I can finally tell you all my exciting news! I applied to join the Design Team at Fab 'n' Funky Challenges back in October and I got in! I could not believe my eyes when the email came through! Delighted and honoured to be picked. I hope I can live up to the challenge.
The current challenge on the Fab 'n' Funky Challenge blog is "Anything Goes", sponsored by the The Stamping Boutique. I chose this cute image of a carousel horse and instantly knew I wanted to use bright colours with it. It reminds me of a My Little Pony that I had as a child. I made the gatefold card blank using my Ultimate Pro (not sure how I managed before without one!) and used purple Core'dinations and orange pearlescent card to match my image colourings.
The photo doesn't show it up very well but I added My Craft Studio glitter around the horse and onto the saddle. The image was cut using one of the X-Cut dies that I won back in July through the DoCrafts Creativity Club Prize Draw. The dies are good quality but the scalloped and straight edged squares don't nest like the Spellbinders. I am chuffed with the cutting and embossing results though.
I'm having my kitchen redone so my toaster and kettle are sitting on my glass cutting matt at the moment! Not the best way to craft but I'm sure it won't stop me! Hoping that I'll have my sitting room back in a couple of weeks and a new kitchen to boot.
Happy crafting. x
I'm fairly cracking out the Christmas cards now! Just a pity I ddin't get going about two months ago. This one was started in the Digital Designer software from DoCrafts Papermania, using the Christmas Past CD-ROM. I picked the Naughty and Nice collection, mainly because I love pink. The snowflake was cut using the Spellbinders Create-a-Flake Three. It's becoming a firm favourite this year.
Happy Crafting!
A completely different Christmas card tonight. Tweety Pie was always a favourite of mine and this image is super cute. I teamed it with a blue background paper from the Looney Tunes CD-ROM, silver textured paper and a green paper from the SWALK Winter Cheer CD-ROM. I love the skates paper and used the colouriser to match Tweety Pie's earmuffs. I mounted the image onto a Spellbinders Labels Sixteen die-cut using foam pads. The snowflakes were cut using Spellbinders Create-A-Flake Three. I'm rediscovering my love of Spellbinders (not that I was ever out of love with them!) since buying my Grand Calibur. Oh the possibilities! The rick-rack ribbon was from the DoCrafts online shop.
Happy Crafting!
Hope this post finds you all well and feeling that festive spirit. Not long now! For today's card, I embossed the holly Mica Mask using my new Grand Calibur and I'm really impressed with the results it has given me so far. I dabbed all over with green ink using a make-up sponge. The baubles are from the Spellbinders 2011 Heirloom Ornaments set and the holly flourishes are from Spellbinders Holly Accents collection. These were also cut and embossed with the Grand Calibur.
The image is a digi from Pink Petticoat and I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it. There are several handbag and shoe designs and just right up my street. I daren't think how many of each I own! Well they do say, if the shoe fits, buy one in every colour! I used a Promarker in Forest Green and an Aquamarker in Raspberry to colour the holly and berries. I mounted the baubles with mounting foam to give dimension and attached the flourishes with Cosmic Shimmer Glue.
The insert gives the finishing touch.
Happy Crafting!
It's that time of year again and with only six weeks until the big day, it was time to start Christmas card making! I had my old pals Jim and Elvis blasting out with their Christmas tunes to get the creative juices flowing and this is the result!
This is a new embossing folder (well, new to me anyway!) that I saw on eBay and just had to have. I used it with silver mirri-paper and ran it through my Cuttlebug. I stamped the greeting with a black dye-based inkpad and die cut that using Spellbinders Labels Four. The stamp is from Claritystamp. I just love their designs and Barbara is so kind and inspiring. I bought the ribbon a while ago from the DoCrafts online shop for 68p for 5 different metres. Bargain! I got one is just about every colour!
Another picture from a slightly different angle which shows up the colours a little better.
Happy Crafting!
When I was catching up on blog posts last week I came across the chance to be considered to join the Fab 'n' Funky Challenges DT and couldn't resist. This is my offering for Challenge #96 Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble and also to be considered for the DT position.
My inspiration started with the Twilight Queen CD-ROM from Debbi Moore. I was looking through the designs and came across the spiders web background paper and my brain went into overdrive with ideas for the card! I used a rubber stamp from the Tickled Pink range of Pinkettes and coloured her using Promarkers. The skull card was made by welding two skull images on my Gypsy and cutting them out using my Cricut Expression 2. The original image came from the Rock Princess cartridge. I used some cotton wool for added effect on the front. The lettering came from Tim Holtz's Upon a Time alphabet die, run through my Cuttlebug.
Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.
I just want to say a big hello and thank you to all my new followers. Special thanks to those who have taken the time to comment on my posts. It is gratefully appreciated and keeps me going when the inspiration is severly lacking!
This is one of my favourite photos, taken outside my Granny's house earlier this year. Hope you all have a great week and happy crafting! x
To be honest, this tag was a bit of a happy accident. I was playing around with my new Cuttlebug embossing folders and found a scrap bit of Black Magic Coredinations cardstock. Next thing I knew the sanding block was out and I was distressing away to my heart's content! I managed to make the entire tag out of the waste card and funnily enough didn't use the embossing folders in the end. The base for the tag is a cropped Spellbinders Labels die and I inked the edges in Tim Holtz distress ink - Fired Brick, which hasn't show up very well in the photo. I ran the blade of my craft knife along the edge of the tag base.
The black layer is a piece of the crumpled up Black Magic Coredinations cardstock which has been sanded. I die cut the butterflies twice from the same coredinations cardstock using a Sizzix die (bought from the Stampin' Up catalogue). It works like a dream through the cuttlebug and is my favourite butterfly die. I sanded the butterflies to show up the embossing and then finished it off by gluing together with Pinflair Glue Gel.
I just love the Tatty Button stamps from Creative Expressions. Even better that they are already mounted. This was a work in progress card as when I started I didn't really have a vision in mind. I coloured in the stamp one night when I was feeling a bit fed up and needed something to cheer me up.
When I looked through my Spellbinders I came across the Labels Twenty which was the perfect size. Unfortunately I managed to slip one of my distress ink pads right on top of Tatty! D'oh! Luckily she managed to avoid the cheeky ink and I managed to save her by cutting around her and mounting her onto an orange and white tartan card. This is the first time I used the button mask and was quite pleased with the result using Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Broken China. I made the border using an EK Success punch and just alternated the colours. The flowers were stamped and then cut out by hand. I finished off the card with a small sentiment stamped onto another of the Spellbinders shapes.
The image on this card comes from a selection of Hunkdory toppers in the His n Hers collection. I love the colours and the peacefulness of it.
I covered my card blank with silver mirri-paper and then tied the bow, using the same metallic ribbon from previous cards, around the foiled and embossed Hunkydory cardstock before adding it to the base. The topper was also mounted onto silver mirr-paper. I used a pair of compasses to draw the circle and then cut it out by hand. I think it might be time to invest in some circular Spellbinder dies!
