creating cards

Saturday, 28 January 2012

Whoopsi Daisy with bling

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I have used this weeks freebie download to make this card. The cute wee girl is coloured with Faber-Castell watercolour pencils, the shape i...
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Friday, 27 January 2012

Red, Grey and White

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Today's card is in CAS style. I have printed congratulations in red on my computer, then used a piece of beautiful grey metallic paper,...
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Thursday, 26 January 2012

Celebrations

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Today's card is in pretty shades of blue and green. I have made it for the challenge at  http://polkadoodle.blogspot.com/    following ...
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Fairies

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The challenge at   http://artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/ is for a card for a child. I think this simple fairy card fills the bill! Fo...
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Thursday, 19 January 2012

'tagging'

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The challenge this week at  http://thecraftbarnblog.blogspot.com/ is to make a tag using colours from the colour wheel. I have tried to us...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Pretty In Pink

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This little girl's birthday card was very easy to put together. The background paper was from my stash,  the deco border stamp is from...
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Thursday, 12 January 2012

Constellations

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On this card I have used my favourite PB stamp - constellations. The colours were inspired by the PB Saturday blog sample card, and I have a...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Birthday tag

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I love the colours of this birthday tag. I have embossed part of the front and added my dotted stamp to the top. The edges are swiped with s...
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Make a wish

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This is the first time I have coloured my new digi - 'Natalie the Poppy Fairy' that I won from The Whimsy blog. I have used mainly c...
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Whoopsidaisy

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I downloaded this delightful 'freebie' image from Whoopsidaisy, and coloured it with copics. I layered it onto a pale green, pattern...
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Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Check out this blog candy from Craftylinby

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 Here is what she has to say:- Something I have never done before is to do a blog candy. I really do appreciate all my friends in blogl...

Vintage

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This gorgeous image comes from the lovely Pamela at 'Free Vintage Digital Stamps' (see link in my sidebar) I printed it 3 times and...
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Friday, 16 December 2011

Card Patterns

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I hope I can get this one in before the challenge closes at      http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/ The colours match a lot better IRL - my ...
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Mr Snowman

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This is just the most adorable snowman, who can rock on his base. The template can be found at the member's area at Cardmaking Paradise ...
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Sunday, 11 December 2011

Christmas Simplicity

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For this card I have used a bauble and chain from the set 'Christmas Decorations and Embellishments' by My Paper World, and the Merr...
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Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Snowflakes

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Todays card is for the challenge at http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/    for 'Let it snow' I have stamped the background wi...
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Using leftovers

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I was so pleased to see the Cuttlebug Spot Challenges are back again. I missed the first one as we were away, but have entered the current c...
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Monday, 5 December 2011

Decoupage

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Today's card has  a type of 3d decoupage known as a pyramage I think. It has seven layers all getting progressively smaller. I have laye...
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Thursday, 24 November 2011

Another Christmas card

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After being away on holiday for over 3 weeks, it is great to get back into cardmaking again. I am now so late with my Christmas card makes!!...
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Tuesday, 18 October 2011

from a delightful sketch!

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For this card I have used the free digi offered by Letraset. After colouring I cut it out and mounted it following the sketch from Pink Ink....
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Thursday, 13 October 2011

Back to cardmaking.......

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It has been quite a while since I have been able to update my blog, as we have had family home from overseas to help celebrate our Golden We...
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Saturday, 24 September 2011

daisies, daisies, daisies.....

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For this card , I have followed the sketch from Stampendous, using lovely autumn colours. The daisy (SU) is stamped with Impress coral pink,...
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Friday, 23 September 2011

Fancy a Treasure Hunt?

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Craft-room challenge are having a treasure hunt. check it out here http://craft-roomchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/09/treasure-hunt.html
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Sunday, 4 September 2011

Sparkly Butterfly

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This is such a beautiful sentiment, it only needed the butterfly as a embellishment. I made this for the challenge at http://whimsyinspires...
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Friday, 2 September 2011

'Sailing Away'

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This card has been made in a similar style that we did at card/coffee group last week. I have embossed the bottom edge with my shell collag...
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Travel

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A very quick post today with this card. I have used a stamp set from Recollections called Going Places, and the background is a very useful ...
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Thursday, 25 August 2011

Bart's BBQ

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Isn't he just the cutest? I won this stamp recently from Chrissy Armstrong, and this is the first chance I have been able to colour him ...
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Monday, 15 August 2011

"White"

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It is so hard to capture a white image on a scanner to show the details, so I had to adjust this a little in PS I have basically followed a...
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Pretty in Pink (and black and white)

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For this card I have used a pink base card, layered with white card embossed with a Sissex folder.The PB stamp 'constellations' was ...
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Friday, 12 August 2011

Cup Cakes

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Just a quick post to enter this in the sketch challenge at http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/
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Thursday, 11 August 2011

ATC Challenge

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Here is my entry for the current ATC Challenge - All thing Summer over at http://atcchallenges.blogspot.com/
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Tuesday, 9 August 2011

'Lola'

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This sweet little girl is 'Lola with bird' from Sugar Nellie. I have coloured her with copics (thanks so much Audrey) and layered on...
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Sunday, 7 August 2011

Christmas

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The beautiful glitter that I used on this card (Crystal Glitter Ritz) does not show up very well in the scan, but I can assure you it is a g...
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Monday, 1 August 2011

Tagging again!

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Another Christmas card, this time with a stamped background of snowflakes (Penny Black) and the tag made with stamps from My Paper World. T...
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Sunday, 31 July 2011

'tagging'

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This is the first of some tags I have been making. I used distress inks for the background and then edged it with gold paint. The wee stamp ...
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Friday, 22 July 2011

Fluttering By

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I have made this lovely butterfly from a template provided by Sara at Cardmaking Paradise (see link on my sidebar) The front is embossed w...
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Playing with alcohol inks

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I have been following with interest, The Craft Barn blog this week, which is all about alcohol inks. I tried Andy's technique, and this ...
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Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Circles

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There are a couple of challenges I can enter this card in. I have used Spellbinders scalloped circles, standard circles, and the stamp is ...
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Monday, 18 July 2011

The Stampman Challenge

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The challenge at The Stampman     http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/ currently is 'Anything By Tim' I have used my new sta...
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011

I'm back again

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After a long overseas trip, it is good to be home again. I have made this Christmas card - first for this year for the challenge over at  ...
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Promarkers and a cricut cartridge

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Enfys at http://going-buggy.blogspot.com/2011/07/win-cricut-cartridge-and-promarkers.html has some wonderful candy on offer. Why don'...
Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

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http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ This week's challenge is 'distressing' -I have used a stickeroo - "V...
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Friday, 6 May 2011

It's been a while.......

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....since I have been posting, as we have been overseas visiting family. However I have found a few lovely challenges, and decided to make ...
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Sunday, 10 April 2011

A simple card

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http://www.lilypad.inlinkz.com/ has a challenge to use a colour palette. To make mine, I masked off a rectangle and used my chalks to make ...
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Friday, 8 April 2011

Penny Black stamp

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I have created the background using distress ink, glimmer mist and then my favourite Penny Black stamp 2642K daisy pattern. I found some mat...
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Sunday, 27 March 2011

How distressing!!

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I have had a lovely messy time at clas, learning how to use Tim Holtz distress inks. I made several backgrounds, but rather liked the colour...
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Monday, 21 March 2011

birthday card

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My eldest grandson is turning 20 soon, so I have been making this card for him. I have used a Penny Black sticker for the image, layered on ...
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Saturday, 19 March 2011

Concertina Flowers

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I almost forgot about this card I had made for the craft barn They have had some lovely ladies demoing different flowers and I was quite t...
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Monday, 14 March 2011

Going green now!

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This is a change from my last orange shades! I have used the sketch from http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/ What a lovely layout. I used m...
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Sunday, 13 March 2011

Amother one in orange

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I seem to have a 'thing' for orange at the moment. This one uses a piece of patterned card from my stash, which I stamped with acoup...
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Thursday, 10 March 2011

Orange and Yellow

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This is such a great sketch - I couldn't resist using it in these lovely bright colours. I have made it for the sketch challenge this we...
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