Sunday, 31 July 2011

An Anniversary Card and the dangers of drinking tea!

I hate making special commission cards, but this is one for a friend in work, and it had to be a biggie as she's from a largeish family and it had to have enough room for them all to sign.

I had a bit of a disaster when I was making this card, when I managed to drop my gorgeous baker's twine into my tea instead of my ribbon bag!  I hadn't even noticed until I went to take a swig of tea and got hit up the face with my soggy twine!

I don't really have many suitable stamps for an Anniversary card, so it was back to my old faithful Lili of the Valley stamp.  Popped him up on dimensionals, and then another layer for the central flower, his hand, and the arm holding the envelope.  And I didn't have any lovey-dovey themed DPs so went with this stuff from Echo Park.  Added loads of silver bling (though I suppose they should have been rubies!) and silver peel offs for the sentiment and lettering.  Coloured with promarkers and black enamel added to the little bear's nose.
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Thursday, 28 July 2011

Paper Smooches....

Just a heads up that there's a Paper Smooches blog hop on at the minute and you could win one of their fab new releases! 
Click HERE for more details (ends midnight MT on Friday, July 29th)
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Tuesday, 26 July 2011

High Hopes Challenge #114

Time for a new challenge over at High Hopes, and it couldn't be any easier! 
Make a Birthday card using High Hopes stamps and you could be in with a chance of winning a couple of new HH stamps!

Just remember, you must use a High Hopes stamp in order to be entered into the challenge.
If you are in need of some High Hopes stamps, why not check out the Diva's Stores:
Lacey Stephens - Stamp and Create based out of the US
Nikki Fairbairn - Bunny Zoe's Crafts based out of the UK/Europe
Amy Wegener - Stampin' Stuff based out of Australia
High Hopes Website

For my card I've used this cute Duckie Flying Kite - coloured with promarkers and popped up part of my image and the little kite.  Added some flower soft for grass and some stickles on his bow and a little bit of bling.  Sentiment from Paper Smooches. Echo Park DP.

Other challenges:
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Sunday, 24 July 2011

On the high seas

Wouldn't you just love to be out on this wee boat with that gorgeous sun beating down, though the water looks a wee bit choppy maybe!!

This card is a case of Jennie's card HERE (this week's featured stamper over at Splitcoaststampers).

I used my new Taylored Expressions waves die (which I love!) and stamps from High Hopes, and doodled a nice smiley face on the sun.  Popped the little boat and cloud up on dimensionals and added clear gloss to the sail.  I also added a mini-safety pin to the bow, but it doesn't really show up in my pic.
Oh, by the way Paper Smooches have a fun hop on at the minute with prizes to be won, but you'd need to be quick as winners are announced tomorrow!
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Dream Valley Challenge #12


Our new challenge over at Dream Valley is to make a card (or any project) with a Surprise element, so anything hidden or a pop up or whatever ... just surprise us!  You've a fortnight to play along with our challenge and you could win yourself a wee prize from Digis with Attitude!

I thought I'd have a go at making one of these flower pot cards with the hidden sentiment for my sister's birthday card - here's the link to the Splitcoaststampers tutorial if you fancy having a go yourself!

Other challenges:
  • Make it Colourful #27 - colour your own embellishments - I coloured my white card candy with a red marker and then topped it off with red glitter, and also coloured my clear rhinestones with a red marker
  • Allsorts #113 - free and easy
  • Paper Cutz #101 - anything goes
  • Kaboodle Doodles #76 - embossing
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Saturday, 23 July 2011

A love-ly monkey!

Whoo hoo I'm back!  I changed my broadband supplier so was totally off-line there for a few days, but hopefully that's me sorted now. 
I'm still on a High Hopes roll, how cute is this little monkey!  Coloured him with Promarkers, and then popped his body up on dimensionals and then his mouth again.  Added clear gloss to his eyes and stickles to the little heart. 
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Monday, 18 July 2011

A magic froggy

I hadn't really thought out my image when I had stamped my little High Hopes froggy, and he's magically sitting on top of the water!  Sky is chalked with clouds but doesn't show up in pic, its a horrible dark evening here and I've no hope of getting a decent photo ... end of July and we had the heat on tonight and my cosy coat on when we took Ruby for a walk.  Brrrr!
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Sunday, 17 July 2011

Xmas card #05

(Oops, didn't realise I had my wonky eyes in till I went to upload this pic!)

As you can see, my Paper Smooches stamps haven't quite made it off my table yet, so I thought I'd play along with their July SPARKS challenge.
(Hopefully I've done this right!)  I used the centre sketch from the July drafts and this colour combo from February's selection.

Coloured with promarkers, added loads of stickles and bling; cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder; martha stewart drippy goo punch (I thought it kinda looked like icicles); silver peel off border; dimensionals; pink star ribbon brad.
Other challenges:
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A Birthday Fish

ETA: top 3 at Unscripted Sketches!
Well its STILL raining, way too wet and yeuchy to go anywhere!  ... and its sooo dark too, we've had the kitchen light on since lunchtime!  Even wee Ruby has just spent the day snoozing, and getting up now and then for a peek out the door to see if its dried up, and then going back to her cushion!

We had a challenge a few weeks back at Dream Valley Challenges sponsored by Crafty Ribbons ... and this lovely ric rac ribbon was the result of a wee shopping trip!  Coloured my fishie with promarkers, added frosted lace stickles to the bubbles, covered the whole bowl with clear gloss, and then popped his wee fins up on dimensionals.  Fish from High Hopes stamps, sentiment from Paper Smooches.  Echo Park DP.
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Saturday, 16 July 2011

When life give you lemons ...

...make lemonade!  (Don't think I've ever had home made lemonade though!!)  This is another of my new High Hopes stamps, doesn't it just scream summer!  (High Hopes blog and Dream Valley Challenges both have 'summer' themed challenges this fortnight ... still a week left to play along)
I coloured my image with Promarkers and added some sparkle to the straw and then covered the glass in clear gloss.  I also touched my clear gems with a purple marker and then some purple stickles.  I think my sentiment (from Paper Smooches) gets a bit lost in the top corner, so I might stamp it again in the bottom corner.
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