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Sunday, 1 February 2015

Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet…

…cupcake!

The card I’m sharing today features an image from Mo’s Digital Pencil, Cupcake Thief, my first time ever using one of Mo Manning’s gorgeous images.

There’s a new challenge I’m proud to be a DT member of, Show Your Digi Love, where the theme is always anything goes with that month’s chosen digi artists. It’s all about using the images you have in your stash and showing some love for the artists who created them. In my case having Mo’s Digital Pencil among the chosen artists for our first challenge was a perfect excuse to go off and buy my very first (and second and third and, well, you get the picture) Mo Manning digi.

To make up my card I followed the current sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2. As I’d printed and coloured my digi on my usual 4x6 piece of card I was a bit constrained on my circle size choice. I actually used the largest of the Nestie set and had to use the “out of the box” technique (for a great tut check out the Kraftin’ Kimmie blog post by Becky) to fit the image in. As a result I ended up shrinking down the other two circle elements.

I swapped out the flower element for a cupcake button from my stash; I also raided my stash for some interesting embellies for the other two circle elements. As I have three different types of embellishments I am entering this in the current challenge over at Brown Sugar.

Now I don’t really have anything warm on this card, I guess trying to make a quick getaway on foot carrying three very large and tasty cupcakes would get you rather warm, but fortunately the main theme over at Bronte and Bella’s Challenge is anything goes and I do have my Mo Manning image so I’m also entering my card there.

Hope to see you over at Show Your Digi Love, easy peasy anything goes every month and a whole month to enter the challenge. It’s a just for fun challenge but there are some gorgeous badges to display on your blog if you’re among the DT’s top picks and the overall DT favourite will be asked to guest DT in the next month’s challenge. It’s a great way to show your love for the artists that make our hobby possible and your financial support (yep we all like a freebie but artists need to eat too!) so they can keep creating their awesome art.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes E23

Hair Y15, Y17, Y21

Outfit RV52, RV63, RV66, RV69

Cupcakes C0, C2, E31, E33, E34, E44, E47, E49, G03, G09, N4, N6, N8, R35, R46, R59, RV02, RV10, RV11, RV13, V05, Y21, Y23, Y26, 0

Chalks & Powders etc

Lindy’s Stamp Gang Embossing Powder ~ Angel Wings Ruby & Stardust Candy Rose

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Classic Scalloped Circles

Embellishments

Close to my Heart ~ Mini-Medley Accents Slate

Crochet Doily from stash

Jesse James Button It Up ~ Mini Sweet Treats

Inks & Paints etc

Shimmerz ~ Sugar Plum

Spica ~ Clear, Gold, Lavender & Silver

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Seedless Preserves & Spun Sugar

Twinkling H2O ~ Luv-u-pink

Papers

Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Amaryllis

Echo Park Little Girl ~ Jody’s Stripe

Stamps

Mo’s Digital Pencil ~ Cupcake Thief

Challenges

Bronte and Bella’s #246 ~ Anything Goes/optional warm

Brown Sugar #131 ~ 3 different Embellishments

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 ~ Sketch #43

Thanks for stopping by!

Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Wing your flight o'er all the earth

It’s sketch challenge time over at Outlawz and my card today features Angel from this month’s sponsor, Polkadoodles.

And here’s this week’s sketch.

As the image I chose was an angel I figured I’d make a Christmas card, something I always leave to the last minute! It’s hard to tell in the photo but to add some sparkle to the angel I used Twinkling H2O’s and Glamour Dust on her wings. I wanted the ornament to shine also so I outlined it with a Gold Gelato, the rich colour doesn’t show so well in the photo, and also sprinkled on some white Fran-tage, also difficult to see in the photo. The lace accents were the perfect shape, they are actually two thirds of the actual piece of lace, I cut out the middle section as it was just too much for the card. It’s a beautiful lace though and one of the many laces I received as a gift from two special friends while on my big American adventure.

I love my embellies and dug deep into my stash for the ones on my card, I knew I had Christmas themed ones somewhere, just had to find them, including the holly and berry buttons. I find the shank on the buttons mean they are hard to adhere to a card so I cut them off with pliers so hopefully that doesn’t mean I’ve cut off my chance to enter the current Brown Sugar challenge.

With my Christmas theme and embellies I’m also entering this in the current challenge over at Christmas Cards All Year ’Round. And, as I am using a Polkadoodles’ image (although a now retired one), I’m also linking this up at Polkadoodles where they also have a Christmas challenge going on.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes BG01

Hair Y00, Y13, Y15, Y17

Outfit C00, N0, N1, N2, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Chalks & Powders etc

DecoArt ~ Glamour Dust

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Chunky White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ 2012 Heirloom Ornaments

Embellishments

Creative Memories Stickers ~ Enchanted

Holly and Berry Buttons from stash

Poinsettia Paper Bloom from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Faber-Castell Gelato ~ Gold

Spica ~ Gold

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Pine Needles

Twinkling H2O’s ~ African Jade

Papers

BoBunny Silver & Gold ~ Festivities

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Scarlet

Ribbons & Trims etc

Red Velvet Ribbon from stash

White Lace from stash

Stamps

Polkadoodles ~ Angel (retired)

Challenges

Brown Sugar #116 ~ Ribbon & Buttons

Christmas Cards All Year ’Round ~ Embellish It!

Polkadoodles #42 ~ Christmas Fun

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