Funky Diva

My son has asked me to make a card for a friend of his. She is a street dancer, so picking the image to use was easy. I have taken the inspiration for the rest of the card from this weeks challenge over at Paperplay challenges. They wanted us to use a "person/people stamp and some gloss, shimmer or sparkle.

I started with a plain white card blank and covered the front with silver glitter card. A few die cuts and some distress ink and it just needed some finishing touches. I couldn't get my die cuts to stick to the glitter card securely, so I have used a couple of brads as a security measure.

My son likes it and it didn't take as long as I thought it would to make.

Hope you are all enjoying the sun :0)

Naomi

Vintage Pink

Sorry I haven't blogged for a while, but life has been hectic. I am behind on my blog hopping and I have stash just crying out to be used.

This offering was inspired by three challenges. I love the Holly & Madison Digi stamps over at Charmed Cards and Crafts and don't need much prodding to use them. Dotties world asked us to use two 3D butterflies this week. I have used a charm and what the girls at work are referring to as my card signature - an Anitas silver dimensional butterfly. (Must remember to buy more).

Kaboodles and Totally Papercrafts both asked us to use digi stamps so this card fit right in.

This is my second attempt at vintage cards. I started with my usual 2 card blanks (very easy way to make easel cards) and some text paper that I have had in my stash for more than 5 years. Just like last time I got happy with a candle. This time I remembered to put the distress ink on AFTER.

This is my first time using Tim Holtz Crackle paint and I will admit that I have ordered more as a result of this card. It's great stuff and if you haven't tried it yet, you need some. I'm still working on putting multiple flowers onto one card. I think I went a bit mental with them on this one, but it was fun.

I have used a lot of different distress inks on this one. Antique linen, Aged Mahogany, worn lipstick and fired brick. I have also added gems as stick on pearls. My flower centers are pearls from a broken bracelet and the flowers them selves are Prima.

Blog Hop Recipe

I only found out about this blog hop at 10.30 so I have had to work fast adn will be blogging fast to hit the midnight deadline.

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge have a blog hop where you are given the recipe in stages at each blog you hop to. This is the card that I made.

It includes the colour brown, a rectangle, Purple (my favourite colour card stock), matting, a stamped inage as the main focus, blue and pink for an additional two colours, cream ribbon, flowers, a butterfly charm, gems for sparkle and a friendship sentiment on the image - Forever friends.

I hope I covered everything.

Posh Pens

There is a lady at work called Aneta. She helps every one with their jobs and usually has a smile for you even when she is snowed under. I wanted to make her a little thank you prezzie. The girls at work have been dropping hints about the things they would like made to go on their desks and the pen pots are quite popular at the moment.

This pen pot is for Aneta. I think that she is one of the few that hasn't hinted, but she always likes the stuff I take into work. Hope she likes this one.

Dotties World asked us to use a hand made flower. Mine is made from grunge paper which I have coloured using Spiced Marmalade distress ink. I stamped the dots on after I had cut out the stamped flowers and the whole thing is held together with a brad.

The colour scheme was inspired by the fruit colours that One Stop Craft Challenge asked us to use. I have gone for lemon and lime. The colours and flowered paper makes me think of spring, so I will also be entering the pen pot for the spring theme challenge over at The Corrosive.

Leaf Fairy

The Color Dare challenged us to use pink, green and black. I don't have many green papers, so choosing the one to use for this challenge was fairly easy. There is a lovely sketch over at Card Patterns, so my card is based on that. I bought a new border punch this week and this is the first time that I have used it. Might take a bit of practice to get it just right I think :0)

I love digi stamps. You can re size them to fit any project. I always print a few per sheet in different sizes so that I usually have something suitable for a project.

Stamp something asked us to put doodles on our design. Not something that I usually do, but I have tried my hand at some faux stitching. My Sakura glitter pens came out again for that added fairy shimmer.

Recycled

Allsorts challenge blog asked us to alter or recycle something for this weeks challenge. I taught my friend how to make pen pots last week, so I thought it was time that I had a go at making another one my self. I started off with a drink carton and a flower that I bought from the pound shop a little while ago.

SCSC asked us to use pink green and flowers in our design and Penny Black asked us to include bees and butterflies. The butterflies are a PB stamp. I went over them with a glitter pen for added interest. I found that the image wouldn't stay stuck so I have bradded that panel into place. I need to buy a ribbon punch or hole punch. that way I could have tied the panel on with ribbon.

The flower I used on the lid had enough space in the middle for a chip board flower and I have also added a button to the centre. Totally Papercrafts also asked us to use pink and green this week.

Spring Trinklets

I just couldn't wait to post my new make.

Over the Christmas period I saw a number of matchbox advent calendars and thought that they could make quite good trinklet boxes. I finally got around to making a small one today.




A trip to the pound shop saw me heading home with 20 matchboxes for £2. I now have a container full of matches that I can't use, but it was so worth it. I have inked the fronts of the drawers with Dusty Concord distress ink and made little handles out of brads and jump rings. The match boxes are DS taped together and the whole thing is quite solid.

I added two side panels by matting some cream card that I had embossed and distressed onto lilac card. I then added some white flowers which I distressed.



The top and base are miri board and I have added more distressed flowers and an Anitas dimension butterfly along with some gems. The finished item is five and a half inches wide by two and a half inches high.


I'm entering my trinket box for the flollowing challenges:
Cute card Thursday - Who wanted something dimensional
Simon Says - Who asked for Spring and glimmer
One stop craft challenge - Who said "Let it shine"