Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #53

It's Debby's turn to set the challenge this week, and she has chosen Autumn colours. To me autumn is full of oranges and reds, golds and browns.
I love this image, and she reminds me of autumn breezes. I watercoloured her using orange and brown distress inks and then distressed the edges. Mellow has to be my favourite set of autumn papers, so they out they came! I used some leaves from last year's Magnolia Autumn kit and stamped over the cardstock in versamark and heat embossed them using gold embossing powder.
Here's a close up of them.
Do check out the other DT members' blogs to see theiur interpretations.
Recipe:
Stamp(s): Sugar Nellie Windswept; Magnolia autumn leaves and sentiment
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Mellow
Embellishments:

Dutch Dare Challenge 62

This week's challenge is a recipe:

2 different colours of cardstock

2 different pieces of Patterned Paper

2 flowers

2 brads

2 gemstones/buttons

I adore this stamp, and have to use it at Christmas. I watercoloured the image, and glittered and glossed the berries. I matted the patterned paper onto green cardstock, and embossed a piece of red cardstock using my baubles folder. I layered up a prima flower and attached it using a small brad. I added a big brad to the opposite corner of the image. A couple of red gems finish it off.

Do have a peek at the other DT cards.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Penny Black Holly Jolly Christmas
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Forever Friends
Embellishments: Prima flowers

Halloween

I am not a big Halloween card maker ... don't really send Halloween cards. However one of the little boys I mind is a big fan of the spooky night and can't wait for the trick or treating. So I have made a card just for him!!
I have made the card using the following challenges:
Everybody-Art-Challegne - sketch (rotated and shapes altered slightly!)
Passion for Promarkers - any colours, 3 shapes, 2 papers and 1 ribbon
A Spoonfull of Sugar - Halloween
Creative Card Crew - Celebration

Isn't he a cutie!!! I coloured him using my promarkers and then used my nesties to cut out the circles to create the moon. I used the ickle bat that is part of the download on the sentiment.
OK I confess I was having a senior moment and have ended up with 4 shapes - perhaps the square is a squashed rectangle or the oval a stretched circle!! But I really like it so I'm not altering it now LOL!!!

Off for a quick coffee and a bit of blog hopping before collecting the girls from Pre-school - hopefully the rain will go away this afternoon!

Nikki and Lacey are launching a new range of stamps, Wags 'n' Whiskers stamps, on October 9th with a fab blog hop. Look here for more details. They also have some fab candy on offer.



Recipe:
Stamp(s): Digital delights by Louby Loo download
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: Papermania and freebie download
Embellishments: cord from stash

Whiff of Joy challenge

Just a quick post before I give up on the day!! We have spent the late afternoon and early evening in Blackpool with my parents. We have had some scrummy fish and chips, tram rides and seen the illuminations. The girls loved it all, especially the fish and chips!! The downside was the wind - it was really strong so we couldn't go on the beach. The girls are now tucked up in bed and I can share a card I made earlier today.

One of my friend's is expecting her 4th baby, and two weeks before it is due the scans are still saying it is going to be a girl ... their 4th girl!! So here goes the jinxing!
I have coloured Willow in using promarkers and copics, a new thing for me, as I normally stick to my distress inks with these stamps. I used these gorgeous Nursery papers by DCWV and have kept the details simple. As the handmade flowers I made this morning worked so well I had another go ... I used 3 sizes of nesties and stamped swirls over the circles using tattered rose distress ink, and it was all going well until I let Ellie do the glimmer misting ... not so misted as soaked!! All the curling went ... well flat!! I added pearls to the centre of the flowers, organza ribbon and a charm.


Katharina has 2 of her Winter Stamp kits up for grabs. The pre-order for the Kit is open until October 23rd. It includes 6 brand new, never before seen, main character stamps, 1 large accessory stamps, 3 small accessory stamps designed by Elisabeth Bell and 4 text stamps. The blog candy ends 22nd October.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): WOJ Willow with Baby; WOJ sentiment; WOJ swirl
Colouring Media: promarkers and copics
Papers: DCWV Nursery
Embellishments: ribbon, charm pearls from stash

Girly

The girls and hubby are having a fab time picking all the conkers up in the back garden ... so I made a card!!
I used this week's Friday Sketcher sketch, rotated, hand made flowers from Just magnolia, decoupage from Charisma cards and finally Simon Says Stamp girly.
I coloured my image using promarkers and decoupaged it up. I cut the mat out using my nesties and used worn lipstick distress ink to stamp the pattern on it. I made the flowers, following Michele's fab tutorial, but as I didn't have the die she uses I used my circle nesties and only used 3 circles per flower. I stamped onto the circles and inked the edges.

Here are my flowers ...
and the decoupage ...
Simon Says Stamp ask that you send your card either to Paige or to a sick child ... I am going to cheat and give it to one of the children I mind as she is 9 next week. She has quite bad epilepsy and is gutted that her medication isn't controlling the daily fits, so now needs yet more tablets. So I hope this counts.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): Magnolia Swing Tilda; Cuddly Buddly sentiment
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: DCWV Nursery stack
Embellishments: raffia and pearls from stash

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge 52

WOW I can't believe the SCSC has been going a whole year!!

Wendy has chosen this week's theme ...

CELEBRATION

We have four prizes up for grabs this week.

Digital Delights have sponsored us with $10 to spend in their store

Sketching stamper have sponsored 4 images

Wendy will be putting together a crafting goody bag

We will be offering a DT place

For my card I used Butterfly Caller from Sketching Stamper.

I coloured the image using my promarkers and inked the edges. I used these butterfly papers from a K and Co pad I have, and matted the dp onto blue cardstock. I distressed the edges a little to soften them. I added purple raffia and attached a butterfly charm to a heart brad.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): Sketching Stamper Butterfly Caller
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: K and Co
Embellishments: brads, raffia and charm from stash

Apricot and cool aqua

That's the coloure theme over at passion for Promarkers this week. Not my favourite colour choices and I did think that I might not have the papers to go with the colours ... but I found some!!
I coloured this cute pixie in using my promarkers. I have kept it quite simple, just a bit of dp, some ribbon and flowers.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): CC Designs Heidi (or Gretel I can't remember!!)
Colouring Media: Promarkers
Papers: DCWV Nursery
Embellishments: Ribbon, Prima flowers and brads from stash

Henry's heart

One of our nieghbours asked me a few days ago to make a card for his girlfriend (soon to be fiancee hpoefully!!) to celebrate a year together. He is taking her away for a romantic wekend to celebrate and hopefully she'll say yes to his proposal - ahhhhhhhh!

Anyway I have no children this morning so I have finally made the card (cutting it a bit fine as he wants it tonight LOL!!). I used the colours from Colour Create (she adores pink!!) and as it is a 1st anniverary card of sorts I am also entering it in to the Cute Card Thursday challenge.
I watercoloured Henry and used my nesties to cut him out. I inked the edges of the image and dp with brown ink. Lots of heart paper and its PINK!!!! No flowers as while she a pink girl, she doesn't do flowers or fuss! I stamped the sentiment in sepia to keep with the brown and pink theme.

Hopefully she will like it.


Recipe:
Stamp(s): WOJ Henry and heart; Penny Black sentiment
Colouring Media: distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Bittersweet
Embellishments: ribbon from stash

Henry and his bauble

I do love Henry Mouse, and he is sooo cute hugging his bauble!!
I coloured him in using distress inks and then used stickles to decorate the bauble. I have kept things unfussy, no ribbon, just a few flowers. It needs a sentiment - just need to find my Christmas sentiments stamps .... hmmm any ideas where I put them last year so I would know where they were this year LOL!!!

IU have used Rach's sketch from the WOJ challenge, and the red and green theme from the Simon Says Stamp challenge.

Recipe:
Stamp(s): WOJ Henry Mouse and bauble
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: Basic Grey Wassail
Embellishments: flowers and brrads from stash

Red white and black Snowy

More Christmas cards!! I have used the papertake Weekly Challenge (black, white +1) as my colour scheme and combined the My Time To Craft Snow Buddies and ABC challenge, embossing.
I love Snowy, he is such a cutie! I coloured him in using distress inks and added some stickles to him. I matted the image and all the dp onto black cardstock. The white panel is embossed using the CB snowflakes folder. I added some
Recipe:
Stamp(s): Penny Black Snowy; Cuddly Buddly sentiment
Colouring Media: Distress inks
Papers: DCWV
Embellishments: ribbon from stash