Dutch Dare Challenge #46

This week's challenge is a fab sketch. I have rotated mine for this card.

I watercoloured Tilda and the cut her our. The papers are all from the same Making Memories pack, and I faux stitched them. I added some lace and flowers, and stamped and distressed the sentiment.

Please check out the other DT members creations and havea go at the sketch.

Sorry I am in a bit of a rush today - Ellie is under the weather and its yet another morning at pre-school!

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Tilda; Papermania Sentiments
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Making Memories
Embellishments: Prima flowers, brads and lace from stash

Peek-a-boo

I have yet to get near my craft room today. Ellie went on a school trip to a local museum and I got 'volunteered' into going to help, so I have been looking at caterpillars and bugs this morning! However I did get in my craft room last night to make a card, but there is a bit of a story to it.

We are trying to separate Ellie from her beloved bunny comforter that she has had pretty much since she was born. Now having been loved continually for four and a half years she is in need of a rest. Auntie Jo-Jo has patched her in several places and I have bound the edges for her so she doesn't fray too much more. Ellie is resisting all strategies to let go of Bunny ... so I have come up with another strategy - a putting to bed party, with cake, cards, presents (bed, pillow,duvet for bunny!), and here is the card I have made.

The image is coloured in promarkers and cut of using nesties. I haven't used any dp as I intend the card ti eventually be the centrepiece of a scrap page. All the coredinations papers nave been embossed and distressed 9I just couldn't not LOL!!). I added punched and distressed flowers with gems at their centre and punched leaves, and brown and pink organza ribbon. It will have a sentiment that Ellie does ... it just needs to be tackled senstively!!

I have followed this week's Creative Card Crew sketch, used my fav colours of the mo, green and brown (pink is a bit of a necessity for a pink bunny LOL!) whch covers Our Creative Corner's challenge, and as I have used pink, brown and green it will qualify for the Stampavie challenge.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Rachelle Anne Miller Peek-a-boo
Colouring Media: Promarkers, white gel pen
Papers: Coredinations
Embellishments: punched leaves and flowers, gems and ribbon from stash

ABC challenge ... L is for ...

list.

For this challenge you need to include:

a ribbon

3 flowers

6 brads

Ellie has a friend who will be four next week so I have made her this birthday card (and yes it is pink!!).

I used my latest Gorguss girls - I love this one's attitude (definitely my two at the mo!!) I coloured her in in distress inks and then inked the edges. I haven't used these papers for ages, but they are perfect for a little girl. I combined them with yellow cardstock and ribbon. I punched the flowers from the same dp and added yellow brads to their centres. I stamped the sentiment and added a couple more brads.

We have a guest designer this week, Samantha, who has put up this week's prize. Do check out her blog and the other DT members blogs and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Recipe:
Stamp(s):
Colouring Media:
Papers:
Embellishments:

Spots and stripes ... and a splash of green and blue

Beth has started pre-school and my free time seems to have shrunk into nothing ... how logical is that!!! Ellie has taken herself off to bed this afternoon complaining of not feeling well, ad Beth is sleeping off the excesses of this morning LOL!! So having done the ironing, made pizza dough for the children's tea, I sat down to have a go at three challenges:
Papertake weekly - spots and stripes
Stamp with fun - a fab sketch by Bev (which I have rotated)
A Spoonfull of Sugar - blue and green
I'm not sure about it now I have done it ... but there you go!

I watercoloured the image and distressed the edge in green ink. I cut out the image and matt with my trusty nesties and layered up the patterned paper onto blue from the same pack. I haven't any circular sentimens so I layered up a couple of buttons and fastened with ribbon. I added some green and blue wire ... haven't used this for ages. The space is in the top left corner is where the sentiment will go when I decide what to put.
Recipe:
Stamp(s): Sugar Nellie Rockpools
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: My Minds Eye Everyday Tango
Embellishments: buttons, ribbon and wire from stash

A couple of challenges

I had a crafting evening last night as I needed to amke a couple of birthday cards, so I thought I would have a go at a couple of challenges at the same time.
The first challenge I tackled was this week's Colour Create, and the theme is orange, brown and green with the option of making a cards for a man. I quite like making cards for men as I like the earthy colours and its nice not to use flowers! I have made 2 cards, one for a birthday in the next couple of weeks and one for a birthday in June ... I wonder if a certain wife can guess her hubby's card? (Jo!!!)
I haven't inked Hamish up for ages, so he has come out for this challenge. I coloured him in distress inks and inked the edges. I used these fab BG papers, and cut along the colour lines on the stripy paper to remove the blue element, and add a bit of interest. I added a BG rub on to finish it. There are no embellishments as to be honest unless I can find landrover or cannon brads I might as well forget it!!

For the second card I used this image as I had a spare one stamped up from the other day, and I think it suits the colour theme really well. Again it is coloured in distress inks and the edges inked up. I used the same papers as before and pretty much the same layout rotated. The sentiment is a BG rub-on. I added 3 buttons to it to finish it off.
After all that earthiness I tackled the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge with a splash of ... pink!! There challenge is to use charms on your creation.

I watercoloured the image and matted her onto pink cardstock and K and Co papers. I used my Fiskars threading water punch to create the scalloped edges. Sorry the photo is not brill (cat's indoors as it is pouring down and is being .. ermm ... helpful!! So I will try to get a better one later), but I added the ickle silver charm to the punched flowers and swirls, and forgot the ribbon, but it doesn't seem to be missing the ribbon.
Well its time to pack Ellie off to pre-school so I'll catch up with you all later.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Sugar Nellie Hamish with tractor, To Catch a Big Fish, Basketful of Happiness
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Archiac, K and Co
Embellishments: Basic Grey Archaic rub-ons, punched flowers and swirls, buttons, charm and gems from stash

Sketch and Stash #9

Becky has done another fabulous sketch this week, and you can put your embellishments and sentiment wherever you want.

I have to confess having had 2 goes at this., as I did the first and was a little unsure about it...but hubby loves it.

I used this Pollycraft image Daydreamer and the sentiment from the same range, which are new to my collection. I coloured her in promarkers and matted her onto green cardstock, using my nestie labels to cut her and the matt out. The papers are from my very neglected DCWV adhesive stack. I punched the flowers using another neglected punch, added gems and some wire (again very neglected!!). I am not sure what I am not keen on ... it could be the dp.

So I had another on Friday night when my Gorguss girls arrived ...

I am much happier with this. I have skewed the elements in the sketch for this one. I watercoloured the image and cut her out using my nesties. The matt is the same size and placed at an angle. The dp is MME Laundry line and is all shiny new and so strokable ... I am amazed I actually cut into it!! The sentiment is from my Swirls plate and saw its 1st inking. I added flowers, and the ickle charm which I won as part of Camilla's blog candy.

I am much much happier with this ... hubby still prefers the first one!!!

Do check out the other DT members creations and our Guest DT Lena, and have a go yourselves.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Polycraft Sherbert Daydreamer, and sentiment from same range; Sugar Nellie Gorguss girls; WOJ Swirl plate sentiment
Colouring Media: Promarkers, distress inks
Papers: DCWV adheshive stack; MME Laundry Line
Embellishments: Prima Hydrageana flowers, spacer, brads, charm from stash, punched swirls

Sugar Bowl Challenge ... Men

This week's Sugar Bowl challenge is to make a card fro a man, old, young, in between, it doesn't matter. I like making bloke cards as I am not a big doer of embellies (contrary to what some of my cards suggest LOL!) and I love working with earthy tones which aren't very girly. I love the Sugar Nellie Home Grown boys, so resisted the callings of Hamish and inked up this little boy.
I coloured him in distress inks and then inked the edges in dark brown. All the dp are matted onto dark brown hammered cardstock and the edges inked. Iused the dark drown ink pad to colour the chipboard embellies and added three buttons.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Sugar Nellie To Catch a Big Fish; PB Transparents sentiment
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Archaic
Embellishments: Woodware chipboard shapes, buttons from stash

Saturday challenges

I had a day crafting yesterday as Dave took the girls to Blackpool to allow me time to get ahead with my Design Team cards ... and I sneaked in a challenge card LOL!! I combined the Sketch Saturday sketch (but amended it a bit to fit a circle shape), Creative Crew's Round and round challenge, PBSC Anything Goes and Secret Crafter challenge, a Shape Card. The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge are also doing a DT call, and having participated so much and been lucky enough to win one of their prizes, I would love to be considered.

I made my card base using my nesties, I placed the circle so the fold was just inside the die. The card base is pearlised card which I have inked in silver. I used my nesties to cut out the various cricles, and my SU scallop punch to do the scalloped edges. the image is watercoloured and them I added stickles to it for a bit of sparkle. I stamped the sentiment onto pearlised card and cut it out using my nesties (where would I be without them LOL!). I used thin black velvet ribbon and the trim is a bit of glittered beaded paper from the same stack.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Cat on the Moon (Penny Black); Penny Black Party Critters sentiment
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: DCWV glitter stack, cardstock
Embellishments: velvet ribbon from stash