Tea Time Card

Technique:  Papercraft

Materials:
patterned paper
co-coordinating card
Tea Time digital stamp
Copics
Blue: B91, B93
Purple: BV000, BV02, BV04
Toby: E31, E33, E35
Chair: E35, E37, E29
Pink Icing: R81, R83, R85
Inner Ear: E00, E02

Tools:
Scor-pal
Sizzix Big Shot
scalloped circle die
1" circle die or punch

Bundled with the June issue of Craft Stamper magazine came a free Toby Tumble acrylic stamp, which was designed especially for the magazine by Cuddly Buddly.  There is also a two page spread with gorgeous examples by Kim McFarlane the graphic designer who runs Cuddly Buddly.  Unfortunately the stamp was not included free for US readers, however you can get the digi from the Cuddly Buddly website here.  

This image is perfect for a tea bag card, a little gift card that you can tuck tea bags into for every day gifts, hostess favours, teachers gifts etc.  While I love making elaborate, detailed, labour intensive projects, I also like to have on hand a range of projects I can whip up in an emergency and still feel good about the gift I am giving.  This is one of those projects :o)

The tutorial for the card can be found here on Split Coast Stampers. 

Challenges:

Cuddly Buddly - add stitching
Frosted Designs - hand colouring

Winter Fairy Christmas Card

Technique:  Papercraft

Materials:
cardstock
Distress Ink:
* Victorian Velvet
* Bundled Sage
* Vintage Photo
* Aged Mahogany
Basic Grey Digital Papers:
*DSH-621 Yule Log
*DSH-630 Tree Skirt
watercolour paper
Wee Stamps Digi Winter Fairy
paper doily
Sparkly Fluff
pink glitter glue
various embellishments

Tools:
paper cutting/scoring tool
flower paper punch
holly punch
printer

I love working with Sylvia Zet's images, so sweet!  She is printed on water colour paper and painted with distress inks.  She has a touch of pearl pink paint on the centre part of the wings topped with a light coat of crackle medium.

The little flowers were made with two sizes of a flower punch cut from water colour paper, I love the texture this paper has, the edges are brushed with distress inks, with a wee little pearl for the centre.

Challenges:

Basic Grey - Sketch
Totally Gorjuss - Christmas in July
Crafty Catz - Christmas in July
Winter Wonderland - Fairies or Angels
Cuddly Buddly - Petals and Pearls

Happy Birthday To Ewe

Technique: Papercraft

Materials:
600gsm card
Distress Inks:
* Antique Linen
cord and ribbon
charm
Happy Birthday to Ewe digital stamp
Religious Christmas Herd paper
1/8" inch hole punch
black card
velcro dots

Tools:
Sizzix Big Shot
Box with Scallop Flap Scoreboard Die
2" scallop circle die

I bought this scoreboard die months ago thinking I would use it all the time, but this is the first time!  It's a great size, idealt for storing a pack of gum, or breath mints, or a travel pack of tissues, or band-aids, or for discreetly storing feminine products.  You could put a mini sewing kit in there, it's big enough to hold an ATC, and of course it's the perfect size for gift cards, it's shameful that I haven't made anything with this die yet!

My middle daughter will be 19 in a few days (July is a busy month for me with 4 birthdays in total).  I knew that Cuddly Buddly had an awesome range of digi stamps that use the word "ewe" instead of "you" so when I found the Religious Christmas Herd paper it was a match made in heaven!

The scoreboard dies are intended to cut and score quite thick materials.  If you run regular paper through it will cut it, but it's not thick enough to have the score lines imprinted (you can buy a score mat separately).  I used 600gsm card, which is about as thick as you can get without getting into foamcore.  Using spray adhesive I attached the sheep paper to one side and then ran it through and cut out the die.  The edges and inside have all been inked with Antique Linen distress ink, which matches the paper beautifully.  It's then a simple matter to fold along the scored lines and glue the edges to form the envelope shape.

I have used a 1/8" hole punch in the top through which I have strung some black cord so it looks like a mini purse.  A velcro dot under the flap and on the front edge of the purse ensures it will stay closed.  A 1/4" band of black card has been wrapped around the top of the purse, which acts as the base for the digi and embellishments.  This can be removed, if desired, without damaging the purse. Finish with a bow, a charm and the "ewe" digi of your choice!

Challenges:

Cuddly Buddly - add a charm
Simon Says Stamp and Show - anything goes
Craft Us Crazy - anything goes

Bright Colours and Butterflies

Technique:  Papercraft

Materials:
coloured card
patterned paper
adhesive
Down In The Flowers digi stamp
Copic markers
greens: G02, G03, G05, G07
pinks: R81, R83, R85
blues: B91, B93, B95, B97
greys: C-3, C-5, C-7
purple: BV02, BV04
Distress Inks:
* Scattered Straw
butterfly bling

Tools:
scissors
printer
paper distressing tool

The challenge at Cuddly Buddly this week is to use bright colours and butterflies.

I have chosen the Down In The Flowers digi stamp by Lilyboo as my central image and coloured it with Copics.  Although I am slowly increasing my colours, I am still somewhat limited still, I only have one shade of green, one blue etc, so choosing which colours to use wasn't all that difficult ;)

Usually once I have coloured the image I will shuffle through my papers, both actual and digital and try and find one that I think will compliment the image, the two papers I used by Magnolia jumped out at me, the pink, yellow and green were perfect!  The edges are all roughed up with a distressing tool, except for the manila card stock which I inked with Scattered Straw Distress Ink.  The sentiment is by Whimsy and the butterflies are from Jenni B.

I didn't add much in the way of bling.  I am by nature a cornflake girl (the simple things in life are often the best), and the frog prince paper was so cute I didn't want to over shadow it.  Thanks for taking the time to look!

Bee Happy Birthday Card

 

Technique:  Papercrafting

Materials:

card stock

Toby Tumble's Hearts and Flowers digital paper

Toby Tumble Just Saying Hi digital stamp

copic markers

Distress Inks

* Scattered Straw

* Dried Marigold

scrap of lace

silk sunflower

adhesive

Tools:

scallop border punch

scissors

The second challenge at Cuddly Buddly is Lace and Flowers.  I have a friend celebrating his forty something birthday in a few days, my 10 year old son adores him so I wanted to create a card for the little man to give to the big one!  With that in mind I wanted to create a card that was suitable for a young boy to give to a male, but still incorporated lace and flowers!

The background paper comes from Toby Tumble's Hearts and Flowers digital paper, and suits the image of Toby perfectly!  The lace was white and I have dyed it with the distress inks, and I have also used the two inks to colour the tickets which I adapted myself from this free ticket digi.

 

A Brand New Challenge

Technique:  Papercrafting

Materials:
cardstock
Lilyboo Designs Digital Stamps
*  Castle of Dreams
*  The Secret Door
Pachela Studios Digital paper
*  Toby Tumble Hearts and Flowers
Copic Markers
Browns:  E31, E33, E35
Greens: G03, G05, G07
Reds: R23, R27, R29
Blue: B0000
Greys: C-0, C-3, C-5
X-Press It Blending Card
adhesive
wax seal
ribbon

Tools:
scoring/cutting implement
scissors
printer

One of my favourite stores to buy digital stamps from is Cuddly Buddly, and they have just launched their own challenge blog.  Their very first theme is, fittingly, A Brand New... my daughters have just moved into a new house, so the theme of my card is A Brand New Home.

The base card is the blue patterned paper out of the Hearts and Flowers digital paper pack, printed directly onto card stock with my laser printer.  I have coloured the digi's using the copics listed above, then cut around the castle outline and separated the castle wall from the towers so they could sit on separate steps for added dimension.  I find that cutting around the image 'scuffs' the edge of the paper leaving white spots, a whiz around the edges with a C-5 copic pen will cover that right up, and it will look like it was the outline of the illustration.

The ribbon across the bottom is haberdashery ribbon, it's the kind used in hats.  The original colour was the colour of straw, so I used green copics so it matched the colour scheme.

The sentiment is printed out on card stock using a free blank ticket template I found here, I use this again and again!  The font is Old Rubber Stamp which you can download for free here.

The finishing piece was the wax seal, which features a heart embossed in the centre.

I am quite excited about the Cuddly  Buddly challenges, I love their images, Toby Tumble is just gorgeous!