Another Craft Stamper Project

This box was also designed by Jean Hardy, from Crafty Individuals and featured in the November 2009 issue. I thought it would make a nice gift for Mother's Day. The box was painted with  gold Viva Croco Crackle Paint, dried with a heat gun and then over painted with crimson Viva Precious Metal paint, before edging with a Krylon pen. The stampboard was inked with Adirondack inks and then stamped with a Magenta stamp. The result is an aged, distressed box, which is quite different from my normal style, but I thought it worked well for this project.

Craft Stamper Project

I just had to do this project, designed by Jean Hardy, that was in March's Craft Stamper magazine. Apart from the paper choices, mine is virtually a direct copy, so I can't take any credit for the design, but I loved it so much I thought I'd show you. The frame is made from chipboard, coated in modelling paste and then painted and inked with VersaMagic inks. The heart and rosette are made from clay and the rest of the embellishments are chipboard, which has been painted and foiled. The chipboard shapes, papers and stamps are from Crafty Individuals.
I also thought I'd show you my Mum's Mother's day card (hopefully she's not looking), which has been made using an "Elegant Step Card' from Whichcrafts. The stamps are from LOTV and have been coloured with Copics; the papers are Papermania; the fence die is Magnolia; the flower is a Dienamics die and the butterfly and leaves are Martha Stewart punches.

Sarah's Cards Retreat

Just returned from a fab weekend away at the Sarah's Cards Retreat. Nothing better than spending a whole weekend with fellow crafters!
Four out of the six LOs we did are shown below - I still need to finish the others.

A 'Just Because' Card...

to use up the scraps from the other card I made today. I've used a Lili of the Valley stamp, coloured with Copics; Crate Paper "Busy Bee' papers; Martha Stewart, SU and EK Success punches and a bit of bling.

Friday Sketchers - Sketch 141

I love the sketch over at Friday Sketchers, this week. I have used a Lili of the Valley stamp, coloured with Copics; Crate Paper 'Baby Bee Collection' papers; Martha Stewart border and butterfly punches; SU sentiment stamp and oval punches and a Marianne Creatables die.

Mojo Monday Week 177

Fab sketch over at the Mojo Monday blog, this week. I have used SU stamps, PP, card and ink and punches and also some PTI dies.

Color Dare 94

The colours for the 'Color Dare' challenge, this week, are Pear Pizzazz, Pretty in Pink and Perfect Plum.
I have stamped a background image, from PTI 'Retro Backgrounds' set, in Perfect Plum; embossed some Pretty in Pink card stock; stamped an image from PTI 'Round and Round' in Pear Pizzazz; matted it using a PTI die and Perfect Plum card stock and stamped a PTI sentiment, which has been punched out with SU punches. The sketch is based on a recent Mojo Monday sketch.

ColourQ 69

I have used Hero Arts 'Silhouette Flower', stamped in Rich Razzleberry; frame and sentiment stamps from SU 'Just Believe' set, stamped in Cajun Craze and Rich Razzleberry; Kraft, Cajun Craze, Peach Parfait, Rich Razzleberry and White SU card stock; EK Success border punch and some bling, for the challenge over on the ColourQ blog.

Sketch Saturday 139

Thought I'd go a bit 'arty farty' for the sketch over on the Sketch Saturday blog. I have used SU 'Artistic Etchings' stamp set and papers; PTI sentiment stamp; SU 'En Francais' background stamp; Martha Stewart 'Valentine Lace' border punch; Nesties 'Fancy Labels'; a paper shapers photo corner punch and some Tim Holtz distress ink (yes Karen, I've actually inked the edges lol!).

Mojo Monday Week 175

I've made this card for the Mojo Monday challenge. I have used a Lily of the Valley stamp, coloured with Copics; Basic Grey 'Cappella' papers and PTI banner die and stamp.

One for Karen and Iola!

I've been getting a bit of stick off two of my friends, Karen and Iola, as it's been so long since I've posted anything that they said they're getting bored looking at my blog lol! I've got a distinct lack of 'oomph' at the moment and am finding it hard to get motivated to do anything crafty, but thought I'd better make a bit of an effort especially for them :)
I've used SU card and PPs and PTI dies and present stamp.

Just a few....

of the 70 Christmas cards I've made this year! I'm waiting for a stamp, that's been on backorder, to arrive and then I can finish another 30. Definitely buying them next year lol!

Clean and simple

Very quick and easy Stampin' Up card, using 'Bird on a Branch' stamp set.

Don't faint.....

but I've made a card!! Although, to be fair, I have been making plenty of Christmas cards, but not posting them on my blog. The Christmas cards may remain unfinished though, the way things are going. I placed a Papertrey order, this month, that contains the finishing touch for my cards. But rather than winging it's way to me in England, within a few weeks as usual, the tracking shows that it has ended up in Ireland?? Parcelforce have no record of it on their system and the USPS tracking hasn't updated for 3 days - so to say I am frustrated, is a massive understatement!! Anyway fingers crossed that it turns up sooner rather than later.
Back to my card, which is for a friend's daughter's 17th birthday. Everything apart from the bling (Papermania) and the embossing folder (Cuttlebug) is from Papertrey - oh the irony!

ArtsyCrafts Weekend

Had a fantastic time at the ArtsyCrafts weekend in Warrington! Lin and Leandra are excellent teachers and the projects are so well thought out and organised, that it is relatively easy to take home something that you are really proud of.
The picture below is the main project of the weekend and my favourite.

A Struggle

I made this card for my daughter's boyfriend. It took me ages, as I really struggle with men's cards. I've used a digital stamp by Kenny K, which I have coloured with Copics. The card, PP, sentiment stamps and punches are all SU.

Finally....

got around to uploading a LO and some of the cards I have made recently!

For the LO, I have used Pink Paislee '365 degrees' papers and embellishments.

For the cards, I have used a mixture of 'Papertrey' and 'Stampin' Up' stamps, card, inks a and embellishments.