Inspirational Card Sketches #17

Catching up here on posting my cards for Dawn's wonderful blog.... Inspirational Card Sketches!

I'm making my debut on Dawn's DT this week, so please don't forget to visit her blog and cheer me on, will you?

Anyhoo... this week is week 18 and so, without further ado, here's my entry for week 17!!! HAHAHA!!!

I've emailed week 19 already to Dawn, so I'm not all bad... am I???!!!


Materials:
Cream A5 card.
Papers: My Minds Eye, Laundry Line from Indigo Mill.
Inkpad: Colorbox.
Fineline pen: Stabilo.
Flowers: Prima.
Gem: Patti's Pretties from Kirsty Wiseman.

Kathy's sketch 2009 #11; Simple Eliptical

Kathy's come up with a fabulous sketch this time! Who could resist playing along and creating something with it? I certainly couldn't!



Materials:
White 5 1/4" square card.
Paper: DCWV
Flowers: Prima & Hero Arts.
Brads: Various.
Sentiment: Papermania.
Ribbon: Stash.
Fineline pen: Stabilo.

Rosie-Dee's Challenges

Helloooooooo!!! Hope you've all enjoyed the sunshine this weekend as we have. It's been glorious to say the least!

It's my turn over on Rosie-Dee's to set the challenge and this week I'd like you to triple emboss. I had a little dabble last week stamping into hot, melted embossing powders so this week I've gone slightly different and I love the effect it's given me! I must say it reminds me of the plastic covered table cloths you can get HAHAH!!!

Anyhoo... here's your sneaky peek....

Rosie-Dee's Challenges - No.36

Dee's Challenge this week was EMBOSSING. I chose to EMBOSS using a Cuttlebug die and then DEBOSS into some Debbi Moore Metal Magic.

This is what I made...

Materials:
White 5 1/4" white card.
Cuttlebug die.
Stamp: Papermania & All Night Media.
Embossing Powder: Debbi Moore Metal Magic.
Inkpad: Colorbox.
Ribbon: Stash.

Rosie-Dee's Challenges

Sneaky peek...


I made a simple card for a sad occasion. So much sadder when it's for a friend.

BasicGrey Challenge

I'm late with my BasicGrey Challenge card this week due to lots going on last week and a headache that lasted from Saturday through to Friday lunchtime :-(

We had visitors this weekend so we've been a very busy household, out and about enjoying the sunshine (while it lasts!).

My card for the 35th Challenge - Ice Cream looks like this... Based on good old neopolitan ice cream no less!


Materials:
Brown 7.5x21cm card.
Papers: BasicGrey Two Scoops & Granola.
Jute Ribbon: Opitec.
Inkpad: Colorbox.
Flowers: Prima.
Gem: Patti's Pretties.
Ribbon: Stash.
Alphas: Doodlebug.

My papers came from the Two Scoops and Granola range

Rosie-Dee's Challenges

Here's the full image of the card I made for this week's challenge over on Rosie-Dee's Challenge Blog.


Materials:
White 4" x 8 1/2" white card.
Papers: 3 Bugs in a Rug.
Dress stamp: Creative Expressions.
Inkpad: Stazon.
Embellishments: Patti's Pretties from Kirsty Wiseman.
Fineline pens: Stabilo.

Debbi Moore - As seen on TV!!! - part 3

And there's more of my cards that I spotted on TV on Monday night....




Think that was it! HAHA!!!! ooh fame at last ;-)

x

Debbi Moore - As seen on TV!!! - part 2

Not only did the cards in my previous post appear on Create and Craft TV, but I also spotted these little babies that I'd made for Debbi previously...

Debbi Moore - As seen on TV!!!

Debbi Moore was on Create and Craft TV at 6pm last night with the premier of a new Sepia CD and her Regency stamps. I had a call from Debbi last Monday to ask if I could do some samples urgently for the show. A quick email later with some PDF files and using the gorgeous stamp set that I already had, I set to creating these.

On 15th April I found a lovely idea on Debbie's blog. It was a Pay It Forward. You make a handmade gift for the first 3 people to leave a comment on your blog and they in turn send a handmade gift to their first 3 comment leavers.

I had 4 lovely people leave me a comment so I decided to make all 4 of them a little notebook: They were for:

Gez
Marie
Deanne
Beth


Ladies, I hope you enjoy your little notebook and use it to make your lists! If you're anything like me, you NEED lists to remember what you need to do!

I received a gorgeous goody stuffed envelope from Debbie's Pay it Forward that I need to photograph to share with you.

Sneaky peeks revealed

A while back (25th April to be exact) I gave you a sneaky peek of a couple of cards I made but didn't reveal the whole piccie. The reason was that I was applying for a DT place over on 2 Sketches 4 You, but unfortunately I didn't make the grade :-( I'll just have to keep playing along with the sketches.

So, to reveal my entries....


They were both created from sketches by Kazan and Laura.

Materials:
White5 1/4" cards.
Papers (very old) from my stash and I really can't rememeber who they're by (sorry!)
Hessian ribbon: Opitec.
Tag: a pair of Jacob's jeans.
Ribbon: Ribbon mad.
Twine: Opitec.
Pins: Ebay.
Inkpad: Colorbox.
Rub on: Fancy Pants.

Rosie-Dee's Challenges

Doing some computer hard drive housework tonight I realised I didn't show you the full sized image from my sketch that I made for the Rosie-Dee's Challenge Blog. (silly me!)


Materials:
Cardstock: Bazzill.
Papers & Embellishments: Sassafrass.
Fineline pen: Stabilo.

BasicGrey Challenge

I'm late posting this one up but I did actually make it the middle of last week. I didn't upload it as it was going to the USA to cheer up my aunt who's having a hip-op on 21st. Hopefully this'll make Aunty Gill feel a bit better! Hopefully she'll be on her feet in not time at all.



Materials:
White A5 card.
Papers: BasicGrey Eva.
Flowers: Prima.

Rosie-Dee's Challenges

This week over on Rosie-Dee's Challenge Blog we're on our 25th Challenge and the month is dedicated to the theme of stamping.

Here's a sneaky peek of what I made for this week's challenge...

Inspirational Card Sketches

I'm having a bit of Tigger moment this morning.

I checked my emails before I left for school & work and found a lovely email from Dawn Baty over on Inspirational Card Sketches OFFERING ME A DT PLACE for June - September!!!!!

How excited am I?

Thank you, thank you, thank you Dawn! I only hope that I will do your fantastic sketches some justice!

Di Hickman May Sketch #1

I love the sketch that Di Hickman has set this week, it was great to work with - simple, yet effective!

So versatile whatever the occasion or just to say 'hello' as I've done here.




Materials:
White 5 1/4" card.
Papers: JillyBean Soup and Bazzill Swiss Dots from Indigo Mill.
Journalling spot: JillyBean Soup Journalling Sprout from Indigo Mill.
Ribbon: Stash.
Inkpad: Versamagic.
White pen: Sakura.

Inspirational Card Sketches

Dawn's latest sketch over on Inspiration Card Sketches is up on the blog ready to challenge the creative goddess within you all.



Now, I rotated it 90 degrees to the right and offset my accent slightly too. For the swirly accents I used little butterflies around my cuckoo clock. Sorry Dawn, I do like to change things around HAHA!

Materials

White A6 card.
Embellisments: K&Co Amy Butler.
Alphas: Making Memories.
Inkpad: ColorBox.
Fineline pen: Stabilo.

2 Sketches 4 You

Laura set this week's 2 Sketches 4 You sketch for us to follow.

I came up with this...


I used the fab papers from Kirsty Wiseman's Patti Picklicious CD - again using the Mojito range. For texture I added a ruffled ribbon around the quadrant embellishment.

Materials:
Red A5 card.
Papers: Kirsty Wiseman's Patti Picklicious CD - Mojito.
Ribbon: John Lewis.
Alphas: American Crafts.
Fineline pen: Stabilo.

Kathy's sketch 2009 #10; Take 5

Kathy's Waffle Sketch this week made me think a little bit on what I wanted to do. I rotated the sketch and came up with this...


I decided to use one of the gorgeous ranges of papers from Kirsty Wiseman's Patti Picklicious CD for this card. This range is called Mojito. It's so bright and funky, I love it!

Materials:
White 8 1/2" x 4" White card.
Papers: Kirsty Wiseman's Patti Picklicious 'Mojito'
Accents: Kirsty Wiseman's Patti's Pretties.
Flowers: Prima.
Inkpad: Whispers.
Felt ric-rac: Stash.

BasicGrey Challenge

There is a colour combo challenge this week over on the BasicGrey Challenges blog. You have to use black, grey and one other colour which I've chosen to be orange.


Materials:
White 5 1/4" square card.
Papers: BasicGrey Ambrosia.
White pen: Sakura.
Ribbon: John Lewis.
Flowers: Aunty Sarah's.
Inkpad: Pretty Colour.
Tag: WH Smith.

Daring Card Makers

This week's DCM dare goes like this...

Now onto this week and its Vanessa here to set the dare. I don’t know why I came up with this one, but for some reason I’ve been singing away to Old MacDonald, you know the song “Old MacDonald had a farm, Ee I ee I oh! And on that farm he had some .........”

Now, I don't know how many of you know this, but Old MacDonald actually had a butterfly farm (hehe!) so to celebrate the fact, I made this card...


Materials:
White A6 card.
Paper: October Afternoon.
Butterflies: Amy Butler.
Sentiment tag: K&Co packaging.
Fineline pen: Stabilo.

Patti Picklicious

I've been dabbling with Kirsty's gorgeous Patti Picklicious CD again and have chosen to use the turquoise/brown "Mucky Knees" collection this time.




All the papers come from the CD, I've only added some ribbon, some jute ribbon, some jute string, an inkpad or two and some of Kirsty's lovely Patti's Pretties. If you don't already have this CD, then I highly recommend you treat yourself. The quality of the images is FANTASTIC!!!!!! It's well laid out and very easy to use.

I had a bit of a mammoth printing episode the other day so I'll be back with some more when I've made them up.