Dino Saw................

Back again

Found a bit of time to do another card tonight and went from complete girly pinks to male neutrals not that you should really stereotype colours I know quite a few men that wear pink (shirts!).

The house renovations are moving along nicely and we now have the new roof going on the old house and the new extension. Inside the rewire is complete and all the plastering is well underway so now I get all the nice tasks of picking light fittings and bathroom tiles etc.

Anyway the card tonight is once again covering  a number of really fabulous challenges:

Fridays Sketchers - Sketch
Colour Create - Khaki/Aqua/Brown/Cream with an additional requirement of circles (oops missed this one!!)
Secret crafter - metal
Stampin for the weekend - A card for a male

This image is one from Woodware and has been coloured with distress inks onto suede paper which gives a very lovely texture. The papers are from an old pad had from BG and all the colours really suit masculine cards. I embossed a piece of scrap card to look like metal and added some ribbon from Stamping Up  and a little metal charm to finish it off.

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Friendship

Hi Everyone

Last card for this week as I am finding it too hard to craft when back from work as I am having to spend over 4 hours each day commuting which is a bit of a killer. the building work is coming along. I now have a couple of walls missing, the new extension walls are now built and the first fix new electrics have been done in the old house. Not bad for one week!

So anyway back to today's card. This is another male card (I'm getting there!) and uses some old BG Design papers I have had for ages. I have also managed to fit it into three challenges:

Fridays sketchers - Sketch
Penny Black - Punches
Secret Crafter - Friendship

I thought this stamp really fitted the bill especially the accompanying sentiment.I coloured it with copics, but managed to avoid my customary stickles frenzy! However I couldn't leave it too plain so out came the MS punch!

Recipe: Stamp: Flyaway from Penny Black coloured with copics.Papers: Basic grey from my stash, and Bazzill in red and blue.. Ribbon from stash.

As always thanks for looking

Hugs

Silver & lilac

Hi all

Today is all mammoth multi challenge card covering no less than five challenges:

Friday Sketchers - Sketch
Stampin for the weekend - Lilac and silver with additional request of a gift Card and tag
Colour Create - Lilac, Aqua Blackand white
A spoonful of Sugar - Non traditional christmas colours
Creative inspirations - Christmas card and tag set.

The image is from the fabulous Inkadinkado Christmas silhouette set embossed in silver and the snowflakes filled with aqua and diamond stickles.

A close up shows the image in more detail. Inside I have created a pocket to hold an I-Tunes voucher or similar gift card, but have slipped a co-ordinating tag in the slot for now. The tag has a snowflake sponged in silver ink using the negative from the punched snowflake embellies and is finished off with a little lilac and silver ribbon.

Recipe: 236:365 Stamps: Inkadinkado christmas silhouette. Papers: DCWV- Rose tinted christmas. Punch - Martha Stewart - Punch around the page - Aspen snowflake & glacial snowflake. Ribbon from stash & lashings of stickles.

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Sparkle, Glitz & Bling

Hi all

Gosh when is this windy weather going to cease. Its been blowing all the leaves from my Magnolia tree into my neighbours garden and I keep getting these dirty looks thrown at me when I leave the house (although I do offer to help!). How embarrassing!! Thankfully there are hardly any leaves left on the tree so my troubles will be over soon.

I made a bit of a whoopsie yesterday and forgot to to post my card so now I have missed the challenge I will post later in the week Oops!

Today my card followed the lovely sketch over at Friday sketchers, but also covers the challenges on Totally Gorjuss to use any girlie image, Creative Inspirations to Sparkle, Just Magnolia to use masking, a little bit of BG paper for the Basic Grey 'Glitz and Bling' challenge and finally Papertake Weekly to create use your favourite Christmas stamps

Recipe:  227/365 Stamps - Magnolia - Wrapped Tilda & Snowy circle coloured with Copics and the bow is watercoloured with Jellyroll pens. Papers Basic Grey - Snowbank, Sei -winter Song, Flocked snowflake vellum. Sentiment and Card candy -craftwork cards. Tulle and pins from stash. Plus loads of stickles !!

 Thanks for looking

Hugs

Sara xx

Winter Blues

Hi All

OMG what a windy day has been today, it doesn't seem to have stopped blowing all day & as a consequnce I haven't set foot out the door yet!! I have been busy on a little crafty project I am working on and also preping for an interview &  presentation I have on Monday (big gulps!!). Any way I did manage to squeeze a little bit of card making in between and have made another little gorjuss card!

I have managed to combine three more challenges again today (I know, I'm a little tinker!). Firstly the sketch over at Friday Sketchers was so lovely and simple it really cried out for some lush papers so I used some of the lovely KARS X-mas collection. The colour scheme was Blue, Silver & White to cover off the brief at Colour Create, which also asked for some winter and glitter (glitter? me!!), which I also added. The colour way also went with the Totally Gorjuss challenge which was 'Christmas Blues' which then dictated the stamp. This is such fun!

A close up of this little Gorjuss girl who I coloured with Copics today. Her hair is silver (not grey!!) to go with the colour scheme.

Finally I had another play with the acetate and twinklets, but this time paired it with some vellum

Recipe: 218/365 Stamps: Gorjuss girls - Sitting coloured with copics, Snowflake from Penny Black Crystalline collection. Paper: X-mas Collection from KARS, Nesties - Create a snowflake. Twicklets, stickles spacers and bling from stash

Right off to brave the weather now as my brother is having a birthday dinner tonight. If I don't post tomorrow I was obviously blown away!! LOL

Thanks for looking
Hugs

Sara xx

In the meadow we can build a snowman

Hi all

The challenge today used the sketch on Friday Sketchers and the theme over at Penny Black Saturday, which was to base the card on a song title or lyrics. I used this great sentiment stamp of the first line of Frosty the Snowman and it seems appropriate to use this really cute stamp. The colouring looks better than the photo shows - honestly hedgey is not purple, but all this gloomy weather makes for difficult photography! Some glossy accents on the scarf and stickles on the hat and sky to finish!

Recipe: 215/365 Stamps: Snowy & Hedgey - Penny Black coloured with copics. Sentiment from Great Impressions. Papers: Winter Wonderland from Craftwork Cards. Die Cut using Sizzix Bigx snowflake and nesties circles and scallopd circles. Pearl & glitter card from stash. Card candy from Craftwork Cards. Stardust stickles and Glossy accents.

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Sara xx

Friday Sketchers - 75

Hi all

Well the Indian summer weather the weather forecasters had been harping on about all week manged to find its way to Cobham in Surrey today, which is typical now that my central heating is all fixed!

I shouldn't moan as I managed to take some great shots of the beautiful autumn foliage today (who needs to be in Vermont when you can have it all in leafy Surrey LOL!)
I also manged to quickly snap this tiny cute beetle that landed on my car, just as I was about to get in it to go grocery shopping (proof that any little thing will distract me from my chores......!). He was very tricky to capture as he refused to pose for the camera and was moving pretty fast so focusing was pretty tricky, but you have to agree with colouring like this it was worth a go.


So onto my card for today which used a sketch from Friday sketchers. I was obviously inspired by the beetle as the colours seems to have been translated into the colouring and my choice of papers.
After yesterdays traditional colours it was refrshing to use a more modern Christmas palette & this paper from Kaisercraft certainly fitted the bill. Although I have to say that I went into a bit of a sweat when I had to start cutting into it! Why is it that certain papers can send you that way or is that just me!
The cute stamp from Impression Obsession was so easy to colour and I'm sure you will see this again soon....

Recipe: 203/365 Stamp: Lamb awaiting - Impression obsession coloured with distressed inks, sentiment from stamps away. Papers: Kaisercraft, Wish upon - Twinkle & Star bright. Nesties: Labels one and nesting stars. Ribbon from Ribbon Oasis plus my usual sprinkle of stickles!

Back to some more traditional colours tomorrow.

Thanks for looking

Hugs

Sara xx