Creative Cutting Challenge - Fun in the Sun

During the summer , Creative Cutting Challenge is challenging you to use any Creative Pointe SVG. I made this using the sun/title from the summer set:

The file cuts 3 layers- a background oval, the oval with the cut out tile and the wavy sun.  I enlarged the file and cut my photo out with the background oval. The patterned paper is by Simple Stories. 

I hope you'll join us at Creative Cutting Challenge. 

I'd like to enter:

Crafty Cardmakers anything but a card

Painting in the Garden

For the last few days I've had a horrendous (feels-like-I'm-dying) cold, which has been particularly depressing because I'm halfway through my four weeks annual leave when I should be enjoying time with my son.

I started to feel a bit better this afternoon so decided to go into the garden with a box of paints and a bag of Paper Artsy stamps.

Here are two cards that I started in the garden and have now finished off .

This one I stamped onto kraft card , painted the birdhouse and stems. I had some white tissue paper and I stamped the flowers onto it , coloured them with blue paint , cut them out (not very accurately as I was using the kitchen scissors!) and paper-pieced them. Later on I trimmed the panel, added some definition with a marker pen , added liquid pearl and mounted it onto card.

I'd like to enter this into:
Paper Artsy  flowers
Addicted to Stamps  photo
Chocolate Coffee and Cards flower image

For this one I created the background on some waste cardboard, using Gesso and paint. I stamped the flowers and leaves and coloured them with paint.

I'd like to enter this into:
Fab n Funky  no patterned papers

What was my son doing while I did all this? For some reason he decided to research and paint European flags. I suppose it will come in handy for quizzes!

Mermaid Thanks

Here's a thank you card I made using a digi from A Day for Daisies. I paper pieced with patterned paper and if you look closely you will see that I have spelt out 'thanks' on the tails.

I'd like to enter:
QKR Stampede  swimming
Give a Crafter a Cookie  mermaids

The Nice List

I don't often enter CASE challenges, but Alice's card at Time Out  gave me lots of ideas .

Alice's Card 

I've been looking for a stamp or digi to get that torn hole effect but in the end I just copied a royalty -free picture and printed it onto my card. The Santa and sentiment are stamps by My Favorite Things.

As well as Time Out, I'd like to enter :

One Layer Christmas Card  

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday  anything goes 

Holly Jolly  carol - Santa Claus is coming to town. 

Rock Star

I wanted to enter CD Sunday's Rock Star challenge but it did take quite a bit of trawling through CDs before I found an image I liked. (I had initially hoped to find a female rock star silhouette, but it was not to be.)

I also decided to use the sketch from Stamplorations .

This image is from Polkadoodles not for girls CD and was part of a topper , so I needed to  crop it out. I also changed the background colour to tone with my scrap of striped paper. In Silhouette Studio, I traced the figure and cut it out in black card and stuck it over the printed image, to give it more presence. I also cut out the headphones (also from Polkadoodles Not for Girls) and the sentiment (using the text feature).  On the base card, I used a music notes stencil and grey ink.

I'd also like to enter this at That's Crafty (stencils/masks) and Crafts4eterntity music.

Summer Picnic

Inspired by some of the challenges out there (listed below) , I wanted to make a pretty, summer-y card.

I used a rubber stamp by Elizabeth Bell with a die cut frame and coloured with alcohol markers. I embellished with a basket (Creative Pointe svg) , flowers and a butterfly sticker.

I'd like to enter:
The Paper Girls  forever in blue jeans
Die Cuttin Divas  great outdoors
Glitter n Sparkle  starts with b - basket, blue jeans, butterfly and bare feet.
Tuesday Throwdown summer fun
Shabby Tearoom  summer picnic

City Crafter - Masculine Birthday Card

Our challenge this week at City Crafter  is to create a masculine birthday card. 

For my DT card I created a card for my daughter's partner. It was his birthday last week and this weekend he's been at a big dance music festival in Belgium. I tried to create the feeling of being at the best gig ever. 

I created a background using alcohol inks and then randomly stamped patches of a Sarah Hurley text stamp. Then I dry - embossed with a Tim Holtz sunray folder. I found a crowd scene silhouette on the internet and traced and cut it on my Silhouette  Cameo. The sentiment is by Hero Arts. 

I hope you'll create any kind of masculine card and join us at City Crafter.  Please do visit the challenge blog, see what the rest of the team have done and meet our Guest Designer , Dana . 

I'd like to enter:

Simon Says Stamp Monday no ordinary paper (glossy cs for alcohol inks) 

Cardz4Guyz  something beginning with T ( text stamp and Tim Holtz embossing folder) 

Scribbles Designs  birthday bonanza 

Guest Designer at Crafty Boots

Today I am honoured to be Guest Designer at Crafty Boots.  This is because I won their sketch challenge - here is the sketch:

and here is my winning card: 

I think you can see what I've done here! The current challenge at Crafty Boots  is Christmas in July , so I made a Christmas version of my winning card. I hope that's not too boring! 

On my Silhouette Cameo, I turned some pictures of tree baubles into sketches and, using a pen instead of a blade, sketched them , and the 'stitching' onto card. I coloured them with markers and then stamped random Christmas words and numbers. I added a die cut sentiment and some gems. 

I hope you like it and I hope you will join in with the challenge at Crafty Boots.  Thanks for having me as Guest Designer! 

I'd like to enter:
Christmas Card Challenges anything goes
Dragonfly Journeys Christmas in July
That Craft Place words

Make My Monday - Flowers

Our Make My Monday challenge this week is 'Flowers'. How easy is that?

For my DT card I used a digi from A Day For Daisies, a sentiment I made on the p.c and magazine freebie papers.  The fairy wings are glittery too.

This will be our last challenge at Make My Monday until September, when we will be relaunching with our new Design Team members.  I hope you will make a floral project and join us at Make My Monday. 

I'd like to enter:
Simply Create Too  for a precious child
Chocolate, Coffee and Cards a flower in your image
Fantasy Stampers  pretty petals
Moving along with the times  baby
Come and Get it  fairies

Happy Birthday Stella

Today at City Crafter  we are celebrating Stella's birthday. I mailed this card to her a few days ago so if you haven;t received it yet, Stella, it's on its way.

I used a star stencil which I inked through and then stamped through with ink blob stamps in shades of blue/turquoise, aqua. Then I embossed the star with a mix of clear and holographic embossing powder.  The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

Stella, Happy Birthday. I hope you have a great day.

I'd like to enter
A Gem of a Challenge  birthday
Dream Valley  embossing wet or dry (I've used both)
That's Crafty  stencil