Happy April Fools

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Firstly can I apologise for this blog post being late, its been a little hectic in our household this week, packing the husband off for a few days and then one of my fur babies getting herself hurt.  This meant multiple trips to the vets, resulting in surgery on Monday morning.  So here is my card for this week Brown Sugar Challenge.

The card base was 6 x 6 white and layered with patterned paper.  The image was coloured with pencils and cut with a spellbinders lacy die and using a pair of scissors I cut the lace part off.

I handmade the flowers from a spellbinders bloom die and added a little glitter glue to the tips of the petals to make them sparkle.

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Items Used

white, orange and white cardstock

patterned paper - Papermania Hampstead, A warm welcome

crayola and steadtler coloured pencils

spellbinders - lacy circles and Blooms Number 3

tattered lace - beautiful blooms

cosmic shimmer glue

1mm foam tape

dovecraft glitter glue

8mm flat backed pearls

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Karen Xxx

Clay Creations

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Say hello to Little Miss

Oh what can I say I have started play with some polymer clay that I purchased a long time ago and this is my second little figure the first one was Easter related which I will blog later.  If I was honest this clay was purchased while I was off recovering from my op (oh my that will be 3 years in August this year).  I have been inspired by a lovely lady who appears on Create and Craft call Kathryn Sturrock, she has a real gift for this crafting material and makes some fantastic creations, her website is Karacter Krafts, also drop by her Facebook page Sugar Buttons

Another lady I have been watching lady in Jan Clement May, this is a take on a figure that is in one of her books Sugar Figures.  This lady works with sugar paste and makes figures for her cakes. 

My plan is to make some different figures to use as cake toppers and sell them through my blog, Etsy or eBay sites, but as I have just taken up this craft I think a little practise first, lol.  Keep an eye out for my Easter project which I will blog in the next day or two.

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Happy Easter

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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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New Baby Girl

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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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Baseball Cuties - Happy Birthday

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

Theme: Anything goes

So here is my card for this week

I the photo below I used a sentiment die "Happy Birthday" from Cheery Lynn, cut out in black card and using cosmic shimmer glue to the bottom right hand side of the card.

The green and brown patterned paper was from My Minds Eye, Totally Girl 2009 collection and the border was "Doily Lace" from Martha Stewart.

In the top left hand corner I put a bling swirl.  It was a crystal clear and by using a promarker in the colour gold I changed the colour to match the bling on either side of the image. 

A piece of white card was used and coloured with a distress ink "Victorian Velvet".  I used a die which I got free from a magazine, it was a 3D swirl then rolled into the flowers.  The leaves were from a set from Tattered Lace, "Lavish Bloom Leaves"

I coloured my image with Crayola Coloured pencils and layered onto a rusty brown patterned paper.  

Sponsor - Oddball Art Co.

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Items used

Image - Ya Goin Down Baseball Cuties

Cream hammered card stock

Martha Stewart border punch - doily lace

Zva Creative self adhesive crystal swirl

Promarker - Gold

5mm Clear Gems

Crayola coloured pencils

patterned paper - MYE, Totally Girl 2009 Collection

from Jen Wilson

Tattered Lace - Lavish Bloom Leaves

Flower 3D Swirl - free from magazine

Cosmic shimmer glue

white card stock

Distress ink - Victorian Velvet

Gold Diamante Ribbon

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Love My Sister - I Love You

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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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Aubery wishes you a Happy Birthday

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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

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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

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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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