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Saturday, 14 February 2015

But dying without her vain were life of mine…

The card I’m sharing features a new image from Simply B Stamps, Miller Arabian Knight, that I did up as a Valentine’s card.

To make up my card I followed the current sketch over at Feeling Sketchy. I’m trying to keep to my resolution of using my dies more (OK for some just using them for the first time!) so swapped out the thin element for a lovely swirly heart die. I added a plain clay heart in the centre of the die cut heart for some added interest and depth. I did leave out the bow element as I couldn’t really think of something that would suit my image and I figured the swirly die was enough embellishment.

Over at Country View Challenges they are running a drips and drops challenge and one of the DT, Brenda of Bumblebees and Butterflies, did an awesome project up with a fab background I just loved. So I hopped on over to her blog and used her technique of an acrylic block, Distress Ink and water to create mine. I ended up with a bit of white space so I grabbed a Distress Stain and spritzed it over. Brenda had a few more elements to her background but I was sure I’d bugger it all up if I tried to do any more so just stuck with this simple two steps and I must say I am very happy with the result.

As I have a couple of hearts on this I am also entering it in the current challenge over at Die Basteltanten.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E30, E31, E37

Lips E13

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit B00, B02, B04, B06, C00, E30, E31, E33, E35, E37, N0, N1, N2, 0

Sword B00, B02, B04, C0, C2, C4, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, 0

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Impression Obsession ~ Heart Flourish

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Deckled Rectangles

Embellishments

Live and Love Crafts ~ Clay Heart

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Antique Linen, Iced Spruce, Salty Ocean & Tea Dye

Papers

Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Black Cat & Harborside

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Licorice

Ranger ~ Speciality Stamping Paper

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Miller Arabian Knight

Challenges

Country View ~ Drips and drops

Die Basteltanten #46 ~ Matter of the heart

Feeling Sketchy #114 ~ Card Sketch

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Thursday, 20 November 2014

Christmas day, the Aussie way

I’ve got a non-traditional Christmas card to share featuring Summer Time Betty from the new Summer Babes collection from Simply B Stamps.

Yes, I’ve put a swimsuit wearing, summer themed Betty on my Christmas card. Why? Well my sentiment says it all, this is an Aussie Christmas when the sun is baking hot, the water is warm and togs (swimwear) are the perfect apparel. I just covered the bow on her hat with some holly and berry and gave her some Christmas coloured spots on her swimmers.

To make up my card I followed the current card sketch over at Feeling Sketchy, swapping out the butterflies for some Christmassy white berries and a seashell. I also printed my sentiment (a mix of my own and the word art that comes with the image) on a die cut that looked a bit like a sun rather than just having a plain circle element.

Christmas is the theme over at Crafty Catz so I am entering my card in their current challenge. I’ve also used a lot of green on my card so I’m aslo entering it in the current challenge at Crafty Hazelnuts’ Christmas Challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes B32, B39, 0

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit G12, G14, G16, G19, R24, R29, R46, R59, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Shapeabilities ~ Ironwork Accents

Embellishments

13@rts ~ Berries

Holly and Berry Shrinkie (handmade)

Live & Love Crafts ~ Seashells

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Chocolate, Gold & Orange

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Scattered Straw & Wild Honey

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Nixon

BoBunny Silver & Gold ~ Silver & Gold, Stripes & Winter

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Summer Time Betty

Challenges

Crafty Catz #255 ~ Christmas is Coming

Crafty Hazelnuts’C hristmas Challenge #203 ~ Go green

Feeling Sketchy ~ Card Sketch #108

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Monday, 7 July 2014

That will be quite enough of that, thank you

There’s a fun new release over at Simply B Stamps featuring an awesome witchy image drawn by Betty and some cool word art sentiments drawn by her son, Christian, my first card features the sentiment ‘Fly with me’ and the new Betty Boo image.

To make up my card I’ve followed the sketch over Feeling Sketchy, now I stuck to the sizes on the original sketch of the rectangular elements mainly because they were the size of my Nesties. But, oh boy, do I wish I’d swapped them out for something bigger. Colouring the image and word art when they were that small (I sized the image to 2” tall) was really hard and fussy cutting a nightmare. I had to cut off all the lovely curly bits on Betty’s umbrella and couldn’t face fussy cutting the word art individually so just cut around it all.

The current theme at Cut It Up is twilight and I had just the perfect paper to make a twilight scene. I added some twinkly star like embellies to add to the twilight theme as well as some die cut bats to go flying across the sky. With my bats I’ve got things with wings so I am also entering this over at Crafty Creations.

Now the SBS DT have been having fun with this image as well as another awesome one Zombie Bride Betty and you can check out all the awesomeness over at the SBS blog or head over to the DT blogs listed below. Come back in a few minutes to see what else I have done with Betty Boo and the other word art that comes in this fun bundle.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E30, E35

Lips R24

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit G00, G03, G05, G09, W3, W5, W7, YR00, YR12, YR14, YR16, YR68

Pot C3, C5, C7

Umbrella G00, G03, G05, G09, YR00, YR12, YR14, YR16, YR68

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Memory Box ~ A Bunch of Bats

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ ATCs

Spellbinders Shapeabilities ~ Bats

Embellishments

Freckled Fawn ~ Gold Resin Asterisks

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Dusty Concord, Faded Jeans & Seedless Preserves

Papers

Die Cuts With a View Matstack ~ Stardust

Kaisercraft 13th Hour ~ Midnight

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Liquorice

We R Memory Keepers Black Widow ~ Nightfall

Ribbons & Trims etc

Gold Trim from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Betty Boo Word Art

Challenges

Crafty Creations #266 ~ Things with wings

Cut It Up #48 ~ Twilight

Feeling Sketchy #94 ~ Card Sketch

Blog list

Kay

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Sunday, 29 June 2014

Sugar and spice

Today I’ve got the first part of a big project I am doing up, a baby book for a colleague at work who is expecting her first little girl. This is taking a lot longer than I thought to complete so to motivate me I am going to post up the only bit that is finished so far, the cover.

To make up my baby book I’ve used a Tim Holtz Collection Folio, the large size, and gone to town with the decorating of it. To do up the front cover I have followed the layout sketch at Feeling Sketchy and got inky and powdery with all sorts of good things. I started with Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Picket Fence and then sprinkled on some Fran-tage. On the layout I used modelling paste and a stencil for my butterflies and added some Distress Ink into the modelling paste as well as some more embossing powders over the top. I also did the same with the textured background that is only just visible under the papers.

With all my various effects on the cover I am also entering this in the current Craft Hoarders Anonymous challenge. There are copious amounts of flowers all over the cover, as expected for little girl’s book, so I am also entering this in the current challenge at Paper Crafting Journey.

I swapped out the black elastic closure for some pink elastic. I was going to put a word band or some letter charms on the elastic but the cover is way too busy as it is. Notice that border, looks pretty good, doesn’t it? Well it had better for the work that went into it, let’s just say these Collection Folios are made thick and tough and it was also too big to go through my Grand Calibur so I traced and cut round my Sizzix die and then used various sized hole punches for the lacy edge.

Opening up the folio you get two flaps top and bottom and I decorated the outside of these with some chippie words, these I painted up and sprinkled with Fran-tage also. The large heart buttons have been in my stash for ever as have the tulle flowers, I think they were from Webster’s Pages.

I’ve tried to tie things together with matching elements so I’ve got some of the same Organza Pearl Pink on the inside of these flaps. The top one is missing the pocket, I have no idea where I’ve put the packet, it’s got to be somewhere in my craft room! It’s meant to be for the hospital name card from the baby’s crib. The bottom one is ready to go with a pocket for the baby’s wrist tag.

There’s also a flap on the right side and I’ve used the same Organza Pearl Pink on the outside with some buttons from Jesse James. On the inside I have the same lace as the top and bottom flaps and some chippies and more of the Jesse James buttons and flowers to tie in with the other flaps too.

You’ve got to have space in a baby book for all the vital statistics from the birth and I’ve put that on the inside left cover using a piece of vellum over some lovely shimmering cardstock with some more flowers and another piece of lace.

The back inside cover I’ve done up as the last page looking back over baby’s first year with some journaling cards ready to go. I’ve tied this in with the flaps using the same lace and roses too.