Pen and Paperie: Live & Love Crafts

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Saturday, 14 February 2015

Well now if you’ve got a cutie who’s a real sweet petutie…

This new Lola Western Cutie image from Simply B Stamps I have on my card is a real sweet petutie, don’t you agree?

I loved colouring the folds in her skirt and am really pleased with how she turned out. I tried a new red combo (see ingredients list below) and I love it, especially teamed with black.

My card layout is from the current sketch at Cheerful Sketches where I swapped out the circle elements for some hearts. I wanted to use some of my new dies on this, the two scalloped ones are from an Anna Griffin set I picked as this is actually going out to the sweet friend who got the die for me. The black lace is new and I thought worked perfectly for the horizontal element, the shape suited the western theme and tied in nicely with the image.

Over at Hanna and Friends they have embossing as their theme, I have two kinds on my card. I’ve got some heat embossing with some Fran-tage to make my sentiment just a little more special and my dies were embossing dies also.

As I have a number of hearts on my card I am also entering this in the current challenge at Live and Love Crafts.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E30, E31, E37

Mouth R00, R01, R02, R05, R20

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit C00, N0, N1, N2, N4, N6, N8, R22, R35, R46, R59, W6, W8, W10, 0, 100

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Shabby White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Cuttlebug Anna Griffin ~ Lovely Impressions

Lin & Lene Design ~ 3 Piece Heart

Embellishments

Petaloo Darjeeling Collection ~ Dahlias Teastained Cream (coloured with R35 & 100)

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Pitch Black & Red

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Aged Mahogany & Tea Dye

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock ~ Stella

BoBunny Timepiece ~ Moments

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Licorice

Prima Stationer’s Desk ~ Red Romance

Ribbons & Trims etc

Guipure Lace ~ Floral Scalloped Black

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Lola Western Cutie

Stampin’ Up! ~ You Are Loved

Challenges

Cheerful Sketches ~ Sketch #21

Hanna and Friends # 215 ~ Embossing

Live and Love Crafts #32 ~ Hearts

Thanks for stopping by!

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

…girt with golden wings

I have a rather special card today featuring an awesome image I found on deviantART by Scary Rabid Fan Girl called Steampunk Angel.

There are some really talented people on deviantART and some of them are lovely enough to make their images available to download. I have to say I am pretty pleased with how the image turned out, especially the metallic elements.

I wanted this to be a special card as it is going out to a friend for her 40th birthday so I decided on a fancy parcel card. Given this isn’t your ordinary flat folded card I am entering it in the current challenge over at 4 Crafty Chicks. As it is a parcel card I am also entering it in the Noor Design challenge.

The blank space on the base is for a ‘happy birthday’ sentiment, I couldn’t find one in my stash but wanted to get this posted up before I head out on holidays. I need to buy a sticker or something to have the words pop. I did find the lovely ‘celebrate’ sentiment and some numbers in my sticker stash that did work for this. As the card is for a celebration I am entering it in the current Brown Sugar challenge.

I’ve used a lot of embellies on this card to make it extra special. All of the flowers are from I Am Roses. I bought a big supply of them all in white so I could colour them up to match my projects. My plan was to have them the same colour as the angel’s blue dress and the berries the same aged copper but I didn’t have sketch markers to go in my Copic Airgun so I had to settle for Smooch Spritz and Lindy’s Stamp Gang inks.

The theme of the card is very much flying with my angel, butterflies and flying gear so I am entering it in the current challenge over at Inkspirational. Being flying themed I have a lot of things with wings so I am also entering it in Live and Love Craft’s current challenge. I couldn’t find a metal butterfly in my stash the right size so I cut some from a Martha Stewart sticker border and layered them up. I used pearls to add some extra texture and scattered some yellow ones around as all my embellies were fairly aged and the angel’s wings are a bright gold. Given my pearls I am also linking this up at the Alphabet Challenge.

Now my friend is a fellow Steampunker and this is a Steampunk inspired card from the angel with her metal wings through to the gears and flying paraphernalia. There’s actually a pair of men flying zeppelins under the die cuts on the base that ended up covered up that also suited the theme. The current challenge over at I Am Roses calls for Steampunk and a butterfly; I’ve got both covered off and plenty of their gorgeous flowers so I’m also entering this there.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eye E33

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit & Wings B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, E08, E33, E35, E47, R05, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Lin & Lene Design ~ Floral Square

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Marvelous Squares

Embellishments

BoBunny Jewels ~ Somewhere in Time

BoBunny Combo Stickers ~ Somewhere in Time

Creative Memories Epoxy Stickers

I Am Roses ~ Cherry Blossoms, Lilies, Mini Roses, Puffy Roses, Small Flowers & Stamens

Martha Stewart Stickers ~ Butterfly Border

Prima Junkyard Findings ~ Ship Parts & Steampunk Air

Prima Say it in Crystals ~ Small Swirls Black

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Mini Gears & Sprocket Gears

Inks & Paints etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Flat Fabio ~ Tweedle Dee Denim

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst ~ Cocoa Bean Copper

Smooch Spritz ~ Caramel Latte & Navy Twinkle

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Walnut Stain & Weathered Wood

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Weathered Wood

Riddersholm Design Tailgate Marked ~ Airborne

Stamps

Scary Rabid Fan Girl ~ Steampunk Angel

Challenges

4 Crafty Chicks #211 ~ Fancy Folds

Alphabet Challenge ~ P for Pretty Petals

Brown Sugar #111 ~ Celebrations

I Am Roses ~ “Steampunk” and include a Butterfly

Inkspirational #65 ~Word Prompt: Flight

Live and Love Crafts #27 ~ Things with Wings

Noor Design ~ Parcel card

Thanks for stopping by!

Saturday, 19 July 2014

...who enchant all who come near them

There’s a brand new Simply B Stamps’ Fan Page challenge with a new set of gorgeous mermaid images, my first card features the beautiful Sheri Mermaid.

The theme for this image is to use twine so I’ve used some baker’s twine to make my own fishing net. Not sure how good I’d be at fishing with it but once you get in the rhythm it is actually quite quick and fun to make.

I thought I’d stick with making my own embellies as I wanted some shabby, sea foamy type flowers and I didn’t have any in my stash so I got some cheese cloth and my Tim Holtz Tattered Florals dies and set to work. The cheese cloth didn’t stand up all that well to being spritzed after I die cut, maybe I should have done that step first but as I wanted shabby flowers the fact you can’t really see the Tattered Floral shape properly doesn’t matter so much. I used some berries for the stamens and tied the whole lot together with some more twine. I like how they turned out, I think they suit my shabby chic seaside theme well. Rather than add leaves I’ve made up some crinkle ribbon in a seaweedy green, I love colouring my own seam binding ribbon as you can get the exact colour you need and it seems to work with both Distress Inks and my Various Inks. As I have both handmade flowers and hand dyed ribbon on this I am entering it in the current challenge at Our Creative Corner.

I tried to get the background to also have a fishing net look with my new Kite stencil but I suck with stencils, worse even than stamping! I think I need some way to hold the stencil down flat, it probably didn’t help that I distressed my edges first. I used modeling paste and spritzed with a Lindy’s Stamp Gang Flat Fabio and although you can’t see the fish net pattern it does look water like and suits my theme.

I managed to print the sentiment that comes with the image perfectly on a journaling card from the Prima Seashore collection and then distressed it and rolled up the corner to make it look like an old parchment. I also fussy cut the anchor printed on it to tie in with the anchor charm in the opposite corner. It’s hard to see (OK, pretty much impossible to see) in the photo but I’ve used Twinkling H2O’s on Mermaid Sheri’s tale, I think I have to get more of them, it looks lovely in real life.

With all my shabby chic elements this fits right in with the Live & Love Crafts’ style and their current challenge is for ‘by the sea’ projects. Lots of blues, water and sea bits and pieces on my card so I am linking it up over there. I am also entering my card in the cool water themed challenge over at Frilly and Funkie.

There are three other beauties in this new release, hop on over to the SBS blog to check them out and all the details of the challenges. The rest of the SBS DT have done awesome things with these images too so please go check their blogs out, you can find links at the bottom of the post or from the SBS blog. Oh and be sure to come back soon as I will have another two mermaids swimming onto my blog in a just a few minutes.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E30, E35, 0

Lips R24, R29, R89

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Top and Tail BG000, BG01, BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09

Hair Decoration G21, G24, G46

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Marine

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Kite Stencil ~ Fish Net