I felt the need this week to do a bit of revisiting with some of my favorite stamps...I haven't touched a CC Design stamp for a few months and when I needed a girly birthday card - had to do this little pixie!
Recipe Cardstock: Coredinations and Bazzil Paper: My Minds Eye {Stella and Rose - Mabel} Stamps: CC Designs Swiss Pixie Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities Lacey Circle; Die-namics large scalloped border Bling: Liquid pearls and Stickles Ink: Distress Ink Old paper and Stampin Up Taken with Teal Sentiment: Kaiser rubons Copics: E00, E02, E42, E44, E47, YR2, YR4, YR7, BG10, BG13, BG15, BG18 Pens: Inkssentials Opaque white
This year: 21 Birthday cards, 2 thankyou cards, 2 just a note cards, 4 Baby Cards, 8 Valentines, 2 Christmas cards, 4 Wedding Cards, 1 Easter card, 6 12x12 LOs and 4 double 12x12 LOs
This week at tiddlyinks there is a double challenge -firstly to use the gorgeous picture below as inspiration for your card but secondly to do a shaped card - not a regular square or rectangular card. Lysa from the DT has provided an awesome tutorial showing to easy ways to achieve a shaped card and i used the second method cutting two labels with my nesties, scoring one along the top edge and then gluing them to give the fold - it was super quick and super effective! I've used Christy's little Donna image and coloured her in greyscale to get the effect of the soft greys in the photo but I have removed her little wagon - wanted it to be all ablout that cute little Donna! Have fun with the challenge this week girls!
Recipe Cardstock: Coredinations and Bazzil Paper: Cratepaper {Katlin} Stamps: Tiddlyinks - Donna's Adventure Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle, Scalloped Circle and Label; Bling: Prima say it with Crystals Copics: E00, E02, RV32, C1, C3, C5, C8 Pens: Inkssentials Opaque white
This year: 19 Birthday cards, 2 thankyou cards, 2 just a note cards, 4 Baby Cards, 8 Valentines, 2 Christmas cards, 4 Wedding Cards, 1 Easter card, 6 12x12 LOs and 4 double 12x12 LOs
Every now and then a sketch really grabs me and this one certainly did - it also gave me a chance to use some newly arrived doileys - have to keep up with the current trends...lol....I've used Karens sketch from 'The Sweetest Thing' and made a slightly boyish new baby card.
Recipe Cardstock: Coredinations and Bazzil Paper: My Minds Eye {Fine and Dandy - True Blue} Ink: Versa Colour Pine Cone Stamps: My Favorite Things - Clearly Sentimental about Babies Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities Circle and Scalloped Circle; Die-namics Rolled Flower and label
This year: 18 Birthday cards, 2 thankyou cards, 2 just a note cards, 4 Baby Cards, 8 Valentines, 2 Christmas cards, 4 Wedding Cards, 1 Easter card, 6 12x12 LOs and 4 double 12x12 LOs
This week at Tiddly Inks we are celebrating St Patricks day in green. The card I have made is all Irish - 4 leaf clover, fae red head fairy and of course good luck! This is my first attempt at hand stitching on a card and the luck of the irish was with me and I think it came out pretty well. I pierced the design I wanted to stitch into the kraft card stock with a needle and then using silk thread straight stitched. Once I had straight stitched around the border and clover leaves I cut out the centre of each clover to let the patterned paper show through. The image of course is one of Christy's from Tiddly Inks - a fae fairy. Check out the rest of the design teams cards here.
This year: 23 Birthday cards, 2 thankyou cards, 2 just a note cards, 3 Baby Cards, 8 Valentines, 2 Christmas cards, 4 Wedding Cards, 1 Easter card, 1 St Patricks day card, 6 12x12 LOs and 4 double 12x12 LOs
Christy over at Tiddly Inks has just released new, totally gorgeous gothic images and from the moment I saw Miss Briar I wanted to colour her. I decided to keep the whole card a little grungy and used the Tiddly Inks Challenge this week which is to use kraft card stock. I've printed the image directly onto the kraft card and used a little technique I found here to cut her out with my nestie label - the rest is copic colouring, some PP layering, inking and sewing. Check out the design team cards using the new images here!
Recipe Cardstock: Coredinations and Bazzil Paper: October afternoon {Cherry Hill} Ink: Distress Inks Tea Dye Stamps: Tiddly Inks Briar and Gothis sentiments Sentiment: Sam and Lucy teeny tiny stickers Copics: YG63, YG67, R22, R24, R46, E00, E25, E29 Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities Label Bling: Glossy Accents and Prima Say it with Crystals Ribbon: Heidi Swapp Jet Tulle
This year: 18 Birthday cards, 2 thankyou cards, 2 just a note cards, 3 Baby Cards, 8 Valentines, 2 Christmas cards, 4 Wedding Cards, 1 Easter card, 6 12x12 LOs and 4 double 12x12 LOs
This weekend TiddlyInks is going Goth with the release of some goth gals designed by Christy - the release is Saturday so stay tuned!
I can't wait to have an evening at home to play!
I have made a few cards this week in the wee hours of the morning and if I get home in the next week before dark - or don't come home for a power nap before returning to work for a few hours till midnight I may even get them posted!
Tiddly Inks is sponsoring Paper Sundaes challenge this week and the theme is Stripes! I hunted through my new stash and found these awesome My Minds Eye, Stella and Rose striped papers and then copiced the Tiddly Inks 'Take a Bow' image to match - aint she sweet! Recipe Cardstock: Coredinations and Bazzil Paper: My Minds Eye {Stella and Rose - Gertie papers} Ink: Memento Tuxedo Stamps: Tiddly Inks Take a Bow and Stampin Up sentiment Copics: YR21, YR24, R22, R24, R29, BG45, BG49, E00, E02, E04, E25 Pens: Inkssentials white Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities Oval and Scalloped Oval Flowers: Prima Bling: Glossy Accents
This year: 17 Birthday cards, 2 thankyou cards, 2 just a note cards, 3 Baby Cards, 8 Valentines, 2 Christmas cards, 4 Wedding Cards, 1 Easter card, 6 12x12 LOs and 4 double 12x12 LOs
I've been experimenting a little with hand stitching this week and I am loving the texture it lends to the card. I've had a play with several shapes - 4 leaf clover, circles and I had in my mind a bright pink heart showing through a green cutout.
For this card I've used the colours from CR84FN and the sketch over at The Sweetest Thing - I love Karen's little scooter card. I printed out a heart shape and then pierced through the heart and the patterned paper underneath as well as around the outside of the circle I had cut with my circle nesties - I tried to keep the holes about 2mm apart but lets face it when they are not even you know its handcrafted....lol...I then use 3 strands of embroidery thread to straight stitch the heart and the circle border. I cut out the inner heart using a blade and then pierced and stitched the heart to make the added accent - added some cratepaper PP and a bit of bling and there it is.... Recipe Cardstock: Coredinations and Bazzil Paper: Cratepaper - {Paperdoll Collection} Sentiment: Kaisercraft Rubons Copics: no copics....*shudder - i feel the withdrawal coming on....* Bling: Prima Say it with Crystals
This year: 22 Birthday cards, 2 thankyou cards, 2 just a note cards, 3 Baby Cards, 8 Valentines, 2 Christmas cards, 4 Wedding Cards, 1 Easter card, 1 St Patricks day card, 6 12x12 LOs and 4 double 12x12 LOs
This week the challenge over at Tiddly Inks is rainbows - to use as many colours as possible - I took the rainbow theme seriously and used all the colours of the rainbow bursting from the red in the top left hand corner. The card was inspired by a technique I saw on Kinsey Wilsons blog here for a LO she did for Cratepaper at CHA this season - I loved the technique and HAD to try it and I like the effect with the bold primary colours.
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