Orange Flower Card

Kylie's got a new challenge blog, Perfectly CAS.  I like Kylie, I like crafting and I like challenges, so obviously I had to enter. I like orange too, as you can see.

Grey is Not Boring!

Earlier this week I was teaching English to a class of teenagers and the task was to think of the connotations of various colours. When it came to grey, their associations were dullness, boredom and old-age! 'But no!' I wanted to cry out. 'Grey is, in fact, the perfect neutral to bring out the beauty of brighter colours!' But I didn't say that. Instead, when I got home, I whipped up this simple card.

I'd like to enter:
Happy Little Stampers CAS 

Dog Days

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've not had much time for crafting or blogging lately, and this card was actually made in August. My daughter had been on holiday and she wanted a 'thank you' card for her dog-sitter : the brief was 'vintage floral with a labrador'. I'm not sure I fully met the brief but she seemed very happy with it.

The flowers are a Lil Inker stamp and the dog is a Silhouette sketch design.

I'd like to enter:
CAS on Friday 
Shopping Our Stash 
Krafty Chicks 

Inkspirational - Paper-Piercing

Hi everyone! We've got a new challenge at Inkspirational and it was chosen by Shauna and it's -Paper-Piercing!

This isn't something I have often done (in fact, don't do what I did once and enter the challenge misreading it as paper-piecing!)- so it took me a while to come up with this. 

I made a panel with Distress Ink and a hearts stencil, spritzed with water and stamped with birds from Sheena Douglass and a circular sentiment. I then die-cut it with a circular 'stitched' stencil , thinking that'd be my piercing - but I just didn't think it was obvious enough. So then I found a stencil with little holes in it and used a pokey tool and foam mat to pierce a circle on the white card. This was my second attempt and it's still not great - I think you may suspect why that bit of  ric-rac has been added! 

I hope you'll join in the challenge and show you can do better than me - the rest of the DT certainly have! 

I'd like to enter:

My Time to Craft   birds 

International Art and Soul wings

Library Challenge - I'll Take Manhattan

First I must apologise - I'm having a really busy time at the moment and have done very little crafting and not been able to visit my favourite bloggers. Hopefully things will calm down at work soon and I'll have a bit more time and energy. 

The new book at The Library is I'll take Manhattan. 

To be honest, I'm not sure if I've ever read this book - I actually have another of her books, Princess Daisy, in my bookcase but I thought the this cover and title were more versatile. I did love this genre of novels in 80s when I was a very young woman, but I wonder what I'd think if I re-read them now. (I've obviously been thinking of re-reading Princess Daisy someday if I've hung onto it all this time!) 

For my card, I was inspired by the woman's 'yay' gesture. I cut the sentiment on the silhouette and the girl is a Waffle Flower stamp. 

Inkspirational Challenges - Crop

The new challenge at Inkspirational is 'crop'.

For my DT card, I did consider crops/harvest but decided to go for the meaning of crop being to cut. I coloured in a digi by A Day for Daisies with Promarkers and then 'cropped' it into three pieces. Then I stamped a sentiment. 

I hope you'll enter the challenge.

I'd like to enter :
CD Sunday digital image
Try it on Tuesday children
I love Promarkers  no optional 3 layers - but it is in 3 pieces!
Little Red Wagon  nice and clean

New Rules

CD Sunday challenge have just changed their rules to allow any digital downloads and the theme is Summer Holiday .

Here I used a digital image of some glasses, which was a freebie from Studio calico. Then I masked of the frames and stamped palm trees and seagulls on the lens.  I stencilled some some rays, stamped the sentiments and added some dots to the frames.

I'd also like to enter:
Tales from the Craftroom  summer fun
Sparkles Monthly  tropical vacation 

Library Reminder - Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

Time for a reminder at The Library.

Here I was inspired by the speech bubble on the cover. After all the high tech crafting I've been doing lately, this really is back-to-basics, using just stamps, black ink and a marker pen. The speech bubbles are by Craftwork Cards and the sentiments are from several different sets. 
You can enter the challenge here. 

I'd like to enter:

AAA Cards

Happy Little Stampers 

Watercooler 

Seagull Hello

Here's one of the cards I made in my summer holiday craft room.

I'd like to enter:
Casology 
Addicted to Stamps
I Love Promarkers  coloured with Promarkers

Fashion Sketch

This week I've been playing with the sketch function on my Silhouette Cameo machine and made this to enter the Fashionable challenge at Time Out .

I found a clip-art line drawing online and manipulated it in the Silhouette Studio software to make it look sketchier. Then I put a pen in the blade holder and the machine sketched it out. The sentiment was also created on the Silhouette - the fabulous is cut out of purple card. Finally I made a card base and embossed it in a folder, and coloured the dress by scribbling with a marker. I also added a touch of clear shimmer pen to the hair and back.