Ebony & Ivory

Good Morning All!

Did you all have a good weekend? We had great weather all throughout Saturday and Sunday and we took full advantage. We had a great bike ride on Saturday and we had dinner in our back garden under the cherry tree, which is full of ripe cherries at the moment. I'd better come up with a couple of ideas to use those cherries up, as hubby isn't much of a fan of fresh cherries and I seem to have a slight allergy for stoned fruits. Cooked is okay though, so perhaps I will be making some cherry sauce or pie filling to stash in the freezer. 

Anyway, let's get back to paper craft: I have a vintage make to share with you. Our Challenge theme this fortnight @ Ooh La La is "Ebony and Ivory". When I was preparing for this challenge, I realised I really don't have that much black and/or white items in my paper stash, so I cheated a little and also used greys. I tried using more layers & embellishments this time than I usually do and I'm pretty happy with the result.

Inside/Bottom:

Materials:
* Ooh La La Wedding Day from the Yesterday's Memories CD
* Echo Park For the Record & Kars Wedding DPs
* EMP Die Cut Paper (used for the base)
* Memories Direct & Prima Flowers
* K&Co Smitten Chipboard heart
* Eline Vintage sentiment stamp
* Pearls & Brads from stash

Challenges:
* CRAFT (Here Comes the Bride/Wedding/Anniversary)
* Fashionista (Wedding or Birthday)
* A Gem of a Challenge (Lots of Layers)
* Hobby House (Vintage)
* One Stitch at a Time (More than 1 Fold)
* ABC Challenge (Lots of Layers)
* Card Makin' Mamas (Monochrome)

* Crafts Too Challenge You (Choose a decade or an era + twist Anything Goes) I am guessing this image is from the twenties?

* It's All About Vintage (Black & White)
* Bearly Mine (Anything Goes)

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It's Not that Black & White

Back again :)

This time with my card for PCD Challenges, with the theme "Black & White plus One Other Colour". In my case I used red as my additional colour. I love the Oriental theme of this card, it's my first one ever. I'd love to see what you can do with this challenge!

Materials:
* Platypus Creek Digitals Hana digi, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Romak Pretty Papers Oriental 2 DPs & Making Memories Rouge & Mocha assorted scraps
* Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas Vintage Buttons
* Starform peel offs
* Personal Impressions Sentiment Stamp
* Ribbon from stash

Challenges:
* Gingerloft (Red)
* Forever Friends (Anything Goes)
* Deep Ocean (The Letter B) Buttons, Best Wishes, Black
* Scrapbooking Queen (Anything Goes)
* My Grafico (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Anything Goes)
* By the Cute and Girly (Roses are Red) Using Red as one of my main colours
* Pretty Little Ribbon Shop (Anything Goes)
* Charisma Cardz (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Ribbons (Button Up)

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Christmas with a Heart

Hi everyone!

Already one month has passed in the new year, it all went by in a flash! But it really is February and time for another CCAYR challenge! For this month, the challenge theme is "RED & WHITE, FLOWERS & HEARTS". Yes, another Red & White project for me :) You have the whole month of February to participate, just make sure you adhere to the theme and make it a Christmas project! I've used up another couple of decoupage images that were waiting on my desk being left over from last-minute Christmas card making. They were perfect for the red & white theme!

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage images
* Echo Park A Walk in the Park DP
* DCWV The Glitter Cardstock Brights CS
* Fiskars Star Border Punch
* Joy Craft Flower Punch
* Ribbon, Heart gem, Border Peeloffs and Peel off sentiment from my stash

Challenges:
* Inky Chicks (Bingo) I've used Ribbon, Sentiments, Flowers
* Creative Craft Challenges (Bling It Up)
* Little Miss Muffet (Hearts & Flowers)
* ATCs with Attitude (Ribbon/Lace)
* Whimsy Stamps (Fancy Edges)
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* Scrap Cards (Hearts)
* Kaboodle Doodles (Winter)
* Bearly Mine (Hearts Galore)
* Shopping Our Stash (Love, Red, Hearts, Valentine) I've used Red & Hearts

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Red & White

Hi all!

Red and White seem to be the colour combo of the week, as I will sharing two red & white creations with you this week. This is the first, for the Delightful Challenge themed "RED & WHITE". I've used a very old paper pad, one of the first ones I ever bought! I could hardly find it anymore with all my more recent paper pad purchases floating around as well. What can I say, I just love paper pads, they are my weakness :) I love the dark rich red colours here.

I've actually used a white geld pen to try and shade the cup a little, I was curious to know if that would work after I made a little mistake with my pens and picked up the darkest one instead of the lighter colour and proceeded to colour the entire thing before I realised my mistake. It's not as pretty as using markers, but perhaps I just need a little more practice!

Materials:
* Digital Delights Time for Tea Booboo, coloured with Promarkers & Spectrum Noirs
* Making Memories Paperie Rouge & Mocha DPs, edges distressed and
* Studio Light paper & Eline's vintage stamp sentiments
* Gems from stash
* Cosmic Shimmer Red Fire Twinkles

Challenges:
* Bunny Zoe (Anything Goes)
* One Stitch at a Time (Use a Digi)
* Use it Tuedays (Warm it Up)
* Totally Gorjuss (Flowers) On the DP and the digi
* Love to Create (Anything Goes with a Sentiment)
* Happy Campers (Flowers + Digital element)
* Joanna Sheen (3,2,1)
* Paper Pretties (Square Cards)
* Tuesday Alchemy (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Bloggers Network (Flowers)

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Red, White and Blue

Hello everyone!


How has your week been? It's so busy at my end right now; I had a work conference in the beginning of the week and my students are now scrambling to finish their thesis on time so that means a lot of paper grading! Oh well, in a few weeks we will be on holiday, I'm just holding on to that thought :)


It's time for another challenge over at Card Makin' Mams. So many beautiful entries again for last challenge, so if you have a suitable card please join the fun! 


Our challenge this time around is "RED, WHITE AND BLUE"


We are sponsored by Robyn's Fetish, they are offering the winner either 5 digital stamps or 4 digital stamps and 1 paper set. Have a look at their website to see the collection: http://robynsfetish.com/shop/. They also provided us with some images to give you some inspiration, I used SS Hoppity, great name huh? It was such an easy image to colour as well, as some of the shading is already indicated, so you know where to colour in a bit darker. Great help for a colouring/shading newbie like me!

Materials used:
* White A6 base card
* Robyn's Fetish SS Hoppity image, coloured with Promarkers
* Studio Light DPs & borders inside (It's usually used with more traditional/vintage images, but I think it works great here as well)
* Create and Craft white ribbon
* Scalloped circle punch
* Sentiment, red gems from stash

I am submitting to these challenges:
* Craft Us Crazy (Red,White and Blue/Summer)
* A Spoonful of Sugar (Use Ribbon and at least one Bow)
* DieCutDreams (Red, White and Blue)
* I Love Promarkers (Anything Goes)
* Ladybug Crafts (Use Red)
* Passion for Promarkers (Park Life)
* Scrapbook Sisters (Anything Goes)
* Southern Girls Challenge (Anything Goes)
* Hooked on Craft (Anything Goes)
* Polka Doodles (Stashbox stamps & colour theme)

Right, that's it from me, one last day of work at it's the weekend! Woohoo! I am planning to spend much of it sleeping and catching up my buddies' blogs :) Enjoy your weekend as well, whatever you will be doing!

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Blue and White Christmas

Good evening everyone!

As promised, I have a Christmas card to share with you. I think I made this for a challenge for Christmas cards in blue and white, but I have missed the deadline by miles. Oh well, I still like it:

I just love those ye olde images for Christmas cards, don't you?

Materials used:
* Studio Light Image and sentiment
* Pretty Papers Winter and Scandinavian Christmas paper pads
* Gems, ribbon, peel off inside and snowflake brads from my stash


I am submitting to these challenges:
* Christmas Cards All Year Round (Anything Goes)
* Wee Memories (Anything Goes)
* A la Card Monkey (Vintage)
* Charisma Cardz (Something that flies, well it IS an angel!)
* Crafty Calendar (Things with Wings)
* Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas (Wintertime Blues)
* OneStop Craft Challenge (Add Texture)
* Paper Sundaes (Let's get Sentimental)
* Southern Girls Challenge (Start of Winter Christmas)
* ABC Challenge (Variety; Use at least three types of embellishments --> Ribbon, Gems & Brads)

How is the weather at your end? We are experiencing some showers, but it is still very warm, incredible! See you later this week with my Card Makin' Mamas DT card!

Ciska

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