Creative Cutting Challenge - Love

The theme is Love at Creating Cutting Challenge this week. For my DT project I used the Bee Skep (???never heard this word before! I would call it a hive) from The Creative Pointe .

I made a background using a hexagonal stencil and spray mists. I cut the beehive from Basic Grey papers and dry embossed the bottom layer. The 'Bees Knees' and the letters for the sentiment are stickers from the same Basic Grey set and I punched out a little heart.

If you have an electronic cutting machine, use an SVG to make a love themed  project and join us at Creative Cutting Challenge. 

I'd like to enter:
Use your Stuff  love theme
Cuttin and Stampin  masculine
The Male Room  valentine
Ooh La La  love

Make My Monday - Valentines

It's a Valentines challenge this week at Make My Monday. 

For my DT card I used a lovely freebie from A Day for Daisies, which I masked and added clouds using a stencil cut on my Silhouette machine and grey ink. Then I coloured the angel with Promarkers and added glitter.

Come over to Make My Monday and share your Valentine's Day makes with us.

I'd like to enter:
A Day For Daisies valentine
Perfectly Rustics wings
Artisitc Inspirations  hearts
Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge  wings

Case-ing Kylie

At Time Out  they are CASE-ing my blogger friend , Kylie . I apologise for the quality of the photo here, taken in the bathroom after the daylight had gone!  Anyway, I hope you can see how Kylie inspired my card - the tag, the top fold, the scoring.

Kylie's original 

My tag is a 'print and cut' that I made during an online Silhouette workshop by Kerry Bradford, I embossed pearly card with snowflakes and coloured the die-cut snowflake with a Promarker.  Then I added glitter to the tag and the snowflake.

As well as Time Out, I'd like to enter:
Tis the Season  a campy Christmas 

 Creative Card Crew - glitter
Christmas Stampin all year long  anything goes
Completely Christmas snowflake 

Empty Box Project #6 - New Home

closed 

This is one of three 'new home' cards I have made lately. Lots of people on the move!

The house is an SVG from Miss Kate's Cuttables and the leaf and fence were also cut on the Silhouette. The circular stamp was a cover gift with the Docrafts Creativity magazine. I bought it on Saturday and couldn't wait to use it - I think I'll use it a lot.

I  punched a lace effect edge and stamped the card behind with a stamp from my 'empty box project' box. This stamp is a big background stamp by Hero Arts. I received it, from an online retailer but it was not the one I'd ordered. As there were a series of problems with getting my order, the retailer refunded me and told me to keep this stamp.

On New Year's day I revealed my stamping shame - a big box of unused stamps - and started my Empty Box project. My aim is to work through the box , one stamp/ stamp set at a time and see if I can use them. If I can't use them, I will dispose of them. The aim is to finish with an empty box.

Thanks for all the positive comments I've had about my project. It seems  my stamping shame is not unique!

I'd like to enter:
City Crafter  roses and lace
Open Minded Crafting Fun  no pink, no red
Eclectic Ellapu hearts and roses
Crafty Calendar  anything goes
Sister Act  anything goes

Valentine's Birthday

My (grown up) daughter's birthday is on Valentine's Day so I usually like to incorporate a heart or two into her birthday card design ...but this year, I've gone a bit over-the-top!

This box card was made using a cut file from SVG Cuts, pink cardstock  and some Pebbles papers and I stamped 'happy birthday ' on several of the hearts.

I'd like to enter:
Fab n Funky  hearts
Seize the Birthday anything goes
The Crafter's Cafe  birthday
Crafty Catz birthdays
Artistic Inspirations  hearts

My Oldest Ink Pad

This week's challenge at Shopping Our Stash  grabbed my attention - use your oldest ink. The other day I found a very old Colorbox Petal Point Pigment Option Pad at the back of a drawer. Several of the colours had dried up or come apart from the base and had to be chucked.

With the ink colours that were left, I made a background on a tag. I randomly stamped with a Kaisercraft tiny dot stamp and then stamped the numbers(7 gypsies). I stamped the butterfly (Anita's) three times and then doodled a frame.

As well as Shopping Our Stash, I'd like to enter:
Fashionable Stamping Challenges numbers
My Time to Craft bugs
Sir Stampalot anything goes 

Make My Monday - Hearts and flowers

This week's challenge at Make My Monday is Hearts and Flowers - perfect for Valentine's cards . But I haven't made a Valentine's card, I've made a new home card. The flower stamp is (I think) Kaisercraft and the sentiments are from Little Claire.

I'd like to enter:
Fairytale Challenge  something with a heart
Red Rubber Inspirationals  CAS
Cute Card Thursday stamping mad. 

Empty Box Project #5 - Valentine for a Child

My mum somehow acquired some pink deckle- edged cards, and for many years she used to leave one for each of us outside our bedroom doors on valentine's day. They had hearts drawn with biro and a question mark where the sender's name would be. It's a lovely memory.

This card is for my four-year-old grandson. The bubble background is a Creative Expressions stamp  and the fishes and sentiment are from an old magazine freebie by Pink Petticoat - grabbed from my 'empty box project' box.  I glittered up the red bits with Wink of Stella.

On New Year's day I revealed my stamping shame - a big box of unused stamps - and started my Empty Box project. My aim is to work through the box , one stamp/ stamp set at a time and see if I can use them. If I can't use them, I will dispose of them. The aim is to finish with an empty box.

I'd like to enter:
Card Mania add some red 
Perfectly Rustics hugs and kisses
Aloha Friday   Valentine's /love 
Less is More Little Ones 
Addicted to CAS  hugs and kisses 

Wine Bottle Tag

Here's a wine bottle tag - I cut the tag and the clock on the Silhouette. The woman is from Joanna Sheen Fashion CD (I cut her out from the background) and I made the sentiment on my PC.
Here's it modelled by a wine bottle:

Unfortunately I couldn't find a bottle that was actually full! Where did that wine go? 

I'd like to enter:

CD Sunday - Tag 

Sparkles Forum raise a glass

City Crafter cheers 

Poinsettia

How traditional is this?  I used a die cut poinsettia and leaf flourish, printed gold ribbon, gold liquid pearl and one sheet of patterned paper.

I'd like to enter:
Glory of Christmas  stripes
Allsorts flower power
Fab n Funky  Christmas