Leigh's Cherry Blossom Mer-Ween Blog Hop May 31

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Well - I have done lots of cherry blossom posts and a few mermaids but no Half-o-Ween

So I thought I would finish with just one HoW post...

This time last year, in Leigh's Half-o-Ween hop, we had just moved into this house and my craftroom was mainly in boxes! However, I still managed to play in my then journal and I will reshare 'an eerie tale' from then!

I had a few scraps of graphic 45's Botanical Tea Collection 'You Bewitch me' so these became the left hand side of the page, while the right hand side is one of my photos that I printed.

I also added a die cut which emphasise some of the words on the paper.

I added two of Leigh's images coloured with Copics and cut out...

Oddleigh Witchiepoo

and

Tangled Witch hat

This year I have also been playing in a journal - but now my page involves paint, collage, stamping, stencils, penwork...

I will link this card to LeighSB's Linky

Happy Half-o-ween!

Double Trouble

I made this for Challenge #84 at Double Trouble Papercrafting

 

For this Challenge Thing 1:  for FUN use any paper product from your stash and create an any-occasion girly girl project." 

I used a new paper from Stampin Up called Polished Pink for my first layer on a lilac card blank (also Stampin Up). I printed pinktastic on this using my computer and added washi tape down the side. The image has been initially printed and cut using my Cricut and a matching black mat also cut by my Cricut.  For these I used LeighSB Designs a  Print and Cutz collection for electronic Cutting Machines. I then used markers to colour the image using several pinks and a couple of other colours.

For Thing 3: Add some embellishments.

The flower is a sticker sent to me by a friend this week. I also added the bow and some pearls.

For Thing 2:  

Link HERE  for the Stinkin' Inkers Challenge "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun".         

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Color Dare Challenge #446

 This is another make for the

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge DT

Do pop over to the Color Dare Challenge and take a look at my teamies' makes!

This is today's colour scheme 

I have used yellow, blue and grey plus a touch of black and white.

This card is a Quarto Fold Card - Mrs A gives instructions for this (Version 111)

 on the Butterflyspot Challenge.

As you can see it comprises an outer 'envelope' with a tag.

The image I used is Merwitch, printed on blue with a little definition using a grey marker.

On the back of the tag I added a finny sentiment - this was just something I had on my workdesk!

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Imagine That Digistamp Progressive Challenge

The images and sentiment I have used are from

Imagine That Digistamp May Digi of the Month

I will link the card to that challenge

I have used a sketch that is a  UK Stampers Network challenge.

I started with a white card blank and a paper from Leigh SB Designs Japanese clouds printed on pink and trimmed as shown.

The images were printed pre-coloured, trimmed to size and matted on blue. I die cut a number of circles on which to place the sentiment, cut into words and with black distress around each one.

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Leigh's Cherry Blossom Mer-Ween Blog Hop May 28

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Once again I got up early to join in the Zoom "Craft and Chat" with the UK Stampers Network.

Sheila demonstrated how to make a spinny disappearing circle card...this is my version:

The image is a freebie from Gecko Galz. I added some colour with markers - not sure if I interpreted the image quite correctly! The card blank is a white square matted with teal and gold and with a scribble of Micron pens around the edges. Then the square with the sentiment and the circle on top was added on dimensionals. 

Basically pull the ribbon round and the circle moves behind the square to reveal the sentiment. Be a Mermaid in a Sea of Fish

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I tried to make a little video showing how it works:

Addicted to Stamps and More #406 - Make Your Mark

 

Here's my Make Your Mark project...for the Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

This challenge requires a card or scrapbook page or tag... using markers or colouring pencils or the like - making your mark...today I have used markers to colour the image...

 I have made a square card :- a kraft card base matted with a scrap of paper from my stash (I think it was Kaisercraft) with the image and some diecuts.

The image is Parasol Geisha Girl placed on a black card layer.

The die cuts are from LeighSB's  Print and Cutz collection for electronic Cutting Machines.

 Hope you will enter the Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge! Do hop over to see the fabulous inspiration from my team-mates!

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Leigh's Cherry Blossom Mer-Ween Blog Hop May 25th

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Some of you may remember the 12 by 12 Never-ending card that I made for Leigh's MerMay Blog Hop this time last year.

In this post I am re-sharing that make and will link it to LeighSB's Linky.

For more details of how I made the base please look at this post.

The first page included images from Oddball Art Co

The next page used images from Leigh's Oddleigh Mermaid and Friends Set.

This page is then opened 'up and down' to get to the next view. These lovely jellyfish are one of Ike's designs 

At this stage I decided to add a shark using my Cricut and a free svg from SVGrepo and

the tail cut from Merwitch from LeighSBDesigns

When this is unfolded, the two side pieces are still visible:

Then the final page looked like this:

Happy Crafting!