Easel Card Challenge

Enjoying the Bank Holiday yet? So far it's been a total wash-out here in London with rain all day Saturday and blimming cold. Had to put the heating back on; oh the joys of an English summer! Hopefully today and Monday will be better, fingers crossed.

BUT because of the dire weather it was a perfect day for a spot of crafting, so I spent some time creating my challenge card for Dottie's World. I set the challenge this week and I want to see EASEL CARDS! If you don't know how to make one then I created a little tutorial ages ago on the main Charmed site HERE. So an easel card, with a Charmed download of course. Here is my effort:

I used a Mikey image from the Mikey Bundle which I coloured with my Copics - must start writing the colours down again, I will do I promise. Wroom sticker is a Imaginisce Let's Roll Vinyl sticker.

On the bottom I used another Let's Roll sticker (the arrow), some ribbon from the same range and the road paper is likewise from that range. I painted some wooden buttons in black and popped an extra large green pearl on top of each one to make it look a little like the buttons are tyres.

Why is it is so darn difficult to get a good picture on a dark day? If you see any good card picture taking tutorials anywhere let me know please.



Please pop over and join in, we would love to see your creations. The design team has created some fabby examples for you.

Have a great Bank Holiday. I'll be drawing my candy tomorrow so see you then - GOOD LUCK to all who entered xx

Sunday Challenge - Charms

Juliet set the challenge today on Dottie's World and she wanted to see something dangly on the cards (snigger), such as a charm, as well as a Charmed download.

I used Madison on the Beach, from Holly & Madison's World Tour, as well as Mikey from the new collection (download button in side bar).

My dangly charm is a Marion & Me "Beach Babe" charm, which I hung from a Tim Holtz Swivel Clasp.


The sentiment is a mixture of stickers and rub-ons:

Some of the other products used:
Basic Grey Porcelain Paper
K&Co Que Sera Sera Note card
Nestabilities die
Martha Stewart Zig Zag punch
Prima flower dotted to make it look like drops of water
Marion & Me Metal heart corner
Tim Holtz ink
Various pearls, crystals and brads
The images were coloured in with Copic markers

Pop over to Dottie's World and join the challenge :-)

TFL and have a great Sunday ♥

Mikey and Madison

These images do go so well together. This is my Monday Mojo card created for Dottie's World. I used two Charmed digi-stamps on my card: Mikey and Madison (from the World Tour bundle). Certain elements from the Madison image were erased to fit in with what I wanted to do here.

Products used:
Mikey and Madions digi stamps
K&Co Que Sera Sera papers and rose
K&Co "Celebrate" Chipboard (all occasions adhesive chipboard)
Cream Lace
Frame is cut with a Spellbinders Borderbilities die
Edges are cut with a Martha Stewart Edge punch
Flowers cut from the brown paper with a daisy punch
Pearls are K&Co Margo
Dovecraft metal flower brad
Edges were inked with Tim Holtz Distress ink.
Doodling done by hand
"A beautiful couple" I did on the computer
All available from Charmed Cards & Crafts. Image was coloured in with Copic markers.


TFL ♥

Sunday Challenge

Today is was the lovely Adele's turn to set the challenge on Dottie's World. Super challenge it is too, and perfect for the release of our new Mikey digi-stamps. The challenge is "Teenager", something for a teenager using one of our downloads. I had to use Mikey of course and here he is chillin'



The large circles are meant to represent vinyls/CD's. Basic Grey paper, K&Co "Rock Star" chipboard (which I coloured a tangy orange where it was pink).

Pop over to Dottie's World and see the amazing creations by the DT members (blinkie in side bar).

Thanks for looking and have a lovely Sunday ♥♥

Teenage Card

Teenagers aren't the easiest people in the world to create for, and teenage boys must be amongst the hardest. The new download collection by Louise Brigden soon to be released at Charmed Cards & Crafts will surely cater for this area of concern, plus most of the images would be great on a girlie card too- perhaps together with images from the Holly & Madison collections. The new collection features Mikey, boyfriend to Madison (& Holly I expect).

On this card I layered the image on several mats cut out with Nestabilities Label Three dies. I tried to make the smaller patches at the back look like jean pockets. All the chipboard is by Rusty Pickle, the stars were coloured with my Copics, and the rest inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink "broken china". The ink was also used for inking all the edges on everything else. The dotted paper is K&Co Broken China. I didn't realise both were "Broken China" until just now LOL

The sentiment "Cool" was created in MS Word using Word Art.

There are some great images in the new bundle, you'll love it!!

TFL ♥♥