Crafty Hazelnut's Weekly Christmas Challenge #451 _ For a woman/girl

a new Christmas Challenge every Saturday!

Today Crafty Hazelnut brings a new weekly Christmas Challenge

with the theme 'For a woman/girl'.

Do pop over and see the fabulous inspiration from my teamies!

Here's my card... 

I was inspired by the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch

Recipe:

1. White square card blank 
2. Layer of pink paper from a Smooth Card Stock 6 by 6 paper pack - from the Paper Mill, trimmed to fit.
3. Kaisercraft Sheet Music stamp, stamped with Ranger Acorn Archival ink.
4. Strip of pink ribbon with bow.
5. Sentiments from the Festive Foil Statement Sticker Book from The Craft Stal

I will link this to CAS(E) this Sketch #335

I hope you will join the

CHNC Challenge 451

Happy Crafting!

Oddball Friday Freebie #66 - Lydia the Good Witch

I love receiving the Friday Freebie from Oddball Art Stamps! 

These are available when you subscribe to the Oddball Newsletter.

Watch your email for this week's image - Lydia the Good Witch! 

 I haven't been able to show you any of my Oddball makes so far this month - I have just come back from Fiji and am still on holiday in Australia. We fly back to the UK on Tuesday...

Any way I managed to print the premium image on my daughter's printer - only on parchment as it won't take card. I then coloured the pieces with a variety of brush pens and markers and cut them out.

I then used these to finish a Joy Fold Card.

The theme for Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge is a Joy Fold card and she gives instructions on how to make one here. I have turned the pattern through 90 degrees so the the folds work up and down. The sentiment is used as a flap to hold the top part in place, placed on dimensional tape.

The current butterfly challenge wheel looks like this - I have used all the elements...

I started by using alcohol ink backgrounds to add the butterflies.
I had already used some background to make some ATC bases.
I then stamped these with a plain butterfly stamp - Spellbinders STP-003 - and Ranger Buttercup Archival Ink. I transferred this onto the designer paper I used to cover the card with. On the ATC I rubbed away the excess ink and overstamped with another butterfly in black Versacolor. I also overstamped on the card.

The papers I used to cover the kraft bases were from a Bloom 6 by 6 paper pad by crate paper.
I added twine and jewels to finish the card.

I hid one of the ATCs within the flap...

I will link this to the Butterfly Challenge

Happy Crafting!

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Bloobel is back as Twistoon

I am so pleased to see that Bloobel has returned now trading as Twistoon

You may remember some of the ATCs I made with Bloobel images...

This was one of my favourites:

Today I am going to post a couple of ATCs using a new image...

I have just come back from a week in Fiji where we snorkelled and one of my sons swam with the sharks...
I thought it was appropriate to use Angry Shark Digi Stamp
and some alcohol ink backgrounds which reminded me of the colours of the coral.

I trimmed the backgrounds to size and placed them on black card. I printed the sharks on parchment and coloured them with brush pen and markers.

Finally I added eyes and earring fish.

Happy Crafting!

Limited Runs Progressive Challenge Jul/Aug

This is the current progressive freebie image on Limited Runs Stamps Facebook page
 coloured with markers and trimmed to size.

I am really last minute!!

Recipe:

1. Kraft square card blank.
2. Layers of red textured card.
3. Layer of 'Meow' Designer Paper from  Décosse's Dynamite Doodles
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

   
   

   

Happy Crafting!

Card from Australia

I have one more week left in Australia before heading back to the UK - we enjoyed a week in Fiji last week for middle son Dan and Lizzie's wedding...

Now we are just taking a few days in Victoria before the flight home...

My daughter and I love to do a bit of crafting together. One of our favourite designs involves a snippet of interesting background in a photo card blank.

Sophie discovered these card blanks - and I made these alcohol backgrounds to slip inside:

To finish one of my Australia cards, I added a kookaburra button:

I will add this to Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #358

Happy Crafting!