Sunday, 30 September 2012

Card for Emer

Sorry, another quickie post on a Sunday evening!  Downton Abbey is one of the very few programmes on telly I make a point of sitting down to watch!

This card is a special request for a doggy lovin 11-year old.  Image from High Hopes: Heidi and Mattie  Coloured with promarkers and copics.  Die-namics Tab and scallop dies; Whimsy butterfly die.

If you get a chance pop over to High Hopes blog tomorrow for a sneaky peak of the new release ... it's going to be perfect for your Christmas cards!!


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Get Well Bunny

CAS-ual Friday challenge this week is to make a card based on your blog header.  Well mine is purple and CAS ... so here you go!

Image from LOTV (coloured with copics), Paper Smooches sentiment.


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Thursday, 27 September 2012

Butterfly Sympathy card

Ohhh thank goodness tomorrow's Friday .. it's been 'one of those' weeks in work!  Roll on 4.30!

I needed a sympathy card in a hurry and went with the whole butterfly theme.  Nice and quick, and I even managed to stamp my sentiment straight-ish!

Whimsy butterfly die and Martha Stewart butterfly punch.

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High Hopes new release

Get ready....
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It's time for another New Release and Blog Hop!!

The Sneak Peeks of High Hopes new Christmas release will begin on Monday, October 1st ... trust me, you're gonna love it!!

There will be candy, challenges, and lots of inspiration with this release.
Make sure to visit High Hopes blog on Monday for more details!
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Monday, 24 September 2012

The Count

Oops, I must have had my wonky eyes in when I took this pic!  I'll blame the weather, its been such a yeuchy wet dark and gloomy day today.  All the rivers on the way home from work are absolutely full to the neck, and another night of rain due.

I bought this wee vampire a while ago (Vic the Vampire from Kraftin' Kimmie) ... he reminds me of Count von Count from the Muppets!  All together now in your best Bela Lugosi voice .... "One Bat.  Two Bats!   Ah ah aa."!!!!

This card took aaages to make, believe it or not.  It's originally CASEd on Jackie's card HERE (Jackie is this week's featured stamper on SCS)

I first stamped the greeting (alpha set from Paper Smooches), then embossed the white panel, splattered black and purple watercolour paint (I LOVE this effect), and then coloured my wee vampire with copics and popped him up on dimensionals.  Black glitter added to the splodges on the ground and clear gloss to his eyes and shoes.  My purples do match better IRL, but for some reason my camera doesn't like them.
The metal web in the corner and purple bat on my twine are from an old pack of confetti bought at Tesco's a few years back.

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Sunday, 23 September 2012

Arrrr me hearties!

It's not very often I make a card that I *love* but this is one of them!  I've used loads of High Hopes stamps on this, but couldn't find a pirate sentiment in my stash so had to make my own.  (to see the full selection of their fab pirate themed stamps go to High Hopes store and type in 'pirate' in the search box)
First off I stamped a treasure map in the background, then I covered most of it up with my galleon, and then I covered a chunk of that up with my pirate (who I popped up on dimensionals, along with the anchor and skull).  Me thinks I should have used a bigger base card to start with Haha

All coloured with copics.  I had another go at distressing (on the map layer) but I think at heart I'm a neat freak and I didn't distress it enough.  I'd also intended to distress my galleon panel but forgot (so did a bit of colour distressing instead) and by the time I got to my sentiment I'd forgotten about distressing entirely!

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Love is like a butterfly

Can you tell we're having a last blast at summer with this card! The sun is shining (at the minute anyway Ha) though it's brrr chilly at night now.  We saw a meteor the other night fizzing down the sky in front of us, though there's a bit of debate as to whether it was a meteorite or space junk!  Either way, it was pretty amazing!

For this card I used my cute wee bunny from The Cats Pyjamas, coloured with copics.  Whimsy butterfly die.  Tab die from Die-namics.  Heart border from Taylored Expressions.


ETA: Top 3 @ My Mum's Craft Shop!  I also won a prize at Party Time Tuesdays ... lucky me!

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Thursday, 20 September 2012

Lil grey doggy

Wot, a doggy stamp that doesn't feature a Ruby-dog?!!
Hee, I should have 'coloured' him white!

Coloured with promarkers; clear gloss added to dog's nose; clear gloss and glitter added to ribbons on pressies image.


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10 minute dash

I had another go at the 10 minute craft dash - the trick is definitely to have everything at hand and ready to dash!  My time ... 9 minutes 47 secs!
Greg tried to talk to me when I was in the middle of this and I had to tell him .. "can't talk - I'm making a card on a time challenge."  He looked at me as if I was crazy ?!
(no smart comments!!)

Images from There She Goes; mixed with sentiment from Paper Smooches.  Coloured with promarkers.



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Xmas card #11

Yip, I'm still in Christmas mode!  The weather here all week has been a bit hit and miss ... one minute lovely and sunny and the next lashing rain!
This card uses a reindeer I got a while ago from Pixie Cottage and while I was rooting through my stash I found these wee plastic reindeer heads that I didn't even know I had.  Bad me.
White flower soft added for snow; clear gloss added to his big nose and hooves; clear gloss and glitter to the baubles.
Marianne Design snowflake die.


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