Happy Birthday Sharman

I have a card today for the very lovely Sharman whose birthday it is and my card is featuring her commissioned image from Simply B Stamps.

I decided to do something extra special for Sharman who is just the loveliest person so have done a tepee card in a shabby chic style.  I’ve got lots of lovely flowers and die cuts and pearls and some distressing happening to go into my card.  As this is an extra special card I am entering it in the current The ABC Challenge.

Here's the left hand side.

 

And the right.

Fussy and Fancy are running a two of a kind challenge at the moment and I have lots of pairs on this.  I have two flourish die cuts, two pairs of paper roses, two pearl flourishes, two die cut labels and two rub-on sentiments.

I’ve never made a tepee card before but it was very easy to do and it is a nice change from a regular card.  Being a different card form I am also entering my card in Bastel-traum’s current challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E11, E21, E50, E51 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E30, E37

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit B91, B93, B95, B97, N0,  N1

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Shabby Blue

Pebbles Metallic Cream Chalk ~ Dark Blue

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

My Favorite Things Die-namics ~ Fancy Flourish

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Labels Eighteen

Wild Rose Studio ~ Oval Frame

Embellishments

13@rts ~ Berries

Petaloo Botanica Collection ~ Faux Dried Floral Ephemera Grey Blue

Prima Say it in Pearl ~ Ivs. Grey (coloured with B97)

ScrapBerry’s ~ Paper Roses White (coloured with B93 & B97)

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Gold

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye, Walnut Stain &Weathered Wood

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Typhoon

FabScraps Industrial Chic ~ Steel Chic

Maja Design Vintage Autumn Basics ~ No. XVII

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Sharman

Challenges

ABC Challenge ~ X is for Xtra Special

Bastel-traum #23 ~ Special card form

Fussy and Fancy #127 ~ Pairs or Two of a kind

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Under the daisy's mocking spell

It’s Wednesday Sketch challenge time over at the Outlawz and I have a card featuring another image from this month’s awesome sponsor, Oak Pond Creations, on my card, this is Georgia’s Daisies.

And the sketch this week.

 

I’ve flipped the sketch and added in some lace for my zig-zag elements as my ability to cut paper to that shape is rather limited.  I needed something to help me pull the whole card together, I’m not used to non-people images so I checked out the various challenges around to see what inspiration I could find.  Sweet Stampin’ had a beautiful photo up and it was just what I needed to direct my search for the perfect paper and embellies.  I’ve taken the soft lavender colours from the photo as my inspiration, including Smooching my butterfly embellies to soften up their colour.

I’ve also played along with the bingo card at Fussy and Fancy, as I had lace and a flower image I also added in some Fran-tage around my image to get my three in a row.  To help add interest to the card I’ve also made it a gate fold with the image the ‘latch’ or overlapping part.  As it a gate fold I’m also entering my card in the current challenge at Vandicrafts’ Artistry.

Hope to see you playing along over at the Outlawz for this week’s sketch challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

G05, N1, R24, R29, R46, R59, R89, Y13, Y19, YG03, YG11

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Shabby Pink

Pebbles Pearlescent Chalk ~ Lilac

Perfect Pearls ~ Forever Violet

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Matting Basics

Embellishments

Pearl and Rhinestone Gem from stash

Petaloo Darjeeling ~ Wild Butterflies Soft Grey

Inks & Paints etc

Smooch Sprtiz ~ Mixed Berries

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Shaded Lilac

Papers

Graphic 45 Secret Garden ~ Patterns & Solids

Kaisercraft Violet Crush ~ Mauve

Ribbons & Trims etc

Lace from stash

Stamps

Oak Pond Creations ~ Georgia’s Daisies

Challenges

Fussy and Fancy #120 ~ Bingo (flowers, lace, Fran-tage)

Sweet Stampin’ ~ Photo inspiration

Vandicrafts’ Artistry #3 ~ Gate fold or incorporate a gate in your design

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Only you can cool my desire

It’s Wednesday so that means a new sketch at Outlawz and my card features the fabulous Lucy Loo Fire Dance from our awesome sponsor The East Wind.

And here’s this week’s sketch.

I’ve flipped the sketch on its side and used a slightly different shape for my main element, mostly because the Nestie I had in a closer shape was the wrong size for the image I already had coloured up.  I also added in an element to be able to add my sentiment, which is computer generated in a suitably flaming font.

I wanted to go with a real fiery theme on this card and the papers from CTMH I used were just perfect for that.  I needed to break up the yellow, red and orange a bit so I went with some brown, it has a subtle criss-cross pattern that is actually in yellow and orange.  The papers are from an old Halloween collection but fit with my fiery theme.  I’ve also had the ribbon for a while, it’s also from CTMH and worked well for the banner elements.  With my CTMH items and my fiery theme I am entering this in the current challenge at Heart 2 Heart.

I didn’t have any brads or buttons or charms to suit a fiery theme and when I found the cute heart charms (in the right colour) in my stash I got the idea for the sentiment.  Now the water tap charm doesn’t really make sense until you see the inside of the card where the sentiment continues.

As I have both charms and ribbon on my card I am entering this over at Charisma Cardz.  I’m also entering it at Fussy and Fancy as the sentiment really makes this card special.

Hopefully I’ve inspired you to come play along over at the Outlawz sketch challenge, we’d sure love to see what you create with this week’s sketch.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E25, G43, 0

Lips R24, R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27

Outfit and Fire R24, R29, R46, R59, R89, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17, Y19, YR12, YR14, YR16, YR68

Chalks & Powders etc

Pebbles Metallic Cream ~ Dark Blue & Yellow

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Labels Twenty-eight

Embellishments

Freckled Fawn ~ Metal Hearts

Prima Junkyard Findings ~ Water Taps

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Gold & Red

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Spiced Marmalade & Walnut Stain

Papers

Close to My Heart Mischief ~ Brown Patterned Paper and Sunset Cardstock

Ribbons & Trims etc

Close to My Heart Designer Ribbon ~ Tulip (I think!)

Stamps

The East Wind ~ Lucy Loo Fire Dance

Challenges

Charisma Cardz #16 ~ Charm, Ribbon and Twine

Fussy and Fancy #119 ~ WORDS

Heart 2 Heart ~ Some like it HOT (CTMH required)

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The memories are all in my mind

Yesterday I shared a double layout from the baby book I am making (you can see it here) and today I have a single layout.

This one is the last page (I’m not your conventional scrapbooker so have been doing the pages out of order) and I’ve done it in papers and embellies to match the inside back cover (see it at this post). 

The current song theme at A Song In Your He{ART}  is Three Times a Lady, now if the lyrics to that song don’t just inspire a lovely layout for a special little lady I don’t know what will.  Listen to the song, it’s lovely and about the memories inspired by a very loved lady.  So while it may have been written for a lover it could just as easily describe the love between a parent and a special daughter.  I picked out my journal cards with words inspired by those in the song, they come from a Authentique Classique Pretty’s Life Cards and are just perfect for a layout looking back on the first precious year of a baby girl’s life.

I made up my layout following the current sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2, I think their sketches are more geared toward cards but I think it worked for this.  I just resized it to be a rectangle rather than a square and swapped out the button element for some flowers to match the back cover.  I also swapped out the three gems for a swirl of them, again to match the back.

With all the pink and flowers and girl journaling there’s no mistaking that this is a book for a baby girl so I’m also entering it at Fussy and Fancy’s current challenge.

Ingredients:

Embellishments

BoBunny Jewels ~ Frosting (coloured with RV34 Various Inks)

I Am Roses ~ Mulberry Paper Roses Variegated Pink and Pink

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye, Walnut Stain & Worn Lipstick

Papers

Authentique Classique Pretty ~ Life Cards

Carta Bella Baby Mine ~ Baby Girl Dots

Pion Design Fairytale of Spring ~ Hope

Ribbons & Trims etc

Lace from stash

Challenges

A Song In Your He{ART} #11 ~ Three Times a Lady

Fussy and Fancy #118 ~ “It’s all about girls”

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 #21

 

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