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

Sponsor -Robyn's Fetish

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Karen Xxx

Bookfolding Our Alfie

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.

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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Karen

Xxx

Charity Cards

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Here are a few cards I have ready for my local charity shop

Marie Currie

I don't know whether its my area but I find handmade cards so hard to sell here, so I decided to donate them to charity.

My mother had bowel cancer about 14 years ago and thankfully it was caught in time and she didn't need any treatment.  We didn't need these lovely nurses, but you never know, and as they are not government funded they need all the donations they can get.  Also my aunt but she wasn't so lucky and palliative care was needed.

These will be dropped into my local shop and hopefully when they put them out they have a higher success rate than myself.

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Karen Xxx

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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Karen Xxx

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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Karen Xxx

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

Store - http://stitchybearstamps.com/shop

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Karen Xxx

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

Store - http://lacysunshine.weebly.com/

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Prize - 3 Digi images of winners choice

Thank you for dropping by and for all your lovely comments,

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Brown Sugar Challenge Blog

and see the cards from the rest of the design team.

Karen Xxx