Party Like A Panda

Oh My Goodness!  I am so in love with Stampin' Ups! new Sale-A-Bration Party Pandas stamp set!! I have used it to create some party accessories - invites, a banner, cupcake toppers, a mini popcorn box and a gift box!
 
You will see the name Flora on the banner, which is the name of my panda bear pictured.  I was given her by my sister when I was born, so Flora is a little on the old side now and as you can see well loved.  She normally sits on the top of a bookshelf as she is a bit delicate, but I thought you would like to see her as she is what started my love of giant pandas!
 
I have used a number of products to make all these goodies, and I also have ideas for more, I just could not wait any longer to share what I have completed so far. 

Stampin' Up! materials used:
Stamp Sets - Party Pandas, Letters for You, Brushstrokes background
Dies - Layering Circles framelits, Stitched Shapes framelitts, Layering Ovals framelits, Large Letters framelits, Popcorn Box framelits, Banners framelits (retired)
Designer Series Paper - Petal Passion
Card - Blushing Bride, Whisper White, Whisper White thick card, Basic Black, silver foil sheets
Ink - Blushing Bride, Basic Black
Markers - Blushing Bride
Other - Big Shot, Stampin' Dimensionals, Whisper White organza ribbon, silver mini gable boxes, Snail adhesive, multipurpose liquid glue, Stampin' Trimmer

Other materials: Brother Scan N Cut, toothpicks, cupcakes!

Beach Hug Tags

Hi!  Something a little different to share with you today - some beach huts tags which were inspired by a trip to the Whitstable Oyster Festival last weekend.  It was a bit of a gloomy day and we did get a rather sudden downpour of rain at one point - but you know us Brits, it never puts us off being outside!  

To make these tags I used the Home Sweet Home dies, designed to make a  treat box, to cut the shape of the hut, as well as the door and bunting.  The roof of the hut was made using a stamp from the co-ordinating stamp set, which I then cut out on my ScanNCut.  You could cut this out by hand, but as I was making rather a lot of them I decided on the electric cutting option!

Stampin' Up! materials used:
Stamp Sets - Sweet Home, Diagonal Stripe background
Dies - Home Sweet Home 
Ink - Real Red, Pacific Point, Flirty Flamingo, Pool Party
Card - Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Ribbon - Pacific Point 1/4" stitched edge ribbon, red & white ribbon from stash
Other - liquid multi-purpose glue, BigShot
Other materials: Brother ScanNCut

Flirty Flamingo

I've been having a bit of a play with the Pop of Paradise stamp set, and thought I would share this card, which is my take on a card in the annual Stampin' Up! catalogue. 
After stamping the flamingo and sentiment I cut them out on my Brother Scan N Cut which made it nice and easy - making for happy crafting!

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp Sets - Pop of Paradise, Awesomely Artistic
Ink Pads - Flirty Flamingo, Black
Designer Series Paper - Pop of Pink
Card - Whisper White, Whisper White thick card, gold foil sheets
Other - Stampin' Trimmer, fine tip glue 
Other Materials:
Brother Scan N Cut 

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #239 - Children

It's time for another challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge, and this week the theme is Children - so you need to make a card for a child or featuring a child
 
There are two fabulous sponsors this week, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in: 
Inky Impressions - prize TBC 
Paper Creator - prize TBC

I am adding this card to the following:
A Bit More Time To Craft - Anything Goes #1

Materials Used:
Inky Impressions - Angelica at the Hop digi image
Copics - E00, E01, E02, E51, YR21, YR23, YR27, R81, R83, R85, YG63, C0, C2, C3
Serif - background and embellishments
Wink Of Stella - clear pen
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out the digi image
Crafters Companion - black card
Hunkydory - white card blank 

Lacy Sunshine #49 - Sparkly and New

Welcome to Lacy Sunshine's fist challenge of 2015!  The theme is Sparkly and New (quite fitting for the New Year!), so a project which features something new - new home, new baby, new job...
  
Please pop on over to Lacy Sunshine and join in the fun for the random draw  - there will be 2 winners: 1st prize - 5 digi images, 2nd prize - 3 digi images of choice from the Lacy Sunshine Crafters Candy Shoppe.

We have a really cute Challenge Digi for you - Sleeptime Buzzlee which you can get for a special discounted price of $2.00 for the duration of the challenge from the Lacy Sunshine Crafters Candy Shoppe, or for free if you used a Lacy Sunshine digi in Challenge #48 (see details on the Challenge Blog). 

I am adding this card to:
Sweet Stampin' Challenge - New

Materials Used:
Lacy Sunshine - Valentine Gorgie Stitched collection digi
Copics - V12, V15, V17, YG63, E41, E42, E50, E51, E53
Spellbinders - circles, scalloped circles
Hunkydory - Girls n Ladies paper pad, white square card blank
Kanban - gems
Brother Scan N Cute - to cut out the digi image

24 Days of Christmas - Day #20

Another day closer to the big day! And something far from traditional Christmas colours today - I really like these warm colours, and I think they suit this design rather well!

Materials Used:
Imagination Crafts - Christmas Holly stencil, antique bronze sparkle medium, cinnamon sparkle medium, Bauble Script panel card   Craftwork Cards - sentiment, white DL card Brother Scan N Cut - to cut the oval mat for the sentiment
Bronze mirri card from stash 

24 Days of Christmas - Day #4

Day number and something a little different for me - some stencils and glitter paste, which I have only used a couple of times before.  But, hey, if you can't use some sparkle at Christmas when can you!?

Materials Used:
Imagination Crafts - Christmas celebration stencil, amethyst sparkle medium, pink snow panel card
Craftwork Cards - sentiment, white DL card
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut the oval mat for the sentiment
Purple mirri card from stash

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Today I am sharing a Halloween pumpkin treat box made using the fabulous Stampin Up! curvy keepsake die - isn't it cute!

I inked the lines on the pumpkin, stamped and die cut the leaves, and cut the pumpkin face on my Brother Scan N Cut.  Hope you like it!

I am adding this project to the following:
That Craft Place Challenge - Halloween

Materials Used:
Stampin Up!: curvy keepsake die, MDS emoticostume digi download, flower patch stamps, flower fair framelits, tangelo twist card and ink, mossy meadow ink and ribbon
Core'Dinations - black card
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut the pumpkin face

Creative Fingers #52 - Anything Goes

Its time for a new challege over at Creative Fingers, this week the theme for the Design Team is to add a sentiment, but the challenge is Anything Goes, so please pop on over and play along!
The sponsor this week is: Drawn With Character

Materials Used:
Drawn With Character - Crayons You Colour My World
Copics - Y13, B12, B14, B16, R21, R22, R24, V12, V15, V17
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out the digi image
Spellbinders - Matting basics A and B
Core'Dinations - purple card
Craftwork Cards - white A6 card blank

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge # 195 - Embossing - Wet or Dry

Its time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - and this week the theme is Embossing - Wet or Dry! I don't do much of either techniques these days, so had a bit of a dilema on which to choose - eventually I decided to use one of the many embossing folders in my stash!  :-)

There is two fabulous prizes this week, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:
Karleigh Sue - $10 voucher
StampArt Design - 5 digi images

I am adding this to the following:
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #53 Anything Goes with a Twist Shades of Blue (light blue sky and dark blue snowflakes)
The Pink Elephant - #268 Embossing


Materials Used:
Karleigh Sue - Fall Fab digi
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, E41, E43, E44, E47, E51, YG61, YG63, YG67, R81, R83, R85, V12, V15, V17
Sheena Douglass - Grassy swirl embossing folder
Lili Of The Valley - background paper
Brother Scan n Cut - to cut out the digi image
Kanban - Christmas messages
Hunkydory - white square card blank 

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge # 192 - Children and / or Christmas

Hi!  Its time for a new challenge over at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - and this week its Children and / or Christmas, so I took the opportunity to make another Christmas card for my stash!

There are three fabulous prizes this week, so pop on over to http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ and join in:
Sparkle N Sprinkle - 3 digis 
Crafty Sentiments - 3 digis
Di's Digi Stamps - $12 gift certificate

I am adding this card to the following:
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #50 Anything Goes (square or rectangular)
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge - #123 Use A Wreath

Materials Used:
Sparkle N Sprinkle - Poinsettia digi (one single poinsettia placed to form a wreath)
Graph'Its - 9501, 9503, 5215, 5220, 8220, 8250
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out the wreath
Serif Craft Artist Professional - to create the wreath
Stampendous - shabby white embossing enamel
Core'Dinations - green and red card
Hunkydory - 8" square card blank
Red gems from stash

Creative Fingers #46 - Texture

Exciting news!  I have joined the Creative Fingers Design Team!  So I hope you like my first project as part of the team!

The challenge is sponsored by the fantastic Oddball Art.

Its a texture challenge for the DT, so I used some translucent paste from Sweet Poppy Stencils and mixed in some Creative Expressions chalk paint to put through a stencil mask - its difficult to see in the photos but the texture is there I promise (will have to practise my photography skills)!

 

I am adding this card to the following:
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #49 Anything Goes (square or rectangular)


Materials Used:
Odd Ball Art -  Big Eye Girl Image No. 24 by Lizzy Love
Copics - E000, E00, E01, E02, E40, E41, E472, E43, E44, R83, R85, BG70, BG72, BG75
Creative Expressions - Shallow sea matt chalk paint, stencil mask
Ranger - gathered twigs distress ink
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out the images
Sweet Poppy Stencils - translucent paste
Imagination Crafts - DL panel
Hunkydory - white DL card blank

Kraftyhands Dangerous Dinosaurs - Look Back #2

Here is the second card / project I would like to share with you using the Dangerous Dinosaurs CD from Kraftyhands.

I  used my Brother Scan N Cut to cut out all the decoupage layers, which meant I had all the fun designing and making up the projects, and none of the hassle of cutting out!  Love it!

 
Materials Used: 
Kraftyhands - Dangerous Dinosaurs CD 
Crafters Companion - black card 
Craftwork Cards - white A5 card blank
Blue ribbon from stash
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut all the decoupage elements and sentiments
Hole punch, embossing tool and mat - to make the "dotz" 

Kraftyhands Dangerous Dinosaurs - Look Back #1

Kraftyhands is having a bit of a look back this week - featuring one of their most popular collections for children's projects - its the Dangerous Dinosaurs CD.

So, here is the first card I would like to share with you using this CD - there will be some more this week!

I even used my Brother Scan N Cut to cut out all the decoupage layers, making these projects even easier and quicker than cutting by hand!

I am adding this to:

That Craft Place - Anything Goes

Crafting At The Weekend - #4 Anything Goes

Materials Used:

Kraftyhands - Dangerous Dinosaurs CD

Crafters Companion - black card

Craftwork Cards - white A5 card blank
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut all the decoupage elements and sentiment

Guest Designer for Graph'It Markers Colour Challenge - Week 28 Christmas Colours

A few weeks ago the fabulous Graph'It Challenge DT asked people to apply for a Guest Designer spot.  I applied even though I am still very new to using GIs, so was uber excited to find they thought my colouring and card designs are good enough to get a GDT spot!  Thank you team!

I get to share 2 projects with you (how cool is that!?), and my first is for Christmas!

I've had a couple of advent calendar kits in my craft stash for quite some time, and thought this would be an ideal opportunity to use one of them!   I chose an image and papers from the Studio 12 Picknix Gingerbread Twist collection, and set to work with some GIs, some glittery embossing powders, Distress Ink and crochet ribbon! Hope you like it, I'm really looking forward to using it this Christmas - the drawers are quite large so I can put something more than just a chocolate in it! :-)

I hope you will pop on over to the Graph'It Challenge to take a look at all the fab projects from the DT and join in the fun!

I am adding this to the following:
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Just Keep on Creating - July Anything Goes 
Creative Fingers Challenge - #43 Anything Goes 
Polkadoodles - #28 Add Twinkle 
ABC Christmas Challenge - N is for Numbers
Simply Create Too - #65 Christmas in July 
Aud Sentiments - #110 Anything Goes 
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #43 Anything Goes (rectangular or square) 

Materials Used:
Graph'Its - 8270, 8280, 4110, 9303, 3140, 3170, 3180, 5250, 5245, 5240
Polkadoodles - Studio 12 Picknix Gingerbread Twist CD
Stamps Away - Advent calendar kit (I made it up differently to the instructions)
Tattered Lace - numbers die set
Ranger - brushed Corduroy distress ink
Creative Expressions - cream crochet ribbon, iced snow glitter jewels
Stampendous - shabby white embossing enamel
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out the gingerbread skaters
Brads from stash

Kraftyhands July Challenge - Summer Holidays

It's time for a new Kraftyhands Challenge!  This month its Summer Holidays, so I hope you have been enjoying some sun at home or maybe away some place lovely!  Its been hot and sunny here in London the last couple of weeks, well during the week anyway, with just a bit of sun and mostly rain at the weekends!

I chose to use the delightful Summer of 59 CD for this challenge as its full of chic ladies in holiday type scenes, and pretty fresh colours!  Oh and of course I had to use my new favourite dies to make some pretty flowers using the polkadot papers from the CD!

I am adding this card to:
Just Keep On Creating - July Anything Goes 

Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - Summer of 59 CD
Core'Dinations - blue card
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out the topper, topper base and sentiment
Die-Namics - leaf filled flourish
Britannia Dies - large and medium multiflower rose dies
Hole punch, embossing tool and mat - to make the "dotz"

Polkadoodles Work and Play - Drummer Troy

Hi folks!  Recently I have wondered to myself why I don't seem to make as many cards as I used to - now I seem to only make one card a day when I craft, if I am lucky as sometimes it is only part of a card!  For a while I couldn't figure out why, then realised that a) my crafting style has changed over the last few years and b) I do a lot more colouring of images than I used to do which I guess takes a lot longer than taking a printed / foiled kit and putting cards together.  I still buy some of those kits now and again, but they don't seem to get to the top of my "to craft" list that often anymore - I guess that is because I enjoy the colouring more, oh and using my die cutting machines (manual and electronic) and CDs!

Now sometimes we don't have the time or crafty mojo to spend time colouring an image for a card, so today I thought I would share a card that I made using pre-coloured elements from a fab Polkadoodles CD - its from the first Work and Play Collection which is a really fun set of images and papers (and more) to craft with!

I am adding this card to:
Crafting At The Weekend - #3 Anything Goes
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes

Materials Used:
Polkadoodles - Work and Play Collection 1 CD
Core'Dinations - brown card
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut the image out
Craftwork Cards - white square card blank

Polkadoodles Work and Play - Handyman Dave

I just love the Polkadoodles Work and Play CDs, and have all 4 that have been released so far! :-) Am hoping there will be more too!  I wanted to make something suitable to enter a couple of challenges with a "for men" type theme, so chose this cute Handyman Dave digi stamp from collection 1.  I also used one of the backing papers and a sentiment from the CD, and added some DIY tool die cuts.

I am adding this card to the following:
Polkadoodles - Men on our minds
That Craft Place - Men
Digi Tuesday - All about the men

Materials Used:
Polkadoodles - Work and Play CD 1
GraphIts -  5215, 5220, 4115, 4125, 4155, 9101, 9102, 9103, 9401, 9403, 9502, 9504, 9505, 3110, 3125
Memory Box Dies - handy man tools, crafts man tools
Core'Dinations - blue card
Craftwork Cards -circle cut easel card
Cricut Explore - to cut the background card and paper for the easel
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out the digi stamp
Hole punch, embossing tool and mat - to make the "dotz" 

Have A Hoot Christmas!

I just had to share another card from the new Have A Hoot CD that Kraftyhands will be launching on the 5th May (you can pre-order here to make sure you get yours!)  And look - there is even a Christmas owl which I thought was fun!

I am adding these cards to the following:
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes - April Link Up 
Just B Creative Crazy - April Linky Party
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas - Use A Hat
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra - April 

Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - What A Hoot CD
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out all elements
Kaban - green gem
Hunkydory - white square card blank

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!  Hope the weather is better for you than it is here - grey and miserable and its been raining most of the day, which is a shame after the last few days which have been lovely!  But a good excuse to stay indoors and have some more fun with the Kraftyhands What A Hoot CD - I added some bunting to this shaped card to make it into a quick Easter card.


I am adding this card to the following:
Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes - April Link Up
Just B Creative Crazy - April Linky Party
Papertake Weekly - Happy Easter 
Alphabet Challenge - E for Easter 
Craftitude - Anything Goes or Spring/Easter 

Materials Used:
Kraftyhands - What A Hoot CD
Brother Scan N Cut - to cut out all elements (except the bunting)
Tattered Lace - Alphabet Bunting die set
Creative Expressions - yellow and white twine