Creative Scrappers #53

Creative Scrappers gave us a brilliant sketch last Sunday and I finally got to work with it this Saturday. I chose to scrap a photo of my friend when we went to a local carnival last August. I used a bottle of stamp cleaner to draw round for the scallops before cutting them out. The journalling frame was kindly given to us (as a ROBO file) on UKScrappers by Lindyloulou.

Thanks for looking,

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Sketch and Stash (#10) and One Stop Craft Challenge (#30)

Sketch and Stash are a card challenge blog and their criteria is that you use their sketch and some new stash. I'd printed last week's sketch and used it this evening in my crafting, although I didn't meet their criteria at all. Why? Because 1) I did a LO not a card and 2) I didn't use any new stash.

I did complete the latest challenge (#30) for One Stop Craft Challenge's VINTAGE challenge as I used vintage papers and some lace.

Here's the LO. These are not her wedding, but I love this photo of her and wanted to do a soft LO for a different album I'm doing. 

and here's where the journalling is hidden.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

Daring Cardmakers Sketch Challenge

I stumbled on a new blog (to me) the other day. Daring Card Makers have a sketch challenge and I thought I'd have a try. Here's my attempt

I colour washed the background using blue/green/orange/red brush markers. I cut the right hand side into a quarter-circle (there must be a technical name, but do you think I know what it is!). PP was added to 2 of the shapes and the other one was coloured using pale brown and sage inks. The scallops were coloured using orange and brown brush markers and all the stamping done in brown ink. I added orange ribbon and a thumbs up paper clip.

Thanks for a fantastic challenge and one that got me thinking outside the box.

Love to all

Another Pretty Face

I've been admiring a stamp for ........... oooooooooooh ......... ages and finally succumbed and purchased it last week. I made my first card tonight using it. I also used papers from the paper pack I got from the mail order craft club I'm in. The papers are My Minds Eye Bohemian.

I cut a sheet of card to make an A5 card and then cut the front to be a little narrower than the back. I covered the whole card in the brown paper before adding a piece of the green paper which I cut using my scallop blade. I inked the edges of the card in pinecone and the inside in pinecone and green tea. The face is stamped and edged in pinecone and attached with foam pads. I've added some brown ribbon to the side as a final touch.

Thanks for looking

Love and hugs
xxx

Love Is ............. Dottie and George

Love most certainly is Dottie and George. And that is the theme to this week's challenge on Dottie's Wonderful World set by Juliet. Here's what she said:

"This week, I'd like you to create something on the theme 'Love is......' and I would like to see a message or journalling on the FRONT of your card. As usual, you must include one of the Dottie downloads too and we are all really looking forward to seeing your fabulous creations."

So, heres my creation (images available from Charmed and are from the love and marriage collection):

Front

Inside

Front showing acetate aperture that I've drawn a scallop border around

I've used SafMat for the wording and front image and I've used photo paper for the inside image. The hearts are holagraphic stickers that I've drawn scalloop borders round.

Thanks for looking. Take care, love

xxx

Dottie's Challenge Helps Me Make A Birthday Card

I saw the Sunday challenge on Dottie's blog for which Karen said:

This week’s challenge is a sketch challenge. Now interpret this sketch as you please, there are no rigid rules, just let your imaginations flow. Two simple specifications:

• Your interpretation must contain at least one of our downloads.
• I would like to see at least one brad or button.

My cousin's son's birthday is tomorrow and I needed to make him a card today, so raided my George downloads to see if one was right for him. As he's at uni studying to become a scientific teacher, the Teacher George was perfect. I coloured him and the background in using a programme called Paint.net before printing onto photo paper and writing the equation on with a white Sakura pen. I also coloured a box in the same background colour so I would have some for the rest of the card. To assemble this, I used grey mottled card and matted the image and extra yellow piece onto black paper. I cuct a scalloped circle out of the same black, writing on it with the white Sakura pen. I layered the pieces and added black ribbon. I drew scallops around the edge with a black brush marker and added black buttons as required. I just hope he likes it.

Lou's 3C's Challenge

As if Lou hasn't been busy enough, it was her turn to set the challenge for April on Charmed. No prizes for guessing that she thought of Dottie. She's even given forum members a FREE and EXCLUSIVE Dottie to use if we wish. I made my card using the curvy card template that Lou designed too.

This is what Lou said:
To celebrate the launch of Dottie I challenge you to make a ‘Dottie’ card (Dottie the character, not polka dots LOL). Don’t panic if you don’t have any Dottie’s because I’ve drawn a free, exclusive Charmed Dottie, only available to forum members who take part in this challenge, you can use her as much as you like after that but only if you take part in the fun! (you can leave out the sentiment if you wish)

Okay so here are the points· For making a Dottie card........ 30 points· For adding Scalloping....... 10 points· For Dry embossing...... 5 points· For using buttons..... 5 points ~~ 50 points in total

This is what I did:
I managed to cut the card in one piece rather than the usual two plus hinges. This eliminated the need to cover the hinges after assembly.

To decorate the card, I cut a piece of red pearlised card and scalloped the edges. Dry embossed curves and doodled using a black pen. I also dry embossed "Hello" to the right of Dottie who was coloured using brush markers, cut out and stuck to the red card. Pink buttons were added to her hair. I stapled ribbon and ric-rac to the top of the card and stuck a piece of orange ric-rac to the bottom.

The staples showed on the inside, so I cut some card, folded it to create a place to write a note and stuck it to hide them. I held the flap with a striped paperclip.

I'm pleased and proud to say that it's full marks to me. Thank you so much Lou for a great challenge and for the two great bases to start with. I only put them all together with my little extras.