Pinspirational Challenge 107 - Flowers

Here's the photo for this week's Pinspirational Challenge :

For my DT card I used part of a digi , kindly provided by one of our sponsors, Fresh Brewed Designs  and I tried to echo the field of flowers theme by paper-piecing and layeiring floral papers.

I'm sure you can think of loads of ways of using this theme, so please come and join us at Pinspirational  where, as always, we have fabulous sponsors with wonderful prizes to win.
I'd like to enter
Delightful Challenges petal power
Dragonfly Dreams How does your garden grow?

Make My Monday DT - Owls

Hi everyone - I'm delighted to tell you that I have joined the DT at Make My Monday!

This week's challenge is 'Owls' . For my first DT card I used my Silhouette electronic die cutter. I found pictures of the owl and branch on the internet and made them into cutting files. The doily was a free cutting file made by Monica Bjork. I used gems for the eyes and a stamp for the sentiment.

You must have a stamp, die or sticker of an owl - they are just so cute. I would love you to come and join in at Make My Monday . See you there!

I'd like to enter:

Created with Love Critters
Little Red Wagon spots
Come and Get it birthdays
Incy Wincy  birthdays
My Craft Creations anything goes

Fuzzy Felt

I wanted to enter the challenge at City Crafter - orange, lemon, lime - not easy as they are not colours I would normally use together but I love the bright cheerfulness of them. I found some orange and lime felt and first off, made a big flower - but decided I didn't like it.

These birds are Sizzix Originals dies and the sentiment is a Sizzlits aphabet. I embossed the white card and crimped the yellow.

As well as City Crafter, I'd like to enter this for Crafting when We Can  die cut challenge.

Inkspirational Challenge 56

Here's my DT card for Inkspirational and here's our inkspirational picture:

Before I got the Silhouette electronic die-cutting machine, I thought about it for years, thinking it might make crafting too easy and take away the challenge. How wrong I was! I can spend hours trying to make an idea happen.

For this card, I found online a picture of a girl holding balloons, traced it in the silhouette , welded it to a circle and cutting it. Which all sounds quick and simple but took hours of experimenting to get right!
For my background, I embossed some aqua card.

This week at Inkspirational we reveal our wonderful new DT members,  Kim, Pia L  and Carol . I hope you'll come and join us.
I'd like to enter:
Card Mania  Embossing
Sister Act anything goes
Your Next Stamp photo(colours)
Time Out Challenges time flies (thanks Sandie!)

Festive 48 - week 17

Week 17 already!

And this week I have a top tip for anyone new to using Frantage encrusted embossing - wear mittens- or at least don't get a fragment stuck beneath your nail, as it hurts!

My penguin was cut on the Silhouette, and I layered it up with label die cuts, one of which I dry embossed. I added a border of punched snowflakes with gems and used Frantage embossing powder with fragments, glitter etc. For my layout I used the sketch at Seize the Sketch.

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 by linking up ONE card each week. 

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

As well as Seize the Sketch , I'd like to enter 
Addicted to Stamps  wings 
Holly Jolly embossing 
Addicted to Stamps holiday 
Fab n Funky Christmas 
Jingle Belles layered 

An InLinkz Link-up

Bon Viveur

I used a sketch to make this card, but I'm not sure if Crafting When We Can will recognise their sketch, I played with it so much!

My circle is square, I originally had the left-hand panel, but got rid of it to show more of the backing paper and ribbon.  Instead of the corner top left, I have the postmark, the ribbon/border is shifted down and instead of a star I used the Eiffel tower. See! 

The central image (pre-coloured), cocktail glasses and lace pattern paper all come from Craft Artist Frou Frou CD. The backing paper was a Craftwork Cards freebie with a magazine. The tower was cut on the Silhouette and can you see I pleated the ribbon? Then I covered most of it up!! 

As well as Crafting When we Can, I'd like to enter:

CD Sunday  ribbon, lace and gems (hope it's okay that the lace is the pattern on the paper and her dress) 

Cupcake Inspirations Paris 

Wags and Whiskers ribbon and bling 

More Beeswax

Here's another card I made when experimenting with beeswax last night.

The fairies image is from a little booklet of alphabets and images that I've had forever. I made the background using inks, stamps,a mask and mists. I covered everything with beeswax and added fine glitter while it was still wet - I like the effect of this,though not sure if it shows up.

As I was just playing around, the layout is quite random! Too random? Who can say!

I'd like to enter:
Sister Act anything goes
Crafting at the Weekend anything goes
Polkadoodles something old ,something new (all the materials are old but the beeswax technique is new to me)

Create and Destroy

So, I was trying beeswax for the first time - I had my craft lamp on, melt pot on, heat gun on.....got the wires tangled and crash - goodbye lamp. (Boohoo!) Good job it wasn't the melt pot that took a dive!

For this card I used an image from a Crafty Individuals pad that I won ages ago, a mix of inks, stamps, beeswax and embellishments.

I'd like to enter:
Oldie but Goodie hats
Alphabet Challenge feathers
Corrosive Challenges headgear

Festive 48 - Week 16

This stamp is an oldie but goodie from Funstamps.  I used Papermania papers, gems, a sentiment stamp glitter and markers.

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 by linking up ONE card each week. 

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

I'd like to enter:
Holly Jolly - snowman
Tuesday Throwdown - sparkle
52cct - glitter

An InLinkz Link-up

What Does the Fox Say?

The fox with the speech bubble was a free journalling download from Two Peas , and I stamped 'thank you' inside. I added a flower made from UTEE and coloured with gilding wax, a die-cut fence (inked and stamped with woodgrain), and copper-coloured gems. 

I'd like to enter: 

City Crafter speech bubbles

Paper- Crafting Journey spots or stripes