A Little Bird....

I am entering this card into this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge 'A Little Bird Told Us.'  A difficult card to photograph as it contains acetate.  I have stamped the bird three times onto my white scallop card blank and added a little gem for the eye.  The stamp is from a Hot Picks set.  The sentiment stamp is stamped in black onto red cardstock and I think it is from an American Crafts clear stamp set.  The card is trimmed with black grossgrain ribbon and two red bows.

Seeing Silhouettes

Here is my card for the Daring Cardmakers challenge this week, which is entitled "Seeing Silhouettes."  It is a simple sympathy card made using Pink Petticoat paper and a foliage silhouette image from My Craft Studio Simply Silhouettes.  The sentiment stamp is by Anna Griffin. 

Make A Child Smile

Here is a card I made today for this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge. Sue came up with a wonderful and very special dare....create a card to make a sick child smile and send it to one of the children listed on the Post Pals home page. Post Pals is a great idea and it was set up to create smiles for children with long term or life threatening illnesses. I will be posting my card off soon and hopefully it might raise a smile. I stamped the pixie image with black versafine and coloured her with shimmer paints. The corrugated card base was sprayed with various shades of pink Glimmer mist. The circles and scalloped mats were cut with Nestabilities in my Cuttlebug and I used rub on sentiments which I have had lying around for ages. The striped paper is a leftover strip and the ribbon is by Doodlebug. Finally I added a lilac Floradoodle secured with a daisy brad.

ARTY GIRLZ BIRTHDAY CHALLENGE

Here is my latest card which fits in with the latest Arty Girlz challenge # 52. As their blog is 1 year old the challenge was to make an item for a birthday. They are offering a prize for one lucky participant.

I have only just discovered the fabulous Coredinations cardstock and bought 4 sheets yesterday from Paddy's Stamping Place where I saw some beautiful examples of cards and boxes made using this cardstock in conjunction with the Cuttlebug embossing folders. I embossed a piece of the teal card with the leaves folder and lightly sanded the surface to reveal the inner core colour of the cardstock, adding highlights. I coloured 4 small squares of Stampbord with various shades of blue ink and stamped the bird and branches over them with Black Versafine ink. The stamp is part of the beautiful Elusive Images bird set and is entitled 'Dawn Chorus.' I used a water brush over the finished image to add a bit of sparkle with Sakura Stardust but it doesn't show up in the photo.

Just A Quick One!

When I spotted this week's Daring Cardmakers Challenge entitled 'Just A Quick One' I had to have a go as I tend to spend hours on one card!!!! This card took me 40 minutes which is very quick for me! This is my first card made with images from Joanna Sheen's Jayne Netley Mayhew CD set which features beatiful wildlife artwork, a wonderful CD which is my favourite Joanna Sheen CD to date. I now have another challenge....to make an envelope for this very long card!

I am Woman

I got one of my favourite stamps out for this week's Daring Cardmakers Challenge (http://www.daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/) with the theme 'I am Woman' I don't know what make the glittery antique looking card is as it was a gift from a friend, but the paper inside which is also showing on the right hand side is Artylicious.

I stamped my lady with sepia Versafine onto glossy cardstock brayered with various cats eye chalk inkpads. She is mounted onto gunmetal mirri card and attached to a piece of gold/green paper courtesy of a Corner Adorner punch.

I then tied a bow around made from green silky fibre. I chose the sentiment for no better reason than the colours match the rest of the card, plus I had forgotten all about the Heartwarming Vintage Renaissance booklet it came from....only found it whilst searching for something else! It did make a change from Tilda, Bella & co!

Friends Forever Card

Here is my card for the latest Daring Cardmakers challgenge which was to make a card with a love/friendship theme. The duck stamp I have used is Duck in Boots by Sugar Nellie, coloured with Sakura/Whispers pens plus Tinkabella inks. I cannot remember the make of the Friends Forever stamp! The paper is Basic Grey's Gypsy.

Red & White Tilda With Buckle

I set out tonight to make ONE card to fit TWO challenges - Daring Cardmakers Red & White only card and Tilda & Co Challenge card with buckle and this is the result:



The floral paper is Pink Petticoat and the red paper used for Tilda's dress is by HOTP. I have used various Sakura pens to colour the stamped images and Irridescent Red Twinking H2O paint on the house windows and Tilda's wings. The flower is a mini Prima. I punched the border of the card with a Fiskars border empuncher which I very rarely use because it's a bit like weight training at the gym (only harder to do) and nearly always results in a sore hand and wrist!

Hide & Seek

Today I made a card for this week's Daring Cardmakers Challenge which was to make a card with a hidden element of some description. I enjoyed the challenge, it certainly made me think! There is a hidden message inside the flower ("lots of love" sticker). The papers are all Pink Petticoat and the flower is from a template by Cardigami.

Me and My Shadow!!

I haven't had time to take part in the Daring Cardmakers' weekly challenge several for weeks now and decided I would have a look on Friday and take part no matter what the theme was....luckily it was an interesting challenge which I enjoyed very much (to make 2 cards using the same embellishments but with different wording). Here's my attempt...a birthday and a get well card. For the cards I brayered Kaleidoscope inks onto glossy A4, cut and folded the blanks. The images are stamped with my new Tilda onto flesh, pink, blue and yellow paper then cut and pieced. I made 2 tags from cream card added eyelets and threaded multi pastel yarn through, then mounted the stamped images using 3D foam. I wrote the greetings on a couple of blue bubble stickers and finished the cards off with a blue and pink gem. I have had the rainbow inkpad for a while but this is the first time I have used it and was pleasantly surprised by the result.

DCM CHALLENGE - TWEET TWEET

Here are 2 cards I have just made which I thought would fit in with this week's DCM challenge theme to make a card with birds on it. I did intend posting a pic of a goldfinch card I made for my son's birthday which was today but I must have forgotten to scan it!!! I am adding instead the parrot card I made for a friend's birthday. The cartoon robins I have just drawn straight onto a blank card just to see if I could actually make a card without sticking anything onto it:

DCM.....and cut!

This week's Daring Cardmakers challenge is to make a card (any theme) with an element of handcutting. Here is my attempt using cut out letters printed in a fancy font. I cut the deckle edge rectangle framing the stamped image, the lilac paper and the card edges. It was a huge relief to get away from Christmas cards!!!

WRAP IT IN RIBBON FOR CHRISTMAS

I have several birthday cards to make but first I wanted to join in with this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge.....to make a Christmas card using ribbons. Here is my interpretation. I am not in a Christmassy mood at all yet so not sure what I think of it! The papers are Pink Petticoat chocolate and teal.

DCM 1st Anniversary Circle of Friends

First of all....congratulations to the Daring Cardmakers team. I enjoyed looking at their wonderful creations for some time before joining in recently. I had no idea the group had only been in existence for a year! Here is my circle of friends card using a bunny stamp stamped onto a white circle of card using purple Versafine ink. Just added a bit of colour with a pink brush marker and a bit of glitz with a Sakura clear Stardust pen. The torn paper is by HOTP and I have no idea where the little pink flower is from. I think the joy sticker is by K & Co. Just realised I've done it again! (used my 2 favourite colours...pink and lilac!) That is how I came up with the name for my blog....just couldn't think of anything else at the time!

WILD THINGS

It seems like a very long time since I posted anything on here. We have been minus internet for a while but back on now so I checked out Friday's Daring Cardmakers challenge and here is the result (card with a wild animal theme). The polar bear is printed on furry paper but difficult to tell from the scan.

IN THE FRAME

Here is my card for the latest Daring Cardmakers Challenge (a card with frames). The wateroloured images are from a Penny Black stamp. I used my Cuttlebug to cut the silver mirror card frames, first time I have used that particular die and am pleased with the result. I finished it off with a silver peeloff border along the scalloped egde of the light green backing paper and attached green glitter borders either side.

In A Word

I have only made one card today, due to spending hours tidying out my craft cabinets, managed to throw quite a lot of stuff away which I will never use. My card is for this week's Daring Cardmakers' challenge...to make a card with one word as the focal point (WISH). I used a Stampa Rosa image of a little Victorian girl stamped onto various papers for her dress. The chipboard letters are by Anna Griffin.

DCM LITTLE EXTRA CHALLENGE - BIG & LITTLE

As I am not working this week I actually have time during the day to make cards, which does make a pleasant change I have to say! I thought I would join in the Daring Cardmakers little extra challenge to make a card using big and little items in pairs. The butterflies are stamped in brown onto pink card and decorated with sakura glaze and stardust pens but unfortunately this doesn't show up on the scan, nor does the lovely DCWV backing paper from their glitter stack but here it is anyway:

DCM CHALLENGE - CHRISTMAS

I nearly backed out of this challenge then thought no!!! don't be chicken, just have to think about it a bit. Here is my card incorporating paper tearing, purple and holes on a Christmas card. I enjoyed the challenge, even though tearing into the new 12 x 12 gold and white holly paper sheet wasn't easy!!! The card doesn't have a black or silver edge by the way, just that the only place I could photograph it was resting against the PC monitor.

DCM 3 DIE CUTS CHALLENGE

It's a few days now since I made a card so today I decided to have a go at this week's DCM challenge, which was to make a card using 3 die cuts, so out came the Cuttlebug to make these flowers. I was at a craft show yesterday and kept looking at Spellbinders Wizard dies but in the end I didn't risk buying any in case they don't work in the Cuttlebug!