purple or purple?

Not very often I dip into my Debbi Moore drawer, but decided too for the monthly swap over at Card Exhange UK on yahoo groups, knowing the recipient liked sewing & reusing things, this made an ideal theme.

 

All of the bits used came from Shabby Chic compendium.

New beginnings

Over on my facebook page, I occasionally select a random photo of a crafty make, anyhow I popped one up of a card I did for a friend who was leaving her job, but wasn't sure what she wanted to do, so I choose 'new beginnings' as my sentiment, a couple of years ago.

Off of the photo, I was asked to do another, luckily I still had bits of the same paper to hand, so I jigged another one up, only slightly different this time.

 

 

inner

Dimension & Denim

3 for the price of 1 today, got my crafty head on as the weather is cooler today, expecting it too rain but the wind blows away the greyish clouds and we get a little bit of sun. Couln't concentrate on anything whilst we were in the heat wave, I picked 6 books from the library and have only read 2, couldn't get into the others, will take them back and pick some more.
Did you know if you check out books from your local library, the author gets some money? Its something like 7 or 8p a go, sounds rather Spartan but at least they know they're being read.

Anyhoo, back to the cards.

 

Made using a sheet of dark blue denim effect paper and a light blue denim effect paper. Create a flower die, (which came free with a magazine - which explains why I nearly took the tip of my index finger off with it when I pulled it from its glue, having to craft and type with a poorly finger stuck up in the air is quite hard. Ouch.) Tattered Lace mini butterflies die, blue gems, Spellbinders sentiment die, white flower and finally a dark blue button.

 

A simple card, but I love how it turned out.

 

I have some A6 blue cards I had given me in a swap over at cardexchange uk, which have been sitting in my envelope box for some time, so I thought I'd use up my bits & bobs and make 2 notelet style cards with them.

 

I read an article in this months Do Crafts Creativity mag about Happy Mail and it looks like something I liked to do, so I figure if I have some to hand, then I can start using them.

 

 

 

entering in: butterfly challenge = D is for dimension and/or denim

Man O Man

Over at gecko galz, this months challenge is Man O Man.

I made a similar card  the other year - I loved how it turned so whilst flicking through by card box, I decided to do another one for Dad, on Fathers Day. This time I wanted to add a bit of colour so flicked through my paper till I saw this blue one. Just makes it more interesting, I think.
Anything car or steam is perfect for Dad.

 

Old Nostalgia paper kit from The Works

vintage buttons

one shiny gem (found on a piece of rubbish)

one gem

image from Gecko Galz 'Industrial Age'

stick on wheels

 

entering in: gecko galz = man o man

 

 

 

Photo inspiration

Well, first card done after our camping holiday in Devon..... a Christmas card *lol*

this was the photo, I went the easy way and choose cups for my card as I knew I had still got a bit of Nitwits 'cookin cookies' paper pack, free with a magazine. Unfortunately I only had a small cup of hot choc left which was on the ad for the pack so I had to use that. Hence a cute 4 x 4 card for this challenge.

Everything was Nitwit 'cookin cookies' and the red button was from a small pack of Do Crafts Christmas buttons - extra shiny red!

 

entering in:  merry monday christmas challenge = photo inspiration

Cowgrls, cowboys & horses

Another great challenge over at Lunagirl this month, although it did take me a long while to find an image I wanted to use. I love the colours of this image from Pinterest.

Not much I can say for this card, as I raided my offcuts/bits n bobs/snippets drawer to find colours that went with the image. Oh, vintage buttons! these lovely brown/orange buttons were sat on the top of the pile just waiting to be used.

entering in: lunagirl = april challenge

Dads birthday

As always, I get stuck for my dads birthday card, but on this occasion I knew when I saw the image that I wanted to use it.

Dad, in his old age (don't tell him I said that) has taken an interest in watching ploughing competitons at the rural fairs he & Delia love to visit, so this image was perfect.

backing paper from Old Treasures paper pack

vintage buttons

old postcard

Gecko Galz march image.

copper peel offs

 

entering in: Gecko Galz Papercrafting Challenge group over on Facebook

Multi challenge celebration

Over on Merry Monday Christmas Challenge, its the 200th challenge, and to celebrate they have 4 choices of theme - do one or all four. I'm not feeling that Christmas yet, so I stayed with the one.

 

 

 

Had intended to to do red, green & white then realised it was also Kraft, which I haven't got, so changed my mind and went with the Snowman theme for the card.

 

The topper is actually an ATC which I made last February for Wicked Wednesday atc challenge blog.

Least now it'll be seen and not just sitting in a box on the shelf. One day I will get some shadow boxes to put my makes in.......

 

The card is a lot brighter than the picture, the gold is quite shiny in the light, so I didn't need to add any gems.

 

 

paper - Kaisercraft 'Christmas collection'

Inkadinkado 'glam gold' ink

 

entering in: merry monday christmas challenge = multi choice - snowman

 

 

 

 

 

B for Bronze & buttons/Shabby Chic Easter card

I am in love with this card.

 

pale green backing paper 'Birdsong' free paper

pink patterned paper 'Fairy Belle Collection' Jodie Lee

Bronze resin flowers

vintage buttons

doily

small posy flowers

large rose flower

chipboard butterflies

white pearls

bronze gems

Easter topper Gecko Galz email freebie March 2015

 

 

entering in: butterfly challenge = b is for bronze and/or buttons

                   gecko galz = shabby chic easter

 

C is for card

Had lots of fun doing this card, although when I was playing around with the design sheet on the computer, I nearly gave up, ended up just printing the image in the hope I had some paper in my stash that would work..... I did *lol*

Pushed my limits with this one, so I'm quite chuffed how it came out!

dictionary page

black versamark ink

bronze metallic ink

papers from 'Old Treasures' pack (The Works)

wooden button & twine/cotton from DoCrafts

paper clip

image Lunagirl 'animals at the zoo'

 

entering in: lunagirl moonbeams - animals

 

 

summertime

another entry for the GG challenge group on Facebook - summertime

made an A6 card, love how it turned out.

HowZaT???

Done for a special birthday & tied in to fit with the latest challenge over at digitally sweet

 digital photo from The Graphics Fairy or The Sum of All Crafts

backing paper from a digi kit

garden twine

buttons from The Tin

green paper torn from an old Music book

corrugated paper from packaging

dark brown mirror card

sentiment

 

Chose my image and resized it in CAP2, picked a background (think its from a steampunk digikit) and recolored it to match the grass in the photo, also made the sentiment, tried to match the font with the image. Printed it all off & assembled onto a 6x6 card.

 

 

entered into: digitally sweet challenges - sports

 

 

 

party!!

a cute little atc done using The Flower Fairies, a pack I've had for years and never used. Other embellishments from stash.

entering into: wicked wednesday atc - fairy happy birthday

button it

 

 

Atc - used 3 buttons out of the Tin for his body, sewed through the buttonholes with black cotton to look like pieces of stone for his buttons, used black bobbly ribbon for his scarf, cut a small black mirror card hat, drew stick arms & finally promarked an orange spot for his nose.

entered into: wicked wednesday atc - snowmen

party!!

I've still got a few tiny envelopes from a box of cards I had, so thought I'd use one for this plain(ish) design, the style is nodding towards invitations, going to play around in CAP when I get the time and see if I get come up with something...

 

button flowers

gems

ribbon bow

sentiment stamp

balloon image from Bugaboo Stamps

 

entering into: delicious doodles challenge.blog - buttons and bows

true blue

Birthday card done using A5 card blank.

Shabby Chic compendium from Debbi Moore

buttons

feathers

pins

gems

You old sew and sew so!

Made for cardexchange UK over at Yahoo groups, January partner swap.

Totally random card - dived into my oddment drawer and used what I came out with. (must have been in the Craft Fairy's good books!)

 

5 x 5 white card blank

toppers from Debbi Moore 'shabby chic' compendium

flowers/back paper from NitWit 'Cottage Charm' paper kit

buttons

Is it me??

Our store had two managers leave for better climes, this week. I can feel the abandonment issues flowing my way *lol*
Both are lovely people and both are moving within the same company to different stores, so at least we shall still see them.

so that meant two cards to make......I've accidently deleted one so that leaves this one.

Hot off the Press "Home Grown" design kit

buttons

5x5 white card blank

scrap of red card

peel off sentiment

 

 

entering the card into:pink gem - challenge 110 "something new"   (new job and new craft papers)
                                   delicious doodles - challenge 69 "layer up"
                                   glitter n sparkle - challenge 66 "anything goes"

Fliss

My next door neighbour little girl is going to be 5 soon, so wanted to do a fairy card for her.

 

5x5 white card

stamped image from Wee Stamps

promrkers

papers from the Loving Life Collection

peel off sentiment

white flowers coloured with promarkers

 butterfly

buttons

 

entering Fliss the fairy into the following challenges

 

polkadoodles - birthday girl

teeny tiny

With off cuts of card and papers, I did these 2 mini cards. Am using some mini envelopes from last christmas for them to go in.

 

 

 

 

 

Both cards used:

 

Nitwits "Thimbles n threads" paperstock & stamps

buttons

promarkers

stazon ink (red)

pigment ink (black)