soon and thank you for your generous freebies.

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-
Card size – A6
Image – Sick Lolly by Creative Bug Digital Stamps
Paper – Pink Petticoat magazine freebie
Sentiment – Diana All About Me
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities dies, 3d foam pads, small ink pad, Corner rounder punch
Techniques – Diecutting & Distressing

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

Bearly Mine - #87 Anything Goes
CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft
Desert Island Crafters – #54  (1, 2, 7, 8, 10)
I {Heart} Card Sketches – Sketch 019
I Love Promarkers - #169 Anything Goes
Inklings & Yarns - #16 Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - #104 Anything Goes
Ladybug Crafts – Get Well Soon
Paper Creators Crafts - #9 Anything Goes
Passion For Promarkers - #199 Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenges - #8 Anything Goes
Stamp n Doodle – Feeling Blue
Word Art Wednesday - #81  Anything Goes


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Sunday 31 March 2013

PCP Digi Collaboration


Over on Paper Craft Planet 2 digital companies have got together to do a joint challenge with great freebies. The concept is that you must use both items on the same project, thus showcasing each artist on their pages. This is such a great idea for a challenge and actually gets the old grey matter thinking of how to use the 2 together.

The lovely bunny is Peter from Shelly’s Images and the Egg Basket is from DS4J
Both images have been coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers, cut out and mounted onto 3d foam. I used a nestabilites die to cut out a fancy mat for Peter to sit on and gave him a few little butterflies to keep him company. I also added one fluttering inside the white space of the basket.

The from of the card is covered with some Pink Petticoat paper that was a magazine freebie from at least a year ago. The sentiment is by Birdie Brown and has been die cut with a Quickutz Cookie cutter die and distress inked around the edges.

I do hope that this type of collaboration keeps going, it is such a unique get together and I really enjoyed using both images together. Thanks for the challenge guys J

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-
Card size –6” Square
Images – Peter by Shelly’s Images & Egg Basket by DS4J
Sentiment – Birdie Brown
Paper – Pink Petticoat Magazine Freebie
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities dies, Quickutz Die, 3d foam pads
Embellishments – Butterfly stickers
Techniques – Diecutting, Distressing

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

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Monday 11 April 2011

Guest Designer at Shelly's Images


This week is my 2nd stint as a Guest Designer for Shelly's Images. They are having a DT call at the moment and I would have loved to enter but now I am on 4 DT's I think that is enough for the time being :)

The gorgeous image I was given to work with is Some Bunny and can be purchased from the Shelly's Images store here. I love how realistic the image is. Don't get me wrong I loves my cutesy images but I think it must be harder for a designer to get the attention to detail right when you are designing the more realistic ones like this is.

I have used the current sketch from Truly Scrumptious for the layout. The image is coloured using Promarkers and I used a blending pen to stomp on the coloured design to create some texture to the bunnies fur. The size of the finished card is A5 so you can see how clear the design has come out at a large size.

I have covered the base of the card with a pretty paper from Pink Petticoat which was a freebie in an issue of Creative Cardmaking magazine. We are so lucky that in the UK we have a few magazines where the freebie papers are such good quality that you do actually use them. However we also have some that are fabulous magazines but the papers are printed on the shiny thin paper and they are just not useable. Goodness only knows why they keep doing it. I always give these ones away to an old persons craft club as they always need materials.

Anyhoo, the pretty paper is so springlike with lots of Easter and spring references on it. I cut a strip of green card and used my Martha Stewart doily punch on it. The purple ribbon is a fabulous find. As I live in Birmingham we have a diverse array of cultures and there is a large Indian community. I love going to the Rag Market which is a big indoor market and there are a lot of stallholders with fabrics and haberdashery items. There is one Indian lady who has the most amazing trims, laces, ribbons and I usually buy loads of bits and pieces from her. This particular braid is 2 different sequin trims that are woven together with a metallic thread. Indian ladies would use it on the bottom of Sari's and on the hems of the trousers. She was fascinated that I would use these trims for cards. Just goes to show you can find crafty supplies in lots of places if you think outside the box.

Last but not least I added some little sequin flowers and popped some gems on the centres. The chipboard sentiment with the button is from a bargain pack of Easter items I bought from WH Smith's in the their January sale. The most amazing thing is that I could actually find them :)

Thankyou so much to Shelly's Images for again giving me this Guest Designer opportunity and please check out the creations that the Design Team have made with this image too on Shelly's Images Blog

I would like to enter this Card into the following challenges (in alphabetical order):-
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Monday 8 February 2010

Craft Cardmakers Challenge #14 Digital Delights


It's Challenge #14 over at Crafty Cardmakers .

Our challenge this fortnight is to use digital elements, be that digital stamps, printed papers or sentiments on your design. So long as you use a computer generated bit thats fine!

I love using digital images and elements so this is a great challenge for me.

I used an image from Pink Petticoat and printed it out 3 times so I could decoupage certain parts of the design. The image is coloured using my Promarkers to which I have added Stickles glitter glue and lots of blingy gems to the flower centres. I matted the image onto black card and used a metallic silver pen around the edges.

The layout of the card is the latest sketch #69 from Eat, Sleep, Stamp . I covered the A5 card with paper from Doodlebug. The hearts paper is from Ki Memories and I edged it with a thick black marker to make it stand out against the backing paper better. The red circle is also from Ki Memories and I used a thin black marker to doodle a dash and kiss border along the visible edges. The sentiment panel is from a magazine freebie paper pack and has been mounted onto black card and again edged with the silver pen. I love how bright this card is, but the black and silver gives it a masculine edge.

For the insert I have combined 2 freebie digi images and put the sentiment inside the heart frame. There are loads and loads of free digi images available around the net and I hope you will have a go yourself. I use a program called Xara but most images can very simply be printed from Word so you don't need to buy an expensive program to have a play with them.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the cards made from this challenge and all the digi images that are used. The other DT members have made some fabulous examples on the blog and the prize for this challenge is some gorgeous little bee images from Tasha at Dewdrop Craftz. They are just soo blooming cute :) Unfortunately the DT can't win them though......

I've incorporated the following challenges into this card
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Sunday 8 November 2009

365 Cards Day 115

365 Cards day 115's challenge was to use paper piecing on your card.

The layered tree in the centre was made using a segment of a digital image from Pink Petticoat. I printed it 5 times onto green paper and cut each layer smaller than the other and mounted them all on 3d foam pads. I added some gems and a star at the top for a bit of bling. The trunk is just a scrap of brown card

The card was made using a folded sheet of A4 navy blue glimmer card with the last of the freebie magazine images as the paper. I again added Stickles glue to the smoke and stars and the sentiment is a clear sticker from a QVC Brenda Pinnick kit.
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