Counting the days

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar  we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Anything Goes

This is my project for this weeks challenge on brown sugar, I decided to make a plague for a bride to be.  I have two nieces that got engaged this year.  One getting married in two years time and one getting married in four years time.

This is a piece of mount board which i received from my neighbour as he is a picture framer and these were left over pieces.  i painted it with chalk paint then went over it with Mod podge sparkle medium, Took the image that I received from our sponsor and enlarged it.  Painted the heart with blackboard paint went round it with clear glue from a glue gun and then while it was warm sprinkle from silver glitter over it.  Coloured the flowers in with pencils and the coated them with Mod podge gloss-lustre.  The bow is made with a free die I received from a magazine and the letters are from various dies.  In the bottom corners i used aged silver embossing enamel to give it a wee bit of a aged look.

Items used

white mount board

Cosmic shimmer Chalk paint natural stone

Mod podge sparkle medium

Mod podge gloss lustre medium

Deco art chalkboard paint

Stampendous aged silver embossing enamel

Sizzix Alphabet Curlie Girl Dies

Quickutz alphabet dies

bow die free from magazine

Steadtler/Crayola coloured pencils

Cosmic shimmer pva glue

brown garden twine

Clear hot glue stick

Crafters Companion silver glitter

Hearts die from Creative Expressions shadow box accessory - Mr & Mrs

Image - Heart with tulips from our

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To the Birthday Girl

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Anything Goes

So here is my card for this week

This weeks card is has a white card base size 7" x 7" matted with pink card stock and then layered with patterned paper from the Big Girl collection.  The image is from our Sponsors below and coloured in using a few different brands, Spectrum Noir blending pencils and Steadlter ergo soft pencils blended using the Spectrum Noir Blending fluid.  The flowers are made from a Spellbinder floral dies with a red gem in the centre.  The sentiment is stamped using Versafine Vintage Sepia.

Items used

Image from our Sponsors -

Stamps Big Eye Big Head Dolls Messy Bessy IMG824 My Besties By Sherri Baldy

Pink, Brown, White card stock

Pattern paper from My Minds Eye, Big Girl collection

5mm Red gems

Versafine Vintage Sepia ink pad

Spectrum Noir Blending Pencils

Steadtler Ergo Soft Pencils

Sentiment stamp from Creative Expression 

Spellbinders Blooms 3 and flourish is from Jewel flowers & flourishes

Tattered Lace Beautiful Blooms

Vintage Lace

Collall Photoglue

Our Sponsor this week is

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Love My Sister - I Love You

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Valentine

My card today is an easel card.  The base card is made with kraft card stock cut using a Spellbinders dies Grand labels one.

As you can see from the photo I folded the front of my card in half and then attached another die cut on the top of one half.

The patterned paper that I used was Scrumptious Collection from papermania.

The heart I cut from the Patterned paper using Media Mixage heart 1 dies. which I attached with a foam pad on top of lace and a piece of pink ribbon from Stampin up.

The image was coloured in with steadtler/Spectrum coloured pencils and cut with spellbinders Labels 28 die and layered onto two of the larger sizes. My image is from our sponsors and the image is called Love my Sister.

Sponsors - All Dressed Up Stamps

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Items Used
Patterned Paper from Papermania - Scrumptious Collection
Heart Pink Gems
Stampin Up Pink Grosgrain Ribbon
Vintage Lace from stash
Paper Doily
Spellbinders Dies - Grand Labels One
                 Labels 28
                                   Media Mixage Hearts 1
Distress Ink - Antique Linen
Staedler Ergosoft 157 pencils
Spectrum Blending Pencils

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Bookfolding Our Alfie

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My post today is something I done for my neice Megan.  She has a big Siberian Husky which is a bit (to say the least) silly but a loveable big boy.

I went to a charity shop in Belfast that was selling really old books for the library I think it was £1 for 3. 

I took the photo below and made a siloutte of it and put it into the B.A.D.S Bookfolding program with a lot of tweaking and with the help of another program I eventually got it done. I backed it with some patterned paper from My Minds Eye and printed off the two photos and attached them to the front and back.  The photo above is one of my favourites of him wearing Megans sunglasses.

So I had some chipboard letters and inked round the edge with Hickory smoke and attached a sunglasses charm onto one of the letters.

The flowers are made with a design which I saw on Create and craft I think it was Debbie Moore that demstrated it.  I used scraps from the patterned paper and some of the book paper that I took out of the book. The green leaves were cut out of scrap card stock from my stash.

I used a little piece of blue ribbon for his collar and two little bone brads on each corner.

The ribbon at the bottom is a piece of white seam binding and I used a printer thingy I got years ago that can print borders and images. I used again Hickory smoke distress ink and sponged lightly on the edge to highlight the image better.

Items Used:-

an old book from charity book shop

B.A.D.S. Book folding Program

Hickory Smoke Distress Ink

Chipboard Letters from Comstock Circus Collection from We Are Memory Keepers

Patterned papers - Boy Collection from My Minds Eye

Flowers are made from scraps of the above collections and book paper

Bone Brads from Zippy ow Woo/Meow Collection by Sue Zipkin

Leaves are from scrap green card stock

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

Double sided tape and Hot glue

little piece of blue ribbon from stampin up

white seam binding from Creative Expressions

Silver sunglasses charm

Xyron printer for the paw prints

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Time to Celebrate

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Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Pearls

The card size is 7 x 5 white card base, a piece of pattern paper layered onto pink glitter card.  Using a  WRMK corner chomper I rounded the corners of all my layers as well as my card case.

The sentiment was stamped with archival ink in coffee as I thought the black was a little to harsh.  I made my border using patterned paper out of the same paper pack, layered onto a grey card stock and the border edge was made using a corner punch then I added the pearls.

I used some gel sparkle pens and spectrum pencils to colour in the hair.  

My image is from our Sponsor

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Prize - 4 Digi images of winners choice

Items used :-       

Image - Buttercream Babe - Mad Hatter Digi Stamp

Pattern paper from Dovecraft Designer Pack - Funky Vintage

Spectrum Noir Blending Pencils

Cosmic Shimmer pva

Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A & B Dies

Grey tone Card stock

White card stock

Pink Glitter Card stock

Sparkle gel pens - assorted colours

Adhesive Pearls

Double sided tape

Sentiment from Angelica and Friends Florence set

Ranger Archival Ink - Coffee

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Happy Christmas

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

This card I made and used it to apply for Creative Expressions DT Call last month, I unfortunately didn't get shortlisted this time but there is always next year.

I kept it a red and white theme running through my card and a little crystal glitter glue.

This is a die I got free with a magazine a few weeks ago and it cuts beautifully.

I think I will keep this card and give it to my mum and dad for Christmas, usually I put them in a box and give them to my local favoured charity.

Items used:-

Red and white card stock

Spellbinders - Fancy Lattice, Layered poinsettia and A2 matting basics A & B

Couture creations - Wild poinsettia embossing folder

3,5,8 mm White Adhesive pearls from Creative Expressions

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

1mm 3D foam tape

Happy Christmas die from Creative Dies

Dovecraft crystal glitter glue

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Take Flight

Brown Sugar Challenge #168

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

Over at Brown Sugar we have a new challenge starting today.

Theme: Purple and Green

I used a die to cut this design out of green card stock from my stash and then I backed it with purple card behind.  I also did a second cut of this die out in the same purple card and just used the pop out of it for the centre.  I also embossed the dies to bring out the little flowers and swirls that are on the die.

I stamped the feathers using distress ink on the same purple and green card stock and attached them with Cosmic shimmer pva glue.  I curled the tops of the feathers to give them a 3D affect and the same with the butterfly, using the glue on the body leaving the wings to 3D.

I used dies to cut my butterflies out and the large die was cut from again the same purple and green card stock.  I took the green butterfly and cut it down and attached it to the purple one applying the glue down the body of the butterfly.  The same idea was done with the smaller one and I cut the body of the small green butterfly and attached it to the purple one flat with pva.  I also placed little lilac gems around the card on the centers of the embossed flowers.

I stamped with a distressed ink and then using a spellbinders die cut out the same, before taking it out of the die I went around the edge of it with the same ink, this enhanced the border of the die.  I used the next sized die up and cut it out in the purple card stock and used my pva glue to attached the two layers together and to my card.

List of my items used:-

Spellbinders Labels 4 (large and small)

Crafters Companion Die'Sire Floral Melody die

Ranger Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord

Creative Expression Cosmic Shimmer pva Glue

Emerald Dies from Hochanda - Butterfly Dance EDIC-BDAN - using both dies

Hot off the Press - Feathers stamp set and die

White Card Stock for base

Purple and Green Card Stock

Lilac gems from stash

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The Golden Year

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My apologies I had this layout completed well over a week and a half ago but due to a family bereavement I didn't get it posted on my blog.

This scrapbook layout of a couple that is very dear to me.  Can I introduce to you my lovely parents. They are always there for me no matter when I ring them for help they drop everything and come over.   These two people were and still are my role models in my life growing up and still to this day, they had a hard working life, so myself, my brothers and sister so that we could have what we needed, which we all appreciated very much and still do.

This started off at as a plain white 12 x 12 card stock and I painted it with gold Tonic Nuvo paint with a kitchen scourer to give it a little texture.

I'm not sure if you can see, but in the background I have used a corner stamp with the same paint and I also stamped the opposite corner.  I also stamped Happy 50th Anniversary with versamark ink pad and used gold embossing powder over the top.  Before I stamp it I rubbed the card with an anti static card so that the powder only adhered to the ink and not my mucky painty paw prints, lol.  I also done mum and dad this way.  The little birds are cut from the die which you will see in the last photo.

In behind the photo I have made a journal card and used a Spellbinder border on the edge, trimmed with a very fine strip of gold card. Inked with Vintage Photo along the edge.

Its have to believe that my dad is 76 years young in this photo and my mum is 71 years young.

I have took a piece of  white lace and again used the paint on it to change the colour and placed this right across the page and attached the number of 50 cut out of gold card.  This photo of my parents was took on there wedding day, as you can see they have changed much over the years.

I cut these balloons out of chipboard using a sizzix die putting it through my big shot.  I covered it in glue and put some gilding flakes over the top.  Again putting another number 50 on the top and a little gold heart below.  Using some bakers twine from creative expressions from the vintage selection, as I thought it looked a little golden for the strings.  I was trying to make the balloons look as if they were floating.

Now in this last photo it shows you the year, I had a little problem when it came to this part of my layout as I didn't have number stamps let alone stamps of this size.  I cut these numbers out of funky foam to create my stamps, they are about an inch high.  I adhered them with some stick and spray a repositional glue onto a acrylic block and place the numbers onto it.  It took a few tries on scrap paper to get it right on the block, but I must admit it came together rather well.  I stamp the images with the versamark ink pad and used again gold embossing powder over the top and used my heat gun to seal the powder.  The little heart die was a freebie from a craft magazine I bought at my local supermarket and cut it out of gold mirri card stock.

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Little Pixie

Hi everyone

Its long past Friday, but its a new challenge for 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

Apologies for being so late with my DT post,  I couldn't find my digi image, then I couldn't decide what colour scheme I want and finally deciding what to do with the image.

So here what I have come up with

Our theme this week is Triangles

This week I thought I would do a layout just using the digi image, which you will find in our sponsors website.

The triangles in my project are my flowers are formed in the shape of a triangle and the pearls in the top right hand corner as well

The items I used in this layout are

12 x 12 paper from Trimcraft Santoro Merigirl

Promarker to colour image - Lime Green, Ivory, Blush and Caramel

Fleximarkers - Surf Blue, Soft Mauve,Tea Rose

Flowers - Wild Orchard Crafts

Bling - Creative Expression Pearl Swirls

Ribbon -Grosgrain from Stampin Up - Crushed Olive

Lace from Stash

Glue - Hot Glue and Cosmic Shimmer PVA

Die - Spellbinders - Grand Decorative Ovals

Distress Ink Pads - Shabby Shutters, Victorian Velvet, Milled Lavender

Our sponsors this week is

Scrapper Delights

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Happy Birthday - #107 Anything Goes

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog.

It's Friday and that means it time for another challenge with

Brown Sugar

Our theme this week is Anything Goes.

Here is a list of supplies used to make the above card

White base card - size 6 x 5 1/4 

Spellbinder Dies - blooms 3

Tattered Lace - Foliage and Beautiful Blooms

Sizzix Frame Die

Stampin Up scallop circle punch

Faux pearl beads sizes 6 & 4 mm

Pearl flourish from Zva Creative

Versatile ink pad - sepia

Papers were free from a magazine I bought

Glue - Cosmic Shimmer

Promarkers to colour the image in

Image - Travelling Madeline from

MilkCoffee Digi Stamps

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#103 - Brown Sugar Challenge - Sand and Sea

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its Friday and its time for another challenge from 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

By the time this is uploaded to the site I will probably be sitting in a lovely boring airport waiting to fly home from my holidays in tenerife.  The weather was fantastic and with limited wifi access I have eventually got this post wrote.

Our theme for this weeks challenge is

Sea & Sand

In this weeks card I used an image from our sponsors and coloured in with promarkers.  It was cut out with Spellbinders die and mounted onto blue card.  The pattern paper comes from a selection of DCWV papers I got through QVC embellished with some self adhesive stickers and gems, mounted onto kraft card stock.

Sponsors - Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

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Wishing you well - Challenge #101 on Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Well Its Friday again and wow we're into another new month, I do believe this year is going faster as each new month appears.

This week we have another new challenge on the 

Brown Sugar Blog

Our theme is - Anything Goes

List of crafty stash used to make this project

• Spellbinders dies - Di-lites Blooms and Foliage
• Tattered Lace - Corner foliage die
• Stampin up adhesive pearls
• Promarkers and flexmarkers - chartreuse, terracotta, burnt orange, aniseed, tan and caramel
• Distress Ink pads - stormy shy and mowed lawn
• Creative Expressions Vintage green bakers twine
• Faux round pearls from my stash 8, 6, 4 mm
• Card stock - green, yellow and brown from my stash and cream for my base card.
• Ribbon - creamy yellow in colour again from my stash
• Pattern Paper from a free collection I received in a magazine.

Our sponsors this week are

Robyn's Fetish

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