Monday 18 March 2013

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #87 - Friendship


Welcome to our latest challenge, hosted by Yvonne who has chosen the theme 'Friendship'

Yvonne would like to see the word 'Friend' or 'Friendship' included somewhere on your card/poject.

Please ensure your card has one of the two words stated above to qualify for a winner or Top 5 slot. 

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED 

We are sponsored by 
with
2 of their gorgeous digis

and
SIR STAMPALOT
with these two fabulous prizes:-

Hero Arts Fancy Friendship Stamp Sheet

and 'Our Friendship' single stamp





I am so excited that one of our sponsors this week is Saturated Canary, as I love to use Krista's beautiful stamps.

This time I have used the lovely Harley & Haley to create my friendship card.






As usual I have coloured it up using Promarkers and have tried to stick to just 2 colours, Pink & Turquoise, which I think work lovely together.  I have also tried blonde hair for the 1st time!

The base card is an 8 x 8 scalloped card (this is the size I prefer to use) I have then popped a sheet of Papermania Sweet Owl paper on top.

Over this I placed some lace and a doillie sprayed with iridescent glitter.  I cut a couple of matching frames using my Cricut 'Storybook' Cartridge and stamped a sentiment from LOTV.


The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I think the butterfly is Magnolia Doohickey, the leaves were also cut using the Cricut Cartridge 'Flower Shoppe'.

Promarkers Used:

Hair - Buttercup, Raw Sienna, Egg Nog
Skin - Vanilla, Blush, Dusty Pink
Haley - Blush, Dusty Pink, Cool Grey 1 & 2
Pink Clothing - Blossom, Carnation, Fushia, Tropical Orchid
Turquoise Clothing - Cool Aqua, Duck Egg, Marine, Tea Green

Challenges I would like to enter:-

ABC Challenges - Just as You like
Bunny Zoe - Girly
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Creative Creations - The Letter 'B" (Blue)
Deep Ocean Challenges - Cute & Cuddly
Dilly Beans - Friendship
Divas by Design - Put on some Pink
Stamp with Fun - Anything Goes
Sentimental Sundays - Anyrhing Goes



Thanks for Visting x

Thursday 14 March 2013

You & Me


Hi All, we have all been under the weather in my house this last week, me with Flu and my bubba with Shingles, thankfully we are both on the mend now.

So as I havn't been crafty this week, I thought I would share a card I made a couple of months ago for a friends wedding.

I have used the lovely You and Me from Tiddly Inks


I mainly coloured using Spectrum Noirs on this one, as I have some great greys, for the dress I wanted to keep it mainly white, so I just added a tiny bit of Promarker Blossom Pink and then some crystals to dress it up a little.

The background was a freebie, but I didn't make a note of who's (please let me know if it is yours so I can credit you).

The flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts and the sentiment has been stamped and heat embossed, then I added a pink organza bow to finish.

Also check out the great Tiddly Inks and Make it crafty Blog Hop Egyptian Blog Hop over the next 2 days.



Challenges I would like to enter:

Divas by Design - Put  on some Pink
Whoopsi Daisy - Buttons or Bows




Monday 4 March 2013

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 86 - Masculine including Technology or a Gadget


Welcome to our latest challenge, hosted by Rebecca, who has chosen the theme 'Masculine Birthday' 

Rebecca would like to see a masculine birthday card that includes some technology or a gadget. The technology or gadget could be a computer, games console, rocket or car for example.

Please ensure that you do add the technology or gadget aspect to qualify for a Winner or Top 5 slot.

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE RULES BEFORE ADDING YOUR CREATION AND CHECK IT MEETS THE CRITERIA AS LAID OUT ABOVE - ANY ENTRY NOT COMPLYING WILL UNFORTUNATELY BE REMOVED

We are sponsored by 
DI'S DIGI DOWNLOADS
with a $10 GIFT VOUCHER

 

and
THE STAMPMAN 

For my masculine card I have used an image by Susanne Nyman of Sans Designs called 'Resting Dude'.


The tree has been paper pieced using some velum in my stash that had a bark print on it.

The image was coloured using Promarkers, Copics and Spectrum Noirs, then matted onto some blue and green textured card from Papermania.

The backing papers are First Edition - Animal Antics

The sentiment was created in word.

A Close up of that cheeky Squirrel :)



Promarkers Used:

Hair - Sandstone, E31 & E33
Skin - Vanilla, Blush
Clothes - Polar Blue, Twilight Blue, Island Lagoon, SNoir GT2, Cool Grey 3, SNoir IG8
Squirrel - Spice, Raw Sienna
Sky - SNoir BT1 & BT2
Grass & Leaves - Lime Twist & Leaf Green

Thanks for Visting x

Challenges I would like to enter are:-

Deep Ocean Challenges - For a Boy
Divas by Design - Anything Goes
Digital Tuesday - Birthdays
Craft us Crazy - Anything Goes