Black, Bird and Bling

I wanted to make a card for Inkspirational where the theme is to take inspiration from a photo of a wreath. I had planned to make a card with white snowflakes against a kraft background, but I changed my mind seeing this week's theme over at LIM.
I've used a snowflake punch on metal tape. I tried out different birds and embellishments but settled with a fussy cut bird, stamped and heat embossed with black powder on a piece of scrap paper, and different sized bling, each attached to the center of a snowflake. To make my card less plain I attached the circle of snowflakes onto a piece of paper with embossed spots.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - #42 Photo
2) Less Is More - #144 Color
3) Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - #149 Bling it up
4) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Christmas Bunny

I thought I had more Christmas cards made than what seems to be the case, so you'll see plenty of Christmas cards on my blog from now on...
This sweet bunny is a stamp from Lily of the Valley. I colored it with Promarkers and attached it to a scalloped die cut circle. The circle and die cut holly leaves have been cut out of kraft, I then covered them with Fran-tage. I added some light blue pearls, tied a bow of light blue seam binding ribbon onto which I attached a stamped tag with a Christmas sentiment (also from LOTV).
The DP with snowflakes came free with a magazine. I slightly distressed the edges and attached it to a background DP from  Carta Bella.  I used Walnut Distress Ink on the edges of the kraft card base and the bottom DP.
The layout is inspired by the sketch over at Crafts 4 Eternity.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge - #148 Sketch
2) Christmas Cards All Year 'Round - Winter Theme
3) The Crafting Cafe - Winter Blues
4) The Squirrel & the Fox - #56 Animal Antics
6) 2 Sisters - #168 Christmas with no Red or Green
7) A Gem of a Challenge - #104 Christmas is Coming
8) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Red and Gold Circle Shaped Card

Our challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday this week is to make a circle shaped card.
We've got TWO great sponsors for the month of October - Anne's Digital Art AND 2 Cute Ink.  

I made a Christmas card with an image from Lily of the Valley. I colored it with Promarkers, added glitter glue to the ground and liquid pearls to the flower. 
The scalloped circles are cut out of gold metal plates, and I decorated the upper one with gold bling. I used Fran-tage on the cream circle and gold embossing powder on the kraft card base. 
The die cut hollies are made with my new MB dies. I used kraft paper, added Fran-tage to make it look like they've got snow on them.



This card is also for these challenges:
1) Creative Card Crew - #48 Teddy Bears
2) Jingle Belles - not a CREATURE was Stirring..
3) My Heart Pieces Digital Stamps Challenge - Anything Christmas
4) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Blue Birthday Card with Ballerina

I used my Go Kreate dies to make the card base and frame. The background DP is from Bo Bunny. The frame is made of white paper which I covered with shabby blue Fran-tage. The birthday greeting in Norwegian is made using a NorthStar stamp. I heat embossed it using white embossing powder. 
This little ballerina is called Abi and lives over at All Dressed Up Stamps. I colored her  with Promarkers, added lots of blue glitter glue to her dress and the ribbon in her hair. I also added a pearl. The bow is made with blue seam binding ribbon and I attached a single flower to it.

1) Sentimental Sundays - #178 Happy Birthday - Monochromatic
2) Songbird - #27 Dancing Queen
3) Sweet Stamps - #141 Frames
4) Love to Scrap -Shades of Blue
5) The Crazy Challenge - B is for...(Blue, Ballerina, Birthday, Bow)
6) Through the Purple Haze - For the Girls
7) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

A Quick Wedding Card and Sketch Saturday's 2000 Followers candy

Here's my second card using this Stamping Bella Bride and Groom. It's my favorite stamp set at the moment and I'm going to make lots more cards using this image.
The layout is inspired by the sketch over at Sketch Saturday. They also have some fab candies here as they've just reached 2000 followers - congratulations!

This card came together rather quickly. For the image I added some clear embossing powder to get those really crisp black lines. It also makes fussy cutting a lot easier as the lines are raised. The couple's clothes have been paper pieced. The bride's dress has got glitter on it.
The DPs are from Authentique. The sentiment is die cut and I added a red rose.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Sketch Saturday - #282 Sketch
2) Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C209 Card using Absolute Favorite Stamp Set
3) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Joy Fold Card with Angels

This week's challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday is to make any kind of folded card. We've got TWO great sponsors for the month of October - Anne's Digital Art AND 2 Cute Ink. 

Returning from holiday I took Monday off work and since then it seems like I've been one day behind ... So thinking it was Tuesday I got slightly panicked when I realized it was Wednesday and my card for Twisted Thursday was due!
I knew I wanted to make a Joy Fold card, but with lack of time I had to go with a more clean design than I had planned for. I chose a vintage image, decorated it with golden die cut pine branches and added a few red gems. The white papers have been embossed with Sizzix embossing foldes, with spots and snowflakes. I added a red panel for a bit of color and stamped a Christmas greeting. My card was ready within 40 minutes - that might be one of the quickest cards I've ever made. Clean or more embellished, I'm usually a very slow card maker!

This card is also for these challenges:
1) Ooh La La Creations - Things with Wings
2) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Shaped Wedding Card

I haven't got any wedding cards laying around at the moment, so I thought I'd better make one, just in case I need one for a last minute request.
The card base is made with a Spellbinders Opulent Ovals die.
The image is made with a stamp from Stamping Bella.
The bride's dress is paper pieced, as I wanted to give it a textured look by using an embossing folder. I added glitter glue in the embossed creases for a little touch of sparkle.
The groom's suit is colored with a black and gray Promarker - and I used the blender quite extensively.
I fussy cut the image and attached it to the card base onto which I added Frantage.
I chose to go with a red - the color of love - die cut sentiment in Norwegian.

This card is for these challenges:
1) My Time to Craft - #239 Congratulations
2) Creatalicious Challenges - Wedding Day
3) ABC Challenge - X for Xtra Special
4) Top Tip Tuesday - #112 Black & White with a splash of colour
5) Inkspirational - Anthing Goes
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Halloween over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday

I haven't been around the past week as I've been enjoying a fantastic holiday in Dubai. So that's why my post for The Outlawz Twisted Thursday is published on a Sunday:)  
This week we've got a bingo challenge with a Halloween theme for you. And we've got TWO great sponsors for the month of October - Anne's Digital Art AND 2 Cute Ink. 

I haven't made many - if any - Halloween cards before. 
I used the Bingo-row of Die cut or punch + Metal or charm + Dry embossing. The BOO-sentiment is made of die cut letters, and I've used an embossing folder on metal tape to make the ground. The DPs are from Panduro and the images from Di's Digi Downloads. The teddy has a paper pieced outfit. I used Promarkers for coloring, fussy cut the image and mounted it on foam.

I would also like to share this card for these challenges:
1) Di's Digi Designs - Colors of Halloween
2) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Pine Tree Shaker Card for Outlawz Twisted Thursday

It's Thursday and we've got a new challenge for you over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday! Our sponsor for the month of October is Anne's Digital Art. A lucky winner will receive 3 digis of his or her choice.This week's twist is to make a card with some moveable parts. I chose to make a shaker card, but other examples are action cards, spinner cards, slider cards,... - it's up to you!

I've used a pine tree stamp from Magnolia. I've used this image before as background, but I actually find this little tree so sweet standing alone in the wintery landscape. I colored the tree and sky with Promarkers.
I added snowflake shaped sequins. They shift color depending on the light, and together with the glitter glue that I've used for the snow on the image the card has quite a nice shimmer that a photo can't capture.
The tag shaped sentiments are made with stamps from LOTV, and I attached them with a bow of blue seam binding ribbon and twine.


I'd like to participate in these challenges with my card:
1) ABC Christmas Challenge - Transparent
2) Penny's Paper-Crafty - #148 Anything but square
3) Bearly Mine Challenges - #107 Ribbon/String/Twine
4) Passion For Promarkers Challenge - #219 Snow Is Falling
5) Created With Love Challenges - Any Holiday
6) Pattie's Creations - #77 Ribbon
7) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Little Painter

For this card I used a stamp from Lily of the Valley. I colored the image with Promarkers, but the paint is paper pieced with the same paper as I used for the background. I also added glossy accent to give the paint that glossy look that paint has.
I used 3 different DPs - one piece of scrap for the die cut frame, one from Prima and one from Carta Bella.

I used Spellbinder dies Label 28 for the panels with my sentiment. It's in Norwegian, it's from Storyteller, and it translates "Wishing you a day filled with smiles and laughter". I especially like this sentiment as it can be used for birthdays but also other occasions.
I added twine for embellishment, but left my card rather clean.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Paper Crafting Journey - For the Boys
2) Gem of a Challenge - #100 Let's hear it for the boys
3) Storyteller - #1 Everything is Allowed (Storyteller text stamp)
4) ABC Challenges - Cards for Kids
5) C is for Challenge - Boys & Men
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Smile is the Key...

Inkspirational has a beautiful color scheme this week, and the DTs made some lovely cards to get the inspiration flowing. I love the colors, but making this card was absolutely not like a walk in the park for me. In addition, my card looks more like mint than turquoise, but it's a lighter shade of turquoise that I've used.
I went with the theme of words and used a sentiment from Dylusion, as well as organza ribbon and a key metal charm. I've got so much ribbon laying around, and I've realized that I use them far too seldom on my cards. The same goes for charms, so I used a metal key charm as well as a die from Marianne to make the die cut key. The ovals are made with Spellbinders Opulent Ovals dies, I've used turquoise paper, glitter paper and a woodgrain patterned DP. I used an embossing folder with script for the triangle shapes.
I found the tutorial for this card shape during a blog hop over at "Ett Trykk". Very easy: cut a 12*12 paper in half. Score lines at 3 and 9 inches, make a mark at the ends at 3 inches and cut from the creases to the 3 inch mark.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - #40 Colors (Turquoise and Grey)
2) ABC Challenge - W for Words
3) Fab 'n' Funky -  #187 Ribbon
4) Craft Your Passion - Charms
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes 

Froggy Christmas

Red and green are traditional Christmas colors, but apart from my choice of colors I don't feel that there's anything traditional about this Christmas card! That might be the reason as to why I feel this card has more of a male feel to it. I kept the design clean, only adding red pearls and a doodled black line.

The image, from From The Heart Digital Stamps, is so fun to color with Promarkers, and I chose to fussy cut it. The green DPs with spots aren't Christmas DPs. I usually feel that green is a difficult color for me to work with, but the frog image kind of inspired me to give it a go, so I had to choose from my very small collection of green papers. I used a stamp that came free with a magazine to make the sentiment.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Christmas Challenges With Sketches - Sketch
2) Passion For Promarkers Challenge - #218 Lots of Legs
3) Try It On Tuesday - Going Dotty
4) Ooh La La Creations - F is for... (Frog)
5) Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - # Circles
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes 

The Coolest Mouse in Town...

It's time for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday  and this week's twist is to make it male! You can make anything you like as long as it's suitable for a boy or a man. Our sponsor for the month of October is Anne's Digital Art. You will receive 3 digis of your choice.
For my card I've used a digi from A Whiff of Joy and 4 DPs from Simple Stories. I paper pieced the mouse's hat, T-shirt and shirt. For the paper border I've used a punch from Fiskars and I also added some twine. The sentiment in Norwegian is made with a die from  KaBoks.

This card is for these challenges:
1) ABC Challenges - #47 3 or more patterned papers
2) The Male Room - #5 Animal/Bird/Fish (mouse)
3) MilkCoffee Challenge - Paper Piecing
4) Digi Sketch Challenge - Sketch and/or For the Boys (T)
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

CAS for a Birthday Woman

I really liked the autumn feel of this photo, and I took inspiration from the colors for my card.

I've had Stamping Bella stamps on my wishlist for some time now, and when I spotted this one I just had to have it. Such a great image for a birthday card or any kind of occasion card for a female friend. I think I'm going to make quite a few cards using this image, and for my first one I went CAS with a birthday theme. Image colored with Promarkers using autumn colors, glossy accent added to the glass and bottle. I fussy cut the image and the glass and bottle is mounted on foam

The sentiment is stamped with black ink, then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The sentiment is from a stamp set from Kaisercraft. I drew some doodled lines with a black pen around the edges.

This card is for these challenges:
1) House of Cards - Photo Inspiration+Any Style Goes
2) Come and Get It Challenges - Fall Color Theme
3) The Squirrel & the Fox - #53 Happy Birthday.
4) Seize The Birthday - Anything Goes with optional "toppings"
5) Crafty Sentiments - Favorite Technique or Color (Fussy cutting)
6) Anything Goes Challenge - #101 Out With The Girls
7) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Christmas Card with Chevron DP

I've made a Christmas card using the Inkspirational sketch as inspiration for the layout. My aim was to make something non-cute, so I used chevron patterned paper from Simple Stories for the background and a bird stamp from 7gypsies. I stamped with black ink and added clear embossing powder to it. I used a die from Memory Box to make the music notes border, dies from Whiff of Joy to make the hollies and the Merry Christmas sentiment in Norwegian is made with a die from KaBoks. The smaller music notes are peel off stickers. I've used a black pen to make the doodled lines. The black ribbon and red pearls are  from my stash.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - #39 Sketch
2) Gem of a Challenge - #99 Use black
3) Christmas Card Challenges - #44 Anything Goes
4) Creative Craft Challenges - #19 Use Ribbon
5) ABC Christmas Challenge - S is for Stockings and/or Choose a Sketch
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Fairy Birthday Card

This card is made of colors inspired by the photo over at HoC. I think I've covered all the colors except for the peach one. I've used Spellbinders Nestabilities Timeless Rectangles and Opulent Ovals dies. The fairy image is made with a stamp from Lost Coast Designs. I've used a stamp from the same company on the large oval, heat embossed with white embossing powder. The crown on the fairy's head is made with a stamp from 7gypsies. I used Dusty Concord Distress Ink for the stamping, and I added Star Dust Stickles to the crown and the wings.
The purple DP with spots is from Lily Bee Design, and the lavender one I found in my pile of scraps. As for embellishments I've used 4 light blue pearls and a fabric flower from Panduro. The sentiment in Norwegian (meaning both happy birthday and congratulations) is made with a die from KaBoks. I cut it out in both silver mirri card and a dark shade of purple for a shadow effect.

This card is for these challenges: 
1) House of Cards - Colors + Shabby & Vintage
2) Crafter's Cafe - #30 Diecuts/Punches
3) LEJ Designs  - #72Lots of Layers
4) Sweet Stampin - Things with Wings
5) Crafty Cardmakers - Winged Things
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes
 

Outlawz Twisted Thursday's Birthday Twist

For my DT card over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday  I used an image from our sponsor for the month of September - Nicecrane designs. This week's theme - or twist - is birthdays.
This image makes me think of a TV series I enjoyed as a child - "Little House on the Prairie", and I read the books as well. I colored up the image having autumn colors in mind. A made a frame around the image using a wood patterned DP and an inner frame of kraft distressed with Walnut DI. The DP I used as background came free with a magazine. I cut close to the lines of the image, added a 3D butterfly for dimension (and to cover up my poor coloring of the butterfly that is part of the image). I used letter stickers to make the sentiment.


This card is entered into these challenges:
1) Through the Purple Haze - Inspired by a Song / Book / Film / Cartoon
2) Lexi's Creations - Autumn Colors
3) Come and Get It Challenges - Birthday Theme
4) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Forest Scene with Ink, Mist and Embossing Powder

The challenge over at Inkspirational is to the CASE the card in the photo. My inspiration came from the layout. I wanted to keep the look of the lines from the the pieces of paper by using my new background stamp with trees from Lost Coast Designs. And I wanted to do something a bit different for me.

First I took a piece of white paper and sprayed it with Dylusions "After Midnight" ink spray. Then I added a coat of Distress Ink "Faded Jeans". Then I stamped the background and added white embossing powder to it and heat embossed.

I cut out a circle from the paper and added it to a panel of kraft. I used a Memory Box die to make the reindeer. The sentiment tags are made with stamps from Lily of the Valley. I heat embossed them as well and added them to a bow of twine. I mounted the scene onto a panel of kraft and red paper, then onto the kraft card base.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - #38 CASE
2) Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Non- Traditional Christmas
3) Cupcake Inspirations - #229 Forest Critters
4) Sparkle N Sprinkle - Anything Goes with Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking
5) Addicted to Stamps Challenge - #62 3-2-1 (3 colors, 2 tags, 1 twine)
6)  Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Christmas Card with Bear and Bird

For this card I've used a LOTV stamp, 3 different DPs in a beige/pink color from Landstoken and a scrap for the die cut tree.
I layered the papers onto panels of kraft and stitched with a metallic silver thread around the edges.
The image is colored with Promarkes and I've added quite an amount of glitter glue for the snowy ground.
I used a Marianne die to make the tree, and I added gesso paint to its edges.
The sentiment, meaning Merry Christmas in Norwegian, is made of letter stickers, I used sandpaper to give it a bit of a worn look.
The bow is made of seam binding ribbon and I added a silver snowflake charm to it.
Now I'm off to a papercraft fair, it's just a 10 minute ride by train from Oslo. I'm guessing I'll bring home lots of new goodies!

This card is for these challenges:
1) Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Anything Goes
2) Christmas Inspirations - Use Punches or Die Cuts
3) Sparkles Christmas Challenge - Non Traditional Colors
4) Penny's Paper-Crafty - #145 Two or more patterned papers
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Wings

It's time a for a new challenge over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday  and the twist for this week's challenge is "Wings". The sponsor for this month is Nicecrane designs.

I don't do girly cards very often, and I've never used green on my card unless it was a requirement for a challenge I wanted to participate in, but this sweet image from Nicecrane designs did inspire me to go out of my comfort zone for my DT card.

I colored the image with Promarkers. The green DP is from Webster's pages. I machine stitched with white thread around the edges. I used a Marianne die to cut the birdhouse and a Memory Box die to make the 3 die cut birds. The sentiment is a rub-on and translates "For you" in Norwegian. For the banner I used a Kaisercraft clear stamp. I heat embossed it with white powder on white background. Pearls and flowers from my stash - I don't use flowers very often on my cards, so I've got quite a lot of  them  in my stash.


This card is also for these challenges:
1) Crafter's Cafe - #29 Flowers
2) Sisterhood of Crafters - Use a digi
3) Crafting When We Can - #53 Seasons (spring colors)
4) Shopping Our Stash - #119 Oldest Flowe
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Stillife Card

Purple is one of my favorite colors, and here's another one using purple tones in combination with orange, inspired by the HoC color scheme. 

I decided to make this card a shaped one - I tend to make square cards, A2 or A6, but I love my Spellbinders dies (Label 28) and thought this shape would fit this design. The idea here was to make  it look like a "stillife" painting  - the wooden paper is used to make the table, the lace makes the table cloth, and then I've put a coffee or tea cup on top. The purple paper is supposed to look like wallpaper. 
I've used dies from Marianne to make the cup, saucer and spoon. For the spoon I used silver mirri card to make it look like newly polished silverware.
I added a purple paper to the card base to make a frame for my scene. 


This card is for these challenges:
1) House of Cards - September Color Challenge + Classic & Elegant
2) Kaboodle Doodles - Anything but a Square
3) Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes / Frame It
4) Top Tip Tuesday - #110 Get in Shape
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Never give up

For this card I've used 3 different patterned papers, all in purple and brownish tones. I distressed the papers and added walnut DI to the edges.
For the large butterfly I used a die that came free with a magazine and for the smaller ones I used a punch. The tree branch is made with a Memory Box die.
The stamped sentiment is made with a cling stamp from Prima. I heat embossed it using a dark purple embossing powder. The oval is a leftover from a cardboard frame.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - #37
Photo
2) Crafty Bloggers Network - Things with Wings
3) Eclectic Ellapu - Inspired by a song ("You are Loved - Don't give up" by Josh Groban)
4) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

 

CAS Birthday Chicks

For this A6 sized card I kept it clean - no designer papers or bling on this one!
I used a digi from From The Heart Digital Stamps. I chose to fussy cut the birds, attaching them to a purple panel, then onto a white panel mounted on foam on a white card base.
I used Promarkers in different shades of purple and orange, which came out a bit more bold than I had planned for to be honest, and the balloon is covered with glossy accent for a translucent feel.
The sentiment is made with a clear stamp and is heat embossed with orange embossing powder, to match the color of the balloon.

This card is for these challenges:
1) House of Cards - September Color Challenge + CAS
2) Crafter's Cafe - #28 No Desinger Paper
3) One Stitch At A Time - #180 Use a Digi
4) Craft Your Passion - Glitter and/or Gloss
5) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Signs of Fall

This week's theme over at the Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge the theme is "Signs of Fall", and for the month of September we're being sponsored  by Nicecrane Designs.

I love autumn and the colors of autumn, and for this card I went with a male look.
The leaf stamp I've used for this card came free with a magazine, as did the bigger cut out leaf. I mixed some different Distress Inks (Walnut Stain, Fired brick, Wild Honey) together to make the paper for my leaves. I used Coffee Arhival Ink for stamping. The sentiment is part of a set from Dylsions. I heat embossed with orange embossing powder on burgundy paper.
I made a frame of wood patterned paper and placed it on top of  a DP with chevron pattern. I'm sorry but I can't remember where the papers are from..

This card is also for these challenges:
1) Crafting When We Can - #52 Repeated Image
2) Great Impressions - Fall Colors
3) The Corrosive Challenges - #182 All about Fall.
4) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Kites

For this card I've used a digi called "Kite" from Mo's Digital Pencil, a sentiment postmark stamp from LOTV, kite dies from Memory Box and a fence die from Marianne.
The red and white paper is Maja designs, the yellow ones and kraft I found in my scrap pile.
The image and background have been colored with Promarkers. I added a fine black line to the die cut kites to make them look like stamped, fussy cut ones.
We've got such beautiful weather in Oslo today, so now I'm heading out for a long walk!

This card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - Colors
2) Creative Corner - #34 Child's Play
3) Crafting for all Seasons - #60 Back to School/for a Child
4) DP2 Challenge - #201 Anything Goes
5) The Male Room - #3 Outdoors
6) Pollycraft Challenges - #6 For Kids
7) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Wedding Anniversary

My color choice has been inspired by the photo over at HoC. For this wedding anniversary card I decided to use the Bird Swing stamp from Whimsy Stamps.  I used purple and orange Promakers for coloring, as well as a little touch of greens for the leaves. The flowers have glossy accent on them. I fussy cut the image and placed it onto a Spellbinders die cut frame. For texture I used cheese cloth. The sentiment is a chipboard and the flowers are wooden ones. One is covered with purple embossing powder, and the other was left neutral with just a gem in the center.

This card is for these challenges:
1) House of Cards - Colors + theme cute and fun
2) Creative Card Crew - #44 Things With Wings
3) Brown Sugar - #58 Animals
4) Polkadoodles - #36 Significant Birthday or Occasion
5) Totally Gorjuss - #200 Anything Goes
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Outlawz Twisted Thursday - "Back to School"

This week's theme over at the Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge the theme is "Back to School", and for the month of September we're being sponsored  by Nicecrane Designs.
For my card I used a vintage style digi from Sugar Kissed Cottage, and  I colored it using Promakers. The paper behind the image came free with a magazine and the background paper with flowers is from Prima. For the die cut elements I used kraft paper, dies from Marianne and Memory Box. I used Walnut Distress Ink on the fence and tree, and for the clouds I used a white gel pen for outlining. The sentiment is a chipboard sticker, and I machine stitched around the edges.

This card is also for these challenges:
1) Card Crafter's Circle - #90 For the Boys
2) Digi Haven – Vintage or "Old"
3) The Cupboard Trilogy - #15 Male
4) Through the Purple Haze - Dies
5) Craft Room Challenge - Trees and/or Leaves
6) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Boy on Bicycle

For this card I've used a LOTV stamp with a boy riding his bicycle. I know that sportsmen don't usually ride with their dog on the back of their bicycle, but I didn't have any other image fit for the sports theme... I started coloring the image using Promarkers in different shades of blue and grey, but I thought it needed just a little a splash of color, so I gave the boy red shoes. The image is mounted onto a panel of kraft, then onto a plain blue-grayish paper attached to the kraft card base . I wanted to keep the design clean, so the only embellishment is a die cut cloud, with a fine line of white gel pen around its edges.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Outlawz Sunday CAS - Sports Theme
2) Make it Monday with Kraft Outlet - Clean and Simple
3) My Time to Craft - #232 Sports
4) Dream Valley Challenges - #64 For a Child
5) A Little Bit Crafty - Clean & Simple
6) ABC Challenges - Coloring with Markers
7) Make it Monday - Anything Goes

Anything but a Card over at Lexi's Creations

This is my entry as a Guest Designer over at Lexi's Creations, where the challenge this fortnight is to make "Anything but a Card".
I got to choose an image from Fairy Dust Crafts , and I chose the "Bauble Spiral Christmas Tree". I really like the whimsical design of this image.
I've always struggled making tags, and last year I didn't have time to make more than one or two, so I've decided to start earlier this year...
I've made the tags using Sizzix rounded tags dies. I wanted to paper piece the image, so I printed the image onto a white paper with structure and onto a kraft base. The one to the left has baubles made of red Stickles and silver Liquid pearls, and it's been decorated with red star sequins and twine. The one to the right has diamond Stickles, gold Liquid pearls and star sequins, as well as seam binding ribbon.

These tags are also for these challenges:
1) ABC Christmas Challenge - Quick
2) Crafting for all Seasons - #59 Tag
3) The Glory of Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes
4) Make it Monday - Anything Goes
5) CHNC challenge extra for September - Anything Christmas Goes

Christmas Card with Fluffy Little Animals

I wanted to use my new stamps from LOTV, and this week's Inkspirational sketch seemed to be a great choice as it allowed me to use all three of the images at the same time! I die cut the images using circle dies and attached them to panels of kraft. I used Promarkers for coloring, and I also decorated the images using red Stickles glitter glue, gold liquid pearls and Diamond Dust for sparkle (which  unfortunately doesn't show that well in the photo). The two DPs are from Landstoken Paperdesign. I used a Martha Stewart punch to make the border, dies from Marianne to make the poinsettia, some red berries, a LOTV sentiment tag stamp, red thread for stitching and two red pearls.

This card is for these challenges:
1) Inkspirational - #35 Sketch
2) A Gem of a Challenge - #95 Use 2 Backing Papers
3) Southern Girls - Warm Fuzzies
4) Inky Impressions - #123 Animals
5) Christmas Card Challenges - #40 Something New (stamps)