altered playing card

This was a first, I've seen them before and love the end result.

To be honest, I didn't do much with mine as I had chosen to do a quote card.

standard size playing card

'Beautiful Words 1' Gecko Galz

doily

2 butterfly die cuts Tattered Lace Mini

stick on flower

gem

red & blue pigment ink

silver gel pen

I resized the image form the design sheet and printed it out. The playing card edges were inked using a foam square and Christmas Red pigment ink, I then pushed the edges into Royal Blue pigment ink and gave it a quick rub with the foam to blend the colours a bit. I left some of the red pattern on the playing card showing.

I stuck the image onto the card and then found a bit of doily, butterfly and flower to cover over  the corresponding images. Lastly I edged the letters with a silver gel pen too make them stand out more.

entered into: Gecko Galz Papercrafting Challenge Facebook group

Hearts and Kisses

Getting back to normality, and starting to craft again. Made 3 makes on Thursday all for Gecko Galz challenges. Two will be following this post in the next day or so but here's one now:

 

image from newsletter sign up monthly free design sheet

Antique Pinks backing paper

Doily

Hobbycraft white rose

Hobbycraft small posy x 4

Pink hearts

white/pink embellishments

red pigment ink

This card was actually going to be bigger, but there was to much blank space between the roses and the image and I couldn't think how to fill it so....... I chopped about an inch off. I will have to make a box envelope for it as it is an odd size.

entering in: Gecko Galz = hearts and kisses

S is for stamping & sapphire/playground 217

I had planned to do a different style of card for this challenge, one I watched on YouTube, but when raiding my offcuts/snippets drawer realised I wouldn't have enough of the blue card to do it so had to wing it *lol*  and this is what I came up with:

 

Royal Blue pigment ink

Sentiment stamp by Jenny Ellory

Butterfly stamp by BoBunny

blue card stock

white & blue gems

The snippet of blue card stock was what was remaining of an A4 sheet, I made a 6x6 white card blank and then measured and cut a square of the blue exactly 1 inch smaller, then gutted the middle as I needed it for the die cut butterfly.

I stamped the two butterflies using the pigment ink, then decided I would put the sentiment in the middle (and not use the butterfly) but I noticed a teeny tiny smudge of blue ink in the space which I could see a mile off but no one else would probably have done! So I reverted to plan A to put the die cut there.

Matted and layered the card then attached the die cut with my Pritt stick, so I could best position it.

I then stamped the sentiment in the corner, stuck some white gems on the butterfly and decided to pop a blue gem on each of the stamped butterflies. And finished off by blinging up the corners.

entering in: Butterfly Challenge = theme + butterfly + colour

scrapbook page with spots & stripes

Trying to get back onto my crafty bus, missed it a couple of times but this time lucky.

A scrapbook page featuring spots and stripes done for Digitally sweet Challenges,

This is 100% digital, done using Craft Artist2

featuring our Dax, sadly passed now, but one of the most loyal, lovable, trustworthy dogs anyone would love to meet. We used to do agility with her and she loved it, winning a few competitions. She also loved flyball - where they run/jump over little hurdles as fast as they can to get the ball at the other end and then return over the hurdles, she was never trained to do it, she just saw the hurdles and ran much to the amazement of the trainer who then wanted Dax on the team. Our next door neighbours little boy Jack, used to love it when he 'took' her for a walk - she walked at the side of him with no lead - under instruction from us - and Jack thought it was magical. Mind you, his mum told him that our Boxer had a scrunched up face as he had run into something when he was a pup and he believed her!

entering into: Digitally sweet Challenges = scrapbook page with spots & stripes

pretty puddycat

 

 

backing paper 'Gypsy Sisters' by Kaisercraft

DoCrafts pastel blue ribbon

Doily

gems - cobalt blue

Lunagirl image from Victorian Cats

chalkboard technique

Due to my dad taking ill, I haven't crafted or blogged for a couple of days. This card was for the Merry Monday challenge from last week, but never got entered. The challenge was to use the Chalkboard Technique, which was something I'd never heard of. After purchasing white ink and clear embossing powder I gave it a go.
I kept in really simple as I didn't know how it would turn out, I will do some more but when I have found some white embossing powder.

 

Using a white pigment ink pad I stamped the HoHoHo onto the black card and then tipped the clear embossing powder over it, waited a few seconds then used my heat gun.

If I had used white embossing powder the words would be more prominent.

To make it look a bit 'dusty' I smudged the white ink, gently, round the card using a bit of sponge.

 

 

Head Shot

Finally managed to finish my atc for this weeks challenge, started it yesterday morning and had to leave it and go back to bed. Still feeling rough with the dreaded Flu, wish it would go.

 

Indigo Blu stamp

Stazon Jet Black

purple and lime green promarkers

butterfly cuts

silver Stickles

 

entered into: Wicked Wednesday = Head shots

 

Santa

My Santa card is one for the kiddiewinks and big kids everywhere.

I was gifted a huge pack of decoupage sheets and this was just one of many Christmas ones in the bag.

This can be personalised as there are a couple of pieces of the penguin holding the card, which would be so special for any recipient.

 

Le Suh decoupage

Glitter chipboard sentiment

random tag from stash

random backing paper from stash.

 

entering in: Merry Monday Christmas = Santa

 

 

Colour challenge

Over on fripperies and butterflies blog, the colour challenge for Jan into Feb is:

 

normally I do a digital project, mostly because I leave it too late to do anything else and I can't think of anything else to do. This month I've been on the ball, despite having  a really, really rotten flu virus, which is now in the coughing stage - suffered the head exploding stage, then the sore throat stage, then the lost voice stage...... can't be many stages left!

 

Anyway onto the project. Taking inspiration from various vintage digital works featuring post cards, I decided to do a physical piece.

 

the address is 23 Boythorpe Road, Brampton, Chesterfield and was posted at 6.45pm on the 11th of September 1929!

 

 

 

 

 

old postcard from stash

Le Suh traditional decoupage  (I'd forgot how fiddly it is!)

die cut butterfly

Hobby House gems

 

entered in fripperies and butterflies on facebook

 

You animal

Very quick post tonight as I'm not well and just typing this feels like I've wrote War and Peace.


Love this stamp. A quick black & white atc done for this weeks challenge.

 

 

entering in: Wicked Wednesday = you animal

 

 

 

signing off to go and collapse on the sofa.........