Framed in flowers

This is my first attempt at altering a picture frame.  After years of scrapbooking and then card making, I am only now getting into altering other things over the past few months.  I have made pen pots.  (Lots of fun and easy to start off with) and have moved on to trinket and now this :o)

It didn't turn out quite as planned, but I already have a few ideas for my next one.  For this one I have used natural cotton lace, chocolate satin ribbon and flowers and leaves from Wild Orchid

I am entering my first attempt to the following challenges:

Crafty Creations - Anything goes 

Everybody Art - Flowers 

My Time to craft - Scallops

Chocolate Cupcake

I've gone for a simple minimalist card today.  I don't do many of them because all of that empty space drives me nuts, but I am trying to learn new styles and skills in my crafting so I have given it a go.

 

I really like the sketch that Card Patterns set for this weeks challenge, so This card is based on that.  I was also inspired by the chocolate challenge over at My Time To Craft.  I have used a combination of chocolaty coloured card stock from Co-ordination and bazzill.  Bitter chocolate, Chocolate mousse and Iced Cocoa.

I have embossed the Iced Cocoa cardstock to add some texture to the card and the topper is from the Kanban sheet I used in Golden Cupcake.  I couldn't decide on a sentiment for this one, but in the end, inspiration came from the "with love" challenge over at SCSC.  I'm trying to build up a stock of cards to give to family and friends next Christmas, so I had better get to work in I am going to have enough.

Happy crafting out there :o)

Tree of love

I'm still making Christmas cards to give to family and friends. This one is for my aunt.

My mojo has taken a vacation to warmer climes without letting me know, so I have been blog hopping for inspiration. On my travels I came across a blog called Whiff of Joy Tutorials and Inspiration There are so many great ideas to look at on there.

The pink text paper came from a HOTP paper pack that I bought years and years ago. The chocolate shiny paper was bought around the same time. The chocolate ribbon I bought earlier this year on a ribbon buying binge and the snowflake (originally silver, but coloured with a Krylon pen) is an Anitas dimention sticker which I bought in September. I have added dots of glitter glue all over the image to represent snow.

I am going to enter this card for Ohh La La Creations Pink and brown challenge, The Pink Elephants winter challenge, 2 Red Bananas Tree challenge and CRAFT Challenges Free for all challenge.

I really hope she likes it. Took me ages as it was my first time doing this type of card. The ones I have seen made by other people are gorgeous.

Small sweets

I love the image I have used on this card. I think it is so versatile and sweet.

I tend to stay away from stripey paper as I am always scared that the card will look to cluttered. The image I have used is not too complex, so I think I got away with it. I love Gorjuss girl stamps and this one has probably had the most use out of all of the ones that I own.

I made this card in response to the challenge over at Totally Gorjuss

Sweet n Fuzzy

I'm a member of a craft forum where we share ideas and info. (See here for more details). One of the ladies came up with the fantastic idea of doing altered chocolate. Basically you alter the appearance of the wrapper.

This week Corrosive challenged us to make anything that was "not a card". I had a light bulb moment and this is my first attempt at altered chocolate. When I had finished I realised that I could also use this for the challenge over at Stamp Something who challenged us to make something with a "Sweet and Fuzzy" theme.

I'm not sure who this will go to yet, but it will make an excellent stocking filler.

Lemon Sugar

I haven't posted for a couple of weeks due to real life commitments, but it's really good to be crafting again.

The sketch for this card came from this weeks Friday Sketchers challenge. The colour scheme came from this weeks PBSC challenge which was to use Chocolate, lemon and pink. I chose an animal in response to the SCSC challenge called Animal Antics. I set myself the additional challenge of not using any patterned paper, but I couldn't resist doing a bit of embossing.

Now that I am in the swing of crafting again, I'm off to make some more cards. Have a good weekend.

Pink Chocolate

This is my last card for the weekend. It is for a challenge over at SSC. We were given a sketch to follow and the challenge was to use some of your latest stash.

The newest addition to my stash was the tree digi stamp which was on a free CD on a magazine. I wish my picture was better so that you could see the details. The pink leaves on the tree are all pink hearts.

I've used lots of chocolaty stuff on this one, including a gorgeous chocolate double satin ribbon.

The paper at the bottom is from Daisy and Dandelion and the one at the top is from HOTP. I edged the white flowers with pink using a whispers brush pen to keep it in with the theme.

This is a late entry as they do a new challenge every other Monday and a new one is due tomorrow.

Brown metal

Second challenge card for today.

This one is for BBCC This is challenge number 1 for their new challenge blog. We had to create a card for a Dad which included the colour brown and some metal.

I have used two pieces of bark patterned paper. I have had the paper for a while and could never figure out what to do with it. (I bought it a while back).

You can't tell from this shot, but all of the metal parts of the car have been coloured using Sakura stardream pens to give a glitter effect.

This challenge is open till 14th Spetember. Why don't you go on over and take a look.

Chocolate Pennies

My first card for the weekend is a challenge card for PBSC challenge 62. The challenge was to use the colours cream, tan and blue. My biggest problem with this card was which stamp to use. My collection of Penny Black stamps is growing faster than I use them and I just bought another today oops.



The background is Cinnamon coloured textured card. Both of the patterned papers are from Daisy and Dandelion Picnic Patch collection.

I cut the background for the flowers using a Cuttlebug die. The ribbons I used are cream and chocolate and the brads are chocolate brown.

Golden Pennies

This weeks challenge over at PBSC is a recipe 3 Ribbons....2 Flowers.....1 Pin/Charm. I just bought some delicious chocolate double satin ribbon and that got me thinking about boxes of chocolates and that led to the inspiration for the colours for this card lol.

Unfortunately I did not have any golden charms, but I think that the Princess crown charm still works.