Making it with Meslyn Challenge #7

okay, so where did August go?? the time has flown this month and I cant believe its september already! I guess the one plus point is that we can now take out our autumn, halloween and christmas stash without feeling too guilty!

this month's Making it with Meslyn Challenge is to make a card using the sketch below and for this I used Martha Stewart ladybird punches and also a Digi Image which was coloured with twinkling H2O's and added prima flowers and card candy with leaves which were cut on the robo.

please pop by the Challenge blog and have a go at the sketch as there all sorts of possibilities with this one! (oops I moved my embellishments around a bit..)

the prize for the winner will be
'taster pack for 2 fab Christmas ranges new to our website. Each pack contains papers, chipboards and decoupage tasters from 'Peppers Christmas party and 'Jolly Happy Christmas''

If you like the image which is just oh so adorable, please pop by Di's Digi Downloads where you can find it here.

Sleepy Bee Flower Shaped card

I joined a swap again this month and the challenge was to make and send a card that is shaped (not the norm) so it could be a boot, teapot, butterfly etc. I had the idea to dust off my robo again and make a flower shaped card and I wanted it to be mostly white and very fresh looking, so I hope this fits the bill.

The digi image is from the Digi Stamp Boutique's April Freebie which I have only got around to using now, and I am sure it will be available in the shop to buy.
UPDATE - this is still available as a freebie to download here.

I created the flower shape with the robo, and then flipped a copy of it before welding them together so that the back is the same as the front and then cut circles with nestabilities and stuck the circle with the image on with foam pads so it had some depth.

The image was coloured with twinkling H2O's as was the background and I managed this by not using too much water and heatsetting the image with a heat gun after printing it.

all finished off with stickles glitter glue and some black and white checked ribbon

handbag invites

here are the handbag invites as promised, now that the recipient has received them to give out to all those being invited to a 50th birthday party..

the request I received was to make a handbag shape invite in green and gold, so went in search of a pretty green colour - the gold is slightly matt and not very 'yellow' or 'shiny' so it works well with the pale mossy green ..
the green card is called 'pea green' and is from Craft Creations and has green pearlescent effect on one side and smooth white on the other so needed a new blade when cutting on robo)/
the red card is from Craft Creations too and is red hammer card, the pink is from Cards and Scrapz.
the black and gold card was from stash

the flowers were made using one flower punch in one size ands using and embossing tool to make the inner petals curl, and then adding a glue gun made dew drop (coloured with gold alcohol ink) or added black pearl on the respective colours.
think thats it for now..

some wedding themed cards

meant to post these and completely forgot - oops!!
some of these cards I made last month and got left on the camera.. the first wedding card is a boxed one using my all time fave Whiff of Joy Wedding Carriage stamp, coloured with twinkling H2O's and embellished with flowers and leaves which I cut on the robo...
that gorgeous border is from a punch and is a fiskars border corner one - it makes a lovely continuous border along edges and around corners and is just as nice used on corners only...

and a close up of the flowers..

the next two are just decoupage ones but tried to make them bit more interesting with border punching too, to give them a lift - nothing as therapeutic a bit of cutting!!

and last but not least another wedding carriage one in royal blue and white (makes a change from navy and cream!!)

handbag shaped birthday card

a handbag card which I decorated a little more than the original invites done a couple of weeks ago and made into a birthday card without any stamping or digi / other images for the meslyn mini challenge

the original card is green and gold and the handbag was designed for party invites whcih are little simpler (will show the pics when they are all done)

..the little card is (it fits into a square envelope) made without any colouring or stamping but embossing and cutting with my robo -
designed the template myself and it was taking too long to draw the flourish on design master II that I decided to draw the flourish freehand on paper with a marker, scanned it and then converted into a cutting file with the trace wizard thing in DMII..

.. added a little tag with birthday sentiment, used a gel pen for the faux stitching and some prima flowers, as well as the quickutz diamonds embossing folder, and can see me making more of these they are so girls and you can come up with all sorts of ideas for embellishing them and go wild with that end of it!!


and some close ups

Special Date Cards

These are my special date cards, two personalised requests, again using my craft robo, prined backing paper, and my new favourite thing - distress inks - inking everything in site at the moment!! sorry about he pics - I scanned them but the dark card and gold / silver on each one didnt come up that well - need to take better pics next time!

Wedding Craft Robo Card

this is a card which I posted a month ago to my cousin in South Africa... its only arrived today.. at least the registered letter arrived finally..

couple special cards

the first one is for Abbie my goddaughter. I wasnt feeling the best this week and went off sick from work in the end after feeling rotten for days so I was a little late in posting this and I hope Abbie likes it...
the second one is for a member of the clan who has a very important birthday - Myles I hope you liked it - its a craft robo card with nice bright colours