Boys Football Card

Finally for the cards I made in March is one for my nephew who loves football:

I used a 6x6" square card and used an Elzybells rubber stamp for the footballer, which I coloured in with Copics. I matted the image onto red and black pearlised paper which I embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I used a Martha Stewart rings border punch to cut a decorative strip for the middle of the card, which I wrapped striped ribbon around. I used a football sheet of 12x12" paper (cut to size!) for the background but this is quite old so I don't know who made it! I then finished the card with an "8" candle cut with a Quickutz Die, corners cut with an EK Success punch and a Craftwork Cards "Oh my Words" Sentiment.

Whiff of Joy Baby Love

Here is the card I made yesterday. This week on the Whiff of Joy Challenge Blog the theme is "Love" and I thought this stamp shows so much motherly love (the most important kind!), hopefully it will still count so I can enter.

The image is from a Whiff of Joy Stamp called Willow Holding Baby. I think the image is so pretty and elegant. I coloured the image in with Copics and mounted it onto a pink mat from a Making Memories 6x6" pad that co-ordinates with the background. I cut a lattice border with a Martha Stewart String Lattice Edger Punch and added some Making Memories ribbon. Finally I added some Prima Flowers called Painterly Petals and some Prima e.line pearls.

I found out four days ago that we are moving house in three weeks time! Plus on top of that the whole house needs re-decorating and carpeting before we move in. Therefore I have been flat out trying to organise things and today I'm concentrating on Christmas! I need to get all my Christmas cards done in the next few days and get presents wrapped then packed for moving. I made these cards a few days ago:

For this card I used the Eskimo and wording stamps from Elzybells. I coloured the Eskimo image with Lyra Polycolour Pencils. The papers are from a Papermania 8x8" paper pack from last year and the snowflakes were punched with a Martha Stewart punch.



For this card, I used a Whiff Of Joy stamp of Henry Mouse, coloured with Copics. The wording stamp is Magnolia. The papers are from Daisy & Dandelion.

This stamp is from Elzybells and is so sweet! I coloured her with Copics ans used a blue chalk pencil around her to add a bit of sky. I added some Snowflakes punched from Glitter Card using a Martha Stewart Punch and then for speed, used a die-cut greeting from a Daisy & Dandelion paper pack.

Copic Colour Challenge Week 35

Finally, I have made another card to take part in a blog challenge!

The colours for this week on the Copic Colour Challenge blog were; G02 Spectrum Green, BG05 Holiday Blue, and, R27 Cadmium Red. Here is my entry:

I used a Whiff of Joy stamp for the image (I tried a couple of images before picking one that didn't require too many colours!). I used Core'dinations cardstock from a 6"x6" pack and cut the frame with a Nestabilities die. The gems and brad are from Papermania and the flower was a RAK from Jane, my loyal follower! (Thank you Jane!)

Copic Colour Challenge 33

I'm on a roll! This time I challenged myself to take part in the Copic Colour Challenge. The challenge is to make a card with the colour combo of markers G02, Y11, and V15. I tried a couple of images until I settled on this one.

The image is a Whiff of Joy one, coloured in with Copics G05, Y11, and V15 (and Raw Silk for the skin tone). The card is from a 6x6" Core'dinations pack, the papers are from a PaperMania 6x6" pad and the "get well soon" stamp is from Hero Arts. The dots are Craftwork Cards "Card Candy". I was tempted to add gems to the corners of the card with the image on but didn't want to over-do it, especially as they wouldn't match the card candy.

Anyone for Anya Challenge!

I am still a bit of a beginner when it comes to blogging. I don't do a lot of blog-hopping or entering competitions, but I do subscribe by email to some. One of the blogs I get updates from is Marceas blog http://marceascraftingcorner.blogspot.com/ as I really love her work. Yesterday I followed Marceas link to the Anyone for Anya challenge blog (here: http://anyoneforanya.blogspot.com/) and this week the challenge is a sketch so I decided to make sure I got round to doing it for a change! I have had this intention before so to save me forgetting, I made it yesterday afternoon. This is the card sketch:

This is my card:

I started with the image and decided I wanted to go with an orange colour scheme so coloured in Anya with my Copics. I thought it would be quicker than with my pencils, but I'm sure it wasn't! The papers are My Minds Eye 'Bloom & Grow', I love them, they are such good value for money and the assortment is great! The orange cardstock is Bazzill, which I also used for the Quickutz Photo Corners. The ribbon was from Hobbycraft (I was so relieved to find orange in my collection!) and the flowers are Prima (I think I should have gone for bigger flowers). The tag is also a Quickutz Die and the sentiment is from an Elzybells clear tag set.

Using up images..

I have lots of stamped images that have been coloured in and are just waiting to be made into a card. Most are in a box but some are still on my desk. Last week I had a can of diet coke on my desk and a box fell off the shelves above it and diet coke spilled over some of my things! I was devastated but luckily not too much got ruined. I was worried about some CC Designs images I'd recently coloured, but luckily only the white card got wet so I was able to save them by cutting out the image. So, three days ago I thought I should just start using some of the images that I have laying around and made these two:

This one is very simple, when I put the image onto the card, I felt that I should leave it rather than clutter it with anything extra as it would hide the cupcakes! The image is Whiff of Joy and the background paper is Doodlebug.

This one is a CC Designs fairy called Gretal. She is coloured with Copics and put onto Nestabilities circles. I used the Doily Lace Martha Stewart punch for the strip behind the circles and then my new Quickutz Photo Corner die for the corners. The flowers are Prima (of course!).