Cage Dancer

Oh no – the ballerina has been locked in a cage by an evil baron and forced to dance forever!!!

 The ballerina and the cage are both from My Craft Studio  Simply Silhouettes CD and the papers are Daisy Ds.

I’d like to enter this for these challenges:

CD Sunday Beautiful Ballerinas

City Crafter Challenge Ballerina   

Balloon Race

Just playing around this Sunday morning and found some kid’s jigsaw blanks I found in a cheapo shop ages ago.

I stamped the verse (Paper Inspirations), masked it and inked with brilliance, using more torn paper masks for clouds. The balloons are a mix of Kaisercraft and All Night Media and I used a white pen to highlight bits of the balloons.  

I will give this to my son to assemble the jigsaw puzzle and then get him to use a blank to make his own.

I’d like to enter this for:

Quirky Crafts Up, up and away
Creative Card Crew Song inspired (Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon)
The Paper Variety Anything but a lo or card   

Make Lemonade

Here's a card to send to a friend who's having a hard time.

The image is by Mo's Digital Pencil and I paper pieced it with two different patterns and coloured the rest with Promarkers. I use Distress Ink to soften the white background. All papers except the check one are Basic Grey and the sentiment is by Unity.

I'd like to enter this for:
Do you stack up? Paper Piecing
Mo's Challenge Blog Anything Goes
Crafty Ann's Challenge It's a girl thing.   

Strip Poker

Here’s a card you could give to a man with a sense of humour!

The woman is a um , I think from Viva Las Vegas stamps. The buckle is amade from chipboard, covered in Utee. The background paper is from My Craft Studio. The ribbons and mini playing cards were stuff I had lying around.

I'd like to enter this for these challenges:

Shopping our stash Masculine

Little Red Wagon Use a playing card

CRAFT Male card

Artful Times Men

The Stampman Challenge Make it for a man  

Butterflies, birdhouse and blooms

This simple card was very nearly a one-layer-card – but in the end I decided it looked better mounted onto the coloured card.

The text and flowers  are part of a large Kanban stamp - there was an image of a woman attached but I didn't like it, so I cut it off and now just use it as a frame/border.  The birdhouse is from a HOTP set that came free with Simply Cards and Papercraft Magazine and the little butterfly was part of another magazine freebie. The sentiment is Papermania. I coloured it in with Promarkers and gel pens (on the butterflies).
I will be giving this to my partner's mum to thank her for having our son to stay for the last few days.
I'd like to enter this for:
Come and Get it Challenges - Flowers and butterflies
A Gem of a Challenge Photo inspiration

Elfin Safety

Have you ever seen those magazine articles where they take a designer fashion item and show what great value it is by calculating the ‘cost per wear’?  

This stamp, ‘Falling Softly’ by Stamps Happen is a big and quite expensive wood mounted stamp, but, oh boy! – the cost per wear is fantastic!  

I’ve used it for birthdays, thank-yous and Christmas; coloured it in pastels, brights, neutrals and glitter; changed the skin colour to reflect the recipient; made her bounce off balls and fall out of Christmas trees.

This time I stamped her onto coloured paper, cut her out and coloured her in with markers and gel pens. The background paper already came with the border and I faintly stamped some text (Indigo Blu). I stamped a mushroom (Lavinia Stamps) and added glitter (don’t think it shows in the photo).  The ticket is from Pink Paislee; I stamped it with a Craft Stamper freebie which says ‘Fairyland Park’. Finally, I added gems and a flower made with punches.

I'd like to enter this for these challenges:
Oldie but goodie Anything goes
Let's ink it up Favourite Embellishments (gems)
Fashionable Stamping Challenges Mystical and very magical
Out of a hat creations Favourite Stamps  

White wedding

This month's A Day For Daisies club kit is wedding themed and, although I haven't got anyone to give this to at the moment, I thought I'd enjoy making a wedding card.

I printed the image onto parchment and coloured it from behind. I embossed the dress, flowers and veil from the back to make them raised and white. I used an Xcut border punch, a heart punch and some bling.

Bring on the wedding- I'm ready!!

I'd like to enter this for:
Simply Create Wedding
Cas-ual Fridays Bling
Digital Tuesday Anything goes
Try it on Tuesday Anything goes    

On the beach

It’s wet and dreary outside but it’s summer in my craft room! I made this with an A Day for Daisies image, paper scraps, a shell stamp (unknown UM) , Martha Stewart punch and assorted types of marker pen.

I'd like to enter this for these challenges:
The Paper Players Summertime
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Photo Inspiration
Allsorts Challenge By the seaside  

Stickered

I don’t often make cards using just stickers but these seemed perfect for this project. The card is for a couple who are adopting a little boy this month.

The space stickers and paper are from October Afternoon. ‘Off we go’ is one I had hanging around and I mounted it on the reverse of the star paper. I added silver outline stickers of circles and squares.

I’d like to enter this for:

Here come the boys Anything goes

Jellypark Challenges Boy Crazy  

Under the sea

Some rubber stamps are really versatile and I use them lots to get different looks and effects. This big mermaid scene stamp, by Enchanted Ink, is not very versatile, but it does have impact. I stamped it onto vellum and coloured it in from behind.  

Sorry if you don’t like topless mermaids…..in the unlikely event that they do exist, they probably don’t have bikini tops!

I'd like to enter this for these challenges:
Do you stack up? Under the sea
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge Anything goes