EAC - Monochrome - A Busy Lawrence Bear

Happy Tuesday people.

Today over at Everybody Art Challenge the theme is "Monochrome".

I've made a simple masculine easel card using brown and cream as my colour scheme.

Instead of using my trusted Copics, this week I thought I would try a different technique and coloured the image using Tim Holtz Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink.

The image is a cutie from Lawrence Stamps, can you believe I purchased this last October and have only just stamped it up. I seem to be accumulating quite a few stamps that haven't seen the light of day as yet.

I've used Tim Holtz Distress card and have sanded around the edges to reveal the lighter colour underneath. The embossed Happy Birthday card I created by using the Papermania embossing board. I bought this at the Farnborough show last weekend and it was a bargain for £2.99.

I have created the sentiment using the same embossing board.

To finish off I used some ribbon and a brad.

I'll be back later with this weeks card for Papertake Weekly.

thanks for stopping by.

Jenny



LOTV - Mother's Day with a Spring Twist

Evening everyone,

tonight I would like to share a Mother's Day card I have made for my Mum. I thought I would have a go at making a double easel card. It was easy putting the mechanism together only hard choosing a layout on such a small scale but I got there in the end with the help of a couple of very cute LOTV images.

My Mum loves nothing better than a cup of tea and a good old chat and so everything about this card is perfect for her.

Here is a close-up of the Friends image called Coffee Break

and the other image is called Tea Party. This little cutie is my favourite Other materials used: Base card - pink & pale green Bazzill card

Papers - teapot paper (freebie from a magazine), Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose Collection, First Edition Papers - Up, Up and Away and Papermania - Rose Garden

Images - LOTV coloured with Prisma Pencils & distress inks around the edge

Embellishments - Flowers (Wild Orchid Crafts), Pearls, Ribbon, Chipboard letters (in stash), buttons

Other - Stickles glue for the bling on the flowers

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Scrapbook Sisters #29 - Mother's Day

Ooh-la-la - Mother's Day

Cupcake Craft Challenge #135 - Flowers for Mum

Creative Inspiration #56 - Mother / Special lady

Dream Valley - Mothers

Pollycraft Challenges #86 - Friends

Lily of the Valley #90 - Spring

Thanks for stopping by today.

Jenny

Put a Spring in your Step

Another Tuesday and another card for the Everybody Art Challenge Blog. This week the theme is Spring.

To make my easel card I have used the excellent sketch from Friday Sketchers and one of my new Magnolia stamps from the Spring Stamp Club.

This card also fits into a couple of challenges, they are:

Friday Sketchers - Sketch

Magnolia Down Under - Flower Power

The Corrosive Challenge Blog - Distressing

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday - Easel

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Materials used:

Core Couture - glitter card for base

Papers - My Minds Eye, Dovehouse Tea House

Medium - Prisma Pencils

Sentiment - LOTV

Embellishments - Prima Flowers, Wild Orchid Crafts, Pearl brads, Lace and Ribbon

Dies - Spellbinder Circles, Nellie Snellen borders and flower die.

The Nellie Snellen dies I picked up at the Make It craft weekend at Farnborough. These dies are definitely the way forward for me, not only are they reasonably priced at £8, they store easier than the Martha Stewart punches.

This was the first craft show I have enjoyed for a long time. Usually they are so busy that its very difficult to see things and I get fed up with crowds very quickly. I got to Farnborough just after lunch and it was bliss!

Thanks for looking.

Jenny

Magnolia Mermaid - Easel Cake Card

Happy Tuesday everyone, although this post has gone out on Monday night thanks to an over zealous right finger!

This week at Everybody Art Challenge we have a simple recipe for you to follow which is "three papers, 3 flowers"

I have made an easel cake card after seeing the fantastic designs created by Kathrin of Kruemels Bastel-Blog and her excellent instructions that can be found at Stempeleinmaleins.

Front of card

I've got to say it took me hours and I can assure you it had nothing to do with the instructions or the length of time it usually takes me to choose paper. This time it was what sketch to use, what embellishments to add and box making (I'm not the quickest!)

Inside of Card

Ingredients used:

Base - Core'ordinations Glitter card

Papers - TeaHouse from Dovecraft (I love these pastel papers)

Images - Magnolia Mermaid, Bird and Rpoe from the Summer Stamp Club Kit Medium - Prisma Pencils and Copics Embellishments - various Ribbon, Anchor Brad, 3 Prima Flowers, Candles and String.

What is supposed to look like wooden stumps is rolled up pieces of brown paper, distressed with Prisma Pencils.

Sentiment - Free with some My Minds Eye Papers in a 2010 craft magazine.

Stickles Glitter Glue - around the edge of the sentiment and flowers

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Magnolia Stamp Lovers - Pastel

One Stitch at a Time - Pretty

Bugaboo Stamps - Catchthebug challenge blog - Different Shape Card

Charisma Cardz Challenge - Mythical/Fantasy

Fab n Funky - Use Texture

I hope you like the card and thanks for looking.

Jenny

Toy Soldier Easel Card - EAC No. 115

Well it's Tuesday again and this week over at Everybody Art Challenge we are asking you to create a card or project using the theme "Nontraditional Christmas". Now I don't know about you but I found it quite hard to think of something that wasn't traditional. Winter scenes, snow, presents, Santa etc etc just kept popping into my head. I finally decided on a toy soldier who is supposed to be stood on top of a drum base and as an extra something I have added a drawer that contains chocolate Santa's. I haven't bothered with a sentiment as I figured I could turn it into a little boys birthday card. Items used Bazzill card stock to make the drum base My Minds Eye - Papers Gold mirri card Ribbon to tidy up the box edge! Gold Stickles glue, on the image and again to tidy up the box edge. Image - Found on the web and coloured with Copics. Unfortunately, by the time I finished my project the sun had disappeared and I couldn't get a good picture. I can see this is going to be a problem for quite a few months to come unless I can speed up and complete projects before the weekend. Thanks for looking and I hope you can join in this week. Jenny

EAC No.108 - Skater Dude

This week over at Everybody Art Challenge the theme is "Other Card Form", for my design I have made an easel card in the shape of an octagon. This card has been made for my Cousin who will be a teenager at the end of September.

The graffiti background is made using a couple of different fonts called, Graffiti Treat, Graffiti & Skater Dudes. I have coloured the sentiments with copics and mounted onto black card.

The image I found on the internet as a free colouring page and the papers I found in my ever growing pile of paper.

Thanks for looking and I hope you have time to join in this weeks challenge.

Jenny