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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Another new hobby

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

I'm sorry everyone but I think I've caught the colouring bug.  I have 3 adult colouring books for a few months now bringing them out looking at them and then closing them again.  Well I decided to take the bull by the horns and start colouring the Secret Garden one in.  My hubby bought me the Harry Potter one for Christmas and the other ones I have are from the Johanna Basford collection -

Enchanted Forest

Secret Garden 

Lost Ocean

Here are a few photos of my colouring so far.

I must admit when I colouring I'm so relaxed and I am sleeping better at night.  So now I have to say that it is another hobby to add to the rest.

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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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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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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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Winter Wonderland

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

Theme: Buttons

My card is made from a piece of white card stock 15cm x 15cm layered with a piece of purple card and pattern paper.

The poinsettia and foliage is cut out of glitter card, the centre I made out of faux pearls and a little wire.

My digi image is coloured in with Spectrum Noir Pencils and I used a Glitter clear gel pen to glitter up the fur of her hood and the cuffs on her sleeves.  

Down the side of my card I embossed a row of buttons and attached a small button at either end.

Our sponsor this week is

Morgans Art Stamps

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Items Used:-

Winter Didi Image from our above sponsors

White and purple glitter card

Pattern paper from Trimcraft - Dreamcatcher

Spellbinders Dies - Layered Poinsettia, Floral Ovals

Tattered Lace - Lavish Blooms Leaves - Beautiful Blooms

Buttons from my stash

Provocraft embossing board - Just my types

Spectrum Noir Pencils

Double sided Tape

Cosmic Shimmer pva glue

Dovecraft Crystal glitter glue

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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

Sassy Studio

  

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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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Shaving Foam Card

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

Theme: No Designer Paper

On my card this week I used a background die and cut a strip out of my card and placed a piece of lilac card stock behind it and also you can see the die in the below photo.

 

My pearls are done using the Cosmic Shimmer Coloured pva glue and also the corners of my card.

My background paper is using the shaving foam technique using distress reinkers, this was the first time I have done it and I really enjoyed this technique. 

I used a spellbinders die to cut my image and also cut out a lilac piece to mat my image to.  I coloured this using my Spectrum Noir pencils and went round the outside edge with dusty concord distress ink.

My image is from our sponsor

Morgan's Art

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Items used :-       

Image - Fairy and Baby Dragon

Spectrum Noir Blending Pencils

Cosmic Shimmer Coloured pva - Purple Violet

Cosmic Shimmer pva

Spellbinders labels 28  

Tonic Clematis Vine - Simply Screens Die

Lilac Card stock

Encaustic Card Stock - white

Shaving Foam

Distress Reinkers - Evergreen Bough, Squeezed Lemonade, Picked Raspberry, Shaded Lilac, 

Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord

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Happy Christmas

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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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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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