A blue christmas..................with a splash of orange!

Hello all!
I'm still working on Christmas cards and this is another CAS looking one - even though the making of the card itself wasn't particularly simple!  I used a digi Xmas elf from the wonderful Make it Crafty and kept the colour scheme to just blue and orange, so far so simple right?  Then I decided to do some heat embossing - not something I do very often but I wanted to add some snowflakes and didn't just want to stamp them in ink alone.  I used two different rubber stamps from my stash and embossed them with Stampendous Opaque white powder, then sponging a pale blue ink pad over the whole background.  To add further interest and texture, I embossed a snowflake garland, cut using my Cameo and this was where the embossing got very messy!  I don't need to go into details but you really shouldn't have a sneezing fit when using embossing powder, especially when you're doing it near your pc keyboatd!!

                                Moving on!  The card was then finished off with a Xmas sentiment which I inked in the same background colour - it shows up far better IRL, trust me!  So, one (not so) clean and simple Christmas card finished!

 

Entering this little cutie into the challenges at -

Bearly Mine

Ladybug crafts Ink

Bunny Zoe crafts

Lady Anne's

The Crafty Bloggers

 

 

Thanks for popping in to take a look :)

Summer daydreams.

Hello all - hope your day is going well today?  We seem to have lost our sunshine here this week which makes me start thinking of how quickly summer passes - the start of the eighth month of 2012 already!  Anyway, this card reminds me of how lovely it is to sit and daydream on those perfect summer days with the sweet little image from A day for daisies and I'm putting it in for their current challenge (not a moment too soon as it ends not long from now!).
   The challenge was to use script so I turned to my old Webster's Dictionary that I picked up out junking one weekend - so useful and it was only a couple of dollars!  I also made a rolled flower from some of the same page for a matching embellishment.

I do love the ADFD images but seem to have a real problem when it comes to colouring them - they are so gorgeously simple and yet I often make a real pigs ear of it!  This one came out pretty nice though - phew......

I would also like to enter it into the following -

http://www.cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/ - great outdoors (love the name cupcake crafts!)

http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - summer fun

http://jacksonsdigitalexpressions.blogspot.ca/ - anything goes

Thanks for stopping to take a look :)

What's your number?

Well I've been busy coming up with some new digis for the Can You Digi It? shop so I thought I should at least use one for a card! 
I do have a love for text and numbers in design and have a few ideas running around in my slightly fuzzy brain at the minute.  One of them I actually managed to turn into a digi -

This is a number tile that would be perfect for a background or even as the main image.  You could highlight the age numbers you wanted with arrows, small frames or even colour.  I chose to do a general numbers theme with a computer printed sentiment on the card reading
" Whatever the number, have a great day!".

I followed the sketch for this week's retro sketches challenge for this card :-

I would also like to put it in to the following -

http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/ - eyelet/brad

http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - big birthday

http://papermakeupstamps.blogspot.com/ - seeing spots

http://www.thekraftjournal.blogspot.com/ - cards for him

Thanks so much for stopping by :)

Bloom where you are planted.

Hello for the second time today - just sneaking in under the wire with my entry for the Saturated Canary  challenge which ends in just a couple of hours!!  Phew, only just made it!

I decided to print this digi in a light grey and aim for a watercolour/washed out kind of look with the colouring as well - nothing to do with the fact that a lot of my Copics are running low on ink and I need to get some refills!!!

I actually do like the end result as it's much softer than I would have imagined  - I tend to have a heavy hand with Copics and long to achieve that wonderful distressed look so many of you manage to do (effortlessly it seems to me!).

I would also like to put this in for the following challenges -

http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.com/ - Anything goes

http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - 61, wings

http://blog.oozak.com/ - spring colours

http://scrapbitzcopics.ning.com/group/cmccopicchallengegroup - Anything goes

Many thanks for popping in :)





Just for you in red, white and blue!

And a small touch of lilac!  Couldn't put that in the title as it messed up the whole rhythm!!  We're heading back over to Cutesville with today's card and what could be cuter than those Saturated Canary digis?.  The challenge this week (here) is 'thinking of you' and I chose to use the adorable 'partyhardy' for my card.  I used the sketch from crazy4challenges current challenge - I really should use sketches more often as it saves me hours of staring at a blank piece of cardstock!  I would also like to enter this into the  ladybugs crafts ink challenge to use spots and/or stripes and the Celebrate the occasion challenge, a child's birthday card.

Thanks for stopping to take a look!

P.S - thanks for all the lovely comments you've been leaving recently - so encouraging to read :)

Purple & pink dreams

 Hey, it's the middle of the week already and the temperature is on the rise here in the Garden State :)  I'm so looking forward to Spring - I'm not a winter person and even though its been incredibly mild this winter, I can't wait for the warm and sunny days to come!
My card today is more detailed than it looks - I stamped the image Jasmin onto cardstock and acetate.  I scribbled over the cardstock image with pink and purple copics and dripped some copics blender onto it to give the effect shown and then cut out the image.  I placed the stamped acetate layer over the cardstock and attached it with the 2 flower brads at the top - I think it gives the card the look of one of those cartoon cels but it is very difficult to show in a photo.  Anyway this was done for the Stampotique challenge which is to use purple and pink with black -

I would also like to enter it for the following -

http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ - pink & girly

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://ssdschallenge.blogspot.com/ - use your stash (I've had the acetate for ages!!)

Thanks for stopping by :)