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Sunday, 31 March 2013

PCP Digi Collaboration


Over on Paper Craft Planet 2 digital companies have got together to do a joint challenge with great freebies. The concept is that you must use both items on the same project, thus showcasing each artist on their pages. This is such a great idea for a challenge and actually gets the old grey matter thinking of how to use the 2 together.

The lovely bunny is Peter from Shelly’s Images and the Egg Basket is from DS4J
Both images have been coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers, cut out and mounted onto 3d foam. I used a nestabilites die to cut out a fancy mat for Peter to sit on and gave him a few little butterflies to keep him company. I also added one fluttering inside the white space of the basket.

The from of the card is covered with some Pink Petticoat paper that was a magazine freebie from at least a year ago. The sentiment is by Birdie Brown and has been die cut with a Quickutz Cookie cutter die and distress inked around the edges.

I do hope that this type of collaboration keeps going, it is such a unique get together and I really enjoyed using both images together. Thanks for the challenge guys J

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-
Card size –6” Square
Images – Peter by Shelly’s Images & Egg Basket by DS4J
Sentiment – Birdie Brown
Paper – Pink Petticoat Magazine Freebie
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities dies, Quickutz Die, 3d foam pads
Embellishments – Butterfly stickers
Techniques – Diecutting, Distressing

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

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Friday, 29 March 2013

CDAC Progressive Freebie Challenge


The new challenges at CDAC are great as they have a fabulous time window, however I have had this image coloured up for about 6 weeks and am so annoyed with myself that it has taken me until tonight to make my card.

The Progressive Challenge for Round 1 gave us this lovely angel from Shelly's Images aptly named Angelic and it also came with a great sentiment. I however opted to make one of my own. I have attached it below and you are more than welcome to download it if you feel it will be of any use to you. 

The image was coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers and I created a second layer with the body and heart. Both are mounted on 3d foam. The wings have been covered with Stickles glitter glue and left free so they could be curled up away from the card.

The base card is an A4 sheet of red marbled card. The roses paper is from a Dovecraft pad and the red roses are embossed and glossy. The hearts are also from a sheet of the same paper pad.

I used a sketch from Come And Get It for the layout. The ribbon is one of my favourites and I added it to a scrap of red card so the lace trim contrasted against the paper better. Finally I added the sentiment onto a scrap of card and mounted on 3d foam.

This is completely different to any card I have ever made. In fact I would guess that many people would look at this and not think it was one of mine. It is not an image that I would have thought to use, that is the beauty of these progressive challenges though as it does encourage you to work with something a bit different.

Now for the freebie sentiment I have used. The JPG and PNG file are both included. I ask that you do not claim them as your own, give credit to me if you use them and if possible pop a message on my blog so I can see your creation.



Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5
Image – Angelic by Shelly's Images
Sentiment - Made By Mandy
Paper – Rose Garden First Edition pad by Dovecraft
Embellishments – Lace Edge ribbon, Stickles Glitter glue
Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, 3d foam, gold gel pen
Techniques – Decoupage

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

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Monday, 11 April 2011

Guest Designer at Shelly's Images


This week is my 2nd stint as a Guest Designer for Shelly's Images. They are having a DT call at the moment and I would have loved to enter but now I am on 4 DT's I think that is enough for the time being :)

The gorgeous image I was given to work with is Some Bunny and can be purchased from the Shelly's Images store here. I love how realistic the image is. Don't get me wrong I loves my cutesy images but I think it must be harder for a designer to get the attention to detail right when you are designing the more realistic ones like this is.

I have used the current sketch from Truly Scrumptious for the layout. The image is coloured using Promarkers and I used a blending pen to stomp on the coloured design to create some texture to the bunnies fur. The size of the finished card is A5 so you can see how clear the design has come out at a large size.

I have covered the base of the card with a pretty paper from Pink Petticoat which was a freebie in an issue of Creative Cardmaking magazine. We are so lucky that in the UK we have a few magazines where the freebie papers are such good quality that you do actually use them. However we also have some that are fabulous magazines but the papers are printed on the shiny thin paper and they are just not useable. Goodness only knows why they keep doing it. I always give these ones away to an old persons craft club as they always need materials.

Anyhoo, the pretty paper is so springlike with lots of Easter and spring references on it. I cut a strip of green card and used my Martha Stewart doily punch on it. The purple ribbon is a fabulous find. As I live in Birmingham we have a diverse array of cultures and there is a large Indian community. I love going to the Rag Market which is a big indoor market and there are a lot of stallholders with fabrics and haberdashery items. There is one Indian lady who has the most amazing trims, laces, ribbons and I usually buy loads of bits and pieces from her. This particular braid is 2 different sequin trims that are woven together with a metallic thread. Indian ladies would use it on the bottom of Sari's and on the hems of the trousers. She was fascinated that I would use these trims for cards. Just goes to show you can find crafty supplies in lots of places if you think outside the box.

Last but not least I added some little sequin flowers and popped some gems on the centres. The chipboard sentiment with the button is from a bargain pack of Easter items I bought from WH Smith's in the their January sale. The most amazing thing is that I could actually find them :)

Thankyou so much to Shelly's Images for again giving me this Guest Designer opportunity and please check out the creations that the Design Team have made with this image too on Shelly's Images Blog

I would like to enter this Card into the following challenges (in alphabetical order):-
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Monday, 21 March 2011

Guest Designer at Shelly's Images

OOOh, I've got some really exciting news to tell you. This week I am a Guest Designer for Shelly's Images. Shelly recently asked for people to come forward and said yes straight away. Don't you love it when that happens :)

Anyhoo, this gorgeous image above is called Carrot Patch and can be purchased from the Shelly's Images store here. As soon as I saw the image it reminded me of Rabbit in The Winnie the Pooh stories as he was always tending to his garden, especially his carrots.

I have used the current sketch from Cards for Men for the layout. I am giving this to a good friend of ours who is retiring. He is been a gardener at a massive house for many years and his own garden is lovely. We'd have him do ours only he lives some 100 miles away. It is always a treat when we go for the weekend and he shows us what we are eating that came out of his garden.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and made a second layer with the seed packet to create dimension. The papers are from the Desert Blooms pad by Trimcraft. They have got 4 pads in their First Edition range and I have them all, they are such sweet designs and yummy colours :)

I have added Candi dots (why??? have they changed the name from Card Candy....it was a good name without changing it) a sentiment from Anita's and a cutie little rabbit pinching some of the carrots.

Thankyou so much to Shelly's Images for giving me this Guest Designer opportunity and please check out the creations that the Design Team have made with this image too on Shelly's Images Blog

I would like to enter this Card into the following challenges :-
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