Girl in gilded cage

Good morning everyone, here is my make for today.

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Backing paper, flower embellishment, paper bow and digi image from the Eden CD by Polkadoodles
Backing paper and flower insert from Hunkydory
Faux gem
Hougie Board

This is the front of the card when closed

This is the inside view of the card when opened

To create this card, I used an A4 piece of white cardstock and scored and folded it to create an A4 trifold card.

I covered the front and inside panels with a piece of the backing paper printed from the Eden CD.  I added the paper from Hunkydory to the third panel.  Next I cut two 3cm x 3cm pieces of the backing paper from Hunkydory and cut in half to make the four corners which I added to the topper before sticking to the front of the card.

I added the paper bow on the top half of the front and inside I added the flower insert and flower embellishment with the faux gem to finish.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.

Faery Ink Challenge

Hi everyone, here is my make for today.

I am entering this into the Faery Ink FB Challenge Pastels.

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Lilac cardstock from crafty stash
Backing paper from crafty stash
Tonic dies
Sentiments by Hunkydory
Creata butterfly embellishments
Faery Ink Dragon's Breath freebie digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils
Faux gems

This is the front view of the card when closed.

This is the inside of the card when opened.

To create this card I used an A4 piece of white cardstock, cut in half, and scored and folded to make an A5 gatefold card.

I added a piece of backing paper to the back inside of the card, then matt and layered the coloured digi image onto this.

I also added two small butterfly embellishments on the inside flaps.

I added the die cut frames to the two front panels, attached the sentiments and faux gems which completes the card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.

Birthday Wishes

Hi everyone, here is a birthday card I made for my cousin.

Recipe:

White embossed card blank
Tonic dies
Backing paper from crafty stash
The Paper Shelter Rose Ink digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils
Spellbinders flower and word dies

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my card.

Easter Wishes

 

Good morning everyone, its time for another challenge over at Inspiration Destination and here is my DT make using the beautiful Lily by Robyns Fetish.

We would love you to join in with the challenge and you can find the link here
http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/AG-no-26.html

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Backing paper from Lizzy Lu Papercrafting CD by Debbi Moore
Black cardstock from crafty stash
Hunkydory sentiment
Tonic fancy dies
Robyns Fetish Lily digi coloured with Copics
Butterfly embellishment from crafty stash

To create this card I scored and folded the white cardstock to make a 17cm x 15cm landscape card. I then added the backing paper to the card.

I coloured the Lily images with Copics and then used one of the fancy dies to cut them out.
Next I die cut two pieces of black card then added the Lily toppers to this and mounted them onto the front of my card using foam pads.

Finally, I added the sentiment and butterfly embellishments to complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my DT make with this image.

Inspiration Destination "Anything Goes" Challenge 26

Good morning everyone, today sees the start of Challenge 26 over at Inspiration Destination. We would love you to join in and you can find the link here
http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/AG-no-26.html

 

Our sponsors for today are

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Blue paper from crafty stash
The Cutting Café Lined Notepad templates
Backing paper also from The Cutting Café
Spellbinders flower dies
Faux gems
Blue satin ribbon from crafty stash
Blue peg embellishments



To create this notelet set, I used the white cardstock, template and cut and folded where indicated by instructions.

Before sticking the paper pad into the folder I used a perforator along the top edge so that the pages can be torn when they are used.

I decorated the front with the flower embellishments and ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.

30th birthday order

Hi everyone, here is my make for today. This is a birthday project order for a customer's son's 30th.

Recipe:

Creata Blue cardstock
White cardstock from crafty stash
The Stamping Chef  (now Slinky Tarts) digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils
Sentiment from The Stamping Chef
Tonic fancy square, Happy Birthday sentiment and son dies
Tattered Lace alphabet dies for name
Spellbinders number dies
Football embellishments

Front view of box when opened

Side view of box from the left

Side view of box from the right

Front view of box when closed

To create the box, I scored and folded to make the box shape.

I then scored and folded three pieces of the blue cardstock and adhered them to the inside of the box.

Next I added the two coloured digi images with strong red double sided tape to some acetate and then stuck the acetate into the box, again with red double sided tape.  This makes them move about when you open the box.

I also added one of the football embellishments in the same way.

To finish, I added the sentiment and a football embellishment to the front flap and a final football embellishment to the front back.

I also added a piece of Hunkydory insert paper to the back of the box for writing on.  (Sorry, forgot to take pic of the back.)

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my birthday make.  Better still, I hope my customer likes it!

RSD DT Call - Creepy

Hi everyone, well, here is my second make for the DT call using a creepy image.

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Black cardstock from crafty stash
Purple cardstock from crafty stash
Spellbinders shaped die
Distressed Embossing Folder from Sheena Douglass
White paper ribbon strip
White silky crush ribbon from crafty stash
Black faux gems
RSD Death and the Maiden digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils

 

 

To create this card I folded an A4 piece of white cardstock to make an A5 landscape card.

 

Next, I cut two pieces of card, one purple and one black and embossed both of these before adding to the front of my card. I then added a piece of white ribbon paper strip down the centre.

 

After colouring my image, I die cut and added to the front of the card using foam pads.

 

Finally, to finish I added some black faux gems (hard to see on the black card) and a white silky crush bow.

 

Thanks for stopping by, wish me luck again, and I hope you like my card.

 





RSD DT Call

Hi everyone, well, Rick St Dennis are having a DT Call and I am taking the plunge.  I have to make two projects, one "cute" and one "creepy".  This should test my capability, but I'll give it a go!
Here is the first of my makes which is the cute one.

I am also entering this card into the RSD Art Contest.

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Black cardstock from crafty stash
Backing papers from various DCWV pads
Spellbinders die cut flowers
Spellbinders flourish die
Tonic fancy rectangle dies
Happy Birthday sentiment from Hunkydory
Pearl drops from Tonic
RSD Mae come up and see me digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils

To create this card I scored and folded the A4 white cardstock to make a centre stepper.

Next I coloured the image with the Copics and used Spectrum Noir pencils for the hair.  Then I cut with the Tonic die and matt and layered onto one of the backing papers and black cardstock, then adhered it to the back centre stepper.

Copics used:

BG09, BG13, BG15, BG00

Spectrum Noir pencils used:

19, 17, 15, 13

Next I matt and layered up the other backing paper onto black card and embellished the two side steppers and the two lower middle steppers with this.

Finally, I added the die cut flourish and flowers which I air-sprayed in the same colours as I used for Mae's dress.

The sentiment completes the card.

Thanks for stopping by, wish me luck, and I hope you like my make.

Inspiration Destination Challenge 25

Inspiration Destination

 

Good morning everyone, welcome to another challenge.  As always the theme is "Anything Goes" and we would love to see your creations again this week.

 

This week we have two sponsors the first of which is Gerda Steiner Designs

 





http://gerdasteinerdesigns.com/

The second sponsor is Bugaboo 

 

http://www.bugaboostamps.com/

Why come along and join in the fun. You can find the link here

http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/AG-no-25.html

Here is my first DT make for this week's challenge . 

Recipe:

Ivory card blank
Backing paper from crafty stash
Gerda Steiner St Patrick's Cat in Hat digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils
Spellbinders flower dies
Fancy Scissors
Sentiment

To create this card I used a 13.5cm x 13.5cm Ivory card blank.  I added the backing paper to the front.

After colouring the image I fancy cut around the edge and added this to the front of the card.
The sentiment was created in Word and again fancy cut and added to the bottom of the card.
To finish I added three flower embellishments to the left-hand side at the bottom.



This is my second DT make for this week.

Recipe:

White DL card blank

Black cardstock from crafty stash

White cardstock from crafty stash

Bugaboo Rotweiler Trio digi image coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils

Black peel off sentiment

To create this card I used the DL landscape, matt and layered the black cardstock to the front and added the digi topper to the black card.

To finish, I added the peel off sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my makes.

 

St Patrick's Day

Inspiration Destination

 

This week we our sponsor is Gerda Steiner Designs

 





http://gerdasteinerdesigns.com/

Here is my DT make for this week's challenge.  Why come and join in the challenge here
http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/AG-no-24.html

Recipe:

Ivory card blank
Backing paper from crafty stash
Gerda Steiner St Patrick's Cat in Hat digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils
Spellbinders flower dies
Fancy Scissors
Sentiment

To create this card I used a 13.5cm x 13.5cm Ivory card blank.  I added the backing paper to the front.

After colouring the image I fancy cut around the edge and added this to the front of the card.

The sentiment was created in Word and again fancy cut and added to the bottom of the card.

To finish I added three flower embellishments to the left-hand side at the bottom.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my DT make.

Get well soon

Good morning everyone, its time for another challenge over at Inspiration Destination.  This week our sponsor is Bugaboo.



http://www.bugaboostamps.com/

Why come along and join in the fun. You can find the link here
http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/AG-no-25.html

Here is my DT make for this week.

Recipe:

White DL card blank
Black cardstock from crafty stash
White cardstock from crafty stash
Bugaboo Rotweiler Trio digi image coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils
Black peel off sentiment

To create this card I used the DL landscape, matt and layered the black cardstock to the front and added the digi topper to the black card.

To finish, I added the peel off sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.

Easter Wishes

Good morning everyone, here is one of my makes for today.

I am entering this into the Make It Crafty Challenge.

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Sheena Douglass Embossing folder
Tonic circle die
Hunkydory Sentiment
Make It Crafty Aleisha digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils
Graph It White highlighter pen for eyes

To create this card I scored and folded an A4 sheet of white card to make a 14cm x 14cm square card.

I then cut a piece of white card to measure 13cm x 13cm and embossed it which I then added to the front of my card.

The image is coloured using Copics for the ribbons, skin and dress.  For the hair I used the Spectrum Noir pencils.

Next I used the Tonic circle die to cut out the image and mounted onto the front using foam pads.

Finally, I mounted the sentiment at the bottom right-hand side.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my creation.

Beach girl

Hi everyone, here is another make from me today.

I am entering this into the Saturated Canary Colour Challenge.

Recipe:

Ivory card blank
Black cardstock from crafty stash
White cardstock from crafty stash
Spellbinders dies
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Backing papers and flower embellishments from Lizzy Lu Paper Crafting CD by Debbi Moore
Saturated Canary Beach Pretty digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils
Faux gems
Sentiment by Hunkydory

To create this card I matt and layered the black cardstock and backing paper onto the front of my card. Next I die cut the image which I had printed onto white cardstock, edged with the distress ink and matt and layered this onto the backing paper and black card. I then added this to the front of my card.

Next I added the flower, leave embellishments and faux gems to the card.

I finally finished with the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my card.

http://saturatedcanary.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/coloring-challenge.html

Just for you

Good morning everyone, here is one of my makes for today.

I am entering this into the Saturated Canary Colouring Challenge.

Recipe:

Ivory card blank
Black cardstock from crafty stash
White cardstock from crafty stash
Sentiment from Hunkydory
Spellbinders dies
Saturated Canary Beach Ink digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils
Backing papers and flower embellishments from Lizzy Lu Paper Crafting CD by Debbi Moore
Faux gems

To create this card I matt and layered the black card and backing papers onto the front of the Ivory card blank.

Next I die cut some black card and die cut the image which I printed onto white card and matt and layered these together, then mounted onto the front of my card using foam pads.

I then fussy cut the flowers and leaves and layered them onto the card.

Finally, I added faux gems to the centre of the flowers and the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.

http://saturatedcanary.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/coloring-challenge.html

Mother

Hi everyone, here is my make for today.

I am entering this into the Kit & Clowder Colouring Challenge - Wings.

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Backing paper and wings from one of the My Craft Studio CDs
Green cardstock from crafty stash
Ching Chou Kuik Snowdrop digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils
Spellbinders flower and flourish dies
Sentiment from Hunkydory
Faux gems

To create this I put an A4 piece of white cardstock through the printer and printed the backing paper and wings direct onto this using the My Craft Studio graphics programme.

I then coloured the Snowdrop image and fussy cut around her. She was then added to the front of the card placed over the wings using foam pads.

To finish I added three flower embellishments, leaves and gems to the bottom left hand corner. I placed the sentiment at the top right hand corner.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.

Happy Mother's Day

Hi everyone, here is my make for today.

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Green packaging card from Sheena Douglass
Tonic oval fancy die
Sentiment by Hunkydory
Ching Chou Kuik Blue Sea Illusion digi image coloured with Copics
Tim Holtz distressed ink
Sheena Douglass embossing folder
Pinflair Buff It Up

To create this card I scored and folded the white cardstock to make an A5 landscape card.

I embossed the green card, sanded it back to reveal the white core and then used the Buff It Up to give a slight sheen.

Next I die cut the image and added here to the left hand side of the card.

Finally, I added the sentiment to the right hand side.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.

Hot goblin

Hi everyone, here is my make for today.

I am entering this into the Simply B Facebook Challenge.

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Creata blue shimmer card
Pink mirror card from crafty stash
Spellbinders dies
Embossing folder by Sheena Douglass
Simply B Goblin Queen freebie digi image coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noir pencils

To create this card I made an A5 landscape card from the white cardstock.  I then added a smaller piece of the blue cardstock to the front which I embossed first.

Next I matt and layered the digi images using the Spellbinders dies and stuck them on top of the blue cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.

Inspiration Destination Challenge 24

 

Inspiration Destination

Good morning everyone, its time for another challenge over at Inspiration Destination.  As always, the theme is anything goes and you can find the link here
http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/AG-no-24.html

We have two sponsors this week



Dr Digi

and

 

Inky Impressions

We would love you to join in with this challenge and you can find the link here http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/AG-no-24.html

Recipe for Card 1:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Backing paper from La Pashe Something for Everyone CD
Dr Digi Hilda and Hercules digi image coloured with Copics
Wooden dog embellishment from crafty stash
Sentiment

To create this card I folded the white cardstock to make an easel card. I then matted the backing paper onto the bottom of the card and the easel part, then added my topper to this.

I created the sentiment in Word and added this to the bottom of the card to create my stopper using foam pads.

Recipe for Card 2:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Blue cardstock from crafty stash
Backing paper from crafty stash
sentiment and digi image coloured with Copics

To create this card I folded the white cardstock to make an A5 portrait card. Then I added the backing paper to the front and matt and layered the digi image onto the card at the top.

To finish I matt and layered the sentiment and added it to the bottom of the card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my makes for this week's challenge.

Girl's best friend ...

Inspiration Destination

Good morning everyone, its time for another challenge over at Inspiration Destination.  As always, the theme is anything goes and you can find the link here
http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/AG-no-24.html

One of the sponsors this week is

Dr Digi

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Backing paper from La Pashe Something for Everyone CD
Dr Digi Hilda and Hercules digi image coloured with Copics
Wooden dog embellishment from crafty stash
Sentiment

To create this card I folded the white cardstock to make an easel card. I then matted the backing paper onto the bottom of the card and the easel part, then added my topper to this.

I created the sentiment in Word and added this to the bottom of the card to create my stopper using foam pads.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my card.

Father and son

Inspiration Destination

Good morning everyone, its time for another challenge here at Inspiration Destination.  This time we have two sponsors, the first is Inky Impressions



Inky Impressions

 We would love you to join in with this and you can find the link here http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/AG-no-24.html

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Blue cardstock from crafty stash
Backing paper from crafty stash
sentiment and digi image coloured with Copics

To create this card I folded the white cardstock to make an A5 portrait card. Then I added the backing paper to the front and matt and layered the digi image onto the card at the top.

To finish I matt and layered the sentiment and added it to the bottom of the card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.

Cinderella

Good morning everyone, here my make for today.

I am entering this into the Lacy Sunshine Off to the Ball FB Challenge.

Recipe:

White cardstock from crafty stash
Backing paper from Hunkydory
Sentiment from Hunkydory
Green organza ribbon from crafty stash
White ric rac from crafty stash
Embossing folder from Sheena Douglass
spellbinders shaped die
Faux gems
Lacy Sunshine freebie Cinderella digi image coloured with Copics and spectrum Noir pencils

Front of card





To create this card, I folded the white cardstock to make an A5 portrait card.  Next I cut just over half of the top half front away.

Then I embossed some white cardstock and added to the bottom front and top inside of the card.  Next I added the ribbon and ric rac to make borders.

I die cut the image and added her to the lower front part of the card, adding the gems to the bottom left and right hand corners.

Finally, I added the sentiment in the middle at the top of the inside.

Inside of card

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.

Movie Star

Hi everyone, here is my make for today.

I am entering this into the Kit & Clowder March Challenge.

Recipe:

Black cardstock from crafty stash
White cardstock from crafty stash
Tonic fancy oval die
Sherri Baldy Audrey Hepburn digi image coloured with Copics
Film and camera embellishments from Clip Art
Sentiment from Hunkydory

I folded the black cardstock to make an A6 landscape card.

Next I added the shaped topper image and the embellishments down the right-hand side.  Finally, I added the sentiment at the bottom left-hand corner.  Unfortunately, the camera has not picked up the words of the sentiment which are Just for You.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.


http://kitandclowder.ning.com/march-challenge-movie

Birthday

Hi everyone, here is a birthday card I have made for a friend of my partner's.  He is interested in boats, (owns a small one), renovates dolls houses and his son runs the business with the lorries.

Bit of a mixture I know, but he won't get another card the same!!

I hope he likes it.

Recipe:

Ivory card blank
Black cardstock from crafty stash
Sentiment from Hunkydory
Backing papers from The Paper Stack
Free images from the internet

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my make.