Challenge #62 for the Squirrel and the Fox

The challenge #62 for the Squirrel and the Fox this week (fortnight) is to use Embellishments! Well, who doesn't use those!! I LOVE my embellies!

Firstly there is bling! I have sooooo much bling! This little label has been stamped with SU ink using an Stampin' Up  stamp, and then overstamped with TH Distress ink, and a Darkroom Door stamp, then die cut - bling added!

This is a Darkroom Door stamp too (same set) and the ink is again TH Distress - Firebrick I think it is called. The little clip is from Stampin' Up.  It has been stamped onto SU Whisper White and fussy cut - sort of...

This little gal (I think her name is Carolyn) is a digi image from Vanessa, a member of our DT and also is the sponsor for this challenge. You can check this out and some more of her images at her shop here.

I printed her off on the X-Press card and coloured her with ...... Copics! I stuffed up her hair a bit. I wrote the word "Selfie" (one of the newest words in the dictionary!) next to her and added some bling!! 

This is my ribbon treatment!! I wanted it to be a bit ruffled and edgy. It is SU ribbon.

Under the image I added another one of Vanessa's digi images - a Library card! This has been overstamped with a MFT stamp from the set "Own Your Own Story", stamped with Momento London Fog and sponged with TH Antique Linen ink. I handwrote the details on the card and added some......yes, bling!

The card is a commercial square blank in pearl. I added some DP from Basic Grey - Lauderdale and I die cut the image using a Nestabilities Label. I coloured in the faint idea of sky and ground by sponging on some Momento inks in New Sprout and Summer Sky before removing it from the die. I mounted it onto some SU Real Red card embossed with a hatching pattern and backed this with some SU Close to Midnight blue.  Oh, and I added a bit more bling!

Different light for the photo

We have grand-daughters who are always taking selfies and putting them into the digital sphere somehow - twitter or facebook or whatever......I avoid the camera like the plague!

So, that's my take on the challenge - what are you going to do?  There are lots of lovely DT inspirational cards to look at and you can follow them back to their blog an get some more inspiration from that! Oh, and leave them some blog love! Until next time, 

I will enter this in the following:

Delicious Doodles - use a ribbon: yep,did that

Digitally Sweet -  Anything Goes:  I have used two digital images - the girl and the Library card

Cards Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes

4Crafty Girls - Anything Goes

Graphic 45 - the rest!

I told you I had made more than one card with the Graphic 45 stuff here when I showed you my card for midway Unstampabelles and here when I showed the card I made from Crafting with Dragonflies. So, two cards already showcased - here are the rest.

WARNING: lots of photo's to look at some a cuppa or something to drink might be appropriate!

So many - 6 cards and 5 tags (one big one and four smaller ones).  I went for a shabby chic look

A closer look

Love violets - Card 3

close up of the image used

close up of the quote

Card 4 - torn and tattered

the image 

the card

Card 5 - the butterfly/ribbon

the roses and the bird and the bling

the image 

the card!

Card 6 - the butterfly and the rose

the other butterfly and the pretty layering

the image and wording and the frame (diecut from Nellie's Frames)

the whole card

Top of tag 1 - wooden die cut; painted,sprayed and sparkly but not in this photo unfortunately

Different violets

The whole tag - it can be written on the back; can be used as either a card or a tag really

Small tag 1 - die cuts, mall images, butterfly and sticker

Small tag 2 - die cut; image

Small tags 3 and 4 - images and butterflies

If you arrived here,  well done! It was a good exercise to stick to the whole sheet and make it without deviating off to make other things in-between like I always do - that way I end up with small packets of bits and rarely get back to them, but I made myself finish this so feeling good.

Challenge#18 - Crafting with Dragonflies

First for 2014: Anything Goes

Hi Peeps

Firstly, yes I have changed my blog picture.  This is Marion Bay, on the East Coast of Tasmania. The Tasman Peninsular in the background and Bream Creek farming community in the foreground. This is quite like the view I grew up with - from my bedroom window each day - as our farm was not far from where this picture was taken. Love it!

On with the Dragonflies Challenge#18

We know everyone loves these challenges as it makes life easy BUT you still have to make a CARD for this new Challenge #18 at Crafting with Dragonflies - Anything Goes!

There are no sponsors images for us as a team to follow - we could do what we felt like - and I felt like making more cards using the images I mentioned from this post for Unstampabelles. The Graphic 45 blog site had some lovely inspiration on it so I borrowed a few ideas and using my own papers and embellishments, set to work. 

So pretty

I used a die cut from Memory Box I think to cut the stamp shape - I have misplaced the storage bag for this now and don't know where I got it from - the bird is a wooden one from Kaiser. It has been stained with Antique Linen TH  Distress ink, as have most of the edges of the papers.

Blue ribbon from the stash and a small key charm - the key to the Secret Garden door! 

Layers and layers of papers - such a good idea from the Graphic 45 blog! As was the idea of rolling the corners - I really like that. 

Bird by Kaiser and some bling and more layers

Yummy!

I will enter this in the following:

Just Inspirational:  Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly: Bow Dies - yep and yep!

 Bearly-Mine colour inspiration

Our Daily Bread:  The colours and the shape in the dresser doors; layers and things behind thing....these were the inspiration

Midway Post for Unstampabelles Challenge #31 New Beginnings

Well, we are half-way through the time allowed for this Challenge #31 New Beginnings, and my worst nightmare of no entries has been proved to be no more than a daydream. We have some lovely entries but there is still time for you all to get your crafting hats on and make a CARD for this challenge - New Beginnings - at Unstampabelles.  Remember the lovely prize for this?

We are sponsored this month by the wonderful

I did so love the book The Secret Garden and these images and quotes from the book are very how I imagined the whole thing whilst reading it.  I found them on a 12 x 12 page from Graphic 45 in my stash, called appropriately  Secret Garden - Springtime. It had such lovely images and so I took to it with a pair of scissors. The piece yielded 11 images and two sentiments! I made 6 cards and 5 tags from it as a result. This image is my favourite. 

What has this to do with New Beginnings? This card is for a friend who is retiring and she loves both her garden and reading, so.......plus the new miracles from the garden are all new beginnings of beautiful flowers!!

Once I had the images I had to find some papers to match, and so scrabbled around in my stash for these. Mostly I used a 12 x 12 set (name unknown to me) from SU but there are some various papers which were just sitting loose in the paper box (names unknown). I also had a packet of flowers and butterflies that I think were Kaiser - I used some of the remaining butterflies I had. Card used was all SU - with the base of each card and tag being Kraft  except for the diecut butterfly and music which are from a scrap of pearlised card from Kitty Lane. 

All the flowers were from my stash and were mostly Prima. This spray above I am not so sure of - it might be Manor House. I added some Kiddie Glitz. 

This birdie is diecut using a Memory Box die and scrap paper glued to card. The eye is bling (black)

The ribbon and trim are also from the stash and are from Webster's Pages. I have had them for quite a while too! The die cut fence is from using a Cheery Lyn die.

I will enter this in the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations:  Anything Goes/use ribbon - yep, done that

Card Mania: Anything Goes

Make it Monday: Anything Goes

Simon Says:  A is for......A New Beginning (this card is a retirement card!)

Repurposing a Wine Label

I know I have waxed on about this before but have you ever looked at a wine bottle label and realised that it is a tiny piece of art? Not all of course - some good,some bad - just like the wine really.

I look for good labels and if I can I try and release them from the bottle (after the wine has been drunk, of course). Filling the bottle with really hot water works well sometimes, as does using a hairdryer - carefully.  If not, soaking sometimes works. If that is not going to happen either, chuck it - it will not come off without tearing.  If they do give way, gently ease them onto a piece of computer printer paper or some white card. I have a folder with about 30 to 40 such labels - sometimes I use them and people don't know  - they just think what lovely background paper. Sometimes I say.

I have friends who actually arrive at out house with empty wine bottles - and great, different labels. The rubbish men must think we are heavy drinkers those times!

Here is what I did with a label and the stamp set from Sparkle and Sprinkle - Chianti and some copic colouring.

A glass of red Gloria?

Perhaps a bottle? 

"Don't mind if I do", said Gloria!

Some embossing folders were involved as well, and a die cut frame from Nellie's frames. The sentiment is from the stamp set and there is another sentiment stamp as well. I will leave that for another day. 

I will enter this in the following:

Brown Sugar -Anything Goes

Daring Cardmakers - What's Your Tipple? (How appropriate was that!)

Sister Act  - Anything Goes

Southern Girls Challenge - Something New: the stamp set is new, and so is the vine embossing folder from Daris.

#61 Show off your New Stuff at the Squirrel and the Fox

Challenge #61 at the Squirrel and the Fox is to show off the new stuff in your stash! I got my new item in late November when I was still struggling with the Christmas cards so I put it to one side and didn't see it again until this year.  I dug it out and tried it out - Delicious!

My new thing is a beautiful embossing folder from Stampin' Up called Delicate Designs, and it is designed as lace strips.  There are two folders in the set; the one I used has a scalloped edge so I fussy cut this after I had embossed a strip of SU Coastal Cabana.  It gives such a lovely deep crisp emboss. I added a strip of ribbon from my stash - maker unknown - and layered it onto some SU Raspberry Ripple and a strip of silver mirror card. 

This Challenge is being sponsored by  Hobby Digital Stamps, who will provide 5 free digi's to the winner. 

I used some flowers from my stash as well, and they had silver centers so I colored them with Copics to match my color scheme. the ticket is from Tim Holtz.

The image is from Hobbybook and I colored her with Copics too - and added a bit of pencil for more depth. Those legs go way up don't they!

I diecut a heart using my Nellie Snellen die set from SU Raspberry Ripple and some backing paper from a magazine freebie. The color matched nicely! Initially I was going to die cut the image out but my mojo was absent so I just fussycut her and added some dimensionals. The DP is layered onto some SU card and then onto a large white square commercial card. 

The U is a wooden piece colored up with Copics to match her skirt. 

I suppose it could be a Valentines card but we don't usually celebrate Valentines - I thought I could use her for my Grand-daughter who is travelling to Queensland next week as part of the National Junior Brass Band. This is her second time with them in two years - and she has moved from being last cornet to number three up the line!  She has been practicing and hopefully the beautiful gold cornet she has now will sound fabulous in the band when they play in public. We are very proud of her. Break a leg Kiddo!

I will enter this in the following:

A Creative Romance:  Something New (New embossing folder; grand-daughters new venture in NZ which cannot be mentioned yet!)

Crafty Catz - Pretty in Pink: her skirt and head band,the ribbon and the U are all pink! 

Digitally Sweet Challenges: the image is a digi from Hobbybook. This is an Anything Goes

Polkadoodle: Anything Goes but be girly/girly!