Birthday Rose

I'm here to share my DT card for the new "Stella Says Sketch" challenge over at Catch the Bug..

I used one of Jodie's beautiful flower images, you can find a big selection in the Bugaboo store. I colored the image with Promarkers and cut it using stitched oval dies from Dienamics. The scallopped stitched borders are also from Dienamics. All papers are from Maja Design. Instead of adding a stamped sentiment I attached a metal charm with a birthday greeting to a bow made of seambinding ribbon.

This card is also for these challenges:
In the Pink - #79 1,2,3 of something /1 image, 2 pearls, 3 DPs)
Seize The Birthday - Birthday + Topping - Border Punches Or Dies
Creative Knockouts - #109 Lots Of Layers
Inky Chicks - #58 Think Pink

My first ATC

There's a new challenge over at  Outlawz Twisted Thursday,  and this week's optional twist is to make an ATC. I've used an image from Stitchy Bear Designs - our Sponsor for October.

This is my first go at making an ATC. I've always struggled with tags, due to the small space to work with, but making an ATC for some reason I didn't find as hard. Maybe because its rectangular, I don't know... But I can tell you it's a great project for using some scraps. I've got tons to work with...

I made my ATC base out of black cardstock. I used a stencil to make the background, added perfect perals for a nice shiny finish. The striped paper is a piece of leftover from a Maja Design paper. The sentiment is made using my Dymo. Image colored with Promarkers and a white gel pen to make the fur, which doesn't show well in the photo. Added two pearls onto sequins from my stash.


This is also for these challenges:
Digi Choosday Challenge - #39 - Something New (stencil and making an ATC)
Di's Digis Designs - Animals acting like humans
Sweet Stampin - Use a non-white base

Using my old rubber stamps

I had on my to do list to make a sassy birthday card using rubber stamps. I had only one image I felt suited the theme, so  I blew the dust off my showgirl from Whimsy Stamps. I wanted to use this stamp in a new way, so I stamped a cocktail glass from Magnolia, masked it and then I placed the showgirl like she's sitting inside the glass. The image is colored with Promarkers and the glass has loads of glossy accent on it.

I had planned to use a sketch as inspiration for my card, but I had to change plans along the way as I wasn't happy with how I'd colored the white space around the image, which forced me to fussy cut it. I used my embossing folder with falling snow, then I added gold, silver and frantage to the spots and background, I think it gave her a background with lots of party feel to it. The birthday sentiment is in Norwegian and was is embossed with silver EP.

This card is for these challenges:
Twofers - #4 Sassy
Mervi's Candy and Challenge - Birthday
Artistic Inspirations - Anything Goes with Twist of Black
Crafty Cardmakers - Make It Sparkle
Incy Wincy Designs - Pin Up Girls

Dreamcatchers

It's very rare I show two cards in the same post, but these two cards have the same theme.
For both cards I've used a dreamcatcher die from Spellbinders.

For my first card I colored the die cut with brown and blue Promarkers, being inspired by the colors of the Stampin Royalty photo, and decorated it with white pearls. The blue inner frame is stamped with a script stamp from Kort&Godt. 
I used my stitched oval dies to make a raised frame. I also used them to cut out the centre so that the gold paper panel also makes the background for the die cut. The cardstock is dark brown.
This card is for these challenges:
Stampin' Royalty - #296 - Picture Inspiration
Dream Valley Challenges - Recipe (Blue+Stitching real or faux+die cuts)
Cards und More - No Designer Paper







For my second card I colored the die cut, a part from the feathers, with a brown Promarker, then I added frantage with white and gold and heat set it. I attached it to a gold panel covered with vellum and stitched around the edges. I mounted the panel on foam.
This card is for these challenges:
Addicted to CAS - Dream
TIME OUT Challenges - #39 Case Tracey (I was inspired by the white, vellum and the placement of the image)
House of Cards - Stitching

Autumn colors

I'm here to share my DT card for the new COLOR challenge over at Catch the Bug, featuring the images from the Mini Set - Leaf blocks.

I struggle a bit with color challanges, so instead of going hunting for designer papers in my stash to find papers that would fit colorwise, I pulled out my inks.
I used them to color the images, there's a mix of DI squeeezed lemonade, wild honey, fired brick, aged mahogny and a walnut stain in there.
I attached the images to burlap paper, then to corrugated card board which I added som aged gold frantage to. I found 3 buttons in autumnal colors in my stash and added those and some brown string.
The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn and is heat set with Queen's Gold EP.

This card is also for these challenges:
Make My Monday - Nature
If You Give a Crafter A Cookie... - #28 Photo Inspiration
Night Shift Stamping - Autumn
City Crafter Challenge - #280 - Fall has Arrived

Halloween card with Freebie Friday

Happy Friday! I'm here to show you my card featuring the Freebie Friday -  you can pick it up at no cost in the Bugaboo store.

Making a Halloween themed card I was out of my comfort zone, but I found some orange and black papers from Graphic45 in my stash, as well as black ribbon and paper and got to work using
the Tuesday Morning sketch as inspiration for my layout. I die cut an oval frame using Dienamics dies and popped it up with foam, and I did the with the fussy cut image. But before that I stamped the paper within the frame with a cobweb and spider stamp and added some white stuff that was supposed to look like real cobweb...

This card is also for these challenges:
Tuesday Morning Sketches - #319 Sketch
Whimsy Inspiration - #86 Anything Goes or Halloween
Crafting with an Attitude - #7 Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

2015 Christmas Card #24 - Die cuts and punches

It's Thursday and time for an OLDIE BUT GOODIE over at Catch the Bug and a new challenge over at Outlawz Twisted Thursday.  And this time it's ANYTHING GOES week.

The image is called Winter Bird Trio and is colored with Promarkers. There's quite a lot of glitter on this card and the stitched die cut frame is covered with gesso. I'v used scrap pieces to punch and die cut branches, holly leaves, cone and the sentiment also got covered with gold EP and was heat set.


I'd like to enter this card in these challenges:
Addicted to Stamps and More - #163 Addicted To Holidays
Fab 'n' Funky - #274 Cute Critters and/or Christmas
Sparkle N Sprinkle - Anything Goes with Loose Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking
Glitter n Sparkle - #155 Use Punch or a Die Cut

CASEing Monika - take two

Monika of Creative with Monika invited me to join a personal challenge, where she CASEs one of my cards of her choice and I one of hers. This is the second time we do this. This time I chose to CASE her elephant card - it's the one in the smaller photo and you can find more photos of her card here.

So I took out my elephant stamps from Lawn Fawn and stamped them onto patterned paper and cut them out. I placed them onto a die cut heart (Memory Box) which I inked with fired brick DI.

The sentiment is heat embossed with silver EP, the stamp is from Technique Tuesday.
The background is stenciled using black DI, which I think actually looks grey when used for stenciling.
For a bit more color I added 3 sequins from my stash.

I'm sure Monika would appreciate your visit too, you can check out her post here to see her version of one of my cards and leave her some love:)

This card is for these challenges:
Crafty Creations - #298 It Takes Two
City Crafter Challenge - #279 - Paper Piecing
Papertake Weekly - Animal Magic
Inspiration Destination - #51 Always Anything Goes

Elephant and pumpkins

It's Thursday and time for an OLDIE BUT GOODIE over at Catch the Bug and a new challenge over at Outlawz Twisted Thursday. This week the optional twist - or theme - is "AUTUMN".









The image is called Edward - fall pumpkins and is colored with Promarkers.

The background is embossed, I used gold paper, then I added a panel of a DP that came free with a magazine ages ago.
For a bit of texture I added cheesecloth, and I die cut lots of leaves in different autumnal colors using dies from Lawn Fawn. The tree branch and birds are made with Memory Box dies.
I machine stitched around the edges using gold metallic thread.

Crabby Cat

Tuesday is new release day over at  Bugaboo and this is my DT card showcaseing one of Jodie's latest images. It's called Crabby Cat Christmas - I think the name suits him.

He's colored with Promarkers, he's got glossy accent on his eyes and glitter on his fur trim. The image is cut using a die from Lawn Fawn.

Papers are from Maja Design. The striped panel was embossed with a candy cane embossing folder.

I stitched using white thread, added white string and a red glittery button I received from Kim (thanks Kim!)
The sentiment is from Dylusions.

Paris and Venice

Twofers has the theme of cities this fortnight. I made two A2 sized cards.

Paris card:
The Eiffel Tower is a clear stamp from Panduro. I stamped with black ink and layered the image onto black and white panels. The background is made with a map stamp from Prima, and it actually includes France on it. I stamped with white ink onto black card stock.
I wanted to include a little color to the card, so I used a twine I received from Kim which has the colors of the French flag and it's also my NBUS element. I attached a die cut tag to it and stamped "lots of hugs" using a Technique Tuesday set.

This card is for these challenges:
Darnell's NBUS Challenge #5
Get Creative Challenges - Use a Tag
Where the HeART is - Add some text





Venice card:
This is a one layer card I made using a stamp from Penny Black. I masked off the white space and stamped my image. I stamped the image onto some left over paper and made a mask before I started inking the sky and water. Then I colored the image using Promakers and a white gel pen and I left the building uncolored. I left out a sentiment, I kind of regretted that I included one on my previous one layer card, so didn't want to make the same mistake.

This card is for these challenges:
Inkspirational - One layer card (2nd entry)
TIME OUT Challenges - #39 Make Your Mark
Happy Little Stampers CAS- Colouring

Stella Says Sketch with Elephant

I'm here to share my DT card for the new "Stella Says Sketch" challenge over at Catch the Bug.


I used a die from Poppy to make the die cut background that covers the whole card front. I used the same DP as behind the die cut for the panel, and instead of using a circle I took the liberty to add a tag made with a Dienamics die and added my fussy cut elephant on top of it. I used jeans ribbon and white string from my stash as well as glitter pearls I received from Kim.

This card is also for these challenges:
Through the Purple Haze - Happy Birthday
Crafter's Cafe - #132 Monochromatic for a Child
I love Promarkers - #284 Use the Colour Blue
Crafting for all Seasons - #109 Tic Tac Toe (ribbon+digi+sparkle bling)

Bear Angel on Cloud

I'm here to share my DT card for the new ANYTHING GOES challenge over at Catch the Bug, featuring the image Jesse Bear Angel - Jesse angel.

He's colored with Promarkers and gel pens and the fluffy cloud is made using a snowpen - love that stuff. I fussy cut the image and mounted it on foam.
I masked off the rectangle, used DI ink and Perfect Pearls, which gives it a nice shiny look. It's the first time I've used it and I'm ddfinetely going to put more colors on my shopping list...
Then I ran the background through an embossing folder with falling snow and added silver EP and heat set. The sentiment is also embossed, and I only added 3 sequins from my stash for a clean look.

This card is alsro for these challenges:
A Snowflakes Promise - #4 Winter or Chritmas Themed
Cards und More - # 140 Clean and Simple
Try It On Tuesday - Try Something New (using Perfect pearls)
Cards in Envy - Cute & Cuddly

Sewing mouse

It's Thursday and time for an OLDIE BUT GOODIE over at Catch the Bug and a new challenge over at Outlawz Twisted Thursday. This week the optional twist - or theme - is "LAYERED CARD".

The image is called Sewing Mouse - needle and is colored with Promarkers and a silver metallic gel pen for the needle. I used a past Saturday Sketch as inspiration.

The sentiment is heat embossed on velum and is from the same set as the bobbins that came free with a magazine at some point. I decorated the bobbins with dark blue and pink thread.

The background is embossed using an EF with buttons and I used sandpaper to enhance the pattern.

DPs from Pebbles, pink sequins from stash.


This card is also for these challenges:
Sketch Saturday - Pick ANY sketch 215-375
Digi Choosday Challenge - #35 In The Pink
Fan-Tastic Tuesday - #99 Anything Goes with a twist "Make It Cute"
Craft Your Passion - Always Anything Goes

Feather pen

Just a quick card to share with you tonight, being inspired by this week's Muse card by Carol Mayne (the feather and sentiment), a sketch and a theme (write).

I've used stamps that come from three different sets - the scripture strip, the feather and the sentiment - all received as gifts from 3 different family members.
I doodled the frame with a black pen, mounted the panel on foam and added a piece of string.

This card is for these challenges:
Muse Challenge - CASE Muse's Card
Can You CASE it - #84 Sketch
CASology - Write

One layer Christmas Card

A really simple card from me today, but it took me forever to make it, if you take into account the 4 attempts that all ended in the trash bin. I'm clearly not a one layer crafter, but that's what the ladies over at Ink wants to see this fortnight so here goes:)


Being inspired by the Sweet Sunday sketch for my final attempt I masked off the the white space using masking tape, stamped the Magnolia image and used clear embossing powder to make sure the ink wouldn't create a mess once starting sponging the blue sky.
Then I colored thre tree using a paintbrush and distress ink pads. The white ground is covered with WOS, but I couldn't capture the sparkle in the photo.

I stamped a Christmas greeting, but kind of regret that I did. I should have left it without a sentiment, but not being very keen on starting on a 6th onelayer card I'm going with it as it is now.


This card is for these challenges:
Inkspirational - One layer card
The Sweetest Thing - #284 Sketch 
Addicted to CAS - Blue
August Rudolph Days challenge

You're an angel

It's Thursday and time for an OLDIE BUT GOODIE over at Catch the Bug and a new challenge over at Outlawz Twisted Thursday. This week there's no twist - a plain ad easy "ANYTHING GOES".

I colored the image using Promarkers and silver and gold metallic gel pens. The sentiment (you're an angel) is heat embossed using gold EP.
The background paper is embossed.
As for embellies I kept it simple, adding just 3 sequins and stitching with a metallic gold thread around the edges.

This card is also for these challenges:
House of Cards - Metallics
Get Creative Challenges - No Printed Papers
Deep Ocean Challenge - #111 - For The Boys
Cards und More - # 139 Cards for Men

Melt

Tuesday is new release day over at  Bugaboo and this is my DT card showcaseing one of Jodie's latest images.
I printed the image onto plain white paper and didn't add any color at all. I cut them out and worked on my design. The background paper is black cardstock which I embossed with an embossing folder, then I sprinkled silver EP and heat set it. I quite like how it turned out, looking a bit melted and aged. I added a panel of black paper which I decorated with the images, a die cut film strip (die from Marianne) covered with acetate so I could make a shaker adding a few sequins. The flowers are die cut (die from Memory Box) as is the panel for the sentiment (dies from Dienamics). The sentiment is heat embossed. I'm addicted to patterned papers, I hoard them and love them, but lately I'm finding myself enjoying making cards using other alternatives.

This card is also for these challenges:
Inkspirational - Word "Melt"
Crafty Cardmakers - No Patterned Paper
Sparkle N Sprinkle - Anything Goes with Loose Glitter, Embossing Powder and/or Flocking
Come and Get It - Black and white with one color (silver)

Astronaut

I'm here to share my DT card for the new PHOTO challenge over at Catch the Bug, featuring the image Astronaut 3.

My starting point was the image, which I colored with Promarkers before I added glossy accent to the helmet. Then I found a DP from a Pebbles paper pad I thought suited the "out of space theme". The earth is cut using a Tim Holtz die, I covered it with silver EP and heat embossed it.
Finally I stamped a birthday greeting in Norwegian. 

This card is alsro for these challenges:
Daring Cardmakers - Let's Hear it for the Boys
Just Add Ink – #276 Cards for Males
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Ooh La La Creations - One for the Boys

Pirate Monkey

It's Thursday and time for an OLDIE BUT GOODIE over at Catch the Bug and a new challenge over at Outlawz Twisted Thursday. This week the optional twist - or theme - is "ANIMAL(S)".






I colored the image using Promarkers, fussy cut it and mounted it onto a die cut tag decorated with ribbon ans string and die cut seashells. For the background I used a brown DP from Maja Design which I heat embossed with gold EP, using a map stamp from Prima. The swirls are stamped, heat embossed and cut out. The sentiment is cut out from a DP and says "to the coolest boy".

This card is also for these challenges:
Digi Choosday Challenge - #33 All About Men
Shopping Our Stash - #215 Layer It On Me
Tuesday Throwdown - #258 Texture
I love Promarkers - #283 Anything Goes

CASEing Monika

Monika of Creative with Monika invited me to join a personal challenge, where she CASEs one of my cards of her choice and I one of hers. Monika uses lots of stencils and stamps to make her own papers. She makes many masculine cards and her feminine ones often include shoes. So I chose to case this card as I absolutely loved how she used her Prima girl stamp. So I took out my own doll stamp and got to work. I used a piece of scrap to paper piece her dress, colored the legs. And the stripes on Monika's card gave me the idea of adding a strip of vellum onto which I heat embossed the sentiment with gold EP. A very quick and easy card with no embellies.

This card is for these challenges:
TIME OUT Challenges - #37 Friendship is Golden
Allsorts - Share your favourite colour (Brown and I love gold too)
CAS on Sunday - #65 Vellum
Night Shift Stamping -  Paper piecing

2015 Christmas Card #21 - Black&Gold

This is the 21st Christmas card I've made in 2015. For my layout and colors I was inspired by the Muse Christmas card #15 - the gold and black really stood out to me.

I used a Christmas angel stamp from LOTV, heat embossed onto a golden paper, attached onto a gold/bronze colored corrugated paper.

At first I hadn't put any embellies on, but I wanted to add a little bit of red and green too, so I added some sequins received from Kim and some die cut holly leaves.

This card is for these challenges:
Muse Christmas Visions - #15
Winter Wonderland - Christmas Carols/Songs (hark the herald angels sing)
Fab 'n' Funky - #270 Things With Wings

Mouse with big balloon

I'm here to share my DT card for the new BINGO challenge over at Catch the Bug, featuring the image Mouse - big balloon. I chose the diagonl row og die cut, buttons and flower.


I colored the image using Promarkers, gave the mouse googly eyes and added lots of glossy accent on the balloon.

The image is cut using a LawnFawn die, the note paper and flower are made using punches. I added three buttons from my stash and a birthday greeting made using my Dymo.

This card is also for these challenges:
I love Promarkers - #282 Balloons
In the Pink - #75 Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs - 3 or More Layers
Digi Choosday Challenge - #32 Punches/Die Cuts

A rainy day

It's Thursday and time for a new challenge over at Outlawz Twisted Thursday and this week the optional twist - or theme - is "FLOWERS". I used an image of a mouse in the rain from our sponsor, Bugaboo.








I colored the image using mostly grey and pink Promarkers and I cut it out and made a frame and sentiment using dies from Dienamics. For the birch trees I used a die from Memory Box. I added a piece of cheesecloth and a ribbon trim for my flowers.

This card is also for these challenges:
Come and Get It - Feature A Creature
Crafting When We Can -  # Ribbon, twine or washi
Glitter n Sparkle - #149 Add Some Flowers
Cut it Up- #76 Animals

You're sew special

I saw the Muse card today and have already finished my version of it - being a slow cardmaker this is something that rarely happens to me, so I'm quite proud. And I think I might make even more using Michele Ferguson's wonderful card as inspiration.

I was inspired by the layout, white embossed background, vellum and silver detailing.
I wanted to use my neglected buttons embossing folder and my Spellbinders dressmaker die, and I knew I had some sewing themed sentiments in my stash, a freebie set from some time (years?) back. I heat embossed with silver EP onto vellum, added some pearls for the  necklace and some sequins for added sparkle.

This card is for:
Muse Challenge - CASE Muse's Card
Just Us Girls Vellum