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Saturday, 12 November 2011

Farewell D2D Progressive Challenge



Faith has announced that she will be no longer running the progressive freebie challenge at Delightful Inspirations. I was quite late to the party but have still had so many lovely images and I am really grateful for all the time and effort that Faith must have put into this challenge. I hadn’t quite finished my card using the last freebie so wasn’t able to enter it into the linky before it closed.

This is my finished card and I would like to dedicate it to Faith with gratitude for all the fabulous gifts she has given us.

I coloured the tree with Pro/Flexmarkers and decoupaged the stitched hearts to stick on with 3d foam. I added the little bunny rabbits under the tree which were a freebie from KL Dezign. The heart doily was from a big pack of 4 different sizes that I got from the Grand Designs show at the NEC last month. There was this fab stand with cupcake and baking bits and these just called out to me for cardmaking. I used some of those metallic waxes that you apply with a  finger to highlight the roses and the Love sentiment which are embossed into the doily.

I bought some duster brushes for applying ink onto your cards as the lady demonstrating them made it look so easy. I have to say I am most impressed with how easy it was to distress the edges of my card with clumping it on too heavily like I did before. This is a combination of Tattered Rose and Tea Dye Tim Holtz pads. I was intending to leave it like that but after taking a photo decided it looked too unfinished so added two punched leaves and a flower in the top corner and a Martha Stewart heart lattice punch in the bottom corner using a scrap of pink card from my box.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-
Card Size – 6” square
Image – Lovely Tree by Designed 2 Delight & Rabbit Couple by KL Dezign
Embellishments – Doily, mulberry flower
Tools – Martha Stewart Punch,leaf punch TH Distress pads,
Techniques – Distressing, punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-


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Tuesday, 1 November 2011

CDAC PC#1 Round 6



Wow, it has gone so quickly….. it’s the 6th and final round of the first series of the  
Progressive Challenge at CDAC . Thanks to Priscilla and all the designers we have amassed a fantastic selection of digi for all occasions.

 Team A have the pleasure in bringing you some gorgeous samples for these images for this round. My card is using a Designed 2 Delight image called Winter  Bear. I love D2D images so was really pleased when I saw I had this little cutie to work with.

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It is clearly open to your interpretation but to me he is a polar bear so I have coloured him accordingly. I used one of the very palest colours in the new Flexmarkers and he has the slighted yellowey tinge to him as when I see Polar bears on nature documentaries they are not really white are they? I have added a pale blue outline and some grey to the snow for shadows. Of course has a stripey wooly scarf on to keep him warm and liberal amounts of twinkly snow courtesy of stickles glitter glue.

The backing paper is part of an old gift bag that I have recycled. The white snowflakes are flocked onto the card, far too nice to throw away….I added some stickles to the centres of the snowflakes, some large Paperchase gems and the sentiment is a small tag to which I added a gem and some bakers twine.

Using a Fiskars punch I created a decorative strip and added a mirrored snowflake from Papermania which I bought for last year’s Christmas cards and they remained unopened. They have a lovely pattern etched into the and it was a shame not to use them. I just added a small blue gem to the centre to finish it off.

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If you have taken part in the 5th challenge you will have received your images to work with for this part. If however you didn't enter all is not lost. For the paltry sum of only $1 you can buy back into the challenge and you will receive the images.

The deadline to enter your cards is 14th November. For all details on this challenge, the rules and how it works please pop over to this thread at the CDAC


Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5
Image – Winter Bear by Designed 2 Delight

Paper – All from my scraps box
Embellishments – Stickles glitter glue, Paperchase gems, Papermania Mirror snowflake, Tag, Bakers twine
Tools – Scissors, 3D foam, Fiskars punch
Techniques – punching,

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-


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Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Autumn Thanks



Woohoo, get me! I’m a day early with my card for the progressive freebie challenge at Delightful Inspiration. Faith gave us a fabulous pack containing a pumpkin image and two different tags.

I used the free leaves paper that Anice from Funky Hand gave us to go with the current challenge at Get Funky. Inside this I have popped Haystacks the Scarecrow from Digital Delights by Louby Lou. I coloured the image with Promarkers, cut it all out leaving s thin white border and used a small brown inkpad to distress the edges.

I have used a snippet of brown spotty paper and punched a border and have layered this onto an orange card blank. The sentiment is a copper metallic one and has been added with slimline 3d foam pads.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-
Card Size – A6
Images – Pumpkin Tag by Designed 2 Delight,
Haystacks the Scarecrow by Digital Delights by Louby Lou
Paper – Brown spots Papermania Woodland Folk, leaves is a free digital by Funky Hand
Sentiment – Patchwork Pals by Kanban
Tools – Martha Stewart Punch, small ink pad, Promarkers
Techniques – Distressing with inkpad, punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-


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Thursday, 13 October 2011

Hope Butterfly D2D


I didn't make a card using last weeks image from Designed 2 Delight as it was a Halloween image and I had no reason to use it as we don't 'do'  Halloween in the Cruxton household and it's not really celebrated that much in the UK. Fortunately as it was week 5 it had no major impact but I did of course miss out on the rest of the gorgeous set that this Hope Butterfly is part of.

Unfortunately the big C has a massive impact on everyone these days. I would be very surprised if someone you know hasn't been directly affected by it in one form or another. Breast Cancer in particular has affected my family as Paul's Auntie was very ill with it for many years and ultimately died from it. Closer to home my maternal Grandmother died from it just before I was born and my Sister has had a couple of scares from it. My own boobies are on the VERY generous side and I check them every couple of days as one of my concerns is that a cyst or tumour could hide amongst them and be undetected for quite a while unless it was painful. Due to my family history I am considered in the high risk category so now I am 40 I will be put on the screening register so I guess I have that to look forward to in the not too distant future....

I coloured this gorgeous butterfly with Promarkers/Flexmarkers, creating a second layer for the ribbon, mounted on 3d foam and using tonnes of pink ultrafine glitter..... yes I got covered and so did my pop up photo tent LOL

I followed the current sketch from Cards & Things, the papers used for this whole project have come from the scraps box I had on my desk on WOYWW #123 yesterday. I love the pretty flower paper from Smirk and it has glitter embedded in some of the flowers :) I punched a scalloped edge with a Martha Stewart punch.

The Hope sentiment is a freebie by Penny Duncan and has been cut into an oval shape with a Fiskars template.


Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A6
Image – Hope Butterfly by Designed 2 Delight
Sentiment – Digi by Penny Duncan
Paper - All Scraps :) Floral one is by Smirk
Embellishments - Ultrafine glitter
Tools - 3d foam, scissors, Fiskars template, Martha Stewart Punch
Techniques - Punching

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-


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Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Autumn Mums D2D



It’s Wednesday and I am breaking with tradition with my D2D card this week as it is my 40th Birthday and 10th wedding anniversary today and I will be in London all day tomorrow J

Therefore I hereby present you with my card for the progressive freebie challenge at Delightful Inspiration. The gorgeous image we have this week is Autumn Mums.  It is a lovely image and suitable for lots of cards I have used my Promarkers and Flexmarkers on the image and my fave colour combo of pink & brown.

I have used a sketch from paper Players for the layout but won’t be entering the challenge as you can only enter 3 challenges with your card…..hello, have you met me? That just ain’t gonna happen is it? LOL

All the papers are scraps from Dovecraft and two of the papers are glittered. The butterfly is an acetate sticker from Papermania mounted onto scrap card and the sentiment is by Hunky Dory.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-
Card Size – A6
Image – AutumnMums by Designed 2 Delight
Paper – Dovecraft
Sentiment – Hunky Dory
Embellishments – Papermania sticker
Tools – scissors, 3d foam

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-



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Thursday, 22 September 2011

Happiness Blooms



It’s Thursday and that can only mean one thing…… I hereby present you with my card for the progressive freebie challenge at Delightful Inspiration.

The gorgeous image we have this week is Happiness Blooms and it is the very 1st card I have made coloured in with my new Flexmarkers and that makes me happy J  I purchased sets 1-4 for the fabulous price of £40 from Joanna Sheen and I am so chuffed with them. I was able to purchase them with birthday money from my FIL and the proceeds of a card sale to one of Paul’s work colleagues. I think Paul was a bit bummed as he was going to get them for my birthday so he needs to get me a pressie now…. He can buy me the other colours when they come out (I’ve got it all planned you know!)

I am really pleased with how the image came out. They are really easy to colour with, absolutely no streaking at all. The pens seem wetter and the ink blends really easily. I also found the flexible nib was easier to colour with and makes it easier to stay inside the lines. I had no problems blending the Promarkers with the Flexmarkers and all in all I am pretty pleased with them.

I have used a sketch from Come and Get It for the layout layering scraps of magenta mirri card and papers from Papermania, using a Martha Stewart punch on the green section with a piece of purple ribbon. The sentiment is from my stash layered onto another scrap of card. Both the image and sentiment are mounted on 3d foam. I used a small black ink pad to distress the edges of the image.

The purple butterfly is an acetate sticker and the magenta one is a flower sequin which I have cut down to a butterfly shape adding gem decorations and Promarker stamen.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-
Card Size – A6
Image – Happiness Blooms by Designed 2 Delight
Paper – Papermania Woodland Folk
Sentiment – from stash
Embellishments – Ribbon, gems, acetate sticker, metallic flower sequin
Tools – Martha Stewart Punch, small ink pad
Techniques – Distressing with inkpad,

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-



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