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Suzanne’s birthday card

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Happy Birthday Suzanne

Suzanne’s card was made using 3 different techniques with versamark ink.
The background was simply stamped (dots) in versamark on green card then edged all around with versamark.
The greeting involves the drop shadow technique where you stamp once with a dark colour then stamp again slightly off to one side using a lighter tone. I used a green colour for the first stamped image then versamark for the second to create the shadow.
The third technique is used on the butterfly. I stamped the butterfly in versamark ink then gently wiped chalks over the top using a cotton bud. The versamark is sticky so the chalk sticks to it creating a soft coloured effect. The branch and flowers were stamped using colourd inks and highlighted with stickles.

Inks: versamark, stampin up mellow moss, caramel and pale plum
Card: white, green
Stamps: greeting (unknown), Papertrey Ink Out on a limb, RS tapestry Nature plate 5 (butterfly)
Other: Stickles fruit punch, green brads, pink lace

Queen bee tag

bee, queen, tag, tags, uk stampers challenge

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I sooooo need a new computer! I have had so many problems with it the last few weeks I have been pulling my hair out in exasperation! I finally managed to get this photo of my ukstampers challenge ‘Q’ for queen tag on my blog after a couple of hours of swearing very loudly at the computer.

Inks: Distress inks Pine needles, peeled paint and mustard seed, black stazon, versamark with gold embossing powder
Card: Ivory card, red felt card
Stamps: Inkadinkado morphic bugs, Anna Griffin clear flourishes and crown
Other: Q brad, rub on letters, large eyelet, gems, gold and clear glitter pen, Fusible film crystal pearl (for the wings), gold pilot pen splatters

Gone training Father’s day card

card, dewdrop craftz, father's day

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This is for Harry from Chiquo (dog!). I used one of the image swaps from Dewdrop craftz. (The man with the beer).
Inks: Black memento and black document inks, copics to colour
Card: white card, Stampin up Summer picnic paper
Stamps: Dewdrop Craftz Jim just chillin, Dog’s life (unknown make)
Other: computer generated greeting and sign writing, big brad, cord, liquid appliqué for head on beer

Father’s Day Card

card, embossed foil, father's day

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Happy Father’s Day DAD!

Another card inspired by the craft stamper magazine, this time by Isabelle Norris. Isabelle made a mini album but I took a few of her ideas and incorporated them into this card.

Inks/paints: crackle paint broken china, acrylic paint; black and Prussian blue, silver, black document ink, Distress inks antique linen and frayed burlap
Card: black card, images and mini envelope from Heritage paper, silver foil,
Stamps: free Father’s day stamp from craft stamper mag.
Other: grunge board letters, silver foil covered lace (corners), silver brads, silver rubbing wax, diamond embossing folder

Party pooper tag

party pooper, tag, tags, ukstampers challenge

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This weeks ukstampers tag challenge is the letter ‘P’ for party. This is made using an image from an old postcard I was given from Chris (we share our sense of humour) and I had to borrow some stamps from Kat and Yvonne as I have no party themed stamps. Thank you Kat and Yvonne.

Inks: Black document ink, Distress ink worn lipstick, Prisma pencils and sansador to colour
Card: white card
Stamps: from Kat Stamping bella Happy birthday (balloons), from Yvonne See D’s Celebration pictures (balloons, streamers and hat) and my own scrabble letter P (unknown)
Other: computer generated text, stickles, glaze, star gem, fluffy bit for hat tassel, eyelet, image from old postcard

Whit a scunner tae be a hunner card

Bo-Bunny, card, CBC challenge, craft stamper, owl
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I WON!

Here is my entry into the CBC crew challenge CBC00100. The them is one hundred as this will be the hundredth challenge. The lorgnettes are made to look like the number 100 and ‘a hunner’ is Scots for ‘one hundred’. The prize is a couple of templates kindly donated by WS Designs. (the telephone box and DL envelope templates). Thank you everyone who voted for my card.

Inks: Archival coffee, watercolour pencils to colour image
Card: White, green textured, orange vellum, Bo-Bunny Beau jardin poppy
Stamps: free Sugar Nellie owl stamp with Craft stamper magazine
Other: googly eyes, hand made lorgnettes, sketched on branch and walking stick, flowers, white highlighting pen, computer generated text

Lizzie’s cards

Anna Griffin, card, Elusive images, inkadinkado, Lizzie, stampin up
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Happy Birthday Lizzie

I knew Lizzie had been wanting to try Willie’s delectable chocolate so I bought a little gift bag to present Willie’s chocolate and made the card and label using the same colours as the bag.

Inks: Versamark clear ink with silver embossing powder and copics to colour
Card: white card, black card, silver patterned vellum
Stamps: Stampin up Curvy verses and Yummy, Elusive images Oriental theme plate-A better place (flower), Inkadinkado Morphic bugs, Anna Griffin flourish
Other: Ribbon, dragonfly charm, gems

LizzieAnarchy

After seeing a card in the Simply cards and papercraft magazine by Su Pennick, I just had to do one similar for Lizzie from Chiquo. Lizzie used to be a punk (years ago…) so the anarchy card was a must. I used some of Su’s design ideas but changed a few things just to be different.

Inks: Distress ink Black soot, Brilliance Rocket red
Card: Black card, white crumpled paper, tartan paper
Other: chain, square brads, safety pins, black plastic (from bin linner as punks used to wear bin liners!), lolipop sticks and bottom of a bottle to stamp the symbol, computer generated greeting

ATC swap male theme

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Here is one of the ATCs for Andrea’s CBC June swap with male theme. I have used a stamped image from the DewDrop Craftz image swap.

Inks: memento black, Stampin up mellow moss, copic to colour, Distress ink weathered wood
Card: white card
Stamps: DewDrop craftz stamps Jim just chillin’, Lavinia stamps leaves
Other: fish charm

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And here is the other male ATC for the swap.

Inks: I can’t remember as I stamped the image a while ago
Card: beige textured paper, ivory card
Stamp: The Artistic stamper Men’s plate, papers from Hot off the press Heritage range
Other: musical note charm

Diamond cut tag

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This tag is for the ukstampers A-Z tag challenge and this week it is ‘D’ for diamond.
I managed to use up some odds and ends I had made for other projects: the metal embossed diamonds and the background.

Inks: Distress inks weathered wood and black soot
Card: white glossy card for the background and plain white card
Stamps: Elusive images Diamond art
Other: embossed metal (Cuttlebug diamonds in the rough folder), acrylic paint, computer generated text, eyelet, 3mm 3D foam, sparkle pen

Picking apples card

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Happy Birthday Ruth

I loved Kim Costello’s card in the Craft Stamper magazine June 09 issue so I have used the same overall design for Ruth’s card, but incorporated different colours, stamps and papers.

Inks: black document inks, Distress inks; antique linen, frayed burlap and worn lipstick. To colour image; copics and water colour pencils.
Card: hammered cream card, watercolour paper, Cosmo cricket, Bo-bunny.
Stamps: Sugar Nellie picking apples, The Artistic stamper stitchels dashy dots (flowers), Dovecraft Fantasy emblems (flourishes)
Other: buttons, pearls, charm, paper lace, glitter pen