Mini Diva

I've not managed to join in with a Tiddly Inks challenge for a few weeks and I've been having withdrawal symptoms! I've had a Birthday card request so this seemed the perfect image to use and it fits in with the Tiddly Inks challenge which is:

Diva

Papers are from Funky Hand - Craft The Year Away and the small dotty red one I found in my stash box. A bit of inking around the edges and some faux stitching thrown in! The image has been coloured with Promarkers and I've handwritten the sentiment. The three 'brads' are card candy.


I've used the Sweet Sketch Wednesday sketch for inspiration.

The card also fits the Diva challenge on Creative Card Crew.

• Image: Tiddly Inks, coloured with Promarkers


• Papers: Funky Hand - Craft The Year Away


• Everything else: My stash
  

In The Pink at 21!

I've had a run of these word books in the same papers too recently - have already made 2 and have another one in progress, but this is the first one to show. I was asked to make this card quite last minute for a good customer, so could not refuse! Plus I do like making these word books especially with these papers!

This fits the current Creative Card Crew Challenge which is:

Birthday's at Christmas

I've used papers from the Funky Hand download Girls and Boys, using the girl colourways and I've printed the large letters using wordart on the pc. The smaller 21 is cut using my Sizzix Round-a-Bout alphabet dies and then layered onto black card.

All the ribbon, flower sequins, gems and hat pins are from my stash.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year and you are not suffering too much either from over eating or over drinking! Hope 2011 brings you all that is wished for!

• All papers: Girls and Boys download from Funky Hand
• Dies: Sizzix Round-a-Bout alphabet dies
• Everything else: My stash
  

Primary Colours

I just can't stop using this cute Bugaboo image for first day at school cards! This one is for a friend who's daughter has just started school, and she does look a bit like the image too!

It's for the Creative Card Crew challenge which is:

Back To School

The image has been coloured with Promarkers and added onto card from my stash. I've used a Nestabilities die for the shapes and ribbon and little pencil button from my stash.


Quick but cute!

• Image: Bugaboo, coloured with Promarkers
• Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities
• Everything else: My stash

Polkadots and Buttons

The Creative Card Crew Challenge this week is:

Polkadots

The papers I have used are freebies from Tinker & Co - Vintage Dad and Strawberry Sundae. I've simply roughly torn circles from the papers, feathered the edges and then layered them up. The strip across the middle is left over paper then I've added a button to the centre and one to the bottom right with twine, and that's it!

I liked the combination of the colours and I certainly will be using the Vintage Dad papers again! I did think about adding a sentiment, but sometimes I just need a card that doesn't say anything.

• All backing papers: Freebie downloads from Tinker & Co
• String & Buttons: From my stash
  
  

Geometric Patterns

The Creative Card Crew challenge this week is:

Geometric Patterns

So here are two Fathers Day cards which use the same templates and papers, just in a slightly different way. I've taken my inspiration from a recent papercraft magazine (I can't remember which one as I get around 4 - well, subscribe to 1 and then sort of find myself buying the others!!)
Basically, its a 5inch square card that I have cut a corner off, covered with either plain blue paper or DCWV Retro 6x6 paper and I've made the tie template myself and then covered them with the same paper from the pack. Edges have been lightly inked and then doodled, and the sentiment I've handwritten, simply because I'd forgotten to print it off through the computer before I started!

These are really simple and easy cards to make and really, you could add your own template to the front.

• Backing paper: Blue, from my stash; Patterned - DCWV Retro 6x6 paper pack
• Template: My own
• Sentiment: Handwritten
  
  

Round & Round

The Creative Card Crew challenge this week is:

Round and Round

I did think about making a round card, but then I wondered how it would stand up! As that option gave me too much to think about, I decided to keep the square shaped card (rounded the edges) and went for the elements within the card to be round. Much more simple! The papers are the freebie Patti Picklicious downloads from Kirsty Wiseman - I do like these bright colours and wanted to use them again!

The circles have been drawn using a compass and the three smaller ones have had their edges 'ruffled' and are attached to the card with a brad so that it moves to reveal the Birthday message underneath. This card was very much inspired by my Funky Hand DT mate Lythan although mine is not quite as slick as hers!

All the papers including sentiment (I added the 50 on) are from the download with the ric rac ribbon from my stash.

• Backing paper & sentiment: Patti Picklicious free download by Kirsty Wiseman
• Brad: From my stash
• Ribbon: From my stash
  

Salt & Pepper Robot

I've combined the current Sketch and Stash challenge with the Creative Card Crew Monochrome Madness challenge

I've used my Papermania Robot stamp (think I've only used it once or twice before!) and have inked it with silver ink. The backing papers are the Salt and Pepper download from Funky Hand, and I've not used these papers for ages!

I've inked the edges with strong black and a fading black inkpads and added a silver doodled line around the edge of the card. Sorry about the poor photo - the sun hadn't quite got to us this morning when I took the photo!

• Backing papers: Salt and Pepper download from Funky Hand
• Stamp: Papermania
  
  

Textured Cricket

Week 4 of the Creative Card Crew Challenge is to use

Texture

I'd been asked to make a cricket card for a colleague at work which I made with a lovely decoupage cricket topper sent to me by Allison. But these things are like buses - and I got another request for a cricket themed card! And this one fitted in nicely with this challenge.


I used a previous Stamp Something sketch for inspiration along with some Funky Daze papers and some pale blue card I found in my stash. The plain card has been embossed with the Swiss Dots folder and I've inked the top of it with brown and blue inks.

The cricket bat, stumps and ball is a Quickutz die - one I really should use more often!

• Backing paper: Funky Daze from Funky Hand
• Dies: Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder and Cricket die from Quickutz
  
  

Gold Wire and Bead Wedding Heart

One of the members of staff at Nursery, Leighanne is getting married next Saturday and I wanted to make her a card. As that is what I do! She told me on Thursday that the theme was gold hearts, so I decided to go with just that for this card.

The Creative Card Crew challenge is:

Warm Colours

And gold is a warm colour! Just that I've not used any others! I wanted it just to be this heart and bead embellishment that I made. I did think about layering it up onto gold vellum and white embossed card, but decided against it.

I made this heart with thick gold wire for the shape, and it is double thickness and then threaded some gold buggle and seed beads onto some thinner wire which was then wrapped across the heart shape. It took me about half an hour to make it and I had to make sure that the actual shape of the heart didn't distort. It is attached to the card with wire - I made holes with a pin and then threaded the wire through, twisted the ends on the reverse and then glued to secure them.

Simple card but I think it works!

• Heart embellishment: Made by me

Have A Monster Birthday!

The second Creative Card Crew Challenge is:

NO PAPER - KEEP IT CLEAN
Now, before you all panic, it is easier than it sounds. We all love our designer papers, don't we? But you can also achieve some wonderful results when you don't use the papers. So why not give it a try? You just might amaze yourself.

I'd bought the funky monster dome plastic stickers earlier in the week from the pound shop (amongst some other needy craft supplies!) and wanted to make a monster card with them so this challenge fitted in perfectly! I've used card from my stash - a smaller circle in the contrasting colour is layered onto a larger circle, all inked with my very fading black ink pad and then a strip of bright orange card added with rounded corners.

The sentiment has been stamped in black ink with a mini Studio G alphabet set. I've a lot more of these stickers in the pack so you may see some more of them!

• Monster stickers: Pound shop
• Coloured card: All from my stash
• Sentiment: Studio G mini wooden alphabet set
  
  

Bright and Green

There is a new weekly card making challenge site - Creative Card Crew - and when I spotted it on my fellow Funky Hand DT member Carol's blog, well, I just had to enter!


The first challenge is:

Green

I've used papers from a bargain pack (it has papers and pop out sentiments) from Craftwork Cards in the sale - I think it was only a pound and there are 4 papers 6 x 6 and either 6 or 8 sheets of pop out sentiments - and I bought a few in different colours! The centre panel I've layered onto card stock, and the sentiment is a Studio G acrylic stamp. Organza ribbon is from my stash. The little daisy flower is left over from earlier in the week and the butterfly embellishments. And the daisy hides an ink splodge!

All edges have been inked with a little green ink pad.

• Backing papers: All from a pack from Craftwork Cards
• Sentiment: Studio G acrylic stamped with bright green ink
• Flower: Papermania
• Ribbon: From my stash