it's a boy

Another tag, this time for a baby boy.

Ingredients

Ribbon recycled, it came wrapped around a pack of cards

Kraft cardstock by Bazzill

Bubble blue glitter cardstock by doodlebug

Eyelet by Papermania

Button, indian summer by autumn leaves

Anchor embroidery thread

Labels one nestabilities by Spellbinders

Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls embossing folder by Provocraft

for you tag

I’ve seen a couple of holiday tag challenges of late, and I’m not feeling very festive but tags sounded like a cute idea so I thought I’d have a bash.

Ingredients

Ribbon kraft taffeta ribbon by stampin’ up!

Kraft cardstock by Bazzill

Certainly celerary, barely banana and blush blossom cardstock from stampin’ up!

Certainly celerary, barely banana, blush blossom and close to cocoa ink from stampin’ up!

Bon bon simply sweet rub-ons from doodlebug

Pearls from Lakeland

Eyelet by Papermania

Branch w/leaves & flower die by Sizzix

Flower, four petal and tags dies by Quickutz

Labels one nestabilities by Spellbinders

Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls embossing folder by Provocraft

buttons

Cards Mag have a challenge this week, to use at least 5 buttons on a card. So here it is, a reinterpretation of an old classic.

Ingredients

Autumn Leaves buttons but I’ve no idea of the pack name

Stampin’ Up! Congrats stamp set

Staz On Black ink

Doodlebug Lily White Sprinkles cardstock

Acetate sheet by Papermania

ETA I got a mention for this card on the Cards Blog, pleased as the proverbial punch.

spring tree

The hero arts blog this week set a challenge to use up your trimming scraps. Well ribbon is something I love, but I can never throw even the tiniest bit away for fear it may be useful, and this card is testament to that. I would never have thought of it without the prompt, so thank you hero arts.

Ingredients

Ribbon from American Crafts

Kraft cardstock by bazzill

Pink cardstock by American Crafts

Tree stamp Live Simply clear stamp set by Hero Arts

Message stamp from Trendy Trees set by Stampin’ Up!

White Gel Ben Uniball signo

Tree coloured using Letraset Promarkers in Pear Green, Lime Green, Olive Green  and Henna

glitter baby

The Hero Arts weekly challenge is to use glitter, and the UKS challenge is to use 3 of the following:

Polka dots, Buttons, Ribbon, Die cuts, Glitter, Bling, Stripes, Stamping, Pink

The card was ‘coloured’ with a Quickie Glue pen and then glittered.

Ingredients

Hero Arts Scary Dino stamp

Maya Road Motifs stamp set

Doodlebug Glitter in Limeade

Doodlebug Glitter in Swimming Pool

Doodlebug Glitter in Lily White

Bling from my stash

Certainly Celery ink from Stampin’ Up!

Basic Black ink from Stampin’ Up!

Heidi Swapp Baby Rolling Stamp

cherry blossom

UKS celebrated world card making day by hosting some challenges. This was my attempt for the challenge brown, turquoise and a circle.

Ingredients

Sizzlits extended cut to cut the branch (birds and branches)

Prima flowers

tiny pearls that I got from Lakeland

Bazzill

rudolph and friends

UKS celebrated world card making day by hosting some challenges. This was a ‘rudolph’ challenge, the names are of course: dasher, dance, prancer, vixen, comet, cupid, donner and blitzen, and of course rudolph.

Ingredients

Quickutz reindeer die

Karen Foster snap stamps casual mini (my favs)

Basic Black in Real Red ink by Stampin’ up

Goggle eyes

Doodlebug black brads

Doodlebug gemstone

Silver machine embroidery thread

Bazzill kraft and brown swiss dots card

American Crafts white cardstock

september

I’ve been working on a monthly summary, a monthly page with no pictures, this was September, a month of building work at my house and a new term.

Ingredients

MME (from Trimcraft) Bloom and Grow paper, decoupage flowers, buttons, flock border.

Doodlebug Bonbon glitter

WRMK silver hardware

American Crafts Remarks journalling block

Fabric tab from the depths of time

Glossy accents

Pearls from Lakeland again way back when

Doodlebug word tiles

Cuttlebug Butterfly die

i love you more than pie

I’ve really got into pages with no photos, this is a little something that goes on between me and my partner and it just made a cute page. All the thickers except the felt ones have had a generous coating of glossy accents.

Ingredients

American Crafts cardstock

American Crafts felt, chipboard and foam thickers

American Crafts rub ons

Kanban bling

glossy accents

city of dreams

A picture of one of the trams in Melbourne, Australia. It took me an age to get going scrapping in any size bigger than 8x8 but I’m really into 8 ½ x 11.

Ingredients

Basic Grey Offbeat collection pack

Maya Road Chipboard

Quickutz fonts: Merry and Moxie

Glossy Accents

bloom

A picture of me Andrew took on the Mamiya RB67. The crop is only about 5% of the frame of the image, you’ve gotta love medium format :)

Ingredients

MME Bloom and Grow

Kanban bling

felt from my mother’s stash

Cor’dinations roy g biv

Autumn Leaves Indian summer buttons

Prima flower

quiet perfection

One of Andrew on the beach at Cradlewell, it’s mock polaroid (a favourite cheat of mine) and the photo underneath is in fact just an off cut of the main image.

Ingredients

Sassafras Happy Place Papers

American Crafts white and black cardstock

Adorn it, tiny etched natural letter stickers

Autumn Leaves Indian summer buttons

Glossy Accents

Uniball Signo white gel pen

fun times

My grandad, way back when, when hula hoops were all the rage.

Ingredients

Cosmo Cricket TSV (which I think is dutch girl)

Autumn Leaves indian summer buttons

Brown Anchor embroidery thread

Hero Arts pearls

friends

Russell, me and Andrew after building the lego boat.

Ingredients

Cosmo Cricket TSV (which I think is dutch girl)

Adorn it tiny etched natural letter stickers

Brown Anchor embroidery thread

American Crafts felt heart

Hero Arts pearls

the lesser spotted fiona

I was captured hiding in the long grass on the sand dunes, almost like a rare bird sighting.

Ingredients

Basic Grey Archaic Collection Pack

Basic Grey Archaic Chipboard

Acrylic Arrow

DCWV Stitching Rub ons

American Crafts Remarks Journalling Block

best place

I never throw away scraps if I think there might be some use in them, so this is hte use I found.

Ingredients

Doodlebug paper scraps

Doodlebug Icon stickers

American Crafts foam thickers

American Crafts flair

Adorn it tiny natural etched letter stickers

Tiles from way back when

from russell with love

I was really pleased when I came up with the title for this layout which is of a lego boat my friend Russell bought for me and my partner. A damn fine evening was spent by all three of us eating , laughing and building it.

Ingredients

Basic Grey Offbeat collection pack

American Crafts brown foam thickers

American Crafts ribbon

American Crafts flair

how you doin'?

Sorry about the blurry photo but it’s raining so I can’t photograph outside.

Ingredients

DCWV Green stack

DCWV Green chipboard

Quickutz reuse dies

Sizzix window and frame making kit

Sizzix Alpha Bubbles alphabet

American Crafts Remarks journalling block

cheekysmile

Going through some of my old stuff I found some Maya Road rubons that I just loved when I bought, used for a few weeks and then forgot for years. So I did this layout with very little else other than the rubons.

Ingredients

Maya Road Inspiration Tranquility Rubons

Papermania Adhesive Gems

American Crafts cardstock

21

I needed a whimsical 21st card quick and inspired by some sassafras papers I made this.

Ingredients

DCWV Green stack

Doodlebug bazzill in ladybug, bumblebee, grasshopper, blue jean, fairy dust, beetle black and lily white

Pebbles Inc duplicates rub on

American Crafts Jewelry Box white chipboard thickers

Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder

American Crafts plastic flowers

Prima flowers

Doodlebug brads

Doodlebug glitter in bumblebee

Glossy Accents

hello bloom & grow

Over on UKS there was a spring sketch challenge. I used MME Bloom & Grow, with the Quickutz Katie alphabet, and Autumn Leaves stamp with Stampin’ Up Pumpkin Pie ink.

hello birdy

Over on UKS the monthly challenge was to use pink, orange or red as the predominate colour on a card. I used Tinkering Ink papers, along with some Bazzill scraps, the Quickutz bird die, and Sizzix Hello with Bird die. Thought I’d give the acetate a go.

what's not to love?

I've been looking at the design experiment challenge blog for a few months now, and haven't really been fast enough to post in the two week slot, but this time I have so I'm gonna post it.

Scrap something you love about yourself.

The layout actually says a lot about me, I like pretty things, I’m messy and disorganized, I have a sarcastic (almost sardonic with myself) sense of humour, indeed I titled it sarcastically 'what's not to love?', when it's an awful photo of me, eyes closed, pulling a face, hair a mess, no make-up big fat belly, I know I'm no pin up (unless you want to throw darts).

There is a large amount of ambivalence about me, I don't care really, love or hate, I'm more of a whatever person, but I love how much I laugh. I laugh at myself all of the time, I am a ridiculous person and can identify with Mr Bennet from Pride and Prejudice immediately, laughing at others so long as you can laugh at yourself. I laugh at the follies and absurdities of myself all the time, and it was cathartic to write such ridiculous rhetoric about myself. Thank you the design experiment.

I mostly used MME Bloom and Grow, with AC felt thickers.

krafty birthday

The stamp with us challenge this time was to make a birthday project. I was playing around with a couple of things and came up with this.

Fun and Fast Notes and Botanical blooms stamp sets, with a see-dee's greetings, brown staz-on, Moonlight White brilliance ink and Chocolate Chip ink, Kraft and Pretty in Pink Cardstock. The images were coloured with Promarkers, with doodlebug glitter and flock.

birthday choo choo

The stamp with us challenge this time was to make a birthday project. I was playing around with a couple of things and came up with this.

Choo Choo and Right on Track stamps, with Kraft, Really Rust and Old Olive cardstock, and Really Rust, Old Olive and Creamy Caramel inks. The message was written by hand in white ink

there isn't anything

Use it challenge No.4 was to use scraps of something (here everything except the background paper (including the ribbon was a scrap)), 2 or more different types of ribbon, punches or die cuts (Sizzlits take it easy font) and an embellishment you once loved, but have kind of forgotten about (my button).

I buy buttons and rarely use them, and I'm really guilty of moving onto my latest stash buy without using what I've already opened so this was a second wind for my Basic Grey Offbeat, I'd used all of the sheets I really liked, but think this works ok for a sheet of paper I was initially terrified of.

In my usual fashion I used glossy accents, but then stuck my finger in it before it had change to dry :(

hello silhouettes

I got the pocket silhouettes from the Stampin’ Up catalogue and stamped them with Mellow Moss ink. Using the 2 mm Anita’s gem stones and adhering them with glossy accents the pattern was completed. The card was finished with Mellow Moss card and ribbon and a cuttlebug strip embossing folder.

spring thing

Last week, a new challenge blog started, Use It!, well I was too slow last week, but this week I've given it a good go.

I've used Basic Grey Two Scoops, Prima flowers and a the Sizzlits die 'Birds and Branches', I think the stamp is Hero Arts, but I've had them so long I can't really remember.

from the garden

Just a quick stamp and colour card with the Stampin’ Up From the Garden Stamp. It was stamped 3 times and layered. Stickles were used on the centre of the flowers. The images were coloured with water colours.

sassy hello

The March monthly challenge on UKS is to make a card featuring 3 from the list:

buttons, bows, bling, birdies, blooms & bunnies

I used Sassafras papers to just quickly make this card, the papers were highlighted with glossy accents.

sing

Leaving a job I hated to start something new was emotional, but I couldn’t put a picture to it, so I didn’t.

Ingredients

American Crafts felt thickers

American Crafts rub ons

American Crafts paper (from ages ago I’m sure it’s AC)

Kanban Bling

glossy accents