For my Favourite Second Cousin

Hi! I made this card for my lovely and very talented cuz (actually second cousin, after a bit of Googling). Inside, I wrote 'For my favourite second cousin', and then I worried that she'd mis-read it as second favourite cousin, as she is dyslexic and things get muddled up for her. So I added '- not to be confused with second favourite cousin!'. I think I over-think things. But anyway, she's lovely, and she makes beautiful jewellery.

I created the background with ink dusters, then stamped the images. I coloured the foxgloves with inks and a water brush, and then punched some tiny flowers from black card, and added gems to the centres.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Lavinia Stamps: 'Full Moon'

Tuesday Throwdown: 'Favourite Embellishment' - gems!

Cute Card Thursday: 'Florals'

Corrosive Challenges: 'Anything Goes'
Crafts Galore 'Anything Goes'

Ingredients:

Lavinia Stamps: 'Fox 1', 'Lilly', 'Dandelions 2', 'Leaf Trail', 'Birds'
Adirondack ink: Butterscotch, Meadow, Aqua

Stampin' Up! Ink pad: Perfect Plum
Crystal Parade gems: Topaz

Valentine

Hi! Here's another Valentine's card I made, using heart punches borrowed from my lovely friend Linda, and a flower border punch. I layered up the coloured card and ribbon for the background, and added a silver charm.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

Cute Card Thursday: 'Be My Valentine'
Simply Create Too: 'Love'
Come And Get It: 'Valentine's Cards'
Crafty Calendar: 'Love is in the Air'
House of Cards: 'Love Theme'

Creatalicious: 'Anything Goes with Optional Hearts'

Birthday Pengwing

Hi! Here's a quick birthday card for my friend Linda. It's a bit silly - she loves penguins but she pronounces 'penguin' as 'pengwing', and we tease her about it. So, here's a pengwing card!

I used a clipart penguin, and printed it on the lower half of a piece of cardstock so that I could fold it at the top to form a card. Once folded, I cut around the image to make a penguin-shaped card. I printed off two more penguin images, then cut and layered up the white part of his body and the beak. I printed the sign with added sentiment, cut it out and added a bit of shading, then attached it to the penguin's wing.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations: 'Cute Critters'
Cute Card Thursday: 'Something Fun'
Crafty Creations: 'Anything Goes'

Another JOFY one

Hi! Here's another one I made yesterday, which is quite similar, but a different background.

I stamped and masked the flowers, stencilled the daisies, and used ink dusters for the rest of the background, masking a circle for the sun. Then I coloured the flowers with inks and a water brush. I added some white Nuvo Crystal Drops to add a bit of texture. I made some of the dots larger to give a bit of variety, but I'm not sure if it works or just looks odd... on the card in my last post, all the dots are within the black lines, which accentuates them. I might add some black round the larger dots on this card, see if that looks better!

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Simon Says Wednesday: 'New Something' (my new JOFY stamps!)

Cute Card Thursday: 'What's New?' (my new JOFY stamps!)

CAS Mix Up: 
I hope my card is CAS enough - lots of space, if not white... Used stamping + inks + stencilling + masking + Nuvo Drops

That's Crafty: 'Anything Goes'

Crafts Galore: 'Anything Goes'

Ingredients:
Flowers from JOFY Stamp Set 33
'Happy Birthday to You' from Woodware 'Meadow Flowers'
Imagination Crafts stencil: Butterfly and daisy
Adirondack ink pads: Butterscotch, Cranberry, Juniper, Aqua
Stampin' Up! Perfect Plum ink pad

Flowery Heart

Hi! Here's another Valentines Day card, made my masking with a heart stencil. I coloured the background with ink dusters, and then stamped the flowers. I coloured them with Promarkers, and then added gems to the centres.

I'm entering this one into the following challenges:

Inky Chicks: "Love Letters and/or Hearts"

Unicorn Challenge: "Lots of love"

Curtain Call:

Cute Card Thursday: "Ladies Only"

Crafts Galore: "Use a Digi or Stamp"

Crafty Sentiments: "Anything Goes"

Christmas Muse

Hi! Over at Muse there's a challenge to create a card inspired by this beautiful card:

The closest I have to this image is a digistamp with holly and a bow. This is what I came up with:

I coloured the image with Promarkers, added Glamour Dust to the bow, and Glossy Accents to the berries.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Muse

Cute Card Thursday: "Festive Colours"

Hiding in my Craft Room: "Christmas Colours"

The Crazy Challenge: "Christmas"

Inky Chicks: "Merry Christmas"

Autumn Leaves

Hi! I've been watching Charmed and making cards tonight! Here's one of the cards I made, inspired by the sudden Autumn feeling when I left the house this morning!

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday: "Autumn Leaves"

Moving Along with the Times: "Cute Animal"

Simon Says Stamp: "Make It Colourful"

Always Playing With paper:

The Shabby Tea Room:

Purple Flowers

Hi! Here's a card I just made, with a new digistamp I bought a couple of weeks ago:

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Come and Get It: "Black and White with one Colour"

Cute Card Thursday: "Monochrome"

Papertake: "Colour theme: Lilac, purple, blue – any or all"

Addicted to Stamps: "Clean & Simple"

MFT Challenge:

Unicorns & Rainbows...

Hi! The Sisterhood of Crafters has a rainbow challenge at the moment, which I've been struggling with! Here's what I came up with:

I'm also entering this in the Cute Card Thursday challenge: "Anything Goes"

I Love Colour Challenges!

Hi! I love colour challenges, as I'm not very imaginative with colours and always stick to my favourites. Colour challenges make me try something different! Pals Paper Arts have a lovely subtle colour challenge at the moment:

Here's the card I made for it:

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:

CAS(E) This Sketch: 

Cute Card Thursday: "One Word"

Sweet Stampin': "Anything but a Birthday"

More Gold Embossing

Hi! As my last card didn't seem navy enough for the current Cupcake Inspirations challenge, I thought I'd have another go. It's more of a purple-navy now... But I really like this stamp :)  I gold-embossed the image on watercolour paper, and used inks to colour, to get deeper colours this time. When the card was dry, I spritzed it with water to mottle the ink, and sprinkled some glittery white embossing powder on the image.

I'm entering this second attempt into the Cupcake Inspirations challenge:


I'm also entering it into these challenges:

Cute Card Thursday: "Citrus"

4 Crafty Chicks: "Anything Goes"

Simply Create Too: "Anything Goes"

Lazy Cat

Hi! I don't make man cards very often, because it's so difficult.... why don't they like flowers and glitter!? But anyway, here's a card for a cat-lover, and I reckon it's ok for a man, despite the tiny little gem on the cat's tail. It's hardly noticable...

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:


Cute Card Thursday: "Pets"

Crafts Galore Encore: "Use a stamp or digi"

Watercoloured Flowers

Hi! Here are a few more cards using my new SU stamps. This time I used watercolour paper, inks and a water brush.

I'm entering this one in to the Time Out Challenges: "Nature with the Optional Twist of Animals"

I'm entering this one into the following challenges:

MFT Challenge:

Cute Card Thursday: "Ladies Only!"

I'm entering this card into the CASology; "Repeat" challenge

Boxes of Kittens

I recently bought a new digi from Sami Stamps, and I made a couple of cards today using it. The first one was inspired by the colours in these two challenges:

MFT Color Challenge

The Sisterhood of Crafters 'Pink & Lavendar Photo Inspiration'

Here's my card:

I'm also entering it into the Cute Card Thursday challenge 'Too Cute!', because it doesn't get much cuter than boxes full of kittens...


I made the same card with a slightly different sentiment, and different colours:

I'm entering this one into the following challenges:

Less Is More '2 of 4 Legs' (even though technically there are 16 legs altogether...)

Addicted to CAS 'Animal'

My time to Craft 'Domestic Animals'

Crafty Creations 'All Creatires Great and Small'