Holiday card!

I am on my holidays on Anglesey at the moment so I thought this card might be appropriate!!

I printed the sentiment on my computer and used sunny yellow cardstock to mat and layer on a pink handmade paper card blank. The first layer is a 'topnote' shape (made using my Big Shot).

The image 'Granny Beach Chair' I was fortunate enough to win in a recent challenge and is from

Fresh Brewed Designs

I coloured this with a few Promarkers...

I added a couple of yellow flowers from my embellishment box

 to extend the diagonal line made by the image...

I will link this to the Fresh Brewed Challenge -Summer/by the Sea

and Clear It Out Challenge yellows and yellow things

Happy Crafting!

LOC #38: A Day For Daisies - Black & White + 1 colour

Left of Center

I had the privilege of using Wild Rose Nymph from A Day for Daisies  for this DT inspiration!

The theme is black, white and one other colour - so I chose magenta!

I scored and folded a small black card blank to start.

The digi I had printed on white - I used my magenta Pro marker to add a little colour and I decided to give this nymph pink button sunglasses...

I used a craft knife to cut a slit to push a bunch of ribbons through and secure in place.

I then matted the image onto magenta handmade paper and layered it onto the card base.

Finally I added a couple of bows!

Please join us at Left Of Center!

Happy Crafting!

Christmas in July

I have yet to join in the current trend of using corrugated paper on my cards...

so I bought a few sheets from 'Spotlight' whilst in Australia!

I started with a red card base and added a layer of green corrugated paper to it!

I decided to follow this sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch

Here is my take on it:

The middle element is a Beutron button.

 This was placed on dimensionals upon trimmed ribbon fastened in place with brads.

I decided it needed a little extra - and added a Docrafts wooden embellishment.

I am linking this to 

CAS(E) this Sketch #85

CHNC Layer it up

CHNC Extra for July

Holly Jolly - Deck the Halls

12 months of Christmas
Merry Monday - Buttons and Ribbons


Happy Crafting!

Pearls and Roses

This month's ATC theme at the UK ATC Facebook swap group

is Pearls and Roses.

This would be my 36th swap with this group, without a miss - so despite being on my travels and away from my craft room, I really did want to send in a set...

For the last three weeks I have been in Australia enjoying time with my grandchildren - so these ATC's have been made while crafting with 7 year old Montana.

 I am surprised I was left with any embellishments!!

I also noticed this inspirational photo over at The Shabby Tea Room relating to their

Challenge #228 'Sweet Shabby'

And so these are my 'makes' - hopefully they will be in the post today!

All the ingredients I picked up on a shopping trip to 'Spotlight' in Melbourne...

I will link this first one to the Shabby Tea Room  Challenge

  

I am not sure if you can see this on the photo - but the roses have been decoupaged by cutting out of a second piece of paper and attached with dimensionals.

 This DP is from Kaisercraft's 6 1/2" Pad 'Key to My Heart'.

In this one I have used the sort of 'triple stamping' technique I have used in the past -

 layering rectangles of plain cardstock with ones of DP -

 in this case Kaisercraft  P751 Knickers from the Madame Boutique collection.

I bought several packets of embellishments from Spotlight

 but anything else was from a little card-making kit I had bought for Montana to use!

And here they are a displayed om the UK ATC Swap page:-

I am always pleased when I see they have arrived!!

Happy Crafting!

Sketch N Scrap *NEW* Card Sketch for July

Sketch N Scrap

Here's the new sketch launched today...

First I scored and folded a white card base to fit an appropriate envelope.

The main circular image uses an Inkadinkadoo stamp with the brushless watercolour technique.

(I added Distress Ink to the stamp, spritzed with water and then stamped onto watercolour paper.

I used circular nesting dies to cut out the image and its matting paper.

I used shabby shutters Distress ink to distress the edges of all the elements.

The quotation is a Tim Holtz stamp, 'happiness' is from Stampin Up - as I believe is the DP.

The green is from my scraps...

Hope you will join us at SNS

Happy Crafting!