Perfect Pear

It's not often that I look at a sketch and go 'ooh that' but this weeks Mojo Monday Sketch came together in my mind pretty quickly! And then I got distracted with other things and nearly forgot to make it in time, oops!

I used papers from Recollections Charming pack, layered on a brown card base. I cut one of the papers with a note pad cutting file on my cameo and cut the circle frame on there too. The sentiment and adorable pear stamps are from Birdie Brown and I coloured the pears with my promarkers and added three little brown pearls as the only embellishment.

I am submitting this for:

- Mojo Monday #409 - Sketch
- Addicted to Stamps #156 - Anything Goes
- Sweet Stampin' Challenge - Anything But A Birthday

We're The Perfect Blend

A wonderful friend of mine, who knows my coffee addiction well sent me this awesome Latte Love set from Fiskars a few months ago and this is to my eternal shame, the first time it's seen ink!

I cut a card base in brown and used paper from My Minds Eye. Coloured the stamps in with my promarkers and added a little heart button, some twine and a couple of little gems. It literally took me longer to decide which of the coffee stamps to use first, than to make the whole card, lol!

I'm submitting this too:
- Freshly Made Sketches #193 - Sketch
- Whimsy Stamps Challenge #84 - Use Ribbon, Lace or Twine
- Inspiration Destination Challenge #40 - Anything Goes

Delightful Challenges! Bling It On

The Challenge at Delightful Challenges this week is Bling It On!, Add some bling to your creation! And we're sponsered by (Cut 'n Paste Memories)!

I got to play with the brilliant, Love Birds! And a sentiment from the Love is in the Air, Sentiment Set!



I used papers from First Editions J'adore pack, distressed them by running scissors over the edges, crinkling them up, and brushing them up a bit with an ink pad. Coloured up my image with my promarker then added my bling, with some red and clear gems around the heart.

Don't forget to go over to the Digital Delights Challenge Blog and check out what the rest of the Design Team has done this week and enter your own card!

And check out the website for more fabulous Digital Delights by loobyloo.

"True Love Stories Never End"

It's been a few weeks since I've been on and real life has been hectic - my Mum had surgery on a brain aneurysm, amongst more general madness. She's going pretty well now, so I had a bit of time to dedicate to some crafting and made this card.

I used teresa collins fabrications papers layered on brown card. The image is from Spesch Stamps, coloured with promarkers: sandstone, caramel, cinnamon, vanilla, blush, soft peach, dusky rose, pastle pink, pear green, marsh green, olive green, sky blue, shale, cool grey 4, slate, honeycomb, spice, terracotta, lilac, lavender and amethyst.

Beauty and the Beast is one of my favourite fairytales (and disney movies, lol!)

I used lace, a button, flower and pearls to embellish, as well as a cute little key/heart charm.

I think this will end up being an anniversary card for two friends who's anniversary is in September. She loves Disney and will appreciate it for that alone and luckily, the husband isn't the sort to take offence at being cast as 'the beast' *g*

I'm submitting this for:
- I Love ProMarkers #173 - Anything Goes
- Stamp with Fun #216 - Sketch
- Crafty Creations Challenges #227 - Your Favourite Fairytake
- Anything Goes Challenge Blog #95 - Buttons, Pearl and Lace

Less Is More: Week 99-100

This weeks/fortnights challenge on "Less Is More" was 'drinks' - well my favourite drink is coffee, so I pulled out an image from the cutting cafe and made this quick card. The paper is a freebie from crafts beautiful magazine a few months ago and I layered on black card, adding a few gems to finish.

"Less is More" Week 98 - Anniversary

I was going to do the card for this weeks Less is More anniversary challenge, on a white card base, but I'd never tried inking directly onto kraft before so I thought, what the heck, lets give it a go and I'm reasonably pleased with how it turned out.

I used nesties to emboss the two squares and sponged in the middle one with blue and yellow inks, before stamping the sentiment (from stampin' up) and the image (freebie from some magazine or another) in brown ink and adding three small clear gems to finish. Very easy to do, took far more time thinking about than making! lol!

Put Your {Heart} Into It

A quick, CAS card today, using a bit of scrap paper and a few embellishments from Artwork. The sentiment is stamped from stampin' up.

I'm submitting for:
- CAS-ual Fridays #74 - Put Your {Heart} Into It
- Card Crafters Circle #44 - Black&White and One Colour
- Setimental Sundays #124 - Black & White + One

Happy Anniversary

I used papermania paper and card from the paper company, the sentiment is from Stampin' Up, some old ribbon from my stash and some new (as in, I bought them three hours ago while I was supposed to be shopping for shoes... oops!) embellishments from make and create - and I finished of with some gems.

I'm submitting for:
- The Play Date Cafe #152 - Black, white and a splash of plum
- Tuesday Alchemy #35 - Anything Goes
- Lollipop Crafts #91 - Something Old, Something New (Old ribbon, new heart embellishments)
- Moving Along With the Times - In the Dark

CAS-ual Fridays #70

A quick card for this weeks CAS-ual Friday's Challenge 'black and white plus one color of your choice'

I embossed part of the card with swiss dots, used a bit of ribbon that I think came of some packaging... used my nesties to cut the circles and stamped the sentiment from stampin' up and added the hearts from Art Work and three little gems.

Very simple and took me longer to figure out what I was doing that to do it! Which is just typical really! lol!

Happy Anniversary

I almost completely forgot about the upcoming anniversary of two of my very good friends so this is a last minute make, but hopefully they'll like it!

I went very CAS for this card. I embossed half a panel of white card, used the image from little musings and stamped the sentiment from stamping up, embellishing with ribbon and a couple of gems before mounting the panel on a white base card.

I'm submitting this for:
- Paper Crafting Journey - My Sentiment Exactly!
- Scrap Creations - Pick 3 (Ribbon, Pearls, Red, Die Cut/Punches, Glitter, Distress, Embossing, Buttons, Paper Piecing, Blue)
- Try it on Tuesdays - Anything Goes
- Tuesday Throwdown #115 - You're a Gem
- Craft Your Passions #127 - Blast from the Past (I used #120 Black & White + One)

Congratulations

I used white card and cut diagonal strips, before embossing them with different embossing folders and layering them on top of another bit of card, along with a strip of silver ribbon and used dimension pads to place it on the base card.

The sentiment is from stampabilities and was embossed with silver embossing powder. And I added the two dove embellishments and some pearls to finish.

I'm submitting this too:
- Creative Inspirations #177 - Sentimental
- My Mum's Craft Shop #71 - Weddings/Anniversaries
- Alphabet Challenge Blog - O for Only One Colour Plus White
- PaperPlay Challenges '12 - Week 34 - Sentiment as the main focus

CAS Anniversary

I used card from the paper company and some scraps from born to shop on this card. The sentiment is stampin' up and I embellished with an envelop embellishment from make&craft and 10 gems.

I am submitting this for:
- Clean&Simple #196 - Sketch
- CR84FN Color Challenge #57 - Bright Pink, Tan and Neutral
- Out Creative Corner - '10' Challenge

Happy Anniversary

I used a lovely freebie chandelier silhouette from Shery K Designs and added the computer generated sentiment (font: Jane Austen). I backed on black card and used a 5x5 inch card base and used gems to bling it up!

I'm submitting this for:
- "Less is More" #72 - Something Shiny
- Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #58 - CAS with 2 layers
- The Play Date Cafe #137 - Black, White and a Splash of Blue (Yes, this is the second one today, I really like the colour combo *g*)

I Love You Berry Much

A quick and simple make using a cute digi stamp image and sentiment from Paper Smooches - I coloured the berries with my promarkers - poppy, ruby, pear green, marsh green, sandstone and caramel, layered on red card and finished with a few red gems.

I'm submitting this for:
- I Love Promarkers #121 - Tutti Frutti
- My Mum's Craft Shop #61 - Clean and Simple

White On White

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #174 this week was white on white. I've never done a white on white card and if I'm honest the idea terrified me a little, but I have seen some absolutely stunning ones out there so I decided to give it a go.

I combined that with this weeks Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge #57 - More that Words (create a card using a long sentiment or a verse) and came up with the card below.

I used a 5x5 card base, ran a slightly smaller piece of white card through the cuttlebug with swiss dots folder. Then cut a plain and scalloped square from more white card with my nesties and used a very pale silver ink to ink a flower and embossed it with clear powder onto the white square. I used my nesties again to cut the vellum with the verse (it was in a magazine I got about 2yrs ago... and stuck that over the top of the white square. Added ribbon and pearl hearts from my stash and layered it all up.

For my first attempt at white on white (except for the verse obviously...) I don't hate it. I think it could make a very nice card for an engagement/wedding/anniversary depending on the verse I put inside.

Happy Anniversary

Cutting it close again today with this card for The Sweet Shop Sketch #145.

I used black and red card stock on a white card base, embossed the red with cuttlebug swiss dots folder - I love my swiss dots folder, its just so versatile! - and used an image from Lily of the Valley, coloured with Promarkers - Ruby, Poppy, Slate, Black, Maroon, Cool Grey 3, Cool Grey 4, Blush, Lime Green and Chestnut.

The 'Happy Anniversary' sentiment is Stampin' Up and the ribbon and pearl embellishments came from my stash.

I'm also submitting this to:
Papertake Weekly - Black & White & Red All Over
Charisma Cardz - #6 Anniversary!
C.R.A.F.T Challenge - #142 No Designer Papers