Everyone loves flowers!

Post 37

Todays card is a lovely digi stamp from Mosdigital pencil. I love using some bright colours that I would usually keep away from , but these papers from Shabby Princess are just glorious.
 I thought I'd base my card around another amazing sketch  from Jen. Click the sketch to link to the site.

 

For this challenge I decided to use this digistamp, she's called 'Sadie'. Coloured with my beloved promarkers.

The papers are a freebies  called 'Shabby Mommy'., from Shabby Princess. Don't you just love the pinks and oranges!!

I added some  'Sweet pea' flower soft , from Katy sue designs onto the potted flowers to add some dimension, it's not something I often use but it added some texture to the card.

The corner cried out for plant pots, so, searching my crafty stash I found these on a cd rom by Studio12 at Polkadoodles called 'Picknix collection 1' . The pots obviously needed flowers so I chose some     Sweetheart blossoms from Wild orchid crafts .

Everything was matted onto black to make it pop, then all doodled around to finish the card.

I thought I'd also enter this in Mo Mannings Challenge 'Lots of Layers',.....if the cap fits!!!!

Hope you like todays card.

Happy Crafting.

Clair xxxx

Bath time left overs.

Post 36

Todays card is the result of all the left overs I had from yesterdays card.

I always print two images when I'm using digi stamps. So she's in the bath again.

The base card is just plain black card stock. The image has been coloured with pro markers. I cut the image out using a spellbinders nestability die ( sorry I can't remember what it's called)

I cut a black mat in the same size as the image, I cut it in half, then stuck it on the reverse of the image with just the edges at the side showing. I know a faux nestie would work but my cutting skills are not that good.

The bow was made from some of the papers, from Pink Petticoat, I found a you tube video demonstrating how to make a bow using the envelope punch board, you'll find it HERE. I made my bow slightly smaller to look more appropriate for the card.

The label was matted just like the main image. The card needed that little something else....so of course the lovely bling had to come out again!

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

Bath time girl!

Post 35

Todays card is once again using some Pink Petticoat paper and , also one of their digi stamps. The paper is some 'Autumn Blossons' and I think it's Lola Rose indulging in a bath.

The black base card is cut from Karen Burnistons bigz die, the accordian flip album. You can get an acompaning die to cut a mat for the surround and centre for the album, I don't have that I just cut the surround from the original die and trimmed the centre panel out, then just shaved of about 16th inch from each side so there would be a narrow black border. The centre panel mats are cut from the spellbinders dies 'Labels 1'.

The image is coloured with promarkers, and matted onto a faux nestie ( the next size nestability was far too big!!!!)

The wording on the card, I printed out when I printed my papers and image , there's always a small space on a piece of paper to fit a sentiment.

I cut the flowers from some of the pattern paper which I printed off in various sizes.

The back panels just have plain paper mounted on for sentiments and signatures.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

Being 'Tree-mendous'

Post 34
Today's card just came to be because I happend upon a web site 'deconstructinjen', a designer of card and card sketches. So why not join in!!

The sketch for this challenge is , DS134....

  click HERE to go to the page

I used some papers and an image from from Pink Petticoat, the paper is from a collection called 'Marshmallow'  and the image I've had for ages...I don't think it's still available.

I coloured the image with promarkers, and doodled around every layer!

The main image was then glittered with some 'Iced Candy' cosmic shimmer glitter.

I then opted for some ribbon and 3 'Sweetheart blossoms', with a little tag tucked in there. 

The insert got the left overs, a smaller print of the original image, and the papers.

I just had enough of the pink for the main sentiment.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy Crafting.

Clair xxx

By the way I can't post for the next couple of days...a girls gotta work!!!!

Hey Brother!!!

Post 33
Todays card is a ' Lets get ahead with the families birthday cards and not rush them like usual' card!!!! Ha!
This one is due to be handed out on the 3rd of Feb.....good start eh?

The image is from Mos Digital Pencil called 'King for the day'. 

The papers are from Pink Petticoat called 'Woodgrain' ( be quick it's retiring soon!!), the dark brown mat is also part of the solid colour collection from Pink Petticoat. I made a tab, using my new toy 'We are memory keepers envelope punch board' (Love it!!!), and stamped 'brother' onto it.

The image is coloured using promarkers. And cut out using Spellbinders Labels 1. The mat is a faux nestie as I only wanted a narrow mat around the image.

The happy birthday is also stamped and matted onto more decorative paper. 

Inside is more paper and a small sentiment.

The card is finished off with self adhesive pearls and some ribbon.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair

40 th birthday

Post 32
Good morning world. Hope the sun is shining outside your window.
Todays card was a bit of a rush job, for a neighbour who celebrated her 40th birthday yesterday.

The main stamped image is a Clarity stamp called 'Corset montage' . It is stamped using Timber Brown stazon. I then re stamped the image on some pattern paper from the First Edition paper pad called 'Silent Night', I cut out the corset and paper pieced it onto the montage image.

I cut out the image with a square die, then inked around the edges.

I cut out 2 frames using the Spellbinders 'Majestic Labels 25', I cut the sides off each frame, and just used the tops and bottoms to frame my image.

I then matted it all onto some more of the paper, this was also inked.

The base card is a 6x6 white card, matted with some kraft card and a wide strip from the paper pad.

I made a tissue flower using my Sizzix bigz die called 'Flower, daisies', finishing it off with bling from my stash.

The number is from a pack of grunge board letters and shapes I've had in my cupboard for years. I just painted the 40, with some white acrylic paint to make it match the project.

The insert had another strip of paper, from the paper pad, and a co-ordinating tag with the sentiment 'Life your life and forget your age!'

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

It's addictive...

Post 31

The box of cards I made was so satisfying, I started another straight away.

This time I restricted myself with the stamps I used....I only used the free stamps ,I've collected over the years from 'Craft Stamper'. (only as the main images!, all the sentiments are from my stash!)

The papers I used for this were a digital download from Pink Petticoat called 'Autumn Blossoms 2'. I used Ivory centura pearl card as a base for the box and cards.

                                     

The buttons were from a digikit on Craft Artist which I recoloured to match the papers. These were glazed after I'd stuck them to the discs of card.

As in the last box set, I tried to stick to generic greetings to be usable for more occasions.

Love this Telephone!

The tea cups are an old favourite, but I've never used this image of the lady before...it turned into one of my favourite cards.

I'm sure this won't be the last box set I make.

Hope you enjoyed seeing this variation on a theme.

Happy Crafting.

Clair xxx