City Crafter Challenge Blog - Little Snowflake

This week, at City Crafter, Kirsty wants us to use just ONE snowflake on our projects.

For my DT project I made a tag...well...I finished a tag I began years ago!  I was colouring this tag with a Starburst Stain ( containing lots of mica ) and I somehow managed to knock the lid off and saturate the tag, When it dried there were clumps of shimmery mica on it and I quite liked it, but after stamping it with some Artemio stamps, I didn't know what to do with it and put it to one side...

So I dug it out for this challenge. The snowflake is a digital die-cut  design I made when I did an online course in designing for the Silhouette. The white embossed sentiment is by Paper Artsy.

Please do come and visit the CCCB and see what the rest of the DT have made, before entering your own project.

I'd like to enter:

The Holly and Ivy 

Make My Monday  anything but a card 

Moving along with the times tag 

Red Spotty Christmas

This stamp is from Crafters' Companion and it's the first time I've used it. I was disappointed that it was quite difficult to get a good image, even with a stamping tool. I coloured it with promarkers and added spots onto the image with gel pen. The season is Hero Arts.

I'd like to enter:
4 Crafty Chicks  polkadots
Little Red Wagon  red
Sisterhood of Stampers spots

Halloween Memories

I made this card for my daughter . This is us, the day I taught her to fly her broomstick. Aaah memories!

The image is a digi by A Day for Daisies, coloured with Promarkers. The bats are Hero Arts and the sentiment is Lil Inkers.

I'd like to enter:
Sweet Stampin - bingo -  bats, sentiment, moon
Try it on Tuesday  circle - the moon!
Tuesday Throwdown  spooktacular
Passion for Promarkers  Halloween
Addicted to Stamps  photo

 

Going Crazy with a Gel Pen

I do like restrained colour palettes.  This is pretty restrained! I just used three neutrals.  I really enjoyed making the snow with a white gel pen.

The image here is Penny Black and the sentiment is Avery Elle.

I'd like to enter:
Mod Squad  add snow
Merry Monday  add a gift
Through the Purple Haze  untraditional Christmas Colours
Jingle Belles creature

Christmas Flowers

I rarely buy the co-ordinating dies to go with stamps. I have a Silhouette electronic die cutter and so if I need a matching die-cut , I try to trace it digitally and cut it out. I think this worked out well here, as I was also able to make a frame card to match.

The stamps here are by Avery Elle. For the woodgrain, I used an embossing folder, smeared with gold ink.

I'd like to enter:
Winter Wonderland  flowers
Christmas Card Challenges photo
Christmas Card Throwdown wood

Who's the Boss?

I made this card for a work-friend who has just been promoted to a staff-management role.

I designed the large text on the Silhouette Cameo , printing the first two words, then cutting out the 'BOSS'. The animal is a Mama Elephant stamp and I stamped the 'u are' inside using letter stamps.

The letter stamps are a very old freebie from a magazine. I guess freebie stamps are very cheaply produced and I often find that they quickly lose their stickiness. I had lots of fun trying to stop these little ones falling off all over the place!

I'd like to enter:
Addicted to Stamps  photo - actually she was smiling anyway because she got the job, but when she got this card the smile kept going!
Crafty Gals Corner  anything goes

Pro-Am Showdown #15 - Two-colour Christmas

This year, my self-imposed challenge is Pro-Am Showdown, where I take on a commercially produced card I've received (the Pro) and see if I can beat the professionals at their own game with my amateur card.

Here is the card that inspired me: 

The mass-produced original 

As I was thinking about how to CASE this card, I came across the stamp, by Little Claire, in my stash and thought it had a similar feel. As the images are solid, rather than outline, I wasn't sure how I would get the multi-coloured look, so instead, I decided to go for just two colours and randomly ink the stamp with them both. (This was my second attempt - it turned out too muddy first time). 

To add the gold touches, I stamped and embossed the sentiment (Hero) and mounted the panel on gold mirror card, with just the edges showing. 

I'd like to enter:
Fab n Funky  Christmas 
Rudolph Day 
Watercooler  Christmas
Crafting by Designs  xmas

Owl Surprise

Of course, in the UK no-one sends Halloween cards (do they?) but being part of the online cardmaking community I do make them to join in the fun - and now the children of my family expect them!

I made this one for my ten-year-old son. I used a Lettering Delights SVG cutting file.

This card won't stand up like a normal card - I wonder if I should put a hole at the top to hang it up? - but I think my son will enjoy playing with it.

I'd like to enter:
Cupcake Inspirations  I hope the owl is ghoulish enough
As You See It scary
Naughty or Nice  spooky
Dragonfly Journeys  Halloween

Another Big Birthday

A few days I blogged a card I'd made by adapting a SVG cutting file and adding the numbers 60. This card is for another 60th birthday - this time a workmate - and I adapted the file further by creating the sentiment.  (If you're not familiar with SVGs, they are electronic cutting files and I cut this out on a Silhouette Cameo.)

I'd like to enter:
Little Red Wagon  shape up
Crafter's Cafe shaped card
Craft Rocket  birthday
Dream Valley birthday

Christmas Alert

It's half-term this week, and realising that the next school holidays will be Christmas has made me ramp up the card-making!

Here I used a sketch by Sunday Stamps:

This is an old magazine freebie stamp that I stumbled across while looking for something else. I can't actually remember using it before - it's quite small, but I thought it would work with this sketch. I coloured it using watercolour pencils. To match the sketch, I drew in the horizon line and then one below the image. The sentiment is MFT and the embossing folder is Taylored Expressions.

I'd also like to link up at Shopping our Stash, where this week's challenge is to use any sketch.