Stamptacular Sunday Challenge #28

Well this is my first ever entry into Stamptacular's Sunday Challenge, it feels so strange no longer being on the DT.  This weeks challenge is...

"Character Counts"

They would like to see you include a well known cartoon character on your project.

Something I haven't done for a long while is decoupage and I just happend to have a Winnie the Pooh xmas decoupage sheet by Studio Light, stashed away in a folder.  This time last year all I did was decoupage, couldn't colour for the life of me, so didn't like stamping, but my how my style has changed, and I can now colour, no where near perfect and I probably never will be but I'm not ashamed of my colouring any more.

Recipe

Decoupage Image - Winnie the Pooh Xmas by Studio Light

Papers - White with spots 'DCWV' and Green with spots 'Craft-Too'

Tree Landscape Scene - Pollycraft (Friday Freebie)

Sentiment - Daisy & Dandelion Clear Stamp from the 'All Wrapped Up' set

Embellishments - Card Candy

Colouring Medium (on landscape) - Copics & Sakura Stardust

Hope everyone is enjoying their Sunday.

Hugs

Joanne xx

ABC Challenge ~ B is for Blue and Brown & Awards

One of my favourite colour combo's for this weeks challenge over on ABC, 'B' is for Blue and Brown. It was also perfect for using the free decoupage sheet of Daisy & Dandelion available from Do Crafts.


Made up the decoupage using silicon and lightly chalked the background with blue. The spotty background is also one of the papers available with the D & D download, I've inked the edges in blue, the blue daisy paper is from the PM Venetian Skies collection, I lightly chalked it with a darker blue, to darken a little. Layered brown organza, blue ribbon and brown braid along the seam of the two papers and then added some blue braided lace from Craftworks along the bottom. The sentiment was included with the decoupage sheet. To finish, brown and blue fabric flowers from my craft stash held together with copper and blue lattice brads.

Can't wait for the release of this new Daisy & Dandelion range, especially the stamps. For some reason I keep wanting to call them Dandelion & Burdock...lol.

I've also recieved two awards:

This one is from the lovely Ria, big hugs back at you hun xxx

And this one is from the lovely Val, bless you xxx

I'm going to be naughty and pass these onto you all, so if you don't have either of these awards and would like them, then please help yourself as a thank you from me for visiting my blog and your lovely comments that many of you leave.

Hope you've all had a lovely day xxx

Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #17

The challenge over on SCSC this week has been set by the lovely Sue and the theme is 'At The Zoo'. You can make any creation as long is there is a zoo/animal element.

This cheeky little chappy was a download from Pollycraft Designs and he is layered twice. The stars paper was a free download from Funky Fairy Inspirations, cut with the fiskars shapecutter and then mounted onto a circle of brown card from my scraps stash. The main paper is from PM Earth Tones. Added three gem stars down one edge. The sentiment was done on the PC and then used a circle frame from my crafty stash.

Sorry I've not managed to post any cards for a day or two, but I promise I have been crafting. Last night I did my first DT card for Funky Fairy, but you will have to wait until Wednesday to see it, when the new challenge theme is set, hope you can hop over and join us.

I admit I have been playing in the snow, for a short time today, but I got this card done, six RAK ATC's for a swap I hosted in January and I'm halfway through another challenge card, I'd have posted this one earlier, but the internet has been playing up this afternoon, but all seems ok now.

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend, and if you had snow today, I hope you were able to enjoy it or stay in and keep well away from it...lol.

One Stop Craft Challenge #12

This week over on One Stop Craft the challenge was set by Eleanor and the theme is 'Craft like an Egyptian or countries in general'.

The image is a decoupage image I had stashed away, the layers are built up using silicon. The background is a Kanban Egyptian postcard sheet. Have inked the showing edges of the base card and lightly sanded then snipped off two of the corners of the card. Added three buttons threaded with frayed string.

Cards for some fella's

Good Morning Everyone. After a couple of warmer days, it feels and looks like it's back to the chill again this morning, quite a heavy frost and the lake to the back has frozen over again. Luckily I don't need to pop out until lunchtime.

Got on with two cards for males this morning as part of my mother-in-laws birthday card order for the year. These complete January and February as the others were for females, and I've got a good stock going of them.




This is for a Laurel & Hardy fan. The image is a decoupage, I've had this sheet sometime it also has Fred & Ginger and Charlie Chaplin images on it too. Mounted the deco image onto two film reel backing tablets from Kanban, as you can see the image was too big to mount onto one, so offset them. The corners and sentiment are peel-offs.





This one's for a Go-Karting teen. The image is a Dufex decoupage. The background is from Kanban. The orange/rust coloured leather effect card runs down the side with a red, amber and green brad with two other brads inbetween spelling 'GO', inked the edges with blue. The sentiment is a peel-off mounted onto the orange/rust card and inked the edges again.


It's so much easier making male cards when you have something to go on with regards to their likes and hobbies.

Have a good day all, hopefully be back later today with at least one challenge card.

Out with the cute and in with the flippin men....

....well only out with the cute for this one...lol. This is for a very dear friend of ours and I've done a spinner card using the 'Flippin Cheers' sheet from the Flippin Men range by La Pashe. This fella is so like our friend John, from the moustache, down to the waistcoat and tie, in fact the only thing that isn't John is the cap, but it's cold out there so he needs a cap..lol.







There is a front and behind view, bloomin thing kept spinning, and took me 20 photo's whilst spinning to get a good one of the front and behind..lol.
The papers in the corners are from scraps stash. Using the darker brown I cut the lattice side borders in my bug and added two buttons to either end of the lattice strips. The sentiment was included with the sheet. Finished with some of the diamond scraps from the lattice work along the top and either side of the sentiment.


Has anyone else been having problems with Blogger? I had problems uploading pictures and seeing other's pictures on their blogs last night but all seemed ok this morning. But just had problems again uploading these pictures, took three attempts and my blog challenge list has gone all strange, and when I click on them it says I need to subscribe to the feed. The gremlins must be at work.

La Pashe Christmas

Managed to get another La Pashe Christmas sheet done, was hoping to use them all this christmas, but not looking likely, so will make the others up for next year. I love these sheets as they can be mixed and matched. I've used both foam pads and silicon for the different depths.

La Pashe Christmas

I'm back home now after my flying visit to Scotland, had a lovely couple of days away. Now I'm going to have to get cracking on the rest of my own personal christmas cards, but I think they can wait until tomorrow.


The card below was made before I went away and it's now safe to show. It's from the La Pashe, Remember When ...Christmas series 2. The decoupage has been made up using both sticky foam pads and silicon. Mounted the whole image onto matte gold card, and the sentiment is just the printed sentiment provided in the series.



I really love these sheets, and have both christmas series so hope to work through them for this years christmas cards.

Time for Wilbur Woof

I managed to finish two of the cards I started over the weekend. These are Wilbur Woof designed by Paula at Pollycraft Designs. I've used the pre-coloured Wilbur's in these two cards. I think he's just as cute as his pal Albert. Parts of both images have been layered once.



Cut image and sentiment with nestabilities, the backing papers are scraps I had. I've used green crepe tape for the stripes and the trees are from the Pheobe & Maude Winter Kit available also from Pollycrafts. One of the red trees from the backing paper has been layered just over the bottom corner of the image.




Images and matting cut using nestabilities again, have used holly backing paper with ribbon and bow along one edge and a gold outline sticker along the other edge. I cut the corner gold holly using a template that was free from one of the craft magazines and punched three red circles for the berries. Added a sparkly peel-off christmas sentiment to the bottom.

Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge #9

This weeks SCSC #9 is a sketch by Sue. I've done a birthday card this week for my brother as I didn't quite know what to do, so I thought I'd wait to see if this week's challenge could give me some inspiration and thankfully it has. I've so enjoyed doing cute cards lately, but my brother doesn't really do cute...lol (doubt many guys do). The image is decoupaged and matted on to black textured card. The backing papers I designed myself on the PC. I've stuck to the layout of the sketch but turned it round.

Below is this weeks sketch.

Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge #8

This weeks SCSC was set by Jane, the theme is "Decoupage". My favourite technique and again it's a christmas card (must be something to do with the time of the year...lol). I've used a dufex decoupaged image of Mary & Baby Jesus, mounted onto gold textured card. Added a holly embossed ribbon down one side and gold peel-off sentiment.

Welcome to the Lake.....

This is another card for Steve, this time from his mam. I had to do a fishing themed card sometime, so this is it. The image is decoupaged, with matching backing paper. I've run some braid down one side and attached three brads, there's also a little silver brad and thread for the hanging 'welcome to the lake' picture. Good old peel-offs were used for the sentiment.

Flippin Men

I made this card for Steve using a sheet from the new La Pashe range called Flippin Men. Other than fishing Steve loves cricket and a beer, so I thought this sheet was perfect. The decoupaged image is double-sided so you get a front view and back view from the inside. It is an aperture card and acetate so the image has been attached to the acetate on bothsides. I designed the backing paper myself in PSP with the word 'OWZAT' (a cricketing term) and a cricket ball image. I cut a rectangle out of the backing paper to creat a frame, and outlined with blue sticky crepe tape. The sentiments were printed and matted onto blue card.

I'm showing two images one of the front of the card and other of the inside.

La Pashe - Home Sweet Home

I made this card for my brother and his family using one of the wonderful La Pashe, Remember When... sheets.

They move into their new home today, so I'd like to wish them good luck and much happiness in their new home. I hope the move runs smoothly and I can't wait for when I next come down south to see them and their new home xxx

The new series 5 and 6 of Remember When.... is to be released on Monday 10th November on Create & Craft at 6 p.m. For more details visit Jak's Blog - Crafters Kitchen

Another Dufex Decoupage

It's been ages since I've done any Dufex decoupage and I've now done 2 in a week...lol. It's probably the same for nearly every crafter, you start to get so many different things, you forget what you have, then all of a sudden you come across something, and think, "oh, I forgot I had that", well thats whats happened with the dufex stuff, I've plenty of xmas dufex to use too, so watch this space as I'm sure there will be plenty more dufex to come over the next few weeks. This is another card for a crafting forum buddy, who had her birthday yesterday. This time it is flowers. The decoupage has been mounted on to lilac and dark pink mirror card, using my wavy square nestabilities. Finished off with a thin pink ribbon and bow and silver sentiment peel-off.
I use silicon when building up my decoupage, I personally think it gives you more choice on the depth of build on each layer and definition such as slightly curling the edges, as can be seen on the ribbon detail of the decoupage image. This was on the first layer, I first slightly and gently curved the edges using scissors, I then added a thin blob of silicon to the middle then added thicker blobs working out from the centre but not going right to the edge, then when placing down on to the image I just gently pushed down on the centre of the layer. Slightly curling the edges works brilliantly on details such as ribbon, flowers and leaves to give a whole new dimension to the decoupage.

Dufex Decoupage

It's now safe to post this card, I made it for a crafting forum buddy, who's birthday was yesterday. The lady decoupage is a dufex deco sheet. I used my square wavy nestabilities for the matting and finished off with silver peel-off corners & sentiment and a lilac tied ribbon.

Thinking of a friend

I've a crafting friend who is going through a difficult time at the moment with her partner being in hospital, so I wanted to send a card wishing him a speedy recovery and and to let them know I'm thinking of them both. I've tried to keep it fairly simple with the sentiment being "You've been on my mind" and put some personal handwritten words inside the card. The flower is from another Penny Wessenauer decoupage sheet, I just love her sheets.

Moving Card

Back into my cardmaking now, just got a couple of birthdays to go, then I really need to get stuck into the Christmas cards again.


I made this card for Steve's cousin. I used one of Marij Rahder' s Moving Cards sheet. I brought some of these sheets at the show in Exeter, when I was on my holiday. It was pretty easy to assemble, thankfully. I think they are great sheets for a bit of humour.

I just need to decide whether to add a birthday sentiment to the front or just leave it to the verse inside the card, got a few days to think about it.

Birthday Flowers

I made this card before my holiday for a lady who is a member of one of the forums I belong to. Her birthday was whilst I was away so it's now safe to put it on here.
The decoupage sheet is by Penny Wessenauer which is a pyramid with decoupage flowers.

The next card was for my mother-in-laws friend, who loves flowers. The decoupage sheet is a Le Suh sheet.

Decoupage Day

Well today I've finally made a start on some of them birthday cards I should have started last week. Today was a decoupage day, one card is for friend's little girls 1st birthday and the other is for my mother-in-law's friend who is in her 80's.



This is a decoupaged bear and matching frame, I then used my nestabilities for the first time for the 1 plaque using purple glitter card and lilac mirror card, the 1 is cut from the Hippy Chic alphabet set in the purple glitter card, the plaque and number all cut in the cuttlebug. The sentiment is a peel-off coloured purple with a peel-off pen. I than added a touch of crystal stickles to the love hearts and the peel-off sentiment.



This is a Penny Wessenauer sheet, which had everything on one sheet. The main flower image is a pyramid and then finally the flowers are decoupaged. I used a single layer matt of gold card on the main image and the sentiments and thin gold peel-off borders down each side of the side bar. To bring the image out a little I used a gold Sakura metallic pen on the outlines of the flowers and on part of the outlines of the main frame, this does not really show too well in the picture. I'm hoping this is suitable for a lady in her 80's.

Well two down and a load more still to do, best get on. xxx