Crafting with Dragonflies - Stickpins & Things with Wings.

 

It only seems like a few months ago that we started our

fortnightly challenges over at CRAFTING WITH DRAGONFLIES

and here we are into Challenge #15

which is to

Make a card with Stickpins - Things with Wings

Personally loved this one.

 

 

This is a photo from the internet of the most beautiful butterfly

in Northern Queensland which is

The Ulysses Butterfly.

 

 It was with this butterfly in mind I decided to go with the beautiful blue

 as the centre colour of my card

I had so much fun making it as I love a bit of Vintage

 Lace Ribbon Flowers - you get the idea

and who doesn't love butterflies?

 

 Our generous sponsor for this Challenge is

 

 

Crafts and Me

who will be supplying the lucky winner with 3 digi's of their choice.

 

Here is my finished card with

3 stickpins (one didn't look enough) and butterfly.

I did have a lovely little stickpin with a butterfly on

but got side tracked inking my butterfly I forgot to look at it

and .... well... it didn't match so went fishing for some others I knew I had in my stash. 

 

 

Products I used

Aqua card stock

Parchment paper

Designer papers - patterned and spotted

Decorative Labels 27

Laser cut butterfly

Spellbinders Flourishes

Kazazz ribbon

Peacock Feather & Antique Linen Distress Inks

Kaisercraft pearls

Pins - 2 cream hearts and round ball I adhered

glossy accents to it then covered it with PearEx #681

I lightly spritzed the back of my card with irridescent medium

but is not showing up clearly - just added a bit of sparkle.

My pretty little flower is from Inspired by Stamping

added the finishing touch.

 

Don't forget to pop over to my team mates

to see what beautiful winged cards they have made too.

Their blogs can be found on the right hand side.

 

Thank you so much for coming by to see my work.

 

 

 

 

 

 



A Perfect Sentiment Sketch PSC #99

 

It is Sketch Time over at

http://perfectsentimentschallenge.blogspot.com.au/



 

As you can see it is a nice simple one

Here is my take on this sketch.

 

I went for something CAS and this is the materials I used -

Basic White card stock

Craft Concepts Funky Flower for embossing

Small piece of scrap paper which I inked with

SU Beyond the Basics stamp using Distress Inks -

Victorian Velvet  Frayed Burlap & Spun Sugar

Sentiment & Flowers are from Gina K -

Springtime Silhouettes.

 I stamped twice and masked the third.

Added a little glitter from Martha Stewart to the centres of the flowers

and to the side strip. Also touched up  the embossed backing with a

gold gel pen and inked the edges.

 

That is it from me for now.

Hope you will pop back in sometime soon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



First Challenge of the Month at JUGS

 

 

The first challenge of the month over at JUGS

 

is this fabulous sketch from Sharyn

 

#213 Sketch

 

 

 

I love sketch challenges and as Sharyn said - half the work is done for you.

Now we just need to make a card with our take on it.

 

I must admit the first card I started just wasn't right so

landed in the bin lol

Now this card I was really happy with because I went

to my favourite Stampin' Up set - Vintage Vogue

and what better colours to use but SU Rich Razzleberry for the

flowers and Memento Pistachio.

 

I started with the basic white card stock

and after inking and masking the strips of paper

with another stamp from

Vintage Vogue I adhered to the base.

Added a strip of DP from Creative Memories and punched

the bottom part with a MS Punch.

The Spellbinders Lacy Circle was cut from a scrap piece of

scrapbooking paper then followed by the white from Spellbinders Standard Circles

 inked with the flower. I inked several more flowers and fuzzy cut

curled and popped them  to add to the top and also the side as per sketch.

Finished off with tiny rhinestones in the circle and 2 larger ones on the

edge of the strip. Also pearls from Kaisercraft to 2 flowers

and a mauve Sparklet on the other flower.

 

Hope you liked my interpretation of this great sketch.

I am also entering this card in the Just for Fun Challenge HERE
http://laineyscraftyspace-justforfun.blogspot.co.uk/
 We are required to use our favourite colour.
Those that know me are well aware that mine is PURPLE

Maybe it is because my favourite flower is a thistle.
 I know it is a weed but being a Scot you have to love them.

I would also like to be considered for GDT.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Sketch Challenge #03013 at The House

 

In my last post I showed you a card I had made for  Sketch Challenge #03013

over at http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

 

and just in case you missed it here it is again.

 

 

 

 

A girlfriend bought me the beautiful card stock I used for the base and is

Metallic Mother of Pearl which I though a perfect match for the

red & gold patterned shimmer paper I used as the backing for my focal image.

I cut out a die from Spellbinders Floral Ovals in gold and topped with

a smaller die from the same set with the metallic paper.

The Poppies are a Memory Box die.

I heated the organza ribbon with my heat gun to get the crinkled effect

 to the right and finished it with 3 red Kaisercraft pearls.

 

Hope you have enjoyed looking at my cards for this challenge.

 

Thanks for popping in.

 

 

 

 

 



Sketch time at The House

One of the current challenges over at http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

is the Sketch Challenge and you can find out all the details  HERE

 

and this is the sketch

 

 

I have made 2 card with this sketch and here is the first one.

 

 

 

 

I really love this tree stamp from Repeat Impressions

because it makes a cas card look fabulous.

I have previously made a card with this tree and used the same

embossing enamel and loved the effect so  decided to

make another one and go just a little bit further

 and use it for the strip underneath the tree.

 

My card base is white and topped with gold paper.

I then used the following products on this card -

 

Spellbinders Blossoms 3

JustRite Thank You Labels 20 (Sentiment)

Repeat Impressions Spring Tree - 1610-W

Victorian Velvet Distress Ink

Stampendous Aged Rose Embossing Enamel

Gold Sakura Gel Pen

Plum Pearls by Kaisercraft

 

I will be back soon with the second card I have made for this challenge.

 

 



JUGS #212 Photo Inspiration.

Over at Just Us Girls their current challenge is a photo inspirational challenge

 and isn't the photo below just gorgeous.

 

You can find all the details HERE.

I know it isn't fall time over here in Australia but we still love

the colours associated with that time of year. The trees look so beautiful.

 

For my card I went for a simple design to highlight the colours above.

My card didn't photograph well as the background paper

is actually green but looks grey.

 

 

 

I layered it up a little by adding the green card stock to the white base.

  Then followed up with Designer paper from Stampin' Up

  a little more white and green to back the orange paper which I scored.

I then used Spellbinders Lacy Circles in white and

Spellbinder Standard Large & Small Circles in the green and white .

Behind my flower I added a leafy swirl from Fancy That.

We tend to forget the flower packs you have bought and use

dies to create our flowers (well I do) so this time

I got a few out and built them up - inked a little and added some

star dust stickles and brad.

I was looking for something tiny to put at the bottom of my flower and found this

perfect little heart in just the right colour.

The sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping - Fancy Sentiments

Tag is JustRite Antique Tags.

Sponged the inside to add colour and finished with 2 small pearls.

Flower and sentiment are popped.

 

Till next time

 

 

 

 

CWD Challenge #14 - Make your own Flower Embellishements.

 

Challenge Time Again at

http://crafting-with-dragonflies.blogspot.com.au/

and you are going to love this one...

 

Challenge #14 - Make Your Own Flower Embellishments
Our sponsor for this is
 

Sponsor's Page

Here is my card for this challenge

 

Some of the Design Team have gone sponsor free

for this challenge and I was one of those.

I love making flowers and building my cards up

so this challenge was right up my ally.

 

There are quite a few different elements used here and they are -

Curious White Gold & Metallic card stock

Antique Flourish Embossing Folder by Mpress

Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Die

Spellbinders Radiant Rectangles

Sixxiz Textured Impressions Frame

Spellbinders Decorative Labels 27

Spellbinders Tags

Marianne Die for Leaves

Gina K Sentiment

M/S Kunzite Glitter on

Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Die

Own Cream Lace

Pink Pearl Brad for centre of Flower.

 

I hope you like what you see and I would be so happy

to see your comments.

Thanks for stopping by.

 

 I look forward to seeing your take on our

Make Your Own Flower Embellishment.

 

Don't forget to pop over to my Design Teamies

to see what they created for this challenge.

Their blogs are on the right side of this page. 

 

Till next time



It's Gotta be a RED Poinsettia

 

I did say in my earlier post that I would be making a card with a red poinsettia -

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without them.

My card is again for the PSC97: Poinsettia Christmas at The Perfect Sentiment
so here it is...

 

 

I used white card stock as my base and topped it with

Metallic Sculptured Board called Sand Storm.

Red card stock for the Spellbinders Lacy Circles

 and Spellbinders Poinsettia Die

I heat embossed the red poinsettia with clear glitter powder

 using a poinsettia stamp from Gina K

Added sprigs from MS punch for backing

Green Rhinestone brad on flower

Sentiment is from Stampin' Up Heard from the Heart.

I really like this set as the sentiment goes all the way

across the card.

 

Hope you will pop back in again to see what I have been creating.

 





IBS WHW #121 Tutorial/Challenge.

Here I am again enjoying the latest tutorial/challenge over at 

 Inspired By Stamping

which is

WHW #121 Embossed Edges from Shea

 

I wasn't completely happy how my embossing turned out as it wasn't

neat like Shea's so left it for a while and when I came back

I looked at it again and liked that the embossing was

 uneven and thought it fitted the overall grungy look I wanted.

 

 

This colour combination for my card

is certainly a little different to my usual but I had this gorgeous paper

from Gina K called Wisteria Lane that just seemed to be right.

The photo is showing that the card base is blue but it really is purple.

 

I used the following

Purple & White card stock

Gina K Wisteria Lane DP

Spellbinders Flourish

Spellbinders Labels 18

Spellbinders Fancy Tags

Marianne Dies for the flower & leaves .

Zing embossing powder in purple & green

IBS Stamp - Birthday Wishes.

 

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you will come back again soon.

 

 

 

 

 



A Perfect Sentiment - Poinsettia Christmas

My all time favourite die for Christmas card is the Spellbinders Poinsettia.

I have used this countless times and not just at Christmas time as it is a die

that you can use on any card throughout the year.

But this week at  The Perfect Sentiment
I was so happy that they picked this very flower for their latest challenge.
You can find it HERE Whoo Hoo

So off to my little craft room I went and got my favourite die out and
here is what I made this time.... there will be more with colour

I thought I would go way out of the normal Christmas colours
 for this one and do all neutral.
Just a little white silver and cream and of course a little sparkle.
I used basic white and topped with metallic glitter card
(which is a little hard to see) before attaching the
neutral parchment paper.
I embossed silver paper with Swiss Dots and cut out a
Spellbinder Flourish and a Quinn Memory Box Die
for the backing of my poinsettia flower with the sparkle paper.
Used a silver glitter pen on the centres
 and Rainbow Kindy Glitz to the flower.
The sentiment is from Gina K and heat embossed in white.
Finished with some tiny rhinestones.

 



Sketch Challenge 0163 at The House that Stamps Built.

One of my favourite sites to check into for great challenges is

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

 

and at present one is the

What If Wednesday Sketch Challenge 0163

 

 

  A simply lovely cas sketch.

 

So I thought I would find one of my nice flower stamps

from Repeat Impressions and picked 1320-M, Spring Blossoms

 

Here is what I used

White card stock

Green & Yellow textured card stock

Tim Holtz Brick Wall embossing folder

Spellbinders Circles & Lacy Circles

Spellbinders Vintage Lace Motifs

Memento Pistachio & Dandelion Inks

Gina K sentiment from Dogwood & Butterfly

and stamp from Repeat Impressions - Spring Blossoms.

I finished off my card with a few green pearls.
 

It is spring time here in Australia but is very dry in most parts

 including where I live so there aren't too many spring blossoms

popping their heads up in the hot dry days we are experiencing.
Hoping for some rainy days soon.

 

Thanks for stopping by



 

 

IBS Tutorial Time WHW #120

Here I am again playing with the current WHW Challenge over at

Inspired by Stamping

and it is the

 

 http://joannamunster.com/2013/10/16/whw-120multicolor-heat-embossing/

 

I have really enjoyed playing with different embossing powders

 to see what effect they have on different paper and stamps.

 

 

For this card I used white card stock 

and green scrapbook paper

Metallic Green White and Worn Lipstick Embossing Powders

Stamps from Stampin' Up - Vintage Vogue

I inked the edges in green and pink and distressed them.

Added Diamond Dust to the big flowers

and Startdust Stickles to the small ones and part of the

Friends stamp which is popped.

Thanks once again Irit for this great tutorial and challenge. 

 

 

 



It's PINK at The Squirrel & The Fox

 

I went to my monthly meet with some crafty friends and we were

celebrating Breast Cancer Month so the cards we made

were PINK.

Since the current challenge over at

http://thesquirrelandthefox.blogspot.com.au/

was

http://thesquirrelandthefox.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/challenge-55-pink-for-breast-cancer.html

I thought it a perfect opportunity to add mine to this collection.

 

 

 

 

We all had fun using a piece of recycled packing for the backing of our tag.

Started off with kraft paper and built it up from there

using products from Stampin' Up.

We pierced around the edges then added fauxe stitching

and inked both pieces of card stock.

Scored the edges and the tag.

All stamps used were from Stampin' Up.

Cut out the ribbon and added Dimentional Magic

 to that and the small butterfly.

Finished with adding string and pink rhinestone.

Thanks Tania.

 



Perfect Sentiment Challenge PSC96 CAS Thank You

 

 

What a lovely challenge over at

The Perfect Sentiment

and couldn't be easier than a CAS Thank You card.

We all need them from time to time and this was perfect

 to add another one to my collection.

 

 

As the challenge states - CAS

so this is how I made my card.

White card stock for base and top

Red for stamping image.

I stamped the image 3 times

 from Gina K's Springtime Silhouettes

with white embossing powder.

The sentiment is also from the same stamp set.

Added a bit of sparkle on the red and white paper with

Stampin' Up's Beyond Basics stamp set.

Funny how it looks so different on the different coloured paper.

Tore the edges of the white paper and curled over to add a little lift.

 

That is it.

 

Thanks for stopping by

 

 



IBS - Tutorial WHW #120 - Multi Colour Heat Embossing

 

 

After having fun with my first attempt at Multi Colour Heat Embossing

I thought I had covered up the technique too much so

decided to do another one totally different.

 For those that didn't see my first card you can find the tutorial

HERE

at Inspired by Stamping

 

I have this fabulous stamp called London Background by JustRite

and thought it perfect for this type of challenge.

Also to marry it was the stamp set

Crown Lion Wings from Silicon Stamps.

Both very British so Red White & Blue

embossing was my choice.

 

 

Base is blue and red card stock.

I heat embossed the stamped image on white card stock

then embossed in red white & blue

 distressed the edges of the background and also the tag.

which was popped after I added the Lion.

Finished my card with a big blue button and ribbon.

 

This card reminded me of the few days I spent in London

a few years ago. Such an enjoyable time.

 

 

A peek into my Craft Room

 

 

 

Recently Hilde asked the Design Team if we could take some before and after shots

of our crafting space and mine is the first off the block.

Also a little insight to what our likes are in our craft.

Don't be surprised to see the good bad and ugly

but all good crafter know that

YOU CAN'T BE CREATIVE WITHOUT MESS?

 

I will start with - take a seat and a big cup of coffee.
 

I didn't take up card making seriously till I retired around 5 years ago.

I dabbled in digital scrapbooking and card making as I thought of all the mess

(oops there's that word again)

but then a friend got me hooked on paper stamps etc and ....

the rest is history.

So here I am now retired and moved 3000km back to my home town

which is great because I get to spend time with family on a regular basis.

 

It is then that my craft passion took off.

After all I had all the time in the world to craft didn't I?

My craft room is a 3rd bedroom and I have to share it with a double bed

 but then I am luckier than some that do there crafting on the dining room table

oh! that would never do. I am one that at the end of the day

 if I haven't finished a project I can shut the door and continue on the next day.

Here is your tour of my Craft Room.

 

 

This photo shows a multitude of items. On the left I have craft papers with the small blue container holding my small amount of pens (not one to colour in) and underneath inside the cabinet are some cards I have made + spare tape etc.

 Underneath is card and scrapbook leftovers.

My bench at the top has embellishments in containers then some stamp sets.

Also glues and container with some of my buttons.

 On the bench is my heat gun my trusty cuttlebug and one of my cutters.

 On the peg board are pearls etc.

Under the bench I keep more card stock spellbinders/dies and ink pads. 

On the floor are things I don't use too often. Quilling products templates/cottons etc to sew on cards and some MS punches which get used regularly and easy to reach.

 

A few of my favourite things when I craft are

my trusty Cuttlebug stamps and various dies. I love getting inky

 

 

A close up of the peg board.

 

Above are craft magazines at the back with hand made bag.

 Inside my London bag I have small flowers lace etc. More stamps underneath.

Below that is where I keep my cuttlebug dies and plates.

There are 4 drawers underneath that I keep embossing powder/kindy glitz

stamp blocks cuttlebug folders other dies and punches. 

 

 

My now tidy little working table if you can call it that.

My trusty CM cutter a little container my grand daughter made -

can you see Nan on it.

 I treasure this and keep glue pens pencils for quick access.

Other bits and bobs in the white container at the end. To the right of that is my craft tool box that hold everything I usually take to class and holds a multitude of needs.

Underneath is the empty bin (usually overflowing) stamps in a binder more hand made cards in boxes that badly need sorting -

couldn't find the card I made for our latest challenge.

Luckily I remembered what I had used.

Paint brushes and a box of bits and bobs again to sort out

and printouts of card/project ideas.

 

But wait there's more! only a little bit...

Told you a cup of coffee was needed.

 

 

Now I really love this ribbon stand hubby made for me.

 Unfortunately my collection outgrew it and have more ribbons to the left a bit.

 I have hooks at the bottom to hold all my loose bits and don't we get a lot of them.

At the top there is more of my button collection.

 

This is an easy one - Scrapbook papers. Patterned paper to the left.

The 3 drawers hold plain paper and above are more patterned papers and lace etc.

Underneath needs sorting with more magazines etc

that I don't get to look at much since Pinterest came into my life.

 

 

This is full of embellishments and spare parts (for a better word)

On the top are a few things I have made (since changed it)

 and to the side is just a scrapbook I am working on.

Inside a wardrobe I have hanging laces and balls of cotton.

 

Now that you have seen it tidy - this is what it looks like at present.

I had been working on my project for the next fortnights challenge

and may I tell you -  you are going to love it!!!

 

 

Now these photos aren't too bad as there is a bit more on the bed beside my table.

Just one last thing to show you.

 

 

I mentioned further up that I had rearranged this to show off

the most beautiful birthday card I received recently from my girlfriend

(the one that got me hooked on this craft)

I was gobsmacked when I opened it up (in a box) and had to assemble it.

I have never seen anything more beautiful and it is now

 Pride of Place in my craft room.

 

Whew!!! now that is it

I need coffee. 

 

Till next time

Thanks for hanging in there for our 1st Craft Room Reveal at

Crafting with Dragonflies