I received this brilliant award today from Alison, thank you so much Alison, I really appreciate it and I'm glad you enjoy visiting my blog. It's nice to know when people re visit your blog because they like your work. Makes blogging all worth while.
How about a sketch this week.....Below you will see the sketchPlease make your
work using the Sketch as your guide,You can rotate the sketch & even resize
the Elements if you would like to,But do not move the elements around,As long as
we can still see the original sketch layout and can be easily recognised then
that is fine!
This week I've kept it simple and used my brand new stamp Tilda with bird that I received from Donna for being in the DT from the start. Thanks Donna. I paper pieced her with some cardstock and matching paper from the background set. I used a white signo pen to highlight some areas and of course diamond stickles for her wings. The background paper has some lovely colours in it and I thought using black and pink cardstock to layer it would make the colours stand out. I then just added the embellies , a ticket which I stamped a small butterfly on, some square brads and a layered bloom.
Not my usual size card I'm used to doing a 5 x5 square card this one is 4x5 3/4 . All the card blank, papers, ribbon and cardstock come from a Sarah's cardmaking kit. I'm not sure who makes the papers. The welcome sentiment is by SU.
Now, if this fills you with horror, as it did me, you are allowed to make your
own patterned paper or card by stamping, inking, doodling etc. on plain paper or
cardstock. You can emboss, tear and add anything else you like. The only
restriction is no 'bought' patterned paper!
I chose a white , square card for this one. I used a SU jumbo wheel to decorate the darker card and embossed it with transparent embossing powder. For the upper lilac card I used a SU stamp set and set off the flowers with a white dot to each of the centres. I also used the sentiment from the same stamp set. The two flower embellies are SU stamps which I've done two step stamping to and then added a zoomz to each centre and then adhered them to the ribbon. The image is a whippersnapper one , coloured in with prismas and zest it. I've added a little gem to the centre of that flower too.
This week we would love to see you create an ATC featuring summer flowers
such as roses, lilies, lilacs, summer daisies etc.
I've made a gatefold card for this challenge. I used a pink card for the base and covered it in some pink and then green checked papers. I made the sunflower with checked papers and my cricut, several layers on this sunflower. I then cut out some branches shapes again using my cricut and layered two colours onto each other and then added some tiny diamond and gold peel offs. The Hanglar images were both coloured in with prismas and zest it. To finnish off I added the bloom and several more peel offs.
Would love to see the Use of Dots on your work this week,
A Little Easier
than last week’s!
So grab all things Dottie and get creative!
For this card I used a black blank card and added a piece of light green card which I embossed with my swiss dots embossing folder. I then added the blue spotty paper to the bottom half. To cover the join I added some green ribbon. The frame has been made with my Cricut, a nice spotty one! I then added all the extras which came out of a Go Go Greetings kit. I then coloured in a Tilda with prismas and zest it and "sat" her on the spotty frame.
I've used a Penny Black image that someone sent to me a while back, it's called "It's your day". I coloured it with prismas and zest it and added some diamond glaze and diamond stickles. The aqua coloured cardstock has been embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.The papers and embellies are from a Go Go Greetings kit some time back. I'm slowly making my way through them!!
For my card I thought I'd try something different and decided to follow Claudia's brilliant tutorial for a double pocket card. Thanks for the tutorial Claudia you made it so easy to follow. I've used a Stampin Up simply scrappin kit for this. I was given the girl image by Christine , thanks Christine, but for the life of me I can't remember who makes them or what they are called!! She is like a dress up doll , you have the main body then dress up clothes for her to put on. I've put her clothes and accessories on with 3D pads to give them some depth. They have been coloured in the usual way with prismas and zest it.
Here's the two tags for the pockets. Again I've used the SU kit and some Bo Bunny rub ons.
I followed the sketch on the blog and came up with this. I've used a Hanglar image and a Sarah's cards monthly kit.
To join in the fun with us, just create an ATC using at least one Magnolia stamp
- the facts and figures for ATCs are on the side bar. You don't have to take
your inspiration from Shakespeare's play, anything that reminds you of a
mid-summer evening/night will be fine.
Ok you can laugh if you want to :0). I covered a blank ATC with some mesh dark blue material. I then coloured in Tilda and added some paper wings and a flower hat. Her skirt is also made out of mesh material. I added some diamond stickles to her sleeves and socks. And then I coloured in the toadstools and adhered them to the bottom of the ATC. I was thinking along the lines of fairies in the play? :0)
I've used one of the fantastic Rakle Krilla stamp and coloured her in with hot pink and orange. I layered her onto some orange cardstock and added the pink zoomz and a little thin pink ribbon. The papers have been cut into different sized panels and I've covered the joins with some pink ribbon.
We would like you to make a card for any type of celebration, it could be
for a Birthday, new baby, wedding christmas, etc
Here is my celebration card for a birthday. For this card I cut off a section of the front so you can see the paper inside the card. I've used Lola with gift and coloured her with prismas and zest it and then layered her onto patterned paper and then onto cardstock. I cut out two of the roses that are on the inner paper and used 3D pads to adhere them to the front of the card.
She's been really good and is completely toilet trained, she can obey commands like sit, stay, come, leave it, lie down. The only thing is that she is still getting us up several times a night to be let out for a wee. But she is good as gold.
I've used Daisy Bucket papers cut into two triangles and then covered the join with ribbon. I layered the image onto some cardstock and coloured it in with prismas and zest it. I then added the embellishments. The two flourishes are made from felt with a bloom added to the middle. The sequins and brads are from Queen & Co. And lastly the sentiment was added with black stazon.
http://www.scrapjazz.com/topics/Techniques/Serendipity/35.php
I used lots of bits and pieces of paper that I had left over from my stash. I glued them randomly onto a piece of card overlapping them all then gold embossed some stamped images all over it. I then cut them into 2"x2" squares but you can cut them to whatever size you want. To make the corners I just cut four diagonals. I then glued the four squares onto some green card. For the background of the card I used a plain white card and cut out a rust piece of card 4cms smaller than the card blank. I embossed the flowers in black ink and clear embossing powder. and adhered it to the card. Next I added the serendepity piece of card with 3D pads. I coloured in the Tilda and chair with prismas and zest it and adhered them to the middle of the card with 3D pads. The "just for you" is a little square greeting that came free with a mag and then I just added the ribbon and hung it with a brad.
For this one I turned the sketch from Friday Sketchers 90 degrees. I received the lovely frog image from Fran, thanks Fran. You should see her creations absolutely stunning, very talented lady. The papers , and embellies are from a Stampin Up simply scrappin kit. The dragonfly, snail and hoppy birthday sentiment are a stamp set from Stampin Up also. I've used some diamond stickles and diamond glaze on the stamped images too , to add some dimension.
The challenge this week is to use some of those bits and pieces of card and
paper which we all have lying around on our desks. We would like you to make
your ATC using bits and pieces which measure no more than 1" x 2" (2.5cm x 5cm)
- we won't be measuring though!
For all the details look here
http://tildaandfriends.blogspot.com/
I tried to be a bit different this week and use my watercolour pencils, a bit more practise or back to the prismas I think!!! Her hat and her dungarees were coloured using the same pencil but seemed to have come out two different colours??? Anyway I've use pink paislee papers and prima papers for the two patterned papers. For the strip across the middle I used cardstock and then embossed it with a cuttlebug embossing folder. The sentiment is a rub on and is from Bo Bunny. And to finish off the recipe I've used 3 flower brads and a bloom. The bottom left corner looked a little bare so I added a narrow piece of ribbon to the image with a little basket of tulips charm to hang down.All the details can be found here
http://aspoonfullofsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/
