SFCC - Challenge #6 ~ Glitter

Good Morning!!!

It's a lovely bright start here in East Yorkshire, just glad it's not as hot as it was earlier in the week.

Can you believe it's the 1st July?  So that means it's time for our next challenge for you over at Sparkles Christmas Challenges, and this month it's really time to get all sparkly with Gill's challenge theme...

GLITTER

The DT have been sprinkling their glitter for some wonderful inspiration for you which you can check out over on the challenge blog and here is mine.....

This month we are being sponsored by.....

with a £10 voucher to spend in her store and we are also being sponsored by...

with either 5 digi's or 4 digi's and a paperpack for one lucky winner.

I have used on my card a Holly image from Robyn's Fetish coloured with promarkers and sakura pens for a subtle glittery sheen, then mounted the sentiment onto red glitter card.

We do hope you can join us for this months challenge.

Hugs

Joanne xxx

Just Christmas & Birthday Cards # 19

I was naughty last week and broke my new year resolution of at least one xmas card a week, and I've only just made this weeks sketch over on JCBC which is by Kristin.

I've gone for a bit of bling, well ok alot of bling...lol. The snowflakes are from crafting stash and held together with a black brad. Cut the black sparkling circle with the Fiskars shapecutter and the the purple sparkling scalloped circle using the nesties. The wavy purple is like a vinyl and the silver holgraphic snowflake card are both from my scraps stash. Added black and silver edged ribbon with some purple ribbon over the top of it. The sentiment is a purple sparkly peel-off. I've added a couple of tiny Anita's purple gems, which were'nt part of the sketch, so hope this was ok. Below is the sketch to follow:

One Stop Craft Challenge #17

A great theme this week over on One Stop Crafts, chosen by Shelley the theme is 'Oriental'. I really love the oriental theme and it's been a while since I've done one.

I've done something a bit different, and not quite sure if I like it myself, so would love your input as to what you think. The blossom tree was hand drawn by trying to copy a used blossom peel-off I had. The little pink blossom flowers, are what I bought a string of at one of the craft shows last year, and added some tiny Anita's pink gems in the centres. I've chalked the background with blues and greens and the cranes (or are they storks?) and waterlillies are peel-offs mounted onto white card cut out and coloured with copics. The paper is from my scraps stash and added gold peel-off borders (sorry gone a bit mad with the peel-offs on this one). The sentiment was done on the PC and printed onto gold paper then inked the edges with red and added two red matte brads. To finish added a couple of red gems. Below is a close-up of the blossoms.

Does this strike you as oriental, other than the oriental style font used on the sentiment? I so hate being unsure about a card, though I did enjoy trying something a little different.

Well it's a glorious sunny day here today, so Steve and I going for a spot of fishing this afternoon, now the waters are all unfrozen.

Hope you all have a lovely day and weekend whatever your plans xxx.

ABC Challenge ~ A

This is my first entry for the ABC Challenge, I'd been waiting for the letter A to start and join in from there.

A is for Anniversary.

I cut out the hearts using the Fiskars shapecutter and layered using purple and pearlescent card and patterned paper from Kanban. I made the base card 6 x 6 then layered the hearts on to it, then very carfully cut the base card around the top of the hearts. Added a piece of the patterned paper across the bottom with a peel-off sentiment, mounted onto purple and silver card with a lilac and silver ribbon running through. To finish I've added a silver fabric flower and lilac paper roses and some peel-off clear hearts and silver outline to the hearts. I've been trying to move away from peel-off sentiments but as I am without printer at the moment, I didn't have much choice, but I think the silver is perfect with the lilac.

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.

Sketch & Stash Challenge #1

The new challenge blog Sketch & Stash launched today with their first challenge sketch. Other than follow the set sketch, you need to use a new, newish or never been used item(s) from your stash. I loved their first sketch and you are allowed to rotate, resize and add extra bits and bobs if needed.




I've rotated the sketch layout. Used my new only second time of use SN 'Sweet 'n' Sassy' stamp and my new copics to colour, added a little sakura gold metallic to her belt buckle and chalked the edges with pink and green. The background is pink button card from Kanban. The clear organza ribbon with little silver sparkles and pink ribbon are from the Ribbonbox, the flower is from craft stash and used a pink gem brad to secure the two layers together (the central petals are actually the same pink as the ribbon but looks darker in pic). I added some clear and pink circle gems to the bottom corner to finish. The sentiment is a pink peel-off. Below is the sketch:

Chinese New Year

It's not the Chinese New Year until the 26th January but I made this card for our friend who lives in the states, so I'll need to send it in a couple of weeks.
Next year is the year of the Ox, I downloaded the ox image from the internet and coloured with copics. The blossom tree is a peel-off and coloured with copics and sakura souffle pens. The sentiment was done on the PC, after a bit of research 'Xin nian kuai le' should mean 'Happy New Year', mounted sentiment onto red card then attached two peel-off lanterns.





I've already made a start with one of my new year resolutions, which was to be more organised with my card making and try to keep ahead, so a good start so far..lol, another is to take part in more challenges, which will be a good way to hopefully keep ahead with my cards.
Hope you have all had a lovely weekend xx

Ruby Wedding

One of Steve's cousin's is celebrating their Ruby Wedding this weekend with a party tomorrow evening. I've done two cards, one from us and one from Steve's mum.





The first card is from Steve's mum. The rose image has been pyramarged and mounted onto gold textured card. Peel-offs have been used for the outlines, corners and sentiment. The detail of the corner peel-offs have been coloured using H2O's.





This card is from us. I've used the diamond fold technique (you can watch a demo of this technique here ). The rose and hearts spray is from Ribbonbox and the bow and rings are from my craft stash. These were mounted onto gold embossed and red glitter card. I used the square wavy nestabilities to cut these. The sentiment and verse were printed onto gold paper and mounted onto red mirror card. Finished with some gold peel-off outlines.

My weekend and a 40th Birthday card

I went to Kanban again on Friday to meet up with some crafting buddies old and new, Kara, Ann, Greta and Pam. We had a lovely few hours filling our boxes with Kanban goodies and having a lovely chat over a coffee when we finished. It was lovely to meet Greta and Pam for the first time, they came up north for a craft get together over the weekend to meet up with some Image-n-ation and Joanna Sheen forum members. I was unable to go to the craft weekend as it was our youngest daughter's birthday, but from what I hear everyone who went had a lovely time.
Saturday was Charlotte's birthday, much of the day was spent getting her pressie, she wanted a laptop as a combined birthday/christmas present. It was something she really needed as the room she rents is so tiny there is no room for her desktop pc, and a computer is a must for her uni work. We found one for her after a few hours, that had everything she needed and wasn't to heavy or too big, quite boring when someone like me doesn't have a clue about all the tech stuff, but Steve seemed to be in his element...lol, we were all going to go for a meal in the evening, but Charlotte was asked to work and she decided to take it for the extra pennies.
Sunday Charlotte and two of her sisters came over for the day and to have dinner, so was nice to see three of the girls all together.
After a fairly full weekend, there hasn't been anytime time for crafting, but I have started to have a big craft room sort out, which I really need to try and finish today as everything is all over the place, so no crafting will get done till it is.
However, I do have a card to show you. I made this card last week for a crafting forum buddy who is 40 today, so Happy Birthday Paula :-). The letters and numbers were cut on my Bug using the Hippie Chick Alphabet Cuttlebug die set. I've added 2 fabric flowers from my craft stash and attached by using flower eyelets. The butterflies are holographic peel-offs stuck to card, cut out and then slightly bent into shape so that the wings are lifted up above the body and then attached using a little silicon under the body part.

Fred's Flowers

I've been meaning to use Fred's Flowers from Fred, She Said for ages, so I decided to use them on the two birthday cards for my step-daughters.



The backing papers are Floral Felicity Papers with matching die-cut swirls and flower. Brown organza ribbon runs down the joint between the two different papers. I printed the fred's flowers on glossy photopaper, they were yellow but I've used Chestnut Brown H2O with a water brush to darken them. Green brads hold the layers together. Made a gift tag greeting using brown card, striped paper and a printed sentiment in brown.




The pink flowers are on the same sheet as the yellow ones, so again on glossy photopaper. The background leaves and flowers are stamped onto light green card and stardust sakura pens were used to colour the detail. The fred's flowers are again attached with gold brads. Mounted onto glossy pink card and then the light green card again. The base card is pink with gold peel-off decorations. The sentiment is printed on pearlised pink paper matted onto the glossy pink and light green card.

The flowers on both cards have been creased down the middle of each petal.

Flowers, Swirls and Colour

A card from nana again for Sarah, my second youngest step-daughter, who's birthday is also in November. The silver holographic card was embossed on my bug using the Divine Swirls folder, I then added the coloured flowers from my craft stash on to the embossed piece and mounted onto pink and green mirror card (sorry the green looks rather blue in the picture). The base card is pink A5. To finish I added a piece of rainbow ribbon and peel-off sentiments coloured pink and green with peel-off pens. The corners have been rounded using a corner punch.

Now, thats the granddaughter cards done, must get on with the daughter cards.

10th Birthday Card

Well November is just around the corner and it's another very busy month for me for birthdays. This card is for my neice who'll be 10 on the 1st. I usually stick to character theme cards for her, but I can't keep up these days with Hannah Montana, High School Musical etc...lol. So I've gone for something I hope a 10 year old will like. The image is stamped and coloured using H2O's with little bit of stardust sakura pens for highlighting, then mounted onto purple and pink mirror card with a multi-coloured peel-off border. The base card is A5 and from Kanban, which has little purple/lilac flowers and dotty swirls printed on it, I've again highlighted some of the detail with a stardust sakura pen. To finish the card off I've used two felt butterflies from my craft stash, the sentiment is peel-offs coloured purple and the number 10 has been cut with my bug using the Hippie Chick alphabet on purple mirror card.

And some more ATC's

Been a little ATC crazy over the past week, done loads of swaps, the encaustic one's have gone down really well, so have had to add more ATC's to my swap site. These will be my last, for a few days at least as, i've plenty of birthday cards to do, it's a busy month for me September. We booked our holiday yesterday, no where exotic...lol. We are off to Devon for a weeks fishing at Angler's Paradise, we're going just after my birthday so that will be nice, now I'm praying for an indian summer from mid September, but apparently not much chance of that, so I'll be taking my warm clothes and waterproofs, thats bound to bring the sun out.

Nature's Collage

Eastern Fashion

Taking Shade

Oriental Flower

Flower Power

Glamour & Bling

Well at least today is lovely and sunny, the breeze is a bit chilly mind, so going to go out and visit my godson, he has chicken pox, poor little fella and then I'm off to buy some discount tickets for the Max Papercraft Show which is on this sunday at the KC Stadium in Hull, will have to see if I can get some early birthday money for that one ;-)

ATC's & August Card Competition Entry

I take part in a card competition every month, where I am sent an item and a card has to made from it. This month I was sent a clown peel-off. Now, I have a fear of clowns, have done since I was young, silly I know. Anyway, after 2 weeks of pondering whether to do the competition this month I finally plucked up the courage to get on with it. All the card entries are donated to a chosen charity or fund raising event, and this month it was for a friend's fundraising for Jerry Green Dog Rescue in Thirsk, I'm also donating some extra cards as shown yesterday. So here it is.........

As you can see I shaped the card into a big top, for the clown collar, big top rim and flag I've used felt and funky blue wool for the hair. I've left the clown face blank so that the purchaser can place a face of their choice before giving to the recipient.

After the trauma of the clown...lol, I got stuck into some ATC's, as my ATC Swap site had been a little neglected recently. They have been added to my swap site if anyone want's to do a swap please visit http://www.freewebs.com/craftyjoanne/

Well here they are, some have already been swapped I'm afraid... Now can you spot the mistakes in two of the atc's????

Did you spot the mistakes? Well in two of the encaustic atc's the birds are flying upside down...lol, it's a mistake I often make when I add birds, and I often don't realise it. Oh well they are fantasy scenes and in this fantasy land the birds fly upside down...lol