Quirky Parrot

This challenge, over at The Colour Crazy Challenge,

our sponsor is: Ike's Art.

I got this fun image called "quirky parrot"

I love the way his head is cocked to the side!

I coloured him with my promarkers and other alcohol pens, and used a white sakura pen

 for the feathers on this belly. 

I diecut a frame for him to sit along, and mounted him onto 3d foam for a bit of dimension. 

The flowers and leaves were punched, and a couple of the flowers are also on 3d foam. 

The backing paper is from my collection:

a 6 x 6 paper pack called "new leaf"

and the sentiment circle was a freebie form the web...yonks ago! 

(possibly 'desert divas' - lots of freebies!)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges...

Creative fingers - atg - 17 Sept

Lighthouse

At Patties Creations this month, we have the ever popular challenge: "anything goes!"

I used the image called 'lighthouse 2020'...

I coloured the image (which is he lighthouse, little attached building

and the rocks too) with my promarkers and

other alcohol pens. 

I tried to colour the bit underneath the rocks, so it resembled a rocky beach.

so dotted with lots of different greys.

I made the sea, by colouring a trip of card with different blues, then tearing the edge

to appear like the waves. I added

a few more strokes with my white sakura pen

for the waves in the sea. 

The backing paper comes form a paper pack of card I bought a while ago. 

I dry embossed the edge and 

stamped a sentiment along the top,

as well as dry embossing the edge of the base white card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Creative fingers - atg - 17 Sept

Patchwork cards

Hi! thought I would share with you some 

new "patchwork" cards I have made. 

I just thought these were a bit different and 

something I have been wanting to try for a while.

This first card is a regular pattern patchwork card...

 

It is made of 9 squares of paper, cut from Pink Petticoat papers. 

Each square has been inked around the edges and a little faux-stitching

has been added with a fineliner pen. 

I dry embossed a simple line around the edge of the squares.

I stamped the sentiment and added a couple of punched butterflies,

with a little sparkly gem on each.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

The sisterhood of crafters - sentiment  focal point - 8 Sept

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 6 Sept

Crafty Calendar - atg - 1 Sept

Di's digi challenge - lots of squares - 30 Aug

Creations in pink -  mainly pink - 15 Sept

This second patchwork card is more of an irregular patchwork, made for my friend.

She loves these muted, neutral colours. 

I took a couple of papers that worked well together 

and careful cut a different sized piece from each paper. 

It was trickier than I thought, to get all the pieces to match up 

while making a patchwork effect. 

Like the last card, I inked the edges of each piece and used a brown fineliner pen to 

draw some faux-stitching around the edge of each piece. 

Again, the sentiment was stamped and punched butterflies were added. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Simon says stamp - atg - 3 Sept

Paper funday - atg - 2 Sept

Sparkles - use at least 3 patterned papers - 15 Sept

 

Summertime

Hi! Hope you are all well! 

I'm sharing my card for the Colour Crazy Challenge...

with our (As usual) anything goes theme,

I used "4 block tulip square " from Bugaboo.

This is such a versatile image. 

I coloured it with my promarkers and cut out each square. 

Placing it in the middle of my card, I cut a piece from the middle of the green

paper, to make a frame. 

I added diecut corners, a diecut cat and some punched butterflies. 

A few white dots, with my white sakura pen, finished this card. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

2 crafty critters - my favourite animal - 26 Aug

Diecut Divas - flowers - 1 Sept

Creative moments - atg -  21 Aug

I love Promarkers - atg - 18 Aug

Lil red wagon - happy days - 13 Aug

Show us your pussies - a cat - 1 Sept

Jans digi stamps - atg - 5 Sept

Beach time

Pattie, at Patties Creations, is challenging us with...

"Beach / Under the sea"

this month.... 

I took the beach element and used her image "Beach Cabana Trio".

It was a simple image to colour... with my promarkers and other alcohol pens. 

I used the pointilism technique to try and make the sand look textured.

(Lots of little dots, in slightly different colours)

I added a sea-line, behind the sand, as I felt it needed sea too.  

A little strip of Dovecraft paper sits above and below the image,

with an embossed line the other side of the paper: one on top, on along the bottom.

I found a spotty paper, which I cut a couple of bunting flags from. 

The birds are lovely little diecuts.

Sheepski designs - atg - 1 Sept

Creative moments - atg - 21 Aug

I love Promarkers - atg - 18 Aug

Lil red wagon - happy days - 13 Aug

Jans digi stamps - atg -  5 Sept

FRIENDS cards for friends

I have a few friends who are big FRIENDS fans!

I had a go at making a few cards for them on that theme...

For Kirsty's card, I printed off some images

and popped a few of them on 3d foam. 

I downloaded the FRIENDS font 

for the wording on the card.

For Craig's card, I thought about the famous framed spy-hole they have in the door.

(  "The police don't visit" - is a private joke! )

I 3d-foamed the central perk logo at the bottom. 

I downloaded the FRIENDS font for the wording. 

Happy birthday boy

Over at The Colour Crazy Challenge this time,

we are being sponsored by the popular: Paper Shelter.

This cute little image is called "Casual boy".

I coloured him with my promarkers and alcohol pens

and ran an embossing folder through my bigshot, to make the background. 

The frame was diecut too, and the stars and sentiment! I like how this card came together. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Ice cream Trio

Pattie, over at Patties Creations, is challenging us this month, with

"Anything goes!"

You can use any hand-coloured image for this challenge. 

She has a whole range of fabulous images in her digi store

and I used "ice cream trio" for this card.

My Father-in-law LOVES ice-cream. 

This is a card for him, for Fathers day. 

Neopolitan in particular...that's why I used the

3 colour here, for the flavours: vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. 

The Image comes as plain double-scoop ie creams: I added the toppings of 

strawberry sauce, hundreds and thousands, and a cherry - myself!

The top scoop of each ice cream has been mounted on 3d foam for a bit of height. 

The red / white gingham (I thought) looked like a little napkin behind the cones. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Retro geek

Dr Digi are our sponsors this time, over at the

Colour Crazy Challenge. 

I got a fabulous set of sentiment images... Comic sentiments. 

The set has 6 uncoloured images as well as a bunch of coloured images! 

I chose to use 2 (uncoloured) images to make 2 cards.

For this first card, I chose to colour the image with my promarker alcohol markers

and I used a fab retro backing paper behind it. 

A small red border underneath the sentiment and some balloons fussy-cut

 from a piece of docrafts paper, finished this card.

Oh, I wanted a clean, crisp edge around each of the  parts of this card, 

so carefully edged each element with a dark brown promarker.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cute card challenge - masculine - 18 June
I love promarkers - atg / for a boy - 23 June
Digi choosday - atg - 19 June

For this card,

I fussy-cut around the sentiment, after colouring it with my alcohol markers

and mounted it onto a black / red / white strip combo. 

I found the retro backing in my stash - 

it is actually a sticky-backed sheet! 

I have no clue where I got this from, only that I've had it for a long time

and I thought it was retro enough to go with the coloured sentiment. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Creative knockouts - atg - 19 June

Crafty Gals - you're the man  -  10 July

Jans digi stamps - atg - 6 July

Fathers Day

At Patties Creations this month, 

we challenge you with:  "Things that fly."

I used the image "Hot air balloon" and the freebie hot air balloon.

I was really struggling to make a sky background for this card.

Then my hubby asked if he could use my desk in my craft room

to do some encaustic art.

He's not done any for ages, but seeing as we have had a fair bit of time at home and done plenty

of jobs, he thought he would have a play.

Encaustic art (incase you don't know) is

painting with wax on an iron! I'm rubbish at it! 

He has all the stuff and I cleared my table:

on the premise that he made me some background pieces. 

So here is the background he made for me. Perfect for sitting the 

balloons on, which I coloured with my promarkers and 

other alcohol pens. I dry embossed the edge of the card. 

I love this card - and that its a combination of both

of our creative skills. 

I'm giving this to Dad for Fathers Day.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Crafty creations - atg - 1 July
Simon says stamp - masculine - 18 June
Paper funday - atg / masculine - 1 July
Crafty catz - atg - 12 June
Simon says stamp - its a man thing ( make your own background) - 16 June
Cardz 4 Guyz  - fathers day - 16 June
Through the craft room door - atg - 17 June

Fairy wishes

Hi!

At the Colour Crazy Challenge this week, we have the sponsor

Ching Chou Kuik

this time, for our "anything goes" challenge.

This lovely image is called " starry wish".

I coloured it with my promarkers and alcohol pens 

and diecut around the image, letting the edge of the wings sit just outside the diecut.

The paper in the background is a freebie that came with a magazine some time ago. 

I inked the edges of the diecut and the punched stars with 

4 colours... to create a fantasy / rainbow feel.
A finishing touch I like and used on this card
is dry embossing round the edge of the backing paper.  

The diecut shape is lifted slightly, as I mounted it on 3d foam. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:
Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 6 June

Ching chou Kuik - embossing wet / dry - 1 June
Crafty gals - for the ladies - 20 June
Seize the birthday - atg - 21 May

Never forget you are loved

Over at Patties Creations this month,

we have the ever popular challenge: anything goes. 

I used the image "daffodil circle" to create my card.

With my promarker pens, I coloured the green leaves and daffodils and added a 

stickles glitter centre to each one.

I added some extra leaves to the image, and 

die-cut some swirls and leaves.

I stamped the sentiment on and punched some butterflies from spotty card. 

I made this card to send to my (Almost 98 year old) Grandma,

who lives in a carehome.

I wanted to send her a message to tell her we are thinking about her,

in such strange times, when we can't be together, as a family. 

I also sent a little note of thanks - to the staff who are working tirelessly, 

to care for my Grandma and the other residents.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Sheepski designs - for the girls - 1 June
Crafty Catz - atg / sending hugs -
Creative fingers - atg - 16 May
Polkadoodles - atg - 13 May
 Crafty Galz - (Easter ) OR Spring - 16 May
I love promarkers - atg - 12 May

Birthday baking

I made this card recently, for a friend's birthday.

She's a cake baker: who loves cats!

The sentiment was computer generated. 

The cat is a diecut.

I shaped the bottom of the image so it looked like the edge of a shelf. 

I put glossy-accents on the cherries and 

a-wink-of-stella on the fruit-pie, then embossed the edges of the card. 

I thought this fitted better on the kraft card, rather than a white card-base. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Jan's digi stamps - atg - 4 May
Crafty friends - atg - 25 April
Southern girls - atg - 1 May
2 Crafty Critters - atg  use an animal - 26 April
Creative crafters - atg - 9 May

Time for tea

Apologies!

I'm a bit late with this card  it should have been on yesterday.

I am completely to pot with what day we are on...

This challenge, over at the Colour Crazy Challenge,

we are being sponsored by one of my favourites: Knitty kitty designs. 

I got this lovely image: Kit T and cake.

I paper-pieced the teapot, cup and bunting

and coloured the rest with my alcohol markers. 

The "mum" is actually little stickers, which I thought would work well 

with the image - and the sentiment at the bottom is from my computer. 

The backing paper was from my stash and i punched the butterflies

and diecut the "precious heart" by memorybox.

This is a larger, square 8 x 8 inch card, for my Mum. 

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 3 May
Pink gem designs - atg - 22 April
Crafty friends - atg - 24 April
Crafty calendar - atg - 1 May
Love to craft - atg - 1 May
Love to scrap - atg - 1 May
A perfect time to craft - atg - 28 April
Crafty Catz - atg / paper piecing - 24 April 

Happy birthday to Ewe!

Pattie's Creations is giving us a very popular

challenge this month - Birthdays!

I used her new image "Baa to you" ...

The image includes both sheep. 

I love the shocked look of the face of the one on the left!

I paper pieced the background, stamped the houses

and trees and fussy-cut around them to add them to the scene. 

Embossing around the edge of the whole thing

and hand-drawn faux stitching, finished this card. 

I would like to add this into the following challenges:

Pink gem - atg - 8 April
Catch the bug - atg - 12 April
Inkspirational - atg - 24 April
Cardz 4 galz - cute animals - 10 April
2 Crafty Critter crazies - atg - 26 April
Crafters cafe - atg - 16 April
Cards galore encore - atg - 1 May
Love to craft - atg - 1 May

Home Sweet Home!

Our challenge this time over at The Colour Crazy challenge 

is being sponsored by Createful heart stamps.

I used the image "home sweet home" which was lovely to colour. 

I used my alcohol markers to colour and added a sentiment from 

Pink Petticoat (sadly, no longer trading).  

A few punched butterflies and some spotty paper for the background 

(along with a few embossed lines) finished this card.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Wishing you...

The challenge at Patties Creations this month.

is: Anything goes!

This is an image I have had my eyes on for a while...

it's called "Wishing well."

I doodled a background - making it up as I went - with my alcohol pens. 

I used fineliners to draw on the dandelion clocks in the foreground

Embossing a single line around the Kraft card and drawing a black line with the 

"Wishing you..." sentiment, finished off this card. 

(I will finish off the inside of this card with "... a happy birthday!" or  "... well!"

(depending on what occasion I decide to use this card for. )

I would like to enter this into the following challenges

Creative fingers - atg - 30 March
Crafty Creations - atg - 1 April
Creative moments - atg - 19 March
Crafty sentiments - atg - 10 March
Digi choosday - atg - 15 March
Jans digi stamps - atg - 17 March

Vintage camera

Twinkle lane designs  are our sponsor this week,

over at The Colour Crazy Challenge.

I got this amazing image - perfect for my Dad!

It's called "Vintage Camera."

I looked up some old cameras on the www and coloured this one with the

 same kind of colours (with my alcohol pens).

I added a camera film diecut - which I have had for years.

A few different papers and an embossed card with stars on, sit in the background -

which I inked around the edges. 

The "smile!" sentiment also comes with the image. I cut this freehand, to look like 

an old camera flash.

I used a die for the happy birthday sentiment...a bargain which I 

bought in The Works - and cut in half. 

A couple of punched gold stars finished this card.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Watercooler wednesday - masculine - 25 Feb
Through the craft room door - atg - 26 Feb
A place to start - masculine - 1 March
Jan's digi stamps - atg - 16 March
Incy Wincy designs - atg - 1 March

Cherry blossom branch

At Patties Creations this month, with Valentines day drawing near,

Pattie has challenged us:  "love, love, love."

I wanted to make something a little different.. possibly a card i could give to my husband.

I used "Cherry Blossom Branch" image(coloured with my promarkers)

 with a few die-cuts - 'birds' and 'precious heart' - and a stamped sentiment.

I dry embossed the inside edge of both the white piece and the spotty card

and inked all edges with a grey chalk eye. 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cut it up - love with a diecut - 20 Feb
C.R.A.F.T. - love / valentines - 14 Feb
I love promarkers - love - 17 Feb
Simon says stamp - with love - 13 Feb
Through the craft room door - atg - 11 Feb
Incy wincy designs - atg - 1 March
Make my Monday - i heart you - 17 Feb
Lil patch of crafty friends - atg - 17 Feb
Cards galore encore - atg - 1 March

Playing around...

Over at the Colour Crazy Challenge this time, we are being sponsored by Dr DiGi.

I got the fabulous image called "Solitaire Saul."

I coloured the image with my alcohol pens and used 3d foam on the guy and the back of the chair.

I coloured the cat on the desk to look like our cat, Bella

(As this card will be for my Hubby). 

I copied the cat and made it slightly smaller, and popped him at the guy's feet

- and coloured him like our little kitty, Chester. 

The window is a diecut (on 3d foam) and the scene behind the window is actually

one of my Hubbys pieces of encaustic-art!

I may add a sentiment to this card at some point, but I'm not sure what yet.

I would like to add this into the following challenges:

Crafty Friends - atg - 1 Feb
Southern Girls - atg - 7 Feb
Crafty Creations - atg - 1 Feb
I love promarkers - atg - 3 Feb
Simon says stamp - besotted with our pets - 1 Feb