A RRRUFF day.

I just had to play with the current challenge at

The Paper Players which is Raining Cats & Dogs

for a few reasons.

My sister has had a bad fall and is in hospital

hence a Get Well card but with a difference.

 

 

 

Now we both love 'Scottie Dogs' being Scots ourselves.

and

I have been itching to use this Scottie dog die

(Marianne Die LR0039) as my hubby

bought it for me for Christmas. 

I have had the sentiment which belongs to

Inkadinkado for quite some time

and thought it a perfect

cheer me up for my card.

I know there will be quite a few 'ruff days'

when she gets out of hospital.

I used basic black/white & red card stock

some tartan paper on the side his collar

and a few small hearts.

Paper pierced around the edges

foam squares for dimension

a few bones inked from the die

and there it is finished.

Oh and I added a white dot for the eye and nose.

 

Thanks for dropping in

 

 

 



It's all about LOVE.

 

It's getting to that time of year when

Love is in the Air

so what better excuse is there to make a card

to say 'I Love You'

for our latest challenge at Crafty Cardmakers

and Hosting is Julie.

 

 

This was a simple card to make

and here are the products I used -

Black Silver and Red card stock/paper

Love Die is from Kaisercraft Decorative Die

Flourish - Memory Box Loveland Corner

The hearts in the Love triangle are

the cut outs from the flourish.

The tiny heart punch is Sullivans

and stamped from a SU stamp

Finish off with some rhinestones.

 

Don't forget to pop over to our blog

to see what the other Designers have created.

I am sure you will want to play with this challenge.

 

See you there!

 



Sketch Time at Always Playing with Paper

Here I am finally able to play with paper again

having had an extremely busy few weeks with

Doctor's Appointments and procedure for hubby who is now

home and in recovery mode - which means I do most

of the heavy work around the house for the next 6 weeks.

***

I couldn't wait to play with the current sketch challenge over at

Always Playing with Paper

 

 

I decided I would flip my card around and go from there.

I loved the idea of the circles on the sketch below
 hence I got out my circle stencil
and gave my background the bokeh technique.

 using Memento Lulu Lavendar and Sweet Plum.

The leaves, tiny stamped flowers and sentiment are from

Gina K Designs Stippled Nature.

Memento Pistachio for the leaves and

SU Rich Razzleberry on the flowers.

My bigger flowers are also from SU

Flower Shop and Petite Petals.

They go so well together.

Did a little spritzing and finishing off with

popping the flowers and adding pearls to the centres

and liquid pearls to the tiny flowers.

Used basic card stock and rounded off the corner.

Oh and of course I used my favourite colour - purple.

***

Below is the sketch to follow.

 

 

 

I really enjoyed this challenge and look forward to seeing

next weeks Colour Challenge - one of my favourites.

 

Thanks for dropping in.

 



A Simple LOVE U

 

It's February and that means

Love is in the Air and Valentine's Day

 

 

So to run with this occasion our Host Vicki

has chosen VALENTINE for our Word Week at

Just Us Girls

 

 

I am not one to celebrate this occasion as there are
365 days of the year that you can say 'Love You'
so since I have made 2 of these cards in similar style
I am going to send them to my 2 daughters.

Here are the products I used for my cas card.
Red & Metallic card stock
Red floral paper
Memory Box Loveland Corner
isn't it gorgeous?
Kaisercraft Decorative Die
An old Cuttlebug Heart Die
cut in both colours and popped
Sullivan Heart Punch
Cuttlebug Alphabet Die for the U
again cut twice and popped
and finished with the placing of some
coloured pearls.

Don't forget to pop over and see what our
Guest Designer Pamellia
and the Design Team have created
then I hope you will create
your Valentine Card for this weeks challenge.
You could be our Chic of the Week and
our Guest Designer in April.

Till next time
Happy Crafting

 

Another Tic Tac Toe card

 Here is the other card I made for
this weeks Tic Tac Toe Challenge at
Just Us Girls

 

For some reason I just wasn't happy with this one
hence I made another.
 

 

It's been a long time since I did a cut away card

so thought it a good idea to try one again.

The SU Morning Meadow Stamp was perfect for this

and I stamped it randomly on white cs in

Memento Teal Zeal & SU Baja Breeze.

The top flowers are die cut from SU Petite Petals.

Card base is Kraft

Butterflies are from GKD inked with

Tim Holtz Frayed Burlap.

Sentiment is also GKD

Finished with different coloured pearls from Kaisercraft.

 

 



It's Wild Card Week at JUGS

 

Once again it is another month with 5 Saturdays

and that means WILD WEEK at Just Us Girls 

hosted this time by Chris who has chosen.

an ever popular challenge in Blogland -

TIC TAC TOE

They are always so much fun with so many choices -

you get to pick your very own favourite squares.

 

 

 

I had already made a card for this challenge but

decided to make another.

I will post it after this goes live.

Can't believe I have chosen just about

 the same colours as before.

Oh Well! on to how I made this one -

I chose to go straight down the middle with

Die Cuts Stamps and Flowers

with

White Aqua & Kraft card stock

My stencil is TCW - Textile and inked with

SU Whisper White and added

Mont Marte Pearl White Paint and

a little glitter

Flower is from SU Flower Shop

Flourishes are Kaisercraft

Added a sentiment a few small flowers

some fern and pearls to finish.

 

Don't forget to pop over to see what the Design Team

created and hope you get the chance to play

TIC TAC TOE with us this week.

You could be our Chic of the Week or

Guest Designer in March.

 

Thanks for dropping in

 



I'm this weeks GUEST at Always Playing with Paper

 

I recently won the colour challenge over at

Always Playing with Paper

and was asked to be their Guest for this week challenge.

Of course I was so excited I said YES!

 

 

Don't you just love this Inspiration Photo?

Now a lot of us tend to steer away from male cards

but after seeing this photo -which just screamed

Rusty Old Car! I got out some supplies I thought

I would use but landed up with something totally

different and I must say

how pleased I was with how it finished.

 

 

I started my card with black card stock.

The DP I used here is from

Farm House Paper Co. - Fair Skies

This was used on the first background

and behind the tag.

I have backed that with black cs embossed

with a Tim Holtz embossing folder.

I distressed the edges on both the dp and the tag.

The truck is from Gina K Designs Country Roads.

The sentiment is also from GKD

which I purposely chose because when you travel

there are little moments

 that make that trip a big lifetime memory.

Sentiments on the tag are from Stamp It.

The other stamps are from

Prima Marketing and Kaisercraft.

The truck was coloured with a variety of pencils

from Faber Castell and blended.

Inks used were Memento Tuxedo Black

Stormy Sky/Potters Clay

and Tim Holtz Peacock Feather.

Foam Squares for depth

Finishing it off with a couple of brads

and some Jute String.

 

Thanks for dropping in today

and be sure to pop over to the

Talented Designers  Here

to see what Inspired them

for their Masculine cards.

 

Hope you get time to play with us this week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Just saying 'Thank You'

Our current challenge over at

Crafty Cardmakers is to use Punches/Dies

and Maike is Hosting.

 

 

I am sure you are like me and got new craft items for Christmas.

My hubby chose this die for me so of course I HAD to

try it out didn't I? Perfect for our latest challenge.

I cut my die - Crafts Too You Daisy with green card stock

and the daisy head in white which I inked in

Tim Holtz Abandoned Coral. Touched up with Wink of Stella.

 I forgot that I had a spare piece of cs already

with the shaving cream technique

sitting on my desk left over from another card

which matched my flower Genies.

This was cut with Spellbinders Wonky Rectangle die.

I embossed the backing with

Couture Creation Ambrosia.

I found this gorgeous ribbon and attached to the back

(a little hard to see) and placed my bow to the side.

I finished by adding a tiny sentiment from SU. 

 



Be sure to pop by to see what the DT have for your inspiration

and hope to see your creation there.

PS It doesn't have to be a card this time so

let your imagination run wild!

but don't forget if it has you cannot enter it

 if you have uploaded it to more than

 15 sites including this one...sorry

 

Happy crafting and Thanks for dropping in

It's PHOTO WEEK at Just Us Girls

 

Sharyn is our Hostess this week at

Just Us Girls

 

What do you see that inspires you here?

 

I saw the Chevrons and pretty pillows

 

I cut out a template and went from there.

Here are the products I used -

Navy and white card stock

Scrap DP

Kaisercraft leaf die

SU Butterfly

Several scrunched inked yellow silk flowers

(think I was a bit heavy handed inking them)

Memento Paris Dusk on

Sentiment from IBS

White brad (yay got to use another one lol)

The chevrons were popped for 3d effect.

 

That's it for now but be sure to pop over to our Blog

to check out what inspired our Guesties and DT.

 

Hope you get a chance to play with us this week.

 



I'm Not BLUE - Thinking of You

It's Colour Week at Just Us Girls and Maria is Hosting.

 

 

using  these 3 colours only.

 

 

Seems to be a popular choice so far this year.

 

I loved this colour choice because quite some time ago

I received a package of craft goodies from a

secret partner from a site I was part of.

We would randomly send cards and sometimes craft items

to each other sometimes going to great lengths

to post from different parts of the world so they

wouldn't know where you were.

 

So on to my card that I had so much fun making and

thinking of my partner as we found out who it was at the end of that year.

Mine was over on the other side of the world in the UK.

I got to use only a small part of this package which included

paper ribbon buttons etc.

 

Here are the products I used.

Designer Papers for the background flower

ribbon and button are from Docrafts

Capsule Collection - Burleigh Blue and Lakeland Crafts.

The flower is cut from Spellbinders Labels 27 and

several times from Moroccan Motifs

MS Punch

Distressing

Memento Paris Dusk/Summer Sky on sentiment

from GKD cut using an IBS Label

Memory Box Quinn Flourish behind the flower

Kaisercraft pearls

Variegated cotton on button.

 

Now you have read my long story I hope you will

pop over to our Blog and see more

Beautiful Blue Cards.

Looking forward to seeing yours there too.

Then you will be in the running for our

popular Chic of the Week and go into the voting

for our Guest Designer for March.

 

but wait there's more!

 

There is a new BLOG in town called

Double D Challenges

and they have the most awesome talented Designers -

how do I know? Some of my friends are there.

Check it out because you won't be disappointed.

 

For their first challenge it's

Forget Me Not -

Be inspired with these beautiful Photos

and you just need to add Blue Flowers of course.

Now who could resist playing after seeing them?

I couldn't...

Again apologies for the long post today but

it was worth it...

 

Thanks for dropping by

 

 



I'm Always 'Playing with Paper' but this is their Challenge #56 and Cards4Galz

As I have said in a previous post it is nice to be back from holidays

and Playing with Paper again.

More so as the current challenge at

Always Playing with Paper

is their colour challenge and it is a beauti.

 

 

This is the card I made with the colour combination below.

 

and

Challenge 13 - Something New

at Cards 4 Galz

 

And the products I used are -

Orange navy and white card stock

Memory Box Textured Distressed Grid stencil

(this is my new item that hubby bought for me  for Christmas)

in Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers

Tim Holtz Speckles Stencil

in Memento Paris Dusk

The butterflies are cut from a

scrap piece of SU Designer paper

and orange cs with

Spellbinder Butterfly die

and Sizzix Butterfly die.

The trail from the butterfly - I glued

some of the dots from the butterfly die

Also added a few for dimension on the

butterflies head (a little hard to see)

Added a small navy strip to the side.

 

Thanks for dropping in.

Your comments are always appreciated.

A Happy HELLO!

The new Challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations 

has my favourite colour

 

 

and even better their sponsor is one of my favourites



I was doing the happy dance as one of the

paper packs I have has

 the most beautiful lilac papers.

Now I have a nice little supply of their products

as they are an Australian based site

so thought it fitting to play with them.

I had a hard time photographing this card

as no matter which angle.

The white paper looks crooked (which it isn't)

 

Here are the list of products I used.

IBS - Spring Lilac Paper Pack

Flowers

Sentiment - Big Hello (love that one)

Birthday Wishes for the frame.

Grey& White card stock

Spellbinders Squares & Lacey Squares

Distressing

Lilac rhinestones

Memento Lulu Lavender

and Sweet Plum Inks

 

I really enjoyed making this card with such

a lovely colour combination.

Gorgeous cards by the Designer Team.

 

Thanks for dropping in.

Would love to read your comments.

 



We're off and running for 2016 at Crafty Cardmakers & More.

 

It's a New Year -  New Challenges to try and
2 New Designers.
Welcome to the Team Angela Judy & Ngaere
 

 

For our first Challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers -

hosting this one is Sally and she has chosen

New Baby-Marriage-Home etc - you get the drift.

***

My niece is due to have a baby in a few months so it was

a perfect time to make a Baby Card.

Starting with white cs as my base I then cut some

scraps pieces of paper on an angle embossing

with some very old Cuttlebug Embossing Borders.

Perfect size...

These were attached to a white base.

I then added some pink cs topped with

some scrap DP.

Added various coloured buttons a little cotton

and some rhinestones.

My tag was cut from Kaisercraft  Tag Die

and BABY was cut with Cuttlebug Typewriter dies.

I just love those cb dies. They are one of the first things

I bought many years ago when I was just starting out

making cards.

***

I am playing along at

Cuttlebug Mania as their challenge is -

use  'New' in your project. Got that one covered (Baby)

and Try it on Tuesday using Letters/Numbers 

where I have used letters - yes that too.

 

So there you have it...

Thanks so much for dropping in.

 



Colour Throwdown #374

I loved the colour combination at Colour Throwdown

 

 

so went for a cas birthday card -

not bulky and good for posting.

 

 

I used basic grey card stock

topping it with multiple stampings

of SU Pocket Silhouettes in

Memento Peanut Brittle & Potters Clay.

I used a SU punch to back my sentiment

which is also SU - Morning Meadow.

Finished it with a little spritzing

some gemstones and a

flutter of butterflies by SU.

 

Thanks for dropping in today.

 



I'm Back at 'The House'

Hello there!

 

 

I am back from my wonderful break after spending

some most enjoyable time with family over the

Holiday Season.

I must admit to the end I was missing my play time

but that is all good now as my fingers have been

playing with paper again.

 

The House that Stamps Built have

their Colour Challenge Here

 

so of course I had to play.

I went for something cas for this one

using the 3 colours above.

My stamped images are from

Casual Fridays Stamps

inked in Memento Paris Dusk & Summer Sky

Cut out my frame from 2

Spellbinder dies.

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping

and finishing with some bling and a little

punching on the corner.

 

Thanks for dropping by

 

 

 

 



We're Trending this week at JUST US GIRLS

It's TREND WEEK at Just Us Girls
and hosting this week is Sue and she has chosen
Metals/Metallics

I made my card before Christmas as I didn't want to be
rushing after I came home from my holidays in
Sunny North Queensland (Australia).
***
This trend gave me the chance to make a male card
so I got out a Marianne Design car die and cut in black cs
 using a small piece of acetate for the windows
and brass brads for the wheel trim.
I inked a cuttlebug folder for the background with similar
colours as my cs and attached a few metal bits
 to blend with the background.
Sentiment is cut using Spellbinders Circles



Hop on over to our blog and check out
our Guest Designer's Deepti & Vicki's cards
and what the Team have produced.
You are never disappointed are you!

Hope to see you there!

I would like to enter this card at
http://cardz4guyz.blogspot.co.uk/
for their Challenge #101 Anything BUT Square.

It's a NEW YEAR at Just Us Girls

It's a New Year and a New Image at Just Us Girls.
Don't you just love it!  Thanks to our Talented Host Nancy.
 

Our first Challenge for the year is for

 

and as you can see it is THANK YOU.

 

 

My base is white ripple card stock.

I topped this with scoring the grey.

The pink background for my butterfly is 

a piece of card stock which has the

shaving cream technique.

My leaf is from Kaisercraft.

The butterfly from Marianne Designs is  

cut twice - once in white (on top) and again

(underneath) in vellum.

Sentiment is from GKD and I finished

with  different sized rhinestones

on the butterfly and background.

***

We have 2 Talented Guest Designer's

for January and they are

Deepti Malik - You can check out her Blog Here

and Vicki Parsons and her blog is Here

Welcome! So glad you have joined us this month.

***

Don't forget to pop over to Our Jugs Blog

to see what the Jugheads created

during our break.

***

I will still be swanning around in

Tropical Sunshine when this post goes live

so scheduled it some time ago.

***

Hope you all have had a relaxing Christmas break

and ready for a New Year playing with paper.

I am sure there are plenty of Thank You cards needed

so pop them in to our first challenge for 2016.

Will be checking to see if you are there!