Monthly Archives: March 2010

A bit of Manga for Ceara

card, digital stamp, Manga, Oriental
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It is Ceara’s 18th birthday soon and I know she likes Manga style art and I have tried to emulate Ceara’s hair colour (although it changes every time I see her) hence the kind of red/purple mix – and would you believe it – she has gone brown again!
The digital stamp image is called FuwaFuwa created by CupuDOTexe: printed then coloured using copic pens. I heat set the ink just in case is smudged while colouring with the copics.Inks: black document, Memento rhubarb stalk (for edges)
Card: white card, Yuzen paper, origami paper, purple pearlescent card
Stamps: Elusive images Bookmark plate (greeting), digit stamp FuwaFuwa
Other: gem, stickles, copic pens, ribbon, mizuhiki cord, lucky kitty and blossom stickers, origami crane (for longevity)

Connell’s penny slider card

card, Connell, penny slider
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This card has a gap to enable the football to slide from side to side. The slider is just made up of two pennies held together via a magnet (hence the name of a penny slider card).

Inks: Black document ink
Card: white card, black card, football paper
Stamps: Snoopy footballer image was from a previous swap, football from Dimension Fourth Ltd
Other: Rock candy distress stickles, two pennies, tiny magnet, black peel-off stars, 3D foam strips

CBC ATC swaps theme – Easter or spring

ATC, CBC swap, easter, spring

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My two swaps for the CBC ATC swap for March are coloured using water colour pencils and soufflé pens with the addition of a few dabs of stickles.

Inks: black document ink
Card: white card, patterned paper for the vans
Stamps: Stampin up Loads of love and Pocket silhouettes, Woodware Nature fun
Other: pale blue brads, pale green tiny rik-rak, lucky rabbit stickers, diamond glaze

CBC Spring and Birthday challenge 2010 – Another sketch

another sketch, card, CBC spring and birthday challenge

caughtBug sketch

This challenge is to make a card based on a sketch and for bonus points add a rub-on and something with wings. I have flipped the sketch over (mirror image) and turned it to portrait position. The rub- on is the coppery coloured circle on the folded over corner (it is actually concentric circles but the large brad cover a couple of them). Ladybirds fly (wings are under their elytra) but their wings are not shown here so I am not sure if this counts.

CBC Spring and Birthday challenge 2010 – A recipe and Cut it out

CBC spring and birthday challenge, cut it out, recipe

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Yes I know it is anther poor photograph – it looks much nicer in real life (honest!)
I have put this layout together to conform to two of the challenges: to a recipe that must include a brad, arrow and some doodling, and -Cut it out which states that you must cut something out more than once.
I doodled the clouds and cut them out, there are two brads and a clear arrow (sponges lightly with white and blue but you can’t tell from this photo).

Mother’s day Card

mothers day card

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Nothing to do with the CBC challenge this time but a card for Harry’s mum.
The back ground is painted onto pale blue card then run through a cuttle bug folder. The raised parts were then dabbed with Brilliance lightning black (which looks a bit like old gold).

Inks: Black document ink, Brilliance poppy, lightning black and olive
Card: pale blue, pink, black and white
Stamps: free heart with bird stamp from craft stamper mag, Stampers anonymous Urban tapestry.Autumn leaves On the edge Katie Pertiet, text unknown stamp
Other: cuttle bug folder, peel-off musical notes, glossy accents on the heart

CBC Spring and Birthday challenge 2010 – 10 from 1 (cards)

10 from 1, card, CBC spring and birthday challenge

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birthdayCat
multiColFrame
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Wow I have spent almost all day making cards but have only come up with 5 for this challenge so far. The challenge is to use 1 item (I have used a Michael Strong’s Mozaic frame stamp) to make 10 different cards. I was going to photograph them in a group but some have very shiny mirror card and I had to many reflections going on everywhere.
The 3rd one down has silver mirror card as a matt and the bottom 2 have gold mirror card but they haven’t photographed well.
I will add the next 5 tomorrow once they are made.

CBC Spring and Birthday challenge 2010 – Clothes that crease

card, CBC spring and birthday challenge, clothes that crease

shoesGatefold
trifoldClothes

This challenge is to make two card with a fashion/clothes theme but to have more than one crease (fold). I have made a ladies gate fold and a gent’s tri-shutter card.
The colour doesn’t show up too well in my photos but they are nice and bright in real life.
For the shoes card I used white and blue card, bashful blue and black ink, copics to colour. The stamps are Stampin up dotty background and See D’s Domestic Goddess.
For the tri-shutter card I used stampin up paper and card, creamy caramel and chocolate chip ink. The top and bottom stamps are from The Artistic Stamper Ephemera and the clothes and watch are from a stamped image swap over on CBC. The images are coloured using watercolour pencils.

CBC Spring and Birthday challenge 2010 – Book it

book it, CBC spring and birthday challenge

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I have been meaning to make one of these for ages and this challenge gave me the kick start I needed. The challenge states that you must make a book from scratch,decorate the cover and some pages. After seeing Barbara Gray demonstrate this technique for masking the centre and sponging the edges I got the idea for the pages. I made this using an old one as a bit of a guide then added 10 pages (all the same). The pages are perforated along two lines. You tear the bookmark piece off and give it to the borrower and you can tear the other portion off once it is returned or you can leave it in if you want to keep a record.

I used plain white card, Brilliance olive, Distress ink shabby shutters and black document ink and lime stickles. The stamps are: Anna Griffin alphabet (plus a smaller one), R.S tapestry clear (fern) and Autumn leaves on the edge Katie Pertiet. For the perforations I used the fabby Stampin up cutter kit tool.