I Have Used It!

It's not often I manage a Basic Grey challenge generally because I own hardly any BG stuff, however, I did purchase two lovely 12 x 12 sheets very recently and have cut into one to make this card!

The current Basic Grey challenge is to use the photo below for inspiration and I have gone with the colour scheme:

I've rounded all edges and have layered the printed paper onto some Bazzill Basics, stitched around the edges, quite randomly (if you look closely) with my NEW little sewing machine which I've not quite got to grips with plus its hard enough with two boys as an audience asking why I am stitching paper...


Organza ribbon is from my stash and I've added little white gems to the centres of the flowers cos it just needed a bit of bling!

• Papers: Basic Grey and Bazzill Basics
• Ribbon and gems: From my stash
  

Simple

Now this is going to be a really simple card based upon the current Card Positioning sketch below! I've used a 6 x 4 card blank, rounded the edges after adding the vintage feel backing paper (downloaded from Mad About Cards) and also inked them with Whispers Chestnut ink then added liquid pearls to the larger snowflake centres.

The slightly burgundy organza ribbon I found in my stash (I think I have just about everything in my ribbon bag and box!) then added a smaller panel cut from the same paper and then the little wooden reindeer.

The reindeer is from a pack of 10 for £1 at Tesco's - what a find eh?! I had to carefully trim the hanging string but you'd never know! And such a quick and easy card to make and one that I enjoyed as its not at all fussy and I think could just be one of the mass ones that I need to do!!

• Backing papers: Vintage Christmas download collection from Mad About Cards
• Ink: Whispers Chestnut
• Ribbon: My stash
• Embellishment: Tesco's
  

A Bright Three

I'd been asked to make a Birthday card for a three year old boy and as luck would have it, the Cute Card Thursday challenge is:

Primary Colours

Which fitted in quite nicely! I've used papers from The Funky One with the letters cut from plain blue card which I've used Microsoft Word Art to create the lettering.

I've added some pale yellow card candy and that's it! Three year old boys don't want fancy things do they?!!

• Printed backing papers: The Funky One from Funky Hand
• Blue card: My stash
• Ribbon: My stash
• Card Candy: Craftwork Cards
  
  

Hedgehog and Snowball

I am so pleased I found this challenge blog - Stamps and Smiles because last week was the first time I entered, and I won!! So thank you to the DT for picking me!!


This week is another lovely sketch and to add to my growing Christmas box (it is now at the proportions of a cardboard storage box!) I made a Christmas card:

Papers are from the new Blue Christmas wordbook download from Funky Hand - I've used 3 of the complementary A4 papers from it (the third is under the image!) I've coloured the Penny Black image with watercolour paints and added a little glitter glue for sparkly snow.

Grosgrain ribbon is from my stash as too are the pearlescent snowflakes and gems. I've used my Spellbinders Nesties to cut the image out and to layer it as I thought it need a bit more shape.

I doubt very much that lightening will strike twice, but I have enjoyed this challenge and some lovely inspiration from the DT!

• Backing papers: Blue Christmas wordbook download from Funky Hand
• Image: Penny Black coloured with watercolour paints and a little glitter glue
• Dies: Spellbinder Nestabilities
• Everything else: My stash
  

Yum Yum!

Now for something a little different! The current Rosie Dee challenge (another one that I found whilst blog hopping!) is the following:

... a creation using the colours of Pink and White with a touch of a wafer in the form of some corrugated card along with the following sketch:

And here is my interpretation of the challenge! Sometimes when I see a challenge I know exactly what I'm going to do and I knew straight away this time!

I've used the decoupage cupcake from Candy Doodles from Polkadoodles and the backing paper is from the same cd. The ribbons are from my stash - I've overlaid the pink onto the chocolate organza and tied them together. The sentiment is also from the Candy Doodles cd - I've cut the letters out individually.


The corrugated card is from my stash and I just had a bit left big enough to use! A bit of doodling around the edges and a bit of inking and it's done!

• All printed paperbased elements: Candy Doodles cd from Polkadoodles
• Ribbon: From my stash
• Corrugated card: From my stash
  
  

More Expansion!

And another warm welcome goes to Kathy who has joined the Funky Hand Design Team! So glad you could join us!

If you are not already familiar with Kathy and her very fab creations, check out her blog - you will be there a while!

Welcome!!

Rhinos Doing Rhino Things

We had a trip to Knowsley Safari Park today as our yearly passes were due to expire and the fact that it was STILL raining. And at least at Knowsley, we don't have to get out of the car unless we need to go to the toilet.

Not like this rhino. Much to the boys' amusement as it lasted quite some time!

The babboons were also entertaining in more ways than one and provided a graphical anatomy lesson through the back window whilst it was clinging on to the rear wiper.

The lions were sizing up all the cars as I don't think they'd been fed (so we went round the lion enclosure 4 times!) and one had a good look in our car. We have a large 4 x 4 vehicle and it looked in at window height - glad we were inside and it outside!

I think there had been an accident on the M6 as we tried to get home - normally it would take around 45 mins to get to Knowsley but we ended up having a nice tour of Wigan and Shervington in our attempts to get back on the M6 which we eventually did at J27 as the previous slip roads were closed. Thank goodness for sat nav!

Well, I'm now going to make some DT challenge cards and to have a play with some new 'things' from Funky Hand. Sorry to be such a tease, but these 'things' are fab and are very new to Funky Hand and I'm dying to get my scissors on them!

Changed The Blu-Tac

It's another sketch this week on Papertake Weekly - I do like these sketches as they are nice and simple as I don't like cluttered sketches!


Plus it also means that I can complete the very last page for Hayley and Stephen's acrylic / acetate Wedding album! It's the cake picture and aptly it is the last photo in their album.

Papers are Papermania 12 x 12 Brown Ornate Clusters with added seed beads (I used them on the Wedding Stationery) plus prima flowers, Dovecraft pearl centred brad and ribbon left over from the Stationery too.

And here is the reverse. I kept it plain as it is the back cover plus you get to see some of the lovely paper! I've used a corner rounder on the edges and a bit of chestnut Whispers ink around the edges too. And I've used a different bit of blu-tac this time as Jacob insisted on sticking his halloween spider picture (with 14 legs) to our bedroom door with all the blu-tac he could lay his grubby mits on....

So that is it! Completed! I just have to pack it in a lovely box I got from ebay (it's a Boden box but no writing on it and its a perfect match to the chocolate browns I've used in the album) and then present it to Hayley on Tuesday when I meet up with her. It will be the first time I've seen her since the Wedding as we are both busy ladies, so almost 3 and a half months have flown by! But at least I completed it before their First Wedding Anniversary!

Will be back later in the week with all the shots of the album in one go so you can see it in all it's glory!

• Backing papers: Papermania 12 x 12 double sided Brown Ornate Clusters paper
• Everything else: My stash as left over from the Wedding Stationery
  
  

Back to the Dragons!

Well, I found another new (to me) challenge blog called Card Positioning Systems and from what I can gather it is all sketches - who-hooo!!! Their current challenge is this following sketch:


And I've made this card with papers from Funky Daze - Son Day collection. I've lightly inked the edges with a blue inkpad and the image is Dustin Pike which I've coloured with watercolour pencils.

The sentiment is an acrylic 99p Studio G stamp. And that's it really! And it made a nice break from making Christmas cards - there is only so many snowflakes and glitter that I can cope with in a short space of time, but it's now back to the festive ones!

• Backing papers: Son Day from Funky Daze by Funky Hand
• Image: Dustin Pike, coloured with watercolour pencils
• Sentiment: Studio G acrylic
  
  

I Had To Flip It

This card almost never actually happened. Firstly, I printed off the image and wasn't able to cut it out as a circle. So printed it out again. And Samuel coloured in the 'wrong one'. I then faffed about for 3 nights trying to find the right papers. And then found these in my stash that the lovely Jozza gave me the first time we met up (yonks ago) and they have been lurking there ever since. So thanks Jozza!


And then I stuck the stripy bit on the wrong side of the card and the wording was all in the wrong direction, so I had to flip the sketch to make it work.

Anyway, it's for the Pollycraft challenge which is a sketch this fortnight. And I now realise that I am missing a sentiment. Ah well. Ah, but then again - the 'let it snow' bit can be it! Yeah!

I've coloured the Pollycraft image with watercolour pencils and a bit of chalking around the edges. The papers are Dovecraft 'Naughty But Nice' 6 x 6 papers, the ribbon is new to my stash (I bought 3 lovely DIY boxes from ebay to put the 3 acrylic Wedding albums in, and they just happen to come with a big piece of brown organza ribbon. Needless to say, one of the boxes doesn't have it any more but a nice orange ribbon to match the album colour scheme!)

The button (it is underneath) is from my stash and the confetti snowflakes have put in another showing.

So there you go. A bit long winded but it's been one of those weeks!

• Papers: Dovecraft 'Naughty But Nice' 6 x 6 papers from Jozza
• Image: Pollycraft, coloured with watercolour pencils
• Everything else: My stash