Counting the days

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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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Karen Xxx

Let's fly away!

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

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

Theme: Balloons

Items used:-

Image from All Dressed up 

"Follow you dreams"

Ribbons from Stampinup

Blue flat back pearl gems

Sizzix circle dies

Paperstack - free from magazine - "Let's fly away"

Black Promarker

Steadtler/Crayola colouring pencils

Tattered Lace - Gtefold border dies "Charming Edge"

Cosmic shimmer PVA Glue

1mm Jumbo foam roll

Base card - white card stock

Distress ink 

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Karen Xxx

Happy Easter

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

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

Theme: Spring

So here is my card for this week

The card base is 8 x 4.5" and is white card stock.  I cut the front of the card away leaving about 1/2" at the top to attach the acetate too.  I cut two strips of the patterned paper from the stack and used a Martha Stewart border punch - doily lace and the seep edge border punch - Eyelet lace.

The sentiment was made using a Alphabet Die set from Quickutz (apologies but I don't remember which one).  The card stock was white coloured with distress ink "Victorian Velvet")

The flowers are cherry blossoms from Wild Orchard Crafts and the leaves were cut from green patterned paper using Spellbinders little leaf set

The photo above shows up close how the acetate sits nicely on the front of the card and i have mirrored the back of the acetate with the front with patterned paper.  The insert of the card is out of the same patterned paper and when it is going to be sent out I will insert a verse.

I coloured my image with Crayola Coloured pencils and layered onto a die from Sizzix Circles and Spellbinders Lacy Circles.  

Sponsor - Star Stampz

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Prize -  3 digi images of winners choice

Items Used -

Image - Spring Ladybug

White card stock

Project clear acetate

Quickutz Alphabet

Cherry Blossoms from Wild Orchard Crafts

Patterned paper - Spring Feast

1st edition paper by Mindy Terasawa

Spellbinders Dies - Little Leaf Set and Lacy Circles

Sizzix Circles

Small 2mm stars and circles gems

Martha Stewart border punch - Eyelet Lace

Martha Stewart Deep Edger Border Punch - Doily Lace

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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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Best Wishes

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

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

Theme: Anything Goes

I have made this card with a winter birthday theme in mind and it turned out not too bad but the image would also be able to be used for a Christmas card as well.

This card is a square approx 6 x 6 size, I folded the top right hand corner back and put layers of patterned paper and card stock on it.

I coloured this image in with my daughters coloured pencils - Staedtler ergosoft pencils and it didn't turn out to bad, layered in on orange card stock.

I stamped my sentiment in coffee archival ink and matted and layered it in the same colours as the card was done and attached it with 3D foam tape.

Items used:-

Image from sponsors - In the cold

Steadtler Ergosoft Pencils

Red, orange and white card stock

Blue paper (magazine freebie)

Red self adhesive pearls 4mm/2mm

Striped patterned paper - Very Merry by Imagine That

Red grosgrain ribbon from Stampin Up

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

Double sided tape

Archival Ink - Coffee

Best Wishes stamp (another magazine freebie)

1mm 3D foam tape

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Candy Cane Wishes .....

Happy Christmas everyone and welcome to my blog.

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

Theme: Christmas

Candy cane were made out of air dry clay with a metal snowflake embellishment

The little gingerbread man was made using brown air dry clay.

The sentiment is apart of the digi stamp set from our sponsors.

The image is from our sponsors and coloured in with Spectrum Noir blending coloured pencils and mounted onto to blue card.

Sponsors - Stitchy Bear Stamps

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Items Used:-

Lilac blue and white card stock

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

Double sided tape

Spectrum Noir Blending pencils

Air dry clay - red, white and brown

snowflake charms

Spellbinder dies

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Ribbons and buttons card

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

It Friday and its time for another challenge from

Brown Sugar.

To be honest this isn't my week for a DT post but because I was so late with last weeks project I thought it would be only fair I done one for this week challenge.  So here it is:-

Ribbon - Stampin Up

Card stock - pink and blue

Pattern Paper from Stock

Die - Spellbinders

Clear Gems

Button

Our sponsor this week is

Lace Sunshine Stamps

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Engagement

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 Celebrations.

List of items used

White card stock for base layer

Image is from our sponsors printed onto to Neenah card 

Silver mirror card 

Embossing bord by Sue Wilson

Promarkers to colour image

Iridescent glitter for dress and bow tie

Blue satin ribbon down the left side

white organza ribbon down the side and bow

 (the bow is made with the new bow maker from crafting co)

the bling in the centre of bow is from wild orchid crafts

Clear gems - these are about 5-7mm in size

Tumbled glass distress ink around the edge of both the white base card 

And also the sentiment

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Prize - 3 Digi images of winners choice

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Karen Xxx

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