Saturday 20 April 2024
Inkspirational Challenges - Moodboard
Sunday 14 April 2024
Believe in Father Christmas
Here, I stamped and masked Santa (MFT) and white embossed a load of elements (foliage, sentiment, stars, snowflake) from a Lil Inker set. Then I coloured in with markers.
I'd like to enter:
Christmas Kickstart Santa
Krafty Chicks Christmas
Christmas Cards All Year Round |
Saturday 13 April 2024
Build a Pond and They Will Come
The title of this post comes from an online article giving advice on how to attract frogs to a new pond... "build a pond and they will come". We used to have a pond in our old house and my partner always loved the frogs, He's now created a pond in our current house and we're waiting for the frogs to arrive,
Meanwhile, for his birthday, I've made him a frog shaker card, using stamps from Newton's Nook and Marianne, and a rain stencil - we've had so much rain and I think the frogs will like that,
I'd like to enter:
stencil, green, foliage and stencil , die cut, critter |
Tuesday 9 April 2024
Happy Birdie
Sunday 7 April 2024
Masked Snowman
Here, I stamped a Picket Fence snowman and masked it. Then I made a rough mask with some scrap paper and stamped an Aall and Create background. The colour of the base card looks wrong - it is more teal than blue - I've had this same problem photographing this cardstock before - I have no idea why!
I'd like to enter:
Krafty Chicks stamp act
My Time to Craft snowmen
Crafty Calendar dry embossed base
Sparkles Christmas Challenge non-trad colours
Saturday 6 April 2024
Inkspirational Challenges - Fold
Our new challenge at Inkspirational is:
I do like to make cards with an extra fold or two - I always feel it adds something a bit special.
For my DT card I used a mix of five sets from different companies, the biggest being a Colorado Craft bunny. I coloured all my images with watercolour pencils.
I hope you'll visit the Inkspirational blog and see the rest of the DT's fabulous folds.
I'd like to enter:
Aud Sentiments watercolour /spring
Double D cute little animals
The Sisterhood of Crafters bunnies
Little Red Wagon fun folds
Moving Along with the Times fancy folds
Thursday 4 April 2024
Just Dropped
Here I made masks out of a punched circle and some ripped paper and inked over them to create the moon and snow. Then I stamped the santa sleigh and stamped and cut out the polar bear (MFT I think).
I'd like to enter:
Jingle Belles
inspired by sleigh cookie in centre
Alphabet Challenge - Zoology
Once Upon a Time |
Saturday 9 March 2024
Inkspirational Challeges - CAS with optional balloon
It's another challenge at Inkspirational and this time we're looking for:
I spy with my little eye........... "Something beginning with B".
Krafty Chicks Stamp Act
Sunday 3 March 2024
Being Green
I stamped, coloured and cut out these Penny Black frogs a while back, and they've been looking for a home ever since. The back ground, is a big Catherine Pooler stamp and I added two sentiments.
I'd like to enter:
Shopping Our Stash green
CASE-ing Carol
I don't usually like CASE challenges but when I saw my crafty friend Carol's beautiful card at Just us Girls , I got inspired. Here's Carol's creation:
Saturday 24 February 2024
Inkspirational Challenges - Moodboard
Our new challenge at Inkspirational is to be inspired by this moodboard:What lovely colours! I decided to make a Mother's Day card for my partner to give to his mum, as Mother's Day in the UK is in about two weeks. So I stamped the flowers, coloured them with markers, used some gold and mint spotty paper as the background and added them to a pink card base.
I'd like to enter:
Krafty Chicks occasions
Double D patterned paper
pink, bouquet, woman |
Thursday 15 February 2024
40th Birthday
This is the card I made for my daughter's 40th birthday which was yesterday - Valentine's Day. As she was born on the 14th February, I always like to incorporate a heart or two on her cards.
Here I used a Lori Whitlock digital cutting file, which I cut on a Silhouette digital cutting machine, The original design is a Valentine's card, with two heart-shaped balloons and other little hearts. However, I hope that by changing the colours and papers, and adding the numbers, I've made it suitable for a birthday.
As I mentioned in a previous post, we had a surprise party for her last weekend. It was in a private room in a cocktail bar and there was lots of fun and cocktails.
Here are some of the decorations I made for her cake:
Monday 12 February 2024
Inkspirational Challenges - Hearts
Sorry this post is late - I was away all weekend at my daughter's surprise birthday party (it was a surprise to her, not me, so I suppose a poor excuse for me not planning ahead) but more of my daughter's birthday in a later post.
This is my DT card for Inkspirational Challenges :
For my card I used an old Docrafts Thank You stamp and die, coloured with markers. The background is a heart stencil that I used multiple times using different ink colours.
I'd like to enter:
Stencil Fun hearts
Saturday 27 January 2024
Inkspirational Challenges - Paper Piecing
Our new challenge at Inkspirational is my own 'Designer's Choice' - Paper Piecing. Paper piecing is usually thought of as 'colouring in' stamped images by cutting out patterned paper. I think though there is an older definition of using different papers to 'piece together' an image.
For my DT card, I used some (very old!) patterned paper to 'colour in' a floral stamped image and added black dimensional drops (Nuvo?) to add back the flower centres. I used markers to colour in the rest of the image and added a die-cut sentiment.
I'd like to enter:
Make My Monday birthday
Krafty Chicks all occasions
pink, patterned paper,die cut |
Friday 26 January 2024
Darts Card
It's my son's 17th birthday today. He's recently got into playing darts (in his bedroom , so far!) , no doubt inspired by the 17 -year-old champion, Luke Littler.
It was a bit of a challenge to make a darts themed card. I found a games picture font by Lettering Delights and one image was the dartboard, which I cut out on the Silhouette digital cutter. The swing card was cut with a die and I added the numbers (cut on the Silhouette), patterned paper and punched silver stars.
I'd like to enter:
Cardz 4 Guys no balls sport
My Time to Craft hobbies
Saturday 13 January 2024
Sled
I ran out of Christmas cards last Christmas and I'm determined not to make the same mistake at Christmas 24. So I'm already on it!
I'd like to enter:
Krafty Chicks Christmas
My Time to Craft Christmas house
Inkspirational Challenges - Stencil
Our new challenge at Inkspirational is to use a stencil- with the optional twist of using more than one stencil.
I must admit, stencils are not really my forte so, for my DT card, I just played about with some random stencils I have in my stash and created a collage background, which I splattered with some inks. My image is an A Day for Daisies stamp, coloured with Promarkers.
I hope you'll go over to the Inkspirational blog and see what the rest of the DT have made, and enter your own stencilled creation.
I'd like to enter:
Stencil Fun birds
Daisy Chain no design paper
Thursday 11 January 2024
Surprise Party Guest - Seize the Birthday
I'm delighted to be a Surprise Guest at Seize the Birthday!
The challenge is:
Thanks for having me at the party, Seize the Birthday!
I'd like to enter: