Girl With Apple

Right, I'm on track now with the new Jellypark releases!  There were 3 new digi stamps released on Friday and here is one of them - Girl Thank You Teacher.  I've kept it clean and simple (plus I couldn't decide which papers to use!)

I remembered that I had some textured white card in my stash so I cut it down to make two A6 sized cards, added a faux running stitch around the edge and then added the image.

I've used Promarkers to colour and then added her to the card base with foam pads for depth.  The gingham ribbon I found in my stash (I had a whole reel of it that I didn't know about!) and the wooden apple is taken from some Christmas ribbon from Lidl.

And the uniform colours - I've taken inspiration from the boys' Primary school!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion:  Thank You
Creative Creations:  For You Teacher
Cutie Pie Challenge:  Cute and Cuddly
Path of Positivity:  Caring (giving thanks and recognising the hard work of teachers)

Image:  Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers
Ribbon:  My stash
Apple embellishment:  Originally Lidl
Everything else:  My Stash

Fetch A Sketch Challenge 1 - Midway Extra

As we have two wonderful sponsors for our very first challenge, here is a Midway Extra post with hopefully more inspiration for our sketch! We are a bi-weekly Monday sketch challenge and we hope that our sketches will inspire you to create!

The Pre Lunch Blog Candy winners have been drawn and announced on Fetch A Sketch - so go and see if you've been lucky!

For our launch we have two wonderful and very generous sponsors:

Anice has offered the following as a prize:

Papercraft Factory - Dreams Come True cd

Our Betty Clear Acrylic Stamps - Your Special Day
Button Pack - Remember December

And Nikky has offered the following prize:Sugar Birdies Collectors Edition cd
Fairy Flutterby Rubber Stamp - Gracie
Fru Fru Boutique Ribbons - Reds

If you are familiar with my blog you will know that I design for both Funky Hand and Polkadoodles. For more about each sponsor, just click on their logos above!

For our first challenge there will be two winners. For more details on the challenge please go to the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog. The sketch that we are asking you to follow is:

You can rotate it, flip it, resize it and add embellishments or a sentiment where ever you want, just as long as we can see the elements of the sketch. You can also make anything you like too - just follow the sketch!

Continuing the theme of teacher thank you cards, I've made these for Jacob's teachers and I've used papers and digi apple from Funky Hand - Colour Me Happy cd. I've added a faux stitch around the edges and the apple has been coloured with Promarkers and then glossy accents.

I've used a nestie for the shape and then layered it and cut around for the next size up. Brads are from my stash and I had to be creative as didn't have enough of each type to use fully, hence two different brads! And the ribbon is from my stash too.

Good luck with the challenge - for more details and how to enter, please go to the challenge blog. Closing date is Sunday 10 July at 12noon GMT.

These cards also fit the following challenges:

Paper Creator's Challenge: Special Occassion

Secret Crafter: Here Comes Summer

Really Reasonable Ribbon: Picnic / Summer Fun

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge: Colours of Summer

Crafty Creations: Thank You

• All paperbased items: Funky Hand, Craft The Year Away cd

• Digi Stamp: Craft The Year Away cd, coloured with Promarkers
• Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities
• Brads and Ribbon: My stash

Fetch A Sketch Challenge 1 - Launch!

Welcome to the very first Fetch A Sketch challenge! Jenny and I have been on pins so we are quite glad today is finally here! We are a bi-weekly Monday sketch challenge and we hope that our sketches will inspire you to create!

For our launch we have two wonderful and very generous sponsors:




Anice has offered the following as a prize:

Papercraft Factory - Dreams Come True cd

Our Betty Clear Acrylic Stamps - Your Special Day

Button Pack - Remember December

And Nikky has offered the following prize:

Sugar Birdies Collectors Edition cd

Fairy Flutterby Rubber Stamp - Gracie

Fru Fru Boutique Ribbons - Reds

If you are familiar with my blog you will know that I design for both Funky Hand and Polkadoodles. For more about each sponsor, just click on their logos above!

For our first challenge there will be two winners. For more details on the challenge please go to the Fetch A Sketch challenge blog.

The sketch that we are asking you to follow is: You can rotate it, flip it, resize it and add embellishments or a sentiment where ever you want, just as long as we can see the elements of the sketch.

For my examples - I've made some teacher thank you cards for Samuel's teachers (how organised am I?!) and I've used elements and papers from Sundae of Seasons from Polkadoodles. These are quite small cards and all are from one sheet of A4 card. I've doodled a faux stiched line around the edge of the card and layers.

The little apple I have decoupaged and added glossy accents to the pips. The little dots are made with 3d Anita's paint and the 'string' is plastic - a bit like the strawberry lace sweets!


Good luck with the challenge - for more details please visit the challenge blog and enter your creation via the blue frog. Closing date for entries is 12noon GMT on Sunday 10 July and the two winners will be announced on Monday 18 July. You can use any of your stash and there is no limit on the number of challenges you can enter.

I'd like to enter my cards into the following challenges:
Creative Inspirations: Stitching (real or faux)
Crafts and Me Challenges: Stitches

• All paperbased elements: Sundae of Seasons from Polkadoodles


• Plastic string: My stash
  

A Tree of Apples

A lovely sketch to work with from Friday Sketchers this week:


I used it to make three of these cards - one for each of Samuel's teachers as he finishes school this week. Where has the last two years gone?!

I couldn't trust him enough to write neat enough or small enough for the sentiment, so I've converted that to a button. He did write on the insert inside the card which you'd have thought I'd have asked him for War and Peace he protested so much!

I've used a green card blank and then added papers from Colour Me Happy from Funky Hand. The digital image, is also from the cd and I've coloured it with Promarkers. The red organza ribbon is from my stash and was too wide, so I folded it in half before I tied it, and then added the red button.

Nice and clean and I know that they won't get another one like it!

• Backing papers: Colour Me Happy from Funky Hand
• Image: Colour Me Happy from Funky Hand, coloured with Promarkers
• Everything else: My stash
  

A Wobble Card!

There are quite a few challenges at the moment which have a green theme (possibly because it is St Patrick's Day?!) My first one is for Fussy and Fancy and their challenge is:

Green

Now, in case you are wondering, the card is called a wobble card, because, it wobbles!! I bought the sheet as a download from CraftsUPrint as I thought it would be ideal for Samuel's teachers when he moves up classes in the summer. See how organised I am?!! I just have to make a few more now!All the elements are from the A4 sheet and I've layered up the different bits as shown in the next photo. All I've added is the sentiment circle and the organza ribbon. And a bit of doodling and inking around the edge.

This was a really easy card to make although it looked a little daunting at first! You can buy the sheet HERE and also see my completed card as an example!

• All paperbased elements: CraftsUPrint download sheet
• Dies: Cuttlebug Baby Face Alphabet die - little disc used
• Ribbon: My stash
  

World's Best Teacher

A rather quick card (and poor lighting = kitchen) for the current Daring Cardmakers challenge which is:

School Days

Pretty much inspired by the fab Jo Kill and an old crafting magazine which showed some school related toppers. So you could say a fairly blatant copy!

The topper is on a sheet of notepaper that has been chalked, the globe is a die cut (Quickutz) from my stash, along with the star (table confetti I think!) and the brads too.

The lettering is cut using my Cuttlebug Baby Face alphabet set and the gold dots are 3d gold paint.

Simples!

• Inspiration: Jo Kill
• Dies: Cuttlebug Baby Face alphabet set
• Everything else: My stash
  

A is for Apple

Just finished creating these teacher / nursery Thank You toppers and have added them to my website. Mostly inspired by the current PaperCraft Inspirations magazine but some tweaking done by me!

I've recently had a rush on education related toppers so I thought I'd better get some new ones made!

These are the product of two nights work....




In case you are wondering, the two pence coin is for scale, and no, it's not included!

P.S. I could have a big whinge about PaperCraft Inspirations and the latest subscription offer not being available only 2 weeks into a 3 month long promotion and the lousy customer service responses. I really would have liked the Laura Ashley Collection that was on offer but I won't.........!!