Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

There’s a new release over at Simply B Stamps and my first post today features the fabulous Fight for the Cause Nancy image.

Now Betty offers commissions from time to time where you get to choose how you want your image drawn up, theme, pose, style etc and Betty works her magic.  Usually these are $45 but if you’ve joined the Fan Page sometimes Betty does a $25 special, these she does in sets of ten.  This means ten new images in an assortment of themes which you can also sometimes purchase, for this collection all ten ladies who bought a commission gave permission for theirs to be sold so go check out all the different styles and themes, everything from Halloween to Sandra Dee sweet, of set D.  If you buy a commission and give permission for it to be sold you also get all of the other images that are permitted to be sold in that set.  Pretty awesome, right?

So to make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch at Outlawz, I just went somewhat OTT with the flowers!  I really wanted to use my new Nesties and a doily (I’ve got heaps I’ve had in my stash for ages) so I layered up the circle element.  Circles happen to be current theme at Creative Corner so I’m entering my card over there.  And, as two of my circles are die cuts, I’m also linking this up at the current Crafts 4 Eternity challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eye B000, B05, 0

Lips R29, R46, R59

Hair E30, E31, E33, E35, Y26

Pants E40, E42, E43, E44

Scarf & Ribbon RV21, RV23, RV25, RV29

Top BV04, BV13, BV17

Shoes N0, N1, N2

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Rose

Pebbles Basic Chalk ~ Pink

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Grand Stately Circles & Stately Circles

Embellishments

Decoration Berries ~ White

Mulberry Flowers from stash

Paper Doily from stash

Vintage Pearl Pins ~ Capped Teardrops & Crown Teardrops (coloured with RV63)

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Spun Sugar & Tattered Rose

Papers

7 Dots Studio The Queen’s Heart ~ I Wanna Be

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Spun Sugar

Studio 75 Special Moments ~ 01 & 03

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Fight for the Cause Nancy

Challenges

Crafts 4 Eternity #176 ~ To Die For

Creative Corner ~ Going in Circles

Outlawz Sketch Challenge

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…no friend as loyal as a book

Today I’m sharing a cute little bookmark I made featuring Don’t Forget Your Lunch from the Rio N’ Toots’ collection from Simply B Stamps.

The images in this collection are drawn by Betty inspired by her daughter Rio, who just happens to be a bookworm so what better way to feature the image than on a bookmark.  I cut the image in two to have one on either side of the bookmark, gotta love Betty’s images for their versatility!

My bookmark follows the current sketch over at Papertake Weekly, I just stretched it to be the right shape for a bookmark.  Now you need some ribbon on a bookmark, at least I think you do to easily find it in your book, and I’ve had this awesome skull ribbon in my stash for a while.  With it I am entering this in the current Left of Center challenge, luckily it’s an and/or challenge as flowers would’ve made the bookmark too fat.

I’m also entering this in the current Craftitude challenge where I’ve got all the possible themes covered.  It’s anything goes, easily covered that one, or add a brad, I have two although I wish I’d had a cute skull rather than the hearts but you just gotta roll with what’s in your stash sometimes, or eyelet, got that too which is under the ribbon.
 

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes V01, V05, 0

Lips R20, R22

Hair RV52, RV63, RV66, RV69

Outfit RV52, RV63, RV66, RV69, T4, T6, T8, W1, W3, 100

Books BV20, BV23, BV25, E40, E42RV91, RV93, RV95, RV99, Y23, Y26, Y28

Toots BV20, BV23, BV25, BV29, R00, G05, G07, G09, R02, R24, R29, R46, RV52, RV63, RV66, RV69, T4, T6, T8, V91, V95, 0, 100

Lunchbox RV91, RV93, RV95, RV99

Embellishments

Authentique Stickers ~ Natural Elements

Francheville Brads ~ Large Heart

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Scattered Straw, Seedless Preserves, Walnut Stain, Weathered Wood & Worn Lipstick

Papers

BoBunny Sophie ~ Rae

Echo Park Summer Days ~ Purple

Kaisercraft Art of Life ~ Die Cut

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Liquorice

Studio 75 Little Black Dress ~ 05

Studio 75 Rosalie in the Garden ~ 01

Ribbons & Trims etc

Skull Grosgrain Ribbon from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Rio N' Toots Don’t Forget Your Lunch 
Challenges

Craftitude #61 ~ Anything Goes or Add a Brad/Eyelet

Papertake Weekly #88 ~ Sketchie free for all

Left of Center #28 ~ Ribbon and/or Flowers

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Not all those who wander are lost

The card I have to share today features another of the super cute images from Simply B Stamps’ new Jude at the Circus collection, Little Hobo Clown Oscar.

Now just because these are images of young children doesn’t mean they are strictly for kids’ cards, indeed, I have made this one for a male friend.  I just picked more adult style paper and an adult theme; in this case I’ve placed Little Hobo Clown Oscar walking along a railway track, just like the stereotypical hobo.

The layout follows the current sketch at Seems a Little Sketchy; I just flipped it so the top became the bottom.  Flipped this sketch just worked perfectly for the one element I’d decided on, which was the railway track, then the little diagonal element told me where I’d place my sentiment.  I cut the railway track by hand, I just printed off a picture of some tracks and transferred them to some Kraft cardstock then hand cut the sleepers, inked them with Distress Ink in three colours to add light and shade and then assembled.  The railway station sign was cut using my Cameo and some shapes I formed up in Photoshop.  The original sketch had three embellies on the outside edge of the oval but I chose to just use the clocks embossed on the cardstock I cut the oval for them, more CAS for a guy card and it allowed me to keep the beautiful embossing showing.

Here’s a view of the inside too, featuring some awesome paper from Tim Holtz that fittingly referenced New York, my friend lived there for some time and it is his favourite place.  I love this quote from Winnie the Pooh, a true philosopher among bears!

Crafty Catz has a boys and their toys challenge, as I said, this card is for a male friend for his 51st birthday (do boys ever grow up?) and boys do love their toy trains so I’m entering my card in the challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Eyes B91

Lips E02

Hair T4, T6, 100

Hat & Coat E40, E42, E43, E44, E47

Pants & Tie B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

Shirt Y23, Y26, YR20, YR21

Vest & Hankie Bag R24, R29, R46, R59

Shoes E23, E25, E27, E40, E42, 0

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Forest Moss, Peeled Paint, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain

Papers

Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Kraft

Core’dinations Timeless Clocks ~ Hermit

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Peeled Paint

FabScraps Timeless Travel ~ Map 2

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Liquorice

Studio 75 Special Moments ~ 04

Tim Holtz Distressables ~ Railroad

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Little Hobo Clown Oscar

Challenges

Seems a Little Sketchy #60

Crafty Catz #222 ~ Boys and their toys

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The flower a tethered butterfly

My project today is a tag, well, actually a tag pocket with a little card inside, a thank you to a colleague who helped me out recently at work.  The front of the tag features a chippie of a Julie Nutting doll called Holly.

To decorate the chippie I started with Gesso and then sprayed with Smooch Glitz, I smoothed the spray with a paint brush to try and give the impression of a flat fabric like satin.  I then used a stencil and some mica to add the butterfly detail to the skirt.  To finish the doll I got out my Copics and just coloured as I would on paper, which seemed to work.

I made the flower embellies too following a tut on the Flying Unicorn Forum where they’ve got a challenge going to make these flowers and feature them on your project.  They are really simple to make but I think they are quite pretty although a tip or two, a heavy designer paper is not suited to what is essentially origami and a ¾” petal is very fiddly to fold.  The front of the tag follows the current sketch at the Outlaw’s sketch challenge, I actually remembered to get a picture of my creation so I can enter this week’s challenge, not like last week when I popped the card in the post before getting a picture!  I did add the bow element to the top and skipped the oval element, I thought Holly was a good replacement being quite tall and thin although not very rounded.

I added a pocket to the back of the tag, inspired by a post on the Flying Unicorn blog by Alda.  I sprayed it with the same Smooch as Holly’s dress and added some more butterflies to match.  I also added some designer paper to the back of the tag to match the front.  I didn’t have a smaller version of the ribbon on the front so I stamped the pattern on some plain canvas ribbon using a bindi stamp.

The little tag that goes inside was cut from a couple of Nesties.  I’ve layered the front of it to add interest and picked up the pearls from the centre of the flower in the corner embellie.  I echoed this on the back of the tag where I also used a resin flower in a matching colour as another of the folded flowers would have been too much.  I’ve left an enormous tail to the tag out of baker’s twine so I can tie this package style around the gift.

Crafty Catz has a thank you theme on their current challenge so I am also entering my tag in there as it is definitely about thanking someone.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E5o, E51, E53

Hair E29, E31, E35, E49

Dies, Stencils & SVGs etc

Magenta Mask – Nature Elements

Spellbinders Nestabilities – 5x7 Card Creator &Resplendent Rectangles

Embellishments

Folded Flowers using Marion Smith Mad Tea Party – Spot of Tea

Glitz Wild & Free – Alphabet & Words Stickers

Kaisercraft Pearls – Blush

Leaky Shed Chipboard – Holly by Julie Nutting

Webster’s Pages Whimsies – Lotus Flower Bloom

Inks & Paints etc

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso

ColorBox Chalk – Dark Brown

Mica – Copper

Shimmerz Paints Dimensionz – Blue Lagoon

Smooch Spritz – Emerald Sprinkle & Pralines and Cream

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Tea Dye

Tsukineko Encore! Ultimate Metallic – Gold

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock – White

Christina Re Designer Card – Shimmering Pearl

Marion Smith Nirvana – Cloud 9

Piatek Trzynastego Magic Moments – Evening in Venice

Prima Tag – Julie Nutting

Studio 75 – Rosalie in the Garden 04

Ribbons & Trim etc

Baker’s Twine – Key Lime & Princess Pink

Green Tara – Lace

Lace from LSS

Maya Arts Canvas Ribbon – Scrolls

The Paper Studio – Canvas Ribbon

Challenges

Crafty Catz #212 – Thank you

Flying Unicorn Forum – Fold It

Outlawz Wednesday Sketch Challenge

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