laser cuts and WoW!!

I love these gorgeous laser cuts from Kobie's Hobbycutz shop - they are really good quality mdf laser cuts, and they smell gorgeous when they arrive (if you like the smell of wood, which I do!!).  You can stain or paint them as well as just use them as they come.  I sprayed the dotty flower with distress ink reinker and left it to dry.  The cardstock was embossed and I cut the banner out and layered it up.  The doily was scrunched to make it smaller and more posy like, and then I added the laser cut, and a pearl to its centre.  I added lace, ribbon, a bow and the cute laser cut butterfly, which I added pearls to.
 

Supplies:

 Image:

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: Distress ink victorian velvet reinkerhttp://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.co.uk/

Embellishments:  Hobbycutz dotty flower, butterflies mixed pack, 

lace, organza ribbon, pearls, doily

Tools: Dienamics Fishtail stax, embossing folders

Challenges: 

Cards and More - lace and pearls

Creative Card Crew - ribbon

Everybody Art - butterflies

Tuesday Throwdown - lace and doillies

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon 

Sweet Stampin' - embossing

My Time to Craft-  embossing

Ribbon Girl - ribbon or twine
FLutterby Wednesday - open
Paper pretties - texture

 

Visible Image DT samples

 Today I am showing you 2 stamps from from Visible Image Stamps.

 And for more inspiration don't forget to check out the Visible Image's facebook page, and the Visible Image blog where we have a monthly challenge.  This month's theme is ...

I love Katie, she looks so happy with all those butterflies round her - and would be perfect for this month's Spring challenge.  I coloured her with my pens, and paper pieced the butterflies. I added some flowers I was sent form a lovely crafting friend, a gem swirl and some lace and organza ribbon.  I wouldn't normally mix gems and pearls on a card - but the poorly 8 year old insisted!!!

Supplies:

Image: Visible Image Katie

Sentiment:

Colouring medium:copics

Skin: E11 E00 E000 R20

Hair:E50 E31,E33,YR31

Clothes: R81 R83 R85 BG05 BG07 BG09

Papers: MME Dolled Up

Embellishments: gem swirl, flowers, lace, organza ribbon

Tools:

Challenges:

Charisma Cardz - use at least 5 different patterned papers

Creative Inspirations - buttons and bows

Joanna Sheen - lots of layers

Flutterby Wednesday - lots of layers
Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

 My heart pieces - use three of your favouirte things (lace, pearls, butterflies)
Creative Stamp friends - spring colours

Craft your passion - that's odd

For my second card I carried on with the butterfly theme and used the Large Butterfly.  I stamped it twice and cut it out.  I went for a WoW card, simply embossing the layers, distressing the edges of the cardstock, adding some ribbon and pearls, and then adding one of the butterflies.  I then coloured up the second one using my pens, curled the wings and placed it on top of the first, adding pearls to its centre.  Finally I stamped the Butterfly Sentiment.

 Supplies:

Image: Visible Image Large Butterfly

Sentiment: Visible Image Butterfly Sentiment
Colouring Medium: copics

Papers: white cardstock

Embellishments: organza ribbon, flat backed pearls

Tools: embossing folders, Tim Hotltz paper distresser,  Spellbinders Circle nestibilities

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Alphabet Challenge - anything with wings
Make My monday- inspired by nature

Make it Monday

 

Crafty Sentiments Wedding release

I am showcasing another bride from the Crafty Sentiments Wedding release, and I am sure you will agree all she is absolutely gorgeous ...

Having coloured the image using my pens I cut her out.  I simply embossed some white cardsotck, and then cut out the loopy circle and added some of the embossed cardstock to the middle.  I layered up white satin and red satin ribbon, and used the banner die to create a slider sentiment.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments Sincerely Yours

 Sentiment: Clearly Besotted Stamps

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Skin: sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink 

Hair: raw sienna, gold, mustard, pastel yellow, primrose 

Clothes: putty, almond, crimson, ruby, lipstick red

Papers: 

Embellishments: ribbon from stash

Tools: Crafty Sentiments Loopy Circle, 

Coutre Creations washed away embossing folder

Spellbinders tag

Challenges:

Addicted to stamps - addicted to stamping
Crafting for all seasons - dies and punches
Crafts and Me - dies and punches
Divas by Design - anything goes
Paper Pretties - spike the punch
Crafters Cafe - love/friendship

 

Crafty Sentiments February releases - flowers

Here is something a little different from Crafty Sentiments for the February release - some beautiful flowers.

I coloured the flowers in using my pes and then cut the image out.  I scored the cardstock using my score board and then added some layered ribbon, before popping the image on this gorgeous diecut doily from Crafty Sentiments.  I added sa bow and some flat backed pearls to finish. 

Supplies

Image:Crafty Sentiments Flowers

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers and flex pens

Antique pink, dusky rose, tea rose, muted pink 

forest green, bright green, lime green

burnt sienna, umber

 Papers: 

Embellishments: flat backed pearls

Tools: Crafty Sentiments Loopy Circle die

Challenges:

 

That Craft Place Challenge

 The challenge theme this fornight for That Craft Place is White on White - and I LOVE a bit of WOW!!

I embossed the white cardstock for the background, leaving a gap just below half way down.  I scored the cardstock and added thin white satin ribbon.  I cut the fancy frame and matching ordinary labe; frame and popped the ordinary one onto 3d pads to add a bit of dimension.  I added the music and butterfly dies, and then some pearls to finish.

Supplies: 

Image:

 Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: 

 Papers: 

Embellishments: flat backed pearls, satin ribbon

Tools: Craft Concepts Budding Vine embossing folder, 

Spellbinders labels 8 and fancy labels 8

Memory box butterfly and music score dies

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Moving along with the times- punch it out
Diecutting divas - anything goes

 

Primrose and the Snowman

I hope I am coming to the end of showing my Christmas cards - just 2 more to go after this one I think!!  I have coloured Primrose in using my pens and then added some stickles and pearl pen.  The white cardstock is simply embossed and I added some ribbon, snowflakes and gems.

Supplies: 

Image: Crafty Sentiments - Primrose and the snowman

Sentiment: Craftwork cards

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: 

Embellishments: punched and die cut snowflakes, ribbon, flat backed gems

 Tools: Marianne Creatible snowflake die, Martha Stewart snowflake punch, 

snowflake punch, embossing folders

Challenges:

Papertake Weekly - snow white

Joanna Sheen- with love at Christmas 

Stampin for the weekend - snow

Fuss n Fancy - I love Christmas 

Totally Gorguss - oh no snow

One Stop Craft - Christmas Friends

Crafty Boots - Christmas

Cupcake Craft - Merry Christmas

Forever Friends - Christmas

Incy Wincy - Christmas with snowflakes

Songbird - Merry Christmas

CRAFT - Christmas

Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - anything goes

PaperPlay - Christmas is coming
Sweet Stampin' - dies or punches

I Love Promarkers - anything goes

Love to Create - anything goes

Bearly Mine - anything goes

Everybody Art - anything goes

Passion for Promarkers - happy in the sentiment

 

Reach for the Stars

 Bit of a mad panic going on - off to Whitby today to meet up with the family and friends for Dave's birthday.  We're ssing the brother-in-law, who has also had a birthday and I have lost his card!!!  SO in a mad panic I have knocked one up this morning - colouring not what I would really like, and I didn't have time to search for papers - so a grubby WoW was in order!!!
The image is a LOTV one, I embossed the cardstock with a gears folder and then distressed everything with vintage photo ink.  I cut the stars out using my nesties, and wrote part of the sentiment and stamped the rest using an alphabet set i have (really don't like the r!!).  Finally some hessian lace to add a bit of texture ... done, just in time to get the girls and go!!

Challenges:
Lili's little fairies - white with a hint of ... brown
Cute Card Thursday - letters and numbers
DutchDare - CAS
Do you stack up - scallops
My mums Craft Shop - stars
I lOve Promarkers - masculine card
Fabulous Friday - embossing

 

CRAFT GDT challenge

This is my final week as GDT for the CRAFT challenge, and the theme is make your own embellishments.

Now I have always had a bit of a soft spot for Little Cotton Rabbits, and own Albie and Winifred, and my younger sdaughter adores Winifred particularly, often stamping her up and colouring her in, before sticking her all over her bedroom!!  So I treated her to the full set of Little Cotton Rabbits ... and got Ballerina.  We had a colouring session at the weekend, me, Beth and the wee bunnies - I coloured Ballerina very much to Beth's specifications ... not what I would have chosen!! As the colours really don't match any papers I have, we have gone for WoW for this card - I say we as Beth 'helped' me with the embossing - she does love my CB!!! Having embossed the cardstock, we distressed it and created 'snow' all over my desk ... perphaps more snow than was really necessary!!!!  I cut the roses out of felt using a Marianne Creatible die, rolled them and added flat pearls.  Beth wanted butterflies (???) so she puched some out and we added a pearl to one of them.  Finallt some foliage, ribbon, viva decor pen pearls and some more flat backed pearls, and a LOTV sentiment and we were done.

Whilst Beth is an eager bunny on the colouring and creating front, she is rubbish at tidying, so it took me a while to get myself all straightened out!!

 Challenges:
Sugar Bowl - sketch
Creative Stamp friends - new stamp
Crafty Boots - children's stories (velveteen rabbit)
Stamptacular Sunday - bling it on
Pile it on - fabric/felt
Totally Gorguss - thank you
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes 

With Sympathy

I really don't like making sympathy cards, but needs must and this is one for the family of one of Dave's close work colleagues, who sadly died 3 weeks ago - funeral is on Monday and Dave is a pall bearer.

 I used a couple of Go Kreate Die sets to create the card, and simply embossed along the bottom of the card blank, and embossed one of the mats, before adding a Memory Box butterfly with pearls at its centre.  Finally I stamped the sentiment.

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - emboss it
Fab n Funky - things with wings
Paper Pretties - no patterned papers
Charisma Cardz - things with wings
Cute Card Thursday - a different shape
Little Miss Muffet - anything but square
2 Sisters - things with wings

Butterfly and heart

I like a bit of white, and a bit of embossing ... and Erika has gor me all inspired with white, kraft and red ... and I needed a birthday card, so this is what I came up with LOL!!
The heart has been cut out of grungeboard, painted with red acrylic paint and covered with rock candy crackle paint.  I embossed the white cardstock and added red and kraft coloured ribbon before popping the Spellbinders Doilly on on 3d pads.  I wrapped some twine round the heart, added a Heartflet Creation butterfly, embossed with a script folder, and a button with twine tidied through it.  Finally I added the Craftwork sentiment.

 Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - emboss it
Fab n Funky - things with wings
Paper Pretties - no patterned papers
Twisted Tuesday - something that flies and 3 types of embellishment (ribbon, twine, button)
Creative Craft - anything Goes
Celebrate the Occasion - birthday + twine and a button

A Get Well Card

This is a get well card for Ali who has managed to get her hand and wrist put in plaster - so no crafting for her :(((.  I used Let them eat cake from Sugar Nellie and coloured her in  using my promarkers.  Her wings are glamour dusted and I added stickles to the edge of the image.  I embossed the white cardstock, and distressed it beofre adding the layered ribbon, layered flower and sentiment.  The ribbon is lime coloured not yellow as it looks in the photo.

Challenges:
Sugar Bowl - sketch
One Stop Card Challenge - bake a cake
Joanne Sheen - so sweet
Stamp with fun - get well soon
I lov epromarkers - whats cooking
Love to create - things with wings
Ribbon Girls - pink and green
Craft Your Passion - bingo (emboss, ribbon, buttons, and flowers, distress, buttons)
Creative Craft - anything goes
Oldie but a Goodie - show us your ribbon
Passion for Promarkers - CAS

Going to University

Meg is off to university soon, and she's not what i would call a girly girl - on the intellectual side is or Meg and loves her peoptry and quotes ... so here's her good luck card ...

 I used a SU sentiment stamp, an oval spellbinder die (thanks Ali), a provocraft embossing folder and my scorpal.  Added a couple of pearls and Bob's your uncle so to speak!!

Just a quick post as I am off to Event City with Meg's mummy to do some serious craft oogling!!

Challenges:
Less is more - oval
Sketch Saturday - sketch (swapped the square for an oval)
Sweet Stampin' - Simply sentimental

A bit of yellow

 

 I love the crisp clean-ness of WOW cards, and they are really quick to make, especially if you have forgotten to do that card you promised!!  I coloured this cute Maggie in using my promarkers and glamour dusted her wings.  I embossed the layers of white cardstock before distressing it, added some white ruffly organza ribbon, and tied a double bow.  Final details are the punched butterflies, pearls and button centre to the bow.  The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.

 Challenges:
Passion for Promarkers - yellow and green
Sketch Saturday - sketch
Just Magnolia - Anything goes +bling and butterflies
Colour me Creative - yellow

Divas by Design - for a child

My Mum's Craft Shop - buttons 

The Paper Shelter - punched or die cut

Papertake Weekly - things that make you go awww
Sweet Stampin  - WOW
One Stop Craft- no floral embellishments
Bunny Zoe - distressing

A WOW Christmas card

I need to get cracking on my Christmas cards, and this year I am  going to make quick and simple ones!!

So I have used the Bo Bunny Snowflake stamp and stamped it onto white cardstock using iced spruced distress ink.  I added just a little glamour dust to some of the snowflakes.  I simply embossed some cardstock using my snowflakes folder and Swiss dots folder, before distressing the edges.  I added star dust stickles to the edges of the layers, some satin ribbon and a bow.  The sentiment is from Craftwork cards.

Challenges:
Just us girls - stamped line art
Dutchdare - sketch
Make it Monday
Sweet Stampin  - WOW
One Stop Craft- no floral embellishments
Challenges 4 everybody - anything goes
Crafty Catz - Christmas
Stampin for the Weekend - Christmas
Anything goes - Christmas

A Silver Anniversary card

 We went to a very posh Silver Wedding Anniversary do on Saturday night - so posh I had to wear a frock (only the 2nd time this year!!!) and of course a card was needed, and I was a little last minute dot com!!!!
So I went for a simple WOW card - embossing the cardsstock with a sizzix hearts folder and a vine leaves folder, leaving a scored section for the organza ribbon.  I added a mat embossed in a Provocraft hearts folder and then 2 Marianne Creatible die cut hearts in glittery silver cardstock.  Finally a double bow, some pearls and the stamped sentiment.  Very quick and easy!!

And here is me and hubby all dressed up ...

Challenges:
Make it Monday
Sweet Stampin  - WOW
One Stop Craft- no floral embellishments
Challenges 4 everybody - anything goes
Come and Get it - Tic tac toe (pearls, free, ribbon)
The Ribbon Girls - pearls
Craft your passion - Blast from the past (challenges 103, 106, 125)