AI Challenge - Big Birthday

Whew, been a busy summer over here so far, haven't had much crafting time. I did manage to squeese in a bit of time today however, and luckily it was just in time to play along with the current challenge over at the Ai Blog, plus as an added bonus I finally got to ink up my Wine Tasters stamp... Hooray!

Ingredients:
Stamp - Art Impressions "Wine Tasters"
Sentiment Stamp - Inkadinkado
Inks - Versafine Black Onyx & Momento Tuxedo Black
CS - Copic Xpress it & Bazzill
DP - Echo Park Splash
Medium - Copic Markers, Wink of Stella & American Crafts Glitter Pens
Pearls - KaiserCrafts
Extras - Glossy Accents & Recollections foam adhesive

Ai Challenge - Cute as a button

I'm on a card making kick, and I really wanted to play along with the challenge they have going on over at the Art Impressions blog, I needed an excuse to colour up the adorable "Whoots" image... love that owl.

The challenge was to use buttons as embellishments, and for me that really was a challenge! Part of that challenge was to actually find a button. Not my usual choice of embellishment, but I found one that matched and away I went.

Here is the card I came up with:

Ingredients:
Stamp: Art Impressions, Whoots
Sentiment Stamp: Inkadinkado, All Occasions
Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black & VersaFine Onyx Black
DP: Bo Bunny, Suprise
CS: Neenah, Solar white
Bakers Twine: Doodle Bug
Medium: Copic Markers
Extras: Glossy Accents,Wink of Stella, Sakura White Jelly Roll Pen & a random red button
Adhesives: Recollections foam tape & Tombow tape runner

Cure for the Monday Blues Challenge #17

Been a long time since I have blogged any of my creations, and that is for a ton of different reasons that I am not going to bore anyone here with.

But recently I found this awsome blog that has weekly inspiration challenge, I just had to play along.
Here is the pic we were to take our inspiration from:

I took my inspiration from the colours in the picture, and here is what I came up with:

Ingredients:
Stamp: Magnolia, Tilda with fantasy flowers
Sentiment Stamp: Inkadinkado, All Occasions
Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black & VersaFine Onyx Black
DP: Lawn Fawn, Hello Sunshine
Medium: Copic Markers
Extras: Wink of Stella & Sakura White Jelly Roll Pen
Adhesives: Recollections foam tape & Tombow tape runner

Simon Says... We Love Stamps

Since I needed to make a v-day card, I headed over to the Monday Challenge at the Simon Says Stamp blog. A nice and easy challenge this week, to use a favourite stamp to make a project.
I had the joy of inking up a stamp that I received recently for the first time, which is always awesome.

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Ingredients:
Stamp: Sweet November
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
DP: Bo Bunny - Crush
CS: Bazzill
Medium: Copic Markers
Extra: Wink Of Stella - Clear

Simon Says... Get Krafty

Super quick mini 3x3 gift topper card for the Wednesday challenge over at Simon's blog.
The challenge was to use kraft paper, and it was a challenge for me... it was the first time I've ever tried to colour with copics on a darker card stock, interesting results.
Also, since I wanted a particular sentiment & my card stock is too thick to go through my printer, I tried hand writing it... yeeesh, not going to do that again!

 

 

Ingredients:
Stamp: Penny Black
Ink: Versafine
CS: Bazzill
Medium: Copics
Extra: Wink of Stella - clear

Happy Holidays

Just a super quick and easy christmas card using CCDesigns adorable penguin stamp. I just received my new web cam in the mail, so I figured I would try figuring out how to use the thing by filming the card making process. I broke the video in to 2 seperate parts. For the links to the videos, scroll down to the bottow of this post.

Video Part 1 - Colouring

Video Part 2 - Making the Card

 

Ingredients:

Stamp: CC Designs - Sweet Penguins

Sentiment Stamp: Amy R - Merry & Bright

CS: Copic XpressIt

DP: American Crafts - Peppermint Express & Hollyday

Ribbon: Offrey

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black & Versafine Black Onyx

Adhesives: Recollection foam strips & Tombow glue runner

Glitter: Wink of Stella clear glitter brush

Markers: Copics, Spectrum Noir, Prima Colour

 

Warm Winter Wishes

Decided to play along with the clean and simple card challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers as well as the Whiff of Joy Christmas challenge.
I had a lot of fun colouring up this Henry stamp with my Copics and Spectrum Noir markers. You cant really tell from the picture, but I used my new Wink of Stella pen on both the scarf and pompom... Super cute.

Ingredients:
Stamps: Whiff of Joy & AmyR
Inks: Momento & Versa Fine
CS: Bazzill & Copic Xpress-it
DP: Echo Park & American Crafts
Medium: Copic Markers & Spectrum Noir Markers
Extras: Wink of Stella & Glossy Accents

Cute Christmas Kitty

This card is 2 challenges in 1, The layout is from the weekly sketch challenge over at MFT and the colour combo is from Wednesdays colour challege over at SplitCoast Stampers . This weeks colour combo (#cc453) always baked cherries, was a lot of fun, though I didnt have any artichoke colour ribbon, so I went with a deeper green shade.

 

 

 

Ingredients:

Stamps: Sweet November & AmyR

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black & Versa Fine Black Onyx

DP: American Crafts

CS: Bazzill & Copic

Glitter: Elmers

Ribbon: Dollarama

Medium: Copic Markers

My Favourite Things Sketch Challenge

Long time no post.... that is an understatement, the summer was just crazy hectic and time just got away from me.

I discovered the other day that the My Favourite Things blog has a weekly sketch challenge and while I do not currently own any MFT stamps, I loved the sketch and wanted to play along.

Ingredients:
Image Stamp: Art Impressions
Sentiment Stamp: Amy R
Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black & Versafine Onyx
DP: Echo Park
Card Stock: Bazzil
Punch: Marvy
Glitter: Elmers glitter glue & American Crafts glitter pens
Medium: Copic Markers & Prisma Colour Markers
Other: Glossy Accents
Ribbon, Snowflake Sequin & Gem: Dollarama

Simon Says ... Happy Birthday!

Simon Says Stamp is celebrating their 4th Birthday, so for this weeks challenge over at the challenge blog, is of course, to create a Birthday card.

Here is the one I came up with:



Ingredients:

Stamps: Penny Black & Inkadinkado

DP: BoBunny

CS: Copic Xpress-it

EP: Stampendous

Medium: Copic & Prisma Colour Markers

Other: Glossy Accents, Crystal Stickles, Tombow glue runner, recollections foam adhesive

 

Simon Says.....Anything Goes!

Managed a little bit of time on this Easter weekend to whip together a card for the weekly challenge over at Simon Says Stamp.
A nice an easy anything goes challenge which allowed me to use some products I recently received in the mail (all from simon says stamp coincidentally)



Ingredients:
Stamps: Penny Black & Inkadinkado
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
CS: Copic Xpress it
DP: Bo Bunny
Accents: Doodle Bug Twine, Glossy Accents & Crystal Stickles
Medium: Copic & Prisma Colour Markers
Other: Mono Tombow Tape Runner & Recollections Foam Adhesive

Simon Says... Spring/Easter

Found a little time this weekend to play along with this weeks challenge over at Simon Says Stamp.
This was a super quick and simple card, though I noticed when I uploaded the picture that the sentiment is looking a tad crooked.

Ingredients:

 

Stamps: We R Memory Keepers & Hero Arts

Ink: VersaMagic & Momento

DP: DoodleBug

CS: Bazzill

Other: Prima Colour Markers, Marvy Circle Punches, Crystal Stickles, Crystal Effects, Tombow glue runner & Recollections Foam Squares

 

ATS ... anything goes!

I managed to find a little time to play along with another challenge over at All That Scraps, this weeks challenge anything goes.

I had recently won some Sweet November blog candy from Amy Young over at A Thousand Sheets of Paper, and made this card entirely out of what I received (save for markers and card stock)...thanks Amy!

Ingredients:

 

Stamps: Sweet November & Studio G

Inks: Versa Mark, Momento

DP: Making Memories (? I think, part of the candy)

CS: CC Designs

Green CS, Ribbon, Flower, Button & Twine: ? unknown< part of the candy

Medium: Prima Colour Markers & Copic Markers

Other, Tombow Mono Tape Runner & Crystal Errects

 

 

 



 

Simon Says... Use an arrow

Back again with another card for the weekly Simon Says Stamp Challenge. This week you have to use an arrow on your project. I however, had absolutely nothing in my stash that had anything even resembling an arrow. Luckily its an easy shape to cut out of card stock, which I did, then I dabbed some glossy accents on top.

Ingredients:
Stamp: Riley and Company
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black
DP: Echo Park Splash
CS: Bazzill & Copic Xpress it
EP: Stampendous Clear
Other: Elmers Glitter Glue, Recollection foam Adhesive, Glossy Accents & Tombow glue runner
Medium: Copic Markers (BG15, BG10, E49, E47, E11, E43 Y28 & Y38) &
Prisma Colour Markers (Cool Grey 10% & Cool Grey 40%)



 

ATS Challenge - Anything Goes

Back again with another All That Scraps challenge, this week is 'anything goes'. I decided on a baby congrats card, just so I could use one of the adorable Sweet November animal images from the January release.




Ingredients:

Digi Image: ATS/Sweet November Stamps
CS: Bazzill
DP: Recollections
Stamp: The Paper Company
Ink: Versamark/Versamagic
Gems: Dollarama
Medium: Copic Markers
Other: Elmers Glitter Glue/Tombow tape runner

ATS Challenge - Valentine Treats

Back again for another wednesday challenge entry for All That Scraps. This week the challenge was to create a Valentines treat, so I decided to go with a gift tag (a rather large gift tag compared to the teensy gift I attached it to, lol!)
Also, I recorded the process, though I am still trying to get the hang of the lighting and trying to stop the camera from shaking. You can find the video on this post, just below the picture of the tag, if anyone is interested.

 



Ingredients:

Digital Image: C.C.Designs

Sentiment: My computer :)

CS: Copic Xpress it

DP: American Crafts & 7Gypsies

Medium: Copic & Prisma Colour Markers

Ribbons: Dollarama

Gem Stone: Dollarama

Organza Wrap: Dollarama

Other: Elmers Glitter Glue, Tombow Glue Runner

 

ATS Challenge... Anything Goes

I had some spare time today to throw together a last minute entry to the Anything Goes Challenge over at the All That Scraps Wedsday challenge blog.

Since I printed the digital image rather large, the card itself had to be kept quite simple.

I tried doing a yellow halo effect around the image, were the light from the sparklers would hit, but I don't really like the way that it turned out... ah well.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

Digi: CC Designs/Sweet November

CS: CC Designs & Bazzill

DP: Echo Park & 7 Gypsies

Stamp: The Paper Company

Ink: Versa Fine

Medium: Copic & Prisma Colour Markers

Other: American Crafts Glitter Pens & Elmers Glitter Glue

Adhesives: Tombow Glue Runner & Recollections Foan Adhesive



Simon Says... Black & White with a Splash of Colour

Another card made for the weekly challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp Blog. This week the challenge was to make a mostly black and white card, with just a little splash of colour, so I grabbed this adorable Paper Smooches image and made this card.

I happen to buy a box of odd sized envelopes by mistake the other day, so the card that I made for this challenge is 3 3/8 x 6 1/4 to fit the envelope.

And, just for fun, I recorded myself making the card. Scroll down for the video.

Ingredients:

Image & Sentiment: Paper Smooches

DP: Echo Park, DCWV, 7Gypsies

CS: Bazzill

Ribbon: Offray

Medium; Prisma Colour Pencils

Other: Elmers Glitter Glue, Tombow tape runner & Recollections foam adhesive

 

Simon Says... Anything Goes!

I am back today to play along in another challenge over at Simon Says Stamp. Time again for everybody's favourite theme, "Anything Goes".
There was one more image that I really wanted to use on a christmas card, so I figured before I pack away my christmas papers I would have one last go round with a christmas themed card for this challenge. (Sorry about the bad picture, the light wasnt good, you can barely see the gold embossed sentiment)

Ingredients:
Digi Image: TiddlyInks
Stamp: Amy R
DP: American Crafts
CS: CCDesigns & Bazzill
EP: Stampendous
Medium: Copic Markers
Other: Glossy Effects & American Crafts Glitter Pens

ATS Challenge... Anything Goes

Happy Chistmas Eve, it came so quickly this year.
I had to make 2 more last minute chrstmas cards for a few people that decided to come into town this year. So of course I had to enter it in to the ATS Anything Goes Challenge.
This card is really quite glitzy in real life, with the glitter glue on the wings, the glitter pen used on the horn & halo, and the gold ink around the dark brown mat... doesnt really come across in the picture though.

Ingredients:
Digi Image: Sweet November
Stamp: Amy R
Ink: VersaFine, Colour Box
DP: Echo Park, 7 Gypsies
CS: Bazzill, CC Designs
Medium: Copic Markers
Other: Elmers Glitter Glue, American Crafts Glitter Pen
& Stampendous Clear Embossing Powder