Hooray

At long last I have my desk back for good.  No more snatching a bit of time here and there to make a card. My daughter has finished her studies after a long and gruelling 10 months, so my long forgotten crafting goodies are being dusted off ready to start playing again.


Here's my card for today:

And I'm entering it into the following challenges:

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-174-colour-combo.html
Use the colour combo pink and blue (I hope I can get away with that strip of green at the bottom).

http://abc-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/p-for-pretty-in-pink.html
Pink has to be the main focal colour

and

http://charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-25-recipe.html

My recipe for the challenge is:

3 ribbons (from stash)
2 crystals (in the centre of the flowers - the blue flower has a black dot done with a Promarker)

1 punch (Stampin Up scalloped edge punch)

The stamp is from the Pink Petticoat Pretty Potties collection which were free in the May copy of Quick Cards Made Easy.  I coloured in with Promarkers and added a bit of glitter which you probably can't see from the picture.  The background paper is also from Pink Petticoat.

Hope you like it. I'm off to carry on playing - ohhhh where to start!

Sue.x

Less is more - Hexagons

This is my entry for this weeks challenge:

The challenge is to use hexagons on your card.  For mine I've used:

Silhouette Cameo 

Cutting file by Bird

Paper Smooches free digis

Promarkers

Ribbon and crystals from stash

Thaniks for dropping by.

Sue.x

With Sympathy

I'm always unsure whether it's appropriate to indulge my hobby to make a sympathy card or whether the right thing to do is to buy one! Have you ever questioned yourself with this one?

I decided I would make my own and have made a very clean and simple card:

I used a Cerise Promarker to do the background.

The stamp is from Inkylicious and the sentiment was done on the computer with two different fonts: Times New Roman and CAC Champagne.

I hope I don't offend the recipient with my handmade creation, although I'm sure he has other things on his mind other than my card at this sad time.

Sue.x

Less is more - OLC Film

A very quick post!  I have a new fur baby and don't want to leave him on his own for too long this evening (husband out with mates, eldest daughter in Dubai - alright for some, and youngest at theatre so just me and him tonight).

Here he is:

Isn't he just the most adorable thing you ever did see?  He's a 16 week old Lhasa Apso and he's hilarious - we're all smitten with him.

Anyway, here's my card for this week's lessismoore challenge which is a OLC with a theme of 'Film'.

Can you guess my film?

'Memoirs of a Geisha'

I cut a circle from the centre of a piece of paper and laid it over my card and then used ink dusters to create the background - a mix of Adirondack and Distress inks.  The stamps are mainly Kanban but the Geisha is a miniature Clarity Stamp. She's just the right size to go with this set of stamps.  I drew the birds using a fine tip marker.

Thanks for stopping by.

Sue.x

Nine weeks and counting.........

......till I get my craft room and computer desk back!  The LPC nearly done (for those that haven't visited before, my daughter has been doing her Law Practice Course since last September and has needed my desk to work on, hence lack of posts, cardmaking and blogging.

Here's what I've managed to do while she's been out today:

This is for my niece - she'll be fourteen next month and I thought this digi by Mo Manning would be perfect.  

The faux Kraft card started as a piece of white card and Pink Petticoat Kraft download paper - turned out pretty well, but a little too dark for me.

The DP is DCWV that's been in my stash forever.

I really like the rub-on 'Giggle' - again found at the bottom of my stash and the image coloured with Promarkers.

The sentiment stamps is from a Paula Pasqual collection and I've used Nesties and Stampin Up punches.

Finally a bit of ribbon and some Craftwork Cards Candi.

I'm going to enter this into this week's Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT Challenge http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/toddlersteens-and-in-betweens.html

and

The ABC Challenge

http://abc-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/k-for-kraft-1st-april.html

Now on to my next card:

I used my Creative Expressions stamps for this - I really like this set.

I stamped the glass and bottle then masked off to do the orange circle behind (again this was done with a circle mask and ink dusters and Distress Inks.

The sentiment is a Clarity Stamp.

The table was done with Hero Arts Wood grain stamp and I stamped around the edges with a crackle background stamp.

Hope you like them.

Look forward to being back soon and thank you for popping by.

Sue.x

A few more embellisments........

I've added a few pearls to a card I posted a few days ago using my new gadget from the Hobbycraft show at the NEC - a Hotfix Rhinestone applicator.  Don't ya just hate fiddling with those tiny crystals/rhinestones, trying to get a blob of glue onto the back and getting it onto your card without it squishing out all over the place? I did, so that's why I decided to treat myself to this:

This is the original card:

 And this is it with the Hotfix pearls added to it:

Dead easy to do and really quick.  The rhinestones and pearls are really cheap to buy too.  My new favourite tool.

Sue.x

Happy Easter

Happy Easter!  I hope you all have a lovely holiday weekend, despite the weather!

Here's a couple of cards I've made over the last couple of days:

This one is for my BIL - the dreaded male card:

I love this clock stamp by Kaisercraft.  I stamped and embossed it with Black Soot distress ink and then used Inkylicious blending brushes to add some colour -I used Pumice Stone and Vintage Photo Distress Inks.

The 'Birthday' was cut out with my Cameo and the rest of the sentiment is from Stick n Stamp.  I had a bunch of bottle caps in my stash for ages so thought I'd add one for a bit of interest.  Here it is close up:

I punched a piece of the clock stamp and then put an epoxy sticker over the top.  I really like it.

A bit of string just finished it off.

The next one is for my little niece:

I'm still loving my Tatty Teddy cd - I don't usually do decoupage but I thought I'd give it a go for this one.

The background paper and sentiment is also from the cd.  He's just so cute!

Sue.x