Boy Blue

See! I can make something other than Christmas cards!! I've used the current Sketch Saturday sketch for the layout and the papers are from my box of bits and they are all from various Polkadoodle cd's.

The stamp is from Woodware - its a really old one as I can't find it listed and I've never used it before! It was a generous destash donation from Lynsey! I've coloured it with Promarkers plus glitter glue on the bubbles, glossy accents on the puddles and I've dotted liquid pearls around the edge for which I've used a Nesties die.


The layered flower, seed beads and ribbons are all from my stash! The cute little charm I bought from one of my local craft shops and it says 'made with love' which I think is just perfect for baby cards!


The card also fits the following challenges:

Crafty Pad: 3 papers, 2 ribbons and 1 flower
Cheerful Stamp Pad: Special Reason
Tip Top Tuesday: Wrap It Up With Ribbon
Shopping Our Stash: Oldies but Goodies

• Stamp: Woodware, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: Polkadoodles
• Everything else: My stash

I Do!

You'll have to excuse the reflection from the very silvery silver card that I've used to mat the image and Funky Hand papers! The card is for the Sketch Saturday challenge (sketch underneath).

The image is bought from here and is by Lee Jacobs - I've coloured it with Promarkers. The lovely silvery swirly paper is from the I Do Wedding download from Funky Hand - I'd found it during The Tidy Up and as I'm trying to use all my scraps, it fitted perfectly!

The ribbon that I've used is actually more beige in colour than shown in the picture and the silver heart buckle is from my stash.

And that's it!

• Image: Lee Jacobs, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers: I Do Wedding download from Funky Hand
• Everything else: My stash
  

Vellum Dedication

This is the final card for the Dedication on Sunday! I've used a vellum circle which has had the edges dotted with Liquid Pearls plus a Digi Sparkle image which has been coloured with Promarkers (how I love these teddy bears!) and cut out with a Nesties (and the edges dotted also with Liquid Pearls).


The ribbon, buttons and embroidery thread are all from my stash and I printed the sentiment on the pc. It follows the Sketch Saturday sketch:

So I think I now need a fix of pink after all that blue!

• Image: Digi Sparkle, coloured with Promarkers
• Dies: Nestabilities
• Sentiment: Computer generated
• Everything else: My stash

Octopus

I'm really liking the sketches on challenge blogs at the moment! Here is the current one from Sketch Saturday:
I've used papers from Funky Daze from Funky Hand (this must be the best collection colourway ever!) which I've rounded the edges and inked. The image, coloured with Promarkers, is from Stamping Dragon Designs and was one of the July images I got for being part of the Special 50/50 Digital Stamping Group.

The sentiment tile is a magazine freebie from a long time ago and the colours matched perfectly, and the three little fishes are beads and I've also had these a long long time!

Such a cute octopus eh?!

• Backing papers: Son Day collection from Funky Daze from Funky Hand
• Image: Stamping Dragon Designs, coloured with Promarkers
• Everything else: My stash
  

Bunting for a Boy

Sometimes when I see a sketch I just know what I'm going to make! This is the current Sketch Saturday challenge:

And I've used one of the brand new rubber stamps that Nikky from Polkadoodles will be launching at the weekend at the Summer Crafting event at Doncaster. Isn't the elephant a cutie?! I've coloured him with Promarkers and used a sentiment stamp from Studio G.

All the papers are from Polkadoodles too - All Around and Everywhere - I cut strips and turned them into mini bunting by drawing the links with a black fineliner pen.

Watch out for more of this stamp in the future as I really love it! And so easy to colour too!!

• Papers: All Around and Everywhere from Polkadoodles
• Image: Stamp Doodles range from Polkadoodles - to be launched 17 & 18 July 2010
• Sentiment: Studio G acrylic stamp
• Brads: My stash
  

Daisy Flower

I've been asked to make some thank you cards and have used the Sketch Saturday challenge to help with inspiration!

The cards are not yet completed as I need to add a few personal touches to it but the overall layout of the sketch is complete. I've used papers from Now That's Funky but resized them to A5 size as I wanted a smaller pattern.

The elements within the sketch I have layered onto red card and have made the flower using a Cuttlebug die and red seed beads. I've found that Copydex glue is the best although I really need to be careful when opening the tube as it simply slides out!

The image is from Bugaboo and I've coloured it with Promarkers and glitter glue. The sentiment is computer generated.

I've actually made two of these!

• Backing papers: Now That's Funky from Funky Hand
• Image: Bugaboo coloured with Promarkers and glitter glue
  
• Dies: Cuttlebug Flowers
• Sentiment: Computer generated
  
• Everything else: My stash
  

Nearly Forgot!

Not sure if it is my age or if its because I have a lot on at the moment and seem to be spending less and less time at home. Which means less and less time crafting. However, if I time it right, I can fit card orders in with challenges. Which, to me, is the best of both worlds!

Anyway, the Sketch Saturday challenge is the following sketch:

And I was asked to make a special Christening card for a work colleague for her God Son. So here it is! The image is a freebie from Lost In Paper Scraps, coloured with watercolour pencils. All backing papers are from V Funky (yes, you have seen this combination many times before, but for me it just really does work!!) with computer generated sentiments.


The ribbons are from my stash as too the little silver teddy bear charm. The glittery bible has had the cross 'coloured' with liquid pearls so it stands out a little and is also from my stash (I have a little bag of these at the bottom of my die cut box!)

And that's it! My work colleague loved it, which is good!

• All papers: V Funky from Funky Hand
• Image: Freebie download from Lost In Paper Scraps coloured with watercolour pencils
• Everything else: My stash
  
  

I Remembered!

This time I remembered to remove the green film! I've completed another page (well, two sides) for the Wedding book by using this weeks Sketch Saturday challenge which is:


Sorry about the quality of the photos - taken using the kitchen lights as it was still dark.

Used the same papers as before - Papermania double sided 12 x 12 Brown Ornate Clusters, the photos have been layered onto Bazzill 12 x 12 Carob paper. I've rounded and inked the edges too and the chocolate brown satin ribbon is left over from making the actual Wedding stationery, and too the heart gem.

The chocolate brown flowers are Prima which I bought specifically to make the book and the others were freebies from an overseas website a while ago. I must stop looking at them and use them more! The centres are Papermania brads.

I've not completely followed the sketch as I've missed off the sentiment, but I felt the pages didn't need one.

• Double Sided Paper: Papermania 12 x 12 Ornate Brown Clusters
• Brown paper: Bazzill Basics 12 x 12 Carob
• Everything else: From my stash

Frosty Polly

The current Sketch Saturday challenge is:



And I've made a frosty Polly card! The backing papers and the digi image of Polly are from the Polkadoodles Jingle Jangle Christmas cd - I've coloured Polly with felt tips and a bit of white gel pen and some glitter glue (hence the slight bleeding of colour on her dress!)

The snowflakes are from my stash (I think they came from the pound shop originally with some gift tape stuff) as are the gem centres. The present that Polly holds and the sentiment are actually stamps and you are having a very sneak peek of them! The stamp sets, by Polkadoodle, are due to be launched very soon on Create and Craft (more details will be added to my sidebar) - one Christmas set to complement the Jingle Jangle cd and one to complement Candy Doodles cd. I've seen the designs, and they are fab!

Sorry about the slightly blurry photos but its hardly got light properly over the last few days as the weather has been terrible. And I didn't want to use flash.

• Backing papers and Digi image: Jingle Jangle Christmas by Polkadoodles
• Present and sentiment stamps: Jingle Jangle Christmas stamps by Polkadoodles
• Everything else: My stash
  
  
  

Poorly Dragon!

Another challenge - another sketch! And another Dustin Pike image too! This is the Sketch Saturday challenge:


I've used another dragon from Dustin Pike and again its been coloured with felt tips (but this time no highlighting - see - I can live without my white gel pen!) and layered onto Funky Daze backing papers.

All the papers are actually off cuts from a previous project - I do like it when that happens! I've handwritten the sentiment and added three card candy dots too.

All edges have been inked with an almost running out blue inkpad. But there is still life in it yet! These images are just so fab! I love them!!!!!!

• All backing papers: Funky Daze
• Image: Dustin Pike coloured with felt tips
• Sentiment: Handwritten
• Card Candy: Craftwork Cards
  

Fairy Wishes

This is a new challenge blog that I came across when blog hopping - Scrappy Frogs. This is their fifth challenge and it is:

This challenge will be fairies!! Yes, fairies! You can do any type of project as long as it has a fairy on it.

The papers and Milly image I won a few weeks ago from Tinker & Co and I'd printed them off but not really used them and they are so pretty and delicate and fitted this challenge perfectly! I've lightly inked the edges with my trusty faded black ink pad but the papers have a 'shabby' feel to them anyway. I've used some fancy scissors for the edging as I've not yet won the lottery so the Nesties will just have to wait that bit longer!

And look - there is even a little frog! The flower has been cut from scraps of the backing paper and I've used my trusty Cuttlebug die. Centre is a card candy brad which I have inked as the colour was a bit bright. Ribbon from my stash, and the sentiment tile was a freebie from a craft magazine a while ago.

I've actually followed an old Sketch Saturday layout for inspiration and its one that I didn't manage to complete at the time.

• Backing papers and Image: Tinker and Co exclusive download
• Ribbon: From my stash
• Sentiment: Freebie from a craft magazine
• Dies: Cuttlebug Flowers
  

Introducing Patti....

For some reason, I seem to be very organised this week and I am managing to do challenges as they are published, and not on the last moment. Not sure how long it will last for!

The Sketch Saturday challenge this week is:

And just look what I bought on Saturday.... the Patti Picklicious cd by Kirsty Wiseman! She was demo-ing at the Craft Range in Burnley - literally 10 mins up the M65 for me, and it just seemed rude not to go along and say hello! I did take the boys with me - both I had to wake up in the car (not that they find crafting boring, but they were tired the poor little lambs) so they were not best pleased about that, but Samuel was poorly (he'd parted with his juice in the carpark earlier) and was not wanting me to stop and chat to a woman with loads of cards on the table and chat about sausage dogs. Jacob was a bit more amenable but pretended to be shy. Although he did listen to the conversation as he kept asking to go back and see Kirsty and look at her sausage dog (she showed him a pic of Eddy on her pc)....

Anyway, I spent a nice time on Sunday browsing the contents of the cd (I've made a few cards with the papers but those will come later in the week) and decided to use the cd for this card - the only thing that is not on the cd is the black and white ribbon!

I've gone around the edges of the fancy sentiment with a white gel pen, the scalloped edges are a Martha Stewart punch, and the typewriter effect letters are also from the cd. The image has been coloured with watercolour pencils.

I am liking this cd!

• All elements except ribbon: Patti Picklicious cd
• Ribbon: My stash
  
  

Pink Cat & Spotty Paper

This is a new challenge for me which I found whilst blog hopping - Sketch Saturday - and here is the sketch:


I've flipped it round as I really wanted to use the Inka image (sent to me by Anice in a recent Funky Hand DT image swop!) I've coloured it with watercolour pencils to match the paper (I think is Naughty but Nice Christmas paper from Dovecraft) and the ribbons and buttons.

And I know that cats aren't really that colour, but its nice to have a change every now and again!

The buttons I made from fimo and pushed seed beads in before they were baked - the ribbons were tied through the holes for extra detail. Not too sure why the doodled line looks wonky on the photo - it isn't in real life!

• Backing paper: Naughty But Nice Christmas papers by Dovecraft
• Image: Inka stamps, coloured with watercolour pencils
• Ribbons: From my stash
• Buttons: Made by me