Something New

Cheeky Beauty

Looking through my favorite blogs this morning inspired me to create something today, at Paper Sundaes the challenge was to create a card using something new, so I pulled out my new Cheeky Beauty stamp from The Greeting Farm and my new Bo Bunny Crazy Love DP stack.  I used the Holiday Saturday Sketch at Club Anya for my cards design.

Materials Used; Cheeky Beauty from TGF, SU Happy Birthday Greetings background stamp, Copic Caio markers, SU Kraft, Chocolate Chip & Rose Red card stock, DP from Bo Bunny Crazy Love Collection, Maya Road heart pins, ribbon, flower and rhinestones from my stash pile.

Challenges entered;

Paper Sundaes; Something New

Club Anya; Holiday Saturday Sketch

Simon Says Stamp Challenge; Time to Party/Celebrate (celebrate Love)

Stamptacular Sunday; Photo Inspired

Another Birthday Card!

 

A Sparkly Kind of Birthday!

I have another birthday next weekend for my lovely friend Louise who will be turning a young 40!  I can upload this card in the full knowledge that she will not see it as, by her own admission' is completely computer illiterate!

I have added a touch of sparkle on this card by using a mix of elements, Pink Taffy Glimmer Mist has been sprayed on the numbers and sentiment,  rhinestones in the corner and on the head band and a beautiful sparkly ribbon buckle to hold up the card.

Materials Used; TGF Freaky Flutter digi, Pollycraft free digi sentiment, Copic Caio's, SU Basic Black, Kraft, Basic Gray & Melon Mambo card stocks, Kaiser Craft After Five DP, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, kraft board numbers and buckle from my stash pile.

Challenges entered;

Splendid Stamping; Farm Fresh Sparkly Birthday

Club Anya; Sketchin' It Up

Flutter By Wednesday; #131 a sketch

Simon Says Stamp; Simon Says....Sparkle!

Meljen's Designs; Sparkle & Shine

Glimmer Mist & Bubble Wrap

Playing with Glimmer Mist & Bubble Wrap

This week at Club Anya they are 'Tootin' About Spray Ink!', after a great tutorial by Traci it was time to get inspired and use my Glimmer Mist in a whole different way!  This morning I had a few minutes before work and as I was grabbing out some bubble wrap to wrap some breakables in (we are moving offices this week), the inspiration hit me, why not use my bubble wrap to create a bubbly patterned DP, so I quickly grabbed my Taffy Pink spray and some Melon Mambo card stock to experiment.

I simply sprayed the ink straight onto the bubble wrap and then pressed the card stock on top, left it somewhere to dry and hurried off to work.  To my surprise when I got home today and took a look the effect was quite something, lots of sparkly round bubbles just shimmering there little hearts out reflecting the light.  All I had to do then was put it together with Amazing Duo Anya and Hey Presto!  Here it is....

I just wish it would photograph a little better because it looks 200% better in person.

Materials Used;  TGF Amazing Duo Anya, Copic Ciao markers, SU Chocolate Chip, Melon Mambo and Soft Suede card stock, Kaiser Craft Hey Birdie DP, Kaiser Craft large pearl brad, SU Chocolate glitter, diamante trim from Lincraft

Challenges entered;

Club Anya; WTW Tootin' About Spray Ink

Crazy For Challenges; C4C51 a Sketch

Ribbons and Flowers

Ribbon Challenge

Better late than never, this is my entry for Maire's Ribbons and Bows Monday Mania challenge at Club Anya.  I used my new Fleur Anya who arrived in a timely manner in my letterbox this week along with CC Thursday who's is on a card that I will post soon.

I wanted to make a simple card with Fleur so that she really popped on the card.  I used some strands of satin ribbon behind her to match the colours in the DP.  I quite like how this card has turned out considering how simple the layout is.

Material Used; Fleur Anya from TGF, sentiment stamp from SU, Copic Caio, SU Kraft and Melon Mambo card stock, My Memories DP, satin ribbons, Kindy Glitz, Kiaser rhinestones.

Challenges Entered;

Club Anya; Monday Mania Ribbons & Bows
Flutter By Wednesday; Open Challenge #115
Paper Play Challenges; Anything Goes

Forget Princess

Once upon a time....

Once upon a time there lived a young girl named Jade and as much as her mother tried Jade refused to dress in her prettiest gowns to attend the Princes ball because Jade dreamed of being a vampire instead!

What can I say, I'm not a Princess kinda gal!

This card was inspired by this weeks Monday Mania challenge at Club Anya to celebrate Berenice's birthday.

The challenge: to create a card with a sparkly princess party theme in honor of her birthday.

So here is Jade in her sparkly crown and her favorite threads, ready to meet her PRINCE...

...her Prince of Darkness that is!

Materials Used: Jade stamp from TGF, Copic Ciao markers, SU Basic Black, Basic Grey and Melon Mambo card stock, DP from Adorn Its' Princess Collection, Cuttlebug Script embossing folder, chipboard crown, Tattered Angels Pink Taffy Glimmer Mist, Sakura embossing pens, Kaisercraft rhinestones.

Twi Hard

A Full Moon

I am a huge Twi fan, but have not yet been able to see Eclipse on the big screen due to my son being unwell. To compensate for this I have been re-reading my book instead and this is how the inspiration for this card came about.

As soon as I saw the sketch at Club Anya I thought of the full-moon which of course led straight to werewolves then vampires then Eclipse! The sketch is for the first Saturday Sketch challenge for the month of July so a prize it up for grabs! This card has also been entered on the Anya Ink challenge blog; Challenge #4 Create A Scene and Anyone for Anya; Anything Goes.

Materials Used; Twilight digis from TGF, SU Basic Grey, Basic Black and Real Red card stocks, DP from Basic Grey, Copic Ciao markers, glitter pens, Cuttlebug Script embossing folder, ribbon, brad, chain,heart, werewolf charm and rhinestone all from the stash pile.

Say What?

say what?

Today I am home sick from work, feeling like I am going to cough up a lung before lunch! I have tried resting in bed but when I lie down it just seems to make it worse, so today I will rest in my craft room and try and keep a steady hand while I colour, (easier said than done!)

I used this weeks WCW challenge at Club Anya for my inspiration, that was sorely lacking, to make my latest card. The other inspiration came from my six tear old Jake, who just loves to shoot hoops! I think he is going to be very excited to see this card when he comes home from school this afternoon.

For my little basket-baller character have used Dylan but he has Jeremy's hairstyle (to look more like Jake), these are both from my TGF Roll Call set along with that cute little sentiment. I found the basketball clip art on the web and have coloured it and then added texture with the cuttlebug. I am quite happy the way this card has worked out considering how I am feeling today.

Material Used: Copic Ciao markers, Roll Call Stamps; Jeremy, Dylan and sentiment, SU Real Red and Basic Black card stock, Making Memories DP, Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles embossing plate, Sakura Embossing pen red and silver glitter pen, other DP paper and brads from the stash pile.

Rectangles, Circles and Squares

Trouble with a capital 't' !

It's Monday mania time at Club Anya, and the latest challenge is a real doosey! The card must include one rectangle, three squares and five circles, embellishments count as some of the shapes.

I have used Audrey from TGF and she is causing a whole lot of trouble as she tries to be one of the boys!

Materials Used: Copic Ciao markers, SU Real Red and black card stock, Daisy Bucket DP, Cuttlebug embossing plates, Brad from Kaiser craft, Creative Imaginations Impress-ons and a mix of other card stock and button from the stash pile.

She just looks too darn cute to cause any trouble!

Leaving it to the LAST minute!

A challenge and something extra...

I promised myself this week that since I had time off to do little more than relax, I would get into my craft room and do some serious card-making.....well I don't know where that week went, I was busy doing anything and everything except crafting!

Today is Sunday, tomorrow I am back at work, nothing like cramming it all in during the dying hours!

I have three cards too show you in this post , one for a challenge and the others are using characters I had manged to colour during the week, but were never mounted!

SMILE - it's a Sketch Challenge

This first card if for the this weeks FFF Sketch Challenge at Splendid Stamping. I have used a digi stamp; Country Anya for this one and added one of the farm animals from the McSplendid Farm set.

Materials used: Copic Ciao markers, SU Soft Suede Card stock, paper stash off-cuts, DP Kaiser craft Hey Birdie, ric-rac ribbon and other various embellies.

Small Wonder

This card was inspired by a card I saw on Meljen's Designs DT Blog, and as I had the same digi stamp and Cuttlebug embossing plate I had to give it a go.

This sweet puppy is already very cute but the embossing really makes him POP! He is coloured first, then cute and embossed.

Materials used: Copic Ciao markers, SU Riding Hood Red and black card stock, Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles embossing plate, Daisy Bucket DP, SU Whimsical Words stamp, various embellies.

A Monstrosity!

The third card off the rank features one of my favorite new monsters from Pollycraft designs, his name is cuddly! He is great fun to colour. The sentiment is one that I have made up myself.

Material Used: Copic Ciao markers, SU Elegant Eggplant and Riding Hood red card stock, Daisy Designs DP, Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles embossing plate, ribbon and brad from the stash pile.

If you made it to the bottom of this Monsterous post you have earned yourself a break, thanks for visiting, until next time....

Another Challenge - Another Reason to Smile!

Club Anya Sketch Challenge - Summer

This weeks sketch challenge over at Club Anya was just the excuse I needed to ink up another character from my Roll Call set from TGF. For this card I used Summer to bring some brightness into a bleak, winterey day.

I have coloured Summer using Copic Ciaos and she is layered on some gorgoues Flutter paper from Making Memories, I have used some of the reverse of the same paper and punched it for some detail, the other papers are just out of my stash of off-cuts.

I have blinged up the card with some flowers, pearls, brads, dew drops, some butterflies and a button. I had a lot of fun putting this card together and the sentiment say's it all!

Happy Mother's Day and a Challenge

Happy Mother's Day and a Challenge

Today is already Sunday here and I was woken up by my beautiful two boys with some hugs and some presents. I was totally spoilt with chocolates, new slippers, body cream and other various little gifts including some embellies for my growing stash!

Then I was brought breakfast in bed, including my morning coffee, bacon, eggs, tomato and toast. I love Mother's Day!

This is the perfect day to upload my Mother's Day card that I made for my own Dear Mum, so that she did not see it ahead of time, it is also the perfect card to upload for the latest WCW Challenge at the Club Anya blog; May Flowers.

Again I have used Sassenach Anya, because I am totally in love with her classic image, she is of course coloured with my copics to match the card stock and DP from Stampin' Up. I have layered used my Deckled Edge Ovals from Spellbinders and added some interest on the DP edges with the Lace Edge punch from Fiskars. The card is finished with lots of flowers of course from my Kaiser stash and I have just added some pearls for an extra little touch.

Happy Mother's Day Mum!!!

Punk It Up!!

Let's PUNK it UP!!

Another great challenge from the Club Anya blog this week see's us all PUNKING it up!

I got very excited about this one and jumped into my craft room straight after reading the post and this is what I walked out with. I used Ebony, a digi from TGF, as she is such a sweet little punk, and fun to colour. I have used my copics to colour the image and gave her some wild green and purple locks with some black streaks, I have given her matching eyeshadow. I have used some Sakura black glaze on her headband and on the skulls eyes.

The designer paper for the background is from a Kaiser Kraft digi set, and I crumpled it to give it a rougher texture.

Now for the fun part, I have a huge stash of stuff around the house to raid, so I was very excited as I dug through the boxes and found what I needed, silver chain, various beads to hang from it and even a rubber ducky paperclip. I stapled the sentiment together, and attached the chain with its adornments with some brads!!

I was super-excited once this card was finished, now all I need is for the Galleria to be back up and running so I can post it for this weeks WCW challenge!

Day Dreaming of another Sketch Challenge

Day Dreaming

My ideas for this card design evolved along the way during it's creation. I started out wanting to make a Mothers' Day Card to enter in the latest Saturday Sketch Challenge over at Club Anya, and although it still is a card for Mum, it has turned out better than I originally thought!

I used HG Laundry as my stamped image and coloured her with my copics, I coloured the nestability she is seated on with my SU Stampin Pastels to represent her sitting on grass with the blue sky in the background.

The designer paper is from the Dear Lizzy range and is picture perfect for this image, I added some Kaiser Kraft flowers with some brads from my stash to match.

While I was digging around in my box of embellies for the matching brads I came upon a tiny glass slipper, and this was the exact point where my thoughts evolved!

So with Cinderella Slipper in hand I finished the card with some gold twine and hung the tiny shoe upon the washing line with a small bow, I then added the sentiment and finished with some crystal diamontes.

When I look at this card now, I imagine myself outside hanging out the families washing (which is a twice weekly chore), day dreaming about becoming a Princess and not having to worry about finishing my daily chores ever again!

A girl can DREAM can't she??

My First Easel Card

Finally; An Easel Card!

Making an easel card has been high on my to-do-list for quite a while, so when the latest Saturday Sketch Challenge came up on Club Anya I decided this was finally the time to get it done!

I used Anya Ballerina for this challenge after getting the template instructions from Splitcoaststampers, The card stock is SU Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo and Basic Grey, the designer paper is from the Best Creation Inc range and the gorgeous ribbon buckle is made by Bella!

Anya Ballerina has been coloured with my Copics and finished from some SU Sparkle glitter on her tiny ballet slippers and tiara.