Thursday 29 April 2021

Ace Card

 Morning I have made a card using Ace Card  from Chocolate Baroque that I won last month,I water- coloured the image with paints from Art By Marlene.

The first P.paper was from stash and the back background was a stencilled background that I ruined in the middle so was in oddment pile all matted and layered onto black cardstock.

challenges---

polka doodles-ATG 

creative fingers-ATG

colour crazy-ATG

pink gem-ATG

catch the bug-ATG

lil patch of crafty friends-ATG

Inspiration station-photo insp/green/blue

double trouble-flowers

TTCRD-ATG

krafty chicks-ATG

Simon says-ATG

Pennys challenge-ATG

the sisterhood of crafters-how does your garden grow

love to scrap-Spring

starstampz-Spring

sweet stampers-lots of layers----------DT FAVOURITE

the creative crafters-ATG

crafty gals corner-Spring

Thank you for dropping by and any comments are much appreciated

Carol x x x



Friday 23 April 2021

Butterfly Mini Miura Card

 Not entered the Butterfly Spot challenge for a while so when I saw the latest challenge thought I would have a go looks simple enough---yer right.

I cut one card out but it didn't fold properly and the edges didn't meet -checked measurements-all right-so  before I messaged Valery to check measurements I made one out of copy paper worked perfectly first time??? So made another one with card-perfect so no idea what I did with the first one.

I gold embossed a Chocolate Baroque Butterfly for the belly band,and white embossed a Chrysanthemum from Pink Frog,gold embossed sentiment was a craft mag freebie.Mwtal flower brad and all oddments of p.paper from stash.




challenges-

Butterfly spot-M for mini miura/think I have included all the elements and colours----TOP 3

catch the Bug-ATG

lil patch of crafty friends-ATG

INTAAS-winged creatures----------------------------TOP 3

always fun-ATG

incy wincy-colours of Spring/embossing

double trouble-flowers

TTCRD-ATG

aud sentiments-Birthday 

krafty chicks-all occasions---------GOLDEN EGG WINNER

crafty sentiments-ATG

lemon shortbread-ATG

Pennys challenge-ATG

creative moments-ATG------------------WINNER

pearly sparkles-animals/birds/insects

a perfect time to craft-ATG

classic design-ATG

we love chocolate Baroque-Springtime

Ikes world-ATG/Spring-------------------TOP 3

love to scrap-Spring

Jans digi stamps-ATG-------------------TOP 3

Patties creations-birthdays

AAA birthdays-shaped card

crafty catz-ATG/all creatures great and small

Thank you for dropping by and any comments are much appreciated 

Carol x x x

 


Thursday 15 April 2021

Bee Tag

 I have a card to make for eldest sons birthday,admittedly not until next month but for the last week I have had the card fold,stamps even ink pads on my desk and I know what design I want just no inclination-how pathetic does that sound lol.

So to try and get inspired I made a tag not turned out how it was in my mind but there you go at least it was finished!

I inked up the tag and stamped a couple of Bees-the corrugated card/honeycomb piece and zigzag piece are all pieces of packaging,the flower box was cut from an oddment -the little wooden Ladybird and ribbon was from stash and the Bees are Chocolate Baroque stamped onto painted card leftovers with glossy accents on wings.

NOW we come to the splatters---which were made with Cosmic Shimmer Iridescent Watercolour New Gold- a few went on the tag BUT my desk and glasses look perfect lol !!!


challenges-

Daring cardmakers-Bees(feel free to delete if not allowed)

scrapping4fun-ATG

sweet stampin-not usually used for crafting/packaging--------TOP 3

Allsorts-Butterflies/birds and/or Bees

catch the bug-ATG

lil patch of crafty friends-ATG

INTAAS-winged creatures

Simon says-not a card

tag Tuesday-Bees

lil red wagon-in the air 

Pennys challenge-ATG

country view-Birds and Bees

pearly sparkles-animals/birds/insects

a perfect time to craft-ATG

classic design-ATG

through the purple haze-ATG/ribbon/lace

love to craft-ATG

2 crafty critter crazies-ATG

love to create-ATG

stinkin inkers-recycle/reuse-packaging

sweet stampers-lots of layers

Thank you for dropping by and any comments are much appreciated

Carol x x x


Sunday 11 April 2021

Two Birthdays Today

 Our youngest Grandson is 5yrs old today -Happy birthday Noah(and I forgot to take a pic of his mincraft card I made for him tut tut!!!


 

Holly our youngest Grandaughter is 12yrs old today -Happy birthday Holly-she loves Harry Potter or should I say Ron Weasley lol.



Images and one of Rons sayings courtesy of Google.

Thank you for dropping by and any comments are much appreciated

Carol x x x



Thursday 8 April 2021

Slimline and Recycling

 A late post for two reasons we has a bit of a situation needing a plumber! I was stood at the sink running the tap and wondering why the water was splashing my feet(good job I wear flip flops) the waste pipe under the sink had corroded and come away and the water was just running into the cupboard below -anyway all fixed now!!!

The second reason was I have found a new challenge blog-well new to me- Daring Cardmakers -and the challenge finishes soon so couldn't wait until tomorrow.

Another challenge asked for a slimline card which fitted my stamp nicely so had a play.

I stamped the thistle feom AALL and Create onto a book page,inked the edges,matted onto black card for strength and glued onto coruggated card packaging with 3-D foam pads.

I had stamped text on the coruggated card,text onto actual card with distress ink and distress ink through a Creative Expressions stencil-the little heart is from Stampin Up and I drew round the word love with a fineliner pen.


challenges---
 

Daring cardmakers-April challenge

polka doodles-ATG

scrapping4fun-ATG

allsorts-ATG

inkspirational-word prompt-Grow

lil patch of crafty friends-ATG

Simon says-layer it

TTCRD-ATG

Pennys challenge-ATG

cardz4galz-slimline cards

a perfect time to craft-ATG

classic design-ATG-----------BEST TECHNIQUE WINNER

love to craft-ATG

stinkin inkers-recycle/coruggated packaging/book page-----WINNER

creative moments-ATG

creative fingers-ATG

crafty sentiments-ATG

Thank you for dropping by and any comments are much appreciated

Carol x x x

Sunday 4 April 2021

In The Garden

 Morning and we have a new ATG/In The Garden challenge today at 613 Avenue Create and I made another Mini album/trifold card,now the last one took a day this one slightly a lot longer maybe a week? kept changing my mind lol.

The butterflies on the front  was from a  craft mag freebie set and stamped onto leftover oddments of smooshed paper then fusst cut-the little wooden Bees and Ladybirds were from Amazon.

P.papers from stash and so was ribbon-couldn't decide whether to use white or pale green so used both!

The stamps were a mixture of Chocolate Baroque,Pink Frog and AALL and Create coloured with promarkers and added glossy accents.

Border stamp from Crafters Companion-leaf dies from The Works and I paper pieced the little snails with snippets of stamped paper.Background stencil from That's Crafty.




challenges-

crafty catz-ATG/colour

creative fingers-ATG

use your stuff-mood board-Bees/colours

double trouble-something/anything/everything

TTCRD-ATG

passion for promarkers-beginning with B-Bees/bugs/butterflies/border

I love promarkers-ATG/ribbon

Pennys challenge-ATG

Simon says-ATG

Allys Angels-ATG

krafty chicks-stamp act

colour crazy-ATG-------------------------TOP 3

catch the bug-ATG

a perfect time to craft-ATG

classic design-ATG

love to craft-ATG

love to scrap-Spring

2 crafty critter crazies-ATG

we love Chocolate Baroque-Springtime 

DL.Art -April linky challenge

Thank you for dropping by and hope you can join us this month

Carol x x x

Friday 2 April 2021

Flowers and Ladybirds

 Morning and my card today used the Chrysanthemum set of stamps from Pink Frog and I just coloured the main flower,leaves and ladybirds with promarkers-not totally happy with the result though!-leaves to symetrical and only four?Dies from Creative Dies.


challenges-

allsorts-ATG

pink gem-ATG

Dis digis-flowers everywhere

Simon says-Spring

double trouble-something,anything,everything

try it on Tuesday-Spring

passion for promarkers-Beginning with B-blooms/bugs

creatalicious-flowers

Simon says-ATG

krafty chicks-stamp act

time out-inspired by words/garden

a perfect time to craft-ATG---------SPOTLIGHT WINNER

classic design-ATG

Thank you for dropping bu and any comments are much appreciated

Carol x x x