I'm Top 5... again!

I'm Top 5 again this week on the Passion for ProMarkers Challenge blog! Yippee!!

http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/05/top-5-week-52.html

My Sprinkle fairy card won it for me. I'm very pleased to be Top 5 again as it's my second time since I started my blog in January this year.

Thank you to everyone who commented on my card.

Flower Power Challenge

This is my card I'm entering into the Craftwork Cards Flower Power Challenge that is running on their blog, http://craftworkcards.blogspot.com/

The theme of the challenge was to use flowers making ideas from the recent Flower Power week. Both the large and small flowers buds used techniques from that week. The flowers were made with Card Candy and pre-cut flower shape.



The circle greeting was from the Sugar & Spice range. I mounted this onto a circle of pink pattern paper from the same range. I cut a scalloped circle using Nestabilities. I added dots with a Sakura silver pen.



I cover a card blank with Sugar & Spice patterned paper. Before attaching it to the card I punch a boarder using a Martha Stewart flower punch. I added pink ribbon across the card and a ribbon bow.



To finish I attached a butterfly from the Sugar & Spice range. I coloured it in with ProMarkers.

Stamp With Us sketch challenge

This is my card for this fortnights Stamp with Us challenge blog http://stampwithus.blogspot.com/

This fortnight challenge was a sketch challenge. The main image square was stamped using Stampin'Up All a Flutter butterfly stamp and flower stamp from Organic Grace set onto Kraft card. I stamped the butterfly separately and attached it with foam pads. I added crystal Stickles to the flowers to finish. I mounted this onto white card.



The background panel was stamped using Versamark ink pad.I used Organic Grace stamp set again for this. I also used the flower from this set for the flower in the top left hand corner, this was stamped in brown. I wrapped Linen Thread around the card. I tied a Tiny Tag onto the thread. This was punch using Medium Jewelry Tag.



The card was finished drawing stitching with a white Sakura pen. I also added two brown Card Candy to the top left had corner.

Stampin' Up items used
Card: Kraft
Stamp sets: Organic Grace, All a Flutter and Tiny Tags
Punch: Medium Jewelry Tag
Other: Linen Thread

Sprinkles on a Cloud

This is my card for this weeks Passion for ProMarker challenge, http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/ and Pink Gem challenge - Design Team Call, http://pinkgem-janet.blogspot.com/

Whilst looking through the Pink Gem website for an image I found Sprinkles On Cloud. It was such a cute image and it would also be ideal for this weeks ProMarker challenge too, as the theme was ‘fantasy/mythology'. The theme of the Pink Gem challenge was to use the colour combo of Pink, Green & Burgundy.



The image was a digi image which I downloaded from the Pink Gem website. I printed her out and she was coloured in with ProMarkers. I added Stickles to the stars and crown. I also printed out some additional stars with I added to the image. This complete image was mounted on dark green card.



I cut a large square of burgundy card for the main background panel. Onto this I attached a piece of pink pattern paper from DoCrafts Blueberry Hill range. The edge was punched using a Martha Stewart scallop 3-dot punch. I threaded cream ribbon through the holes and attached a small bow with PVA glue. The circle greeting is by Craftwork Cards.

I layered up the card with a strip of spotty paper by My Minds Eye. Onto this I attached a piece of burgundy ribbon.



To finish I added some flowers. The large flower is a white Prima coloured with was coloured with pink mica spritzer. The smaller flowers were cut with my Cricut. I used white paper for these and coloured them with ProMarkers so they matched the image. These were all attached to the card with brads.

Stamp With Us challenge card

This is my card for this fortnight Stamp With Us blog challenge, http://stampwithus.blogspot.com/

The challenge was a colour challenge and you had to take inspiration from a photo on the blog. I used the colours as my inspiration.

I chose to use my Two-step bird punch for the main image on the card. I punched out all them elements from Ballet Blue, So Saffron and Regal Rose card. I also punched out two small flowers using a Woodware flower punch and for the flower centre circles I used a screw punch. I mounted on this onto white card. To finish I added crystal Stickes to the flower centres.



I used a Stamp-a-ma-jig to help stamp the greeting onto the card. The greeting stamp is from the Happy Moments set.

I mounted the bird image onto a panel of Regal Rose card. The large background panel is Kraft card. I punched the bottom edge with my scalloped edge punch. I pierced small holes along the scalloped edge. I used brads to attached the bird image panel.

I added a strip of ribbon across the card. I made a small bow from the same ribbon and attached this to the card with double sided tape.




Stampin' Up items used
Card: Kraft, Ballet Blue, So Saffron and Regal Rose
Birthday stamp: from Happy Moments set
Punch: Two-step bird punch and Scalloped punch
Stamp-a-ma-jig
Ribbon

Decorating or a cuppa??

A tricky decision for this Lili of the Valley bear but it looks like the cuppa has won!

The stamp is Mr Fixit by Lili of the Valley, www.liliofthevalley.co.uk

He was stamped with Memento ink pad and coloured in with ProMarkers. I stamped the bear and ctair again and coloured it in again with ProMarkers. I added these to the original stamped image with foam pads. I used Nestabilities to cut out the stamped image and a frame.



I cut a large square background panel and onto this I added pattern background paper was by DCWV. I cut the greeting strip with my Cricut. To finish I added two button with sticky dots.

Magnolia & Tilda

One of my favourite stamp companies is Magnolia. I love their little Tilda stamps. They are a joy to colour. You can see them coming to life as you add the colour to them.

I wanted to share some of the Tilda cards I've recently made. They were made as part of a raffle prize I put together for a friend.

All the images are stamped with a Memento ink pad and coloured in with ProMarkers. All the greeting are by Craftwork Cards.

My first card uses 'Tilda holding magnolias' stamp.



This card used 'Tilda with blueberries' stamp. I used a blue colour scheme for this card to be in keeping with the basket of blueberries that Tilda is holding.



For the last card I added crystal Stickles to the wings.

Clare's weekly challenge

This is my card for Clare's weekly challenge on the DoCrafts website, www.docrafts.co.uk.

This week was a photo inspiration challenge. The photo was on a red, white and black fishing boat in a harbour. So for my inspiration I used the colours and the harbour.

The three stamped image panels were creating separately using a Hobby Art set of stamps. I used Memento ink pad to stamp the three panels and then they were coloured in with ProMarkers. I used masking to create the three panels images. For more details on masking please see a previous post - http://kaardvark.blogspot.com/2010/05/habour.html

The three panels were mounted on a panel of black card. I also used panels of grey and red card which were in keeping with the colour theme.

To finish I added a circle greeting by Craftwork Cards.

Lili of the Valley challenge card

This is my card for this fortnights Lili Of the Valley challenge blog. The challenge was a sketch challenge.
http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

The fairy stamp is 'Fairy on tiptoe' by Lili of the Valley. She was stamped with Memento ink pad and coloured in with ProMakers. I added highlights to the image with metallic Sakura pens. I also added small dots of crystal Stickles to the background. I used an oval nestabilities to her and the purple boarder out.



I cut a large square of purple card for the background. Onto this I added a panel of purple flower patterned paper from DCWV. The scalloped white panel was punched using Martha Stewart flower edge punch. Onto the panel I added crystal Stickles to add a bit of sparkle. I also attached purple ribbons and a bow across the card.



The greeting is by Stampin'Up. It was stamped using Stampin'Up white kraft ink. Above the bow I added three purple Card Candy by Craftwork Cards.

To follow the challenge sketch I added three flowers to my card. I made these flowers myself using a technique I learnt at my Stampin' Up card group. For more on the original flowers please see
http://card-delights.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-mini-cards.html

The flowers were made by punching six cirlces using my Stampin' Up scalloped circle punch. I punched two white, light purple and purple circles.



Between each scalloped you make a small cut. You then spritz the circles with water and scrunch up. You then unfold the circles and layer then up and form a flower shape. I used a brad to fold the layers together.

Passion for ProMarkers - week 51 challenge

This is my card for this weeks Passion for ProMarkers challenge, http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/

The theme of this weeks challenge was 'strawberries and cream'. To keep with the theme I have given my Tilda a basket of strawberries and I have kept to a red and white colour scheme.



Tilda was stamped with Memento ink pad and coloured in with ProMarkers. To finish the Tilda I coloured over the berries with a clear Sakura pen. I used Nestabilities to cut out Tilda and also a red frame. Around the edge of the red frame I drew white stitching with a white Sakura pen.



On a scalloped edged card blank I attached a panel of red stripped and checked papers. I punched a white lace strip with Martha Steward flower punch and attached this over the join of the two papers. Over the lace strip I added red gingham ribbon and a bow.



The greeting and oval was cut using Beyond Birthdays Cricut cartridge. I attached it to the card with double sided tape. The circles were punch with a small Stampin 'Up punch. I drew stitching with a white Sakura pen. These were attached with Tombow glue.



The white edge flowers were from the Simply Said stamp set by Stampin' Up. I used Stampin' Up white kraft ink pad to stamp these.

The Harbour

This is a card I've made for a friends birthday. Male card can be so tricky but this set of stamps by Hobby Art are ideal.

As usual I used a square card blank. I cut a square of smooth white card which I used to stamp on. I started by stamping the stone wall, followed by the boat, waves post and the the bird. I used Memento ink pad as I'm planning to colour in the image with ProMarkers.



I then stamped the first row of houses. I stamped all the houses again on Post-it-notes. I cut these houses out and used the shapes to mask off the first row of houses so I could stamp the smaller row of houses behind.



I coloured in the completed image with ProMarkers. I mounted the image onto black, krafts and brown card. To finish I added a birthday greeting.

Passion for ProMarkers - week 50 challenge

This is my card for this weeks Passion for ProMarkers challenge, http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/

The theme of this week's challenge is 'gratitude'.

I started by cutting the green 'thank you' panel. I used my Cricut New Arrivals cartridge to cut the panel. I attached this to card blank with double sided tape and a Quickie Glue pen for the small sections around the words.



The stamps I used are all by Magnolia. I stamped the Tilda with bike, the summer background panel and butterflies (these were from the Spring stamp club set) with a Memento ink pad. I coloured them all in with ProMarkers. I cut around all the elements.



I attached the background to the card blank first. And then on top I attached my Tilda and the butterflies. To finish I outlined the flowers and sections of the butterflies with a gold Sakura pen. I added gold Dimension Pearls to plants in the background panel and Glossy Accents to the mushrooms.

Clare's weekly challenge

This morning I went to a local DoCrafts demonstration. I just couldn't resist their new goody bag. It was full of new DoCrafts papers, gems, stencil, pens and flowers. These are mostly from their new Henbury Lane range. The colours and designs are just my type of thing - flowery, pink, purples.

I used the goody bag to make my card for Clare's weekly challenge on the DoCrafts website, www.docrafts.co.uk. This week it was sketch challenge.

I started by stamping the rose onto watercolour paper. I used a VersaFine ink pad. I used watercolour pencil to colour it in. I cut the image out and mounted it on gold paper. I stamped some of the leaves again and attached them over the edge. I used a gold peel-off for the greeting.



I cut another gold panel and mounted a piece of Henbury Lane rose paper onto it. For the large pink background panel I stamped the rose stamp again with a clear VersaMark ink pad. I used white embossing power to heat emboss the rose image.

I layered up the card as per the challenge sketch. The pink strips are ribbon. To finish I attached the bow with PVA glue.

My first Cricut card

After much, much deliberation I finally bought a Cricut yesterday. Oh my what a fantastic machine! This was the first card I made using the New Arrival cartridge. From the cartridge I cut the wording, bottles, safety pins, rattle and flowers. It was so easy to do and I was very pleased with the result.

The little girl image is a stamp by Lili of the Valley, http://www.liliofthevalley.co.uk/ She was stamped with a Memento ink pad and coloured in with ProMarkers. This was mounted onto pink card. I punched the bottom edge with Stampin' Up scalloped punch. I used a screw punch to punch holes through these panel. I threaded pink ribbon throught the holes and attached a bow with PVA glue.

I cut a 2cm edge of the top right hand edge. On the inside back of the card I attached the little icons with a Quickie Glue pen.

I'm a winner!

Some good news today from me today. I won Clare's Weekly Challenge on the DoCrafts website, http://www.docrafts.com/article/Clare'sWeeklyChallenge/AID131



Yippee!!!!

Lili of the Valley challenge card

This is my card for this fortnight Lili of the Valley challenge blog, http://liliofthevalleythursdaychallenge.blogspot.com/

The theme of this fortnight challenge is 'Here comes summer'. I chose to use LOTV 'Bear with bouquet' stamp as flowers as so iconic of summer. I chose a colour scheme of pink, green and brown.

I stamped the image using Memento ink pad. He was coloured in using ProMarkers. To add highlight to the flowers I coloured with centre with gold Sakura pens.



I used Nestabilities to cut of the image and the frame. I stamped the top part of the stamp again and coloured in some of the flowers, the tag, his arm and envelope. I cut these out and attached them to the image using 1mm foam pads. I used peel-off letters to add Nan to the card.



Onto a large background brown square of card I attached a pink spotty paper from the Laura Ashley range. I cut a strip of the brown card and punched the edge using a Martha Stewart flower edge punch. I attached this to the card and an another strip of patterned paper. The paper was by Laura Ashley again so goes excellently with the spotty background. I attached cream ribbon and a bow to the edge of the card. On the ribbon a threaded a greeting tag.



The card was finished with a paper flowers. The flower had been coloured with gold mica spritzer. It was attached to the card with a green jem brad.

Passion for ProMarkers - week 49 challenge

This is my card for this weeks Passion for ProMakers challenge. http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/

The theme of this weeks challenge is a sketch challenge and you also had to make you own flowers.

The stamp set I used was the Spring Magnolia Stamp Club set. Tilda, the stone window, butterflies and frog were stamped with a Memento ink pad and coloured in with ProMarkers.



The stone window was stamped separately from Tilda. After I coloured Tilda I cut her out and attached her inside the open window. I also cut the butterflies out separately and attached them with a Quickie Glue pen. I added Glossy Accents to the body of the butterflies and Tildas hair bow. I outlined the butterflies with a gold Sakura pen to add a bit of sparkle. The rectangle behind the window is grey Core'dinations paper. I added the texture with a Cuttlebug mesh embossing folder. I sanded top layer to expose the lighter coloured core. The pink circle is DCWV patterned paper.



The grey background paper is by Laura Ashley. This was mounted onto black card.I layered up the design as per the sketch. I added the prince frog and the wording 'Kiss me I'm a prince'. The wording was stamped with white Kraft ink pad by Stampin' Up.



Lastly I added the flowers. These were made using the Martha Stewart flower punch. I punched two pink and two light pink flowers. I attached them together with a yellow pad and added gold Stickles. I finished the flowers centre with pink ProMarker and metallic pencil.