Make your own background (No DP)

Hello and welcome to Make My Monday.

Our new challenge starting today is

Challenge #119 Make Your Own Background (No DP)

There are more details and of course the inspiration 

by the design team over on the challenge blog, so please 

be sure to visit.

On white stamping card I blended Distress Inks,

Cracked Pistachio, Picked Raspberry and Fossilized Amber.

Using Black Versafine I stamped, an old but an old time

favourite stamp from Chocolate Baroque.

I used Cdrafty Companions Texture stamps to distress

the background.

The greeting stamp is by Hobby Art stamps. 

Thanks for your visit, please stay safe and well. 

Thank You Card

Hello everyone, a new challenge starts today at

Sparkles Monthly Challenges - I (Caz)  have chosen 

for Challenge #125 Thank You Card

For more information please visit the blog and be 

sure not to miss the ideas from the design team.

I made a C6 linen card, added a white panel,

which was embossed with a  Cuttlebug script E.F.

Stamped onto a die cut oval - Bluebells from a set

by Chocolate Baroque. Coloured with pencils 

and Promarkers.  Given a dot border.  Stamped

'thanks' sentiment added.

Happy crafting. 

W is for Wish - Anything you Wish

Hello everyone, a new challenge starts today at

Alphabet Challenges  - Meg has chosen for the

letter W - Anything you Wish.

For more information please visit the blog and be 

sure not to miss the ideas from the design team.

I made a C6 linen card, added a white panel,

which was embossed with a  Cuttlebug script E.F.

Stamped onto a die cut oval - Snowdrop from a set

by Chocolate Baroque. Coloured with pencils 

and Promarkers.  Given a dot border.  Stamped

'thanks' sentiment added.

Happy crafting. 

Using A Sketch

Hello again,  last weekend we put our clocks back one hour,

we now have early dark evenings. I am so glad I recently

bought a Light Tent, I'm still trying to perfect the photos 

but I am getting much better photos now than I did 

before I bought it.

Today we begin a new challenge at 

Back to Basics and Beyond

We are introducing you to trying new techniques and 

this week it is how to  Use A Sketch

Please pop over to the blog to see the sketch you are to

follow, the details and of course the inspiration by the DT.

My card is a Kraft 7" scallop edge card.

The papers I used are all from a paper pad from The Range

Wild At Heart - First Edition - Trimcraft. 

The owl a stamp by Elusive Images (now Chocolate Baroque)

has been decoupaged with 3 layers, heat embossed,

the centre panel waterolours were used. 

The leaves are die cuts by usding dies from The Works

Have fun using the sketch, I look forward to seeing your entries.

Favourite Flower and Why

Hello, at long last it appears as thought my chest condition has 

resolved and I can now function in a comfortable fashion. Health issues have

been a concern for the past two months,  so pleased to be back crafting

and blogging.

Today we begin a new challenge at  Cardz 4 Galz, Ina G our DT member

in Australia has chosen for us

Favourite Flower and Why? Yes you must tell us why you chose

your particular favourite flower. 

Please take a look at the blog, it seems that Roses are the most

popular choice of the DT, though there are others. 

For my card. I used a background paper from my paper stash.

The stamp I used is a Bluebell from Chocolate Baroque. 

Coloured with Promarkers.

The reason I chose the bluebell, is I love to see them in the pathways

and wooded areas, they smell so lovely and fresh. For me they are the first 

signs of the beginning of Spring. 

I look forward to seeing which flower you have chosen.

At the Beach

Hello, welcome to my blog, I hope you enjoy your visit.

Today begins a two week challenge at Make My Monday

At The Beach

Please pop over to the blog to see the wonderful inspiration from the DT.

I have used Kraft card for my base card and to mat the design layer.

For my background I used several Distress Inks on watercolour paper.

I created a line for the horizon and for the edge of the sea and sand,

then watercoloured the three areas. 

I stamped onto the card to give a base for my decoupaged image.

I stamped the image again onto white card and coloured with

Promarkers. I added another bird on the sand and more in the sky.

Birds in the sky - Sweet Desire Lighthouse Set

Birds and wooden stump from Elusive Images as was pre -

 Chocolate Boroque. I used a white pencil for the edge of the sea. 

No Patterned Paper

Hello, today I found a challenge blog which has an interesting

challenge,  I fancied creating another blended ink  card.

Craft Rocket Challenges  

are looking to see creations with

No Patterned Paper

On a piece of white stamping card, I first blended 3 DI

Cracked Pistachio, Picked Raspberry and Fossilized Amber.

Using a Versafine Onyx Black I stamped the beautiful, old yet still

one of my favourite stamps from Chocolate Baroque. 

The distressed border pattern is by Sara Davies -

- Crafty Companions Textures stamps. 

The greeting is from Hobbyart stamps.

Thanks for your visit.

Thank You

Hi everyone, hope your keeping warm in the UK.  We had a few flurries 

of snow yesterday but thankfully all gone today, but it is still

bitterly cold. Why do we British always give a weather report? LOL

Today starts another challenge at Sparkles Monthly, chosen by Babs.

In January, we may need to say these two words more than the rest of the year.

Thank You

The Design Team have some super inspirational cards, please go see.

For my card, I have used a really old stamp from Elusive Images

- now Chocolate Baroque. I don't bother making new year's resolutions, 

because I just don't keep them, but I am determined during 2017 to

look at my current stamps and use them wherever I can. 

Kraft card, black card. Memento Black ink. 

Stamp Snowdrop - coloured with Promarkers and a White Sakura pen.

White detailed Embossing Powder from Stampendous.

Anything but a Card

Can't believe it is the 15th of the month already and here we are Sparkles Monthly back again with another challenge for you. Of course we are still all in the throngs of Christmas preparations or if well planned which I am not, everything is ready waiting for the big day. Our challenge is Anything BUT a Card, there is so much we can make, the design team have some wonderful ideas, please do pop over to see them. At a recent class we again decorated candles, the ladies do enjoy this technique. Please click on the picture, it will enlarge for more a more detailed close up. The stamps used above are
Left LOTV - Ornaments    Centre - I believe from Chocolate Baroque  - Right - Stamps Away
All gently coloured onto tissue paper with Promarkers. Melted onto the candle.
Sorry about the dirty mark on the left side, it is a shadow, the candle is actually clean (thanks goodness).

Spring is in the Air

This week at CD Sunday Challenges we are probably being more hopeful than the weather forecasters would agree - for Spring is in the Air is our challenge for you. not much sign of it here in the North East of England but hopes are high. I apologise for the quality of my scan, the light has been really bad today from very early in the day, so I wasn't able to take a photo.  I will replace hopefully tomorrow. I printed a beautiful background sheet of snowdrops from Peerless Designs Yesteryears Floral Vase Collection CD.

From the same background paper I punched the edge lattice panel with a Martha Stewart punch, I also stamped and cut out the butterflies. the centre stamped image of snowdrops is from a Chocolate Baroque stamp, which I coloured with two shades of green Promarkers. I look forward to visiting you once again, thanks to any visitors I may have during this challenge. Fingers crossed for Spring to show itself. 

Die cuts/ Punches

Hello everyone again. This week at Make My Monday, it is the turn for Fliss to choose the topic and she has chosen another popular theme Die Cuts and or Punches, whichever you choose, or even both. We would love you to take part and have fun. Please pop over to our blog  for more details and of course to see the lovely projects made by the DT.   This is my card, I used both dies and punches.

Materials used are 

Background paper from a Humphrey's Corner Pad

Centre punched Panel both sides punched with an X -Cut lace trim. Green ribbon added.

Butterflies are Marianne Die cuts.  

Greeting circle is a stamp -Personal Impressions -punched with a circle punch.

Bluebells stamp from Chocolate Boroque - coloured with Promarkers and Peeled Paint Distress Ink

Oval Die and a Nellie Snellie Patterned Oval Die.

Thanks for any comments you may leave, I will be popping onto your blogs and leaving a comment. 

Mid Week Motivation - Bluebell

I know how busy everyone is at present either making Christmas cards, or even out shopping for them. Hopefully you will get some time to enter the Favourite Flower Challenge over at Make My Monday.  I decided for the mid week motivation to move to my second favourite flower which is a bluebell. I have made an easel card and the additional inspiration in this post is I hope to encourage you to give a gift along with your card, by enclosing  a bookmark. The stamp of the Bluebell is from Elusive Images (Chocolate Baroque). The butterfly is by Lyndsay Mason from her tattered Butterflies set. Coloured with Promarkers. background Papers from a pack by Papermania.

Poppies

After discovering the Crafty Sentiments stand at the Nissan - Ross Papercraft Show on last Sunday, I have become a follower of the blog, for I thought their stamps were very good. Their challenge this week appropriately is Poppies, one of my favourite flowers, both for it's appearance and it's meaning. My entry  is of an Elusive Images (Chocolate Baroque)  poppy, which I used to demonstrate to my class how to use Promarkers for shading and mixing of colours. 

Take Flight

The August challenge at Sir Stampalot is ............Take Flight............ . This card is made with one of my all time favourite stamps from Elusive Images now Chocolate Baroque. Firstly I stamped the butterfly area twice, and cut out the second butterfly, coloured it with distress inks,then added a little glitter to it.  I coloured the stamped image panel and the side panel with distress inks, then melted some gold Frantage in two areas of the main image. I stamped leaves on the background panel, added a ribbon and a greeting. I have just noticed it's not straight!!! Why do I do most of my crafting at night? Anyway I hope the guys and gals at Sir Stampalot like the card. thanks folks for the challenge.