She's Charming

Hello bloggers and fellow crafters

This weeks' challenge over at The Paper Shelter is 'Blooming'. The link for the challenge can be found here.

I made this card with the digi stamp called 'She's Charming" from The Paper Shelter and she can be found here.

I wanted to keep this card clean and simple so printed the image and coloured her in with my Copic and ProMarker pens.

I then added a simple sentiment from Craftwork Cards and added some flowers and adhesive pearls.

I love the blue of this young ladies dress but wanted to match it to the background paper (so bit of a fail there) but I am really pleased with how the card itself turned out.  Was exactly what I was aiming for with the 'clean and simple' approach.

I just love the cuteness of this stamp, the way she's powdering her face ready for her big date or even her prom.  Cuteness!!

Anyway, if you're also taking part in The Paper Shelter's challenge, good luck. It's lovely to see all the fabulous cards that other people make with the same images. Lots of inspiration and lots of great ideas.

Take care everyone and hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
Hugs xx

The Red Velveteen Rabbit

Hello fellow crafters
I trust you are having a pleasant evening whatever you are doing?

I just wanted to share a little something with you that I have been working on this evening, while watching an old Doctor Who episode with my son, Lewis.  I really miss David Tennant, although I do like Matt Smith as well.  We were watching the episode where the Doctor and Martha go back in time to visit William Shakespeare at the Globe Theatre, called 'The Shakespeare Code' and my son showed me where he sat when he recently visited the theatre in London, with his school.  Bless him, he's really excited.

Anyway, I think I might have been a little bit inspired whilst watching as I came up with this dark and ever so slightly, eerie card. Maybe it also has something to do with Halloween coming up too. Who knows??? Anyway, I really quite like it.

The digital image is from the Saturated Canary, she's called Honey and she can be found here.

The background papers are from DCWV The Madly in Love (12x12cm paper) Stack but the red paper is just a piece of scrap that I cut to size and ran through the BigShot with my Cuttlebug embossing 'Spots' folder.

I then added some ribbon that I cut into strips and stuck behind the main image and added a Craftwork Cards sentiment to finish it off.

I hope you like my card and thank you for taking the time to visit.

Thanks for stopping by
Hugs, Fae xxx

Little 'Blue' Peep

Full version of the front of the card

Well I can't believe another Friday is here already... where does the week go?

I have been convalescing at home for the past month due to health reasons and I can't believe that we are turning the clocks back this week and November is practically upon us. I'll have to get out my book of spells for next week and my broom could do with an airing. Maybe I'll take it for a pre-Halloween (hypothetical) spin this week to blow out any cobwebs.

Anyway onto today's card... I have decided to enter this card into the following challenges:

Fashionista Challenge - Anything Goes
Passion for Promarkers - Pets Theme

Close up view

I started with an 8" by 8" white base and then added some papers from my Grace Taylor 'Blossom' 12 x 12cm scrapbook pad.  The blue paper with the text I am not sure the origin of... sorry! I layered the blue and the circle of brown directly onto the base card and then used a nestie and my Big Shot to cut around the image.  I used my Promarker pens to colour in the digital image (Jules from the Saturated Canary) and then I mounted that to the front of the card too.  I then added all of the embellishments; gemstones; flowers; brad; pins and coloured adhesive pearls, not to mention the Craftwork Cards Happy Birthday Sentiment which seemed to match the shape of the nestie (well...almost).

Hugs Fae xxx

Laugh a Little

Another little gem from Lili of the Valley... God I love this cute little fairy lady.

I made this card a while ago and photographed it but never got around to uploading the picture to Blogland.

The sentiment is Hero Arts (I believe) and the background papers are scraps I had lying around. Sorry, I can't remember who, what, when or where they came from...

The image was coloured with my Copic Pens and I added some silver Card Candi from Craftwork Cards.

Mum's Birthday

Hello again
Here's the upload I promised.

This is a card I made for a friend at work, Jane. It was her mother's birthday and she wanted an 8" by 8" card so I had quite a bit of space to fill.

The background paper is from a bumper pack from Craftword Cards and so was the greeting attachment. The ribbons were from my stash (god knows where I got them as I now have three rather large bags full of ribbons) and I cannot for the life of me, remember where the image was from either (sorry). I coloured the image with my promarkers and cut the letters out by hand before running them through a Cuttlebug folder on my BigShot. I then mounted the image and added some card candi.

Devoted & Dashing Dad

Hi girls (and guys)

This fortnights challenge on the Forever Friends challenge blog is to create a ROUND CARD. Remember, you don't have to use a Forever Friends image if you don't have one as long as you use an animal.

This fortnight's challenge is sponsored by Di's Digi Downloads and she very kindly gave the DT some images to use on our creations.  As you can see, my card is not exactly a round one but the front of the easel is. I had originally made the easel round as well but I wasn't happy with the finished result. So I remade it with a square base and a round easel and I think it worked out well.

I used a selection of different papers, merged the digi image with a sentiment from Create with TLC and coloured the image in with my promarker pens. I added a round birthday sentiment from Craftword Cards and job done.

Not entirely happy with the finished result, I reprinted the image again and coloured it the same way as the original and decoupaged the bear only to the front.



Here's a slightly smaller image so that you can see the decoupaged area.

I hope that you will decide to join in the fun this time and good luck.  I hope you like my card that I created for the Design Team.

Thanks for stopping by, hugs xxx

Cheers... Ears!!!

Hi there
Here is card number two that I have so far made today.

 

A 5x5 whitebase card. I cut the main designer paper slightly smaller than the base card and mounted that onto plain white card that I 'edged' with the chisel end of my Coral Promarker. I then coloured the image with my Promarker pens (as listed below) and cut to size. I also mounted this onto plain white card which had been edged with the same Coral Promarker. I cut a smaller off cut of DP to go across the card and mounted this too. I then added the image over the top with some foam pads and then added a simple greetings tag and a pearl which I also coloured with the Coral Promarker.

Another Lili of the Valley image, this time, I have used the following supplies:

Image: Lili of the Valley

Promarkers: Coral, Pumpkin, Burnt Umber, Cinnamon, Caramel, Blush, Ice Grey 1, Ice Grey 3 and Ice Grey 5 (and Blender pen for the dots on the cats face, side and belly...awwwww)

Designer Papers: Craftwork Cards (Vintage Rose) Paper Stack and and old Birthday Card

Pearl and Tag from Stash

White Highlighter and Sakura (Silver) Gelly Roll pen

Selection of co-ordinating coloured pencils to add shaded areas (including White to highlight)

Thanks again for visiting, hugs