I Made The Top 5 At The Scrapmaster's Paradise

I made Top 5 at The Scrapmaster's Paradise for their Colour Combo challenge.

Here is the card I entered into their challenge #60.

You can see my original post for this card here.

Blue and Grey Pantaloon

This is the card that I made for the very talented Katy (CraftyKaty) for her birthday. She seems to be going through it a bit at the moment and I hope this cheered her up a little. She is a tremendously talented cardmaker and I knew I had to make an extra-special card to be worthy of sending it to her!!! Please head over to her blog to see her amazing creations.

I hope no-one minds me entering it into quite so many challenges, but I'm rather proud of this one and want to show it off as much as possible!!!

The image, from Stampington & Co, is called Pantaloon, and was stamped onto white card using Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink and coloured using Copic sketch markers:

• Skin: E00, E51
• Hat/Dress: B41, B45, BV23, N1
• Tights: N1, BV23

The image was stamped again and the butterfly, dress and hat were coloured and cut out and decoupaged over the base image.

The corner swirl image, from the Studio G Friends For Life mini stamp set, was stamped in the top right corner with Versafine Onyx Black archival pigment ink and coloured with the Copic markers:

• Swirl: B41, B45, BV23, N1

I traced over the swirl section with the N1 marker, giving it a sort of shadow effect.

The image was layered up and Anita's 3D gloss was added to the spots on the hat, the shoes and the butterfly markings.

This panel was matted onto dark grey card.

A panel of the grey ribbon stripe paper from the Papermania Monochrome Capsule Collection paper pad was also matted onto the grey card, as was a panel of the light blue medallion paper from the Papermania Persimmon paper pad.

A length of light blue organza ribbon was tied around the light blue panel and a square 'K' brad, from the ColorBok Alpha Accents kit was added in the bottom right hand corner. The three layers were then matted up.

Colour was added to the brad using a Copic marker (B45) to tie it in with the rest of the card.

I've Been Featured In Ikki's Cupboard!!

I've been featured over in Ikki's amazing Cuttlebug Cupboard for my use of one of the Cuttlebug border embossing folders in her regular feature of Friday Followers' Gallery.

Please head over to her amazing blog to not only see my card but also to see all the great tips, techniques and tutorials that she has on there.

If you want to see the original posts that I made with this card and one similar you can find them below:

Ikki's Featured Card

Similar Card

Shades of Grey Enjoy Life Tree

Here is the birthday card I made for my father-in-law earlier this month. I used a set of stamps I treated myself to at the Sincerely Yours show in Lincoln back in May.

I am also entering it into a few blog challenges:

• Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - #35 Anything Goes
• Your Next Stamp - #22 Birthdays
• The Crazy Challenge - Forest Friends/Back To Nature
• Stamps R Us - #2 All Male Theme
• The Secret Crafter - #95 It's A Man's World
• The Stamp Man - #2 Take Two Colours

A panel was cut from white card using a standard octagon Nestabilities die and the tree image from the Penny Black Enjoy Life stamp set was stamped in the centre using the Versafine Smokey Gray archival pigment ink. With the die in place, the edges of the panel were distressed using the Tim Holtz Weathered Wood and Black Soot distress inks.

The stamped panel was matted onto a larger octagon cut from grey card and a larger scalloped octagon panel cut from Craft Planet Silver Satin card.

A panel of the grey hanging vine paper from the Papermania Monochrome Capsule Collection paper pad was distressed with the Weathered Wood and Black Soot inks. A strip of the herringbone stripe paper from the same paper pad was also distressed and matted onto a strip of the silver satin card and matted on to the larger panel and a panel of silver satin card.

Small black Papermania brads were added to the corners of the panel.

The Sizzix Sizzlets Bookplate #2 die was used to die cut silver satin and white cardstocks. The white panel was distressed with the Weathered Wood and Black Soot inks and stamped with the 'Enjoy Life' sentiment stamp from the Penny Black stamp set using the Smokey Gray ink. The bookplate was assembled and dark grey embroidery thread was threaded through the holes.

Blue and Yellow Pinafore Dressy Miss Anya

Here is one of my latest creations - I made it for a friend who I haven't seen for a while but we manage to keep in touch via the wonders of Facebook!!!

The Pinafore Dressy Miss Anya image, from The Greeting Farm, was stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink and coloured using Copic markers:

• Hair: E21, Y08, Y17
• Shoes/Bows: B41, B45
• Dress: B41, B45, Y17
• Socks: B41
• Skin: E00, E02, E21

The image was then cut out.

Mats for the image were cut using the Nestabilities Labels 8 dies. The larger blue panel was embossed using the Cuttlebug Textile embossing folder. Brilliance Moonlight White pigment ink was then rubbed over the embossed detail to highlight it and ColorBox Amber Clay Fluid Chalk was added over the top.

The coloured image was attached onto the yellow panel and then the blue.

The sentiment, from the Woodware Jane's Script Sentiments stamp set, was stamped up along the edge of the yellow panel using the Versafine Majestic Blue archival pigment ink.

A strip of the yellow and blue flourish paper from the HOTP Earth's Palette Creative Cardmaker's Pack was matted onto a strip of the yellow card. This was in turn matted onto a panel of the dark blue mottle paper from the same paper pack and a larger panel of the yellow card.

Light blue card candy from Craftwork Cards were added in the corners of the blue panel.

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ETA: This card was awarded Top 5 by The Scrapmaster's Paradise Colour Combo Blog Challenge
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I Won A Blog Challenge!!!

I have just found out that I have won a blog challenge.

It was the One Stop Craft Challenge, and the theme was Patterns, and this card was randomly picked to win:

You can see my original post here.

Not sure what my prize is yet, still waiting to hear - will update later to let you know!!!

ETA: I have now discovered that I have won 3 digi sets/images from Wink Wink Ink to the value of $15 - off to make my choices!!!