Ribbon Pleating

Hello, I'm running somewhat late today, I blame it on work! and the fact that I did the late shift last night then a sleep in followed by the early shift today, so kinda got home sat in front of TV and didn't move again till now and thought I really had better post this!  especially as I have a long day, sleep in tomorrow followed by the early on Sunday! lol

 Anyway it is still Friday which means a new challenge over at Crafty Catz and this week the wonderful Nick has chosen a theme of Ribbon Pleating and we have a wonderful sponsor this week...

CRAFTY RIBBONS

So onto my card, well ribbon pleating isn't something I normally do so I was a little worried till I remembered some gorgeous ready pleated ribbon I had won sometime ago so that was my starting point for this card!  well we all need a starting point! lol  I loved the muted colour of the ribbon and thought it would work well with the Kraft then I thought those colours we great for the 'In the 20's' image from The Paper Shelter and then matched it all up with the fabulous patchwork paper from Bearly Mine Designs so finished off by embossing the Kraft, added some gems, gem strands and flowers from my stash.  So after being worried I ended up with a card I'm really pleased with. Do pop by and check out what pleated ribbon treats the other awesome members of the DT came up with, they really rocked this challenge, loads of fab inspiration for you.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #171 

Created with Love #55 ~ Anything Goes

Digi Makeover #103 ~ Embossing

Bearly Mine Challenges #101 ~ Digi days

TFL

Oriental Delight

Good morning, this morning I am sharing with you my secret make which is part of the new release stamps at Crafty Sentiments Designs this month.  For my make I went with something a little different for me and I also teamed up with my daughter Ria, so a joint effort this time!

Now grab yourself a cuppa as this is quite a picture heavy post, ok are you ready?  Then I'll begin!

First off all when I got my secret image I knew exactly wanted I wanted to do with her as I had an old pair of trousers with embroidery on them that I thought would match her beautifully, so without further ado the trousers were attacked very neatly by Ria with a rotary cutter!

 

Then Ria made a seam across the bottom of the trouser leg to create the bottom of the bag and a double hem around the top.

Next the image was stamped onto some transfer paper that I picked up in Lidls a while ago just because it seemed like a good idea at the time and the price was good! Lol The one thing I did discover was that it was better to colour with copics as the brush is much softer than the nib of spectrums as they tended to take the surface of the transfer paper off.   Yes I did do some trial runs! Lol (forget to take a pic of the coloured image before transferring it!)

 

So with the bag ready for the transfer it was time to iron and add the handle.

 

And just to finish off here’s a close up of the gorgeous Geisha Girl image coloured and transferred, don’t forget though that the transferred image is a mirror of the original stamped image.  

Thanks for stopping by, we hope you like our little bag xx

We would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations Paint ~ Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody #27 ~ Anything Goes

Created with Love #55 ~ Anything Goes

TFL

Make it girly

Good morning to you all, I hope everyone had a good extended weekend and enjoyed some wonderful weather.  Today sees a new challenge over at Crafty Sentiments and this week the wonderful Celine has chosen the theme of 'Make It Girly' so a lovely easy challenge for you this week.  The DT certainly had fun making their projects so don't forget to check them out.

The prize for this week is fabulous:

And with all the gorgeous new Harriets (& Henry) you really are spoilt for choice!  Oh and don't forget if you use a Crafty Sentiments image put a 3 after your name and you get entered into the prize draw 3 times.

Ok so onto my card, I have used 'Lazy Days' which is available at the Crafty Sentiments Design store.  I used the out of the box technique to die cut the image and coloured her with copics, love the purple and yellow combo, not one I would normally use, paper is from Bearly Mine Designs, added some ribbon, fancy flourish, little tag sentiment, gem and some vinyl diecut s/a floral ribbon stuff! ~ found it in £land so thought I'd give it a try got some butterfly one in black too, not used that yet though!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters #158 ~ Square cards

Created with love #55 ~ Anything goes

Crazy Challenge #151 ~ Anything goes

TFL

Crafty Sentiments Facebook Offer

Good afternoon just quickly wanted to share this special offer that is happening for TODAY ONLY over on the Crafty Sentiments Designs Facebook page.

 As a bank holiday Monday treat buy any of our stamps from the website and I will send you a freebie.....offer only for today and for facebook followers only.

In the note section of your order, just put facebook so I know."

Happy shopping xx

Thank You Henry

Hello, well what a week I have had this week, work has been extremely hectic and this has resulted in very little time being allocated to crafting so this little card has literally taken me all week!  Not the way I like to craft but at least I have finally got it finished!  Am so glad I was up to date with my DT commitments!  Anyway my card for today is using a fab new digi from Crafty Sentiments Designs and he is called Henry and is Harriet's new friend.  He is a cutie.

I have coloured him with a mix of copics and spectrums and teamed him up with some fab papers from Barely Mine Designs.  The border is a die from Crafty Sentimens Designs and I have used some of the paper to 'build a brad' finishing off with a peeloff sentiment raised up on foam pads and a butterfly from a set I got recently while staying with my mum. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine Designs #100 ~ Monthly Sketch

Papertake Weekly ~ Flower Power

LEJ Designs #67 ~ Nature Inspired

ABC Challenge ~ T is for Thank you

Fab 'n' Funky #182 ~ You can stick it ~ build a brad, glue dot for butterfly, peeoff sentiment on foam pads

One Stop Craft Challenge #240 ~ Spots and dots

2 Sisters #158 ~ Square Cards

Sketch 'n' Stash #119 ~old stash is the peeloff and build a brad, new stash is the butterfly and image

TFL

Crafty Catz are back!

Good morning all, well it's Friday and the news for today is that Crafty Catz are back after our 2 week summer break and we are all refreshed and ready to go with a brand new challenge and the theme this week has been chosen by the wonderful Christine and she wants to see 'Stitching, real or faux plus the option of adding some material to your project too'  So... take up the challenge with the option and you will be entered into both prize draws for both sponsors....But please remember to state what if any material has been used. If you choose to leave out the option of material  and just cover the stitching  you will be entered into the  prize from our second sponsor.  Which brings us nicely on to our fabulous sponsors for this week and they are:

KENNY K 

5 digital stamps

and 

Marianne Designs

AUGUST prize

Wow 2 fabulous prizes!  So onto my project for this week.  As Ria will shortly be returning to school to study for her A levels we have made a joint project in the form of a study notes book.  Ria coloured the fabulous 'Col Macallan' from Kenny K then we used 2 pages from a papermania board book as a cover, kept them 'naked' stamped some cogs on, added some faux stitching round the edges, matted the 'Col' on to some foiled paper from DCWV and finished off with some leather cogs.  The leather is actually from an old furniture sample book and is cut using TH Gadget Gears and the Big Shot.  We both LOVE how this turned out and I shall certainly be looking through my materials scraps again, it's not something I think to use on my cards very often

I would like to enter this book into the following challenges:

The Crazy Challenge #152 ~ Animals

Tuesday Throwdown #161 ~ Use your scraps

Creative Inspirations Paint ~ Back 2 School

ClearlyiStamp #5 ~ School time

TFL

Lets see your twine

Back again, this time I'm here to tell you about the new challenge this week over at Divas By Design and this week the theme is 'Let's see your twine' and we have a super sponsor, one of my faourites ...

and the DT got to play with some of their fantastic images, for my card I chose Parking and the matching sentiment.  I also knew straight away that I wanted to use my Portobello Road papers so the image was coloured with Spectrum Noirs and I added LOTS of 3d glaze, it's on the car windscreen, her glasses, keys, bangles, handbag and shoes!  Kept the colours bold so as not to get lost in these fabulous papers.  I added faux stitching around the image and sentiment.  Flowers are using the papers and some red cs then punched and layered and gems added.  The little key charms and cs tag are joined with my twine.  Have to say I love how this turned out, all that glaze is such fun!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Fussy and Fancy #95 ~ Bingo Board ~ flowers, free, die cuts

Totally Papercrafts #180 ~ Favourite colours ~ One combo I love is red, white & blue and adore these very British papers for that reason

Sweet Stampin' ~ Bold & Beautiful

Papertake Weekly ~ Flower Power

TFL

Sneak peek 3

Good morning all, are you enjoying all these fabulous sneak peeks of the new stamps from Crafty Sentiments Designs that are being released on Thursday 22 August. 10 wonderful new stamps and after today you will only have seen 3 of them! They really are fabulous.  So today we are previewing another one of these adorable new stamps and in order to see loads more eye candy all you need to do is hop over to the Crafty Sentiments Inspirational Blog where we have some special guests showcasing for you.

Today it's the turn of 'Princess Mask' coloured with a mix of copics and spectrum noirs, the papers are scraps of Bo Bunny (some Christmas ones,from my bag of offcuts) and then used some feathers to echo the feathers on the mask, gem strands and a flower from my stash.  I also used some liquid pearls for her earring and tiara. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

One Stop Craft Challenge#239 ~ Add Stripes

Papertake Weekly ~ Flower Power

Tuesday Throwdown #161 ~ Use your scraps ~ Scraps of paper

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the Inspirational Blog for some more fantastic previews of 'Princess Mask' and keep checking the inspirational blog daily to see some secret makes that the DT have been up to with the other stamps in the release.  So far only each DT member has seen the stamp they are working with so it's exciting for us too!

Sneak peek 2

Good morning all, well as I said yesterday, over at Crafty Sentiments Designs there is a new stamp release, I say stamp release what I mean is 10 new stamps are being released on Thursday 22 August yep 10 and they are fabulous.  So today we are previewing another one of these adorable new stamps and in order to see loads more eye candy all you need to do is hop over to the Crafty Sentiments Inspirational Blog where we have some special guests showcasing for you.

Today it's the turn of 'Lily Fairy' and she is adorable and will be available in store on Thursday.  I have coloured with my copics and lots of glamour dust to her flowers, papers are all First Editions New Leaf and the main background piece is glittered.  I used Tonic Studios punches for the borders and butterflies and then used the little punched out butterflies around Lily and finished off with a little stamped sentiment.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Totally Gorjuss #197 ~ Punches & Dies

Stampin' for the weekend ~ Butterflies

Allsorts #220 ~ Use your new stash ~ new stamp

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the Inspirational Blog for some more fantastic previews of 'Lily Fairy' and don't forget to stop by tomorrow for a preview of another new stamp.

M4M goes Steampunk

Ok so have you had chance to check out the new release of digital images over at Mad For Markers?  They were released on Friday and they are awesome. You NEED to check out the M4M blog to see what the other DT members have been up to and off course our very talented Boss Lady Sammi.  

For my card I have used Steampunk Taya, who you can find in the store, coloured of course with copics and teamed up with some fab new digi papers from Bearly Mine Designs.  I embossed a piece of holographic silver cs with a cogs embossing folder then I finished my card with some black cs cogs and some cute little screw top brads.

  

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Bearly Mine Designs #99 ~ Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss #197 ~ Die cuts & punches

Allsorts #220 ~ New stash ~ digi image and digi papers

Challenges 4 Everybody #27 ~ Anything Goes

Sketch 'n' Stash #119 ~ New stash is image and papers, old stash is  holographic cs and brads

TFL

New Release at Crafty Sentiments Designs

Good morning all, over at Crafty Sentiments Designs it's getting all exciting as there is a new stamp release, I say stamp release what I mean is 10 new stamps are being released on Thursday 22 August yep 10 and they are fabulous.  So today we are previewing just one of these adorable new stamps and in order to see loads more eye candy all you need to do is hop over to the Crafty Sentiments Inspirational Blog where we have some special guests showcasing for you.

So on to my card.  The stamp is called 'off to the ball' and I have coloured in using copics with a touch of stardust.  Papers are First Editions and I have added some gem strands, ribbon, flower and brad from my stash.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Tuesday Throwdown #160 ~ Pastel Rainbow

The Paper Shelter #124 ~ Use that ribbon

Fab 'n' Funky #181 ~ Anything that looks like summer

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the Inspirational Blog for some more fantastic previews of 'off to the ball' and don't forget to stop by tomorrow for a preview of another new stamp.

Biker Girl

Good morning it's time for a new challenge over at Crafty Sentiments and this week the wonderful Cathy has chosen the theme of 'Punches/dies' so lots of scope there for you all.  The fabulous prize this week is 

For my card I have used the fabulous 'Biker Girl' who is available at the Crafty Sentiments Store.  I have coloured her with my copics.  The card has been cut using my Cricut from black cs and the background is also cut with the Cricut from DCWV glitter stack.  Sentiment is a stamp and the pocket watch is a PM die which I have had for a while but this is the first time I've used it, finished off with some little black gems.

Now don't forget to check out what the rest of the DT have been up to, such a talented bunch!  We hope that you will come and join us this week.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:
The Paper Shelter #123 ~ Punches & Dies
Challenges 4 Everybody #26 ~ Anything Goes
TFL

Lift the person before you

While I was checking around blogland (like you do) I came across an interesting challenge over at Cleary iStamp.  The challenge goes like this ... 'What you do is leave a comment in the comment section stating you will play and your blog address. Then you look at the person who left a comment right before you and that is who you will lift.  You will go to their blog and find a project that you want to "lift". "Lift" means you take something from the project (colors, theme, image, layout, element, etc) and base your card on that.  (In your post if you can state who you lifted and what project...and if you can post their project on your blog that would be awesome! Like I did below.)'

So here goes ...

I lifted this card from nancyparker55 at Colouring Within the lines (she has some fabulous projects!)

And here is my card, I used some Papermania Christmas stamps (old ones) and black and white cs.  I embossed the sentiments and corners then added more white ink with some cottonwool for that wiped over blackboard effect and finished off with some white organza ribbon.  Felt really strange getting my black card smudgy, usually try so very hard not to get marks and smudges on it!  Love the blackboard effect so thanks Nancy for the nudge in the right direction.

I would like to enter this card in to the following challenges:

Clearly iStamp #4 ~ Lift the person before you
The Crazy Challenge #151 ~ Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes
4 Crafty Chicks #154 ~ Black & White
TFL

Cherry on the top!

Decided to have another play with a Pure Innocence image and also my Spectrum Noirs as whilst on holiday I added to my collection (oops now have the complete set!)  I do find they blend differently to copics and they seem to bleed a little more too but I'm having fun playing and as I don't go back to work till Sunday afternoon that means that I get another day of playing tomorrow! lol  After colouring I fussy cut then mounted her onto a piece of First Editions Family Ties pad and also used another piece for the main background.  Added some green cs for the sentiment and embossed a piece for the side.  The swirl across the card is a new die cut too (x-cut) and finished off with some little prima flowers from my stash.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Challenges 4 Everybody #26 ~ Anything Goes

The Crazy Challenge #151 ~ Anything Goes

Love to Create #77 ~ Sketch

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes

Crafty Creations #134 ~ Texture

Creative Inspirations #226 ~ Something Old, Something New, Old papers, flowers & image, New pens, die cut

TFL

Eyes down for some Bingo with the Divas

Good morning well here we are it's Wednesday again and today we are travelling back to sunny Dorset (at least I hope it's still sunny!)  We have had a wonderful time with my Mum & Dad but the week is now up!  :-(  but on a brighter note it's time for a new challenge over at Divas By Design and this week we've got a bingo board for you that looks like this ...

And we have a fabulous sponsor for you too, it's ... 

Delicious doodles

My card is using the gorgeous 'Steampunk Sally' which is available from our sponsor, I have coloured her with Spectrum Noirs and Copics, paper is First Editions and is glittered and then I have used black cs.  I have distressed the edges with a craft knife.  The cogs edger and clock face are TH dies, I have added some layered flowers, a gem and charms from my stash.  I love how this has turned out and of course Ria wants to lay claim to it! lol
My bingo line is:  
Distressing, Die cuts/punches, Charms/pins

I really hope you can find time to join in with our challenge and don't forget to check out what the rest of the amazing DT  have made this week too.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks #153 Bling

Delicious Doodles #47 ~ Anything Goes

Stampin' for the Weekend ~ Shape it up

The Crazy Challenge #151 ~ Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly ~ Anything Goes

TFL