Harvest Time at Ooh la la Creative Challenge blog

Jane has chosen our theme at Ooh La La Creative Challenge blog this time. Her choice is "Harvest".

For my DT card I used this image from The Shawn Jenkins collection. This is Autumn window from the celebration section of the cdrom.

The beginnings of my card came with the purchase of the apple embossing folder and buttons from The Craft Consortium - this image and background paper was the perfect match. 

I added a little red ink to the edges of the background paper and the sentiment is from a Creative Expressions set.

Photo inspiration

I've taken my inspiration for this card from the photo challenge at Stamping Sensations.

As soon as I saw this colour pallette I thought of the mermaid stamp. So I took some card and using Sheena and Hobby art stamps created my scene. I then coloured the images with sparkle pens and aquatints.

I die cut a couple of nautical elements and added those too.

I'm entering this into the Stamping Sensations challenge and also over at the Snippets Playground as my die cuts came from the snippets box.

Masking and needlefelting

My card today ended up being a Christmas card but I didn't set out to do that! The Male Room challenge is Masking this time. So I created the little watercolour scene by masking for the sun and the little conifer trees. Then I decided to add some snow and so a Christmas card was in my mind.

The deer are a memory box die and the stamps are from a magazine last year. The frame is Craftwork cards crackle kraft paper.

I went needle felting for the first time last week. A lovely one to one tuition at the Edwinstowe Craft Centre in Tinkering Faeries. I only did half a day and managed to make a faerie and a toadstool.

Here is the setting before we began.

 Here I am felting away.

The finished items. Mine are on the left with my trade mark purple! The tutors on the right - she decided her toadstool needed more spots than I did.

I really enjoyed it and only stabbed myself twice and broke two needles which apparently is a bit of a record for a newbie.

Get Ready for Christmas at Penny Black & More challenge - mid month reminder

It's time to give you a little reminder about our current challenge over at Penny Back & More.  This time we are looking for your Christmas makes in our "Get ready for Christmas challenge".

For my DT card I've used Penny Black 12 Days of Christmas 30-016 and Hanging Treasures 40-165.
I took a frame I bought from the poundshop and using my GoPress and Foil I put gold foil onto it. The image is coloured with promarkers and I used some paper I have had for a long time, which I realised went well with the theme of the PB stamps.

Now every month I see my teamie Mervi making sets of  fab co-ordinated cards and I vow I will make a set. Guess what - yeah! I did it........

It would be great to see you over on the challenge, don't forget we have fab prizes and this month our sponsors are:-

Penny Black, Swedish House Crafts, Rare Earth Stamps

Two challenges one card

The inspiration for this card came firstly from The Male Room challenge where they want to see School colours. My school uniform was green with optional white blouse. I have hated anything green to wear every since!


And secondly it came from CD Sunday challenge who want to see CAS cards.

I've used Men -y Happy Returns CD rom from MCS. I had forgotten how many images are on there, for some reason I thought it was just sentiments. This image seemed perfect for both challenges. I added the sentiment background image from the same cdrom and using MCS added the text, re-sized it and printed it out. Then I used a black sharpie to edge the image and a TL die cut for the corners.

Happily Ever After at Ooh la la Creations challenge blog

It's Wynn's turn to choose the new challenge over at Ooh la la Creations and this time she has chosen "Happily Ever After".
I've used the Say It with Words cdrom for my DT card.

I cut the background out using a TL pierced square die. The image is already layered up and so I just added a tag and some TL die cuts.

Thanks for looking and hope to see you over at the challenge.

LIM and published in Craft Stamper Magazine

I had a few ideas for the Less is More Challenge this week. The theme is Lime Green and Royal blue. However, I never really got around to any of them and as I was looking through some CDroms I came across this image of a helmet. It was already in green and so I then copied it and recoloured it navy, then flipped the image too.

After that I was unsure where I was going with the idea!  In the end I decided to cut around the images and mount them into a hand drawn frame and then add the computer generated sentiment into the centre.

I had a little more inspiration when I made this next card which features in this months Craft Stamper magazine. The brief was to use shades of green and dark plum. I used Sheena stamps and the couple with the dog are from Crafty Individuals.

And here it is in the magazine with my little write up.

Let's hear it for the boys - CD Sunday challenge

I've been putting off making this card as it's for a 10 year old boy and he is just at the age where he is too old for some things and not old enough for others! So when I saw the challenge at CD Sunday challenge was "Let's Hear it for the Boys" I decided to see what I could find on my cdroms and after some searching this is what I came up with.

I used the Camden Town cdrom from Crafters Companion. I took one of the backing papers into MCS and superimposed over the top the other elements from the cdrom. I used a sharpie pen to edge the design before cutting out and mounting onto my base card. Then I cut out some stars using the Seth Apter die and placed them around the card.

Pleased with how this turned out in the end.