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I have another Day of the Dead card, this one featuring Lenore Forevermore from Simply B Stamps.

This one was more difficult as she didn’t have her face decorated so I had to add that in myself, which I did after I coloured her up so the pressure was really on.  I think it turned out OK but next time I think I will make a template for myself and definitely add that detail in first.

With such a beautiful image I wanted a fairly CAS card and the Week 3 sketch at Viva La Verve was just right although not sure I’ve altered it too much with the added element of the image.  I liked the scattered circle elements as they gave me the perfect placement for my sugar skull stickers, they sort of pick up the grey from the inspiration image.  I didn’t have any other in my stash so had to go with these.  I also used the pink from the photo on the image but teamed it with some lime green and a little yellow as the Day of the Dead images all seem to be multi-coloured.

Although my card is somewhat CAS it still has lots of layers, which I love.  I even layered lace on ribbon for the curved element.  With all my layers I am entering my card in the current challenge at Craft Hoarders’ Anonymous.

As You Like It is currently asking which style you prefer cute or elegant.  I have to say I think my preference is elegant although I do tend to try all styles and people have said my style is rather grungy.  I don’t think there’s anything grungy about this card, the image was beautifully elegant and I’ve followed that through with my CAS layout and embellies so for me, definitely, it is elegant.  Why elegant?  Because I love beautiful embellies, dies like this elegant frame, images of women with gorgeous hair like Lenore Forevermore and because my all time favourite movie star is the queen of elegance herself, Audrey Hepburn.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin C00, N0, N1, 0

Eyes B00, B05

Lips R39, R43, R46

Hair N4, N6, N8, YG00, YG01, YG03, 110

Outfit RV02, RV04, RV06, RV09, YG05, YG23, YG25

Skull E40, E41, E42

Roses RV23, RV25, RV29, YG01, YG03, YG05

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Wild Rose Studio ~ Oval Frame

Embellishments

Jolee’s Stickers ~ Black & White Skulls & Skeletons

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Lemon, Melon & Pink

Papers

Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Great White

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Candy

Ribbons & Trims etc

Webster’s Pages Trendsetter ~ Green Fashion Lace & Kiss Pink Ruffle Trim

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Lenore Forevermore

Challenges

As You Like It ~ Favourite Style (Cute or Elegant & Why)

Craft Hoarders’ Anonymous #18 ~ Layer It!

Viva La Verve ~ October Week 3 Sketch & Inspiration Pic

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To hear the sea-maid’s music?

My card today features a cute mermaid image from Lacy Sunshine Stamps, this is Waverly Sun Kissed Mermaid.

I’ve played along with my favourite sketch challenge over at Outlawz with this card although I have taken some creative liberties with the two rectangular elements.  I’ve swapped one out for some lovely die cut waves, I thought these suited and it meant I didn’t hide the fabulous and very appropriate lighthouse image on the designer paper I used.  For the other I’ve used some trim I found in my bottomless pit of ribbons and laces that reminded me of seaweed and sea foam.  This formed the perfect backdrop for my embellies.  It was also in just the right colour and somehow my stash of paper came good too with the right colour for the waves and the base card, love it when my stash actually holds what I need!

What could be more perfect for embellies for a card featuring a mermaid but pearls and seashells?  I’ve also added a metal anchor charm as I needed something to hang as a counterpoint to the seashells and it suited my theme too.  With my metal embellie I am entering this over at Inky Chicks for their current challenge.

As my card features a Lacy Sunshine image and I have two die cuts, the frame around Waverly and my waves, I’m also entering this in the current challenge at Lacy Sunshine.

Ingredients:

Copics

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

Eyes B21, B24, 0

Lips R24

Hair E35, E37, E47, E49, Y38

Tail BG000, BG01, BG02, BG05, BG07, BG07
Seaweed G43, G94, G99

Rocks W1, W3, W5, W7, 0

Water B000, B00, B02, B05

Chalks & Powders etc

Pebbles Pearlescent Chalk ~ Blue & White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Memory Box ~ Big Splash Border

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ Grand Large Labels

Embellishments

Metal Anchor with Chain

Seashells

Inks & Paints etc

Spica ~ Blossom, Peach, Sand & Turquoise

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Peacock Feathers, Weathered Wood & Wild Honey

Wink of Stella ~ Clear

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz & Ranger Adirondack Cardstock ~ Stream

Graphic 45 French Country ~ Patterns & Solids

Prima Seashore ~ Shell Postage

Ribbons & Trims etc

FabScraps Bead Ribbon ~ Pearl

Webster’s Pages Tutu Trim ~ Trendsetter Blue

Pearl Wire from stash

Stamps

Lacy Sunshine ~ Waverly Sun Kissed Mermaid

Challenges

Inky Chicks #30 ~ Use a metal embellishment

Lacy Sunshine ~ Dies and/or punches

Outlawz Sketch

 

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...and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings

I’ve got a shape card to share today featuring the fun Trapeze Ariel from the Jude at the Circus collection from Simply B Stamps.

There’s so much movement to this image that I just didn’t want to stick Ariel on a boring square card so I went with a round one, following the current sketch at Die Cuttin’ Diva’s.  I think I’m pretty safe meeting their die cut requirement, pretty much every element of my card was die cut.

I wanted to give the impression of Ariel just hanging in the air so I fussy cut her and attached her trapeze to a piece of twine that looked like rope.  I also printed the great sentiment that comes with the image on a piece of paper with a grid pattern that looks to me like a net.

 

The current challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks calls for a shaped card so I am entering my card over there.  I’ve also got an image of a girl on my card so I’m linking this up at the current DL.ART Thankful Thursday challenge too.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E23, E27, 0

Hair E23, E25, E25, E29

Outfit RV00, RV02, RV04, RV06, RV09, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Trapeze E40, E42, E55, E57

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ A2 Curved Matting Basics, Grand Circles & Labels Twelve

Inks & Paints etc

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Dusty Concord, Mustard Seed, Tea Stain & Worn Lipstick

Papers

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Dusty Concord

Echo Park Springtime ~ Fresh Flowers

Echo Park Summer Days ~ Banners

Webster’s Pages Everyday Poetry ~ Wordsmith

Ribbons & Trims etc

The Paper Studio Grosgrain Ribbon ~ Baking

Twine from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Trapeze Ariel

Challenges

4  Crafty Chicks #184 ~ “Shaped Card”

DL.ART Thankful Thursday #127 ~ Use an image of a girl or lady

Die Cuttin’ Diva’s #155 ~ Sketch

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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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