At the Fairground

Happy Mothers' Day to all you mums in the UK. (Not sure if it's Mothers' Day anywhere else?)

Here I used A Day for Daisies digi stamp and the big wheel was cut in Silhouette studio. The ticket and sentiment are stamps. The paper was a a magazine freebie.

I'd like to enter
A Day for Daisies  Pretty pastels
Stampin for the Weekend  Spring colours
Cuttin and Stampin Challenges Paper piecing 

For a sporty accountant

One of my brothers is an accountant who does triathlon and other sporty things. This is his birthday card.

I used the sketch from Kathy's Waffle Sketch File  and cut the runner etc in Silhouette Studio. The number stamps are Hampton Art and 7 Gypsies. 

I'd also like to enter:
Hiding in my Craft Room  freestyle
Alphabet Challenge die cuts  

Inkspirational Challenge and DT Call!

Our Inkspirational Challenge this week is to CASE our DT member Sandie. You can see four of her creations on the Inkspirational Challenge blog , or you can go to Sandie's blog  and choose your own. This is the one I chose:

You can see that I was very heavily influenced by Sandie's card! I used two very old wood-backed stamps - the woman is by Hampton Art and the cocktails are Rubber Stampede. The sentiment is a clear stamp.

This challenge we also have a fabulous guest designer - another Sandie!  Please go and see what she's done.

Finally, we have a DT call at Inkspirational and we'd love you to enter. All you have to do is read the details, make a project for the challenge and add DT after your name.

I'd like to enter:
A Song in your He(art)  Celebration
Charisma Cardz CAS

Festive 48 - week 11

Struggled a little for ideas this week - thought I wasn't going to get one done- but committing to this weekly post really disciplines me!

The papers and sentiment are a digital version of Echo Park Sleigh Ride and the penguin and snowflakes are cutting files, cut on my electronic die-cutter. I am soooo hybrid now! I added a touch of sparkle with some gems.

Just to recap, I have challenged myself to make a Christmas card every week , and post it here (to make sure I do it!) . If I do this, by the beginning of December I will have 48 Christmas cards. I have also issued an invitation to anyone who would like to join me.

Thank you to everyone who's joined me so far. I love seeing your cards. 

I'd like to link up with:
Crafty Creations holiday 
Festive Friday  photo
Christmas Stampin fave colour combo - blue and white for Christmas again! 
Completely Christmas 
 Holly Jolly  Winter scene - Penguin in snow, kids sledging in the distance - okay it's an unbelievable scene, but it's a scene!

An InLinkz Link-up

Travel Notes

Here's a little notebook/ mini album I made using one sheet of Graphic 45 paper(on the cover), a digital version of Echo Park Transatlantique and lots of distress ink.

I copied the binding idea ( two nuts and screws from the garage) from something I'd seen in a Tim Holtz video - it didn't show how to make it, it was a commercially produced item called a 'ruler book'. Well, I don't think I got it quite right as, as you can probably tell from the photographs, the book doesn't open very well! I will have to rethink if I am going to give it away,

I'd like to enter:
Paula Holifield Crafts  Are we there yet?
Craft room Challenge Transport
City Crafter  Take Note

Spring Dominoes

Earlier this week, I'm ashamed to report, I got myself disqualified from one of my favourite challenge blogs by making two rookie mistakes:
1) I didn't read the theme carefully enough
2) I got carried away and forgot the 'max 5 challenges' rule .

I like the Artful Times challenge - they often have more unusual themes and they have a small, friendly DT . So I've gone back to the drawing board and had another shot.

These are my favourite two of the 14 dominoes I stamped (not joking!).

I used Promarker pens for the coloured backgrounds and Staz-on for the stamping. The daffodil stamp is an unknown UM and the word 'growth ' is from 7 Gypsies Numero set.  The birds nest is from a clear set (lost packet again) and the script is Indigo Blu. I ran a Krylon silver pen around the edge.

As well as Artful Times  I'd like to enter:
Altered Eclectics 
Stamplorations  spring
Come and Get it Challenges  spring
..and that's it!

London Scene

I love grey at the moment.
Here I am using it again, this time to stamp this Mary Poppins silhouette by Lost Coast Designs.

The buses and Big Ben were sent to me by my lovely blog friend Sandie .  The background is the first page from the book 'Mary Poppins'.

There's nothing crooked about my card - just my photography!

I'd like to enter:

Twisted Tuesday Don't go near the edge
Fashionable Stamping Challenges  silhouettes
The Squirrel and the Fox Inspired by a book
Paper Crafting Journey   photo

Paris Break

This is the second time I've used this Stampin Bella stamp that I bought in February - well done me for getting some use out of it!

I'd like to enter:
Love to Create Bingo - lace, flowers, pink
Created with Love Girly
Jellypark  Pastels
Stamping Sensations pink
The Craft Garden  pastels

Trapeze Artist

Belatedly,I upload the card I made for my daughter's birthday - it was on Valentine's Day, hence the heart. She was having a party with her friends in a circus-themed restaurant and I took this idea and was inspired by one of my favourite pictures ( Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando) to feature a trapeze artist.

The trapeze artist was digitally cut from an SVG border file, then electronically cut on the Silhouette Cameo. I also cut the frame, heart, bunting and the sentiment shape (after typing in the sentiment). I added shimmery paper, glitter, background paper (Tim Holtz) , gems and a feather and I embossed the heart.

I'd like to enter:
Crafty Boots feathers
Crazy 4 challenges shake your thing
Cut it Up  anything goes
Silhouette Challenges create your own scene
Hiding in My Craft Room  Let's get digital
A song in your (He)art Celebration

Mojometer

I was inspired to make this project by the 'Game Pieces' challenge at Artful Times  but looking back at their blog now, I'm not sure I 100% followed the brief - maybe I should have altered an existing game piece. 

Anyway, this is a 'mojometer' - you spin it when you lose your crafting mojo and then you have to follow what it  says :

Follow a sketch                 Copy a colour combo                  Try a new technique

Watch a video                    CASE someone’s card                 Play with a stamp set

Pick a patterned paper              Pimp an old project 

I made it using my elctronic die cutter and a cutting file from the Silhouette store  - I'm sure you could do this by hand if you had very good cutting skills (which I don't!). 

Although this looks multi-coloured, I only used four Distress ink pads plus black and white cardstock. I used a flower stamp by a different company for each segment. I printed the words onto Safmat clear film. 

As well as Artful Times  I'd like to enter:

Flonzcraft   just for you

Creative Cutting   anything goes 

Crafting for all seasons  no designer paper 

Little Red Wagon  rainbow of colours

4 Crafty Chicks  no patterned paper

Alphabet Challenge  country flowers 

Craftitude add a brad 
That's Crafty  Inky Antics - ooh excited to see this new challenge - I'm a customer of theirs