Annabelle sketch with a little Banana Custard thrown in…

Hello Everyone,

I see I have a couple more followers – thank you for joining me, I hope I can provide as much inspiration as I get from you in return.

Today I have made a card for the Annabelle Stamps Sketch Challenge #38  and as luck would have it is the perfect colour to enter into the Lollipop Ladies challenge too, which is themed on “Banana Custard” (YUM).

 Even though my card is not themed – the colour is right! Vintage will have to wait till the next attempt!

Here it is….

Oh look, I used my Annabelle Stamps “All Things Grow” set again! lol. There is one little element there that is not from that set, and it’s the little birdie which I’ve pinched from the Stampin Up “Bliss” set. I used some natural fibre papers and they kind of went well with the Fern leaf. The ink was Tim Holtz Tea Dye distress ink and I used some orange bling, because the yellow and gold ones just didn’t have any oomph.

Here is the sketch to use if you’d like to do it too click on it, it'll take you there. You can check out what the DT did with the sketch too - pretty awesome.

and the custard...

 I did say YUM!

 As usual, I hope you like it

More Brayer Fun

I’ve been really enjoying playing with my brayer since receiving the stamp set from Annabelles Stamps – All Things Grow (he he he yep AGAIN!) it’s perfect for grassy scenes.

Here is a card I’ve put together with a sunset through the reeds theme.

It’s an idea that’s been cased from Michelle Zindorf’s blog – a big thank you to Michelle I am having a ball trying to make my brayering look something like yours

Here is a bit of a close up of the sentiment – probably should have used black ink here, but I sort of liked the “washed out by the sun” look it has given the card.

I’ve layered the panel up on some photo corners and done a little peircing to finish it off. I'm slowly getting better at this technique. They say practice makes perfect. 

Spring Flowers

Hello again,

I've made this really simple card with a wonderful technique taught to me by my SU (Stampin Up) demonstrator - Jane Norrish.

I have stamped and coloured and cut - out my daisies from the SU Every Moment stamp set and then glued them to a beautiful blue sky coloured card. I then ran it through the Big Shot using my SU Textured Impressions embossing folder.

A simple sentiment (pretty sure that's a Kaszazz Happy Birthday), and a piece of ribbon finished it all off nicely.

I was inspired by the picture challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks which shows flowers reaching to the sky....

Isn't it beautiful!

Daring Birdy

Hello Everyone,

I have made this cute little gift card using a few different techniques - just as practice, but I think it turned out great!

There is an emboss releif background that has been brayered, I've used my spellbinder scallop circle to cut a window and mounted the background behind it. I then sandwiched my little cut out and coloured birdy and reeds between it and some acetate. It's a nice shiny window.

Daring Cardmakers have the perfect challenge running - Draw a Bird Day. Well, I coloured a stamped bird? It's the SU Every Moment stamp too, just in case your wondering :)

Brayered it!

Hello again, told you I'd be back tonight.

Well one of the things in my recent Stampin Up order was a brayer. I have been dying to have a go at this, there really is some awesome cards out there with sunsets and moonshine, so I just had to have a go at it. I did previously try it with Trish a while ago, but we decided we didn't have the right brayer, but now I have!

This is a quick card I made using a brayered background and a pretty 'grasses' stamp set that I purchased recently at the my local $2 store.

This is not bad for a nearly first attempt I thought, although am not entirely happty with the colours.  

I used Stampin Up inks - more mustard, cajun craze and bravo burgundy. There is also a bit of a line where there shouldn't be, but hey, you get that!

I have had another go since then and added in some cherry cobbler which really brightened it up. I will post that when I've made a card with it. (it's on my desk in Girl World at the mo, just as a background).

If you'd like to see what it should look like, check out this blog of Michelle Zindorf - she is the brayer queen! Amazing! I may have to do a couple of her workshops!

Ciao for now...

ps. sorry about the photo, I used gloss card a the light was reflecting on so I had to stand it up instead of laying it flat on white paper like I normaly do.

Mojo Every Moment

Hello Everyone,

I received my Stampin Up order in last week and found the Mojo Monday Sketch this week was the perfect opportunity to use my new stamp - "Every Moment", and the "Beautiful Wings" embosslit.

Without further adieu - here tis...

I really enjoyed colouring this image in, I used a Stampin Up blender pen with either a marker or spot of ink on the craft mat. (Colours were Wild Wasabi, Soft Suede and River Rock together and a tiny bit of pumpkin pie on beak and legs.)

I shaded some pale orange chalk over the image to soften it a little. The image was then die cut with spellbinder circle and matted onto a spellbinder scallop circle die cut.

The big scallop is a 1" circle punch laid underneath and the ribbon is from my stash. The green pearls are from Kaiser.

This is the Mojo Monday #185 Sketch, and this week it's a competition week. I'd really love to win a Verve stamp set - wish me luck!

I'll be back later with some cards I made through the week, just for fun, as you do. Feel free to come back a take a peek. :)

Flower Friend

I took delivery of the Tattered Florals die by Tim Holtz which I'm sure you are all familiar with, and that I am very pleased to now own. So I have been going mental making flowers. The one on this card was inspired by a lady on you tube that does THIS tutorial for making a similar flower.

Here is my card...

I love the sentiment from the Stampin Up set "The Nicest Things" and thought it would go well on a tag for the challenge at Annabelle Stamps - "Say it with Tag".

The background is papers from the Kaiser "Utopia" collection 6" paper pad, and I've simply torn stips and rolled back the edges, highlighting them with a little Tangerine Tango ink to match in with the card base.

This is such a bright, flowery card that I thought it would suit the challenges at both the Scrapbook Sisters Spring Flowers challenge and the Southern Girls Flowers Challenge .

Hope you like it too. Keep an eye out for more of those gorgeous Tim Holtz flowers in the future. I'd also like to thank Nicole at the Craft Queen shop for the beautiful torquise ribbon on this card. I had ordered other ribbons from her and they arrived beautifully packaged and tied up with this ribbon. It's always the way isn't it, the one you didn't choose is the first one you use!

Never Ending Goodbye

Hello Everybody,

My lack of time this week leads me to post something that I made quite some time ago and that my good friend Trish had taken photos of because she liked it so very much.

It's a never ending card and I learnt the technique off You Tube. Sorry I don't have the original post, but if you type in never ending card all sorts of tutorials should come up for you.

I was reminded of this card by Robbie Rubala of Inkedx2 when she posted one a month or so ago, you can see her version here .

On with the photos then...

 I made this card for a work mate who was retiring after 20 years of service.

I have used my Friendly Words jumbo roller and my Fiskars cutter and letters-1 template to make the sentiment. 

This is the front and it folds open to reveal....







.....The first lot of panels (we were all able to write on a different panel each), it then folds upwards from the middle....

  

....and it keeps going, it simply folds out and around up and over endlessly...


It's a fantastic design and has endless options for decorating. I've also used my stampin up punch, some ribbons, pearls and decorative corner stamps. I don't remember the name of the patterned paper I used which is frustrating as usual.









...and then back out again....

 

......from here it folds back to the front view.

I feel better now that I've shared something for the week. I am hoping to get out into my craft room today after Gym so hopefully will get my Mojo card for the week done at the very least!

Quick Bliss

I simply had to have a go at my new Bliss stamp set from Stampin Up.

It is just so adorable, this is only the beginning of a fine association with this set I am sure. I haven't even got to the little birdie yet!

I ran this card up quickly tonight, just for fun - as you do!

The stripey paper is from Kaiser's "Tea at Elsies" collection and the dotted paper is Stampin Up "Blueberry Crisp".

A spellbinder labels die stamped on the background with "Crumb Cake" and the gorgeous chandelier type stamp and overlaid with Bliss in "Soft Suede", the edges of the label are sponged with "Marina Mist".

The butterflies are stamped with "Marina Mist" and one of the butterflies is lighter because I stamped it twice without re-inking.

I distressed all the edges of the paper, peeling some back here and there to reveal the under-side. Sponged all the paper edges with "Crumb Cake" and when it was all assembled I sprayed a squirt of broken china distress ink mixed with perfect pearls and water. It is a little shimmery although you can't see it in the photos.

I must say, it is Bliss when you don't have to be tidy with things. he he.

Mojo is the Nicest Thing

Hello Everybody,

I've got my Mojo happening a little earlier this week.

The Mojo Monday Sketch 178 this week is

I liked this sketch, but ended up turning it upright so I could use my new stamp.

It's "The Nicest Things" set from Stampin Up and I Love It!!! I've cut the image down a little with my (also new to me) rectangle spellbinder, and matted it onto an embossed rectangle. The embossing is Stampin Up again with their Textured Impressions folder. The colouring was done with a combination of Copics - for skin (yes the only two copics I own), some Stampin Write markers combined with the blender pen from Stampin Up and a couple of normal Texta pens.
The patterned paper is from a big block of papers that I bought at Big W and the ribbons are from my stash.

I tried to use the colours from the Lollipop Ladies blog challenge #14 which was this yummy, colourful pile of smarties in a heart (I think I got the colours right, just couldn't manage the heart.)

That's it from me today, have had a busy week and still more happening through until next week so not much time to get out into Girl World, but I'm determined to make my Mojo happen each week!

Brayer Practice - First Try

Hello, how are you all today?

Here is my practice run on using a Brayer, as discussed in the previous post.

My friend has the brayer, but we found it was a bit small and didn't quite work the way we wanted it to, at least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

 As you  can see we made two cards, the first was a sunset version.

And a Moonlight version.


We followed some Youtube tutorials on brayering, I'm sorry I don't have the links to them, but if you search "brayer tutorial" you'll no doubt find the originals of these two cards - albeit in much better condition :)

I am having a Stampin Up party in March and have got a big brayer on my list of items to buy, so when I have it, I'll have another go at these two and we'll see the difference. Maybe it might just be me and not the brayer! lol.

My Mojo 171 is ready to go..

Hi All,

Well I've done my Mojo this week in a spurt of creativity, and I even remembered to jot down the names of the products I used - how good am I?

Here it is...

Now for the products used:

The cardstock is from my DCWV Textured Stack Nuetrals in a nice orangish shade, along with a pale metallic blue card that I bought from the newsagent a while ago that I have matted on the smaller squares. I've used Stampin Up smooth cardstock in cream for the stamped backgrounds and the sentiment.

On the large background square I used the "Tres Chic" background stamp also from Stampin Up.

The paper matted onto the smaller squares is from Kaiser's Tea at Elsies collection which was my inspiration colour wise for this card,

The medium sized square on the front was stamped with my Stampin Up Jumbo roller using the "Friendly Words" roller. I;ve also chalked over a stencil with some apricot coloured chalk and put some Kaiser bling in a bright blue around the edges of the design. It's a little hard to see in the photo, but the bling kinda draws your eye to the chalky pattern.

The sentiment is also from Stampin Up and is from the "Perfect Punches" collection. It will look a whole lot better when I finally get the punch that matches this stamp, in the meantime I've just cut around it with scissors.

Stampin Up Bright Blue ink was my choice for all the stamped images.I've also edged most of the pieces with either Bright Blue ink or an orangish coloured ink that I had in my stash.

The ribbon I've tied in a double bow using a Martha Stewart piped nylon 3/8" ribbon in apricot.

That's it I think. Hope you all like it.