Two Quick & Easy Ribbon Cards

I made these two cards for the recent saddlestitch ribbon challenge over at Crafty Ribbons. I was really pushed for time and as the criteria was to showcase the ribbon, not to just use it as a trim, I decided that I'd have to make something fairly quick and easy. So here are my offerings...

I made a ribbon flower and stem, mounted them onto some embossed and sanded Core-dinations cardstock. I added a labels 8 diecut and heat embossed the happy birthday.

For this parcel card, I placed some double sided adhesive paper onto some white cardstock before embossing. I then covered the adhesive film with Glamour Dust. The ribbon has been tied around the cardstock before gluing onto a card blank. The label sentiment has been punched with a Fiskers Punch ad secured with a gemstone brad.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Claire

I'd like to enter the flower card into the following challenges:


I'd like to enter the parcel card into the following challenges:

One Layer CAS Card

This week Stampotique are sponsoring CASual Friday's and the theme is Square Cards. As I've never played along with CASual Friday's, I thought I should pop over to see what it was all about before making my card. I'm really glad I did as it turns out that they are CAS style cards (hint is in the title really I guess :/ doh!!), so one of my multi-layered decoupaged fru fru jobs would be completely out of place! If you want more inspiration for CAS cards, please pop across to the Stampotique Designers Blog where there are some amazing cards on show.

For my card I used Grass and Small Butterfly stamped in Cocoa Memento Ink onto a Distress Inked background. The butterfly has been roughly coloured with Prismacolor Pencils and then brushed with Stickles. The sentiment is a rub on.

Thanks for stopping today. I hope you all have a fab weekend - we're going to sit and watch Airbourne either in the garden, or, I might just pop across the field and watch it from the beach. It all depends on how many people descend upon us for the weekend.

Claire xxx

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Clearly Inspired Challenge - Things with wings
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Scrapbook Sisters - Things with wings
Cards und More - Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments - Clean & Simple

Finally, The Last TV Sample!!!

Good morning. It's challenge time over at Polka Doodles and this week we want to see your celebration cards. I've picked Christmas as my celebration. The main reason for this is that the time bandit has been back in town stealing hours, so I simply ran out of time to create anything and as I'd not shown you my final TV sample I thought I'd cheat a little! :D

Sooooo this is it! My final TV sample using the Here Comes Christmas CD. This time it's a stepper card with multiple images.

I created a simple stepper base from card and then ripped strips of card to create the snow drifts. These were layered up using pop dots. The log cabin is simply paper coloured with Promarkers to give a wood grain effect, which has been torn into strips and then edged with Distress Ink

I've taken the images from the CD and coloured them with Promarkers before cutting out and inserting into the scene. To finish I've chucked on loads of Stickles, Glamour Dust and Glossy Accents.

The bauble garland has been cut from one of the papers from the CD - ever start a job then wish you hadn't?? Well that was one of them! If I ever do a remake of this, it will be a cheats garland!!

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a fab weekend.

Claire xxx

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Crafts & Me - Use a digi
My Mum's Craft Shop - Christmas in August
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything goes
Make It Monday - Anything goes

It's a Little Sketchy - Stampotique Challenge!

Good morning peeps. It's my first challenge over at Stampotique and this week it's a sketch. Yep I groaned and moaned too - you all know how much I love sketches!!! :D Anyhow, once I'd got over the initial OMG a sketch what am I going to do panic and started to work I was actually reasonably pleased with the end results of my efforts! This is the sketch that we were given to work with.

This is what I eventually did with it. Yep, I simply flipped the sketch onto it's side to make my graduation card. I hope you like it!

I started off by tearing a page from an old book and layering up onto my card base. I then applied a thin coat of Gesso and whilst it was wet swiped some blue acrylic paint through with my fingers. Whilst I waited for it to dry I matted and layer cardstock to make the blackboard. Next came the fun part where I drew Owl With Wings some accessories, coloured them with Promarkers and made the wire frame glasses. To finish I glued everything in place and then wrote the sentiment with a white gel pen.

I really do hope that you'll join us over at Stampotique for this challenge. You don't even need to use one of our stamps, although we'd love it if you did!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Claire x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp & Show - Paint It Up
That Craft Place - Things with wings
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes
Make It Monday - Anything goes

It's A Pile Of Poop!!!

Charming I hear you say! LOL. Well take the post title as warning for what's coming! :D Yep it's another TV sample from the Polka Doodles Here Comes Christmas CD.
When I saw this sentiment on the CD it immediately appealed to the inner child in me and I knew that I was going to have to use it! The only thing was on what? So after a little bit of thought I decided that I'd adapt the template from the tealight card that I made a couple of years back and fill it with poop (aka Mint Imperials). I'm going to have to make a couple more of these as DS spotted it and asked if he could have it for his Christmas card and my friend also saw it and has asked me to make one for her son! Anyway, what do you think?

I'm pushed for time this week, so I won't go into my usual explanation of what I did, instead I'll list the materials. If you want further details please do feel free to email me or leave a comment below and I will get back to you.

Materials:
Here Comes Christmas CD
Promarkers
Marianne Designs Creatables LR0125
Memorybox Button Die
Glossy Accents
Black Copic Spica Glitter Pen
Martha Stewart Zig Zag Punch
Walnut Stain Distress Ink
Acetate

Thanks for stopping by today.

Claire x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
The Stampman - Anything Goes
Art Impressions Stamps - Stitching
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything goes
Die Cutting Divas - Anything goes
Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - Christmas Gift Box
Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Heat Embossed Digital Image Card

This another of the tv samples that I made for the launch of the Here Comes Christmas CD from Polka Doodles. It's fairly clean and simple and ideal for batch card making.

I printed the sentiment from the CD and then heat embossed it before using my Labels 1 to cut it out. It was then simply a case of matting and layering and chucking on a bit of ribbon to finish the card.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Claire x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

How Excited Am I?????

Oh only a little bit!!! Have you noticed anything different about me or more specifically my blog? Shuffle your eyes to the right and you'll see a brand new shiny DT badge, that's right I've only been and got myself onto the Stampotique DT! How excited am I? Oh just a teency bit - lol such a bad liar me - surprised you didn't hear me a whooping and a hollering!


Anyway, to celebrate I was going to make a new project with some new stamps. Sadly either Royal Mail or Customs have had other ideas and I've yet to get them in my hot little hands. So rather than having nothing to show I had a mini brain wave and remembered a project that I hadn't shown you (mainly cos it's been sitting in a UFO pile) that I started at one of Jo Capper - Sandon's workshops which used a number of Stampotique stamps. It's still not quite finished as I need to add to some painty bits to the inside covers, but hey it's 95% there!!!

I hope that you like this project and that you'll consider joining us in our challenges over at Stampotique in the very near future.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Claire xxx 

Stamps used Large Butterfly, Splatter Long,