ABC challenge R is for ....

RIBBON

although I have to say I liked the idea of red robins!!!

You have to use ribbon somewhere on your card for this challenge ... and like I was going to find this hard!!! The hardest part was deciding which ribbons to use - some many to stroke and choose from!

I decided to be a bit different and create a woven ribbon background for my card. I wove green and pink ribbons, and then added a simple tag with prima flowers on it. I will add a sentiment to the tag when I use it. The bp is Papermania.

So what are you going to do with your ribbons?

Tilda and Bell

I am getting a bit fed up with Christmas cards and don't seem to have any time to craft, so I have made this quick, simple one this morning. I have found it really hard matching papers to these flowers, so I have only used 2 lots of plain cardstock. I embossed the bp using my Cuttlebug Snowflakes embossing folder and then distressed it a bit. I matted Tilda after watercolouring her, added a bit of lace and 3 flowers. As it has snow and flowers on it, it meets both this week's Papertake Weekly Challenge and Spoonfull of Sugar.

I love dirt

The Basic Grey Challenge this week is One for the Boys. I love this Sugar Nellie and use it alot on cards for my daughter's preschool friends. I have however decided to make this card for my brother!
I have used Basic Grey Archiac papers and rub ons and follwed this week's Lili of the Valley sketch. I rotated the sketch and replaced the text circle and flowers with pebble rub-ons and added my own text below -call it poetic licence!
I watercoloured Hamish and cut and layered him using my nesties. The circles are also cut with my nesties. I inked the edges in dark brown papermania ink. Really simple, just took me a long time due to a kitten chasing the lolly stick while I was adding the rub ons!!

Ellie's get well card

I have made Ellie's get well card, by combining the Sketch Saturday sketch and the Secret Crafter challenge this week, to use a cute image and button. And for those of you who know me ... I have used pink!!!!
I love this gorgeous Sugar Nellie image. I have watercoloured her and then inked the edges using Making Memories rose pink ink. I have used Basic Grey Eva papers and a Making Memories flower and Woodware button. The itsy flowers are also Prima. I faux stitched round everything using a gold gel pen.
Just need to hide it away, and remember where I have hidden it!

black and white Snowy

This week's PBSC is monochrome. I have made a black and white Christmas card.

I used Snowy and added black, silver gel pen and some glitter glue to the image. I have used black cardstock, and DCWV gliiter stack ans adhestive papers. I ran a piece of silver cardstock through my Snowflakes embossing folder.

The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed with silver embossing powder.

I am really pleased with the effect. Might make a few more of these!

Red and Green Tilda

I have combined this week's Cute Card Thursday (red and green) with the Friday Sketcher. I found this sketch a bit of a challenge, piecing together all the layering.

I have rotated the sketch so the image fits better. I watercoloured the image in pencils and cut Tilda out using my new Labels nesties. The dp are Dovecraft and Papermania Christmas papers. I inked all the edges in Papermania's green ink. I added buttons and ribbons from my stash, Prima flowers and snowflake charms.

My Magnolia Stampclub arrived this morning so I have eazi mounted them and inked them up ready to play tonight when the girls have gone to bed. Hopefully the cat (now a permanent member of the household) will let me craft - she likes to chase pencils while I am colouring, bat tweezers and sit on my lap demanding to be loved- very helpful.

WOJ challenge boys Christmas card

I really scratched my head with this one, as I do not have any of the Charlie Christmas stamps ... but I do have Oakley on a scooter ... and the little boy I mind wants one for Christmas so ...

I used Papermania papers and a Cuddly Buddly stamp - the idea being, has he been good enough to get his scooter? I added red metallic brads and green wire to complete it.

There is a little blue, but only smidge!

Dutch Dare Challenge #23

This week's Dutch dare challenge is to make a card using no fun stamps, just text stamps -EEEEKKKKK went I, I have non of them ...so ... a bit of cheating has gone on ...

I have used a Penny Black stickeroo!!! I have made quite a few Christmas cards using this set of stickers, and have kept all quite simple. I matted the sticker onto black and silver cardstock, ran some pearlised white card through my Snowflake embossing folder and matted that onto silver cardstock. The dp is last year's Dovecraft(yes I still have little bits of it around!) I added tourquise organza ribbon, and little gems to some of the snowflakes.

Its a fab challenge why not join in and have a go?

Here are a couple of other cards I made using the same stickeroo sheet and Dovecraft papers. I used the Bauble embossing folder for the background.

ABC Challenge Q is for ...

Quick card.

For this challenge you have 20 minutes to make your card once you have coloured your image.I chose this gorgeous WOJ image and used my nesties to cut her out. I used Basic Grey Boxer papers and navy blue cardstock, and inked the edges with dark blue ink. I finished it off with navy blue ric-rac, prima flowers and a PB Transparent sentiment. A total of 18 minutes from picking up my nesties to finishing!

Bind-it -all book

This is the first book I have made using my Bind-it-All. I think these little books are going to get rather addictive!!
I have used this week's papertake sketch to do the front - rather than curved cut ins I have done straight ones as I couldn't get the size right!
The papers are all Basic Grey, the image WOJ and the flowers Prima.