Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

I have the honour of being a guest DT  at Through the Purple Haze challenge this month and today is my first post for this week’s anything goes challenge featuring an image from the sponsor Lacy Sunshine’s Sadie.

Now did you think that I didn’t colour up Sadie?  Surely not, for that wouldn’t have been much fun and this is definitely a fun card.  All it takes is to pull gently on the handle on the top to give Sadie back her colour.
 

Pretty clever, isn’t it?

 

I followed a tutorial from Keren of Altered Ego; Keren has been kind enough to post up tutorials and patterns for a range of fab card designs.  Go check out her blog and her great take on this secret slider card.

To make up my card I took some inspiration from Die Cut Diva’s where they have an inspirational photo posted as their challenge theme.  Being an Aussie myself the colours of the rosellas and bush were very familiar and worked well for a get well card.

I’ve used my favourite embellies, flowers, to make up my card.  Lovely sunny coloured ones to help brighten someone’s day who is feeling, well, off colour.  With my flowers I am entering my card in the current challenges at Allsorts and Sweet Stampin’ (got the stamp part covered too).

Hopefully my card has inspired you to try something a bit different, even if it is just a different type of card like mine.  If so, why not join in the fun over at Through the Purple Haze.  The current challenge will run for a week and, as always, there are some lovely prizes on offer.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes B00, B05, 0

Lips R24, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Dress Y11, Y13, Y15, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Sizzix Bigz & Textured Impressions ~ Antique Handles

Embellishments

Prima Say it in Pearls ~ Green

Prima Shabby Chic Resin Treasures ~ Dell’Arte

Prima Vintage Trinkets ~ Tea-Thyme

Inks & Paints etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst ~ Wake Me Up Before You Go Gold

Rubn’Buff ~ Gold Leaf

Smooch Spritz ~ Emerald Sprinkle

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Vintage Photo

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Fired Brick

Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe ~ Exquisite Motif

Stamps

Lacy Sunshine ~ Sadie

Challenges

Allsorts Challenge #254 ~ Spring Blossoms

Die Cut Diva’s ~ Photo inspiration

Sweet Stampin’ ~ Flowers

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In the lilt of Irish laughter

My final card today features another cute image from Simply B Stamps’ new Teen Scene Holiday collection, Patriotic Jude.

Now Jude is supposed to be celebrating 4th of July but unsurprisingly it isn’t a holiday we have in Australia so I’ve gone with a different theme altogether on my card, St Patrick’s Day.  All I did was add some strategically placed gems over the stars on Jude’s hat and in the sparklers.  I was going to go for shamrock cut outs but no way was I trying to cut them the size I needed, I’m not sure even my Cameo would have coped.

The layout of my card follows the current sketch at Digi Sketch and I also have their green twist covered.  I did swap out the circle elements for some Celtic knots to better suit my theme.  As St Paddy’s Day, or using green, are the themes over at Simply Create Too so I am also entering this card there, I have both covered on mine. 

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E21, E11, E50, E51

Eyes E23, Y26, 0

Mouth E02, R02

Hair E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit G00, G02, G03, G05, G07, G09, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, YG00, YG01, YG03

Firecracker Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, YG00, YG01, YG03

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Classic Circles & Grand Circles

Spellbinders Shapeabilities ~ Celtic Accents

SVG ~ St Patrick’s Day Badges

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Rhinestones ~ Lime

Inks & Paints etc

Smooch Spritz ~ Emerald Sprinkle

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Mown Lawn, Pine Needles & Wild Honey

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock ~ White

BoBunny Silver and Gold ~ The List

Graphic 45 French Country ~ Patterns & Solids

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Forest

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Patriotic Jude

Challenges

Digi Sketch ~ Use green

Simply Create Too #55 ~ “St. Patrick's Day [or Use Green]”

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For I, except you enthral me, never shall be free…

I don’t do a lot of just because crafting but my card today is exactly that and it features a beautiful image from Sureya called The Strapped Bride, which is available to colour as a freebie on DeviantART.

I was thinking to make this a Steampunk themed card hence the grungy kind of green wedding dress and lace, I was even going to use some pipe embellies but it didn’t quite work out that way.

I bought the paper from Kaisercraft yesterday from my LSS, which is sadly closing down.  It was just perfect for the image and the sketch I followed from Paperminutes.  To jazz it up even more I added Fran-tage to some of the roses on one of the papers.  I have the perfect black paper with a shiny raised print in black that I was going to mount the image on but I couldn’t find it among my stash.  So I made my own with some more Fran-tage, I love the effect so I think I’m going to use it again.

I added the bow element to echo the big bows on the image.  I’m loving my Bow-it-All for making perfect bows.  I also used some leather cord threaded through the lace picking up the straps from the image, I just didn’t have any buckles in my stash so had to go with a ribbon threader instead, which was silver so got covered in some Rub’nBuff.  I also added Rub’nBuff to the Freckled Fawn embellie I added to the centre of the bow as I wanted a gold centre but couldn’t find anything in my stash to suit.  The embellies were going to make this Steampunk but nothing I had in metal suited what turned out to be more grungy vintage.  Despite going off on a different tangent to what I planned I love how this turned out.

With my lovely big bow I’m entering this in the current 4 Crafty Chicks’ challenge.  I’m also entering this in the current Outlawz Paper Ala Mode challenge ‘fancy smancy’, I think with all my added embossed details, the gold trimmed ribbon, lace and bling it is a rather fancy card, even if I haven’t worked out what occasion I’d use it for!

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks R02)

Eyes E23, E27, 0

Lips R24, R46

Hair E29, E31, E35, E37, E49

Outfit BG93, BG96, G85, G99, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Tattoo G05, G07, G09, R46, R59, R89

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel – Aged Black, Aged Green & Aged Scarlet

Embellishments

Delish Ribbon Threader – Bistro Collection

Freckled Fawn – Filigree Rhinestone Stickers

Inks & Paints etc

Inkssentials Emboss It – Clear

Rub’nBuff – Gold Leaf & Pewter

Smooch Spritz – Mossy Mist

Tim Holtz Distress Ink –Shabby Shutters & Walnut Stain

VersaMarker – Watermark Pen

Wink of Stella – Clear, Gold & Silver

Papers

Kaisercraft Art of Life – Always & Everyday

Ribbons & Twine etc

Lace from LSS

Sullivans Flat Leather Thonging – Brown

Stamps

Stampin’ Up! – You Are Loved (retired)

Sureya – The Strapped Bride

Challenges

4 Crafty Chicks #176 – Bows
Outlawz Paper Ala Mode – Fancy Smancy

Paperminutes #303 – Sketch

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