Sunday 30 June 2013

Lacy Sunshine #11 - Anything Goes


Its time for a mid-challenge reminder for the 11th Lacy Sunshine challenge! As always the theme is Anything Goes - a theme we all love, and closes on 6th July.

Anyone can enter, but only entries using a Lacy Sunshine image will be eligible for the winner's prize - a fabulous $30 voucher to spend in the Lacy Sunshine Shop where you will be able to stock up on Heather's gorgeous digi images, and you get a winners blinkie for your blog. There will also be a Top Three who will each receive a blinkie and 2 of Heather's digis.

I am adding this card to:
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Splitz Sticky Wings Striking a Pose
Copics - E000, E00, E01, BG000, BG01, BG05, YR20, YR23, R32
Teresa Collins - Sweet Afternoon paper
DCWV - blue card
Spellbinders - Girlie Grunge Labels, Bird Sanctuary, Butterfly Circles, Damask Motifs
Marianne Designs - Candy Hearts
Cheery Lynn Designs - French pastry doily
Craftwork Cards - white square card blank
Blue organza ribbon from stash

Wednesday 26 June 2013

Its Girl Power at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #133


Hi! Its time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and this week the theme is Girl Power. 

This week there are two prizes up for grabs, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:

Sassy Studio Designs - 4 digis
Kenny K Downloads - 5 digis

I am adding this card to the following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #146


Materials Used:
Sassy Studio Designs - Little Honey's Alice digi
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E50, YR20, YR23, R32, R93, B23, B24, B28, black multi-liner
Wild Rose Studios - Strawberry Picnic paper pack
DCWV - blue card
Spellbinders - Tea Service (for the tiny tag)
DoCrafts/XCut - Garden Party Build a Scene dies
Craftwork Cards - white square card blank

Tuesday 25 June 2013

Peacock Swirls


Something a little bit different for me today - and no pink!  Making this card enabled me to meet two challenges I had set myself this week 1) if I buy a particular type of craft item, for example a rubber stamp, then I can't buy a new one until I've used the last one I bought - so here I've used the peacock swirl die which dropped through the letter box a couple of days ago and 2) to make cards in colours other than pink!  I realised that in all my stack of Core'Dinations card that the colours I am always using are the pinks and purples - so time to use up some of the others!

I am adding this card to the following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #146
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Materials Used:
Tattered Lace - Peacock, peacock swirl
Spellbinders - Fancy framed tags two
Artylicious - peacock paper
Cosmic Shimmer - Antique green Vintage Mist

Thursday 20 June 2013

Eleanor Does The Charleston


Morning!  Today's card features a fabulous new Lacy Sunshine digi - Eleanor Flapper.  There are a few digis in the Gatsby range including Lady Maddie and 1920's Emily Draindrops - I love them all!

I decided that I need to make more cards that aren't pink! So I used brown and teal blue, one of my other favourite colour combinations for this, and found some perfect papers from DCWV in my stash! 

Don't forget that over at Lacy Sunshine we are celebrating Eleanor & Pickles 1st Birthday and you can join in the fun by entering the 10th Lacy Sunshine challenge, the theme is Anything Goes and will run from 9th - 22nd June - so you still have a few days to enter!  The prize is fabulous - a cd containing all the Eleanor & Pickles digi images from June 2012 - June 2013, to be eligible just make sure you use a Lacy Sunshine image on your project. 

I am adding this card to the following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #145
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends Challenge - #3 Favourite Colour Combination

Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Eleanor Flapper
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E31, E33, E35, E37, R22, R27, BG10, BG72, BG75
Spellbinders - classic squares, 5 X 7 matting basics A and B
DCWV - Linen Closet paper stack, brown card
Waco - pastel turquoise pearl maker pen

Wednesday 19 June 2013

Eleanor & Pickles Diggin Clams


Afternoon my crafty blog friends! Well, as I sit typing this post, its sunny and a little on the warm side out so I thought sharing this card with you was perfect!

I used the Eleanor & Pickles Diggin Clams digi from Lacy Sunshine and created a scene in Serif Craft Artist Professional - I think I would quite like to be at the beach right now :-)

We are still celebrating Eleanor & Pickles 1st Birthday and you can join in the celebrations by entering the 10th Lacy Sunshine challenge, the theme is Anything Goes and will run from 9th - 22nd June - so you still have a few days to enter! 

I am adding this card to the following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #145
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Eleanor & Pickles Diggin Clams
Copics - YG06, YG09, YG11, R22, R27, B000, B00, B02, E000, E00, E01, E41, E43, E31, YR20, YR23, YR27, YR02, YR61, Y35, C0, C1, C3, C5, V12, V15, V17
Core'Dinations - blue card

Its Anything Goes with Swirls at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #132



Hi! Its time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and this week the theme is swirls.  So anything you like as long as it has swirls of some sort on it.

This week there are three prizes up for grabs, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:

Crafty Sentiments Designs - 3 digi images
Inky Impressions - $10 gift certificate
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - $10 gift certificate

I am adding this card to the following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #145


Materials Used:
Inky Impressions - Wishing Well Fairy
Copics - E000, E00, E01, YR20, YR23, B000, B00, B02, R81, R83, R85, C4
Pink Petticoat - Wild Blossoms Paper pad
Spellbinders - classic ovals, floral ovals, scalloped ovals
Die-namics - leaf filled flourish die
Core'Dination - pink card
Cosmic Shimmer - cosmic pearl pva
MCS - glitter
Craftwork Cards - white square card blank

Monday 17 June 2013

Eleanor & Wanda

 
Morning!  Today I have a Lacy Sunshine card featuring Eleanor & Wanda - over at Lacy Sunshine we are celebrating Eleanor & Pickles 1st Birthday, but I thought a card with one of Eleanor's other friends would be ok  too :-) 

You can join in the celebrations by entering the 10th Lacy Sunshine challenge, the theme is Anything Goes and will run from 9th - 22nd June - so still plenty of time to enter! 

I am adding this card to the following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #145
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Eleanor & Wanda digi
Copics - R81, R83, R85, C0, C1, C3, C5, E41, E000, E00E, E01, YG63, YG63, YG67, YR20, YR23, YR27, black multi-line 0.5mm
Die-namics - wonky scallop border die
Sizzix - pennants dies
My Minds Eye - Quite Contrary Summer Papers
Add Some Sparkle - pink striped ribbon
Core-Dinations - grey card
Craftwork Cards - white square card blank

Wednesday 12 June 2013

Its 1-2-3 at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #131


Hi! Its time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and this week the theme is 1-2-3.  That is 1 image, 2 patterned papers, 3 embellishments.  I chose a shhh..... C(hristmas) image from StampArt Design to make my card called Frosty Friends which you can buy here.

This week there are three prizes up for grabs, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:

Limited Runs Digis - 3 digi stamps
Robyns Fetish - 4 digi stamps
StampArt Design - 5 digi images

Materials Used:
StampArt Design - Frosty Friends digi
Copics - YR15, YR16, YR18, YG17, B93, B95, B97, B99, C00, C01, C03, C05, R17
Spellbinders - snowflakes
DCWV - blue card
Hunkydory - glitter glaze card
Patterned paper from stash
Craftwork Cards - white square card blank
Hole punch, embossing tool and mat - to make the "dotz"

Tuesday 11 June 2013

Lacy Sunshine Eleanor & Pickles Tightrope Walking


Morning!  Today I'd like to share another Lacy Sunshine Eleanor & Pickles card that I made for their 1st Birthday celebration.  I started off with a very pretty and sparkly girly card in mind, and although its pink it definitely didn't end up with what I originally had thought of - mind you I think that is the case for most of my cards! How about you?


And don't forget you can join in the celebrations by entering the 10th Lacy Sunshine challenge, the theme is Anything Goes and will run from 9th - 22nd June. 


I am adding this card to the following:
Make It Monday - #144b


Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Eleanor & Pickles Tight Rope Walker digi
Copics - R81, R83, R85, R89, B000, B00, B02, YG61, YG63, YG67, YR20, YR23, YR27, E000, E00, E01, E33, E35, E37, E39, E41, E43
Anna Griffin - pink paper from stash
Spellbinders - circles, stately circles, grand stately circles, Moroccan accents
Core'Dinations - pink card
Craftwork Cards - white 8" x 8" card blank

Monday 10 June 2013

Kraftyhands Father's Day Card Tutorial


Hello Crafters!  Today I would like to share with you how I made this Father's Day easel card from one of the card sets on the Kraftyhands Vintage Motors CD.

So first of all, here are the materials used:
Kraftyhands - Vintage Motors CD
Joanna Sheen - gentle gloss photo paper
Core'Dinations - brown card
Craftwork Cards - white 15.5 cm square card blank, white A4 card
Pinflair - dimensional glue gel
Other - double sided tape, scissors, guillotine, tweezers, scoring board and scoring tool

Step 1
Print out 2 corresponding easel card sheets using glossy photo paper


Step 2
Take the square card blank and score across the front at 7.5cm to make the base for the easel

Step 3
Cut out the easel card insert, topper base and topper - I used a guillotine, but you could just as easily use a ruler and craft knife.
Cut three squares of brown card - two 14.5cm x 14.5cm and one 12.5cm x 12.5cm
Cut one square of white card - 15cm x 15cm


Step 4
Cut out the Father's Day sentiment, sentiment backer and photo corners using scissors


Step 5
Layer the card as shown using double sided tape
- Topper base onto brown card, layered onto white card
- Topper onto brown card
- Easel card insert onto brown card, then stick onto the inside of the card blank


Step 6
Place double sided tape onto the back of the topper base, making sure that the tape is lower than the card fold


Step 7
Stick the topper base onto the front of the easel card


Step 8
Layer the sentiment with dimensional glue, and stick onto the card insert using more dimensional glue
Place the topper onto the topper base using dimensional glue and leave to dry





And here you have the completed card!

 

Sunday 9 June 2013

Lacy Sunshine #10 - Happy Birthday Eleanor and Pickles!


Its the 10th Lacy Sunshine challenge, and its an extra special challenge as we are celebrating the first birthday of Eleanor & Pickles!  The theme is Anything Goes and will run from 9th - 22nd June. 

To celebrate this extra special event the top prize for is the complete Eleanor and Pickles digi image collection (old and new digis) on CD (WOW!) - to be eligible for this prize you must must use a Lacy Sunshine digi - you can find all of Heather's fabulous digis in the Lacy Sunshine Shop.  There will also be a Top Three (as usual) who will each receive a blinkie and 2 of Heather's digis.

I am adding this card to the following:
Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Free Spirit digi image
Copics - YR20, YR23, YR27, Y15, Y17, YG61, YG63, YG67, R81, R83, R85, C3, C5, E000, E00, E01, B000, B00, B02, B93, B95, B97
Fancy Pants - Beach Babe paper pad
Core'Dinations - pink card
Spellbinders - classic squares, lacy squares, Asian accents
Craftwork Cards - white scallop edged card blank

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Its Birthdays at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #130


Happy Wednesday!  Its time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and this week the theme is Birthdays.  I had this cute dog image from Eureka Stamps - I love how happy he LOOKS!

This week there are three prizes up for grabs, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:
Bugaboo Stamps - 7 digi images

Eureka Stamps - 5 digi images
Digital Delights - $5 voucher
I am adding this card to:
Make It Monday -
Linky Party #143

Materials Used:
Eureka Stamps - 14301 Celebrating Dog
Copics - R32, R35, R37, R46, B39, B45, YR23, YR27, C0, C2, C4, C6
Core'Dinations - red card
Craftwork Cards - Dolly Mixtures Amy paper pad, white square card blank
Hole punch, embossing tool and mat - to make the "dotz"

Tuesday 4 June 2013

Blue Jay


Hi!  Today's card was made using spellbinders and a gorgeous blue jay digi image from Fred She Said.  Its very similar to the card I made recently using the poppies digi image again by Fred She Said, except this time I have made the card landscape, and I have added a sentiment using a smaller die and no ribbon!

I hope you like this version!

I am adding this card to the following:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #143 

Materials Used:
Fred She Said - Blue Jay digi image
Copics - E31, E33, E35, R81, R83, R85, B23, B24, B28, B29, B000, C1, C2, C4, C6, YG61, YG63, YG67
Spellbinders - Labels 28, labels 28 Enchanted

Sunday 2 June 2013

Lacy Sunshine Fred Gnome and Philly the Turtle


Well I don't know about you, but I am sooo happy that its "le weekend" - a chance to chill out and craft too :-) 

The card I want to share with you today was made using one of the Gnome of Gnarly Wood digis from Lacy Sunshine.  As a member of the Lacy Sunshine Creative Team I was given the privilege of naming this fab digi - and so Fred Gnome and Philly the Turtle digi was born!  Aren't they sweet!  You can find this digi and all the other Gnarly Wood Gnomes in the Lacy Sunshine Shop.

Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Fred Gnome and Philly the Turtle digi image
Make It Crafty - Daffodil Dell digi
Copics - C2, C4, C6, YG11, YG17, YG61, YG63, YG67, YR15, YR16, YR18, YR02, BG000, BG01, BG05, BG09, E000, E00, E01, E31, E33, E35
DCVW - patterned paper and blue card

Saturday 1 June 2013

Kraftyhands June Challenge - No Squares Allowed



Morning! Its the 1st of June and the start of a new challenge over at Kraftyhands.

This month its No Squares Allowed.  So come on over to http://kraftyhandschallenge.blogspot.co.uk and join in.  For my card I used papers, toppers and embellishments from the Floral Fantasia CD.

Anyone can enter the monthly challenges, the only criteria is that you must be a follower of the challenge blog. You can use any products you like, but to be the monthly winner of the £20 Kraftyhands voucher, you must use at least one Kraftyhands or Crafter's Companion product in the creation of your challenge project.

Each month there will be one winner who will receive a £20 voucher to spend on the Kraftyhands
webshop and a Top 3 who will get a winner's "blinkie" for their blogs! So pop on over and join in the fun!


I am adding this card to:
Make It Monday - Linky Party #142

Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - Floral Fantasia CD
Craftwork Cards - white stepper card