…and all things nice

Sharing a card I made for my niece featuring the super sweet Gorjuss girl, Sugar and Spice, stamp from Santoro.

For the layout of my card I’ve followed the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.  I’ve used my sentiment for the thin rectangular element and mounted my stamped image on the focal rectangular element.  As this card is for a birthday and features a birthday sentiment, I’m entering it in the current challenge at Allsorts, who are turning 10.  I haven’t even been blogging or really into card making properly for that long so it’s quite the achievement and am glad I could play along in this milestone challenge.

Over at Cardz 4 Galz they have a recipe challenge, which helped me with the elements of the card.  I was always going to have an image and sentiment but I went with the pretty designer papers to fit the recipe and added in three gems as embellies for the same reason.  It was a great recipe as the end result is a very pretty card, which I hope my niece will love.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Hero Arts Embossing Powder ~ White Satin Pearl

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Clear

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Rhinestones ~ Wine

Make it Crafty Chipboard Layered Words ~ 2" birthday & 2½" wishes

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Dusty Concord, Gathered Twigs, Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar, Tea Dye, Victorian Velvet & Vintage Photo

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Velvet & Wisteria

Designer Paper from stash

Stamps

Santoro Gorjuss ~ No 53 Sugar and Spice

Challenges

Allsorts #520 ~ Happy 10th Birthday Allsorts

Cardz 4 Galz #96 ~ Follow the Recipe...

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Have Yourself a Steampunking Christmas

It’s challenge time at Simply Steampunk Challenges and our theme is “anything Steampunk”.  I’m featuring the very handsome, Romance Mercius, from Simply B Stamps Steampunk Romance collection.

One of my awesome teamies, Lisa, has been making some simply stunning Christmas cards with these images and she inspired me to also do a Christmas themed project.  For some years now I have made Christmas ornaments for friends, I was a bit lost for inspiration this year but I think I’ve found my ornament of choice.

It was easy-peasy to make, just a sheet of copper (the kind you buy to do copper art with), that I ran through my Cuttlebug.  Being a Steampunk themed ornament I had to use a Tim Holtz Pocket Watch Frame die.  I turned up the edges and filled the inside with Diamond Glaze then threw in a whole lot of watch parts.  To make it more festive I added a star embellishment and a Christmas present charm, all in metal of course.  The addition of the fabulous image, drawn by the uber-talented Abigail Larson, and some twine to hang it and I was done.

So won’t you grab your favourite Steampunk image and come play?  There’s an awesome prize up for grabs and an easy theme of anything Steampunk, we’d love to see what you create.

Being a decoration, I am entering this in the current challenges at the Cheerful Stamp Pad and Stamps & Fun = Creativity.  I’m also linking it at the current Christmas themed challenge at Feeling Crafty.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks & lips R02)

Outfit BG93, BG96, G85, G99, N0, N2, N4, N6, N8, 100

Heart R24, R29, R46, R59

Dies

Sizzix Tim Holtz Pocket Watch Frame

Embellishments

Fabscraps Filigree Embellishment

Glass Heart Bead from stash

Silver / Enamel Christmas Gift Charm

Watch Parts from stash

Ribbons & Trims etc

Gorjuss Baker’s Twine

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Steampunk – Romance Mercius

Challenges

Cheerful Stamp Pad #75 – Let’s decorate

Feeling Crafty #23 – Christmas

Stamps & Fun = Creativity # 180 – Christmas Decoration

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Phighting for a Cure

Welcome to the Phun 4 Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness blog hop, hopefully you came here via the gorgeous Lisa’s blog, if not and you are just passing by my blog, please see the blog hop list below.  I was honoured to be asked to be part of this hop and to be able to make a card that will go to someone living with this disease.  My card features an awesome image, PHun Butterfly, that Betty of Simply B Stamps drew especially for the occasion.

 

Did you know, while there are now 11 FDA approved medicines to treat pulmonary hypertension, zero are approved for use in children with PH.  You can also find out more information about PH from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association.

Now Betty isn’t the only artist to have generously provided her support, Tamara of the Stamping Chef has also drawn an image, Pucker Up, and there will be another blog hop tomorrow starting at the Stamping Chef featuring it.  You too can show your support by making a card with one or both of these beautiful images.  Instructions for getting the image is below, you will also need the answer to this question “How many treatments are FDA approved for children with PH?"

There’s also a challenge going on, link up your project here by Saturday 16 November (the US 16th) to be in the running for a Teresa Collins Stamp Maker.  Winners will be announced at the Paper Moments blog on Saturday 23 November.  Remember to use periwinkle on your card.

Now head on over to the delightful Veronica’s blog and don’t forget to leave some love at all the blogs as there will be a prize for one lucky person drawn by random.org.

Ingredients:

Copics

BV02, BV04, BV13, BV17, E29, E35, E37, Y23, Y26, Y28

Dies

Spellbinders Grommet Tags

Embellishments

Petaloo Flora Doodles Flowering Vines – Eggplant

Rhinestone Button from LSS

Inks & Powders etc

Fran-Tage Embossing Enamel – Shabby Blue

Smooch Spritz – Electric Blue

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock – Dusty Concord

Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells – Patterns & Solids

Ribbons & Trims

Gorjuss Baker’s Twine

Satin Ribbon from stash – White

Stamps

Simply B Stamps PHun Butterfly

Challenges

A Little Bit Crafty – Sparkle and Shine

Cardabilities Sketch #86

Craftitude Challenge #52 – Anything Goes/Use Twine or String

Blog hop list:

Betty

Corinne

Darcy

Katya

Shelley

Irene

Karen

Lisa

Emily Shroom (that’s me!)

Veronica
Shirley

If you would like the image to participate please email Betty at simplyb10 (at) aol (dot) com, with the subject PHun Butterfly.  You may request the PHun Butterfly until Tuesday November 12th at 8pm PST.  And remember, do NOT share the files, refer your friends on how to go about getting them.  Records will be kept on who should have the image, sharing is stealing!

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