EAC No. 139 - Believe in Fairies

It's Tuesday and time for our "Fairies" challenge over at Everybody Art Challenge.

For once I am really pleased with the finished card, partly because it came together really quickly and the cute image was a dream to colour. I have used my two favourite papers within the Jack & Jill paper pad by Prima. You can purchase this from Stamps and Memories Here is a close up of the image coloured with Prisma Pencils.

Materials Used: Card - Bazzill brown and pinky brown Paper - Prima - Jack & Jill Image - Pink Gem - Sprinkles Fairy Colouring Medium - Prisma Pencils Embellishments - Lace, Ribbon, Flowers, Butterflies using a Martha Stewart punch, Heart Button from K&CO Sentiment - Lili of the Valley Stickles glue to add sparkle to the flowers, butterflies and fairy. The inside is decorated in a similar way to the front of the card. I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Show us your layers

Incy Wincy Designs - Buttons and Bows Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Pile it On - at least 5 layers

Stamp Something - Flowers, buttons & Sparkle Thanks for stopping by and I hope you can join us this week over at Everybody Art Challenge. Jenny

Magnolia Cupcake Birthday Treat

Happy Saturday everyone, the sunshine has left us this afternoon in Oxfordshire so it's an ideal time to upload my card for today.

I made this card a little while ago now for a special lady in the Netherlands and haven't got around to posting it.

Luckily for me over at Just Magnolia the theme is "Eyes Down - Bingo", the idea is to choose three embellishments from the list either across, down or diagonally. For my combination I have chosen , gems, flowers, ribbon and lace.

Also over at Colour Create the theme is pastels.

I have used a cute Tilda from the Butterflies and Dream collection and have coloured her with Prisma Pencils.

The flowers around Tilda are the waste from the punched edging. The paper I love, its a set from Dovecraft called Tea House, it is full of pastel shades.

Here is a close up of Tilda and my stitching, which isn't too bad!

To embellish the card I have used Prima flowers, roses, lace, ribbon, pearls, gems and butterflies punched, stamped and glazed.

I have found a few other challenge blogs that I can enter my card into. They are:

Delightful Challenges - Pastels & Ribbons

Crafts and Me - Anything Goes

Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes

I am off to the NEC tomorrow, to see what goodies I can find......... not that I need anything but its very difficult to see all the things on offer and not spend any money.

Have a great weekend and thank you for taking the time to stop by today.

Jenny

LOTV - A Fairy Thank You

Hello again, its the weekend at last and the sun is shining.

Although I am in the midst of a nasty cold, I have some time and energy to make a card. I do have the usual house chores to do but they can wait a little longer!

I have made a thank you card using a beautiful little fairy from Lily of the Valley, her name is Freedom (ref code S225). This is the first time of inking her up since my other half kindly bought her for me at the Farnborough show in February.

I have used the excellent sketch created by Bev over at the LOTV Thursday Challenge Blog because I would like to enter this card into this weeks challenge.

LOTV are also looking for a Guest Designer chosen by the DT to join them for 4 weeks, so be sure to get your entries in for a chance of being on the DT. Good luck.

I stamped the fairy's wings a second time so that I could decoupage them to add dimension. They were coloured with Copics and then glittered using a Quickie Glue Pen and Stampendous Ultra Fine Crystal Glitter.

You kind of get the idea from this photo.

Items used:

Base card - Bazzill (not sure of the exact name but it is a darkish dusty pink)

Paper - Prima Marketing - Fairy Flora

Image - LOTV Freedom Fairy (code S225)

Sentiment - Rachael Miller stamps

Flowers - Prima Marketing & Wild Orchid Crafts

Ribbon & edging - Organza Dots from craft show, Martha Stewart Doily punch

Butterflies - Martha Stewart punch - coloured with Copics and glittered for bling. The bodies are tiny pearl gems.

Faux stitching - White pen (being lazy, couldn't be bothered to get the sewing machine out!)

Dry Embossing - Cuttlebug Birds & Swirls

Finishing touches - Stickles and glitter for lots of sparkle and pearls, gems & brads

Finally the Copics used:

Wings - E00, E93, RV13, RV34 & V12, B00, B05

Skin - E00, E02, E21

Hair - E53, E57

Dress - RV10, RV13

Leaves - YG03, YG63

Butterflies - E00, E93 & RV10, RV13 & G00, G02

I have carried the sketch over to the inside of the card.

I am also entering my design into the following challenges for this week, they are:

Little Miss Muffet Challenges - Brads, Gems and Pearls (They are also looking for DT members)

Stampin Bs Design Team - Thank you (must use pink)

Stamp Something - Sweet

Thanks for looking and enjoy your weekend.

Jenny

EAC - Best Buddies

Good Morning to All,

Wow we had an amazing amount of entries for last weeks challenge over at Everybody Art Challenge. I enjoyed looking at the projects and reading what was all your favourite things.

This week the challenge is to make a "box in a bag" and it is sponsored by Just Some Lines. Be sure to check out the website for a range of digital stamps to suit all styles.

I have made a bag and a card

using two images from the Best Friends Bundle 2.

To make both projects I have used:

Red & Brown - Bazzill Card

Eastern Promise by Dovecraft - Backing Paper

Martha Stewart Punch

Oval & Circle Nestability

Red & Cream Satin Ribbon & Lace

Prima Flower and Rose from Wild Orchid Crafts

Prisma Pencils to colour both images

I have used the instructions given by Diana Gibb over at SplitCoast Stampers. Click Here to take you to the project.

Thanks for looking and happy crafting.

Jenny

Purrrfect Day

Happy Tuesday everyone.

This week over at Everybody Art Challenge the theme is to make a card or project

USING SHAPES.

For my card I have used a circle, rectangle, square, triangle, snowflakes and hearts.

I started with a square card and folded it back on itself to create a rectangle within a square. This was covered in Basic Grey paper from the Wassail pad.

Next I made a cat using three varying sizes of circle nestibilities and two upside down hearts for the ears. I have inked the edges of the cat to give a little dimension. (this isn't my creation I found it in a back issue of a papercraft magazine and the designer is Michelle Powell)

The window was made using the rectangle shapes and to add a little interest white puff paint was applied.

A strip of Basic Grey paper (triangle design) was applied to Bazzill card edged with a Martha Stewart punch. Circles were cut for the sentiment area and the sentiment came from the latest Magnolia stamp kit.

To finish I added a few snowflake embellishments.

Thanks for looking and enjoy the week.

Jenny

EAC. No. 109 - Autumn Splendour

As the trees are starting to change their colours it's now time for an Autumn card. My card has been created for this weeks challenge over at the

Everybody Art Challenge Blog.

Once again my design has been made with someone in mind and this time it's another work colleague who is passionate about horses.

For a change I have used a DL card shape instead of square, partly because the image was so large that if I used a square card I wouldn't be able to add anything extra.

The image I found on the web and I coloured it with Copics and Distress Inks. I've added stickles glue around the frame and distressed the edges.

I have used Bazzill card layered with a piece of pumpkin paper from the Basic Grey Eerie paper pad.

The punched edge has been made using the Martha Stewart Arch Lattice edger on Basic Grey brown paper.

The flower embellishments are from Wild Orchid Crafts, the ribbon from a local haberdashery and the horse charm from Ebay.

Thanks for looking and enjoy your week.

Jenny

Punch It in Pink

Today's card I have made for a couple that will be getting married in May. I have made it using their colour scheme and I know they like the punched effect because they have it on their wedding invitations. I am entering my design in a couple of challenge blogs this week, they are; Creative Card Crew - Punch It Papertake Weekly - Pink Simon Says Stamps Challenge & DT Call - Punch It I have kept the design as free as possible of embellishments so that the punched border and image are the main focus. I coloured the image using Copics and created a large moon/sunset by masking the image and using distress inks to colour inside a spellbinders circle die. Materials used; Card/Paper - 6x6" white card blank, Bazzill Berry Blush, Two Toned Pink Card, & Basic Grey Image - Sugar Nellie First Dance Punches- Craft Habitat Silvermoon Punch range, Martha Stewart Doily Dies - Spellbinders Nestability Hearts, Circle Other Tools - Circle Template, Circle Cutter, Kreations Positioning Parts for Coroner Punch Medium - Tim Holtz Distress Inks, Tattered Rose, Antique Linen, Vintage Photo Copics - E50, E53, E43, C1, C3, C5, RV000, R11, E00, 0 Embellishments - Pink satin ribbon, white paper rose Thanks for taking the time to visit. Jenny

Autumnal Wedding - Hanglar & Stanglar - Multiple Challenges

I have created this card for a wedding coming up in November. The brief was to create an elegant card large enough for many people to sign, using a cute stamped image. I wasn't given a colour scheme so decided to go with autumnal which fits in to this weeks challenge over at Everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com. I knew the image would look great coloured in shades of brown and cream and layered with gold mirri and copper stardream paper. I love to use punches on my cards. The one used is from Craft Habitat. It's perfect for adding elegance to a design and has made the flower look very delicate. It also enables me to join in with this weeks challenge over at Daring Card Makers - Getting punchy with it. This week over at Simon Says Stamps Challenge blogspot the theme is all that sparkles. To get some sparkle into my design, besides using gold mirri card, I have used a metallic edge satin ribbon and edged a tag with gold foil. The image has a few dots of stickles on it. Finally to bring it all together I have used last weeks sketch over at Friday Sketchers Challenge Blog. Items used: Card/ Paper - Stardream Bronze card 21 x 21cm, Stardream Copper paper, Stardream Quartz paper, Gold Mirri, Hot off the Press - 8x8" Wedding Paper Pizazz Rubber Stamp - Hanglar & Stanglar Bridpar2 Medium - Copics - E000, E00, E21, E33, E35, E43, E47, E49, E50, E51, E53, E57, 0 Distress Inks - Ranger Brushed Corduroy Gold Foil Embellishments - Rose buds Ribbon Pearls Dies - Spellbinder Flowers Embossing Boards - Cuttlebug Textile Thanks for taking the time to look and please leave a comment if you have time. Its always nice to get your thoughts good or bad. Jenny

Hanglar Wedding Wishes - Basic Grey & Stamp Something

Another project completed and this time I can enter the card into two challenge blogs. Basic Grey, Week 3 Inspiration Challenge have asked for a card to be created taking inspiration from the picture shown above and Stamp Something asked for a card using a favorite stamp and the addition of a punched design. Basic Grey Photo - for me it symbolised elegant, fresh, clean lines with different textures. Stamp Something - not difficult choosing a favorite stamp or adding punched detail to a card. I love this Hanglar & Stanglar image. It's really easy to colour and as I have three wedding cards to make will come in very useful. I am pleased with the card although I did mess it up a little with the sentiment. I had planned to put it at an angle above the image but after sticking everything in place I found it didn't look right. The best place would have been above the image, however this would have only looked good if I had moved everything down. Not an option as I had glued everything in place. So the only place for it was at the bottom. Not perfect but I have learnt from this so won't make the same mistake again. To make this card: Card/Paper - A3 linen card cut down to approx 25 x 16cm Moss Green Dotty Bazzil Card to cover the front Layered with Bazzil Pearlescent Cream Card Top layer, Basic Grey, Chintz 12x12" paper part of the Porcelain range Image Topper - Hanglar & Stanglar Wedding Stamp stamped onto Bristol Board Coloured with Copics Edged with green Ink Layered onto Silver Bazzil Pearlescent Card & Bazzil Pearlescent Cream Card Text - Using my hot Foil Wizard i have written the text using silver foil onto quartz Stardream paper and layered onto silver Bazzil pearlescent card. Embellishments - Graphite Organza Ribbon - Pearl gems Tools - Punch from Craft Habitat I haven't taken a picture of the inside but I used more of the Basic Grey chintz paper to cover the inside and the inked the edge of some white paper and fixed this in place leaving a large border. To finish everything off I made a box and decorated it with a strip of moss green dotty card which had been punched both sides and engraved their names using my Hot Foil Wizard. Thanks for looking and I hope you like the card. Jenny