Bearly Mine Challenge - Anything Goes

Sorry this is a bit later - ahem ..... 'technical' issues.. don't ask!

 Anyway onto this week's challenge at Bearly Mine Challenges and the theme is 

ANYTHING GOES

and this is my entry for this week, using Spring Blossoms and a hAnglar & stAnglar stamp :

The papers are gorgeous and I keep going back to this particular set - if you would like to get them, you can find them by clicking on the picture below - they are called Spring Blossoms

The inside of the card is decorated as well, not too fussy, but matches the inside nicely.

and below is another view of the card, scanned, so if you click on the image you can see the colouring in good resolution:

February cards

Seems a while since posting and been very bad at keeping blog up to date so here goes - some cards and for those who came to a recent workshop, sorry for the wait!

I have my old printer working again so now I can print digi images without the ink running (new printer is great for everything except the digi's or I haven't got the settings right).

Anyway onto the cards, they are all made with lots of white, so nice and clean and fresh..

An easel one with a Tatty Teddy / Me To You stamp suitable for spring / Easter or any other birthday occasion.. the greys are broken up with the lemon and bright cerise / magenta colours.

I love the embossing folders used on this one, especially the stitching effect... one folder is a cuttlebug one, the other a papermania one; both a gorgeous 5 x 7 size.

..you can of course leave the inside blank for your own message and the partial embossing is great for this..

a sympathy card made with a gorgeous detailed stamp from Time to Sow

Confirmation card made with various brands of dies and embossing folders from Provo Craft Cuttlebug, Cheery Lynn, Sizzix and Spellbinders (okay it wasn't my intention to use as many different die brands on one card, but they all worked quite well.. I think ..LOL)

..and not forgetting that Easter is around the corner, a kick stand card made with Penny Black Easter March stamp..

and the inside:

the last couple of cards are made from Images Dianne Carubia did for us last year over at Di's Digi Downloads - simple and striking designs for a very special occasion.

  

  

that's all for today.. more to follow this coming week.
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Magnolia Tilda easel card

Popping in to say hello and will be posting some more over next few days as the last week has been a busy one - the dark evenings might have something to do with just coming in to curl up in front of the tele!

Anyway the first card is a magnolia card I did a few weeks ago, and had to find a good time to take photos, as daylight not been good every time I try and do it.

The tilda stamp is called Tilda in windy weather from 2010, which has been coloured with faber castell polychromos pencils / blending stumps and sansodor.

you might notice that this a slightly different easel, where the bottom part of the top of the card has been cut off slightly and the fold made as a 'valley' instead of a 'hill' - hope that makes sense!!

I stamped the inside card bottom and the back of the easel panel

the ink used is big n juicy spice and the stamp set is from Inkadinkadoo called Fall Season; the sentiment is from a stampin up set and used the same ink pad for that

will be back posting as normal over next few day with more christmas cards

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Scrapbooking and Cardmaking and meeting new friends

I have three cards to share with you today, which we made during a crop Jean and I held.  We had a fabulous day and can honestly say we all have new friends made too!

~thanks ladies for making it really special and Jean for a stunning scrapbook layout which you can see on the Crafty Gal's Blog~

the first card to share is a Magnolia Tilda Wedding card, made with:

• Magnolia wedding stamp
• the sentiment was from a Whiff of Joy mini set of sentiments 

 

• the bridge was made using a Quickutz cookie cutter die called Spooky Scroll
• the leaves from a Quickutz die called Vine

• and the flowers from the 2x2 cuttlebug set called Asterisks

The corner punch is from EK success and the first time I have used it - fabulous punch as the hearts pop up and the silver layer underneath shines through really well.

• the label is from a spellbinders set of tags
• the card is
• coloured with twinkling H2O's

This next card card is suitable for Easter and Spring and great to send to family or friends.



I was delighted when I heard that Donna from Bearly Mine (gorgeous papers) and Tracey from Fred She Said (Digi Images with lots of different flowers and other themes too) collaborated in making matching decoupage / digi images and papers!
note: I have permission from Donna and Tracey to use a limited number of their digi prints in the workshop.
You can purchase the Daffodil set here, and the Bearly Mine papers here.
The card we made had lots of layering (we decoupaged the flower) and a bit of distressing round the edges, in spring like fresh yellows and greens - see a closeup of the papers and nestabilit layering below.

 

The sentiment is one I have loved for a long time (its only part of the poem by William Wordsworth, so google it if you want to read the rest, as it just says spring all over to me)


The last one to share to day is boxed shoe card we made from Coppernob's Toe Tapper Elegant Slipper templates (well I changed them a bit to round the toe on the sole of the shoe shape)
- the possibilities are endless with these templates.



 ...we made the slipper and added a strap; used gingham papers and made our own scrunched flower (closeup below) and for the centres, used home made dew drops made with a glue gun and these were coloured with alcohol inks



you can also see in the pictures if you look carefully, what we did with partial cuttlebug embossing and making the most of nestability shapes in creating extra layers using the outside shape of the die..

• the flowers were made with EK success flower punches
• the embossing folder is a cuttlebug one suitable for men's cards too and teams up well with any chequered or gingham designs - from a set called simply charmed
• and the gingham paper was inked with red ink before being glued to the white shapes to make it 'pop'

I hope everyone enjoyed these projects, and if you have any questions about where I sourced the materials or about any of the techniques, just email me on the address in the sidebar.

Our next combined workshop is Sunday 15th May and if you would like to attend please send me an email or click here for more info.

Here is the fantastic LO which Jean did with us yesterday:

I will be back over the next few days with some more coloured and punched cards made with some of our most favourite stamp companies - Tina Wenke, Penny Black and Forever Friends!

Halloween is coming!

.. the last few bits to share today, halloween treat bags and Halloween card we made at the workshop yesterday..

The treat bags are from an idea I saw on Stamp TV and altered a bit to suit the halloween theme, like adding handles with spiders punched out of the corners, and to keep the treats inside secure, added a ribbon which is tied around the handles.


The card is an A5 one which orange border was punched with a Martha Stewart punch, and the mummy image is a Magnolia Stamp called Mummy Edwin, coloured in with Twinkling H2O's, as are the windows in the scary house.

The scary house was made by embossing a white piece of card with a cuttlebug folder and then brayering the whole thing with black memento ink and a brayer several times, and the nice thing about memento, is its not too dark and covers well and dries very quickly.

Added a BOO! message from cuttlebug die, and bats from quickutz die, both cut from funky foam.

here is a closeup of the card:

Workshop cards

so here are the workshop cards from yesterday, sorry its a bit late posting, but I was a little tired after the day we had, and just wanted to relax last night.

...this time there are only 5 cards, because we also made a gorgeous layout with help from a very talented scrapbooker called Charmaine - check out Char's blog here!

I still want to do the welded lettering on my robo today, so my LO wont be posted til later or tomorrow! I can see me doing a lot more of them now too. We also had the opportunity to see Char's cricit in action (okay much easier to use than my robo!!) and so everyone was able to personalise their layout at the workshop too, and I am sure this will be the first of many workshops where we can do layouts.

So here are the cards, most had an autumnal feel and I wanted to do some final birthday ones before we head into the halloween and christmas themed projects.

A window card using one of Tracey's Emma images from Fred She Said (these are available in black and white to resize and print, and you can ask for your own sentiment as well as getting the digi kit with general or blank signs OR as pre coloured ones)

some detailed photos from the side so you can see window which was made by cutting the aperture with nestabilities as well as the acetate and frames with nestabilities too, decorating with punched flowers and card candy.

The dea of where the flowers and figure are placed, means you can hide the sentiment or writing inside the card, and still have the window effect without the need for a tri fold card .. hope that makes sense..


two more mens cards this time:

I decided to use an image I have been longing to use for ages now!! also from Fred She said... and also available as pre coloured or black and white digi images!
We decoupaged the precoloured images and did lots of layering with nestabilities dies.
The embossing on the bottom was done with a cuttlebug border embossing folder on pearlised cardstock, so it shows up really well.


The next one has an autumnal feel with the apples and the colours. I found this stamp on ebay and I think its an old PSX one which is retired, just love the PSX images they are very detailed and are just so nostalgic.

We used big n juicy ink pads and a brayer to colour the leaf border which was cut (two strips) using an EK success border punch - nice and messy but great fun, and then we coloured and layered some more!

The next one was made using some of the new lacey circle nestabilities dies, which I cant wait to use again and again on my christmas cards, and some quickutz and spellbinders autumn leaf dies, as well as the spellbinders fancy tags labels (again! I love those so much) and a magnolia tilda stamp.


the stamping was done using two stamps, and a masking technique:

• stamp the tilda onto card stock and onto thin paper
• cut out the paper version
• use the paper tilda to cover the stamped cardstock version
• and finally stamp the bench over that
• the end result is the fugure sitting on the bench

...the leaves were arranged and threaded throught the lacey squares...

our final card was using a Sarah Kay stamp and also embossed the sentiment in gold embossing powder on the red apple die cut (the die cut is from cuttlekids die from provocraft)


most of the cards in the workshop have been coloured with twinkling H2O's with the exception of the tilda one, which was ocloured using the pencil crayon / sansodor technique.

I hope you enjoyed popping by and email or leave me a comment if you want to know about any of the matyerials or techniques used!

Magnolia Tilda with Clover Stamp

Here's one I have made today ... havent got very far with what I need to do, but this was my third attempt with colouirng because I wasnt happy with the colouring on the first two (there are hundreds of shades of greens!!!!!) but now I am happy..

• I used the Magnolia Tilda Clover Stamp with Saddle Brown Stazon (little softer than using black)
• my all time favourite Twinkling H2O's - Mallard green, Almond Beige, Hunters Gray, Siam White, Hot Cinnamon, Chestnut Brown and Blushing Caramel
  
• also used my Quicckutz Shamrock Cookie Border Die in my cuttlebug with the adapter plates
• the backing paper is from Joanna Sheen Christmas CD
  

Here is a closeup on the colouring

Boys Cards

here a couple I made yesterday

Very early start this morning

well I was wide awake at 5.30am and couldnt sleep so I got up and made a couple of things - they are in progress still but here is one I finished last night for a special friend's little boy and its winging its way through an post / royal mail to you right now James! hope you like it and still passing / kicking that ball around like mad!