…he will make a fool of himself too

Made up a fun birthday card for a colleague using one of Tim’s cute dogs from the Crazy Dogs set.

To help me decorate my card I’ve played along with the current bingo board at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge.  I’ve gone for the diagonal row from the top left using a blue palette, twine for some embellishment and stamping my dog on a die cut rectangle.

My card follows the sketch over at Paper Craft Crew.  As I needed a rectangle to make my bingo row I swapped out the circle for a rectangle.  I used twine for the same reason and it also goes well for a masculine card, which this is.  I brought the washi tape element to the front to add in my sentiment, which I printed over some digi washi tape and popped up on some foam tape.  This is going out to a colleague who said we weren’t allowed to do anything for his birthday as he didn’t want a fuss, hence the sentiment I added. 

Instead of any embellies for the three small circle elements I’ve used one of the speech bubbles from the Crazy Thoughts set that matched my sentiment.  Think the cute doggie also looks a bit perplexed so he was a good match too. 

I created the grungy background stamping (instead of the text background) with one of the stamps from the Butterfly Melange set.  I stamped the complete stamp three times next to each other using a block and then took the stamp off the block and just stamped as is to get the unfinished portion on the top.  Distress embossing powder completed the worn and grungy look.

At Crafting by Designs they are looking for projects with animals so I am also linking up my doggie card there.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder Super Fine Detail ~ Clear

Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder ~ Weathered Wood

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Simon Says Stamps Dies ~ SSSD111455 Stitched Rectangles

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colours ~ No 20 Black, No 35 Carmine Red, No 44 Light Brown, No 46 Brown, No 47 Dark Brown & No 91 Blush Gold

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot & Weathered Wood

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Blue Note

Pion Design Palette ~ Blue V

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ THJ002 Butterfly Melange, CMS238 Crazy Thoughts & CMS271 Crazy Dogs

Ribbons & Trims etc

Miss Lavanda Digital Washi Tape ~ Geometric 8 Little

Grey & White Baker’s Twine from stash

Challenges

Crafting by Designs ~ Animals

Paper Craft Crew #249 ~ Sketch

Tic Tac Toe #003 ~ Left diagonal

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…il vous flatte pour un temps, et puis vous allume tout d'un coup une fièvre continue…

I got in a second Christmas card this weekend; this one features the cute The Penguin and the Marshmallow stamp from Stamping Bella.

My card layout is from CAS(E) this Sketch where I’ve used my stamped image as the round element.  I added the sentiment from the set and heat embossed it, stamping in Gathered Twigs Distress Ink first and then embossing ink with clear embossing powder over the top.  I’ve gone with a muted brown tone to my card to match the hot chocolate the penguin is drinking.

Over at Jingle Belles they are looking for stars or stripes on your card.  I’ve gone with stars with a piece of starry designer paper from Maja Design’s Home for the Holidays collection.  I made my own star embellies too with some La-La Land copper foil and a star punch.  I love that foil, my crafty friend gave me a sample and I’m using up every scrap!

I’m also entering my card in the current challenge at Crafty Gals’ Corner where they’re looking for projects for any holiday.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder Super Fine Detail ~ Clear

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colours ~ No 10 White, No 20 Black, No 33 Orange, No 36 Wine Red, No 43 Lemon Yellow, No 46 Brown, No 50 Pale Aqua, No 57 Turquoise

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing, Gathered Twigs

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ White

La-La Land Adhesive Foil ~ Copper

Maja Design Home for the Holidays ~ Traditions

Pion Design Palette ~ Brown I

Stamps

Stamping Bella ~ EB437 The Penguin and the Marshmallow

Challenges

CAS(E) this Sketch ~ Sketch #227

Crafty Gals’ Corner #128 ~ Any Holiday

Jingle Belles ~ Stars and/or Stripes

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There’s only splendour for the sight

I’m sharing a CAS Christmas card I made featuring the gorgeous Spiral Christmas Tree die from Dixi Craft.

I decided to go with a Christmas tree on this card as that’s the optional twist at Happy Little Stampers in their current Christmas challenge.

Over at Sparkles Christmas they are challenging you to make a Christmas card with non-traditional colours.  I thought I’d play along and to help me pick my colours I used the colour palette from CAS Colours & Sketches.  So my tree is cut from Stampin’ Up! cardstock in Dapper Denim.  I cut two and layered them on top of each other to give some dimension to my card.  The star is cut from copper foil from La-La Land and I’ve decorated the tree with some gems I coloured with a Copic marker that was a pretty close match to Peekaboo Peach.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Dixi Craft Dies ~ MD0049 Spiral Christmas Tree

Embellishments

Zenozam Hot Fix Crystals ~ 2mm, 3mm, 4mm, 5mm, 6mm Clear coloured with YR65 Copic Marker

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

House of Paper Cardstock Romanesque ~ Pearl

La-La Land Adhesive Foil ~ Copper

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Dapper Denim

Challenges

CAS Colours & Sketches #228 ~ Colours

Happy Little Stampers Christmas ~ June

Sparkles Christmas #77 ~ Non-Traditional Colours

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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious…

I’m sharing a card today that mostly features sentiments from the Stuff to Say set by Tim Holtz.

The design is from a tut on the Joy! Crafts site by Geertje.  It was a bit tricky getting the base right but once I did this turned out to be a really awesome card.  Being a special shaped card I am entering it in the current challenge at Creative Shopping.

To help me decorate the card I used the current board over at Tic Tac Toe and took the centre vertical line.  This gave me my base colour of grey, used a light grey for the card itself and then a darker one to frame my designer papers.  Some of my diecuts are also embossed (dry) and my sentiment, stamped images and some diecuts are also heat embossed.

I also took on the challenge from Frilly and Funkie to find an image and use it as my inspiration.  So I searched Google for shabby chic and vintage French and this image was so pretty I based my design around it.

I took the rose pattern and the stripes from the bed covers and found matching designer papers and for my third paper I took the damask pattern from the wallpaper.  I also picked up the cream and light brown colouring in my choices.  This view of the inside of the card insert shows how I recreated the three pictures from the wall in my card using images from the Beautiful You set by Stampin’ Up!.

As there was nowhere to really write on the card I made tags, I’ve got one in the photo.  I actually made five with digis that resembled the others in my team who also signed this card for a colleague who is leaving.  Picking up the floral decorations in the room I chose roses for embellies.  Rather than a filigree heart or the clocks I chose a butterfly for the suspended embellie, cutting one from ice blue vinyl (looked similar to the colour of the clocks in the picture) and didn’t back it so it had the filigree look of the heart on the wall.

Really love how this turned out.  Was up late last night and had to finish it off quickly today at work as we had a farewell lunch today but worth the effort as our colleague loved it.

 

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Shabby Pink

Ranger Embossing Powder~ Clear Super Fine Detail

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

BoBunny Dies ~ Lattice Frame & Ornate Frame

Cheery Lyn Dies ~ DL113AB Small Exotic Butterflies #2

Frantic Stamper Dies ~ FRA-DIE-09497 Trio of Swirls

Embellishments

I Am Roses ~ R2-518 Pale Pink Variegated Mini Roses & R8-15 ½'' Open Roses

Kaisercraft Pearls ~ Chino

Pink Pearl Stamens from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colours ~ No 10 White, No 20 Black, No 36 Wine Red, No 44 Light Brown

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Embossing, Hickory Smoke & Tea Dye

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Hickory Smoke

Tim Holtz Distress Permanent Mixed Media Ink Palette ~ Hickory Smoke

Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers ~ Tattered Rose

Papers

Arches Watercolor Paper ~ 185gsm Smooth

Cordenons Cardstock ~ Cream

Dark Grey Smooth Cardstock from stash

La-La Land Adhesive Foil ~ Ice Blue

Maja Design Vintage Spring Basics ~ 2nd May, 5th May, 9th March, 1st April

Pion Design Palette ~ Grey I

Reprint Hobby Summer Wings ~ Love Song

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ CMS110 Stuff to Say

Stampin’ Up! ~ Beautiful You

Various digis cropped

Ribbons & Trims etc

Cream Lace from stash

Hug Snug ~ Seam Binding Ribbon

Various Satin Ribbons from stash

Challenges

Creative Shopping #52 ~ Special shaped cards

Frilly and Funkie ~ You’re my inspiration

Tic Tac Toe ~ Board #2

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