Come On, Shake Your Body, Baby, Do The Conga

Hello.
Top marks for me, for perseverance, today. This card drove me crazy!
I finished it - but it was really beyond my skill set.

I attempted a layered style, shaker card. 
(If you want to see this technique done properly check out the video from the amazing Carly Tee here)

Each panel is die cut with a nested heart, then inked up and layered, one on top of the other.
I struggled with the acetate. My Stazon ink pad was completely dry, so I ended up stamping with Versamark Ink, then using black embossing powder and heat setting it.
When I came to attach this final layer, I thought I was being oh so careful, only to find some sequins stuck to the right hand edge. Argh!
I manage to prize them out with a craft knife, and do a botched seal up, but it still looks a bit wobbly there.

Challenge

AAABirthday

• colorado craft company - conga line
• do crafts - nested hearts
• versamark ink and wow black embossing powder
• heat resistant acetate sheet
• copic markers
• distress ink - worn lipstick, carved pumpkin, peacock feathers

Cold Days Hot Drinks

Hello.

Today I'm playing along at the Little Red Wagon Challenge. 

When I saw the theme was 'warm drinks' I knew exactly which stamp I wanted to use. This is one of my all time favourites.

After masking the image (and a circle for the moon) I used distress ink for the background. Then I coloured those winter pals in with Copics.

I love how the little robin is warming his feet on the edge of a cup of cocoa.

Lastly I added some water drops and some white splatter. Argh! I HATE splatter. It never really works for me. I end up with too large spots, or too small ones. And yes, I've watched hundreds of videos where people just tap their brush and it splatters beautifully.  I am just not one of those people.

Don't look too closely, or you can see where my first huge blobs of white had to be wiped off!!

Challenge

Little Red Wagon

#690 Feature Warm Drinks

Docrafts forever friends stamp coloured with copics
distress oxide ink - salvaged patina

FAVOURITE HUMAN

Hello.

I'm playing along with the Muse challenge again today,
with my version of Kim's sweet card.

Valentine's Day is just round the corner,
and I've been seeing lots of cards with hearts on,
so I swapped Kim's circle windows for hearts and used a pretty, pale pink dp for the background.

Then I added some little puppies, peeking out, an embossed sentiment and a few sequins.

Muse Card Challenge 

Inspiration from Kim Heggins

Supplies
MFT Four Legged Friends
Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle.     Copics.    DoCrafts Heart Die

Cats v Dogs

Hey there, hope you are all well.
I am busy making plans for my eldest daughter, Maria's, birthday.
She will be 25 on Saturday.
I am in charge of the party -  I have been stringing up fairy lights all afternoon -
the food and the drink - so I have lists everywhere :-)

I just had time to squeeze in a quick make - hope it makes you smile.

The cue card for this week's CASology is 'Joke' and Cardz for Guyz wants you to 'make them laugh' -
so I hope this fits the bill. Pop over to those challenges if you want a giggle*

I coloured my image with Copics and made up the sentiment on my comp.

Stamp - Do crafts Hot Diggity, coloured with Copics.
DP - Basic Grey Wags and Whiskers
Sequin and gem from my stash.

Paper People

Blink!
And it's Monday again - what happened to the weekend?

After all the CAS Christmas cards I made, I am still struggling to use my DPs.
I know it sounds bonkers, but they just don't look right to me anymore??!!  
I had to fight the urge to take this one off.

The sketch is from Seize the Birthday. This is a great new challenge blog with a fun twist - the sketch is used one week for girly cards and one week for masculine. As you can see, this week it's girly ;-)
 

Challenges
Seize the Birthday - Sketch (Girly)
Love to Create - Anything Goes with a Sentiment
Dream Valley - Girls, Girls, Girls
Paper Crafting Journey - For a Girl


Supplies

• 6 x 6 'petal edge' card base
• DP - Prima, rosarian
• Stamp - Gorjuss girl, coloured with copics
• Do Crafts small nested heart die
• Spellbinders edgeability die, classic bracket
• Buttons and twine

I {heart} my dog!

Just a quick post from me today, as I am busy working.

Over at Totally Papercrafts, our lovely Sue wants you to have a giggle this week. So join in with our humour theme and see if you can make us laugh.

 I kept this card pretty simple, and added my quote to a tag, that tucks easily into a pocket behind the main image.

Our sponsors this week are Whimsy Stamps who do a great range of digi and rubber stamps. This little sentiment in the top right is from their Circle Postmark set.

Challenges

Charisma Cardz - Pocket Card

Cute Card Thurs. - Anything Goes

Birthday Sundaes - Animal Birthday Card

Supplies.
Westie Stamp - DoCrafts. Coloured with Copics and paper pieced.
DP - Papermania, Regency.  Twine, Ribbon, Button, Adhesive Pearls.
Martha Stewart Lace Doily Punch.

Accordion File Purse

Are you snowed in??   

It looks like most of the UK has had snowfall this weekend.

And, it seems, that the white stuff has gone metric. 

The news tells me we have had 6cm here - that's 2.36 inches in old money!!! :-)

I finally got round to making something other than a card - this cute little accordion file purse.

Maria Bell has shared her brilliant, step by step tutorial here - give it a try - it's really not as difficult as it looks.

I used white card for the main body of the purse and lilac for the 'accordion' pieces and the matting on the little cards.
The purse itself measure approx 6"(length) x 4"(height) x 3"(depth)  and closes with a velcro dot.

I made 4 cards (2 of each design) to go inside the file - 3" x 3" fits very comfortably.
I kept them quite plain, so that they could be used as notes, thankyous, etc.


It took me ages to decide on the sentiment for the front of the file. I wanted something that would suit any occasion and finally settled on this 'just for you' die cut.
  

To finish off I added a little 'hand made' stamp on the back.

Sorry about the rubbish photos. As you can see, I tried every angle and every surface to try and get a decent shot!

Challenges.

Aud Sentiments -  Anything BUT a Card, with a Sentiment.

Allsorts - Free & Easy

Do You Stack Up? - Anything Goes

Crafty Sentiments - Punches and/or Dies

Little Claire's - Anything BUT a Card

Supplies.

White and Lilac Card.    DP is DoCrafts V & A Hanoverian

Sentiment from Craftwork Cards.  Spellbinders Fancy Tags 3 Die and Lacey Circles

Martha Stewart Lace Doily Punch.   Catslife Press 'Hand Made' Stamp.

3 x 3 Blank Cards.   Xcut Butterfly Punch.  Papermania 'Tweet' Bird Stamp.

Ribbon and pearls from my stash.

Totally Papercrafts #68 Pink and Girly

Can it really be Friday already? This week has just flown by.

We have another challenge for you at Totally Papercrafts, hosted by the very talented Carol,

                    with the theme...

Pink and Girly

A good excuse (like we need one!) to get out all those pretty papers and gorgeous embellies.

 I'm not supposed to be buying any new craft goodies right now, but this Docrafts Westie stamp reminded me of my little Suzie, so I HAD to have it!

I started with the idea of making a tent card, but somewhere along the way it turned into a bag, to hold a gift card or cash!

Here is the tutorial for the tent card, by Beate Johns.

I took a 6 x 6 card and cut it along the score line, so I had a front and back piece.

The tent piece is 6" x 4", scored at 1", 2" and 3",

on the 4" side.

Folded mountain/valley style and attached to the front and back pieces.

To make the handles, I used 2 oval nestie dies to make a frame and cut it in half.

I couldn't find my velcro fasteners, so I just used a piece of bakers twine to keep the handles together.

For the inside pocket I cut a piece of card approx 6 1/2" x 3 3/4

scored at 3 1/4 and folded up.

I used a nestie to cut a little piece out of the top of one edge, so you can get to the gift card.

I decorated it with my DP and stitched the sides,

then attached it to the inside of my bag with DS tape.

Challenges

Do You Stack Up - Animals

Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Lace

and a couple of challenges that are new to me...

Party Time Tuesdays - Animals

My Mum's Craft Shop - Favourite colours/combos.  My fav. combo at the moment is this pink and grey. To me it says 'girly' but not too fluffy??!! Does that make sense?

Supplies.

Stamp - Docrafts, Pampered Pets Highland Terrier

DP - Papermania Capsule Collection, Red Hot

Dovecraft Heart Punch 

Wild Rose Studio - 'For You' Stamp.

Gems, Baker's Twine, Lace, Ribbon, Button from my stash. 

Totally Papercrafts 1st Anniversary

WOW!!

Do we have a special challenge for you this week?

Totally Papercrafts is celebrating it's 1st Birthday.

A HUGE thankyou to everyone that has joined in with our challenges and supported us over the last year... we couldn't do it without ya and we loves ya!

Let's here it for my teamies too - the most fabulous bunch of girls - who work hard behind the scenes to bring you inspiration every week.

So, what do we have planned - well, we would like you to enter a card/project following our theme..

Friendship

For my project I decided to put together a little gift set for my best friend.

Before I share with you how this was made (it's easy peasy) take a look at our list of generous sponsors. There are some awesome prizes on offer - pop on over to the blog to see all the details.

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My gift set contains a candle, notebook, bookmark, and post it note/calendar block. Everything fitted neatly into a re-cycled perfume box. I think I will add some chocs too - I can't give a gift without chocklit, can I ?

The gifts and box were all decorated with Docrafts Hanoverian DP - with ribbon and brads from the same range.

The 'Friend' sentiment is Making Memories, velvet alphabet stickers and I made the bookmark sentiment on my comp.

Challenges I would like to enter - 
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes and optional flowers. My paper is flowery and I have also used a XCut punch to make some blooms and added card candy to the centre of them.
Top Tip - Anything Girlie.  Hope this is 'girlie' enough!