Sshhh... Creations!

Sunday, 15 May 2011

An old style easel here, and using one of the fabulous sassy girls from Sugar Nellie.

I coloured her with copics and cut her out with nesties using the out-of-the-box technique.

I used paper from the s.e.i. Jocelyn pad and punched out some wee daisies, I added a Swarovski to the middle of some daisies and 3d paint to the others.

I used an alphabet stamp to stamp the sentiment on the inside

This card fits the following challenges;

Crafty Creations: Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations: Decorate the inside

Delightful Challenges: Flowers

Oldie But a Goodie: Say it with flowers

Papertake Weekly: Fancy a punch

Peartree Designs: Spring

Scrappy Frogs: Anything Goes

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays: Old supplies

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Friday, 13 May 2011

I always love trying new techniques and new folds. When I saw this ‘twist’ on the regular easel cards I thought it looked difficult – how wrong was I?!! I love making these cards now; I think it’s one of my favourite types of cards at the moment.

So here’s my first attempt at a twisted easel - a birthday card for my sister

Like the original easel card, it’s very difficult to photograph!

The image I used is from Sketching Stamper and is called Valentina. I coloured her with my copics and teamed her with papers from the MME Stella & Rose pad. I love the vintagy feel of it.

I finally got a lace border doo hickey (have wanted one forever, but they’re so expensive!) and I after I cut a few strips I ran them through my paper crimper and scrunched it up. Then I attached it to the card with some extra sticky tape.

The sentiments are from Waltzing Mouse and I added a few blue Swarovski’s for a bit of bling. I also used up some of the scrap paper on the sentiments. I added a pocket to the inside underneath the flap to hide some money in – the recipient found it incredibly quickly though!!

This card fits the following challenges;

By the Cute & Girly: Anything Goes

Crafty Creations: Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations: Decorate the inside of your cards

Double Dutch: Make a vintage card

Oh La La Creations: Tres Chic

One Stop Craft Challenge: Birthdays

Scrappy Frogs: Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp & Show: Anything Goes

ABC Challenge: U for Underneath

The Crafty Pad: Spots & Dots

The Shabby Tearoom: Ruffles

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Easter....a little late!

Although, I was early sending the cards!

What a hectic time I’ve been having since I last blogged! I’ve finished the wedding invitations I mentioned before and added a few tweaks. Then I helped out my sister as she moved house, took a lot of time and energy to do that! Throw in a wedding and various other exploits and there’s no time to blog! So I have another build-up of cards to show – and I hadn’t even finished showing my last build-up!

And typical – as soon as I have a bit of time to get updated, blogger is having problems!!

So, we had an Easter swap on the MAC forum, and in between making wedding invitations I managed to scrape a few of these together – I made them all the same cos of shortness of time!

I used a Penny Black stamp I’ve had for a while called “Eggceedingly Happy!” I love that name! I coloured it with copics – I must start taking a note of which markers I use.

The “Scrappy Cat” papers are ones I’ve had for a while too, but I had a few sheets of it (so I had enough to go around all the cards to be made) and I thought the colours were nice and bright and cheery for Easter. The panel of yellow gingham is from Pink Petticoat. The sentiment stamp was a freebie with a magazine, although it was a bit blotchy when I stamped with it, I had no other Easter sentiment to use!

The inside was just plain as far as I recall – back to those time issues! I don’t have a picture of it anyway.

This card fits the following challenges;

Crafty Creations: Anything Goes

My Time To Craft: Scallops

Paper Sundaes: Magical & Mythical creatures (The Easter Bunny is a magical creature to me!!)

Pear Tree Designs: Spring

Scrappy Frogs: Anything Goes

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge: Dust off your stash

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Just checking...

To see if it's really working!!...

WOYWW...ish! #98

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Hi everyone! **big wave**
It's Wednesday, and as I've been doing quite well lately at blogging for WOYWW, I thought I'd go again this week - even though I don't actually have any pictures to show :O
I can tell you though, that my desk is not the nice tidy and organised vision of loveliness that it was last week, oh no! It's back to it's normal disheveled, manic mess that it usually is!
I've been kept very busy lately and have made more cards this month than I did in the whole of last year (I didn't actually count, but I'd say I'm not far off!). And of course, as I always do, I've left quite a few that need to be made to the last minute - commence panic mode!
One of the projects I was panicking about was a card swap that one of my lovely friends on the MAC forum had arranged for Easter. I had planned on being organised and stamped and coloured my images ages ago, and then they sat. and waited...and waited. The poor wee bunnies were feeling very neglected so I took pity on them last night and turned them into cards! So they're now all in the post. So that's one thing marked off my list.
The main thing that has been taking up my time is the wedding invitations, for my cousin, that I mentioned last week. They're due to be sent out this weekend so I'm hoping to get them finished tonight - hence not having any pics of my desk, I don't think she'd be too pleased if pics of her invitations were being beamed across the planet before her guests have received them!

I have a long weekend this weekend - YAY! - so will hopefully get caught up on other things that I need do card-wise - as well as a much needed cleaning of the house! Then I should be suitably behind for some other projects that I can start panicking about!

Thanks for dropping by!

WOYWW #97

Thursday, 14 April 2011

A late entry from me this week, have been busy all day and even though I had planned on doing this when I came home from work, something came up and I'm not long home!
My aunt is visiting from New York, so we went to visit her this evening as she's busy over the weekend. I've got a lot of stuff planned myself for this weekend - I'd like to get another push on the wedding invitations I've been making that are due to be posted out soon.

Anyway, not a big change on the look of my desk from last week as I've been very good and have tidied up (mostly) after myself

I got some new paper bags for putting cards into - you can see them on my side desk here. I've never had a stall or anything so never needed bags before, but after getting quite a few orders lately, I thought it would look more professional if I put them in a bag. I still haven't got around to cataloguing those stamps in the basket yet!

There's a little bit of evidence left on my little desk of some crafting from this week

If you haven't already, head over to Julia's Stamping Ground to see more workdesks. I haven't been able to visit many people lately, but hopefully once I get these wedding invitations done I'll have a bit more time - although, I have 2 other weddings coming up too...it never rains but it pours!

Thanks for looking!

Paper Roses

Sunday, 10 April 2011

I went to a pub quiz last night – my second pub quiz ever, and the first one was years ago! The rest of my team was made up of my mum, 2 sisters and my friend. With extremely low expectations, we were delighted to come third! And with the top 2 teams breaking the rules by having 7 & 8 people on their teams :O – rather than the 5 in the rules – we really won!! As it was for charity though, they were allowed to keep their positions, so we were gracious in defeat. To their faces anyway! Lol

I then got up early this morning to watch the grand prix in Malaysia. It was a really good race and I was delighted to see Nick Heidfeld on the podium – He’s one of the drivers that I met a couple of years ago, so I have a wee soft spot for him!

Anyway, I was asked to make an anniversary card, I think I may have mentioned it before, but I struggle with anniversary cards for some reason – I’m putting it down to the fact that one half of the recipient is a man! So totally ignoring that fact, I went very pink with this one!

I used the fabby Rose Heart from Sketching Stamper, coloured with my copics. I added some Swarovski crystals for a bit of bling.

Just a wee note here, I don’t know if it’s just me, but sometimes I love the effect you get on the back of an image after you’ve coloured it, I thought this one was lovely!

The papers I used were Bo Bunny, Love Bandit and Pink Petticoat, pretty doodles. A few pink pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts some pink satin ribbon to finish off.

I brought the fancy tags element from the front through to the inside along with the same papers.

I don’t usually make cards to stand like this so thought I’d do it this time to be a bit different. Then I discovered that it was too heavy and kept collapsing! I was just about to tear it off to re-do it when I had an idea – I ran some power pritt stick down the edges of the card where it would be standing. I let it dry before I stood it up and it gave the edges a rubberised sort of feel, so it didn’t slip when I stood it up. It worked a treat! So there’s a wee tip for you!