Going Monochrome

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

Theme: Monochrome

Here is my interpretation of Monochrome, this is a 6 x 6 card with a piece of patterned paper from my stash.  I took a piece of black card and punch a border with a tonic lever punch, and embellished with a silver bling border, the topper is coloured with pencils and blended with Spectrum Noir blending solution, layered on black card. Sentiment is stamped using a black versafine ink pad.

Items Used

white and black card stock

Black distress ink

Crayola/Steadtler/SN colouring pencils

cosmic shimmer PVS glue

silver bling ribbon

Tonic border lever punch

Spectrum Noir blending solution

Black versafine ink pad

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Karen Xxx

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

My Besties

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New Baby Girl

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

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

Theme: Cute and Cuddley

So here is my card for this week

The base card is 7.5 x 7.5 and made out of A4 pink card stock x 2, its layered with a patterned paper from K & Company, Baby Girl.  Then layer four pink card 3.25" x 3.25" with patterned paper from the same paper pad. 

The cherry blossom flowers and rose leaves are from Wild Orchard Crafts and the charm "It's a Girl" is from Creative charms out of my stash.

It the bottom right hand corner and also the top left hand corner I have attached 3 pink buttons.

The image is coloured in with Crayola pencils and die cut with Sizzix circles and mounted onto a Decorative Circle from Spellbinder Grand selection.  The sentiment is from a free set I got with a magazine and stamped using archival ink pad "Sepia". Punched out of whited card and mounted onto a piece of patterned paper from the same pad. 

Sponsor  -  Stitchy Bear 

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Items used -

Image - My Pillow from sponsor
Pink and white card stock
Patterned paper - K & Company - Scrap to go
Baby Girl
Pink buttons from stash
Creative Charms - "It's a Girl"
two tone cherry blossoms, rose leaves from Wild Orchard Crafts
Stampin up Punch - Scallop Circle and
Circle 1 3/8"
Crayola Coloured pencils
Cosmic shimmer glue
1 mm Foam Roll
"New Baby" sentiment from special occasions from a
free stamp set
Spellbinders Grand Decorative Circles

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Aubery wishes you a Happy Birthday

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

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

Theme: Brown, black and blue

This weeks card I found quite easy to do as I didnt have to colour the image, my base card is kraft card stock layer with a piece of black card and then my patterned paper edges with a mix of vintage photo and hickory smoke distress ink.

The piece of brown card stock from my bits box was embossed with a happy birthday embossing folder and then i lighlty rubbed a victage photo over the top.  When I attached it onto my layers I attached to wee silver tool charms on with hot glue.  The happy birthday sentiment is stamped with faded jeans distress ink and I went over it lightly with a paint brush to fill in the bit that was missed.

This photo shows the little of the inside of the card with is black, blue and brown card stock layered with a matching piece of patterned paper as the top layer.  

I didnt have to colour in my image this week as I requested one already coloured and it was the perfect colours for our challenge.  The image it from our sponsors

Dr Digi's

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Happy Birthday Princess

Good morning everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its starting to get a little colder here and its well seen as I have the pleasure of a sore throat and a bit of a cough. 

Well were at the end of another week and that means we have another wonderful challenge from 

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog.

Our theme this week is - Anything Goes

My image this week is  BBKakes - Flora Fae and colour

with my promarkers.

White card is used for the base card and for my image and sentiment.

I used blue card stock using stormy sky distress ink around the edge, embossed

with tiny dot from spellbinders.  Stamped and embossed with a christmas reindeer, believe is or not as I started out making this as a christmas card.

the flowers and made from blue and white card stock using the bity blossoms die from spellbinders, the folage is a tattered lace die also cut out of blue and white card.

The bow is made with cream seam binding coloured with the stormy sky distress ink with a wild orchid bling in the middle.

I used little bling gems above and below the sentiment.

Our sponsors this week is 

Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet

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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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#105 Brown Sugar Challenge

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Its hard to believe that we are into a new month already, is it me or does anyone else think this year is flying by.  Well dear I say it, its Friday again and its time now for another challenge for Brown Sugar.

Our theme this week is Colour.

So here is my project -

The size of this card is not quite 6x6.  I am trying to use up what I've got in my stash so I apologise for not knowing the brand of the patterned paper I used and I thought it was the closet to the colour palette we had to used.  The image from our sponsors was coloured in with my promarkers and I attached yellow card candy to highlight the flower centres.  It was mounted onto a decorative circle from Spellbinders and then mounted onto blue card stock from my stash.  The flowers are from wild orchid crafts.

The kraft and blue flourishes are from a Spellbinders D-lites die - Corner Sprigs and the little flower in the bottom right had corner was made with Spellbinders D-lites die - Blooms 2 the centre is a blob of 3d collal glue with glitter over the top.  The birthday wishes stamp is from a freebie collection I received in a magazine stamped onto kraft card and punched out with a stampin up label punch.  The bling swirl is from a set I got out of Works bookshop ages ago and never used.

 Our Sponsors this week is

Robyn's Fetish

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Prize - 3 digi images of winners choice

Entered challenges -           Sister Act Card Challenge

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Karen Xxx