creative card crew no 31 - its a celebration

Over at CCC the challenge for this week is called it a celebration, so as i had a card i needed to make for an order, i thought it was a perfect opportunity to enter this challenge, As you can see i chose to do a congrats on the birth of your baby card, its quite simple but im fairly pleased with how it looks,

To make this card;

• papermania collossal paper pack in pastels
• dovecraft basic baby diecut
• gem brads from dovecraft
• pale blue fibres from papermania
• baby stamp from kars
• coloured with promarkers
• a5 card blank hand folded
• blue sakura stardust for faux stitching
• blue stickles

I just hope the customer likes it lol,

secret crafter challenge card

This weeks over at secret crafters saturday challenge is called fancy corners, my card is quite plain but i think there's enough on there to look nice? for my "fancy corners" i just made the corners out of brown card and used my deckle edged scissors to shape them nicely,

To make this card i used;

• dcwv retro prints backing papers
• my new stamps are from rubbernecker stamps and are called coffeetime set
• brown and cream card

this card was really easy to make and took around 15-20 minutes to make.

creative inspirations entry

This is my entry into creative inspirations challenge 15 which is tags,

This is my first successful note pad which i made with my BIA and i was overjoyed that i had done it right,

To make this card i used;

• image is tilda with slate
• coloured with beloved promarkers
• backing papers were from dovecraft retro floral paper pack
• tag was hand made using dcwv pad
• dovecraft gem brad
• blue organza ribbon from craft central
• blue gems from ebay
• white gel pen for image
• wires and card from the BIA range

What do you think???not bad for first successful attemt hey even if i do say so myself lol.

DCD challenge no 6 black and white

This is a first for me as ive only just come across die cut dreams challenge blog,but thought i would give it a go, I made this card for a friend of mine who wanted a art deco card i hope she likes it?

To make this card i used;

• divine evening decoupage
• backing paper bought from pda crafts as an a4 sheet,
• deco corner peel offs
• silver gems from ebay
• sentiments stamped from my new art deco rubber stamps from design house papercraft
• black ribbon

What do you think?

blossoms and butterflies

This is my entry to this weeks cupcake craft challenge no 48,

I made this with the following:

• Stamping up backing papers
• personal impressions cute characters set 1 stamp and greeting
• coloured with pro markers
• dcwv stickers
• peel off butterfly
• sakura stardust pens to do the faux stitching effect

creative inspirations entry card

Here is my entry for this weeks creative inspirations challenge which is a sketch but for a male card, as i dont often work with greens i thought i would give it a go with this one,

To make this card i used;

• stamping up backing papers
• circle punched out with woodware punch
• image is from pink gem designs
• coloured with promarkers
• matted and layered with thick green card
• green gems from PDA
• diecut given to me by a friend

this was a card i made at our new crafting group it took me about an hour but the image was already coloured, what do you think?

passion for promarkers 1st challenge

This card was made for a friend who asked me to make a card for her little nephew, as i really wanted to enter the first challenge on passion for promarkers i thought id colour in this little man, As this challenge has an amazing prize i couldnt miss it lol.

The colours i used on my image were ;

• Cyan and royal blue for the dungarees
• poppy an royal blue on the cap
• cocoa on his hair and the hammer handle
• gold for the hammer head an screwdriver
• pastel blue for the t shirt
• cool grey 2 for the shoes
• black for shoe laces
• ivory and blush for the skin

To make this card i used

• dovecraft kids papers
• image is mr fix it from see clear???
• cuttlebug happy birthday embossing folder
• holographic card
• die cut greeting (not sure of brand)
• glitter rub-ons from stash
• text was hand written with white sakura pen
• doodles all with sakura pens

OCC sketch

This card i made from the challenge over on our creative corner, this week its a sketch as shown above my entry, the card itself was made for my sisters upcoming birthday,

To make this card i used;

• backing paper is one of the free floral doodle printables i got from makinghandmadecards.com
• image is designs by leere and is called party girl
• crystal glamour dust stuck down by dst
• sakura pens
• water brush markers for the image
• pigment ink from hobby craft to ink up the sides
• text is see ds coloured in with sakura glaze pen
• holographic card
• pink card for the a5 card blank and matting is from papermill
• white vellum
• and gems from own stash of ebay

just ask if you want to know anything about the card.